Guides/Reports
American Hospital Association guides and reports for members and the health care field.
This white paper introduces an overall approach and tools designed to support two processes: the proactive preparation of a plan for managing serious clinical adverse events, and the reactive emergency response of an organization that has no such plan.
The study concludes that more widespread implementation and effective use of e-prescribing in ambulatory care settings will require practice transformation efforts that focus on work process redesign while being attentive to effects on patient and pharmacy involvement in prescribing. Improved…
The Rand Health Insurance Experiment found that patients had little or no control over their health care spending once they began to receive a physician's care, but a new study shows that this has changed for those enrolled in consumer-directed health plans.
The rate of 'mortality amenable to health care' that is--deaths that are considered preventable with timely and effective health care declined for people under age 75 across 16 high-income nations between 1997-1998 and 2006-2007. While all countries showed improvement, the United States improved…
While many hospital and health systems have already implemented evidence-based medicine and processes of care, there are still several challenges chief medical officers will have to face, ranging from full updates of evidence, technology and support from hospital and other clinical leadership.
This TrendWatch from September 2011 examines recent research on hospital readmissions, including the linkages between readmissions and quality of care, and the various circumstances that may drive readmissions.
A report released jointly by AARP's Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN Foundation shows some states significantly out-perform others in the delivery of long-term services and supports to older adults and people with disabilities. The study finds, however, that even the…
Reining in health care costs has become a central policy challenge for government and a pressing concern for American businesses, families and individuals. A body of RAND research has focused on evaluating existing and potential policies to lower health care costs; examining the cost implications…
Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitivities and religions that can confound doctors, nurses and caregivers and hinder patients' best possible care. Interpreters have been deployed by many hospitals, but more expansive measures now are…