E. John Orav, PhD

Hospitals pursue a broad range of efforts to improve quality, with those participating in bundled payments attempting to reduce postacute care to a greater degree than nonparticipants.

Decision support tools, disease registries, and patient engagement materials can improve population-based chronic kidney disease care.

Although concerns remain that expanding insurance coverage may have a “crowding-out” effect, we saw no evidence of this for Medicaid beneficiaries in Massachusetts following statewide health reform.

The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program has had a major impact on hospital leaders’ efforts to reduce readmission rates; however, important concerns about the program remain.

This study finds no evidence of a deleterious impact of pay-for-performance on minority patients in the Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration.

This study highlights the potential value of innovative ways of collecting information about adverse drug events directly from patients.