Transforming Practice
Overstressed by large patient panels, many primary care practices are performing below par. In one study, patients explaining their problem to a physician were interrupted after an average of 23...
View ArticleThe Center For Medicare And Medicaid Innovation’s Blueprint For Rapid-Cycle...
With the establishment of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation under the Affordable Care Act, innovative payment and service delivery models are now being tested. The goal of testing these...
View ArticleLessons from Vermont's Health Care Reform
In May 2011, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed legislation to implement Green Mountain Care (GMC), a single-payer, publicly financed, universal health care system. Vermont's reform law passed 15...
View ArticleHow Health Systems Could Avert ‘Triple Fail’ Events That Are Harmful, Are...
Many health care systems pursue the “triple aim” of improving individual patient outcomes, providing access to health care to more people, and reducing per capita health care costs. The authors of this...
View ArticleMedication Reconciliation Meets Its MATCH
MATCH stands for Medications at Transitions and Clinical Handoffs. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) MATCH toolkit was developed through an AHRQ Partnerships in Implementing Patient...
View ArticleQuality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Serious Safety Events and Improve...
During the last 10 years, hospitals have implemented a variety of systems to improve their safety culture. Nevertheless, serious safety events (SSEs) continue to occur. Such events can lead to...
View ArticleThe Relationship of Self-Report of Quality to Practice Size and Health...
Most studies of patient safety culture are conducted at the inpatient level in hospitals. However, most care is provided in office-based and ambulatory care settings. To promote more understanding of...
View ArticleAchieving the Potential of Health Care Performance Measures
This report provides an overview of performance measurement in U.S. health care and includes policy recommendations aimed at improving the performance measurement enterprise. Specifically, the authors...
View ArticleLimits Of Readmission Rates In Measuring Hospital Quality Suggest The Need...
Nationally, risk-adjusted standardized readmission rates are used to measure hospital performance on the theory that readmissions reflect dimensions of quality of hospital care. In this article, the...
View ArticleUsing State Insurance Exchanges to Drive Better, More Cost Effective Care
States find themselves at the center of many efforts to reduce the fragmentation, inefficiency, and cost of care in the health system, and state policymakers have the potential to play a significant...
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