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Creating and Sustaining Change

September 1, 2012 | Journal Article

At the midpoint of the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative, the authors report on the learnings and challenges experienced in the initiative thus far.

Getting the Structure Right for Community-Wide Healthcare Improvement

September 1, 2012 | Journal Article

Multi-stakeholder regional alliances have generally been successful with public reporting, but they have struggled with quality improvement. Regional health information exchanges have generally not used multi-stakeholder governance and have often be ...

Lessons for Reducing Disparities in Regional Quality Improvement Efforts

September 1, 2012 | Journal Article

Regional efforts to improve quality of care face particular challenges when addressing racial and ethnic disparities in health. Diverse populations have different needs and barriers, and the same quality improvement (QI) intervention can affect them ...

The Imperative to Promote Collaborative Consumer Engagement

September 1, 2012 | Journal Article

Achieving a meaningful definition and shared understanding of consumer engagement is a critical step in making real progress as the nation works to transform its health care system to make care more efficient, affordable, effective, and patient-cent ...

That Was Then, This Is Now

September 1, 2012 | Journal Article

A focus on multi-stakeholder coalitions as a platform for change is not a new concept; however, it has rarely been supported, tested, and refined to the extent that the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) communities have done. This is a singular ach ...

The Aligning Forces for Quality Initiative

September 1, 2012 | Journal Article

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF’s) Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative is the largest privately funded community-based quality improvement initiative to date, providing funds and technical assistance (TA) to 16 multi-stakeholder ...

Producing Public Reports of Physician Quality at the Community Level

September 1, 2012 | Journal Article

Relatively little has been written about the community-based reporting process and whether resulting reports add significantly to the amount and relevance of physician performance information available to consumers. This article contrasts the approa ...