Report summarizes findings from a national inventory which examined more than 230 health care transparency tools across the US in four categories: physicians, hospitals, prescription drug pricing, and health insurance purchasing.
Twenty-one percent of adults report having personally experienced a medical error, according to a national survey. The survey further finds that, when errors do occur, they often have lasting impact on the patient's physical health, emotional health, financial well-being, or family relationships. The nationwide survey of more than 2,500 adults was conducted by NORC from May 12-June 26, 2017.
Formerly BMJ Quality Improvement Reports, journal is dedicated to publishing high quality, open access, peer reviewed healthcare improvement work. Articles covering original research, local, national and international QI projects, value-based healthcare improvement initiatives and educational improvement work are all considered.
The Person and Family Engagement (PFE) Strategy outlines key tenets, foundational principles, and values of person and family engagement, while highlighting the importance of collaboration and partnerships to reach the specified goals.
Framework outlines a public health approach to patient safety, including event surveillance and reporting, promoting behavior change, and evidence-based interventions.
Site is a product of the Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience and is intended to provide an easy-to-navigate repository of helpful resources for those seeking information and guidance on how to combat clinician burnout in their organizations and in their personal lives.
A searchable list of articles related to engagement in research, organized around: papers describing engagement experiences; papers on research findings that also report on engagement; studies of engagement practices; and other works that guide the field, including frameworks, conceptual models, and editorials.
The Guide focuses on four primary strategies for promoting patient/family engagement in hospital safety and quality of care.
A white paper and associated framework with evidence-based strategies that facilitate patient and family engagement and are tied to research findings revealing improved patient care and outcomes.
GAO's July 2010 report to Congressional Committees with a focused review on the status of the National Quality Forum's (NQF) work related to the five Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA) duties as of the end of the first contract year, January 13, 2010.
ONC has issued a vision paper which outlines their ten-year vision for health IT enabled quality improvement.
Recorded webinar series that provides an overview of health indicators, an in-depth review of a county-level indicator project, practical approaches in using health indicator data to engage with communities, and an exploration of several important new indicator efforts.
This living dictionary provides definitions for simulated healthcare scenarios used to improve patient safety and quality of care.
This book continues the investigation into patient care quality that began with "To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System" (2000) and "Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century" (2001) with an examination of diagnostic precision and error.
Using data from Europe, Canada, Australia, and the United States, this paper examines HTA activities and public investments in CER.
This paper provides an overview of the current state of measuring health care quality, and it uses the Medicare program to illustrate the key issues and challenges that arise in doing so.
Nonprofit news organization committed to in-depth coverage of health care policy and politics. Link to articles that focus on quality.
Scorecard includes measures reported by states, state health system performance, state administrative accountability, and federal administrative accountability. This first version of the Scorecard also includes information on selected health and program indicators, and describes the Medicaid and CHIP programs and how they operate.
The CDC's primary vehicle for scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations. Content is open access.
Free online resources to help individuals select a health plan or physician that provides top-notch care.
Healthcare and Quality is a subtopic of interest within the Health and Medicine topic at the National Academies Press. This site displays relevant titles.
CMS used multiple analyses of measure performance trends, disparities, patient impact, and costs avoided, as well as national surveys in hospital and nursing home quality leaders, to evaluate the national impact of the use of quality measures.
The issue of correctly matching the patient to their EHR is the subject of this report, which includes best practices for patient safety and information security.
Founded 30 years ago, Planetree is a not-for-profit organization that partners with healthcare organizations to transform organizational cultures and improve the patient experience; the Picker Institute is an international non-profit organization that supports research in the field of patient-centered care. The Patient-Centered Care Improvement Guide represents the culmination of this year-long collaboration. It reflects the collective wisdom of organizations implementing patient-centered care at an advanced level, as well as the experiences of those whose efforts have been hindered by any number of barriers.
This January 2003 report recommends a set of 20 priority areas that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and other groups in the public and private sectors should focus on to improve the quality of health care delivered to all Americans.
Quarterly newsletter containing updates from all QUERI centers as well as citations from recently published articles.
RAND Health is a research division within the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. RAND Health advances understanding of health and health behaviors and examines how the organization and financing of care affect costs, quality, and access. Access various studies.
TalkingQuality is a comprehensive resource and guide for organizations that produce and disseminate reports to consumers on the quality of care provided by health care organizations (e.g., hospitals, health plans, medical groups, nursing homes) and individual physicians.
Free resource to help choose programs and policies to improve health and prevent disease in communities.
This March 2011 report outlines a national strategy for quality improvement in health care. The strategy was called for under the Affordable Care Act and is the first effort to create national aims and priorities to guide local, state, and national efforts to improve the quality of health care in the United States.
Report summarizes patient and consumer views on health care, based on a survey of 1,747 adults who had two or more visits with the same doctor in the last year.
NCQA produces the State of Health Care Quality Report every year to focus on major quality issues the U.S. faces and to support the spread of evidence-based care. This report documents performance trends over time, tracks variation in care and recommends quality improvements.
Transforming Care focuses on new models of care, payment approaches, and patient engagement strategies that have the potential to reshape our delivery system to better meet the needs of the nation's sickest and most vulnerable patients. Published quarterly, the newsletter is a source of innovative ideas for health system leaders, clinicians, and policymakers.
This guide looks at the technique of Qualitative Comparative Analysis, which combines theory and Boolean algebra, as a method for analysis of patient-centered medical homes.
Credit: U.S. National Library of Medicine, HSRIC: Quality
There are two ways to find guidelines in PubMed: Using filters, and looking for articles in which the word "guideline" appears in the title.
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There are two ways to find guidelines in CINAHL: Using filters, and looking for articles in which the word "guideline" appears up in the title.
1) Using a Title Search
If you want to limit your search in CINAHL to those where the word “guideline” is in the title, type the word Guideline* into the first search box and change the drop-down box to Title. Then fill in the search boxes below with your search terms and hit Search.
2) Using a filter (this usually returns slightly more than the method above)
To find guidelines using the filter, follow these steps:
1) Open CINAHL and click on "CINAHL Subject Headings.” On the next pages, type in "Guidelines."
2) From there, click on “Practice Guidelines” then “Search Database. "
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This will return all articles that were tagged as being a guideline and also match the subject term you entered.
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