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Poll: Many Sick Americans Experience Significant Financial Problems and Report their Care is not Well-Managed Poll measures Americans' views on costs and quality of medical care.	Reports, Public opinion survey results, Stories and articles, News releases	05/21/2012
If You Have Pneumonia, Which Emergency Department Will Give the Best Care? Researchers at Emory University Department of Emergency Medicine analyzed data from two Atlanta emergency departments to ascertain barriers to achieving standard metrics of performance for treatment of patients with pneumonia.	Program Results Reports	05/17/2012
2012 President's Message In "The Push for the Summit: Creating Health Care's New Terrain," we now set our sights on frontiers and summits yet to come.	President's Corner, Annual Reports	05/15/2012
Project ECHO: Expanding Access by Sharing Medical Knowledge (from Four Decades of Social Change) In 2003, Sanjeev Arora, MD, a liver disease specialist at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center in Albuquerque, saw that his community was in crisis. An estimated 28,000 New Mexicans desperately needed treatment for hepatitis C, but fewer than 5...	Stories and articles	05/14/2012
Childhood Obesity: Reversing an Epidemic (from Four Decades of Social Change) Public health experts spotted the first signs of trouble in the 1980s. After hovering in the single digits for more than a generation, childhood obesity rates suddenly spiked-first doubling, then tripling, then even quadrupling among some age groups. By 2000,...	Stories and articles	05/14/2012
The Growing Power of Some Providers to Win Steep Payment Increases from Insurers Suggests Policy Remedies may be Needed In the constant attention paid to what drives health care costs, only recently has scrutiny been applied to the power that some health care providers, particularly dominant hospital systems, wield to negotiate higher payment rates from insurers. Published In: Health Affairs	Journal articles	05/07/2012
Present Missing Data Clearly Providing clear missing data explanations may improve consumers' response to health professionals without data, as well as health professional engagement in reporting activities.	Issue and policy briefs	04/30/2012
Displays of Trend Data: Findings from the Field Trend data play a valuable role in quality improvement. Results of our formative research showed that communities that publicly report trend data are using it as a quality improvement indicator and tool.	Issue and policy briefs	04/30/2012
Three Reasons for Missing Data Although there are a number of specific reasons why quality data reports may be missing for a provider, this report provides guidance focusing on three key reasons: Too few patients; did not report; and not applicable.	Reports	04/30/2012
Leverage Community Partnerships This document outlines a set of best practices for Alliances to recruit, orient, and support consumer stakeholders, also called community partners.	Reports	04/30/2012

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