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Research Studies is a monthly compilation of research articles funded by AHRQ or authored by AHRQ researchers and recently published in journals or newsletters.
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Heeringa J, Mutti A, Furukawa MF
Horizontal and vertical integration of health care providers: a framework for understanding various provider organizational structures.
The authors conducted a narrative review of 10 years of literature to identify definitional components of key organizational structures in the United States. They found that U.S. policymakers seek to promote provider integration and coordination. They conclude that emerging evidence suggested that organizational structures, composition, and other characteristics influence cost and quality performance. They recommend future research to examine systematically the role of organizational structure in cost and quality outcomes.
AHRQ-authored; AHRQ-funded.
Citation:
Heeringa J, Mutti A, Furukawa MF .
Horizontal and vertical integration of health care providers: a framework for understanding various provider organizational structures.
Int J Integr Care 2020 Jan 20;20(1):2. doi: 10.5334/ijic.4635.
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Keywords:
Healthcare Systems, Healthcare Delivery, Patient-Centered Healthcare, Care Coordination, Organizational Change, Policy
Skinner D, Franz B, Howard J
The politics of primary care expansion: lessons from cancer survivorship and substance abuse.
The purpose of this study was to understand the perspectives of primary care innovators treating patient populations not traditionally considered to be within the purview of primary care. The authors indicated that their study findings suggested that the politics surrounding entrenched professional identities contributed to barriers faced by conference participants in their efforts to provide innovative care for these nontraditional populations. Specifically, obstacles surfaced in relation to sharing patients across disciplinary boundaries, which resulted in issues of possessiveness, a questioning of provider qualifications, and a lack of interprofessional trust.
AHRQ-funded; HS021287.
Citation:
Skinner D, Franz B, Howard J .
The politics of primary care expansion: lessons from cancer survivorship and substance abuse.
J Healthc Manag 2018 Sep-Oct;63(5):323-36. doi: 10.1097/jhm-d-16-00030..
Keywords:
Primary Care, Primary Care: Models of Care, Patient-Centered Healthcare, Cancer, Substance Abuse, Policy, Healthcare Delivery, Organizational Change, Quality of Care
Urick BY, Kaskie BP, Carnahan RM
Improving antipsychotic prescribing practices in nursing facilities: the role of surveyor methods and surveying agencies in upholding the Nursing Home Reform Act.
The objectives of this study were to explore surveyor observations of skilled nursing facilities/nursing facilities care practices subsequent to participation the Partnership guidance program and to use a social ecological framework to estimate how these observations were influenced by individual, organizational, and contextual factors. It found substantial variation in surveyor observations of changes to clinical care in response to the Partnership guidance initiative.
AHRQ-funded; HS019355.
Citation:
Urick BY, Kaskie BP, Carnahan RM .
Improving antipsychotic prescribing practices in nursing facilities: the role of surveyor methods and surveying agencies in upholding the Nursing Home Reform Act.
Res Social Adm Pharm 2016 Jan-Feb;12(1):91-103. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2015.04.006.
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Keywords:
Elderly, Nursing Homes, Long-Term Care, Policy, Medication, Organizational Change
Lyles CR, Aulakh V, Jameson W
Innovation and transformation in California's safety net health care settings: an inside perspective.
The authors investigated how safety net settings will innovate in order to achieve transformation of care delivery. Through informant interviews, they found that safety net systems have already begun implementing innovative practices supporting their key priority areas, but that more support is needed, specifically to accelerate the change needed to succeed under health reform.
AHRQ-funded; HS017594.
Citation:
Lyles CR, Aulakh V, Jameson W .
Innovation and transformation in California's safety net health care settings: an inside perspective.
Am J Med Qual 2014 Nov-Dec;29(6):538-45. doi: 10.1177/1062860613507474.
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Keywords:
Healthcare Delivery, Policy, Innovations and Emerging Issues, Organizational Change, Safety Net
Conway PH, Mostashari F, Clancy CM
The future of quality measurement for improvement and accountability.
The authors describe the characteristics of the quality measurement enterprise of the future, outline a potential roadmap for the transition, and identify a set of opportunities for public- and private-sector collaboration.
AHRQ-authored.
Citation:
Conway PH, Mostashari F, Clancy CM .
The future of quality measurement for improvement and accountability.
JAMA 2013 Jun 5;309(21):2215-6. doi: 10.1001/jama.2013.4929.
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Keywords:
Healthcare Delivery, Policy, Organizational Change, Quality Indicators (QIs), Quality Measures, Quality of Care
