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Improving Quality: How a Hospital Reduced Medication Errors

September 24, 2008 | Story

Leadership of the nonprofit hospital and its parent corporation, McLeod Health, embraced a plan to automate the medication delivery process, adding safeguards against both prescribing and delivery mistakes.

Operation Access in San Francisco Coordinates Free Surgeries for Low-Income and Uninsured People

January 31, 2004 | Program Result

From 1994 to 1998, staff at the Ambulatory Surgery Access Coalition implemented a program called Operation Access to increase access to ambulatory surgery services for medically indigent patients in San Francisco.

Finding Better Ways to Treat Alcohol Abuse Among Seniors

May 1, 1997 | Program Result

The New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority created the Resident Education and Assistance Program to address problems of undiagnosed substance abuse among elderly residents living in subsidized public and private housing.

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.

Access to Care Impacts Hospitalization Rates for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions

April 1, 2001 | Program Result

The University of California studied access to primary care in selected communities to assess whether hospitalization rates for certain chronic conditions typically managed by outpatient care are valid and useful measures of community access to care.

Disharmony of Inpatient and Outpatient Services Hampers Treatment of Schizophrenics

August 1, 2001 | Program Result

From 1991 to 1998, researchers from the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, studied the care of schizophrenia patients who are covered by Medicaid in New York State.

Aggregating Physician Performance Data Across Health Plans

March 1, 2011 | Issue Brief

An effort to help enhance the quality and equality of U.S. health care.

Measuring the Cost-Of-Care

March 1, 2011 | Report

An effort to help enhance the quality and equality of U.S. health care.

Moving Toward Racial and Ethnic Equity in Health Care

March 1, 2011 | Report

An effort to help enhance the quality and equality of U.S. health care.

If You Have Pneumonia, Which Emergency Department will Give the Best Care?

May 17, 2012 | Program Result

Researchers at Emory University Department of Emergency Medicine analyzed data from two Atlanta emergency departments to ascertain barriers to achieving standard metrics of performance for treatment of patients with pneumonia.

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