dashboard; relative value units (RVUs)

Introduction

attempt to measure productivity or performance

Notes

• physicians may receive monthly productivity report based on relative value units (RVUs).
• in a fee-for service environment
  • productivity may be largely measured by procedures performed
  • listening to patients, examining patients, counseling patients may be given little credit
  • research, teaching colleagues, continuing medical education may given no credit

More general terms

• medical chart documentation