Aggregating Physician Performance Data Across Health Plans
March 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
An effort to help enhance the quality and equality of U.S. health care.
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Standardized Performance Measurement and Reporting in Emergency Departments (EDs)
April 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
RWJF Urgent Matters Initiative shows progress in developing standardized performance measurement and reporting in EDs.
Pursuing Perfection: Raising the Bar for Health Care Performance
December 12, 2011 | Program Result
Most of the seven health care organizations in this RWJF national program made "tremendous progress" in improving the quality of their care, however none reached the goal of organizational transformation to a fundamentally new health care model.
The High-Value Health Care Project
September 28, 2011 | Program Result
The High-Value Health Care Project, an initiative of the Quality Alliance Steering Committee, promoted a comprehensive, uniform national approach to measuring the performance of the health care system, to foster transparency and improve quality.
Trustees View TCAB from a Business Perspective
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Two trustees of hospitals that have experience with Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB), a nurse-led, quality improvement initiative, cite efficiency, lower staff turnover, and staff and patient satisfaction as reasons why TCAB makes sense from a hospital's business point of view.
Lessons from Nursing Leaders on Implementing TCAB
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
A well-crafted and well-implemented program to engage front-line staff in quality improvement can have an impact on how things are done, according to this qualitative evaluation of pilot phases two and three of the Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) nurse-led, quality improvement initiative.
The Business Case for TCAB
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Implementing Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB), a nurse-led quality initiative which aims to create rapid improvement, resulted in large gains in outcomes and large savings in costs, according to two executives with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, one of the hospitals participating in the TCAB pilot program.
Acute Uncomplicated Appendicitis
February 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical infection requiring an operation, and LOS can vary widely. While efforts to shorten LOS have focused on elective operations, this study determined that operative time of day had the greatest impact.
Collecting Data to Identify Disparities and Measure Heart Care Quality
March 24, 2010 | Story
Duke University Hospital and the health system wanted to improve cardiac care for African-American and Latino populations by identifying and analyzing disparities and developing tools that would better serve them.
A Phased Cluster-randomized Trial of Rural Hospitals Testing a Quality Collaborative to Improve Heart Failure Care
May 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Nurse staffing stability associated with improved performance measures in heart failure care in rural hospitals according to this study.