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Using Professionally Trained Interpreters to Increase Patient/Provider Satisfaction: Does It Work?

Bagchi, Ann D.; Dale, Stacy; Verbitsky-Savitz, Natalya; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2010

Communication between patients and providers is critical in hospital emergency departments, but most interpretive …

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Using Health IT: Eight Quality Improvement Stories.

Au, Melanie; Felt-Lisk, Suzanne; Anglin, Grace; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2010

Policymakers, private-sector coalitions, and individual health care leaders are heavily engaged in planning future health information technology. This brief highlights the experiences of eight pioneering projects completed under the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Transforming...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010924181

Lessons from the Field: Making Accountable Care Organizations Real.

Lake, Timothy K.; Stewart, Kate A.; Ginsburg, Paul B. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2011

This study examined providers' efforts to improve care delivery, similar to those likely to be encouraged under ACOs. Common challenges for affiliated health care organizations’ efforts to improve care are establishing a business case for change and implementing changes with minimal disruption...

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Pay for Performance: Are Hospitals Ready and Willing?

Felt-Lisk, Suzanne; Laschober, Mary - Mathematica Policy Research - 2006

Public and private payers are developing hospital care pay for performance (P4P) initiatives as part of a broader … payments to a hospital on the basis of its performance on a predefined set of quality measures. This issue brief is based on … Mathematica’s study that examined hospital public reporting of quality information. The study included a nationally representative …

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Improving Health Care Quality Reporting: Lessons from the California HealthCare Foundation.

Stevens, Beth; Lake, Tim; Taylor, Erin Fries - Mathematica Policy Research - 2007

The California HealthCare Foundation has devoted substantial resources to promoting public reporting on the quality of California hospitals, physician groups, and nursing homes. Mathematica conducted an evaluation of the foundation's work from 1998 through 2005, identifying lessons from its...

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Physicians' Experiences Using Commercial E-Prescribing Systems.

Grossman, Joy M.; Gerland, Anneliese; Reed, Marie C.; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2007

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Hospital Compare Highlights Potential Challenges in Public Reporting for Hospitals.

Laschober, Mary - Mathematica Policy Research - 2006

about quality to help them make better choices. Hospital Compare, a central component of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid … Services Hospital Quality Initiative, is an unprecedented national effort to provide meaningful, relevant, and easily … understood public information about hospital quality. This publication, based on our survey of hospital chief executive officers …

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State Variation in Out-of-Home Medicaid Mental Health Services for Children and Youth: An Examination of Residential Treatment and Inpatient Hospital Services.

Brown, Jonathan; Natzke, Brenda; Ireys, Henry; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2009

Using Medicaid data from 2003, this article describes the demographics and diagnoses of youth under 22 receiving mental health services in general and psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric residential treatment facilities, and other residential treatment settings. The research found that treatment...

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Use of Out-of-Home Care Among a Statewide Population of Children and Youth Enrolled in Medicaid.

Brown, Jonathan D.; Hamilton, Morris; Natzke, Brenda; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2011

This study used Medicaid claims to examine patterns of out-of-home careâ€”residential treatment, psychiatric hospitals, and general hospitalsâ€”and identify demographic and diagnostic characteristics associated with the sector of care used. The study also looked at whether youth had...

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Do Referral Patterns Differ When Physicians Own the Hospital? Evidence from Texas.

Liu, Su; Fahlman, Cheryl; Chollet, Deborah - Mathematica Policy Research - 2007

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