In April 2005, the 39;47 and the Health Quality Alliance launched Hospital Compare, a web-based tool that helps acute care and critical access hospitals publish quality data for 17 clinical measures on heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia. Approximately 4,200 hospitals across the country...

Assesses the feasibility of estimating the impacts of the program, which helps disadvantaged middle school and high school students prepare for, apply to, get financial aid for, and begin attending college. Examines three evaluation options: 1) estimating impacts of the program as a whole in the...

Explores a unique approach to performance measurement based on the Bayes theorem.

This article presents estimates of the proportion of the U.S. population that had mental health benefits in 1999, the extent of their coverage, and the proportion enrolled in health plans subject to the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 (MHPA). Over three-quarters (76 percent) had mental health...

Senior hospital executives responding to a 2005 national telephone survey report that Hospital Compare and other public reports on hospital quality measures have helped to focus hospital leadership attention on quality matters. This article notes that the executives also report increased...