Closing the quality gap
Subtitle: revisiting the state of the science
Series: Evidence reports/technology assessments -- number 208; AHRQ publication -- no. 12-E007-EF-12(13)-E014-EF; Evidence report/technology assessment -- no. 208
Publisher: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Rockville, MD
Language: eng
Subjects: Quality of Health Care
Description: A set or reports to help health care decisionmakers--patients and clinicians, health system leaders, and policymakers, among others--make well-informed decisions and thereby improve the quality of health care services.
Notes: Title from Bookshelf entry page.

Includes bibliographical references.

Prepared for: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD 20850; www.ahrq.gov Contract No. 290-2007-10062-I. Prepared by: RAND Evidence-based Practice Center, Arlington, VA and Boston, MA

Description based on online resources (viewed on April 11, 2013).
Table of contents: title: 1. Bundled payment : effects on health care spending and quality / investigators, Peter S. Hussey, Andrew W. Mulcahy, Christopher Schnyer, Eric C. Schneider; title: 2. The patient-centered medical home / investigators, John W. Williams [and eleven others]; title: 3. Quality improvement interventions to address health disparities / investigators, Melissa L. McPheeters [and six others]; title: 4. Medication adherence interventions : comparative effectiveness / investigators, Meera Viswanathan [and eleven others]; title: 5. Public reporting as a quality improvement strategy / investigators, Annette M. Totten [and 5 others]; title: 6. Prevention of healthcare-asssociated infections / investigators, Barbara Mauger Rothenberg [and five others]; title: 7. Quality improvement measurement of outcomes for people with disabilities / investigators, Mary Butler, Robert L. Kane, Sheryl Larson, Molly Moore Jeffery, Mike Grove; title: 8. Improving health care and palliative care for advanced and serious illness / investigators, Sydney M. Dy [and eight others].