In 2009, AAO established the H. Dunbar Hoskins, Jr., M.D. Center for Quality Eye Care (Hoskins Center). The Hoskins Center is positioned to assume a leading role in defining quality eye care, which balances the increased demand for services and the benefits of innovation with the decreasing financial resources available to pay for them. The Hoskins Center will research ways to organize, manage, finance and deliver eye care that results in the creation and dissemination of knowledge to all stakeholders (physicians, patients, the public, regulators and payers). Through a process of issues analysis, scholarly study, creation of evidenced-based resources and outcomes measurements, the Hoskins Center’s quality eye care improvement initiatives will produce effective, patient-centered, timely and effective care that reduces the financial impact and economic burden to society caused by vision problems.

Practice guidelines and assessments are based on clinical evidence and expert consensus to assist the clinician in decision-making about treating specific diseases. The goal of the Hoskins Center's and Academy-approved guidelines and assessments is to improve quality of care (PDF 50k). Additional statements provide guidance on topic of interest to the clinician.