March 19, 2012
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Program Result Report
Center for Studying Health System Change researchers tracked changes in the nation's health care system and developed policy analyses describing how those changes affect patients, providers, and others in their communities.
October 15, 2009
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Program Result Report
The State Forums Partnership Program provided timely, nonpartisan information and analysis to help state policy-makers make informed decisions about complex health care issues affecting their states.
May 12, 2009
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Program Result Report
In this 2006 to 2007 project, Michael A. Stoto, PhD, and a team of researchers and public health officials at RAND Corporation and elsewhere conducted case studies of five regional public health structures and then compared them.
October 19, 2005
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Program Result Report
The Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center worked to develop a formal grant proposal for a study of the economic and clinical impacts of a meditation and relaxation program called Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.
December 1, 2004
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Program Result Report
The 1996 federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (known as welfare reform) changed the focus of welfare from providing open-ended financial aid to providing transitional assistance while the head of household secures work.
October 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
The Foundation for Health Care Quality facilitated a collaboration of information technology organizations in a program called the Multistate Initiative to Help Build a Health Information Infrastructure.
August 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
In 1995-1997, David Blumenthal, M.D., Ph.D., and researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, evaluated the impact of a major component of managed care - the use of a primary care physician as a gatekeeper to authorize all health services of HMO members.
June 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
Boston University Medical Center expanded the Reach Out and Read program, which trains pediatric providers in counseling parents about reading to their children and provides practitioners with books to give them at well-child visits.
January 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
Starting in August 1999, the Central Massachusetts Area Health Education Center in Worcester distributed culturally sensitive health information to Native American women of the Nipmuc Nation in central Massachusetts.
January 1, 2001
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Program Result Report
During 1994 and 1995, researchers from the Massachusetts Health Research Institute examined the effects of Chapter 495 on the health care market in Worcester, Mass.
