Explore the latest in health care quality, including evaluations of quality measures and incentives, value-based purchasing, and more.
This Viewpoint discusses how the health care quality that individuals receive while incarcerated is often deficient and how the passage of the Federal Prison Oversight Act represents an opportunity to improve the health of those living and working in carceral facilities.
This quality improvement study analyzes associations of sociodemographic and clinical factors with digital needs among individuals receiving care through the Veterans Health Administration.
This cohort study evaluates whether the practice-level use of telehealth is associated with delivery of low-value care in primary care practices in Michigan.
This randomized clinical trial investigates whether a clinician communication intervention emphasizing a watchful waiting approach reduces the rate of low-value lumbar spinal imaging among primary care patients with acute low back pain.
This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluates the magnitude and moderators of the association between nurse burnout and patient safety, patient satisfaction, and quality of care.
This Viewpoint describes the successes and areas for improvement of student-run clinics in the US.
This cohort study examines whether hospital COVID-19 burden was associated with rates of in-hospital adverse events among Medicare patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This consensus statement creates a clinical guideline for the diagnosis and management of urinary tract infections that addresses the gap between the evidence and recommendation strength.
This difference-in-differences analysis investigates changes in ownership of home health agencies in the US and associated changes in quality of care, patient volume, and staffing levels.
This cross-sectional study compares rates of low-value service utilization among beneficiaries enrolled in traditional Medicare and various Medicare Advantage insurers.
This stepped-wedge cluster-randomized clinical trial evaluates the effect of a quality improvement collaborative, the Virtual Breakthrough Series, on the follow-up rate of 2 types of test results prone to being missed: chest imaging suspicious for malignant neoplasms and laboratory findings suggestive of colorectal cancer.
This cohort study examines the frequency with which children diagnosed with pneumonia in outpatient settings do not receive antibiotics and compares the risk of treatment failure and severe outcomes between children who receive antibiotics and those who do not.
This cohort study examines low-value clinical practices, ie, those with the potential for harm exceeding the potential for benefit, in pediatric trauma centers.
This cross-sectional study examines the prevalence of unrecognized cognitive impairment among adults aged 65 years and older receiving primary care from federally qualified health centers in Indianapolis, Indiana.
This cross-sectional study examines whether predominant clinician staffing patterns in US health centers are associated with specific metrics for quality of clinical care.
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