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ANNOUNCING A NEW AHRQ AUDIO CONFERENCE: Speaker Biographies R. Adams Dudley, Institute for Health Policy Studies, UCSF R. Adams Dudley, MD, MBA, is Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Policy at UCSF. His research interests include measures of quality of care, quality-based purchasing, and financial risk adjustment. He has served as a consultant on health policy issues to an Institute of Medicine Roundtable, Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, National Cancer Policy Board, JCAHO, WHO, PBGH, General Motors, the Leapfrog Group and other large employers and medical societies. His research projects include: the California Intensive Care Outcomes (CALICO) project developing public reports of ICU quality of care in California hospitals; the California Hospital Assessment and Reporting Task Force (CHART), which has convened representatives of consumers, purchasers, health plans, and hospitals in California to establish a hospital performance reporting system. He also is working with public and private purchasers to summarize the research on quality-based purchasing strategies and identify optimal approaches to health care purchasing.
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