The 2014 AHA Chair-elect Jonathan  Perlin, MD, co-authored this paper and companion financial mod...

January 10th, 2014
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This report discusses the importance of health in all policies, an approach to improving health b...

September 18th, 2013
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This report from the Department of Health and Human Services describes a plan to bolster implemen...

July 2nd, 2013
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In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...

December 3rd, 2012
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Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...

November 1st, 2012
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Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...

October 10th, 2012
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The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...

September 26th, 2012
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There is widespread agreement that the current fee-for-service approach to paying for health care...

September 7th, 2012
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Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...

December 1st, 2011
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In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...

November 8th, 2011
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Implementing a sustainability program requires significant cultural change and time. A good place...

November 1st, 2011
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A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...

October 4th, 2011
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According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...

October 3rd, 2011
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The study concludes that more widespread implementation and effective use of e-prescribing in amb...

October 1st, 2011
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Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

October 1st, 2011
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The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

October 1st, 2011
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The report recommends improved ways in which primary care practices should be paid for delivering...

February 1st, 2009
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