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Following is a sampling of CPS' presentations, journal articles, non-English publications, books and book chapters, and interviews. A full listing of books and articles is available for download (PDF).

Presentations

  • Comparing Hospital Performance: Developing more appropriate methods using Peer Groups, 2007 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo (abstract)
  • Appropriate comparisons for Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) performance measures: The effect of hospital characteristics, 2007 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo
  • The value of quality improvement methodologies and performance measurement techniques to the safety of care, 2007 Patient Safety Research Conference, Shaping the European Agenda (PDF)
  • Characteristics of Consistently High Performing Hospitals in Heart Failure Care, 2006 American Public Health Association Annual Conference
  • Pay for Performance for Hospitals: Effects of Latent Factors on Component Scoring Methodology and Implications for Payment, 2006 American Public Health Association Annual Conference (abstract and oral presentation)
  • Values, costs, and challenges of implementing eight recommendations for measuring health care quality, 2004 National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics Workgroup on Quality
  • Using Comparative Data for Performance Improvement in Hospitals in 10 Countries, 2004 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting
  • Developing, customizing, and applying clinical performance data reports for hospitals in Asia and Europe to meet local needs of accountability and performance improvement, 2004 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Exposition (PDF)
  • Performance Measurement and Accountability in Different Health Care Systems, 2003 ISQua (International Society for Quality) Annual Conference
  • Developing Performance Measurement Systems in Different Health Care Systems in Europe and Asia, 2003 American Public Health Association Annual Conference

Journal Articles

A full listing of books and articles is available for download (PDF)

  • COMING SOON! To learn about a hospital's quality, one should look beyond its doors.
  • NEW! The World Health Organization Performance Assessment Tool for Quality Improvement in Hospitals (PATH): an analysis of the pilot implementation in 37 hospitals. (PDF)

  • Safety is part of quality: a proposal for a continuum in performance measurement.

  • If a tree fell in the forest but no one heard, is it because they did not want to hear? (PDF)

  • Variation in Hospital Performance in the United States: The Impact of Hospital Characteristics on Clinical Performance.
  • Statistical Process Control for Hospitals: Methodology, User Education, and Challenges.
  • Does a Cesarean section delivery always cost more than a vaginal delivery? (PDF)
  • Comprehensive Case Management Models for Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
  • Root Cause Analysis: Promises and Expectations.
  • When you hear hoofs, think horses, not zebras: an evidence-based model of healthcare accountability.
  • Errors: can indicators measure the magnitude?
  • Impact of risk adjusted clinical outcomes methodology--quality measures on hospital mortality data: a statistical and case study approach.
  • A new learning environment: combining clinical research with quality improvement.
  • A Hawthorne strategy: implications for performance measurement and improvement.
  • Cesarean section rates: effects of participation in a performance measurement project.

Publications in Languages other than English

A full listing of books and articles is available for download (PDF)

  • NEW! Indicatori per migliorarela Qualità e la Sicurezza in Sanità (PDF) 

  • Evaluación en Salud Pública: lecciones aprendidas de la gestión de tuberculosis pulmonar. (If interested, please contact CPS at CPSinfo@MHAOnline.org for a copy of this article.)

  • Concepts and Current Trends in Healthcare Performance Measurement. (In English and Mandarin)

  • Avaliação e redução das infecçõesda ferida operatória e infecções associadasa dispositivos em ICU.

  • Krankenhausakkreditierung, Core Measures und Fehler in der Medizin.

  • Calidad en la atención médica: importancia de las expectativas, el amor y las estadísticas.

Books and Book Chapters

A full listing of books and articles is available for download (PDF)

  • Evidence Based Medicine, Systems Thinking, and Managed Care:  Assuring Quality, Avoiding Errors, and Fiscal Constraints-Limits for the Medical Profession in the United States.
  • Accountability Through Measurement: A Global Healthcare Imperative.
  • Healthcare Performance Measurement: Systems Design and Evaluation.
  • The Effectiveness of CQI in Health Care:  Stories from a Global Perspective.
  • The Epidemiology of Quality.
  • Performance Assessment:  The Common Sense Perspective.

Interviews

 

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