Rhode Island Series on Health Care Quality

The purpose of the Rhode Island Series on Health Care Quality is to provide information to the public on the quality of care in Rhode Island. Selected features contained in the series include:

• How quality was defined
• How quality was measured
• The methodology used such as who data was collected from, how data was collected
• How the data was analyzed
• The results
• How patients rated satisfaction with the care received

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Number	Title
27	Family and Resident Satisfaction with Nursing Home Care in Rhode Island Autumn 2006 Technical Report
26	Public Reporting Technical Expert Panel (TEP) Final Report January 2006
25	Ambulatory Care Quality Measures and Public Reporting: An Environmental Scan July 2006
24	Nurse Sensitive Patient Outcomes Monitoring Report November 2004
23	Statewide Efforts to Improve Hospital Patient Satisfaction Ratings October 2004
22	Hospital Patient Satisfaction: Minority Views of the Hospital Experience May 2004
21	An Environmental Scan of the Future Development of Quality Measures and External Funding Support for Public Reporting Initiatives March 2004
20	Evaluation of Public Reporting on Hospital Patient Satisfaction in Rhode Island October 2003
19	Patient Satisfaction with Hospital Care in Rhode Island Report 2 Fall 2003
18	Home Health Patient Satisfaction: A National View of Public Reporting May 2003
17	Hospital Performance in Rhode Island: How Often Our Hospitals Provide Recommended Care for Heart Attack, Heart Failure and Pneumonia  Second Edition July 2003  Technical Report
16	Nursing Home Resident Satisfaction: An Overview of Public Reporting June 2003
15	Hospital Performance in Rhode Island: How Often Our Hospitals Provide Recommended Care for Heart Attack, Heart Failure, and Pneumonia    Technical Report December 2002
14	Public Reporting of Hospital Patient Satisfaction: A Review of Survey Methods and Statistical Approaches August 2002
13	Nursing Home Clinical Measures
12	Patient Outcomes and Nurse Sensitive Indicators: A National Overview February 2002
11	Nursing Home Quality: A National Overview of Public Reporting Programs January 2002
10	A Report of Patient Satisfaction with Hospital Care in Rhode Island Report 1 November 2001
9	Trends in Quality Indicators for Health Care in Rhode Island (1994-1998): Hospital Care, Access to Care and Utilization of Inpatient Procedures  August 2001
8	A Profile of Medicare Beneficiaries in Rhode Island: Quality of Care Compared to New England States and the Nation May 2001
7	Use of Administrative Data in Measuring Quality of Care August 2000
6	A Review of the Current State of Public Reporting on Health Care Quality Performance: States, Hospitals and Coalitions July 2000
5	Outcomes of Invasive Cardiac Procedures: Rhode Island 1995-1997 June 2000
4	Reporting Publicly Accountable Performance Measures of Quality in Health Care: Review of Existing Databases in Rhode Island Focusing on the Hospital Setting May 2000
3	Quality Hospital Care: What Does It Mean?  October 1999
2	States and the State of the Art for Health Care Quality Measurement and Reporting: An Environmental Scan September 1999
1	Consumer and Provider Views on Key Dimensions of Quality Hospital Care: A Review of the Literature April 1999