Recent HPRP Publications, Reports, and Presentations

VanDeusen Lukas C, Holmes SK, Cohen AB, Restuccia JD, Cramer IE, Shwartz M and Charns MP.  “Transformational Change in Healthcare Systems: An Organizational Model.” Health Care Management Review, 32(4): 309-320, 2007.

Cohen AB and Lavizzo-Mourey R. “Putting Our ‘House’ in Order.” (Guest Editorial.) Johns Hopkins Advanced Studies in Medicine 5(1):17-20, 2005.

Shwartz M, Pekoz EA, Ash AS, Posner M, Restuccia JD, and Iezzoni LI.  "Do Variations in Disease Prevalence Limit the Usefulness of Population-Based Hospitalization Rates for Studying the Variations in Hospital Admissions, Medical Care 43(1): 4-11, 2005.

Cohen AB and Hanft RS (with Encinosa WE, Spernak S, Stewart SA, and White CC). Technology in American Health Care: Policy Directions for Effective Evaluation and Management.  Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2004.

Charns MP, Cramer IE, Cohen AB, Holmes SK, Restuccia JD, Shwartz M, and VanDeusen Lukas C.  Pursuing Perfection Evaluation: Site Profile Report II. Report to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, December 2004.

Charns MP, Cramer IE, Cohen AB, Holmes SK, Restuccia JD, Shwartz M, and VanDeusen Lukas C.  Pursuing Perfection Evaluation: Cross Site Report II, Report to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, December 2004.

Cohen AB, Connor EM, and Araújo KM.  Scholars in Health Policy Research Program: A Self-Evaluation.  Report to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, October 2004.

Papers in Progress

Shwartz M, Ren ZJ, Pekoz E, Wang X. Restuccia JD, and Cohen AB. "Estimating a Composite Measure of Hospital Quality from the Hospital Compare Database: Differences When Using a Bayesian Hierarchical Latent Variable Model Versus Denominator-Based Weights." Medical Care (Forthcoming 2008) .

Cohen AB, Restuccia, JD, Shwartz M, Drake JE, Kang R, Kralovec P, Holmes SK, Margolin F and Bohr D. "Quality Improvement Activities in a Sample of U.S. Hospitals." (Revise and resubmit).

Restuccia JD, Cohen AB, Shwartz M, and Drake JE. "Health Information Technology Adoption and Quality Improvement Activities in a Sample of U.S. Hospitals.” In preparation.

Cohen AB, Restuccia JD, Shwartz M, Drake JE, Kang R, Kralovec P, Holmes SK, Margolin F and Bohr D. “Clinicians’ Perceptions of Quality Improvement Activities in a Sample of U.S. Hospitals.” In preparation.

Cohen AB, Restuccia JD, Shwartz M, Drake JE, Kang R, Kralovec P, Holmes SK, Margolin F and Bohr D. “Hospital Performance Measures versus Clinicians’ Assessments of Quality as Indicators of Quality Improvement.” In preparation.

Cohen AB, Restuccia JD, Shwartz M, Drake JE, Kang R, Kralovec P, Holmes SK, Margolin F and Bohr D. “Characteristics of High-Performing Hospitals Based on Clinicians’ Assessments of Quality.” In preparation.

Restuccia JD, Cohen AB, Shwartz M, and Drake JE. “Clinicians’ Assessments of Quality in Relation to Hospital Adoption of Health Information Technology.” In preparation.

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