INQRI Blog

A recent study out of the University of Rochester seeks to identify the best available set of measures to evaluate whether facilities are d...

In 2004, the National Quality Forum endorsed a set of nursing sensitive measures, with the goal to provide hospitals, the public and purchas...

This Friday, the National Quality Forum (NQF) will host a webinar from 1:00-2:30 p.m. ET to provide an overview of the enhanced Quality Pos...

INQRI researchers Marcelline Harris, Jack Needleman, and their team recently published a new piece in Medical Care, focused on their project...

Lori Melichar, PhD Seven and a half years ago, I sat down at the computer to write a speech in hopes of convincing my peers to join me in ...

Ellen T. Kurtzman, MPH Since its inception, INQRI has funded rigorous research to develop, test, and improve performance measures that ...

Susan Beck, PhD, Marianne E. Weiss, DNSc, Nancy Ryan-Wenger, PhD, Nancy E. Donaldson, DNSc, Carolyn Aydin, PhD, Gail L. Towsley, PhD, Willia...

Continuing INQRI's contribution to RWJF's Human Capital blog carnival on "Health Care in 2013," INQRI grantee Robin Newh...

Last week, Tom Avril and Dylan Purcell, of the Philadelphia Inquirer, reported on the Center of Medicare & Medicaid Services' hospi...

A new article in USA Today explains that the newspaper's analysis of new Medicare data suggests that patients' perceptions of the q...

This week, we'll be highlighting papers published in the new edition of Health Affairs, entitled "Still Crossing the Quality Chasm....

This week, Dr. Nancy Dunton of the University of Kansas was featured on Kansas Public Radio to discuss her INQRI funded study, "Dissemi...

The National Quality Forum (NQF) is accepting public comments through July 1, 2010 on their Quality Data Set. This set is an ‘information m...

Despite the $2.3 trillion spent on U.S. health care, public and private payers still have a hard time measuring whether the kind of care the...

In an article published yesterday, Janice Simmons wonders if hospital rankings are true measures of quality. Each year since 1990, U.S. N...

Susan Beck and her colleagues at the University of Utah have published the first phase of their INQRI-sponsored work to develop tools to mea...

The National Quality Forum is seeking to identify and endorse additional measures of outpatient care addressing emergency department and/or ...

Last week, Modern Healthcare reported that "The National Quality Forum is endorsing 70 performance measures that combine data from var...

Dr. Arlyss Anderson Rothman and Dr. R. Adams Dudley present their INQRI project: "Nursing Care Quality in Acute Care Hospitals: New Lin...

Update from RWJF on the Joint Commission's Work In 2007 and 2008, the Joint Commission tested specifications for 15 "nursing sens...