Quality Assurance and Program Evaluation

ADLER, G. S. and A. DOBSON (1979) “The strategy of evaluating nationwide MCE impact.”Quality Rev. Bull. 5, 10: 8-11.

ANDERSON, S. B. and S. BALL (1978) The Profession and Practice of Program Evaluation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

ATTKISSON, C. C. and A. BROSKOWSKI (1978) “Evaluation and the emerging human service concept,” pp. 3-26 in C. C. Attkisson et al. (eds.) Evaluation of Human Service Programs. New York: Academic Press.

ATTKISSON, C. C. , W. A. HARGREAVES , M. J. HOROWITZ , and J. E. SORENSEN [eds.] (1978) Evaluation of Human Service Programs. New York: Academic Press.

BARNETT, G. O. , R. D. ZIELSTORFF , J. PIGGINS , J. McLATCHEY , M. M. MORGAN , S. M. BARRETT , D. SHUSMAN , K. BROWN , F. WEIDMANDAHL , and G. McDONNELL (1982) “COSTAR: A comprehensive medical information system for ambulatory care,” pp. 8-18 in B. I. Blum (ed.) Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care. Los Angeles: IEEE Computer Society.

BROOK, R. H. and R. L. STEVENSON (1970) “Effectiveness of patient care.”New England J. of Medicine 283, 17: 904-907.

BROWN, C. R. and S.H.M. UHL (1970) “Mandatory continuing education: sense or nonsense.”JAMA 213: 1660-1668.

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CARTER, D. E. and F. L. NEWMAN (1976) A Client-Oriented System of Mental Health Service Delivery and Program Management: A Workbook and Guide. National Institute of Mental Health, Series FN. No. 4, DHEW Publication (ADM) 76-307. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

CLAIBORN, W. L. , B. BISKIN , and L. FRIEDMAN (1982) “CHAMPUS and quality assurance.”Professional Psychology 13: 40-48.

COLEMAN, J. R. and C. E. LOWRY (1981) “A computerized MIS to support the administration of quality patient care in HMO's organized as IPA's,” pp. 82-86 in B. Kaplan (ed.) Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the Society for Computer Medicine and the Society for Advanced Medical Systems: Computers in Ambulatory Medicine. Bethesda, MD: Society for Advanced Medical Systems and Society for Computer Medicine.

CRONBACH, L. J. et al. (1980) Toward Reform of Program Evaluation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

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DECKER, B. and P. BONNER [eds.] (1973) PSRO: Organization for Regional Peer Review. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger.

DONABEDIAN, A. (1966) “Evaluating the quality of medical care.”Milbank Memorial Fund Q. 44: 166-206.

Evaluation Research Society Standards Committee (1982) “Evaluation Research Society Standards for Program Evaluation,” pp. 7-20 in P. H. Rossi (ed.) New Directions for Program Evaluation: Standards for Evaluation Practice 15. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

GLASS, G. V. and F. S. ELLETT, Jr. (1980) “Evaluation research.”Annual Rev. of Psychology 31: 211-228.

GORAN, M.J. , J. S. ROBERTS , M. KELLOG , and W. JESSEE (1975) “The PSRO hospital review system.”Medical Care 13, 4 (Supplement): 1-33.

GREEN, R. S. , J. BALABAN , G. FLEISCHER , K. KIRBY , M. RICHARDS , M. MURPHY , G. ADAMS , and C. FLANAGAN (1982) “Forging the linkage between MIS and quality assurance of mental health services: Predicting length of stay in outpatient services,” pp. 114-117 in M. A. Jenkin (ed.) Proceedings of the First Annual Conference: Systems Techniques: Economic Reality in the 80s. Bethesda, MD: American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics.

GREENE, R. (1976) Assuring Quality in Medical Care: The State of the Art. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger.

HCFA [Health Care Financing Administration] (1980) Professional Standards Review Organization 1979 Program Evaluation, Health Care Financing Research Report. HCFA Publication 03041, Baltimore, MD: Department of Health and Human Services.

HOLLOWAY, D.C. , L. J. WICZAI , and E. T. CARLSON (1975) “Evaluating an information system for medical care evaluation studies.”Medical Care 13: 329-340.

HOUSE, E. (1980) Evaluating with Validity. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

KESSNER, D. M. , C. E. KALK , and J. SINGER (1973) “Assessing health quality—the case for tracers.”New England J. of Medicine 288: 189-194.

KIRESUK, T. J. and R. E. SHERMAN (1968) “Goal attainment scaling: A general method for evaluating comprehensive community mental health programs.”Community Mental Health J. 4: 443-453.

LOREI, T. W. and N. H. SCHROEDER (1975) “Integrating program evaluation and medical audit.”Hospital and Community Psychiatry 26: 733-735.

McNEIL, W. H. (1976) Plagues and Peoples. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.

PALMER, R. H. (1976) “Definitions and data,” pp. 11-60 in R. Greene (ed.) Assuring Quality in Medical Care. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger.

PATTON, M. Q. (1981) Creative Evalution. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

PATTON, M. Q. (1978) Utilization-Focused Evaluation. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

REICHARDT, C. S. and T. D. COOK (1980) “Beyond qualitative versus quantitative methods,” pp. 7-32 in T. D. Cook and C. S. Reichardt (eds.) Research Progress Series in Evaluation: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Evaluation Research, Vol. 1. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

SANDRICK, K. M. (1982) “Private review—its impact on health care and physicians.”Quality Rev. Bull. 8, 4: 5-6.

SANDRICK, K. M. (1981) “PSROs' stormy past and questionable future.”Quality Rev. Bull. 7, 11: 4-8.

SMITH, N. L. (1982) “Assessing innovative methods,” pp. 3-9 in N. L. Smith (ed.) New Directions for Program Evaluation: Field Assessments of Innovative Evaluation Methods, 13. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

STACY, J. (1981) “PSROs are facing an uncertain future.”American Medical News (October 2): 11.

STRUENING, E. L. and M. GUTTENTAG [eds.] (1975) Handbook of Evaluation Research, Vols. 1 and 2. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

SUCHMAN, E. A. (1967) Evaluative Research: Principles and Practice in Public Service and Social Action Programs. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

TASH, W. R. , G. J. STAHLER , and H. RAPPAPORT (1982) “Evaluating quality assurance programs,” pp. 113-138 in G. J. Stahler and W. R. Tash (eds.) Innovative Approaches to Mental Health Evaluation. New York: Academic Press.

THOMAS, J. C. , A. MOORE , and P. E. QUALLS (1981) “Cost outcomes of patients treated with the assistance of automated algorithms,” pp. 63-66 in B. Kaplan (ed.) Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the Society for Computer Medicine and the Society for Advanced Medical Systems. Bethesda, MD: Society for Advanced Medical Systems and Society for Computer Medicine.

THOMPSON, M. S. and E. E. FORTESS (1980) “Cost-effectiveness analysis in health program evaluation.”Evaluation Rev. 4, 4: 549-568.

WHOLEY, J. S. (1977) “Evaluability assessment,” pp. 39-56 in L. Rutman (ed.) Evaluation Research Methods: A Basic Guide. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

WILLIAMSON, J. W. (1977) Improving Medical Practice and Health Care: A Bibliographic Guide to Information Management in Quality Assurance and Continuing Education. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger.

WILLIAMSON , J. W. , S. ARONOVITCH , L. SIMONSON , C. RAMIREZ , and D. KELLY (1975) “Health accounting: an outcome-based system of quality assurance: illustrative application to hypertension.”Bull. New York Academy of Medicine 51: 727-738.

WILLIAMSON, J. W. , J. I. HUDSON , and M. M. NEVINS (1982) Principles of Quality Assurance and Cost Containment in Health Care. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

WINDLE, C. and F. M. OCHBERG (1975) “Enhancing program evaluation in the community mental health centers program.”Evaluation 2, 2: 31-36.

WOY, J. R. , D. A. LUND , and C. C. ATTKISSON (1978) “Quality assurance in human service program evaluation,” pp. 411-443 in C. C. Attkisson et al. (eds.) Evaluation of Human Service Programs. New York: Academic Press.