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November 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
This paper reviews the evolution of QI initiatives, the current evidence about whether QI interventions work, QI's promise for the future, and how to help it find success in health care.
June 25, 2012 | Story
Michael D. Howell, MD, MPH, and colleagues at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center studied the reliability of a common quality improvement metric, falls per 1,000 patient-days, and found that flaws in the metric could lead to erroneous conclusions.
June 25, 2012 | Story
Lisa V. Rubenstein, MD, MSPH, and colleagues at RAND Corporation developed evidence-based methods to identify and apply relevant quality criteria to published articles that empirically evaluate literature on continuous quality improvement.
June 25, 2012 | Story
Heather C. Kaplan, MD, and colleagues at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center developed a framework for optimizing contextual factors in quality improvement and tested it in 86 quality improvement projects in three different settings.
December 9, 2011 | Program Result
Researchers at the Boston University School of Management Health Policy Institute helped RWJF's Human Capital Team advance its role in increasing the number of health care workers who are highly proficient in quality improvement.
December 1, 2010 | Journal Article
A study of the effects of concurrent peer review visits on treatment intensification and control of hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes in a community health center found that the visits improved outcomes for hypertension patients and increased treatment intensification for all three conditions.
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The Chronic Care Model provides a framework for redesigning primary care teaching clinics and could give residents positive experiences related to caring for chronically ill patients.
February 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
To explore the question of what constitutes quality in a health care encounter from the patient perspective, Mathematica Policy Research conducted focus groups with African Americans, Latinos, Asian Indians, and whites.
May 20, 2011 | Program Result
Researchers at the University of Southern Maine studied the state's Pathways to Excellence system of reporting on health care quality. Practices that filed reports had higher scores on six indicators of health care quality than those that did not.
March 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This study used recent data from a single time period to assess the performance of local health systems in 30 states. The authors used the 10 essential public health services (EPHS) as the standard of measurement.