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Transforming Care at the Bedside: A Doorway to Empowerment This article explains how the Transforming Care at the Bedside program improves patient care and staff satisfaction in medical and surgical units by providing nurses and other health professionals with a forum for presenting ideas and a means to follow... Published In: Nurse Leader	Journal articles	11/20/2009
Fair Process in Physician Performance Rating Systems Programs to rate, grade, rank or tier physicians based on quality or other measures are becoming more commonplace as the demand for greater transparency and accountability in the nation's health care system intensifies. Once they are in a network or practicing...	Issue and policy briefs	11/03/2009
Evidence of an Emerging Digital Divide Among Hospitals That Care for the Poor Some hospitals that disproportionately care for poor patients are falling behind in adopting electronic health records (EHRs). A central policy question is whether health information technology investments prompted by the 2009 federal stimulus... Published In: Health Affairs (Web Exclusive)	Journal articles	10/26/2009
What is PROMETHEUS Payment? This brief explains the three essential elements of PROMETHEUS Payment and how it offers a realistic, rational and sustainable blueprint for a new health care payment system.	Issue and policy briefs	06/10/2009
Care at the End of Life Still Not What It Could Be The Brown University School of Medicine analyzed existing data, interviewed bereaved family members and conducted other surveys to assess the end-of-life care provided in private homes, in nursing homes and in hospitals.	Grant Results Reports	04/30/2009
Focus on Quality: Communication in the Health Care Encounter 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. Published In: Issue Brief	Issue and policy briefs, Reports	03/06/2009
Urgent Matters Urgent Matters aimed to relieve emergency department overcrowding, improve patient care and increase patient satisfaction.	Grant Results Reports	02/24/2009
Inpatient Care Intensity and Patients' Ratings of Their Hospital Experiences This study examined the associations among hospital care intensity, the technical quality of hospital care, and patients' ratings of their hospital experiences. Published In: Health Affairs	Journal articles	01/14/2009
Patient Experiences with Coordination of Care This article addresses the extent to which patients' health care is coordinated between primary care physicians and specialists. Published In: Journal of General Internal Medicine (Online)	Journal articles	01/12/2009
High Medical Cost Burdens, Patient Trust, and Perceived Quality of Care This article examines the relationship between high medical cost burden and patient trust in physicians. The authors find that patients with higher medical costs have lower levels of trust in the quality of care that they receive from their physicians. Published In: Journal of General Internal Medicine (Online)	Journal articles	01/12/2009

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