Measuring Hospital Performance: The Importance of Process Measures

Evaluates the effectiveness of Hospital Quality Alliance standards, and identifies specific activities hospitals can work on to improve performance and deliver higher quality health care

Planning and managing the physician workforce

National planning and management of the physician workforce is a multifaceted, difficult, and even controversial activity. It is an important subset of overall health workforce planning and management, which contributes to a country's having an effective and efficient health care system. This commentary builds on a new survey of specialty considerations by Israeli medical students early in their clinical training, places it in the broader context of health workforce planning, and provides examples of some approaches and activities being taken in the United States that are applicable to other developed countries. This is a commentary on http://www.ijhpr.org/content/1/1/13

Toward a High Performance Health System for the United States

Describes the features of the U.S. healthcare system and measures ten areas of performance, including access to appropriate care, quality care from the patient's perspective, affordability, and capacity for improvement. Provides recommendations

A Roadmap to Health Insurance for All: Principles for Reform

Presents principles for health insurance reform and compares the potential of three approaches -- tax incentives for the individual insurance market; mixed private-public group insurance with shared financing responsibility; and public insurance

Organizing the U.S. Health Care Delivery System for High Performance

Analyzes the fragmentation of the healthcare delivery system and makes policy recommendations -- including payment reform, regulatory changes, and infrastructure -- for creating mechanisms to coordinate care across providers and settings

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: An International Update on the Comparative Performance of American Health Care

Using data from patient and physician surveys, finds that the U.S. healthcare system ranks last or next-to-last when comparing healthcare performance against that of five other nations -- Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom

High Performance Accountable Care: Building on Success and Learning From Experience

Presents the rationale for creating accountable care organizations, promising models, and the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System's recommendations for implementing ACOs widely to achieve improved quality and efficiency

Lifetime Prevalence Of Dsm‐Iv Mental Disorders Among New Soldiers In The U.S. Army: Results From The Army Study To Assess Risk And Resilience In Servicemembers (Army Starrs)

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/110630/1/da22316.pd

Mental Disorders, Comorbidity, and Pre‐enlistment Suicidal Behavior Among New Soldiers in the U.S. Army: Results from the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS)

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/115994/1/sltb12153.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/115994/2/sltb12153_am.pd