2010
QASC Report: How Registries Can Help Performance Measurement Improve Care, June 25, 2010
HOP QDRP Hospital Preview Report Announcement and Help Summary Report, April 2010
2007
Friends of NQF Position Paper, March 5, 2007
Draft legislation including HQA's role in quality measures and reporting
2006
Hospital Quality Reporting in the United States: A Cost Analysis for the Hospital Quality Alliance, A report by Booz Allen Hamilton for the HQA, December 2006
Envisioning the Roadmap for Hospital Quality Reporting, A report by Booz Allen Hamilton for the AHA, FAH, and AAMC, June 2006
Resources from other organizations
2007
Improving America’s Hospitals: A Report on Quality and Safety from the Joint Commission, March 2007
2006
National Healthcare Quality Report, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2006
Identifying Long Term Priorities for Hospital Performance Measures, A white paper by Mathematica Policy Research Inc. for the AHRQ, October 2006
Peer-reviewed journal articles by year of publication:
2010
Chassin, Mark, et al. "Accountability Measures: Moving Measurement to Promote Quality Improvement." New England Journal of Medicine 10.1056 (2010). Web. Retrieved from http://content.nejm.org/cgi/reprint/NEJMsb1002320v1.pdf
Stulberg, Jonah, et al. "Adherence to Surgical Care Improvement Project Measures and the Association With Postoperative Infections." Journal of the American Medical Association 303.24 (2010). Web. Retrieved from http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/303/24/2479
Reeves, D., Doran, T. Valderas, J.M., Kontopantelis, E., Trueman., Sutton, M., Lester, H. (2010). How to identify when a performance indicator has run its course. BMJ, 340, c1717. Retrieved from http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/340/apr06_1/c1717
Giordano, L.A., Goldstein, E., Elliot, M.N., Hambarsoomian, K., Lehrman, W.G. (2010). Racial/Ethnic Differences in Patients' Perceptions of Inpatient Care Using the HCAHPS Survey. Medical Care Research and Review, 67(1), 74-92.
2008
Fung, C.H., Lim, Y.W., Mattke, S. Damberg, C., Shekelle, P.G. (2008). Systematic Review: the evidence that publishing patient care performance data improves quality of care. Ann Intern Med, 148(2). 111-23. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18195336
2007
Jha, A. K., Orav, E. O., Li, Z., and Epstein, A. M. (2007). The inverse relationship between mortality rates and performance in the hospital quality alliance measures. Health Affairs, 26(4), 1104-1110.
Lindenauer, P. K., Remus, D., Roman, S., Rothberg, M. B., Benjamin, E. M., Ma, A., and Bratzler, D. W.(2007). Public reporting and pay for performance in hospital quality improvement. The New England Journal of Medicine, 356 (5), 486-496.
Lutfiyya, M. N., Bhat, D. K., Gandhi, S. R., Nguyen, C., Weidenbacher-Hoper, V. L., and Lipsky, M. S. (2007). A comparison of quality of care indicators in urban acute care hospitals and rural critical access hospitals in the United States. International Journal of Quality in Health Care, 19 , 141-149.
Shih, A. and Schoenbaum, S. C. (2007). Measuring hospital performance: The importance of process measures. New York, NY: Commonwealth Fund .
Yu, F. and Houston, T. K. (2007). Do “most wired” hospitals deliver better care? The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 33 (3), 136-144.
2006
Werner, R. M. and Bralow, E. T. (2006). Relationship between Medicare’s Hospital Compare performance measures and mortality rates. Journal of the American Medical Association, 296(22), 2694-2702.
Landon, B. E., Normand, S. L., Lessler, A., O’Malley, A. J., Schmaltz, S., Loeb, J. M., and McNeil, B. J. (2006). Quality of care for the treatment of acute medical conditions in the U.S. Archives of Internal Medicine, 166(22), 2511-2517.
2005
Williams, S.C., Schmaltz, S. P., Morton, D. J., Koss, R. G., and Loeb, J. M. (2005). Quality of care in U.S. hospitals as reflected by standardized measures, 2002-2004. The New England Journal of Medicine, 353 (3), 255-264.
Jha, A. K., Li, Z., Orav, E. J., and Epstein, A. M. (2005). Care in U.S. hospitals – The Hospital Quality Alliance program. The New England Journal of Medicine, 353 (3), 265-274.
