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| Diane R RittenhouseSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Physician organization and care management in California: from cottage to KaiserDiane R Rittenhouse
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 23:51-62. 2004..Our findings raise disturbing questions about how the health system will close the "quality chasm" in medical care without transforming the underlying organization of physician practices...- Improving quality in Medicaid: the use of care management processes for chronic illness and preventive careDiane R Rittenhouse
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143 0900, USA
Med Care 44:47-54. 2006..Care management processes (CMPs), tools to improve the efficiency and quality of primary care delivery, are particularly important for low-income patients facing substantial barriers to care... 
The post-Katrina conversion of clinics in New Orleans to medical homes shows change is possible, but hard to sustainDiane R Rittenhouse
Department of Family and Community Medicine and Philip R Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at University of California, San Francisco, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 31:1729-38. 2012..The experience shows that payment to support medical home transformation must be robust and stable, and clinics need to be fully integrated into the broader health care system to improve overall coordination of care...- Small and medium-size physician practices use few patient-centered medical home processesDiane R Rittenhouse
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Philip R Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 30:1575-84. 2011..We also identify internal capabilities and external incentives associated with the greater use of medical home processes... 
Developing a policy-relevant research agenda for the patient-centered medical home: a focus on outcomesDiane R Rittenhouse
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, 500 Parnassus Avenue, MU 308 E, San Francisco, CA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 25:593-600. 2010..Pilot demonstration projects are underway in many states, sponsored by Medicare, Medicaid, major health plans and multi-payer coalitions...- Impact of Title VII training programs on community health center staffing and national health service corps participationDiane R Rittenhouse
Department of Family and Community Medicine and Center for California Health Workforce Studies, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0900, USA
Ann Fam Med 6:397-405. 2008.... - Measuring the medical home infrastructure in large medical groupsDiane R Rittenhouse
Family and Community Medicine, University of California UC, San Francisco, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 27:1246-58. 2008.... - Improving chronic illness care: findings from a national study of care management processes in large physician practicesDiane R Rittenhouse
University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Med Care Res Rev 67:301-20. 2010..Organizations externally evaluated on quality measures used more CMPs than other organizations. These findings can inform efforts to stimulate the adoption of best practices for chronic illness care... - Financial incentives, quality improvement programs, and the adoption of clinical information technologyJames C Robinson
University of California, School of Public Health, Berkeley, California 94720 7360, USA
Med Care 47:411-7. 2009..We studied the role of health insurers' financial incentives (including pay-for-performance) and quality improvement initiatives in accelerating adoption of CIT in large physician practices... - Transforming primary care in the New Orleans safety-net: the patient experienceLaura A Schmidt
Philip R Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Med Care 51:158-64. 2013..However, there are growing questions about whether the changes in clinics promoted by the PCMH model lead to improvements in the patient experience... - Quality-based payment for medical groups and individual physiciansJames C Robinson
Berkeley Center for Health Technology, School of Public Health, 247 University Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
Inquiry 46:172-81. 2009..001 for primary care; p<.05 for specialists) than groups paid by insurers on a fee-for-service basis... - Adoption of policies to treat tobacco dependence in U.S. medical groupsSara B McMenamin
Center for Health and Public Policy Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 94720 7360, USA
Am J Prev Med 39:449-56. 2010.... - No exit: an evaluation of measures of physician attritionDiane R Rittenhouse
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 500 Parnassus Avenue, Room MU 308-E, San Francisco, CA 94143-0900, USA
Health Serv Res 39:1571-88. 2004..Research using these measures should be interpreted with caution. Self-reported intention to leave practice may be more of a proxy for dissatisfaction than an accurate predictor of actual behavior... - Do required preclinical courses with family physicians encourage interest in family medicine?Laura E Hill-Sakurai
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 500 Parnassus Avenue, MU3E, San Francisco, CA 94143 0900, USA
Fam Med 35:579-84. 2003.... - Improvements in prenatal insurance coverage and utilization of care in California: an unsung public health victoryDiane R Rittenhouse
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143 0900, USA
Matern Child Health J 7:75-86. 2003..To examine trends in prenatal insurance coverage and utilization of care in California over two decades in the context of expansions in Medi-Cal (California's Medicaid) and other public efforts to increase prenatal care utilization...