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Thomas G. Rundall is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Health Professions, with significant work in subfields such as Health Information Management, General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems, and Radiological and Ultrasound Technology.

Rundall's work concentrates on topics including Healthcare Quality and Management, Healthcare cost, quality, and practices, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, and Quality of Life, Healthcare Policy and Management, Quality and Supply Management, Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare, and Occupational Health and Safety Research.

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Rundall are:

  • Adoption of Lean management and hospital performance: Results from a national survey (2020), published in Health Care Management Review
  • Lean Management and Hospital Performance: Adoption vs. Implementation (2021), published in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety
  • Benchmarking outcomes on multiple contextual levels in lean healthcare: a systematic review, development of a conceptual framework, and a research agenda (2021), published in BMC Health Services Research
  • Validation of the Lean Healthcare Implementation Self-Assessment Instrument (LHISI) in the Finnish healthcare context (2021), published in BMC Health Services Research
  • Lean Management and Breakthrough Performance Improvement in Health Care (2020), published in Quality Management in Health Care

Rundall frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Stephen M. Shortell
  • Elina Reponen
  • Janet C. Blodgett
  • Dorothy Y. Hung
  • Justin Lee

Their publications appear regularly in venues such as Quality Management in Health Care, BMC Health Services Research, Journal of Healthcare Management, The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, and Health Care Management Review.

Best Publications

  • Evidence-based management: from theory to practice in health care.

    Kieran Walshe;Thomas G. Rundall

  • External Incentives, Information Technology, and Organized Processes to Improve Health Care Quality for Patients With Chronic Diseases

    Lawrence Casalino;Robin R. Gillies;Stephen M. Shortell;Julie A. Schmittdiel

  • Kaiser Permanente's experience of implementing an electronic medical record: a qualitative study

    J Tim Scott;Thomas G Rundall;Thomas M Vogt;John Hsu

  • Improving Patient Care by Linking Evidence-Based Medicine and Evidence-Based Management

    Stephen M. Shortell;Thomas G. Rundall;John Hsu

  • Improving quality through effective implementation of information technology in healthcare.

    John Øvretveit;John Øvretveit;Tim Scott;Thomas G. Rundall;Stephen M. Shortell

  • A Meta-analysis of School-based Smoking and Alcohol Use Prevention Programs

    Thomas G. Rundall;William H. Bruvold

  • As good as it gets? Chronic care management in nine leading US physician organisations

    Thomas G Rundall;Stephen M Shortell;Margaret C Wang;Lawrence Casalino

  • How outcomes are achieved through patient portals: A realist review

    Terese Otte-Trojel;Antoinette de Bont;Thomas G Rundall;Joris van de Klundert

  • Hospital restructuring and the work of registered nurses.

    Barbara R. Norrish;Thomas G. Rundall

  • An Empirical Assessment of High-Performing Medical Groups: Results from a National Study:

    Stephen M. Shortell;Julie Schmittdiel;Margaret C. Wang;Rui Li

  • Evidence-based management reconsidered.

    Anthony R Kovner;Thomas G Rundall

  • Rethinking prevention in primary care: applying the chronic care model to address health risk behaviors.

    Dorothy Y. Hung;Thomas G. Rundall;Alfred F. Tallia;Deborah J. Cohen

  • The Impact of Hospitalists on the Cost and Quality of Inpatient Care in the United States: A Research Synthesis

    Janet Coffman;Thomas G. Rundall

  • Type of health care coverage and the likelihood of being screened for cancer.

    Nancy P. Gordon;Thomas G. Rundall;Laurence Parker

  • The effect of income on use of preventive care: an evaluation of alternative explanations.

    Thomas G. Rundall;John R. C. Wheeler

  • A meta-analysis and theoretical review of school based tobacco and alcohol intervention programs

    William H. Bruvold;Thomas G. Rundall

  • What do we know about developing patient portals? a systematic literature review.

    Terese Otte-Trojel;Antoinette de Bont;Thomas G Rundall;Joris van de Klundert

  • Use of Lean and Related Transformational Performance Improvement Systems in Hospitals in the United States: Results From a National Survey

    Stephen M. Shortell;Janet C. Blodgett;Thomas G. Rundall;Peter Kralovec

  • What Are the Facilitators and Barriers in Physician Organizations’ Use of Care Management Processes?

    Thomas Bodenheimer;Margaret C. Wang;Thomas G. Rundall;Stephen M. Shortell

  • Effect of primary health care orientation on chronic care management.

    Julie A. Schmittdiel;Stephen M. Shortell;Thomas G. Rundall;Thomas Bodenheimer

  • Evidence-based management.

    Thomas G Rundall

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen M. Shortell
Stephen M. Shortell University of California, Berkeley
John Hsu
John Hsu Harvard University
John Øvretveit
John Øvretveit Karolinska Institute
Huw Davies
Huw Davies University of St Andrews
Joan R. Bloom
Joan R. Bloom University of California, Berkeley
Jeffrey A. Alexander
Jeffrey A. Alexander University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Mary E. Northridge
Mary E. Northridge New York University
Laurence C. Baker
Laurence C. Baker Stanford University
Kieran Walshe
Kieran Walshe University of Manchester
Allan Krasnik
Allan Krasnik University of Copenhagen

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