Guides/Reports
American Hospital Association guides and reports for members and the health care field.
This paper explores the current limits of primary care in the US, looks at illustrative models that deliver primary care in a variety of settings, identifies barriers to innovation, and outlines prospects for the future.
The IOM's Roundtable on Health Literacy brings together leaders from the federal government, foundations, health plans, associations, and private companies to discuss challenges related to health literacy and to identify approaches to promoting health literacy in both the public and private…
The eighth biennial survey of ACPE members identifies key trends and factors driving today's physician executive compensation and serves as a reference resource for physician executives and health care organizations developing leadership roles for physicians. There is a cost to view this…
Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than caring for veterans with other medical conditions, costing more than $12 billion in 2007, according to a new RAND Corporation study. The study found that while the proportion of veterans who received the…
The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions designed to encourage greater coordination and integration among health care providers, including the promotion of accountable care organizations and health homes. While much discussion has focused on how these strategies might be adopted by…
A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinical outcomes despite being extremely popular among hospital staff, who point to many individual cases where RRS have been beneficial. This ethnographic analysis of RRS at two British hospitals…
According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, in contrast to physicists, dosimetrists and radiation therapists who reported the most use of error and near-miss reporting systems. Nearly all respondents agreed that error reporting is their…
This report outlines promising provisions in the Affordable Care Act to achieve improved health and cost containment. It goes on to project the financial impact of those provisions.
n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving the experience of patients and their families during hospitalization, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement conducted an in-depth review of the research, studied exemplar organizations, and…
The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content provides trends in purchasing behavior regarding physician preference items; strategies for managing the cost of physician preference items; and how shifts in the health care landscape, such as…