Presentations

McHugh M, Kang R, Cohen AB, Restuccia JD, Hasnain-Wynia R. “Use of Quality Improvement Interventions and the Link to Performance on Percutaneous Intervention for Acute Myocardial Infarction.” Presentation at the 2011 American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly, San Francisco, CA, October 15 – 18, 2011.

McHugh M, Kang R, Cohen AB, Restuccia JD, Hasnain-Wynia R. “Reporting Emergency Department Crowding Measures to the Hospital Board and Performance on Percutaneous Intervention for Acute Myocardial Infarction: Is There an Association?” Poster presentation at the 2010 American College of Emergency Physicians Research Forum, Las Vegas, NV, September 29, 2010.

Cohen AB. “Reforming the U.S. Health System.” Address to students in PUBH 702, “Society, Health and Public Policy,” Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, U. Otago School of Medicine, Dunedin, New Zealand, September 21, 2010.

Cohen AB. “Quality Improvement Efforts in U.S. Hospitals – Opportunities, Challenges and Lessons Learned.” Presentation to the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, U. Otago School of Medicine, Dunedin, New Zealand, September 16, 2010.  (Also presented to the MBA Class, Executive Programmes, U. Otago School of Business, Dunedin, New Zealand, September 22, 2010.)

Holmes SK, Cohen AB, Restuccia JD, Horwitt J, Shwartz M. “Strategies for Improving Hospital Quality and Efficiency: Lessons from Eight Hospitals.” Panel presentation at the 2010 Annual Meeting of AcademyHealth, Boston, MA, June 28, 2010.

Cohen AB, Restuccia JD, Kang R, Horwitt J, McHugh M, Hasnain-Wynia R. “Comparison of Quality Improvement Activities in Safety Net and Non-Safety Net Hospitals.” Poster session at the 2010 Annual Meeting of AcademyHealth, Boston, MA, June 28, 2010.

Gauld R, Horwitt J, Williams S, Cohen AB. “What Strategies Do U.S. Hospitals Employ to Reduce Unwarranted Clinical Practice Variations?” Poster session at the 2010 Annual Meeting of AcademyHealth, Boston, MA, June 28, 2010.

Shwartz M, Cohen AB, Restuccia JD, Ren ZJ, Theokary C, Kang R, Horwitt J. “How Well Are We Identifying the High-Performing Hospital?” Poster session at the 2010 Annual Meeting of AcademyHealth, Boston, MA, June 28, 2010.

Restuccia JD, Cohen AB, Horwitt JN, Drake JE, Shwartz M. “Hospital Implementation of Health Information Technology and Quality of Care: Are They Related?” Poster session at the 2010 Annual Meeting of AcademyHealth, Boston, MA, June 28, 2010.

Clarke A, Cohen AB, Griffiths F, Pawlikowska T, Cave J, Restuccia J, Shwartz M, Burgess J. “The Medical Home – Bringing It All Back Home?” Poster session at The Working Conference of Health Services Research – Europe, The Hague, The Netherlands, April 8 – 9, 2010.

Cohen AB. “Achieving a High Performing Health Care System: Insights from a Survey of Hospital Quality Improvement Activities.” Invited presentation in a panel session on “Achieving a High Performing Health Care System” at the 2008 Orientation Seminar for the Harkness Fellows, The Commonwealth Fund, New York, NY, September 2008.

Cohen AB. “Quality Improvement Activities in a Sample of U.S. Hospitals.” Invited presentation in a panel session on “Performance Measurement and Quality Improvement Activities in U.S. Hospitals” at the 2007 Conference of the International Society for Quality Assessment in Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts, October 2007.

Restuccia JD. “Implementation of Health Information Technology in a Sample of U.S. Hospitals.” Invited presentation in a panel session on “Performance Measurement and Quality Improvement Activities in U.S. Hospitals” at the 2007 Conference of the International Society for Quality Assessment in Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts, October 2007.

Cohen AB. “An Overview of the Evaluation of Facilitators and Barriers to System-Level Change in Language Services in California Public Hospitals.” Presentation to the Board of Directors, California Association of Public Hospitals, 2006 Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, December 2006.

Cohen AB. “Health Care Systems in Four Nations: Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.” Presentation to the staff of Community Catalyst, Inc., Boston, MA, July 2003.