Patient Resources

Care About Your Care is a national conversation highlighting efforts to improve care transitions, reduce avoidable hospital readmissions, and lift overall quality of care.

Narrative vs Evidence-Based Medicine--And, Not Or

November 9, 2011 | Commentary

Stories help the public make sense of population-based scientific evidence.

Culturally Appropriate Storytelling to Improve Blood Pressure

January 18, 2011 | Journal Article

This study sought to develop and test a novel, evidence-based and culturally appropriate intervention to control blood pressure in African-Americans using storytelling DVDs.

Connecting Hospitalized Patients One-on-One with Other Patients Who Have the Same Illness

May 11, 2009 | Program Result Report

From 1994 to 2007, staff at Friends' Health Connection (originally called Long Distance Love), New Brunswick, N.J., created and ran a program that enables hospitalized patients to communicate one-on-one with another patient who has the same illness.

Connecticut Uses RWJF's Family Support Services Program Funding to Expand Parenting Education Agenda

December 7, 2005 | Program Result Report

Family Support Connecticut worked to expand the infrastructure of Connecticut's family support program and fund parent leadership training through grants to communities.

An Advocacy Academy for Southerners Concerned With Preventing Childhood Obesity

May 22, 2013 | Program Result Report

Consultants from Tandeka LLC developed and led a pilot training program that prepares advocates to spearhead public-policy advocacy campaigns, particularly ones that promote childhood obesity prevention policies.

Stopping Teen Dating Violence in New Jersey with Safe Dates

June 20, 2012 | Program Result Report

From 2008 to 2011, eight projects implemented Safe Dates, a dating abuse prevention program, in middle and high schools through New Jersey Health Initiatives, which supports projects that improve the health and health care of state residents.

Engaging Patients in Improving Ambulatory Care

March 6, 2013 | Toolkit

This toolkit features videos and and other resources from three AF4Q alliances to introduce the concept of partnering with patients and families in primary care.

Heart Failure Education Reduces Readmissions

February 26, 2013

Oregon Health and Science University cut readmissions for heart failure patients by 11 percent over an 18-month period through improved patient education.

Hospital Uses “LACE” Assessment to Reduce Readmissions

February 15, 2013

Redington-Fairview General Hospital provided at least 95 percent of HF patients with all the recommended procedures and assessments in the Measure of Ideal Care bundle for 13 out of 15 months during the initiative.