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  • The State of Health Care Quality 2003. This report shows that the nation’s health care system is riddled with "quality gaps" that prevent millions of Americans from receiving "best practice" care. NCQA, September 2003
  • Committee on Evaluation of Children's Health, National Research Council. Children's Health, the Nation's Wealth: Assessing and Improving Child Health. June 24, 2004. This report provides a detailed examination of the information about children's health that is needed to help policy makers and program providers at the federal, state, and local levels.
  • Committee on Identifying Priority Areas for Quality Improvement. Priority Areas for National Action: Transforming Health Care Quality In this report, the committee recommends a set of 20 priority areas that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and other groups in the public and private sectors should focus on to improve the quality of health care delivered to all Americans. National Academy Press, March 2003.
  • Committee on Rapid Advance Demonstration Projects: Health Care Finance and Delivery Systems. Fostering Rapid Advances in Health Care: Learning from System Demonstrations. Focuses on redesigning primary care and care for those with chronic conditions, creating an information and communications technology infrastructure, making health insurance coverage available and affordable at the state level, and reforming malpractice to make it patient-centered, safety focused and nonjudicial. National Academy Press, March 2002.
  • Committee on Quality of Health Care in America. To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. This document is the first in a series of publications from the Quality of Health Care in America. Institute of Medicine, 1999
  • Committee on Quality of Health Care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century. Provides a detailed review of literature on the quality of care. National Academy Press, March 2001.
  • Cubanski J and Kline J. Improving Health Care Quality: Can Federal Efforts Lead the Way? This issue brief addresses proposals to improve health care quality. Commonwealth Fund, April 2002
  • Davis K. The Quality of American Health: Can We Do More? President's Message Report on current state of the quality of care debate. Commonwealth Fund, April 2000
  • Davis K, Schoenbaum SC, Collins KS, Tenney K, Hughes DL, and Audet AJ. Room for Improvement: Patients Report on the Quality of Their Health Care. This report reveals that an estimated 8.1 million households have experienced a medical or prescription drug error that turned out to be very serious. The Commonwealth Fund, April 2002
  • Hearing the Patient's Voice? Factors Affecting the Use of Patient Survey Data in Quality Improvement. This report includes interviews with medical professionals taking part in a Minnesota quality improvement collaborative, former Harkness Fellow Elizabeth Davies, Ph.D., and Harvard Medical School researcher Paul D. Cleary, Ph.D., uncovered numerous barriers to the effective use of patient survey data. As reported in the Fund-supported study, these include the lack of a quality improvement infrastructure, competing pressures created by financial priorities, skeptical or defensive attitudes of staff, and long delays from data collection to analysis and feedback.
  • Improving Well-Child Care in Medicaid Managed Care A new Commonwealth Fund report finds that although state Medicaid agencies typically work with external quality review organizations to assess the quality of health care they provide, only a handful of states are using these organizations to improve the quality of preventive and developmental services.
  • Leatherman S, and McCarthy D. Quality of Health Care for Children and Adolescents: A Chartbook. Commonwealth Fund. April 2004.
  • Leape LL, Berwick DM. Five years after To Err Is Human: What have we learned? Journal of the American Medical Association. 2005 May 18;293(19):2384-2390
  • The National Healthcare Quality Report. The report includes a broad set of performance measures that can serve as baseline views of the quality of health care. The report presents data on the quality of services for seven clinical conditions, including cancer, diabetes, end-stage renal disease, heart disease, HIV and AIDS, mental health, and respiratory disease. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), December 2003
  • Report to the Congress: Applying Quality Improvement Standards in Medicare. This report focuses on quality improvement standards and assumes that quality assurance standards will remain in force. Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), January 2002
  • Rosenthal MS, Lannon CM, Stuart JM, et al. A randomized trial of practice-based education to improve delivery systems for anticipatory guidance. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. 2005;159(5):456-463 Abstract available at: http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/159/5/456
  • Smith VK. Role of states in improving health and health care for young children. 2005;New York, NY: Commonwealth Fund. Available at: http://www.cmwf.org/usr_doc/States_improving_hlt_young_children.pdf.


    Other Publications and Journal Articles from the Commonwealth Fund are available at: www.cmwf.org/publist/publist2.asp?CategoryID=3

 Last Updated August 21, 2008

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