Although it has long been conjectured that having physicians in leadership positions is valuable for hospital performance, there is no published empirical work on the hypothesis. This cross-sectional study reports the first evidence. Data are collected on the top-100 U.S. hospitals in 2009, as...

Chapter 1: The Health Care Landscape Chapter 2: Effectively Implementing Quality and Safety Improvement Chapter 3: Building a Culture of Safety Chapter 4: Principles and Practices of High Reliability Organizations Chapter 5: Key Quality and Safety Measures Chapter 6: Using Data for Feedback and...

"We investigate whether information technology can help physicians more efficiently acquire new knowledge in a clinical environment characterized by information overload. Our analysis makes use of data from a randomized trial as well as a theoretical model of the influence that information...

"Patient sorting can confound estimates of the returns to physician human capital. This paper compares nearly 30,000 patients who were randomly assigned to clinical teams from one of two academic institutions. One institution is among the top medical schools in the country, while the other...