Lessons Learned in Performance Measurement
September 1, 2011 | Report
First report on recent trends in the effectiveness of care coordination for Medicare patients discharged from hospitals shows stagnant national performance and variations in care.
Inpatient Care
You are now viewing 1 - 10 of 46 results
Sort results by:
Inpatient Care Intensity and Patients' Ratings of Their Hospital Experiences
January 1, 2009 | Journal Article
The intensity of hospital care provided to chronically ill Medicare patients varies greatly among regions, independent of illness. This study examined the associations among hospital care intensity, the technical quality of hospital care, and patients' ratings of their hospital experiences.
Disease Management Program Reduces Hospital Days for Chronic Renal Disease Patients
May 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
The Brandeis University Institute for Health Policy supported a study of the renal disease management program operated by Southern California Kaiser Permanente, a regional, nonprofit HMO.
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.
Poor More Likely to be Hospitalized for Diseases Preventable with Primary Care
July 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The United Hospital Fund of New York worked to develop, validate and implement a research technique called small-area analysis, used to identify communities with high rates of unnecessary hospitalization and limited access to primary care.
Hospitals' Geographic Expansion in Quest of Well-Insured Patients
April 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The emphasis that hospitals place on cutting-edge technology and niche specialty services to attract physicians and patients has set the stage for health care's most recent competitive trend: an increased level of targeted, geographic service expansion to "capture" well-insured patients.
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.
How Registries Can Help Performance Measurement Improve Care
June 1, 2010 | Report
Paper describes solutions for leveraging both administrative and registry data to make additional performance results available, as well as further increase registry use for performance measurement and other purposes.