Measuring Nurses' Impact on Health Care Quality

April 1, 2013 | Journal Article

Four Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) teams summarize their work to close the gaps in measuring quality of nursing care.

Employee Retention

A collection of success stories on improving staff satisfaction and retention from the front lines of American health care, providing free access to strategies used by hospitals and medical practices nationwide to improve care.

The Impact of Worker Health on Long Term Care

May 1, 2010 | Journal Article

Direct care workers who come to work with health issues impact productivity and patient care quality.

Focus on Quality

February 1, 2009 | Issue Brief

To explore the question of what constitutes quality in a health care encounter from the patient perspective, Mathematica Policy Research conducted focus groups with African Americans, Latinos, Asian Indians, and whites.

Combining Better Systems and Intensive Patient Education for Better Heart Care

March 24, 2010 | Story

Del Sol Medical Center improved its patient chart review and discharge processes, and enhanced its heart failure center, with support from Expecting Success.

Dissemination and Implementation: INQRI's Potential Impact

April 1, 2013 | Journal Article

Read the perspectives of principal investigators from INQRI-funded implementation sites: strategies, challenges, successes, and lessons learned.

Early-Career Registered Nurses' Participation in Hospital Quality Improvement Activities

November 27, 2012 | Journal Article

Initiatives to strengthen the capacity to provide excellent patient care by increasing QI practices have grown in the last decade. In this study, the authors examine two cohorts of newly registered nurses, two years apart, to compare participation in QI activities.

A Configurational Approach to the Relationship Between High-Performance Work Practices and Frontline Health Care Worker Outcomes

August 1, 2012 | Journal Article

Using data from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the authors of this study examined how two subsystems of high-performance work practices, staff motivation and frontline empowerment, affected job satisfaction among frontline health workers and perceived quality of care at their institutions.

Physician Workloads Threatening Quality of Care, Study Finds

February 14, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post

Four in 10 physicians say their typical patient load “exceeds safe levels” at least once a month, causing the quality of care they provide to suffer.

Physicians' Fears of Malpractice Lawsuits are not Assuaged by Tort Reforms

September 1, 2010 | Journal Article

Physicians contend that the threat of malpractice lawsuits forces them to practice defensive medicine, which in turn raises the cost of health care.