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June 13, 2013 | Issue Brief
This inventory lists a variety of free resources that are available to support health care organizations in determining what they need to do to improve patient experience and how to implement those improvements.
December 12, 2011 | Program Results Report
Most of the seven health care organizations in this RWJF national program made "tremendous progress" in improving the quality of their care, however none reached the goal of organizational transformation to a fundamentally new health care model.
September 28, 2011 | Program Results Report
The High-Value Health Care Project, an initiative of the Quality Alliance Steering Committee, promoted a comprehensive, uniform national approach to measuring the performance of the health care system, to foster transparency and improve quality.
March 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
An effort to help enhance the quality and equality of U.S. health care.
March 22, 2010 | Program Results Report
The National Qualify Forum (NQF) led an initiative with the goals of establishing performance and reporting mechanisms in ambulatory care, and identifying national priorities for health and health care.
March 24, 2010 | Story
Duke University Hospital and the health system wanted to improve cardiac care for African-American and Latino populations by identifying and analyzing disparities and developing tools that would better serve them.
March 21, 2009 | Program Results Report
Researchers conducted preliminary work to develop a standardized set of EHR-based quality performance measures.
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.
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.
September 9, 2011 | Program Results Report
From 2004 to 2010, the National Partnership for Women and Families in Washington organized a broad-based network of consumer advocates at the grassroots and national levels to bring the consumer perspective to health care quality issues.