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August 1, 2012 | Issue Brief/Infographic
Publicly reported performance data have motivated health care providers to improve their care, led employers to change purchasing habits, and have become more accessible to consumers.
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.
September 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Relatively little has been written about the community-based reporting process and whether resulting reports add significantly to the amount and relevance of physician performance information available to consumers. This article contrasts the approa ...
April 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
This brief provides lessons from communities involved in Aligning Forces for Quality, forced on bringing together the many pieces of information that go into public reports of quality performance data.
November 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
This paper reviews the evolution of QI initiatives, the current evidence about whether QI interventions work, QI's promise for the future, and how to help it find success in health care.
July 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
Data reflecting the quality of care delivered by physicians and hospitals are typically referred to as performance measurement.
September 1, 2012 | Journal Article
At the midpoint of the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative, the authors report on the learnings and challenges experienced in the initiative thus far.
September 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Multi-stakeholder regional alliances have generally been successful with public reporting, but they have struggled with quality improvement. Regional health information exchanges have generally not used multi-stakeholder governance and have often be ...
September 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Regional efforts to improve quality of care face particular challenges when addressing racial and ethnic disparities in health. Diverse populations have different needs and barriers, and the same quality improvement (QI) intervention can affect them ...
September 1, 2012 | Journal Article
A focus on multi-stakeholder coalitions as a platform for change is not a new concept; however, it has rarely been supported, tested, and refined to the extent that the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) communities have done. This is a singular ach ...