Widening economic inequality in the USA has been accompanied by increasing disparities
in health outcomes. The life expectancy of the wealthiest Americans now exceeds that of the …

Despite the advancement in medicine, management of heart failure (HF), which usually
presents as a disease syndrome, has been a challenge to healthcare providers. This is …

The Institute of Medicine's To Err Is Human, published in 1999, represented a watershed
moment for the US health care system. The report dramatically raised the profile of patient …

Objective Medicare's Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) does not account
for social risk factors in risk adjustment, and this may lead the program to unfairly penalize …

Across the member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD), pay-for-performance (P4P) programs have been implemented in the …

Background Health care–associated infections (HAIs) are costly, and existing national cost
estimates are out-of-date. Methods We retrospectively analyzed the Agency for Healthcare …

Academic medical centers are widely recognized as vital components of the American
health care system, generally differentiated from their community hospital peers by their …

We propose a new set of priorities for quality management in primary care, acknowledging
that payers and regulators likely will continue to insist on reporting numerical quality metrics …

Several Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) programs aim to transform how
health care is delivered by adjusting Medicare inpatient hospital payments through a system …

Importance In the US, federal value-based incentive programs are more likely to penalize
safety-net institutions than non–safety-net institutions. Whether these programs differentially …