Producing Public Reports of Physician Quality at the Community Level
The Aligning Forces for Quality Initiative Experience
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 approaches that different Aligning Forces for Quality alliances have taken in producing community-based reports with clinical quality and patient experience measures, and assesses the contribution of these reports to existing physician performance information.
Creating and Sustaining Change
- 1. Getting the Structure Right for Community-Wide Healthcare Improvement
- 2. Lessons for Reducing Disparities in Regional Quality Improvement Efforts
- 3. The Imperative to Promote Collaborative Consumer Engagement
- 4. That Was Then, This Is Now
- 5. The Aligning Forces for Quality Initiative
- 6. Barriers and Strategies to Align Stakeholders in Healthcare Alliances
- 7. Midterm Observations and Recommendations From the Evaluation of the Aligning Forces for Quality Initiative
- 8. Producing Public Reports of Physician Quality at the Community Level
- 9. Community-Level Interventions to Collect Race/Ethnicity and Language Data to Reduce Disparities
- 10. Approaches to Improving Healthcare Delivery by Multi-Stakeholder Alliances
- 11. Evaluating a Community-Based Program to Improve Healthcare Quality
- 12. Using Websites to Engage Consumers in Managing Their Health and Healthcare