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October 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Closures of hospital trauma centers have accelerated since 2001 and may disproportionately affect disadvantaged communities.
March 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
An effort to help enhance the quality and equality of U.S. health care.
August 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Although geographic access to emergency departments has deteriorated in only a small number of communities, these communities tended to be poor, unemployed or Hispanic, suggesting an increasing disparity in access to emergency care.
October 1, 2007 | Journal Article
This article offers a conceptual model for understanding how organizations can move from short-term performance enhancements to sustained, organizationwide patient care improvements
September 28, 2011 | Program Result Report
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.
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.
March 1, 2011 | Report
An effort to help enhance the quality and equality of U.S. health care.
March 1, 2011 | Report
An effort to help enhance the quality and equality of U.S. health 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.
June 4, 2008 | Toolkit
This toolkit provides advice to hospitals on improving quality and accessibility of language services.