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"Incentives matter!"
"Goodhart's Law holds that 'When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.'"
"Give an MBA within HCA a metric ("get patients out of bed quicker") and they will find a way to hit that metric ("send patients off to die somewhere else, even if their doctors think they could recover")"
From: https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/05/any-metric-becomes-a-target/
This is so depressing, npub1hykucplphuhelaxutcw4jw3vuu7gcg42czhqmk7jhchs8vdga4fsj73p33 (npub1hyk…3p33) ☹️
#healthcare
"Goodhart's Law holds that 'When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.'"
"Give an MBA within HCA a metric ("get patients out of bed quicker") and they will find a way to hit that metric ("send patients off to die somewhere else, even if their doctors think they could recover")"
From: https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/05/any-metric-becomes-a-target/
This is so depressing, npub1hykucplphuhelaxutcw4jw3vuu7gcg42czhqmk7jhchs8vdga4fsj73p33 (npub1hyk…3p33) ☹️
#healthcare