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Office-Based Physicians Are Responding To Incentives And Assistance By Adopting And Using Electronic Health Records

July 9, 2013 | Journal Article

Expanding the use of interoperable electronic health record systems to improve health care delivery is a national policy priority.

Using Standardized Encounters to Understand Reported Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Patient Experiences with Care

April 1, 2011 | Journal Article

This research suggests that differences in CAHPS survey results by race or ethnicity are more likely to reflect actual experiences than differences in use of the survey instrument.

Pay for Performance Improves Quality Across Demographic Groups

July 1, 2013 | Journal Article

This article evaluates quality and the effect of pay for performance among minority patient groups, during a pay-for-performance program in 22 primary care practice sites.

Ambulatory Visit Rates and Antibiotic Prescribing for Children with Pneumonia, 1994-2007

March 1, 2011 | Journal Article

Kids with pneumonia treated after an office visit are more likely to receive broad-spectrum antibiotics despite evidence of little benefit over narrow-spectrum penicillins.

If Consumers and Purchasers Could Compare Health Care Quality, What Would It Do to Health Care?

June 10, 2013 | Program Results 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.

Referral and Consultation Communication Between Primary Care and Specialist Physicians

January 10, 2011 | Journal Article

Physicians need help enhancing communications to other physicians about patients' medical history, chronic conditions and the results of consultations.

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.

Physicians Slow to E-Mail Routinely with Patients

October 7, 2010 | Issue Brief

Brief highlights that only 34 percent of office-based physicians have the capability to e-mail patients. Of those, fewer than one in five regularly e-mail their patients.

Patient Perceptions of Mistakes in Ambulatory Care

September 13, 2010 | Journal Article

Patients with higher levels of educational attainment, chronic back pain and reports of poor physical health are more likely to perceive mistakes in their ambulatory care. Patient perceptions of mistakes often lead them to seek different physicians.

Collecting Race, Ethnicity and Primary Language Data in Physician Practices

August 1, 2010 | Report

This research summary highlights Minnesota Community Measurement's efforts to incorporate systematic data collection in physician practices to reduce disparities and improve quality.