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October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Until health care delivery is treated like a science with goals, measures of quality, and systems to collect data and monitor improvements, the U.S. will not be able to effectively improve patient care and safety, according to this essay.
March 8, 2012 | Issue Brief
Pubic reporting is supposed to better the quality of health care and lower costs by making information about health care providers more transparent. However, it's unclear whether the strategy has impacted consumer choices.
December 13, 2012 | Issue Brief
Eliminating waste in the health care system has become a major focal point in the effort to reduce health care costs. Waste has been broadly defined to many areas: unnecessary services, treatment of avoidable injuries and more.
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article evaluates the role of governance and stewardship in improving access to health care data. Data stewardship presents a possible solution to the struggle between privacy and access concerns about health care information.
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article seeks to improve data collection methods for research into health disparities and inequities. The authors describe numerous research methods that might overcome small-sampling size, a limitation of previous studies.
September 17, 2012 | Book
This book series provides an in-depth look into the Foundation's work improving the nation's health and health care.
March 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
Between 1997 and 2001 Investigators at the Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical Center, Hanover, N.H, conducted two research projects that examined how the increasing availability of health care technology and specialist physicians influence the delivery of health care and health outcomes.
December 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The Wholistic Health & Healing Association conducted a two-day forum in Sacramento, Calif., in April 2000 on uterine fibroids and African-American women.
May 18, 2010 | Journal Article
When a patient sees multiple doctors, health plan and government analysts use different rules to assign primary responsibility to a single physician. This article presents a study that examined how those rules affect a physician's cost profile (e.g., high cost or low cost).
March 18, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines the accuracy of tools to identify lower-cost physicians. Many proposed health reforms rely on the identification of physicians who provide lower-cost services for a given condition. However, no rigorous evaluation has assessed whether the tools used to identify lower-cost physicians are accurate.