More
commentators are beginning to report on our work. In other
instances we are asked to comment on related work of others.
Here we provide PDFs and links to things others have said
about our ideas and comments we have made pertaining to UFT-A
and the business case for quality.
In a review of the 100,000 Lives Campaign and
its impact, the International Network health policy & reform,
a 20 country project associated with the European Observatory
on Health Systems and Policies, considered our Health Affairs article
for the proposition that there are likely legal consequences
from the widespread endorsement and adoption
of the campaign, raising the legal stakes for all hospitals.
In “Changing
Acceptable Standards of Care”,
VHA’s Vice President for Clinical Performance, specifically
noted our article on the 100,000 Lives Campaign to exhort
the VHA hospitals to move rapidly to transform the delivery
of
care.
In its study on “Which
Interventions Are Effective for Improving Patient Safety?
A Review of the Research Evidence”
the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, cited our White Paper as
well as five other of our publications on issues such as pay
for performance, standardizing care, and the use of clinical
practice guidelines.
A purveyor of an electronic medical records program
has cited our White Paper as an example of the imperative to
standardize
care to science using concordant medical
records documentation systems to do that.
Longwoods Publishing interviewed Jim Reinertsen
in a conversation
about our paper on the 100,000 Lives Campaign
and its likely impact in hospitals striving to move forward
on quality. And in a companion piece
they published an assessment of the relative effect of a shift
in the tort standard of care in the Canadian health care system.
Maura Davis, the author, posited that our
ideas merited attention there.
The Hospitalist
Magazine interviewed both of us with regard to the impact
of the changed standard of care from the 100,000
Lives Campaign on hospitalist physicians.
The Puget Sound Health Alliance identified our
White
Paper as a resource for their members
working on introducing evidence based medicine into quality
improvement initiatives.
In December, 2004, at Anthem's 2004 Leadership
Forum in Denver Alice's keynote presentation served as
the fulcrum for a day of discussion of the basic ideas behind
UFT-A.
Four discussion groups representing a range of stakeholders
considered ideas that are part of or complementary to UFT-A
implementation. The proceedings characterize
the work and demonstrated acceptance of the basic precepts.
In The Quality Indicator, a journal oriented
to physicians subtitled "building your practice by demonstrating quality
performance", the opening piece of the December 2004 issue,under
the rubric "Strategy" reports on our work on UFT-A as
well as Jim's Ernst and Young CEO discussions and other writings. "Initiatives
Should Focus on the Physician-Patient Relationship."
Our ideas are juxtaposed against those of Brent
James, MD, in "A
Better Case for Quality: Share the Savings!" in Managed
Care magazine.
The Health Alliance Plan in Detroit reported
its proceedings of its May, 2004 conference on paying for quality
performance
and
highlighted Jim's presentation
of UFT-A.
Editor Pamela Moore of Physicians Practice highlighted
our work on the business case for quality in her opening editorial
in
the September 2003 issue of Physicians
Practice Digest.
