Harkness Project Title: Improving Quality of Care in Home Healthcare: What Can We Learn From Other Settings?

Mentor: Mary Naylor, Ph.D., FAAN, R.N.

Placement: University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Biography at time of Harkness Fellowship: Stephanie Stock, M.D., Ph.D., a 2007–08 Commonwealth Fund Harkness/Bosch Foundation Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, is an assistant professor and research fellow in the Medical School of the University of Cologne, where her focus is on disease management, improvement of access to and quality of care for chronically ill, patient guidelines, health care financing, functioning and role of the risk compensation system in the statutory health insurance, cost-of-illness studies, and health care systems research. She has co-authored six books and written over 20 book chapters and over 30 peer-reviewed articles, published in journals such as Health Affairs, Health Policy, Diabetic Management, and Disease Management and Health Outcomes, 2006, and was the lead author in drafting the guidelines for the German Disease Management program introduced in 2003. Stock holds a degree in health economics from the European Business School at Oestrich-Winkel and a medical degree from Albert Einstein University at Ulm. Stock also spent a year studying at Tufts Medical School in Boston and time conducting research at the National Center for Quality Assurance in Washington D.C.

Current Position: Senior Researcher, University of Cologne. (Updated August 2010)

E-mail: stephanie.stock@uk-koeln.de

Harkness-Related Publications

Stock S, Drabik A, Buescher G, et al. "German Diabetes Management Programs Improve Quality of Care and Curb Costs.“ Health Affairs 2010; 29(12):2197-2205.

Stock S, Schmidt H, Buscher G, Gerber A et al. "Financial incentives in the Germany Statutory Health Insurance: New findings, new questions.” Health Policy 2010, dpo:10.1016/j.healthpol.2009.12.015

Stock S. “Examining Strategies for Implementing Best Practices in Home Healthcare.” Journal for Healthcare Quality 2010; 31(2): 10-17.

Stock S., Tebest R, Reider L, Boult C. “Herausforderung Demenz Versorgungs strukturen für die Zukunft entwickeln.“ Monitor Versorgungsforschung January 2010: 25-29.

Redealli M, Stock S, Simic D, Wilm S. "Substitution or delegation? Diminishing physician workload through nurses in ambulatory care." A literature review for the German phyisican association, August 2009

Schmidt H., Gerber A., Stock S., “What can we learn from German health incentive schemes?” BMJ 2008; 338: 725-728.