Academic research examining the relationship between delivery-system organization and quality and cost-efficiencies.

2007

“Report to Congress: Assessing Alternatives to the Sustainable Growth Rate System,” Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, March 2007.

2006

“The Impact of Health Plan Delivery System Organization on Clinical Quality and Patient Satisfaction,” Robin R. Gillies, Kate Eresian Chenok, Stephen M. Shortell, Gregory Pawlson, and Julian J. Wimbush. Health Services Research 41(4), pp. 1181-1199, August 2006.

“Physician Practice Size and Variations in Treatments and Outcomes: Evidence from Medicare Patients with AMI,” Jonathan D. Ketcham, Laurence C. Baker, and Donna MacIsaac. Health Affairs, Vol. 26, No. 1 (2007), pp 195-205.

“Medicare Physician Group Practices: Innovations in Quality and Efficiency,” Michael Trisolini, Gregory Pope, John Kautter, and Jyoti Aggarwal. Published by RTI International, December, 2006.

“Do Integrated Medical Groups Provide Higher-Quality Medical Care than Individual Practice Associations?” Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH; Arnold M. Epstein, MD, MA; and Meredith B. Rosenthal, PhD. Annals of Internal Medicine, 2006;145:826-833.

2005

“The QUEST for quality: what are medical groups doing about it?” LI. Solberg, PJ O’Connor, JB Christianson, RR Whitebird, WA Rush, GM Amundson. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Safety, 2005, Apr; 31(4):211-9.

2004

Toward a 21st Century Health System: The Contributions and Promise of Prepaid Group Practice. Alain C. Enthoven and Laura A. Tollen, Editors, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004. In particular:
• “Preface, ” Alain C. Enthoven and Laura A. Tollen
• “Prepaid Groups and Organized Delivery Systems: Promise, Performance, and Potential,” S. Shortell and J. Schmittdiel, Chapter 1.
• “The Clinical and Economic Performance of Prepaid Group Practice,” Kennth H. Chuang, Harold S. Luft, and R. Adams Dudley, Chapter 3.

“Information Technologies: When Will They Make It Into Physicians’ Black Bags?” Anne-Marie Audet, Michelle Doty, Jordon Peugh, Jamil Shamasdin, Kinga Zapert, and Stephen Schoenbaum. Medscape General Medicine, 2004; 6(4): 2. Published online, 2004 December 6.

“What Are the Facilitators and Barriers in Physician Organizations’ Use of Care Management Processes?” Thomas Bodenheimer, MC Wang, TG Rundall, Stephen M. Shortell, Robin R. Gillies, N Oswald, Lawrence Casalino and JC Robinson. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Safety, 2004, Sep. 30; (9):505-14.

“Organizational Factors Affecting the Adoption of Diabetes Care Management Processes in Physician Organizations.” Rui Li, Jodie Simon, Thomas Bodenheimer, Robin R. Gillies, Lawrence Casalino, J Schmittdiel and Stephen M. Shortell. Diabetes Care, 2004, Oct;27(10):2312-6.

“Health Promotion in Physician Organizations: Results from a National Study.” Sara B. McMenamin, Julie Schmittdiel, Helen A. Halpin, Robin Gillies, Thomas G. Rundall, and Stephen M. Shortell. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2004, 26(4): 259-264.

“HMO Plan Performance Update: An Analysis of the Literature, 1997–2001.” Robert H. Miller and Harold S. Luft. Health Affairs, 2002, 21(4), 63–86.

“Time to Reconsider Organized Systems of Care.” National Business Group on Health, Issue Brief, Institute on Health Care Costs and Solutions, March/April 2004, 3(2).

“Primary Care and Health System Performance: Adults’ Experiences in Five Countries,” by Cathy Schoen , Robin Osborn , Phuong Trang Huynh , Michelle Doty , Karen Davis, Kinga Zapert , Jordan Peugh, Health Affairs, October, 2004.

“Primary Care Practice Coordination Versus Physician Continuity.” Patricia Parkerton, Dean G. Smith, and Hugh L. Straley. Family Medicine, 2004, 36(1): 15-21.

“Physician Organization and Care Management in California: From Cottage to Kaiser.” Diane Rittenhouse, Kevin Grumbach, Edward H. O’Neil, Catherine Dower, and Andrew Bindman. Health Affairs, November/December 2004, 23(6): 51-62.

“The Use of Patient and Physician Reminders for Preventive Services: Results From a National Study of Physician Organizations.” Julie Schmittdiel, PhD, Sara B. McMenamin, PhD, MPH, Helen Ann Halpin, PhD, Robin R. Gillies, PhD. Thomas Bodenheimer, MD, Stephen M. Shortell, PhD, Thomas Rundall, PhD, and Lawrence P. Casalino, MD, PhD, Preventive Medicine, 2004, Nov; 39(5):1000-6

“What Are the Facilitators and Barriers in Physician Organizations’ Use of Care Management Processes?” Thomas Bodenheimer, MC Wang, TG Rundall, Stephen M. Shortell, Robin R. Gillies, N Oswald, Lawrence Casalino and JC Robinson. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Safety, 2004, Sep. 30; (9):505-14.

2003

“Benefits of and Barriers to Large Medical Group Practice in the United States.” Casalino, L, KJ Devers, TK Lake, M Reed, and JJ Stoddard. Archives of Internal Medicine, 2003, Sep. 8; 163(16): 1958-1964.

“External Incentives, Information Technology, and Organized Processes to Improve Health Care Quality for Patients with Chronic Diseases.” Lawrence Casalino, Robin Gillies, Stephen M .Shortell, Julie Schmittdiel, Thomas Bodenheimer, James C. Robinson, Thomas G. Rundall, Nancy Oswald, Helen Schauffler, Margaret C. Wang. Journal of the American Medical Association, 2003, 289(4): 434-441.

2002

“Getting More for Their Dollar: A Comparison of the NHS with California’s Kaiser Permanente.” Richard Feachem, Neelam D. Sekhri, and Karen L. White. British Medical Journal, 2002, 324, 135–141.

“California Physicians 2002: Practice and Perceptions.” Grumbach, K, C Dower, S Mutha, J Yoon, W Huen, D Keane, DR Rittenhouse, AB Bindman. California Workforce Initiative at the UCSF Center for Health Professions, San Francisco, December 2002.

“As Good As It Gets? Chronic Care Management in Nine Leading US Physician Organisations.” Rundall, TG, SM Shortell, MC Wang, L Casalino, T Bodenheimer, RR Gillies, JA Schmittdiel, N Oswald, JC Robinson. British Medical Journal, 2002, 325, 958-961.

2001

“The Impact of Practice Setting on Physician Perceptions of the Quality of Practice and Patient Care in the Managed Care Era.” Eric L. Chehab, Neethi Panicker, Philip R. Alper, Laurence C. Baker, Sandra R. Wilson, Thomas A. Raffin. Archives of Internal Medicine, 2001, 161(2): 202

“Institute of Medicine. Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century,” Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC, National Academy Press, 2001.

1998

“Primary Care Physicians’ Experience of Financial Incentives in Managed-Care Systems.” Kevin Grumbach, Dennis Osmond, Karen Vranizan, Deborah Jaffe and Andrew B. Bindman. New England Journal of Medicine, 1998, 339(21), 1519.

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"Medical Care for the American People," Committee on the Costs of Medical Care, Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press, 1932.

“CAPP’s 35 MSMGs [multispecialty medical groups] share a common vision as learning organizations dedicated to the improvement of clinical care. Their features include physician leadership and governance; commitment to evidence-based care management processes; well-developed quality improvement systems; team-based care; the use of advance clinical information technology; and the collection, analysis, and distribution of clinical performance information. These features are congruent with the [Institute of Medicine’s] recommendations on key elements needed to redesign delivery systems.”

From Chapter 5, “Developing the Test Bed—Linking Integrated Service Delivery Systems: Council of Accountable Physician Practices,” by Michael A. Mustile, MD. The Learning Healthcare System: Workshop Summary (IOM Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine), edited by LeighAnne Olsen, Dara Aisner, and J. Michael McGinnis, National Academies Press, 2007.

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“A shift from the current care model to a more coordinated care model centered on primary care is one potential way to help stave off the healthcare dilemma.”

“It's too expensive to be a primary-care doctor,” by Debra A. Geihsler, president and CEO of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates & Atrius Health. Boston Globe, July 25, 2007.

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Medicare Payment Advisory Committee’s March 2007 Report to the Congress: “In three of the four [metropolitan statistical] areas, beneficiaries whose main physician was in multispecialty or hospital-affiliated groups had lower average annual spending than beneficiaries whose main physician was in solo or single-specialty groups. At the highest quintile of spending, all four areas show lower average spending for beneficiaries whose main physicians were in multispecialty or hospital-affiliated groups.”

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