Case 7 Dawn Valley Hospital: Selecting Quality Measures for the Hospital Board The Board of Directors at Dawn Valley Hospital has asked for a set of indicators to monitor the state of healthcare quality and patient safety within the institution. The Board wants to know whether the hospital is doing better or worse overall and if it's appropriate to convert individual indicators into a composite score? People often work hardest to improve what is measured, so these decisions are nontrivial. 1. What measures would you recommend to the DVH Board and why? 2. Would you aggregate measures, which ones and why? 3. How often would you report measurement performance to the Board and why