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

November 8th, 2012
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Health plans and Medicare are using cost profiles to identify which physicians account for more h...

November 1st, 2012
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Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...

October 11th, 2012
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Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

October 2nd, 2012
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Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...

September 20th, 2012
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Patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction or congestive heart failure are more likely...

August 1st, 2012
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Purpose. This study assesses the impact of advance directives on end-of-life costs, drawing on ad...

August 1st, 2012
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The authors found little evidence that participation in the Premier HQID program led to lower 30-...

March 28th, 2012
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In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...

March 1st, 2012
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