Recent HPRP Publications, Reports, and Presentations

Margolin FS, Bohr D, Cohen AB, and Restuccia, JD. Hospital Quality Improvement Activities: Issues in Staffing and Training. (Issue Brief) Chicago, IL: Health Research & Educational Trust, January 2009.

Cohen AB, Horwitt JN, Player CM, and Manolis M.  Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program: A Self-Evaluation. Report to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, December 2008.

Hasnain-Wynia R, Yonek J, Cohen AB, Restuccia J, Biel M, Van Dyke K, and Pierce D.  Providing Language Services in California Public Hospitals: Facilitators and Barriers to System-Level Change. Report to the California Endowment, December 2008.

Cohen AB, Restuccia JD, Shwartz M, Drake JE, Kang R, Kralovec P, Holmes SK, Margolin F and Bohr D. “A Survey of Hospital Quality Improvement Activities.” Medical Care Research and Review 65(5): 571-595, (October) 2008.  Published on May 29, 2008 in OnlineFirst as doi:10.1177/1077558708318285.

Cohen AB. “Achieving a High Performing Health Care System: Insights from a Survey of Hospital Quality Improvement Activities.” Invited presentation to 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.

Shwartz M, Ren J, Peköz EA, Wang X, Cohen AB, and Restuccia JD. “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 46(8):778-785, (August) 2008.

Margolin FS, Bohr D, Kang R, Cohen AB, and Restuccia JD. Hospital Quality Improvement Activities: A Snapshot of the State of the Art. (Issue Brief) Chicago, IL: Health Research & Educational Trust, July 2008.

Lukas CV, 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, (October/December) 2007.

Cohen AB. “Quality Improvement Activities in a Sample of U.S. Hospitals.” Invited paper presented 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 paper presented 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.” Address to the Board of Directors, California Association of Public Hospitals, 2006 Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, December 2006.

Cohen AB and Lavizzo-Mourey R. “Putting Our ‘House’ in Order.” (Guest Editorial.) Johns Hopkins Advanced Studies in Medicine 5(1):17-20, 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. “Health Care Systems in Four Nations: Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.” Address to the staff of Community Catalyst, Inc., Boston, MA, July 2003.

Papers in Progress

Restuccia JD, Cohen AB, Drake JE, Horwitt JN, and Shwartz M. “Hospital Implementation of Health Information Technology and its Relationship to Quality Improvement Activities.” Under review.

Shwartz M, Cramer IE, Holmes SK, Cohen AB, Restuccia JD, Lukas CV, Sullivan J and Charns MP. “Assessment of Quality of Care, Organizational Values Behavior, and Workgroup Functioning by Hospital-Based Employees in Pursuing Perfection Institutions.” Under review.

Cohen AB, Restuccia JD, Shwartz M, Horwitt JN, Drake JE, Kang R, Kralovec P, Holmes SK, Margolin F, and Bohr D. “Hospital Performance Improvement Activities and Their Relationship to Clinicians’ Assessments of Patient Care Quality.” In preparation.

Shwartz M, Kang R, Ren J, Cohen AB, Peköz EA, Wang X, and Restuccia JD. “The Relationship between Hospital Financial Performance and Performance on the Hospital Quality Alliance Measures.” In preparation.

Shwartz M, Cohen AB, Horwitt J, Kang R, and Restuccia JD. "Concordance among Measures of Hospital Performance: Mortality, Efficiency, Hospital Compare Measures, and Clinicians' and Patients' Assessments of Patient Care Quality." In preparation.

Cohen AB, Shwartz M, Horwitt J, Kang R, and Restuccia JD. "Hospital Performance Improvement Activities and Their Relationship to Patients' Experiences with Hospital Care." In preparation.

Restuccia JD, Cohen AB, Horwitt J, Kang R, and Shwartz M. "Hospital Performance Improvement Activities and Their Relationship to Measures of Hospital Mortality and Efficiency." In preparation.

Restuccia JD, Cohen AB, Horwitt J, and Shwartz M. “Hospital Implementation of Health Information Technology and its Relationship to Hospital Performance Measures.” In preparation.

July 14, 2009