Given the rising burden of healthcare costs, both patients and healthcare purchasers are interested in discerning which physicians deliver quality care. We proposed a methodology to assess physician clinical performance in preventive cardiology care, and determined a benchmark for minimally acceptable performance. We used data on eight evidence-based clinical measures from 811 physicians that c...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of a tiered patient immunization navigator intervention (immunization tracking, reminder/recall, and outreach) on improving immunization and preventive care visit rates in urban adolescents. DESIGN Randomized clinical trial allocating adolescents (aged 11-15 years) to intervention vs standard of care control. SETTING Eight primary care practices. PARTICIPANT...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate rates of preventive care among Blacks in specific demographic categories, such as age, income, gender, and Caribbean descent. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Data from the Commonwealth Fund 2001 Health Care Quality Survey, conducted from April through November 2001, which involved telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 6,722 adults age 18 and o...

BACKGROUND GPs contribute to preventive child health care in various ways, including provision of child health surveillance (CHS) reviews, opportunistic preventive care, and more intensive support to vulnerable children. The number of CHS reviews offered in Scotland was reduced from 2005. This study aimed to quantify GPs' provision of different types of preventive care to pre-school children be...

OBJECTIVE To test whether utilization of infant preventive care services has reduced utilization of inpatient care and to determine whether implementation of Taiwan's National Health Insurance (NHI) has brought about any differences in the utilization of infant health care services. DATA SOURCES Data were taken from the 1989 and 1996 National Maternal and Infant Health Surveys (NMIHSs). In to...

The Primary Care Information Project is a New York City initiative aimed at improving population health through the improved delivery of preventive care. It has assisted with the adoption of a fully functional electronic health record (EHR) in over 300 primary care practices. Practices with EHRs automatically transmit summary data that can be used to track population health indicators for recom...