Donna O Farley
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5534902 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Donna O Farley |
| PRENOMES | Donna |
| SOBRENOME | O Farley |
| ASSINATURA | FARLEY D O |
| AFILIAÇÕES | RAND Corporation |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Measuring Success for Health Care Quality Improvement Interventions
BACKGROUND: The lack of a standard measure of quality improvement (QI) success and the use of subjective or self-reported measures of QI success has constrained efforts to formally evaluate QI programs and to understand how the various contextual factors impact QI success. OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to assess how best to measure "QI success" by comparing self-reported and externally rated measures of QI success. RESEARCH DESIGN: …
Bridging From the Picker Hospital Survey to the CAHPS® Hospital Survey
OBJECTIVE: Illustrate an accessible method of bridging data from earlier surveys to the CAHPS Hospital Survey to support hospitals' internal quality improvement efforts. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING: Survey of patients with more than 300,000 annual hospitalizations in a large urban hospital. STUDY DESIGN AND DATA: Six pairs of parallel items from the CAHPS and Picker Hospital Surveys were administered to the same 734 patients. We assessed item comp…
Do Medicaid and Commercial CAHPS Scores Correlate Within Plans
Background: The Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPS) health plan survey is currently administered to large independent samples of Medicaid beneficiaries and commercial enrollees for managed care organizations that serve both populations. There is interest in reducing survey administration costs and sample size requirements by sampling these 2 groups together for health plan comparisons. Plan managers may also be interested in underst…
Evaluating an Integrated Approach to Clinical Quality Improvement
Background. Implementing clinical practice guidelines to change patient outcomes presents a challenge. Studies of single interventions focused on changing provider behavior demonstrate modest effects, suggesting that effective guideline implementation requires a multifaceted approach. Traditional biomedical research designs are not well suited to evaluating systems interventions. Objectives. RAND and the Army Medical Department collaborated to de…
Epilogue
Objectives. The Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPSTM) was developed to provide an integrated set of tested, standardized surveys to obtain meaningful information from health plan enrollees and their experiences. Many organizations began to implement CAHPSTM in 1997. Formal evaluations of the experiences of three demonstration sites with implementing CAHPSTM (ie, process evaluations) and the impact of CAHPSTM on consumer's choices (i…
Objective and Subjective Measures of the Quality of Managed Care in Nursing Homes
BACKGROUND: The number of nursing home (NH) residents enrolled in managed care plans (HMO) will increase, and there is concern that the quality of their medical care may be compromised by cost-containment pressures. In this study, we evaluated the medical care of residents enrolled in 3 health maintenance organizations (HMO) that developed specific long-term care programs. OBJECTIVES: To compare the medical care received by NH residents enrolled …
Special Issues in Assessing Care of Medicaid Recipients
OBJECTIVES: The authors describe the process used to develop and test survey items targeted to Medicaid consumers for the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPS). In addition, the authors highlight the special challenges in locating and surveying Medicaid recipients and provide recommendations for increasing response rates. METHODS: The RAND CAHPS team reviewed the literature and existing questionnaires to identify health care issues an…
Transportation Emissions and Environmental Health
A planning methodology which relates pollution emissions from transportation networks to potentially exposed human populations is described. The location of total population and hypersusceptible populations with respect to emission sources are used to compare planning alternatives. Hypersusceptible groups are defined as those with an increased health sensitivity to specific pollutants caused by transportation. High-risk zones are those defined as…
Transportation Emissions and Environmental Health
A planning methodology which relates pollution emissions from transportation networks to potentially exposed human populations is described. The location of total population and hypersusceptible populations with respect to emission sources are used to compare planning alternatives. Hypersusceptible groups are defined as those with an increased health sensitivity to specific pollutants caused by transportation. High-risk zones are those defined as…
Transportation Emissions and Environmental Health
A planning methodology which relates pollution emissions from transportation networks to potentially exposed human populations is described. The location of total population and hypersusceptible populations with respect to emission sources are used to compare planning alternatives. Hypersusceptible groups are defined as those with an increased health sensitivity to specific pollutants caused by transportation. High-risk zones are those defined as…
Epilogue
Objectives. The Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPSTM) was developed to provide an integrated set of tested, standardized surveys to obtain meaningful information from health plan enrollees and their experiences. Many organizations began to implement CAHPSTM in 1997. Formal evaluations of the experiences of three demonstration sites with implementing CAHPSTM (ie, process evaluations) and the impact of CAHPSTM on consumer's choices (i…
Objective and Subjective Measures of the Quality of Managed Care in Nursing Homes
BACKGROUND: The number of nursing home (NH) residents enrolled in managed care plans (HMO) will increase, and there is concern that the quality of their medical care may be compromised by cost-containment pressures. In this study, we evaluated the medical care of residents enrolled in 3 health maintenance organizations (HMO) that developed specific long-term care programs. OBJECTIVES: To compare the medical care received by NH residents enrolled …
Special Issues in Assessing Care of Medicaid Recipients
OBJECTIVES: The authors describe the process used to develop and test survey items targeted to Medicaid consumers for the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPS). In addition, the authors highlight the special challenges in locating and surveying Medicaid recipients and provide recommendations for increasing response rates. METHODS: The RAND CAHPS team reviewed the literature and existing questionnaires to identify health care issues an…
Evaluating an Integrated Approach to Clinical Quality Improvement
Background. Implementing clinical practice guidelines to change patient outcomes presents a challenge. Studies of single interventions focused on changing provider behavior demonstrate modest effects, suggesting that effective guideline implementation requires a multifaceted approach. Traditional biomedical research designs are not well suited to evaluating systems interventions. Objectives. RAND and the Army Medical Department collaborated to de…
Do Medicaid and Commercial CAHPS Scores Correlate Within Plans
Background: The Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPS) health plan survey is currently administered to large independent samples of Medicaid beneficiaries and commercial enrollees for managed care organizations that serve both populations. There is interest in reducing survey administration costs and sample size requirements by sampling these 2 groups together for health plan comparisons. Plan managers may also be interested in underst…
Bridging From the Picker Hospital Survey to the CAHPS® Hospital Survey
OBJECTIVE: Illustrate an accessible method of bridging data from earlier surveys to the CAHPS Hospital Survey to support hospitals' internal quality improvement efforts. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING: Survey of patients with more than 300,000 annual hospitalizations in a large urban hospital. STUDY DESIGN AND DATA: Six pairs of parallel items from the CAHPS and Picker Hospital Surveys were administered to the same 734 patients. We assessed item comp…
Measuring Success for Health Care Quality Improvement Interventions
BACKGROUND: The lack of a standard measure of quality improvement (QI) success and the use of subjective or self-reported measures of QI success has constrained efforts to formally evaluate QI programs and to understand how the various contextual factors impact QI success. OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to assess how best to measure "QI success" by comparing self-reported and externally rated measures of QI success. RESEARCH DESIGN: …
Medicine (5 obras) · Business (4 obras) · Health care (4 obras) · Marketing (4 obras) · Marketing (4 obras) · Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare (4 obras) · Computer Science (3 obras) · Nursing (3 obras) · Primary Care and Health Outcomes (3 obras) · Psychology (3 obras)