Selected publications from research organizations and the professional literature related to performance measurement and improvement.
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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Pursuing the Triple Aim--Seven Innovators Show the Way to Better Care, Better Health, and Lower Costs
Maureen Bisognano and Charles Kenney
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (published by Jossey-Bass, 2012)
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Putting the Public Back in Public Reporting of Health Care Quality
T. Lagu and P.K. Lindenauer et al.
Journal of the American Medical Association, October 2010 304(15):1711-12.
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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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Quality of Traditional Surveillance for Public Reporting of Nosocomial Bloodstream Infection Rates
M. Y. Lin,B. Hota, Y. M. Khan et al.
Journal of the American Medical Association, 2010 304(18):2035-41
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Quality of Traditional Surveillance for Public Reporting of Nosocomial Bloodstream Infection Rates
M.Y. Lin, B. Hota, Y.M. Khan et al.
Journal of the American Medical Association, November 2010 304(18):2035-41.
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Quality's New Frontier--Reducing Hospitalizations and Improving Transitions in Long-Term Care
D. J. Lipson and S. Simon
Mathematica Policy Research, March 2010
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Pneumonia Treatment and Mortality
L.R.M. Hausmann, S.A. Ibrahim, A. Mehrotra et al.
Medical Care, September 2009 47(9):1009-17
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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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Recent National Trends in Readmission Rates After Heart Failure Hospitalization
J. S. Ross1, J. Chen, Z. Qiu Lin et al.
Circulation: Heart Failure, November 10, 2009
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Reducing Clostridium difficile infection in acute care by using an improvement collaborative
M. Power, N. Wigglesworth, E. Donaldson et al.
BMJ, July 2010
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Rehospitalization from Skilled Nursing Facilities--Implications for Policy
Vincent Mor
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization, February 2010
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Relationship Between Organizational Factors and Performance Among Pay-for-Performance Hospitals
E. R. Vina, D. C. Rhew, S. R. Weingarten et al.
Journal of General Internal Medicine, July 2009 24(7): 833–40
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Relationship Between Organizational Factors and Performance Among Pay-for-Performance Hospitals
E. R. Vina, D. C. Rhew, S. R. Weingarten et al.
Journal of General Internal Medicine, July 2009 24(7):0884-8734
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Relationship of Primary Care Physicians' Patient Caseload With Measurement of Quality and Cost Performance
D.J. Nyweide, W.B. Weeks, D.J. Gottlieb et al.
Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 302, No. 22, Pages 2444-50 (December 2009)
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Safety on the Syllabus--Patient Safety Becoming Part of Medical Education
Strategies for Improving Surgical Quality — Checklists and Beyond
J.D. Birkmeyer
New England Journal of Medicine, November 2010 363 (20):1962-5.
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Surgical Safety and Hospital Volume Across a Wide Range of Interventions
Y. Eggli, P. Halfon, D. Meylan et al.
Medical Care, November 2010 48(11):962-71.
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Sustaining Reductions in Catheter Related Bloodstream Infections in Michigan Intensive Care Units--Observational Study
P. J. Pronovost, C. A. Goeschel, E. Colantuoni et al.
British Medical Journal, February 4, 2010
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Systematically seeking clinicians' insights to identify new safety measures for intensive care units and general surgery services
R. S. Rogers, P. Pronovost, T. Isaac et al.
American Journal of Medical Quality, Sept./Oct 2010 25(5):359-64.
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