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Improving Health Care Quality
Integrated Delivery Systems
In its 2001 report, Crossing
the Quality Chasm, the Institute of Medicine argued
that the American health care delivery system is in need of fundamental
change and that simply “trying harder” will not be enough
to address the problems of effectiveness, safety, efficiency, timeliness,
patient centeredness, and equity that exist. IHP’s work in
this area focuses on policies that could encourage care integration
and examines what aspects of existing integrated delivery systems
can be adapted for less integrated settings.
For more information please contact Laura
Tollen.
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April 2008
Physician Organization in Relation to Quality and Efficiency of Care: A Synthesis of Recent Literature,
Laura Tollen, The Commonwealth Fund Report |
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January 2008
"In
Focus" brief: Improving Health Care Systemness ,
Laura Tollen, Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy,
Oakland, CA. |
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November/December
2005
The
Delivery System Matters, F.J. Crosson, Health
Affairs. |
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September 7, 2005
Competition
in Health Care: It Takes Systems to Pursue Quality and
Efficiency
Alain C. Enthoven and Laura A. Tollen, Health Affairs
Web Exclusive, W5-420 – W5-433. |
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July 2005
Conference
Summary: “The Health Care Purchaser's Toolbox: Strategies
for Improving Quality and Affordability of Care
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Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy, Oakland,
CA. |
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June 2004
Conference
Summary: Delivery Systems Matter! Improving Quality and
Efficiency in Health Care,
Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy, Oakland,
CA. |
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2004
Toward
a 21st Century Health System: The Contributions and Promise
of Prepaid Group Practice, Alain C. Enthoven and
Laura A. Tollen, Jossey Bass, San Francisco, CA. |
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December 2003
The Rise
and Fall of a Kaiser Permanente Expansion Region,
D. Gitterman, et al, Milbank Quarterly 81, no.4 |
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November 29, 2003
Hospital
Bed Utilisation in the NHS, Kaiser Permanente, and the
US Medicare Programme, Chris Ham, et al, British
Medical Journal 327: 1257-1260. |
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March 22, 2003
Kaiser
Permanente: A Propensity for Partnership, British
Medical Journal 326: pg. 654. |
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January 19, 2002
Getting
More for Their Dollar: A Comparison of the NHS with California’s
Kaiser Permanente, R. Feachem, et al, with commentary
by Jennifer Dixon, Donald Berwick, and Alain C. Enthoven,
British Medical Journal 324: 135-143. |
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March/April 2000
Kaiser
Permanete’s Prescription Drug Benefit, S.
Levine, et al, Health Affairs 19, no.2: 185-190. |
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