Joint Reports

Jan 1, 1992

Choosing Quality-of-Care Measures Based on the Expected Impact of Improved Quality of Care for the Major Causes of Mortality and Morbidity

This report presents an approach for selecting medical conditions for measuring technical quality of care, based on the expected impact of improved quality of care.

Albert L. Siu, Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Mark H. Beers, Hal Morgenstern, David Carlisle, Emmett B. Keeler, Robert H. Brook, J. Beloff, K. Curtin, Jennifer Leaning, B. Perry, H. Selker, W. Weiswasser, A. Wiesenthal
Jan 1, 1992

Prenatal care : a literature review and quality assessment criteria

This report reviews the literature on the process and outcomes of prenatal care for the purpose of developing criteria by which such care could be assessed. The report includes the final set of criteria agreed upon by a Working Group of the HMO Quali...

Paul J. Murata, Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Albert L. Siu, Robert H. Brook
Jan 1, 1990

Discovering what schools really teach : designing improved coursework indicators

Improving the information base on which decisions are made about educational policy and practice is not easy. Designing valid and useful measures takes time; collecting the necessary data imposes financial and other costs; and using indicator data in...

Lorraine M. McDonnell, Leigh Burstein, Tor Ormseth, James S. Catterall, Douglas M. Moody
Jan 1, 1989

Results from the evaluation of the Massachusetts Nursing Home Connection Program

This report evaluates the Nursing Home Connection, a demonstration project that tested the use of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) to improve quality of care in nursing homes. The section on methods describes the matched sampl...

Joan L. Buchanan, Robert L. Kane, Judith Garrard, Robert M. Bell, Christina Witsberger, Alan Samuel Rosenfeld, Carol Skay, Deborah Gifford

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Results from the evaluation of the Massachusetts Nursing Home Connection Program

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Choosing Quality-of-Care Measures Based on the Expected Impact of Improved Quality of Care for the Major Causes of Mortality and Morbidity

Prenatal care : a literature review and quality assessment criteria

Discovering what schools really teach : designing improved coursework indicators

Results from the evaluation of the Massachusetts Nursing Home Connection Program

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