A Quality Improvement Evaluation Case Study
May 1, 2013 | Journal Article
One Florida county increased immunization rates through a quality improvement initiative.
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Stimulating Public Health Improvement in Complex and Constrained Delivery Systems
December 19, 2012 | Journal Article
A series of studies examine how public health decision-makers are responding to accreditation, quality improvement, and public reporting initiatives amid the ongoing fiscal pressures.
A Roadmap and Best Practices for Organizations to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
August 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This article describes work to conduct systematic reviews of the literature, evaluate promising practices, provide technical assistance to health care organizations and disseminate their findings.
Explaining Michigan
June 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Social scientists describe what worked and why in a successful initiative to reduce central line infections in Michigan ICUs.
The Published Literature on Handoffs in Hospitals
December 1, 2010 | Journal Article
A review of existing research on handoffs in order to inform the improvement and standardization of the handoff process in hospitals found that in existing literature, key concepts remain poorly defined and that patient safety is not analyzed against handoffs' other functions.
Implementation of a Chronic Illness Model for Diabetes Care in a Family Medicine Residency Program
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
A California collaborative uses the Chronic Care Model to improve education of residents and care of patients with diabetes.
Effect of Pay-for-Performance Incentives on Quality of Care in Small Practices with Electronic Health Records
September 11, 2013 | Journal Article
A pay-for-performance (P4P) incentive program targeting the proportion of patients achieving measures of preventive services resulted in modest improvements in cardiovascular care.
Effects of Individual Physician-Level and Practice-Level Financial Incentives on Hypertension Care
September 11, 2013 | Journal Article
Individual financial incentives (but not practice-level or combined) resulted in greater hypertension care, yet the effect of the incentive was not sustained after a washout period a new study finds.
Measuring Population Health Outcomes
July 1, 2012 | Journal Article
An ideal population health outcome metric should reflect a population's dynamic state of physical, mental and social well-being. On the basis of a review of outcomes metrics currently in use and the availability of data for at least some U.S. counties, this study makes recommendations for population health outcomes.
The Aligning Forces For Quality Experience
June 4, 2013 | Journal Article
Aligning Forces for Quality is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's signature effort to improve the overall quality of health care in targeted communities, reduce racial and ethnic disparities in care, and provide models for national reform.