Spending and service use among people with the fifteen most costly medical conditions, 1997 [0.03%]
十五种最昂贵的医疗状况的人们的花费及服务使用情况（1997）
Joel W Cohen,Nancy A Krauss
Joel W Cohen
This study addresses the Institute of Medicine's recommendation that AHRQ use MEPS data to identify a set of priority conditions to inform efforts at improving quality of care. Using MEPS data we identify the fifteen most expensive conditio...
Out of sight, out of mind: why doesn't widespread clinical quality failure command our attention? [0.03%]
防微杜渐：临床质量缺陷为何没能引起人们的重视？
Arnold Milstein,Nancy E Adler
Arnold Milstein
This paper examines the tolerance by all stakeholders of increasingly well documented evidence of serious and widespread clinical quality failure in the United States. Using research evidence from psychology, it describes specific cognitive...
William C Richardson,Janet M Corrigan
William C Richardson
Patient safety is a serious problem that health care professionals and hospitals must confront. The health care delivery system must be redesigned. Health care professionals have a moral and ethical responsibility to actively participate in...
A call to excellence [0.03%]
追求卓越宣言
Carolyn M Clancy,Thomas Scully
Carolyn M Clancy
Health care improvement affects us all and is not optional. For change to occur, consumers must demand excellence from their providers and clinicians. Patient safety is part of a broader set of health care quality issues. Championing this v...
The silence [0.03%]
沉默之声
Michael L Millenson
Michael L Millenson
Despite several well-crafted Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports, there remains within health care a persistent refusal to confront providers' responsibility for severe quality problems. There is a silence of deed--failing to take correctiv...
Dale Shaller,Shoshanna Sofaer,Steven D Findlay et al.
Dale Shaller et al.
A key strategy for driving improvements in health care quality is providing comparative quality information to consumers. This strategy will not work, and could even be counterproductive, unless (1) consumers are convinced that quality prob...
Does publicizing hospital performance stimulate quality improvement efforts? [0.03%]
公布医院绩效能否促进质量改进努力？
Judith H Hibbard,Jean Stockard,Martin Tusler
Judith H Hibbard
This study evaluates the impact on quality improvement of reporting hospital performance publicly versus privately back to the hospital. Making performance information public appears to stimulate quality improvement activities in areas wher...
Rae M Lamb,David M Studdert,Richard M J Bohmer et al.
Rae M Lamb et al.
New patient safety standards from JCAHO that require hospitals to disclose to patients all unexpected outcomes of care took effect 1 July 2001. In an early 2002 survey of risk managers at a nationally representative sample of hospitals, the...
Employers' efforts to measure and improve hospital quality: determinants of success [0.03%]
雇主对衡量和提高医院质量的尝试：成功因素
Ateev Mehrotra,Thomas Bodenheimer,R Adams Dudley
Ateev Mehrotra
We examined eleven communities in which an employer coalition created a report card to compare the performance of the community's hospitals. After interviewing employer coalition and hospital representatives from each community, we found gr...
Michelle M Mello,David M Studdert,Troyen A Brennan
Michelle M Mello
The Leapfrog Group, a consortium of large employers, aims to use its collective purchasing power to motivate hospitals to implement particular measures designed to improve patient safety and the quality of care. While these criteria are mea...