Selected Publications

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Commissioned Reports

J.C. Cantor, C. Schoen, D. Belloff, S.K.H. How, and D. McCarthy (2007). Aiming Higher: Results from a State Scorecard on Health System Performance. New York: The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System.

D. McCarthy and D. Blumenthal (2006). Committed to Safety: Ten Case Studies on Reducing Harm to Patients. New York: The Commonwealth Fund.

S. Leatherman and D. McCarthy (2005). Quality of Health Care for Medicare Beneficiaries: A Chartbook. New York: The Commonwealth Fund. 

S. Leatherman and D. McCarthy (2004). Quality of Health Care for Children and Adolescents: A Chartbook. New York: The Commonwealth Fund.

D. McCarthy (2004). Outpatient Quality, Accountability, and Measurement: Leveraging Our Assets to Forge Alignment and Action (Meeting Summary). Princeton, N.J.: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

S. Leatherman and D. McCarthy (2002). Quality of Health Care in the United States: A Chartbook. New York: The Commonwealth Fund.

Articles and Chapters

D. McCarthy and D. Blumenthal (2006). Stories from the Sharp End: Case Studies in Safety Improvement. The Milbank Quarterly 84(1):165-200.

D. McCarthy, D. Shatin, C. Drinkard, J.H. Kleinman and J.S. Gardner (1999).  Medical Records and Privacy: Empirical Effects of Legislation.  Health Services Research 34 (Supplement II): 417-425.

S. Leatherman and D. McCarthy (1999). Public Disclosure of Health Care Performance Reports: Experience, Evidence and Issues for Policy.  International Journal for Quality in Health Care 11(2): 1-6. 

N. Braslow, D. Shatin, D. McCarthy, and L. Newcomer (1998). Role of Technology Assessment in Health Benefits Coverage for Medical Devices. American Journal of Managed Care 4: SP139-SP150.

S. Leatherman and D. McCarthy (1997). Opportunities and Challenges for Promoting Children’s Health in Managed Care Organizations. In: Health Care for Children: What's Right, What's Wrong, What's Next, R.E.K. Stein, Editor. New York: United Hospital Fund.

E. Peterson, D. Shatin, and D. McCarthy (1996). Health Services Research at United HealthCare Corporation. Medical Care Research and Review 53: S65-S76.

Presentations

Aiming Higher: Results of a State Scorecard on Health System Performance. Presentations to the Wisconsin Population Health Institute (July 2007), Colorado Medicaid Workshop (October 2007), Texas Health Institute (October 2007), Texas Association of Health Plans (October 2007), and the Midwest Collaborative on Population Health Improvement (November 2007).

Innovative Approaches to Patient Safety Improvement. Commonwealth Fund Quality Improvement Colloquium on Patient Safety Five Years After To Err is Human. Washington, DC, November 2004.

Quality of Health Care for Children and Adolescents. AMA National Coalition on Adolescent Health. Washington, DC, May 2004.

How Can We Improve Communication about Health Care Quality? The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Commonwealth Fund Outpatient Quality Measures Planning Meeting. Princeton, New Jersey, August 2003.

Medical Records and Privacy: Empirical Effects of Legislation. Association for Health Services Research Annual Meeting. Washington, DC, 1998.

Opportunities and Challenges for Promoting Children's Health in Managed Care Organizations. Minnesota Health Services Research Conference. Minneapolis, 1998.