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| A D BrownSummaryAffiliation: University of Toronto Country: Canada Publications
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Making performance reports workAdalsteinn D Brown
Department of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, LEAD, Health Results Team on Information Management, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Healthc Pap 6:8-22. 2005..However, the true impact of performance reporting depends on the policy context around reporting including clarity of strategy, incentives, and support for performance improvement...- Sustained public preferences on hospital performance across Canadian provincesGuillermo A Sandoval
Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, 155 College Street, Suite 425, Toronto, Ont M5T 3M6, Canada
Health Policy 83:246-56. 2007..To compare the Canadian public's view of various components of hospital performance at two points in time, and to investigate differences across provinces... - Developing an efficient model to select emergency department patient satisfaction improvement strategiesAdalsteinn D Brown
Department of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ann Emerg Med 46:3-10. 2005..This study uses optimization techniques to identify the best possible combination of predictors of overall patient satisfaction to help guide improvement efforts... - Hospitalization for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions: a method for comparative access and quality studies using routinely collected statisticsA D Brown
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Oxford
Can J Public Health 92:155-9. 2001..This article describes conditions for which hospitalization rates have a strong and inverse relationship to access to high-quality ambulatory care... - Cost-effectiveness studies on cervical cancerA D Brown
Department of Health Administration, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Acta Cytol 45:509-14. 2001.... - Barriers to patient involvement in health service planning and evaluation: an exploratory studyAnna R Gagliardi
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Room C8 30, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4N3M5
Patient Educ Couns 70:234-41. 2008..This study explored stakeholder beliefs about patient participation in performance indicator selection to better understand hypothesized barriers... 
Nurse staffing and system integration and change indicators in acute care hospitals: evidence from a balanced scorecardLinda McGillis Hall
Lawrence S Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Nurs Care Qual 23:242-52. 2008..Nursing care hours were predicted by the hospital type, geographic location, and the system. Both nursing and patient care hours were significantly related to dissemination and benchmarking of clinical data...
Response audit of an Internet survey of health care providers and administrators: implications for determination of response ratesMark J Dobrow
Cancer Services and Policy Research Unit, Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada
J Med Internet Res 10:e30. 2008..This paper presents a response audit of a large Internet survey of more than 5000 cancer care providers and administrators in Ontario, Canada...- Unregulated private markets for health care in Canada? Rules of professional misconduct, physician kickbacks and physician self-referralSujit Choudhry
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, ON
CMAJ 170:1115-8. 2004 - Selecting predictors of cancer patients' overall perceptions of the quality of care receivedG A Sandoval
Department of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ann Oncol 17:151-6. 2006..By focusing on these aspects of care, hospitals may be able to improve the allocation of scarce resources when planning patient satisfaction improvement initiatives... - Development of a set of strategy-based system-level cancer care performance indicators in Ontario, CanadaAnna Greenberg
Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, 12 Queen's Park Crescent, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
Int J Qual Health Care 17:107-14. 2005..It represents the integrating of a management culture, focused on the implementation of a new strategic direction for the cancer system, with the underlying evidence-based culture of clinicians... - Comparing patient reports about hospital care across a Canadian-US borderAdalsteinn D Brown
Department of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, 155 College Street, Suite 425, Toronto, ON, Canada M5T 3M6
Int J Qual Health Care 20:95-104. 2008..To compare patient reports about hospital care between western New York State and southern Ontario using a random intercept model... - Factors that influence cancer patients' overall perceptions of the quality of careGuillermo A Sandoval
Department of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Int J Qual Health Care 18:266-74. 2006..Thus, on the basis of this study, practitioners' improvement efforts might be constructively focused on the four predictors mentioned above... - Performance measurement in women's health: the Women's Health Report, Hospital Report 2001 series, a Canadian experienceAlexandra I Magistretti
Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Womens Health Issues 12:327-37. 2002..This paper outlines the methodology that was used to develop the Women's Health Report and highlights important findings from this early stage in the development of performance measurement for hospital care for women in Canada... - Cost-effectiveness of androgen suppression therapies in advanced prostate cancerA M Bayoumi
Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, and Inner City Health Research Unit, St Michael s Hospital, Toronto, Canada
J Natl Cancer Inst 92:1731-9. 2000..The costs and side effects of several antiandrogen therapies for advanced prostate cancer differ substantially. We estimated the cost-effectiveness of antiandrogen therapies for advanced prostate cancer... - Crossing the strategic synapse: aligning hospital strategy with shared system priorities in ontario, CanadaAdalsteinn D Brown
Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Canada
Health Care Manage Rev 31:34-44. 2006.... - The importance of place of residence in patient satisfactionCarey Levinton
Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Int J Qual Health Care 23:495-502. 2011..To determine the effect of patients' place of residence on their evaluations of care, and to explore related policy implications... - Development of ovarian cancer surgery quality indicators using a modified Delphi approachAnna R Gagliardi
Surgical Oncology Program, Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Gynecol Oncol 97:446-56. 2005.... - Development of prostate cancer quality indicators: a modified Delphi approachAnna R Gagliardi
Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Can J Urol 12:2808-15. 2005..These indicators can be used by individual providers and organizations to monitor the quality of their services, and develop interventions to address any variations... - Remembering Peter Drucker: inspiring the quality revolution in healthcareNeil Seeman
Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Healthc Q 9:50-2, 54. 2006..In order to determine Drucker's most influential works, the authors conducted an empirical review of his impact by examining academic citations to his work and ideas... - The importance of context and attentionAdalsteinn D Brown
Healthc Pap 6:76-9. 2005 - Acute care hospital strategic priorities: perceptions of challenges, control, competition and collaboration in Ontario's evolving healthcare systemAdalsteinn D Brown
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto
Healthc Q 8:36-47. 2005.... - Development of quality indicators for colorectal cancer surgery, using a 3-step modified Delphi approachAnna R Gagliardi
Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto
Can J Surg 48:441-52. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: This project represents a unique initiative, and the results may be applicable to colorectal cancer surgery in any jurisdiction... - Financial benchmarks for Ontario hospitalsGeorge H Pink
Department of Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Healthc Q 9:40-5, 2. 2006..This article describes a method to address the second problem--how to evaluate performance by benchmarking two indicators of financial performance and condition through three years of recent data for Ontario hospitals... - Accountability: unpacking the suitcaseAdalsteinn D Brown
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Healthc Q 9:72-5, 4. 2006.... - What's behind the data: an examination of the processes and policies underlying the routine collection of clinical data in Ontario hospitalsPaula Blackstein-Hirsch
University of Toronto
J Health Hum Serv Adm 29:124-37. 2006..This is particularly critical at a time when hospitals and other stakeholders, such as governments, are relying more and more on accurate, reliable, and comparable data... - Selecting effective incentive structures in health care: A decision framework to support health care purchasers in finding the right incentives to drive performanceThomas Custers
Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Health Serv Res 8:66. 2008..The objective of the study was to develop a decision framework to assist policymakers in choosing and designing effective incentive systems... - Pay-for-performance in publicly financed healthcare: some international experience and considerations for CanadaGeorge H Pink
Department of Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Healthc Pap 6:8-26. 2006.... - What should we do about patient satisfaction?Adalsteinn D Brown
Ann Emerg Med 44:384-5. 2004 - A comparison of systemwide and hospital-specific performance measurement toolsClarence Yap
McKinsey and Company, New York, New York, USA
J Healthc Manag 50:251-62; discussion 262-3. 2005..Based on the insight from this study and other activities that explore top priorities for hospital management, the issues related to efficiency and human resources should be further examined using SLSs...