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| S SofaerSummaryAffiliation: City University of New York Country: USA Publications
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Quality improvement in small office settings: an examination of successful practicesDaniel Wolfson
Quality Research, American Board of Internal Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
BMC Fam Pract 10:14. 2009..This qualitative study sought to identify and understand the characteristics and organizational cultures of physicians working in smaller practices who are actively engaged in measurement and quality improvement initiatives...- Challenges for the public in negotiating the health system in the 21st centuryS Sofaer
School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, New York, NY 10010, USA
J Urban Health 76:211-28. 1999..The paper identifies key elements of this vision, discusses challenges to pursuing and achieving each vision, and identifies opportunities that may support the pursuit of the vision... - Patient perceptions of the quality of health servicesShoshanna Sofaer
School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, New York, NY 10010, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 26:513-59. 2005..Our aim is to find out what patients want, need and experience in health care, not what professionals (however well-motivated) believe they need or get... - Consumers of health information and health care: challenging assumptions and defining alternativesShoshanna Sofaer
School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, New York, New York, USA
Am J Health Promot 18:151-6. 2003.... - Family members and friends who help beneficiaries make health decisionsS Sofaer
Health Care Financ Rev 23:105-21. 2001..Beneficiaries want easy-to-use print materials targeted to their needs and opportunities to participate in seminars and receive personal counseling... - Qualitative research methodsShoshanna Sofaer
School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, 17 Lexington Avenue, Box C 401, New York, NY 10010, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 14:329-36. 2002..It is especially critical that the analysis and interpretation process be deliberate and thorough to avoid the use of initial impression rather than detailed examination of the raw data... - What do consumers want to know about the quality of care in hospitals?Shoshanna Sofaer
School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, New York, NY 10010, USA
Health Serv Res 40:2018-36. 2005.... - Consumers and quality-driven health care: a call to actionDale Shaller
School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, City University of New York, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 22:95-101. 2003.... - Medicare and cost-effectiveness analysis: time to ask the taxpayersMarthe R Gold
City University of New York Medical School, New York City, NY, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 26:1399-406. 2007..We suggest that given the opportunity to weigh in on ethical and normative issues that surround CEA, members of the public are appropriate parties to engage in shaping Medicare's broadest resource allocation questions... - Does providing cost-effectiveness information change coverage priorities for citizens acting as social decision makers?Marthe Rachel Gold
Department of Community Health and Social Medicine, The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, City University of New York Medical School, 138th and Convent Ave, Suite 400, New York, NY 10031, USA
Health Policy 83:65-72. 2007..Contrary to prevailing assumptions, this diverse sample understood CEA, were largely open to its use, and changed their own funding priorities when given cost-effectiveness ratio information... - Addressing the need for public reporting of comparative hospice quality: a focus group studyShoshanna Sofaer
School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, New York City, NY, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 35:422-9. 2009..A study was conducted in 2006 to explore the public's knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes about hospice care and their responses to the idea of a public report on comparative hospice quality... - Aligning quality for populations and patients: do we know which way to go?Erica Ilene Lubetkin
Department of Community Health and Social Medicine, City University of New York Medical School, New York, NY 10031, USA
Am J Public Health 93:406-11. 2003..Such a creation would amount to a whole that is stronger than the sum of the component parts... - Using public reports of patient satisfaction for hospital quality improvementJudith K Barr
Qualidigm, 100 Roscommon Drive, Suite 200, Middletown, CT 06457, USA
Health Serv Res 41:663-82. 2006..The participation of key stakeholders facilitated successful implementation of statewide public reporting. This experience in RI offers lessons for other states or regions as they move to public reporting of hospital quality data... - Evaluating partnerships for community health improvement: tracking the footprintsStephen M Shortell
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA
J Health Polit Policy Law 27:49-91. 2002..We explore the implications of this research for future evaluations of public-private community health partnerships... - Public reporting of hospital patient satisfaction: the Rhode Island experienceJudith K Barr
Health Care Financ Rev 23:51-70. 2002..This experience and the lessons learned can guide other States considering public reporting on health care performance... - Evaluating community partnerships: a reply to Spitz and RitterStephen M Shortell
J Health Polit Policy Law 27:1023-8; author reply 1029-30. 2002