A collaborative of leading health systems finds wide variations in total knee replacement delivery and takes steps to improve value
Health Affairs, 06/12/2012

1 A 10 year systematic review of interventions to improve quality of care in hospitals Full Text BMC Health Services Research, August 31, 2012    Free full text    Evidence Based Medicine

2 Study: For-Profit Hospitals Outperforming Non-Profit, Public Hospitals in Medicare Reimbursement Performance Measures Full Text Healthcare Informatics, April 4, 2013    Free full text

3 Five Common Coding Errors in Medical Practices Physicians Practice, February 13, 2013

4 Initiating Call Center Protocols to Decrease Hospital Admissions Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, March 6, 2013    Review Article

5 Good Health at Low Cost 25 years on: lessons for the future of health systems strengthening The Lancet, April 8, 2013    Review Article

6 Should alternatives to conventional hospitalisation be promoted in an era of financial constraint? European Journal of Clinical Investigation, April 4, 2013    Evidence Based Medicine

7 Error Proofing Healthcare: An Analysis of Low Cost, Easy to Implement and Effective Solutions Leadership in Health Services, March 28, 2013    Review Article

8 Delay in discharge and its impact on unnecessary hospital bed occupancy Full Text BMC Health Services Research, December 10, 2012    Free full text

9 Health Care Cost Containment Strategies Used In Four Other High-Income Countries Hold Lessons For The United States Health Affairs, April 17, 2013    Review Article

10 Bioinformatics experts join Cedars-Sinai to develop personalized treatments based on patients' DNA Cedars-Sinai, April 15, 2013

11 Syndromic surveillance for health information system failures: a feasibility study JAMIA, April 24, 2013    Review Article

12 HHS awards UC Davis for reduction of ventilator-associated pneumonia UC Davis Health System, April 9, 2013

13 Ontario's Primary Care Reforms Have Transformed The Local Care Landscape, But A Plan Is Needed For Ongoing Improvement Health Affairs, April 10, 2013    Review Article

14 Health Care Cost Containment Strategies Used In Four Other High-Income Countries Hold Lessons For The United States Health Affairs, April 9, 2013    Review Article

15 Effects of an online personal health record on medication accuracy and safety: a cluster-randomized trial JAMIA, August 27, 2012

16 Innovation sustainability in challenging health-care contexts: embedding clinically led change in routine practice Health Services Management Research, April 16, 2013    Review Article

17 International Best Practices For Negotiating 'Reimbursement Contracts' With Price Rebates From Pharmaceutical Companies Full Text Health Affairs, April 15, 2013    Free full text    Review Article

18 Court finds three hospitals to be federal subcontractors Full Text American Hospital Association News, April 16, 2013    Free full text

19 Electronic Health Records and Ambulatory Quality of Care Journal of General Internal Medicine, April 5, 2013    Evidence Based Medicine    Clinical Article

20 Research Misconduct in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Full Text PLoS Medicine, April 12, 2013    Free full text