Pursuing Perfection: Raising the Bar for Health Care Performance
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Large Group Purchasers Have Power to Drive Improvements in Patient Safety
September 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
The University of California, San Francisco, conducted an exploratory case study of innovative practices of large capitated physician organizations aimed at improving patient safety.
Doctors' Dilemma: How Health Care Financing Shapes Service
August 25, 2003 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the Health Research and Education Trust, in collaboration with the Wharton School, studied joint hospital and physician group efforts to create integrated service arrangements and facilitated managed care contracting.
Physician Survey Results: Albuquerque Coalition for Healthcare Quality
December 1, 2010 | Survey/Poll
The National Survey of Small and Medium-Sized Physician Practices (NSSMPP) provides information about physician practices in the Albuquerque region.
Improving the Reliability of Physician "Report Cards"
March 1, 2013 | Journal Article
The reliability of individual primary care physician profiles was the focus of this study.
The Relationship Between Health Plan Performance Measures and Physician Network Overlap
August 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines the relationship between health plan performance and physician network overlap.
A Field Experiment on the Impact of Physician-Level Performance Data on Consumers' Choice of Physician
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The use of a publicly available online report of physician-level data on the choice of primary care provider (PCP) among new members to the HealthPlus of Michigan health plan was assessed in this study.
Improving Performance in Practice
March 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
Improving Performance in Practice (IPIP) provides small, primary-care practices with tools, support, coaching and a collaborative learning environment in which they can assess their performance and engage systematically in improvement activities. Th ...
Effects of Local Institutional Review Board Review on Participation in National Practice-Based Research Network Studies
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This study reports the process and outcomes of local Institutional Review Board review for two large, federally-funded studies conducted by Pediatric Research in Office Settings (PROS), the PBRN of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
Physician Survey Results
October 1, 2009 | Survey/Poll
As part of the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) evaluation efforts, evaluators conducted the National Survey of Small and Medium-Sized Physician Practices (NSSMPP) in AF4Q sites between March 2010 and August 2010. The NSSMPP, funded by the Robert ...