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.
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Rising Closures of Hospital Trauma Centers Disproportionately Burden Vulnerable Populations
October 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Closures of hospital trauma centers have accelerated since 2001 and may disproportionately affect disadvantaged communities.
Changes in Emergency Department Access Between 2001 and 2005 Among General and Vulnerable Populations
August 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Although geographic access to emergency departments has deteriorated in only a small number of communities, these communities tended to be poor, unemployed or Hispanic, suggesting an increasing disparity in access to emergency care.
Transformational Change in Health Care Systems
October 1, 2007 | Journal Article
This article offers a conceptual model for understanding how organizations can move from short-term performance enhancements to sustained, organizationwide patient care improvements
Expecting Success Toolkit
June 5, 2008 | Toolkit/Video
Ten hospitals with racially and ethnically diverse patient populations participated in Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care, a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation aimed at improving quality of cardiac care while reducing racial, ethnic and language disparities. All 10 hospitals improved the quality of care being provided to their heart failure and heart attack patients.
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.
Measuring the Performance of Individual Physicians by Collecting Data from Multiple Health Plans
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Quality measurement and reporting have emerged as important tools that providers, health plans, and other stakeholders can use to identify gaps in quality and focus resources on improving care.
The High-Value Health Care Project
September 28, 2011 | Program Result
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.