Cheryl Damberg

Measuring Success in Health Care Value-based Purchasing Programs

Summary and Recommendations

Reviews what has been learned over the past decade about performance-based payment strategies in health care and offers recommendations for the design...

Evaluating the Feasibility of Developing National Outcomes Data Bases to Assist Patients with Making Treatment Decisions

This report examines issues surrounding the establishment of a national patient outcomes database that would be used by patients and providers to make...

Assessment of the National Patient Safety Initiative

Context and Baseline Evaluation Report 1

In September 2002, RAND contracted with the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to serve as the evaluation center for its national ...