Designing Effective Health Care Quality Transparency Initiatives
July 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
This brief highlights two report card initiatives for hospitals and primary care physicians that can be considered success stories.
Public Reporting/Transparency
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Comparing Health Care Quality: A Road Map to Better Care
July 14, 2011 | Video
Publicly reporting information on the quality of care that doctors and hospitals provide serves important purposes.
Charting the Course to High-Value Health Care
March 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
This issue brief highlights the work of the High-Value Health Care Project, an initiative that is working with key stakeholders to make consistent and useful information about the quality and cost of health care widely available to patients, physicians, hospitals, health insurers and others.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Launches Web Site to Help Patients Compare Local Hospitals and Physicians
June 28, 2011 | News Release/Story
Comprehensive Directory Makes it Easier to Find Information on the Quality and Cost of Local Health Care
Word of Mouth and Physician Referrals Still Drive Health Care Provider Choice
December 1, 2008 | Issue Brief
Among the 17 million adults who found a new primary care physician in the past year, half relied on recommendations from friends and relatives, and more than one in four used such recommendations as their only information source.
Measures to Market
November 1, 2006 | Report
From 2004 to 2006 a team of consultants funded through the National Partnership for Women and Families in Washington researched business models capable of supporting physician performance reporting systems.
Evaluating the Efficiency of Medical Care
September 9, 2010 | Program Result Report
The National Quality Forum convened a steering committee that created a framework for evaluating the efficiency of health care over time and identified gaps in current health care quality measurement.
How to Describe the Health and Community Context for Comparative Performance Reports
September 1, 2010 | Toolkit
Examples and guidance and sample text for five health topics (asthma, breast cancer, cervical cancer, diabetes, and heart disease) to help Aligning Forces for Quality consumers understand the importance of condition-specific performance measures.
Inter-Alliance Sharing: Successes and Questions from Willamette Valley
January 31, 2011 | Story
The three areas of success.
Language to Use in Public Reporting about Hospital Care
August 1, 2010 | Toolkit
Suggestions for simplifying the language used to describe hospital quality measures in public reports.