November 5, 2009 - This Commonwealth Fund survey of primary care physicians in 11 countries reveals that the United States lags far behind its peers in key measures of access, quality, and use of health IT—undermining doctors’ efforts to provide timely, high-quality care.
November 13, 2008 - A 2008 survey of chronically ill adults in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States found major differences in health care access, safety, and efficiency, with U.S. patients at particularly high risk of forgoing care because of costs and experiencing errors or inefficient, poorly organized care.
November 1, 2007 - U.S. adults are more likely than adults in six other countries to go without health care because of the cost—and more likely to say that the health care system needs to be rebuilt completely, according to the 2007 International Health Policy Survey in Seven Countries.
November 2, 2006 - U.S. primary care doctors are less likely than those in several other countries to be able to offer patients access to care outside regular office hours or to have systems that alert doctors to potentially harmful drug interactions, according to the Commonwealth Fund 2006 International Health Policy Survey.
November 3, 2005 - To provide a patient and cross-national perspective, this survey involved interviews with adults in six countries who had recently been hospitalized, had surgery, or reported health problems. The findings revealed strikingly similiar results in all countries.
October 27, 2004 - According to this survey of patients in five industrialized nations, a serious shortfall in the delivery of safe, effective, timely, or patient-centered primary care is an international problem.
July 22, 2004 - The most recent Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey asked hospital executives in five countries—Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States—for their views of their nation's health care system, the level and quality of hospital resources, and efforts to improve quality of care.
May 1, 2003 - This survey asked patients in five English-speaking nations about quality of care, focusing on medical errors, patient-physician communication and coordination of care.
May 1, 2002 - This survey assessed how satisfied citizens of five English-speaking countries were with their health care systems, and the relationship between income and such issues as access to care.
May 1, 2001 - This survey asked physicians in five English-speaking nations a series of questions about quality of care, including their thoughts on physician supply, use of information technology, medical errors, and patients' ability to pay.
May 1, 2000 - This study assessed how well health care systems in five English-speaking nations care for the elderly, focusing on access and quality of care and these systems' ability to care for the elderly in the future.
May 1, 1999 - This survey assessed whether access to care is more equitably distributed among income groups in countries that provide universal, publicly funded health coverage.