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Quality/Cost/ Disparities Resources 
Allied Hospital Association Leadership for Quality - 2011
July 25, 2011 - Using examples from the applicants for the American Hospital Association's inaugural Dick Davidson Quality Milestone Award for Allied Association Leadership, this guide describes the common elements of implementing successful performance improvement.
Early Learnings from the Bundled Payment Acute Care Episode Demonstration Project
July 01, 2011 - An overview and summary of lessons learned from the current CMS pilot project, the CMS Acute Care Episode Demonstration Project, that is testing the effect of bundling Part A and B payments for episodes of care improve coordination, quality and efficiency
Striving for Top Box: Hospitals Increasing Quality and Efficiency
April 01, 2011 - This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a variety of topics including care coordination, health and wellness, equity of care, and new payment and care delivery models.
Health Care Leader Action Guide: Understanding and Managing Variation
February 01, 2011 - The guide includes practical steps to understanding and managing variation and a list of best practices and case studies as examples and resources for hospital leaders to use for implementing key interventions
Call to Action: Creating a Culture of Health
January 01, 2011 - The AHA's Long-Range Policy Committee developed a comprehensive report, A Call to Action: Creating a Culture of Health. It highlights current practices that hospitals use today with their own employees, gives examples of promising practices, and provides
Hand Hygiene Project: Best Practices from Hospitals Participating in the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare Project
November 01, 2010 - This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve work processes and identify causes and targeted solutions for failure to clean hands.
Designing A 21st Century Approach to Primary Care
October 13, 2010 - A new vision of primary care-one built on a clinically and economically sound foundationoffers substantial benefits to both physicians and their patients.
Using Utilization Measures to Improve Quality in Health Systems
October 08, 2010 - Utilization data are essential tools for assessing the state of quality in a health care organization and developing a strategy to improve it.
Business Case for Quality: Tracking the Cash Flows
October 08, 2010 - This study provides practical strategies and tools for assessing the impact of quality-enhancing interventions on a health care provider's bottom line.
Workforce Shortages: Lessons Learned from Other Sectors
October 08, 2010 - By investigating options pursued by other industries that have experience labor shortages, strategies are offered for addressing the health care industry's shortage of nurses.
Living with Diabetes Project
October 08, 2010 - The Living with Diabetes Project examines the economic impact and effectiveness of two technology-based programs aimed at helping patients with type 2 diabetes manage their health.
Improving Quality and Equity in Health Care by Reducing Disparities (2008)
October 08, 2010 - Quantifying the specific drivers of disparities in health care systems can lead to a clearer understanding of where and why such disparities exist, enabling system administrators to develop, implement, and measure the progress of targeted interventions.
Making and Enacting Strategic Decisions in Hospitals and Health Care Delivery Systems: Orchestrating Standardization
October 08, 2010 - As hospitals strive to achieve savings by standardizing product SKUs and/or prices, some achieve more success than others. What factors are important in the successful management of physician preference items?
Paying for Quality in Integrated Health Systems: Concepts, Empirical Evidence, and Lessons from the Field
October 08, 2010 - The effect of incentives—from the health plan/purchaser to the provider organization and from the organization to the individual physician—is the focus of a project that surveyed and interviewed key medical and professional staff within ten
Organizational and Clinical Factors Influencing Use of Clinical Practice Guidelines
October 08, 2010 - Clinical practice guidelines can be effective toward reaching common system goals of improved patient care management. Identifying and overcoming institutional and operational barriers can help ensure the successful implementation of guidelines.
Factors Associated with Use of Management Research in Health Systems
October 07, 2010 - Favorable external conditions, a questioning culture, an accountability structure, and participation in management research all encourage health system managers to use research-based evidence to improve their health systems' performance.
AHA Research Synthesis Report: Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH)
September 01, 2010 - This synthesis report presents an overview of the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH), including key features, discussion of federal, state, and private sector medical home models, and considerations for hospitals interested in developing a PCMH.
Quality of Care at Safety Net Hospitals: Do Findings Vary Based on How One Defines Safety Net Hospitals?
August 30, 2010 - Quality of Care at Safety Net Hospitals: Do Findings Vary Based on How One Defines Safety Net Hospitals?
The Disappearing Hospital Emergency Department
August 25, 2010 - The Disappearing Hospital Emergency Department
Evidence-Based Management
August 25, 2010 - Evidence-Based Management
264 Years Is Too Long
August 25, 2010 - 264 Years Is Too Long
Diverse and Dynamic Leaders
August 25, 2010 - Diverse and Dynamic Leaders
Maintaining Quality of Life
August 25, 2010 - Maintaining Quality of Life
Making Widespread Changes -Gently -in Health Care
August 25, 2010 - Making Widespread ChangesGentlyin Health Care
Evidence for Improving Efficiency
August 25, 2010 - Evidence for Improving Efficiency
For Emergency's Sake
August 25, 2010 - For Emergency's Sake
Collecting Data to Improve Patient Care
August 25, 2010 - Collecting Data to Improve Patient Care
HIV Testing in the ED
August 25, 2010 - HIV Testing in the ED
Bending the Cost Curve
August 19, 2010 - Bending the Cost Curve
Measuring Quality and Implementing Change in Emergency Departments The Urgent Matters Learning Network (UMLN) II
August 19, 2010 - Measuring Quality and Implementing Change in Emergency Departments The Urgent Matters Learning Network (UMLN) II
Healthcare System of the Future
August 19, 2010 - Healthcare System of the Future
Measurement, Improvement and Transparency
August 19, 2010 - Measurement, Improvement and Transparency
Variation in Profitability under Medicare: Emergency Department (ED) vs Scheduled Admissions
August 19, 2010 - Variation in Profitability under Medicare: Emergency Department (ED) vs Scheduled Admissions
Understanding Patient Demographics
August 19, 2010 - Understanding Patient Demographics
Readmissions
August 19, 2010 - Readmissions
Quality is from Mars, Cost is from Venus
August 19, 2010 - Quality is from Mars, Cost is from Venus
Health Care Leader Action Guide on Implementation of Electronic Health Records
July 01, 2010 - Health Care Leader Action Guide on Implementation of Electronic Health Records
The Collaboration Primer
June 08, 2010 - collaboration primer
AHA Research Synthesis Report: Accountable Care Organizations
June 01, 2010 - This guide presents ideas to consider in developing an ACO and reviews the key competencies that are needed in order to be an accountable ACO.
Using Workforce Practices to Drive Quality Improvement: A Guide for Hospitals
June 01, 2010 - Using Workforce Practices to Drive Quality Improvement: A Guide for Hospitals
A Guide to Achieving High Performance in Multi-Hospital Health System
March 01, 2010 - The guide provides numerous tools that leaders can use to help drive performance improvement regardless if they are part of a health system; the lessons are transferrable to all hospitals.
AHA Research Synthesis Report: Bundled Payment
March 01, 2010 - An AHA Research Synthesis Report presents an overview of bundled payment, including evidence of its impact in the public and private sector, as well as questions that must be considered.
Health Care Leader Action Guide to Reduce Avoidable Readmissions
January 01, 2010 - Reducing avoidable hospital readmissions is an opportunity to improve quality and reduce costs in the health care system.
Improving Care for Individuals with Limited English Proficiency
October 01, 2009 - Evidence shows that effective communication between patients, clinicians, and other health care professionals is a critical component of providing high quality care.
Hospital Quality Improvement Activities: Issues in Staffing and Training
January 01, 2009 - As hospitals respond to the national call for health care that is safe, efficient, effective, equitable, timely, and patient-centered, the question of what hospitals are doing to improve quality of care has emerged.
HIV Screening as an Example of the Continuum of Care
January 01, 2009 - HIV screening is inexpensive, noninvasive and critical for prevention and treatment.
Evidence for Improving Efficiency
October 01, 2008 - A Health Services Research special issue outlines best practices that improve quality without raising costs--and possibly lowering them.
Improving Efficiency and Value in Health Care
October 01, 2008 - Sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Making Widespread Changes--Gently--in Health Care
June 01, 2008 - The 2008 TRUST Award recipient discusses improving quality in health care with actionable research, consistent policies, a national report card and more.
ED HIV Test Guide
January 01, 2008 - HIV Testing in Emergency Departments: A Practical Guide
Community Health Assessment Toolkit
January 01, 2008 - A Practical Guide to Planning, Leading, and Using Community Health Assessments
A Survey of Hospital Quality Improvement Activities
January 01, 2008 - Five years after the Institute of Medicine (IOM) called for a redesigned U.
Adoption of Rapid HIVTesting in Hospitals
January 01, 2007 - Adoption of Rapid HIV Testing in Hospitals
Maintaining Quality of Life
January 01, 2007 - Learn from your peers how to implement a palliative care program in your community
A Toolkit for Collecting Race, Ethnicity, and Primary Language Information from Patients
January 01, 2007 - The Health Research and Educational Trust Disparities Toolkit team is proud to release this updated Toolkit.
The Physician Practice Patient Safety Assessment TM
January 01, 2007 - The majority of patients receive most of their health care in physician practice settings, in preventive care, or follow-up to inpatient stays or ambulatory procedures.
A Values-Based Response
July 01, 2006 - A Values-Based Response
Hospital Quality Improvement Activities: A Snapshot of the State of the Art
January 01, 2006 - Hospital Quality Improvement Activities: A Snapshot of the State of the Art
The National Steering Committee on Hospitals and the Public's Health
January 01, 2006 - This report was made possible through a cooperative agreement between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET).
Improving Care in Physician Offices
January 01, 2006 - A new tool helps individual practices evaluate the safety and quality of their care
Hospital Response to Public Health Emergencies: Collaborative Strategies
January 01, 2006 - Through 40 interviews with leaders in medical emergency preparedness in 8 communities across the country, HRET tackled the issue of how hospitals collaborate with each other and public health partners to improve their community's ability to plan for and respond to public health emergencies.
Hospital Language Services For Patients with Limited English Proficiency: Results From A National Survey
January 01, 2006 - Health care providers from across the country have reported language difficulties and inadequate funding of language services to be major barriers to limited English proficiency (LEP) individuals' access to quality health care.
Overcoming the Language Barrier
January 01, 2006 - A survey examines how providers meet the language needs of patients with limited English proficiency.
Quality and Integration: A Q&A with Gail Warden
January 01, 2006 - Across-the-board quality improvement will occur only when hospitals use sophisticated information technology and share best practices with other organizations.
Rapid HIV Testing
January 01, 2006 - Why not take advantage of these encounters to ascertain patients' HIV status?
Payment Reform Health Care Disparities Influenced by Where Minorities Seek Care
January 01, 2006 - Study after study has documented that differences exist between the quality of health care received by minority patients and nonminority patients.
Hospital Capital Financing in the Era of Quality and Safety
January 01, 2005 - HOSPITAL CAPITAL FINANCING IN THE ERA OF QUALITY AND SAFETY: STRATEGIES AND PRIORITIES FOR THE FUTURE -- A SURVEY OF CEOs
Patients' Attitudes Toward Health Care Providers Collecting Information About Their Race and Ethnicity
January 01, 2005 - Experts recommend that health care providers (HCPs) collect patients' race/ethnicity, but HCPs worry that this may alienate patients.
Collecting Race, Ethnicity, and Primary Language Data: Tools to Improve Quality of Care and Reduce Health Care Disparities
January 01, 2005 - This issue brief focuses on disparities in health care.
Speaking Out
January 01, 2005 - Hospitals recognized for improving patient-centered communication
Who, When and How: The Current State of Race, Ethnicity and Primary Language Data Collection in Hospitals
January 01, 2004 - According to the Institute of Medicine, standardized data collection is critical to understanding and eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care.
Closing The Gap
January 01, 2003 - A new consortium seeks to end health care disparities
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