OECD - Health Data 2005

OECD Health Data offers the most comprehensive
source of comparable statistics on health and health
systems across OECD countries.

The 2005 edition of the database, provides
evidence of striking variations across the 30 OECD
member countries in many aspects of their health
systems.

OECD Health Data 2005

OECD - Health Update

This newsletter provides up-to-date information on the OECD’s work on health.

Inaugural issue of the OECD Health Update

3rd Australasian Conference on Safety & Quality in Health Care

Evolution or Revolution?
11-13 July 2005 Adelaide, Australia

PDF versions of the presentations are now available.

Monday 11 July
Tuesday 12 July
Wednesday 13 July

VA - Cyber Seminars

Quasi-Experimental Design For Studying Quality Improvement Interventions: Strengths and Pitfalls
Rodney Hayward
Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Service (HSR&D)

Cyber Seminars homepage

Tufts OpenCourseWare

http://ocw.tufts.edu/
Tufts OpenCourseWare is part of a new educational movement initiated by MIT where course content is accessible for free to everyone online.

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

COURSE LIST

Alliance for Health Reform - Pay-for-Performance briefing

Taking Health Care Quality Improvement to the Next Level
7/15/2005 - Washington, D.C.

Alliance's briefing page

Click here to view an archived webcast of this event, provided by the kaisernetwork.org.

Int J Qual Health Care - Quality-based payment

six case examples
Peggy McNamara

International Journal for Quality in Health Care 2005 17(4):357-362
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

AHRQ - Making the Health Care System Safer

Third Annual Patient Safety Research Conference
July 2005. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.

complete transcripts of the conference sessions:
http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/ptsconf3/

Arch Intern Med - Quality of US Outpatient Care

Temporal Changes and Racial/Ethnic Disparities
Jun Ma; Randall S. Stafford
Arch Intern Med. 2005;165:1354-1361.
ABSTRACT FULL TEXT PDF

Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf - Ambulatory Care Visits for Treating Adverse Drug Effects in the United States, 1995-2001

Zhan, Chunliu; Arispe, Irma; Kelley, Edward; Ding, Tina; Burt, Catharine W.; Shinogle, Judith; Stryer, Daniel

Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, Volume 31, Number 7, July 2005, pp. 372-378(7)

Abstract

Medical Care - The Impact of Under Coding of Cardiac Severity and Comorbid Diseases on the Accuracy of Hospital Report Cards.

Austin, Peter C.; Tu, Jack V.; Alter, David A; Naylor, C David
Medical Care. 43(8):801-809, August 2005.
Abstract
HTML
PDF

BMC - Volume-based referral for cardiovascular procedures in the United States

a cross-sectional regression analysis
Andrew J Epstein, Saif S Rathore, Harlan M Krumholz, Kevin GM Volpp
BMC Health Services Research 2005, 5:42
[Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]

IHI - Over 2,400 US Hospitals Have Joined the 100,000 Lives Campaign

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement 100,000 Lives Campaign has surpassed the goal of enlisting up to 2,000 U.S. hospitals in a commitment to implement changes in care that have been proven to prevent avoidable deaths.

Download "How-to Guides" for:

Rapid Response Teams,
Preventing Adverse Drug Events,
AMI Care,
Preventing Surgical Site Infections,
Preventing Central Line Infections, and
Preventing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia.

Health Affairs - FDA Under Scrutiny

PROLOGUE: How To Get The Data? Scrutiny Of Postmarketing Surveillance At The FDA
Health Affairs, Vol 24, Issue 4, 927
[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Postmarketing Surveillance Of Medical Devices Using Medicare Claims
David J. Malenka, Aaron V. Kaplan, Sandra M. Sharp, and John E. Wennberg
Health Affairs, Vol 24, Issue 4, 928-937
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Opening Pandora’s Pillbox: Using Modern Information Tools To Improve Drug Safety
Scott Gottlieb
Health Affairs, Vol 24, Issue 4, 938-948
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Soc Sci Med - A comparative analysis of drug safety withdrawals in the UK and the US (1971-1992)

Implications for current regulatory thinking and policy
Authors: Abraham, J; Davis, C
Soc Sci Med. 2005 Sep;61(5):881-92
Abstract Full Text + Links PDF

The Healthcare Commission - State of Healthcare report 2005

The Healthcare Commission has published its second report on the state of healthcare in England and Wales, focusing for the first time on the experience of patients.

More information about the State of Healthcare 2005 report

Ann Intern Med - Patient Safety Concerns Arising from Test Results That Return after Hospital Discharge

Christopher L. Roy, Eric G. Poon, Andrew S. Karson, Zahra Ladak-Merchant, Robin E. Johnson, Saverio M. Maviglia, and Tejal K. Gandhi

Ann Intern Med. 2005 Jul 19;143(2):121-8.
Abstract Full Text PDF

Medical Care - Improving Nurse-to-Patient Staffing Ratios as a Cost-Effective Safety Intervention

Rothberg, Michael B.; Abraham, Ivo; Lindenauer, Peter K.; Rose, David N.
Medical Care. 43(8):785-791, August 2005.
Abstract HTML PDF

Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf - Managing unnecessary variability in patient demand to reduce nursing stress and improve patient safety

Litvak, Eugene; Buerhaus, Peter I.; Davidoff, Frank; Long, Michael C.; McManus, Michael L.; Berwick, Donald M.

Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, Volume 31, Number 6, June 2005, pp. 330-338(9)

Abstract

OECD - Tackling Nurse Shortages in OECD Countries

Steven Simoens, Mike Villeneuve and Jeremy Hurst
OECD Health Working Papers No.19

This paper analyses shortages of nurses in OECD countries. It defines and describes evidence on current nurse shortages, and analyses international variability in nurse employment.