Pursuing Perfection: Raising the Bar for Health Care Performance
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Program to help hospital and physician organizations dramatically improve patient outcomes by pursuing perfection in all of their major care processes.
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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.
Doctors' Dilemma: How Health Care Financing Shapes Service
August 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
From 1996 to 1998, researchers at the Health Research and Education Trust, in collaboration with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, studied joint hospital and physician group efforts to create integrated service arrangements and facilitated managed care contracting.
Spillover Effects of Community Uninsurance on Working-Age Adults and Seniors
September 1, 2011 | Report
This article explores the indirect, or spillover, health care effects of a high uninsurance rates. Working-age adults with private insurance living in areas with a high rate of uninsurance were less likely than their peers in areas with a low uninsurance rate to have a usual source of care, an office-based visit, and any medical care expenditures.
Pursuing Perfection: Raising the Bar for Health Care Performance
December 12, 2011 | Program Result Report
Most of the seven health care organizations in this RWJF national program made "tremendous progress" in improving the quality of their care, however none reached the goal of organizational transformation to a fundamentally new health care model.
When a Community Has a Higher Rate of Uninsured Residents, Does that Affect Care for Those with Insurance?
September 19, 2011 | Program Result Report
In 2009 and 2010, researchers at UCLA and RAND measured the impact of high local rates of uninsurance on access to care and the quality of care among adults with health insurance.
Studying Maine's Pathways to Excellence Program
May 20, 2011 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the University of Southern Maine studied the state's Pathways to Excellence system of reporting on health care quality. Practices that filed reports had higher scores on six indicators of health care quality than those that did not.
Prescription for Health: Promoting Healthy Behaviors in Primary Care Research Networks
January 27, 2011 | Program Result Report
Prescription for Health tested the use of tools and evidence-based models in primary care to counsel patients to change four leading behaviors associated with premature death: smoking, risky drinking, unhealthy diet, and physical inactivity.
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
Rewarding Results: Aligning Incentives with High-Quality Health Care
October 15, 2009 | Program Result Report
Rewarding Results: Aligning Payments with High-Quality Health Care was a national program of RWJF and California HealthCare Foundation that tested the use of financial incentives to improve the quality of health care.