This book provides practical guidance on using information systems effectively to answer questions posed by a variety of stakeholders in the U.S. health care system, including consumers, purchasers, providers, and health system administrators. Providing an introduction to health services research techniques, the authors discuss the use of various data sources for analysis, as well as the integration of these data sources and the application of different analytic techniques to answering key policy questions. This book offers a broad overview of the critical issues in using information systems, as well as a technical section that addresses analytic topics of concern to researchers and analysts working in private and public sector groups responsible for purchasing, managing, delivering, and regulating health care services.

Health Information Systems: Design Issues and Analytic Applications (Directions in Health Services Research and Policy)

Medical Books

Brook, Robert H.

Damberg, Cheryl L.

McGlynn, Elizabeth A.

Kerr, Eve A.

Administration & Medicine Economics

RAND Corporation

This report is one of five volumes providing detailed information on the QA Tools, RAND's comprehensive, clinically based system for assessing quality of care for children and adults. The QA Tools indicators encompass screening, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up in 46 clinical areas and cover a variety of modes of providing care, including history, physical examination, laboratory study, medication, and other interventions and contacts. Development of each indicator was based on the ratings of a panel of experts in the relevant fields and on a focused review of the scientific literature, which is clearly documented for each clinical condition. This volume focuses on indicators for care of women. Each chapter summarizes the results of the literature review for a particular condition, provides RAND staff's recommended indicators, and lists the cited studies.

Quality of Care for Women: A Review of Selected Clinical Conditions and Quality Indicators

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Asch, Steven M.

Women's Health

Examines the feasibility of establishing national outcomes databases to help patients and providers make more informed treatment decisions.

Evaluating the Feasibility of Developing National Outcome Data Bases to Assist Patients with Making Treatment Decisions

Presents the results of a two-year study that analyzes how patient safety practices are being adopted by U.S. health care providers, examines hospital experiences with a patient safety culture survey, and assesses patient safety outcomes trends. In case studies of four U.S. communities, researchers collected information on the dynamics of local patient safety activities and on adoption of safe practices by hospitals.

Assessing Patient Safety Practices and Outcomes in the U.S. Health Care System (Technical Report)

Business & Money

Farley, Donna O.

Ridgely, Susan M.

Mendel, Peter

Teleki, Stephanie S.

Business Culture

Reviews what has been learned over the past decade about performance-based payment strategies in health care and offers recommendations for the design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of value-based purchasing programs.

Measuring Success in Health Care Value-Based Purchasing Programs: Summary and Recommendations

Lovejoy, Susan L.

Sorbero, Melony E.

Mandel, Daniel

Martsolf, Grant

Raaen, Laura

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