Mark William Friedberg
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Education
Overview
Biography
Mark Friedberg is an associate natural scientist at the RAND Corporation and a board-certified general internist. His research has focused on the quality of care delivered by primary care practices, the responses of health care provider organizations to performance reporting, the impact of Patient-Centered Medical Home demonstrations, and the distributive implications of pay-for-performance initiatives. He has developed and fielded surveys of medical group leaders, physicians, and other clinical staff. His clinical work has included ambulatory primary care and hospital-based internal medicine, and he is a clinical instructor in medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Friedberg received his B.A. in economics and statistics from Swarthmore College; his M.D. from Harvard Medical School; and his M.P.P. in health care policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Research Focus
Recent Projects
- Physician groups' use of data from patient experience surveys
- Medical home capabilities of primary care practices that serve sociodemographically vulnerable neighborhoods
- Paying for performance in primary care
- Electronic health records and higher quality in primary care practices
Selected Publications
Friedberg MW, Damberg CL, Methodological considerations in generating provider performance scores for use in public reporting: a guide for community quality collaboratives, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2011
Friedberg MW, Coltin KL, Safran DG, Dresser M, Schneider EC, "Medical home capabilities of primary care practices that serve sociodemographically vulnerable neighborhoods.," Archives of Internal Medicine, 170(11):938-944, 2010
Friedberg MW, Safran DG, Coltin KL, Dresser M, Schneider EC, "Paying for performance in primary care: potential impact on practices and disparities.," Health Affairs, 29(5):926-932, 2010
Friedberg MW, SteelFisher GK, Karp M, Schneider EC, "Physician groups' use of data from patient experience surveys.," Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2010
Friedberg MW, Hussey PS, Schneider EC, "Primary care: a critical review of the evidence on the quality and costs of health care.," Health Affairs, 29(5):766-772, 2010
Friedberg MW, Coltin KL, Safran DG, Dresser M, Zaslavsky AM, Schneider EC, "Associations between structural capabilities of primary care practices and performance on selected quality measures.," Annals of Internal Medicine, 151(7):456-463, 2009
Friedberg MW, Safran DG, Coltin KL, Dresser M, Schneider EC, "Readiness for the patient-centered medical home: capabilities of Massachusetts primary care practices.," Journal of General Internal Medicine, 24(2):162-169, 2009
Friedberg MW, Coltin KL, Pearson SD, Kleinman KP, Zheng J, Singer JA, Schneider EC, "Does affiliation of physician groups with one another produce higher quality primary care?" Journal of General Internal Medicine, 22(10):1385-1392, 2007
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