Related Publications

Selected publications from research organizations and the professional literature related to performance measurement and improvement.

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  • Overall Health Care Quality
  • Heart Attack Care
  • Heart Failure Care
  • Pneumonia Care
  • Surgical Care Improvement
  • Patient Experiences
  • Patient Safety
  • Readmission Rates
  • Mortality Rates
  • Reimbursement
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A model for medication safety event detection
R.A. Snyder and W. Fields
International Journal for Quality in Health Care 2010 22(3):179-186  — View Publication
A Practical Tool to Identify and Eliminate Barriers to Compliance with Evidence-Based Guidelines
A. P. Gurses, D. J. Murphy, and E. A. Martinez et al.
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Safety, October 2009 35(10):526-32  — View Publication
A Survey of Hospital Quality Improvement Activities
A. B. Cohen, J. D. Restuccia, M. Shwartz et al.
Medical Care Research and Review, October 2008 65(5):571-95  — View Publication
Adequacy of Hospital Discharge Summaries in Documenting Tests with Pending Results and Outpatient Follow-up Providers
M. C. Were, X. Li, J. Kesterson et al.
Journal of General Internal Medicine, September 2009 24(9):1002–06.  — View Publication
Adherence to Surgical Care Improvement Project Measures and the Association With Postoperative Infections
J.J. Stulberg, C.P. Delaney, D.V. Neuhauser et al.
JAMA. 2010;303(24):2479-2485.  — View Publication
All-Cause Hospital Readmissions Among Non-Elderly Medicaid Patients, 2007
H. J. Jiang and L. M. Wier
Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, Statistical Brief #89, April 2010, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality  — View Publication
Are Verbal Orders a Threat to Patient Safety?
D.S. Wakefield and B.J. Wakefield
Quality and Safety in Health Care, June 2009 18(3):165  — View Publication
Association Between Hospital Cardiac Management and Outcomes for Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients
T.A. Stukel, D.A. Alter, M.J. Schull et al.
Medical Care, February 2010 48(2): 157-65  — View Publication
Bloodstream Infections--A National Survey of State Hospital Associations
D.J. Murphy, D.M. Needham, C. Goeschel et al.
American Journal of Medical Quality, Vol. 25, No. 4, 255-260 (2010)  — View Publication
Chasing Zero--Can Reality Meet the Rhetoric?
C.R. Denham, P. Angood, D. Berwick, et al.
Journal of Patient Safety, December 2009 5(4): 216-22  — View Publication
Costs of Quality Improvement--A Survey of Four Acute Care Hospitals
L. M. Chen, M. S. Rein, and D. W. Bates
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, November 2009 35(11):544-50  — View Publication
Could Medicare Readmission Policy Exacerbate Health Care System Inequity?
R. Bhalla and G. Kalkut
Annals of Internal Medicine, January 19, 2010 vol. 152 no. 2 114-117  — View Publication
Current Efforts of Regional and National Performance Measurement Initiatives Around the United States
J. Roski and M.G. Kim
American Journal of Medical Quality, Vol. 25, No. 4, 249-254 (2010)  — View Publication
Discharge Planning from Hospital to Home
S. Shepperd, J. McClaran, C. O. Phillips et al.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2010, Issue 1.  — View Publication
Do Patient Safety Events Increase Readmissions?
B. Friedman, W. Encinosa, H. J. Jiang et al.
Medical Care, May 2009 47(5):583–90  — View Publication
Does Comparison of Performance Lead to Better Care? A Pilot Observational Study in Patients Admitted for Hip Fracture in Three French Public Hospitals
V. Merle, L. Moret, L. Pidhorz et al.
International Journal for Quality in Health Care, October 2009 21(5):321-29  — View Publication
Does Surgical Quality Improve in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program - An Evaluation of All Participating Hospitals
B. L. Hall, B. H. Hamilton, K. Richards et al.
Annals of Surgery, September 2009 250(3): 363-176  — View Publication
Does Teamwork Improve Performance in the Operating Room? A Multilevel Evaluation
S.J. Weaver, M.A. Rosen, D. DiazGranados et al.
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, March 2010 36(3): 132-42  — View Publication
Effect of Bar-Code Technology on the Safety of Medication Administration
E.G. Poon, C.A. Keohane, C.S. Yoon et al.
New England Journal of Medicine, May 2010 362(18)1698-1707.  — View Publication
Effectiveness of Public Report Cards for Improving the Quality of Cardiac Care
J. V. Tu, L. R. Donovan, D. S. Lee et al.
JAMA, Vol. 302, No. 21, Pages 2330-37 (December 2009)  — View Publication
Emergency Department Operations in Top-Performing Safety-Net Hospitals
L. Nolan, M. Regenstein et al.
The Commonwealth Fund, July 2009  — View Publication
Estimating a Composite Measure of Hospital Quality from the Hospital Compare Database--Differences When Using a Bayesian Hierarchical Latent Variable Model Versus Denominator-Based Weights
M. Shwartz, J. Ren, E. A. Peköz et al.
Medical Care, August 2008 46(8):778-85  — View Publication
First State-Specific Healthcare-Associated Infections Summary Data Report

National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) January-June, 2009, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  — View Publication
Groups Try Simple Steps to Avoid Hospital Rebound

CBS News.com, December 8, 2009  — View Publication
Homeward Bound--Nine Patient-Centered Programs Cut Readmissions
S. Baird Kanaan
California Healthcare Foundation, September 2009  — View Publication
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