Selected Publications

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Commissioned Reports

Douglas McCarthy and Sarah Klein (2010). The Triple Aim Journey: Improving Population Health and Patients' Experience of Care, While Reducing Costs. New York: The Commonwealth Fund.

Douglas McCarthy, Sabrina K.H. How, Cathy Schoen, Joel C. Cantor, and Dina Belloff (2009). Aiming Higher: Results from a State Scorecard on Health System Performance, 2009. New York: The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System.

Douglas McCarthy and Kimberly Mueller (2009). Organizing for Higher Performance: Case Studies of Organized Delivery Systems -- Series Overview, Findings, and Methods. New York: Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System. Click here for individual case studies in this series.

Anthony Shih, Karen Davis, Stephen Schoenbaum, Anne Gauthier, Rachel Nuzum, and Douglas McCarthy (2008). Organizing the U.S. Health Care Delivery System for High Performance. New York: Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System.

Cathy Schoen, Sabrina K.H. How, and Douglas McCarthy (2008). Why Not the Best: Results from the National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2008. New York: The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System.

Douglas McCarthy, Rachel Nuzum, Stephanie Mike, Jennifer Wrenn, and Mary Wakefield (2008). The North Dakota Experience: Achieving High Performance Health Care Through Rural Innovation and Cooperation. New York: The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System.

Rachel Nuzum, Douglas McCarthy, Anne Gauthier, and Christina Beck (2007). Denver Health: A High-Performance Public Health Care System. New York: The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System.

Joel C. Cantor, Cathy Schoen, Dina Belloff, Sabrina K.H. How, and Douglas 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.

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

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

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

Douglas 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.

Sheila Leatherman and Douglas McCarthy (2002). Quality of Health Care in the United States: A Chartbook. New York: The Commonwealth Fund.
Articles and Chapters

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

Douglas McCarthy, Deborah Shatin, Carol Drinkard, John H. Kleinman and Jacqueline S. Gardner (1999). "Medical Records and Privacy: Empirical Effects of Legislation." Health Services Research 34 (Supplement II): 417-425.

Sheila Leatherman and Douglas 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.

Nelson Braslow, Deborah Shatin, Douglas McCarthy, and Lee Newcomer (1998). "Role of Technology Assessment in Health Benefits Coverage for Medical Devices." American Journal of Managed Care 4: SP139-SP150.

Sheila Leatherman and Douglas 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.

Eileen Peterson, Deborah Shatin, and Douglas 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 New Jersey Health Policy Conference sponsored by the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy (October 2009), 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.