Consumer Reports in Health Care

Diffusion of Innovations

1983 • 2,234 citations

The definition of quality and approaches to its assessment

1980 • 1,746 citations

Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not

1980 • 1,048 citations

Improving the Outcomes of Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery in New York State

1994 • 775 citations

The Role of Outcomes in Quality Assessment and Assurance

1992 • 518 citations

Hospital Characteristics and Quality of Care

1992 • 400 citations

Report Cards on Cardiac Surgeons — Assessing New York State's Approach

1995 • 395 citations

Benefits and Hazards of Reporting Medical Outcomes Publicly

1996 • 374 citations

Performance Reports on Quality -- Prototypes, Problems, and Prospects

1995 • 244 citations

Explaining variations in hospital death rates. Randomness, severity of illness, quality of care

1990 • 224 citations

New York state's cardiac surgery reporting system: Four years later

1994 • 206 citations

A longitudinal analysis of the relationship between in-hospital mortality in New York State and the volume of abdominal aortic aneurysm surgeries performed.

1992 • 167 citations

What Type of Quality Information do Consumers Want in a Health Care Report Card?

1996 • 150 citations

How physicians view the process of change in their practice behavior

1982 • 140 citations

The Era of the Patient

1993 • 122 citations

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in New York State. Risk factors and outcomes.

1992 • 105 citations

In search of America's best hospitals. The promise and reality of quality assessment.

1997 • 64 citations

Quality measurement and control in physician decision making: state of the art.

1982 • 30 citations

Measuring Hospital Outcomes from a Buyer's Perspective

1996 • 28 citations

Health care report cards: What about consumersʼ perspectives?

1994 • 12 citations

Public reporting of clinical outcomes--the data needs of health care stakeholders.

1996 • 10 citations

Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council--the role of a state health care agency in an evolving health care market.

1996 • 9 citations

Measuring the Quality of Care: Reforming the Health Care System

1994 • 7 citations

The Quality of Ambulatory-based Primary Care: A Framework and Recommendations

1994 • 6 citations

Plans proceed to publish physician-specific data.

1992 • 6 citations

A Consumer Guide for Marketing Medical Services: One Institution’s Experience

1992 • 5 citations

First public report for physicians due this summer.

1992 • 2 citations

Data initiatives: building a managed care network utilizing clinical performance data.

1996 • 2 citations

The Development of a Consumer Guide on the Quality of Obstetrical Services: The Missouri Experience

1995 • 1 citations