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September 12, 2013 | Program Results Report
Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone, examines social isolation and the growing trend of living alone. Author Eric Klinenberg, PhD, wrote the book with funding from RWJF.
September 12, 2013 | Program Results Report
To investigate health care disparities, M. Robin DiMatteo, PhD, and a team of researchers at the University of California-Riverside, examined links between patient vulnerability and physician-patient communication during primary care visits.
September 12, 2013 | Program Results Report
The Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program is a long-running RWJF initiative to increase the number of faculty from historically disadvantaged backgrounds who achieve senior rank in academic medicine and dentistry.
September 11, 2013 | Program Results Report
Strengthening the Community of Practice for Public Health Improvement (COPPHI) builds capacity among public health departments to meet national accreditation standards and conduct quality improvement.
September 11, 2013 | Program Results Report
Families USA worked with the media to raise awareness among low-income people and communities of color on new health insurance options under the Affordable Care Act.
September 11, 2013 | Journal Article
A pay-for-performance (P4P) incentive program targeting the proportion of patients achieving measures of preventive services resulted in modest improvements in cardiovascular care.
September 11, 2013 | Journal Article
Individual financial incentives (but not practice-level or combined) resulted in greater hypertension care, yet the effect of the incentive was not sustained after a washout period a new study finds.
September 9, 2013 | Journal Article
Several provisions of the Affordable Care Act make state and federal high-risk pools unnecessary beginning in January 2014. The authors estimate that approximately half of the enrollees will qualify for Medicaid or premium subsidies in the exchange.
September 9, 2013 | Journal Article
This study examines variations in private payments to physicians.
September 9, 2013 | Journal Article
Researchers compare the adjusted total cost of acute injury care to hospital admission costs transported by EMS to acute care hospitals in the western U.S.