Dwyer-Lindgren and Mokdad Publish Article on Health System Performance Metrics
Posted: 10/2/2025 ()
CSDE Affiliates Laura Dwyer-Lindgren (Health Metrics Sciences) and Ali Mokdad (Health Metrics Sciences) just published an article titled, “Using Mortality and Years-of-Life-Lost Metrics to Evaluate Health System Performance and Inform Health Care Policy,” in the New England Journal of Medicine: Catalyst. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) collaborated with Kaiser Permanente (KP) to augment KP’s existing suite of quality measures with estimates of mortality rates and years-of-life-lost (YLL) rates for KP members. This work was designed to inform whether or not KP was meeting its strategic goal of improving the health outcomes of its members and to stimulate a national dialogue about how different system designs contribute to the health of populations for which systems are responsible. To read more, click here.