Facilitators and Challenges to Conducting Interdisciplinary Research
April 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Interdisciplinary research teams create synergies to solve problems and improve health care.
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Health Care Without Harm's Research Collaborative
March 25, 2013 | Program Result
From 2008 to 2012, Health Care Without Harm worked to embed best practices for environmental sustainability into health care and to create a business plan for Practice Greenhealth, which has hospital and business members.
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.
Measuring the Cost-Of-Care
March 1, 2011 | Report
An effort to help enhance the quality and equality of U.S. health care.
Moving Toward Racial and Ethnic Equity in Health Care
March 1, 2011 | Report
An effort to help enhance the quality and equality of U.S. health care.
How Registries Can Help Performance Measurement Improve Care
June 1, 2010 | Report
Paper describes solutions for leveraging both administrative and registry data to make additional performance results available, as well as further increase registry use for performance measurement and other purposes.
Preventing Bloodstream Infections
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Over the past decade, advances in the quality of care have been slow. One area of success, however, has been in combating central line–associated bloodstream infections.
Measuring the Performance of Individual Physicians by Collecting Data from Multiple Health Plans
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Quality measurement and reporting have emerged as important tools that providers, health plans, and other stakeholders can use to identify gaps in quality and focus resources on improving care.
Improving the Safety of Patient Care by Looking at the Airline Industry
December 1, 2011 | Program Result
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine applied a step-by-step approach used to dramatically reduce aviation fatalities to improve the use of two devices that account for a disproportionate share of medical errors in hospitals.
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.