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September 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Mapping allows local health departments to visually communicate data and identify and address gaps between services and health outcomes.
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Implementing Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB), a nurse-led quality initiative which aims to create rapid improvement, resulted in large gains in outcomes and large savings in costs, according to two executives with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, one of the hospitals participating in the TCAB pilot program.
July 1, 2006 | Program Result
The Dartmouth College Department of Economics and the Social Policy and Health Economics Research and Evaluation Institute (SPHERE) collaborated to develop more accurate measures of physician performance.
October 1, 2007 | Issue Brief
The October 2007 issue of Charting Nursing's Future examines facts and controversies about nurse staffing policy.
March 6, 2013 | Toolkit
This toolkit features videos and and other resources from three AF4Q alliances to introduce the concept of partnering with patients and families in primary care.
October 28, 2009 | Issue Brief
Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) tests innovative strategies for improving health care at the community level. These snapshots of success highlight one activity from each of the original 14 AF4Q communities and outline the steps involved, lessons learned and results of the activity.
August 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Incentives to improve the quality of care provided in Medicaid managed care plans are increasingly common and take many forms. One is a pay-for-performance program that automatically assigns new enrollees to better-performing Medicaid plans in California.
March 1, 2004 | Program Result
During 2002 and 2003, researchers at the non-profit advocacy organization FACCT - the Foundation for Accountability - assessed the feasibility of using data from on-line patient surveys to create a valid assessment of physicians' performance.