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...

This article found that county characteristics are independently associated with higher hospital ...

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...

Young children who missed more than half of recommended well-child visits had up to twice the ris...

There were between 462,000 and 636,000 CLABSIs in nonneonatal critical care patients in the Unite...

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

Cigna’s Collaborative Accountable Care initiative provides financial incentives to physician grou...

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

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 In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...

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...

Patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction or congestive heart failure are more likely...

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