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April 3, 2013 | Feature
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Health Care Delivery
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Doing Better by Doing Less: Approaches to Tackle Overuse of Services
January 16, 2013 | Issue Brief
The analysis focuses in on medically inappropriate and unnecessary services that drive up spending without making making patients better.
Improving Patient Decision-Making in Health Care Series
December 13, 2012 | Report
Dartmouth Atlas research highlights geographic variation in elective procedures across nine regions.
Forces Driving Implementation of the CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey
March 26, 2013 | Issue Brief
Forces Driving Implementation of the CAHPS® Clinician & Group Survey is part of a suite of resources on patient experience designed by AF4Q to assist community health collaboratives.
Advancing Primary Care
August 9, 2012 | Report
New insights into the inner workings of America's primary care practices, including areas of strength and critical areas for growth.
AcademyHealth
April 15, 2013 | Grantee
Through an RWJF grant, AcademyHealth is looking into ways to advance payment and delivery reform activities.
Better Care, Better Health, Lower Cost
January 30, 2013 | Report
Cuyahoga County had fewer hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions between 2009 and 2011 (a cost savings of $20 million.)
Special Symposium: Interventions to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
July 1, 2012 | Feature
While the need to address disparities in care is well known, few strategies for reducing disparities have been studied systematically.
Reform in Action: Improving Quality in Hospitals
August 23, 2012 | Issue Brief/Infographic
AF4Q is working with nearly 300 hospitals in 16 communities to develop, test, implement, and spread quality improvement strategies.
What's the Price of Health Care?
August 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
Reducing health care costs is a key public policy issue, but a complicated one because costs and prices are opaque not only to the public but often to health care providers, purchasers, and payers.