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About Noha Sherif, Nan Tracy Zheng, Qinghua Li, Franziska Rokoske

Noha Sherif is a public health analyst in RTI’s eHealth, Quality and Analytics Division. Ms. Sherif’s work focuses on development, implementation, and maintenance of quality measures for federal quality reporting programs. She has experience in developing and testing quality measures for use in postacute and long-term care settings, including hospices, nursing homes, long-term care hospitals, and inpatient rehabilitation facilities. She is primarily engaged with the testing and validation of quality measures in the Hospice Quality Reporting Program. She received her undergraduate degree from Duke University in May 2014.

One Step Ahead: A Composite Measure to Capture Critical Hospice and Palliative Care Processes

By | January 13, 2017
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) wants to empower consumers to make informed healthcare decisions. CMS also wants providers to improve the quality of care they provide. One step towards accomplishing both of these goals is by public reporting of quality measures (QM). However, with multiple quality measures focusing on different care processes–all of which… Read More »