HQA Resources

HQA publications and letters

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

Improving America’s Hospitals: A Report on Quality and Safety from the Joint Commission, March 2007

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:

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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.

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.



	HQA publications and letters HCAHPS Press Release, March 28, 2008 Flowchart on the quality measurement enterprise – measure development and implementation, data collection and submission, and public reporting HQA Letter to CMS on pediatric asthma measures, May 24, 2007 Friends of NQF Position Paper, March 5, 2007 Draft legislation amending the Public Health Service Act to establish the NQF as a national voluntary consensus standards setting organization Draft legislation amending the Social Security Act to establish the NQF as a national voluntary consensus standards setting organization Draft legislation including HQA's role in quality measures and reporting 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 Improving America’s Hospitals: A Report on Quality and Safety from the Joint Commission, March 2007 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: 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. 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. 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. 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 . 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. 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. 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.