Grading Health Care The Science and Art of Developing Consumer Scorecards [Hardcover]

Informing Health Care Purchasers

In today's competitive marketplace, health care providers, corporate purchasers, and health care executives are focusing their attention on quality, value, and accountability.

This valuable resource provides health care practitioners, administrators, and policymakers with the pertinent information they need to create a scientific method of measuring customer satisfaction.Foreward
Preface
1. Reporting Quality in a Market-driven Health Care System(Daniel M. Harris and Pamela P. Hanes)
2. Oregon Consortium: A Model in Scorecard Development(Pamela P. Hanes)
3. Consumer Preferences: Issues of Perception and Measurement(Pamela P. Hanes and Holly B. Jimison)
4. Consumers Want Choice and Voice(Michael J. Garland, Barry F. Anderson, and H. Diana Jones)
5. Tailoring Choice Information to Special Populations(Pamela P. Hanes)
6. Eliciting, Measuring, and Reporting Consumer Satisfaction(Christine Edlund)
7. Measuring Health Care Quality: The Process and Outcomes of Care(Bruce W. Goldberg)
8. The Alchemy of Accountability: Science and Art of Consumer Scorecards(Pamela P. Hanes and Merwyn R. Greenlick)
AppAndix A: A Consumer Guide to Selecting a Health PlanAppAndix B: A Request for Descriptive Navigational Information
Index Consumer choice and quality scorecards have been the subject of an extraordinary amount of rhetoric in the health care field. Finally, Hanes, Greenlick, and their colleagues have done us the enormous service of providing a thoughtful, comprehensive, and balanced exploration of the real issues. --Bruce Vladeck, former administrator, Health Care Financing Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 1993-1997

Grading Health Care is truly a first of its kind in a health care environment that is in great need ol3)