Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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

This article explores how geographic health information systems can be used to improve the health...

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...

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

Electronic Health Records implementation is still highly heterogeneous across health care systems...

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...

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

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

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, ...