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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Public Reports

• Family and Resident Satisfaction with Nursing Home Care in Rhode Island Autumn 2006
• Statewide Efforts to Improve Hospital Patient Satisfaction Ratings October 2004
• Evaluation of Public Reporting on Hospital Patient Satisfaction in Rhode Island October 2003
• Patient Satisfaction with Hospital Care in Rhode Island Report 2 Fall 2003
• Hospital Performance in Rhode Island: How Often Our Hospitals Provide Recommended Care for Heart Attack, Heart Failure and Pneumonia Second Edition July 2003 
• Hospital Performance in Rhode Island: How Often Our Hospitals Provide Recommended Care for Heart Attack, Heart Failure, and Pneumonia December 2002
• Nursing Home Clinical Measures 
• A Report of Patient Satisfaction with Hospital Care in Rhode Island Report 1 November 2001

Background Reports

• Ambulatory Care Quality Measures and Public Reporting: An Enviornmental Scan July 2006
• Nurse Sensitive Patient Outcomes Monitoring Report
  November 2004
• An Environmental Scan of the Future Development of Quality Measures and External Funding Support for Public Reporting Initiatives March 2004
• Home Health Patient Satisfaction: A National View of Public Reporting May 2003
• Nursing Home Resident Satisfaction: An Overview of Public Reporting June 2003
• Public Reporting of Hospital Patient Satisfaction: A Review of Survey Methods and Statistical Approaches August 2002
• Patient Outcomes and Nurse Sensitive Indicators: A National Overview February 2002
• Nursing Home Quality: A National Overview of Public Reporting Programs January 2002
• A Review of the Current State of Public Reporting on Health Care Quality Performance: States, Hospitals and Coalitions July 2000
• Quality Hospital Care: What Does It Mean? 
  October 1999
• States and the State of the Art for Health Care Quality Measurement and Reporting: An Environmental Scan September 1999
• Consumer and Provider Views on Key Dimensions of Quality Hospital Care: A Review of the Literature April 1999

Technical Reports

• Rhode Island Nursing Home Satisfaction Survey Technical Report Autumn 2006
• Public Reporting Technical Expert Panel (TEP) Final Report January 2006
• Hospital Performance in Rhode Island: How Often Our Hospitals Provide Recommended Care for Heart Attack, Heart Failure and Pneumonia Technical Report  Second Edition July 2003 
• Hospital Performance in Rhode Island: How Often Our Hospitals Provide Recommended Care for Heart Attack, Heart Failure, and Pneumonia Technical Report December 2002
• Trends in Quality Indicators for Health Care in Rhode Island (1994-1998): Hospital Care, Access to Care and Utilization of Inpatient Procedures August 2001
• Outcomes of Invasive Cardiac Procedures: Rhode Island 1995-1997 June 2000

Rhode Island Series on Health Care Quality Numerical List