Selected publications from research organizations and the professional literature related to performance measurement and improvement.
A Practical Tool to Identify and Eliminate Barriers to Compliance with Evidence-Based Guidelines
A. P. Gurses, D. J. Murphy, and E. A. Martinez et al.
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Safety, October 2009 35(10):526-32
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A Survey of Hospital Quality Improvement Activities
A. B. Cohen, J. D. Restuccia, M. Shwartz et al.
Medical Care Research and Review, October 2008 65(5):571-95
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Costs of Quality Improvement--A Survey of Four Acute Care Hospitals
L. M. Chen, M. S. Rein, and D. W. Bates
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, November 2009 35(11):544-50
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Current Efforts of Regional and National Performance Measurement Initiatives Around the United States
J. Roski and M.G. Kim
American Journal of Medical Quality, Vol. 25, No. 4, 249-254 (2010)
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Does Comparison of Performance Lead to Better Care? A Pilot Observational Study in Patients Admitted for Hip Fracture in Three French Public Hospitals
V. Merle, L. Moret, L. Pidhorz et al.
International Journal for Quality in Health Care, October 2009 21(5):321-29
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Estimating a Composite Measure of Hospital Quality from the Hospital Compare Database--Differences When Using a Bayesian Hierarchical Latent Variable Model Versus Denominator-Based Weights
M. Shwartz, J. Ren, E. A. Peköz et al.
Medical Care, August 2008 46(8):778-85
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Hospital Computing and the Costs and Quality of Care-- A National Study
D.U. Himmelstein, A. Wright, and S. Woolhandler
American Journal of Medicine, Vol. 123, No. 1, Pages 40-46 (January 2010)
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Hospital Governance and the Quality of Care
A. K. Jha and Arnold M. Epstein
Health Affairs, November 6, 2009
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Hospital Quality and Intensity of Spending--Is There an Association?
L. Yasaitis, E. S. Fisher, J. S. Skinner et al.
Health Affairs Web Exclusive, May 21, 2009:w566–w572
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Hospital Quality Improvement Activities--A Snapshot of the State of the Art
F. S. Margolin, D. Bohr, R. Kang et al.
Health Research & Educational Trust, July 2008
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Hospital Quality Improvement Activities--Issues in Staffing and Training
F. S. Margolin, D. Bohr, A. B. Cohen et al.
Health Research & Educational Trust, January 2009
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Hospital Strategies to Engage Physicians in Quality Improvement
A. Liebhaber, D. A. Draper, and G. Cohen
Center for Studying Health System Change, October 2009
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How Can We Make More Progress in Measuring Physicians’ Performance to Improve the Value of Care?
T. P. Miller, T. A. Brennan and A. Milstein
Health Affairs, September/October 2009 28(5):1429-37
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Improving America's Hospitals--The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety
Learning and Improving in Quality Improvement Collaboratives--Which Collaborative Features Do Participants Value Most?
Measuring Efficiency--The Association of Hospital Costs and Quality of Care
A. K. Jha, E.J. Orav, A. Dobson et al.
Health Affairs, May/June 2009 28 (3): 897–906
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Measuring Physicians' Quality and Performance--Adrift on Lake Wobegon
D. M. Berwick
Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 302, No. 22, Pages 2485-2486 (December 2009)
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Public Reporting On Hospital Process Improvements Is Linked To Better Patient Outcomes
R.M. Werner and E.T. Bradlow
Health Affairs, 29, no. 7 (2010): 1319-1324
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Quality of Care Provided to Individual Patients in U.S. Hospitals--Results from an Analysis of National Hospital Quality Alliance Data
C. Vogeli, R. Kang, and M. B. Landrum
Medical Care, May 2009 47(5):591–99
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ReCASTing the RCA--An Improved Model for Performing Root Cause Analyses
J.C. Pham, G.R. Kim, J.P. Natterman et al.
American Journal of Medical Quality, Vol. 25, No. 3, 186-191 (2010)
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