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| RACHEL WERNERSummaryAffiliation: University of Pennsylvania Country: USA Publications
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Medicare's new hospital value-based purchasing program is likely to have only a small impact on hospital paymentsRachel M Werner
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 31:1932-40. 2012..These results raise questions about whether the new pay-for-performance program will substantially alter the quality of hospital care, and they highlight the challenges of designing effective quality improvement incentives...
Public reporting drove quality gains at nursing homesRACHEL WERNER
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 29:1706-13. 2010..We found that quality improved both because consumers chose higher-quality nursing homes and because providers improved the care they delivered. These findings support the continued use of public reporting to improve quality...
Changes in patient sorting to nursing homes under public reporting: improved patient matching or provider gaming?Rachel M Werner
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia VAMC, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Health Serv Res 46:555-71. 2011..To test whether public reporting in the setting of postacute care in nursing homes results in changes in patient sorting...
The effect of pay-for-performance in hospitals: lessons for quality improvementRachel M Werner
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 30:690-8. 2011..These findings suggest that tailoring pay-for-performance programs to hospitals' specific situations could have the greatest effect on health care quality...
Design of comprehensive Alzheimer's disease centers to address unmet national needsJohn Q Trojanowski
Institute on Aging, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Alzheimers Dement 6:150-5. 2010..The intent of this position paper is to stimulate thinking and foster the development of other or alternative models for a systematic approach to the study of dementia and movement disorders...
