Selected publications from research organizations and the professional literature related to performance measurement and improvement.
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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Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture--2011 User Comparative Database Report
Based on data from 1,032 U.S. hospitals, the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2011 User Comparative Database Report provides initial results that hospitals can use to compare their patient safety culture to other U.S. hospitals. In addition, the 2011 report presents results showing change over time for 512 hospitals that submitted data more than once. The report consists of a narrative description of the findings and four appendixes, presenting data by hospital characteristics and respondent characteristics for the database hospitals overall and separately for the 512 trending hospitals.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Hospital Survey Shows Improvements In Patient Experience
M. N. Elliott, W. G. Lehrman, E. H. Goldstein et al.
Health Affairs, November 2010 29(11):2061-7
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Hospital Volume and 30-Day Mortality for Three Common Medical Conditions
J.S. Ross, S.T. Normand, Y. Wang et al.
New England Journal of Medicine, March 2010 362(12):1110-18.
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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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How Health Systems Make Available Information on Service Providers--Experience in Seven Countries
M. Cacace, S. Ettelt, L. Brereton, J. Pedersen, and E. Nolte
RAND Europe
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How Length of Stay for Congestive Heart Failure Patients Was Reduced Through Six Sigma Methodology and Physician Leadership
K. Albert, B. Sherman, and B. Backus
American Journal of Medical Quality, September 2010 25(5):392-7
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How Well Do Hospital Mortality Rates Reported in the New York State CABG Report Card Predict Subsequent Hospital Performance?
L.G. Glance, A.W. Dick, D.B. Mukamel et al.
Medical Care, May 2010 48(5):466-71.
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Impact of a National Campaign on Hospital Readmissions in Home Care Patients
C. P. Schade, E. Esslinger, D.Anderson et al.
International Journal of Quality in Health Care, June 2009 21(3):176-82
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Impact of a Pharmacist-Facilitated Hospital Discharge Program --A Quasi-Experimental Study
P. C. Walker, S. J. Bernstein, J. N. Tucker Jones et al.
Archives of Intern Medicine, 2009 169(21):2003-2010.
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Impact of a Statewide Intensive Care Unit Quality Improvement Initiative on Hospital Mortality and Length of Stay--Retrospective Comparative Analysis
Allison Lipitz-Snyderman, Donald Steinwachs, Dale M Needham, Elizabeth Colantuoni, Laura L Morlock, and Peter J Pronovost
BMJ, January 31, 2011
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Impact of the Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program (CUSP) on Safety Culture in a Surgical Inpatient Unit
J. Timmel, P.S. Kent, C.G. Holzmueller et al.
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, Volume 36, Number 6, June 2010 , pp. 252-260(9)
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Implementing a Standardized Order Set for Community-Acquired Pneumonia--Impact on Mortality and Cost
N. S. Fleming, G. Ogola, and D. J. Ballard
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, August 2009 35(8):414–21.
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Improving America's Hospitals--The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety
Improving Patient Satisfaction with Pain Management Using Six Sigma Tools
E. DuPree, L. Martin, and R. Andersen
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, July 2009 35(7)
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Improving safety culture on adult medical units through multidisciplinary teamwork and communication interventions--the TOPS Project
M.A. Blegen, N.L. Sehgal, B.K. Alldredge et al.
Qual Saf Health Care, Aug. 2010 19(4):346-50
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Improving Teamwork to Reduce Surgical Mortality
P.J. Pronovost and J.A. Freischlag
Journal of the American Medical Association, October 2010 304(15):1721-2.
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In-Hospital Death of Critically Ill Patients Who Have Congestive Heart Failure--Does Size of Hospital Matter?
J. Dubord, P.M. Dodek, K. Chan et al.
American Journal of Medical Quality, March/April 2010 25(2):95-101.
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Intensive care unit safety culture and outcomes--A US multicenter study
D.T. Huang, G. Clermont, L.Kong et al.
International Journal for Quality in Health Care. 2010;22(3):151-161
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Is Same-Hospital Readmission Rate a Good Surrogate for All-Hospital Readmission Rate?
K. Nasir, Z. Lin, H. Bueno et al.
Medical Care, May 2010 48(5):477-81.
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