September 1, 1998
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The Park Ridge Center, Chicago, held a one-day seminar in 1997 in which experts, practitioners, and lay people explored the role of rituals in End-of-Life care in institutionalized settings.
September 1, 1998
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From 1994 to 1997, staff at the California Association for Health Services (CAHSAH) constructed a uniform patient-level home health care database and developed a comprehensive patient classification system for home health care services. They also analyzed the collected data.
September 1, 1998
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The National Committee for Quality Assurance convened a work group of experts in performance measurement and information technology who examined research literature, surveyed health plan information system capabilities, and interviewed 60 experts in the field.
September 1, 1998
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During 1994 and 1995, researchers at the Western Consortium for Public Health explored the impact of reductions in Medicare and Medicaid spending on the levels of uncompensated care that hospitals provide to the medically indigent.
August 31, 1998
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During 1997 and 1998, The Alliance for Health Reform produced a series of four forums on the topic of vulnerable populations and managed care.
August 31, 1998
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From 1994 to 1996, researcher teams at the University of Virginia and the Primary Care Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) at the New England Medical Center conducted two distinct but parallel studies.
August 31, 1998
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SmokeFree Educational Services, Inc., New York, carried out a project to purchase a smokefree advertising campaign on the roofs of New York City taxi cabs.
August 31, 1998
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Brandeis University's Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare planned, organized and conducted a conference on financing and delivering care for the poor and uninsured. They also published a book of papers on the same topic.
August 1, 1998
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The Washington-based Alpha Center for Health Planning sponsored a conference to explore how major changes in the system of health care financing and delivery will affect the health care delivery system and access to health services in rural areas.
August 1, 1998
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The League of Women Voters of New Jersey Education Fund created the nonpartisan Capitol Forums on Health and Medical Care, which provide key decision-makers with analysis and research on key health and health care issues.