Best Practice Implementation: Lessons learned from 20 Partnerships AHRQ 08-R038
P. Sharek, C. Mullican, A. Lavanderos, et al., Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 33(12 Suppl):December 2007, 16-26. Identifies the most important perceived barriers to implementation witnessed in the 20 multiyear AHRQ Partnerships for Quality projects and describes successful and unsuccessful strategies reported by these partnerships to overcome the most significant of these barriers.
Board Engagement in Quality: Findings of a Survey of Hospital and System Leaders AHRQ 08-R057
H. Jiang, C. Lockee, K. Bass, et al., Journal of Healthcare Management, 53(2):March/April 2008, 121-135. Presents and discusses the results of a survey of hospital and system leaders that was conducted in the first half of 2006 with 562 respondents to determine leadership involvement in quality improvement planning and activities.
Building the Path to High-Quality Care AHRQ 09-R090
C. Clancy, Health Services Research, 44(1):February 2009, 1-4. Editorial focuses on the challenges inherent in transitioning from the current, highly fragmented health care system to one that is evidence based and patient focused. (AHRQ 09-R090)
Can Incentives To Improve Quality Reduce Disparities? AHRQ 10-R051
K. Ho, E. Moy, C. Clancy, Health Services Research, February 2010; 45(1):1-5. Editorial discusses the ability of quality improvement efforts to reduce disparities in care associated with race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and other factors.
Chasing Zero: Can Reality Meet the Rhetoric? AHRQ 10-R031
C. Denham, P. Angood, D. Berwick, et al., Journal of Patient Safety, 5(4):216-222. Presents opinion interviews from leaders who spoke at a 2008 national leadership meeting on hospital-acquired infections.
Design of the Physical Environment for Changing Healthcare Needs AHRQ 08-R027
C. Clancy, S. Isaacson, K. Henriksen, Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 1(1):Fall 2007, 10-11. Discusses the role of the physical environment - including light, noise, air quality, toxic exposures, temperature, humidity, and so on - in health care organizations and how improvements in the physical environment might lead to improvements in quality of care.
Disseminating QI Interventions AHRQ 08-R041
G. Boratgis, S. Broderick, M. Callahan, et al., Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 33(12 Suppl):December 2007, 48-65. Describes the AHRQ?s Partnerships for Quality Dissemination Planning Tool , which was used to identify the most appropriate partners to disseminate the quality improvement interventions for three projects?that is, the partners most likely to reach and influence the target audience(s).
Evaluating the Impact of Partnerships to Improve Clinical Quality AHRQ 08-R039
N. Donaldson, S. Horn, J. Edwards, et al., Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 33(12 Suppl):December 2007, 27-36. Describes the AHRQ's Partnerships for Quality Framework for evaluating the impact of partnerships on research translation and presents a pragmatic tool for evaluating the impact of partnership-driven translation and implementation research projects. Includes examples of the application of the tool to evaluate the impact of real-world partnerships, demonstrating its utility across varied partnerships.
Frontiers in Gender-Based Research: Health Care Quality Data AHRQ 08-R048
E. Moy, E. Dayton, Women?s Health Issues, 17(6):November/December 2007, 334-337. Editorial discusses underused data sources included in the appendixes of AHRQ?s National Healthcare Disparities Report that can be used to examine disparities in health care based on sex.
Healthcare Quality and Disparities: Attacking Problems at Their Root AHRQ 10-R012
C. Clancy, Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 24(4):October-December 2009, 269-272. Commentary reflects on patient safety in nursing practice, briefly notes some progress and continuing problems identified in the most recent AHRQ national reports on quality and disparities in health care, and discusses ways to move forward with quality improvement. (AHRQ 10-R012)
Improving Efficiency and Value in Health Care: Introduction. AHRQ 09-R004
I. Fraser, W. Encinosa, S. Glied, Health Services Research, 43(5 Part II):October 2008, 1781-1786). Introduces a new theme issue for the journal, which is focused on ideas and programs to reduce waste, increase efficiency, and better allocate resources to improve value in health care.
Improving Quality and Reducing Disparities: The Role of Nurses AHRQ 08-R085
K. Ho, J. Brady, C. Clancy, Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 23(3):July-September 2008, 185-188. Summarizes findings from AHRQ?s national reports on quality and disparities and the role of nurses in health care communication and quality improvement.
Measuring Hospital Inefficiency: The Effects of Controlling for Quality and Patient Burden of Illness. AHRQ 09-R011
R Mutter, M Rosko, H Wong, Health Services Research, 43(6):December 2008, 1992-2013. Assesses the impact of employing a variety of controls for hospital quality and patient burden of illness on the mean estimated inefficiency and relative ranking of hospitals as generated by stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), a statistical method used for economic modeling.
