​Featured Maryland Quality Resources

Maryland Hospital Performance Evaluation Guide​
Maryland Patient Safety Center

Annual Council Progress Reports

• 2008 MHQCC Report
• 2009 Report to the Governor and General Assembly
• 2010 Report to the Governor and General Assembly
• 2011 Report to the Governor and General Assembly

Briefing Book

One: Council Information

• Executive Order
• Council Members
• May 16, 2008 Meeting Agenda

Two: Dartmouth Atlas Project Topic Briefs

• Effective Care: http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/topics/effective_care.pdf
• Preference-Sensitive Care: http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/topics/preference_sensitive.pdf
• Supply-Sensitive Care: http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/topics/supply_sensitive.pdf

Three: Institute of Medicine Crossing the Quality Chasm

• Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, Executive Summary. Institute of Medicine, 2001.
  http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10027.html
• To Err is Human: Building A Safer Health System, Executive Summary. Institute of Medicine, 1999.
  http://www.nap.edu/catalog/9728.html
• Priority Areas for National Action: Transforming Health Care Quality, Executive Summary. Institute of Medicine, 2003. http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10593.html
• Crossing the Quality Chasm: The IOM Health Care Quality Initiative.
  http://www.iom.edu/CMS/8089.aspx

Four: Research on Quality of Health Care Delivery

• McGlynn EA, Asch SM, Adams J, Keesey J, Hicks J, DeCristofaro A, Kerr EA. (2003). The quality of health care delivered to adults in the United States. NEJM 2003 Jun 26;348(26):2635-45.  http://content.nejm.org/cgi/reprint/348/26/2635.pdf
• Mangione-Smith R, DeCristofaro A, Setodji CM, Keesey J, Klein DJ, Adams JL, Schuster MA, McGlynn EA. (2007). The quality of ambulatory care delivered to children in the United States. NEJM 2007 Oct 11:357(15):1515-23.  http://content.nejm.org/cgi/reprint/357/15/1515.pdf

Five: National AHRQ Reports

• 2007 National Healthcare Quality Report, Highlights. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nhqr07/nhqr07.pdf
• 2007 National Healthcare Disparities Report, Highlights. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nhdr07/nhdr07.pdf

Six: Highlights from Maryland Reports

• Experience from 2006 State Health Care Expenditures, Summary. Maryland Health Care Commission, 2008.  http://mhcc.maryland.gov/health_care_expenditures/shea06/report.pdf
• Maryland Vital Statistics Annual Report 2006, Highlights of 2006. 
  http://www.vsa.state.md.us/vsa/doc/06annual.pdf
• Maryland Plan to Eliminate Minority Health Disparities, Challenges and Solutions, 2006. Maryland Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities, DHMH. http://www.dhmh.state.md.us/hd/pdf/MDPlantoEliminateHealthDisparitiesPreliminary2006.pdf 
• Maryland Health Disparities Data Highlights, 2007. Maryland Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities, DHMH. http://www.dhmh.state.md.us/hd/pdf/DataHighlights-7.07.pdf

Seven: Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI)

• Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI) 2006 Annual Report.
  http://www.icsi.org/icsi_annual_report/annual_report_download.html
• Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI), Development and Revision Process for Guidelines, Order Sets, and Protocols.  http://www.icsi.org/document_development_process/new_document_resource_20619.html

Eight: Quality Measures

• National Quality Forum-Endorsed Consensus Standards, August 2007.  The National Quality Forum.
  http://www.qualityforum.org/pdf/lsEndorsedStandardsALL08-14-07corrected.pdf

Nine: The Chronic Care Model

• Information on The Chronic Care Model:  Improving Chronic Illness Care.
  http://www.improvingchroniccare.org/

Ten: Additional Information

• Healthy People 2010 Fact Sheet, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. DHHS. 
  http://www.healthypeople.gov/About/hpfact.htm
• National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health Care, Office of Minority Health, U.S. DHHS.
  www.omhrc.gov/CLAS/
• America is Not Getting Good Value for Its Health Dollar.  From Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Overcoming Obstacles to Health, 2008.
  http://www.commissiononhealth.org/PDF/uslif_spnd.pdf