December 1, 2002
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In 1999, Milan Basta, M.D., Ph.D., Potomac, Md., reviewed Medicaid nursing home reimbursement policies and their impact on palliative care. Because nearly 70 percent of nursing home residents depend on Medicaid to pay for their care, its policies affect the care that dying patients in nursing homes receive.
June 4, 2006
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Tyjhe Hargrove, who was 5 years old when his mother joined Affinity Health Plan, has suffered from asthma since he was a baby. He has trouble breathing when the weather is especially cold or especially hot or the air is full of pollen.
September 17, 2012
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The Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute furthered the development and pilot testing of its Prometheus bundled payment model. Researchers at RAND and the Harvard School of Public Health evaluated the initiative at three pilot sites.
May 17, 2012
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Researchers at Emory University Department of Emergency Medicine analyzed data from two Atlanta emergency departments to ascertain barriers to achieving standard metrics of performance for treatment of patients with pneumonia.
September 1, 2006
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Researchers from the University of Michigan School of Medicine conducted a 10-year follow-up study of trends in the use of breast cancer screening in the U.S. and Ontario, Canada, which was begun in 1990.
September 28, 2011
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The High-Value Health Care Project, an initiative of the Quality Alliance Steering Committee, promoted a comprehensive, uniform national approach to measuring the performance of the health care system, to foster transparency and improve quality.
July 11, 2011
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Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) was a national initiative to improve hospital patient care and the hospital work environment by empowering front-line nurses to implement innovative new practices on their units.
June 20, 2011
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In 2004, a group of regional collaboratives established the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) to accelerate the formation and effectiveness of such collaboratives across the country.
May 23, 2011
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The Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project is a coalition of more than 50 leading employer, consumer and labor organizations that seeks to give consumers and health care purchasers a greater voice in deliberations over performance measures.
May 18, 2011
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Creating a set of measures that would make the connection between what nurses do and the quality of care patients receive and studying their implementation in hospitals.
