Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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 ...

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

This article discusses divergent concepts of population health between care delivery systems and ...

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...