5 years. For example, our Medicare hospital admissions per 1,000 members was 140 vs 196
for the region. Our ED visits per 1,000 members were 269 vs 463 for the region. Based on …

Practicing physicians face myriad challenges as health care undergoes considerable
transformation, including advancing efforts to measure and report on physician quality and …

The high cost of medical care in the United States is troubling, especially when in the
aggregate these expenditures are not leading to improved outcomes for patients. Our health …

510 American Journal of Medical Quality 30 (6) working in a PCMH model. 8 Some early
findings from that project include challenges to incorporating CDS into clinical practice. For …

Purpose: To assess whether primary care practices with and without support from a larger
organization differ in their ability to produce timely reports on cardiovascular disease quality …

As policy leaders seek to lower costs, increase access, and improve quality in the American
health care system, strengthening primary care has become a key strategy for achieving …

Much as clinical research has the goal of helping clinicians improve their decision making
for individual patients, health services research has the ultimate goal of helping managers …

Objectives To systematically solicit recommendations from Meaningful Use (MU) exemplars
to inform Stage 3 MU clinical quality measure (CQM) requirements. Study design The study …

94 American Journal of Medical Quality 29 (2) and utilization review. These issues coincide
with fears of continued deprofessionalization and suggest that perhaps more time should be …

This newsletter was jointly developed and subject to editorial review by Jefferson School of
Population Health and Lilly USA, LLC, and is supported through funding by Lilly USA, LLC …