This series of 13 case studies on patient safety was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine and presented during grand rounds at several hospitals. The cases are based on real experiences and include expert analyses.

This publication provides an overview of a September 2005, meeting of the SAFER California Healthcare coalition — including the University of California’s five medical campuses and supporters — created to advance California’s patient safety agenda.

Mobilizing California hospitals and health systems to improve quality of care and patient safety took center stage at a December 2005 roundtable. This overview looks at the issues and the resulting action plans.

This Health Affairs study by Wennberg et al. shows that care for chronically ill seniors costs Medicare four times more at some California hospitals than others but results in no better care or patient satisfaction. Also five commentaries from Baucus, Priselac, Reinhardt, Schaeffer and McMurtry, and Straube.

This Health Affairs article by Gillies et al. discusses findings that show California's medical groups are more inclined to use care management processes to improve quality than physician organizations in other states.

This report examines California’s relatively poor performance on standardized quality indicators for care delivered to Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries by region, race/ethnicity, and socio-economic status.

Each brief addresses one aspect of the experience of patient and consumer groups in improving health care quality, highlighting the strategies and concepts arising from the work of the grantees and identifying best practices.

This three-year, $2 million grant program was developed to support and encourage patient and consumer groups' involvement in health care quality improvement.

This series focuses on improving quality in five areas: pediatric asthma, breast cancer, diabetes, heart failure, and end-of-life care. Each paper looks at the epidemiology, costs, knowledge about how to improve care, and efforts to close the gap between knowledge and actual practice.

Statewide collaborations of multiple health care providers have shown success in improving measurable clinical outcomes. This report examines the concept and practices of three structured collaborative models in California, Minnesota, and Washington.

As part of its broad-scale effort to map the performance reporting activities of key sectors of the health care delivery system, the Quality Initiative funded NCQA to produce an overview of PPO quality reporting and the development of its accreditation approach.

This joint survey to assess patient experience with care at the medical group level was fielded in 2001 by a collaborative of California purchasers, health plans, and medical groups.

This survey of 4,000 Californians examines concerns about health care and the availability of, demand for, trust of, and use of information that would assist consumers in selecting providers, plans, or treatment options.

Are health plans, hospitals, and medical groups meeting the needs of the culturally diverse populations they serve? This report examines the potential of three standardized consumer surveys for assessing cultural competence.

This article examines the content and methodologies of four consumer resources on the quality performance of medical groups and makes recommendations to improve the data available to California consumers.