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Category: Quality
Using Pay for Performance to Promote Smoking Cessation
This randomized, unblinded clinical trial sought to determine if a financial incentive program could encourage clinicians to refer smokers to a Tobacco Quit Line. The unit of study was the individual health clinic; all clinics were a part of a Continue Reading …
Consumer Directed Health Care…Lacking Direction
A critical analysis of one community’s experience with tiered hospital networks is outlined in a recent paper published in Health Services Research. The authors describe the differences noted in patient behavior regarding admission to the hospital among employees from the Continue Reading …
African American Physicians and Organized Medicine: Contrition, Reconciliation, and Collaboration
Like the nation as a whole, organized medicine in the United States carries a legacy of racial bias and segregation that must acknowledged and understood. For more than 100 years, many state and local medical societies openly discriminated against black Continue Reading …
Electronic Medical Records
Health information technology has astounding potential to improve the delivery and management of health care by improving quality, streamlining clinical practice, and providing portability of medical data. However, estimates of physician uptake of electronic medical records remains low – estimates Continue Reading …
The Value of Quality
Quality in health care has been hailed as one of the goals of health care reform ever since “Crossing the Quality Chasm” brought the issue into public focus. Groups of large employers, such as the Leapfrog Group, have utilized hospital Continue Reading …