Lessons Learned in Performance Measurement
September 1, 2011 | Report
First report on recent trends in the effectiveness of care coordination for Medicare patients discharged from hospitals shows stagnant national performance and variations in care.
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Inpatient Care Intensity and Patients' Ratings of Their Hospital Experiences
January 1, 2009 | Journal Article
The intensity of hospital care provided to chronically ill Medicare patients varies greatly among regions, independent of illness. This study examined the associations among hospital care intensity, the technical quality of hospital care, and patients' ratings of their hospital experiences.
Disease Management Program Reduces Hospital Days for Chronic Renal Disease Patients
May 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
The Brandeis University Institute for Health Policy supported a study of the renal disease management program operated by Southern California Kaiser Permanente, a regional, nonprofit HMO.
Patient Experience of Care: Inventory of Improvement Resources
June 13, 2013 | Issue Brief
This inventory lists a variety of free resources that are available to support health care organizations in determining what they need to do to improve patient experience and how to implement those improvements.
Tracking Improvement in the Care of Chronically Ill Patients
June 12, 2013 | Report
A brief from the Dartmouth Atlas Project examines how the care that chronically ill patients received at the end of life changed among hospitals and regions from 2007 to 2010.
If Consumers and Purchasers Could Compare Health Care Quality, What Would It Do to Health Care?
June 10, 2013 | Program Result Report
The Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project promotes performance measurement as a tool to increase the transparency and accountability of the health care system, and advocates for more input from health care consumers and purchasers.
Pursuing Perfection: Raising the Bar for Health Care Performance
National Program
Program to help hospital and physician organizations dramatically improve patient outcomes by pursuing perfection in all of their major care processes.
Poor More Likely to be Hospitalized for Diseases Preventable with Primary Care
July 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The United Hospital Fund of New York worked to develop, validate and implement a research technique called small-area analysis, used to identify communities with high rates of unnecessary hospitalization and limited access to primary care.
Hospitals' Geographic Expansion in Quest of Well-Insured Patients
April 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The emphasis that hospitals place on cutting-edge technology and niche specialty services to attract physicians and patients has set the stage for health care's most recent competitive trend: an increased level of targeted, geographic service expansion to "capture" well-insured patients.
Pursuing Perfection: Raising the Bar for Health Care Performance
December 12, 2011 | Program Result Report
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.