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.
December 12, 2011
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Program Result Report
Researchers at the Pew Hispanic Center and a multicultural research network managed by the University of California, Los Angeles, studied disparities in health and access to care in Latino and other minority populations.
December 1, 2006
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Program Result Report
The University of Washington examined whether community-level characteristics, such as unequal income distribution and segregation in housing, affect the decision to purchase private health insurance.
December 1, 2006
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Researchers at the University of Rochester hypothesized that managed care penetration may help alleviate disparities in health care access and quality between different socioeconomic and racial/ethnic populations.
October 1, 2005
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The Mount Sinai School of Medicine tested whether growth in the market penetration of managed care organizations and the incentives they use to control costs have a spillover effect on the health care received by Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries.
March 1, 2005
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Program Result Report
From 1988 through 2003, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) supported the Development and Implementation of a Quality Improvement System for Home Health Care. The effort comprised six projects and was designed to improve the quality of home health, long-term and ambulatory care, and to study methods to improve health care quality in these settings.
October 1, 2004
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Program Result Report
Four organizations planned projects to demonstrate the use of financial incentives to reward providers for delivering high-quality health care.
January 12, 2004
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Program Result Report
From 1992 to 1998, Radio Bilingue used funds from RWJF and other sources to maintain a health desk and produce health programming and public service messages.
August 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
In this 1998-2001 project, Terry S. Field, DSc, and researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., evaluated how a change in physicians' compensation method in the Fallon Healthcare System correlated with the provision of care for hypertension, diabetes mellitus and congestive heart failure.
August 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
This 1996-1998 project, conducted by Jinnet B. Fowles, Ph.D., and researchers at the Institute for Research and Education in Minneapolis, evaluated how consumer-based reports cards affect institutional behavior in the health care market.
