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From the Editor

A Daunting Challenge: The Quest For Quality John K. Iglehart [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Incentives

PROLOGUE: Incentives For Quality [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Business Case For Quality: Case Studies And An Analysis Sheila Leatherman, Donald Berwick, Debra Iles, Lawrence S. Lewin, Frank Davidoff, Thomas Nolan, and Maureen Bisognano [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Why Competition Law Matters To Health Care Quality William M. Sage, David A. Hyman, and Warren Greenberg [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Employers & Quality

PROLOGUE: Employers And Health Care Quality [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Leapfrog Standards: Ready To Jump From Marketplace To Courtroom? Michelle M. Mello, David M. Studdert, and Troyen A. Brennan [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Employers’ Efforts To Measure And Improve Hospital Quality: Determinants Of Success Ateev Mehrotra, Thomas Bodenheimer, and R. Adams Dudley [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Information

PROLOGUE: Public Reporting Of Health Quality Information [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Hospital Disclosure Practices: Results Of A National Survey Rae M. Lamb, David M. Studdert, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Donald M. Berwick, and Troyen A. Brennan [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Does Publicizing Hospital Performance Stimulate Quality Improvement Efforts? Judith H. Hibbard, Jean Stockard, and Martin Tusler [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Consumers And Quality-Driven Health Care: A Call To Action Dale Shaller, Shoshanna Sofaer, Steven D. Findlay, Judith H. Hibbard, David Lansky, and Suzanne Delbanco [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Patient Safety

PROLOGUE: Failure To Ensure Patient Safety [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Silence Michael L. Millenson [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: A Call To Excellence Carolyn M. Clancy and Thomas Scully [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Provider Responsibility And System Redesign: Two Sides Of The Same Coin William C. Richardson and Janet M. Corrigan [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind: Why Doesn’t Widespread Clinical Quality Failure Command Our Attention? Arnold Milstein and Nancy E. Adler [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Research Challenge

PROLOGUE: Research To Address Quality Shortcomings [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Spending And Service Use Among People With The Fifteen Most Costly Medical Conditions, 1997 Joel W. Cohen and Nancy A. Krauss [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Pathways To Access: Health Insurance, The Health Care Delivery System, And Racial/Ethnic Disparities, 1996–1999 Samuel H. Zuvekas and Gregg S. Taliaferro [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

A National Profile Of Patient Safety In U.S. Hospitals Patrick S. Romano, Jeffrey J. Geppert, Sheryl Davies, Marlene R. Miller, Anne Elixhauser, and Kathryn M. McDonald [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Volume Thresholds And Hospital Characteristics In The United States Anne Elixhauser, Claudia Steiner, and Irene Fraser [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Quality Chasm

A Research Agenda For Bridging The ‘Quality Chasm’ Rushika Fernandopulle, Timothy Ferris, Arnold Epstein, Barbara McNeil, Joseph Newhouse, Gary Pisano, and David Blumenthal [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Purchasing Health Care: An Opportunity For A Public-Private Partnership Robert Galvin [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Closing The Gap Between Science And Practice: The Need For Professional Leadership Kim A. Eagle, Arthur J. Garson, Jr., George A. Beller, and Cary Sennett [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

MARKETWATCH: Self-Insurance In Times Of Growing And Retreating Managed Care Jon R. Gabel, Gail A. Jensen, and Samantha Hawkins [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: How Does The Employer Contribution For The Federal Employees Health Benefits Program Influence Plan Selection? Curtis S. Florence and Kenneth E. Thorpe [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: The Rise Of Nursing Home Litigation: Findings From A National Survey Of Attorneys David G. Stevenson and David M. Studdert [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Comparing Medicare And Private Insurers: Growth Rates In Spending Over Three Decades Cristina Boccuti and Marilyn Moon [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

My Mother And The Medical Care Ad-Hoc-Racy David M. Lawrence [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

JCAHO Accreditation And Quality Of Care For Acute Myocardial Infarction Jersey Chen, Saif S. Rathore, Martha J. Radford, and Harlan M. Krumholz [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

International Medical Graduates And The Primary Care Workforce For Rural Underserved Areas Kenneth S. Fink, Robert L. Phillips, Jr., George E. Fryer, and Nerissa Koehn [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

Grants & Grant Outcomes [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

UpDate

Publications & Reports [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

Back To The Future: The Voices Of Primary Care H. Jack Geiger [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Mining Physicians’ Compassion Kyna Rubin [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Institutional Economics For Health Policy? Peter J. Hammer [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Medicaid Waivers Needed Matt Salo [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Flexibility Works Dennis G. Smith and Cindy Mann [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medicaid And Children: A National Disgrace Stephen Edwards, John Holahan, and Shinobu Suzuki [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Nursing Problem Barbara Bloom Kreml [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Nurse Practitioners And Physicians Susan Hershberg Adelman [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Limits Of IT In Solving Health Care Problems Craig Terner [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Liposuction Can Be Safe In Offices Brett Coldiron, Elizabeth M. Armstrong, and Elizabeth M. Lapetina [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Acknowledgments

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