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Evaluation of Partnerships for Quality Education The evaluation of Partnerships for Quality Education (PQE) consisted of a survey of 63 project directors in order to define the specific managed care competencies and related patient care tasks that residence program directors expected residents to learn as a...	Evaluations, Evaluation projects	11/13/2009
Utilizing a Pediatric Emergency Preparedness Toolkit Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Implemented use of the "Care of Children in the Emergency Department: Guidelines for Preparedness Implementation" toolkit to improve the quality of care provided to children	Promising practices from the field	08/11/2009
Guidelines for Purchaser, Consumer and Health Plan Measurement of Provider Performance Multiple health care stakeholders, including public and private purchasers, consumer organizations, health plans, and regulators, have come to support the Institute of Medicine's call in its 2001 report Crossing the Quality Chasm to recognize and reward...	Toolkits, Promising practices from publications	06/04/2008
Toolkit Outlines Best Practices in Medicaid Managed Care for Improving Asthma Care for Children More than six million children suffer from asthma, making it the most common chronic childhood illness. Asthma disproportionately affects low-income populations and children living in inner cities. Between 1992 and 1999, the rate of emergency department visits for...	Toolkits, Promising practices from publications	06/04/2008
Discretionary Decision Making By Primary Care Physicians and the Cost of U.S. Health Care This paper investigates the relationship between health care use and primary care physicians' discretionary decision-making about medical interventions. Published In: Health Affairs	Journal articles	05/13/2008
Igniting Health Care Payment Reform A review of the PROMETHEUS Payment approach describes the key components of a strategy to manage the rise in health care costs. Using common incentives and connecting payment to clinical practice guidelines and evidence-informed case rates can result in high quality...	Issue and policy briefs	05/08/2008
Health System Changes to Facilitate the Delivery of Tobacco-Dependence Treatment This article examined systems-level methods in the health care arena that target tobacco use that have arisen since the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality guidelines were first introduced. Published In: American Journal of Preventive Medicine (Supplement 1)	Journal articles	02/15/2008
Statement on IOM Report on "Knowing What Works in Health Care" RWJF President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., comments on IOM's "Knowing What Works in Health Care report," a road map for identifying the nation's most effective health care services.	President's Corner, News releases	01/24/2008
Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations for COPD and Pneumonia Bacterial pneumonia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are respectively the third and fifth most common reason for Americans over 65 being hospitalized. This study examines the association between elderly patients being treated by their usual... Published In: Medical Care	Journal articles	06/01/2007
Predictors of the Growing Influence of Clinical Practice Guidelines Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) provide physicians with information on evidence-based management that may improve quality of care for patients. The past two decades have seen a proliferation of CPG development and dissemination, though physicians have been slow... Published In: Journal of General of Internal Medicine	Journal articles	06/01/2007

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