Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The May 2014 edition of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved highlights lingui...

There is a need for greater understanding of the factors that lead to improved process quality an...

The April issue of Health Services Research journal is now available. Covering topics in variati...

A special issue of Health Services Research on “Health Information Technology” is now available. ...

This articles explores how HealthPartners decided to target nonclinical determinants of populatio...

Throughout the past decade, there has been a substantial increase in the national frequency of po...

This articles argues that now is the time to integrate public health and primary care in a way th...

Patient-reported experiences of care are an important focus in health disparities research. This ...

Health plans and Medicare are using cost profiles to identify which physicians account for more h...

Health care reform presents academic health centers with an opportunity to test new systems of ca...

The implementation of accountable care organizations, a new health care payment and delivery mode...

This cross-site comparison of the early experience of four provider organizations participating i...

AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

Diabetes is among the ten leading causes of death in both white and African American patients, bu...

Secondary analysis of data from two studies examining palliative care in rural areas was conducte...

Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...

The Health Disparities Cancer Collaborative implemented six components of the chronic care model ...

This commentary was written by  Daren R. Anderson, MD, vice president and chief quality officer, ...

Purpose. This study assesses the impact of advance directives on end-of-life costs, drawing on ad...

This article discusses how clinically at-risk and socially disadvantaged populations may not be f...

The authors found little evidence that participation in the Premier HQID program led to lower 30-...

In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...

This article discusses preliminary findings from the National Congress of American Indians Policy...

Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pioneer Portfolio, OpenNotes is being tested by...

The objective of this study was to describe health plan efforts to collect language data from its...

This article proposes an examination of health disparities through the lens of public health to p...

This article describes the development of the regional health collaborative, a population-based h...

Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...

The article discusses how the Beacon community program has leveraged health information technolog...

Reducing rates of rehospitalization has attracted attention from policymakers as a way to improve...

This article traces the historical progression of the population health approach as part of healt...