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April 4, 2013 | Story
Five finalist teams were announced at the conclusion of Phase I of AF4Q's Game Challenge, a competition to create game applications that generate useful health care quality data to improve health and health care.
September 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Health care providers are increasingly engaging in a variety of quality improvement (QI) efforts, and have been encouraged to do so by the growing number of pay-for-performance programs and QI resources available. Some have suggested that in order t ...
September 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The objective of this study was to identify barriers to stakeholder alignment and strategies used by 14 multi-stakeholder alliances participating in the Aligning Forces for Quality initiative to overcome these barriers.
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines challenges to the success of health alliances between insurers, providers, hospitals and patients. While health alliances hold potential to improve health care for chronic conditions, health alliances struggle to achieve meaningful change in a short period of time.
September 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
In 1998, The University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Medicine convened the Sixth Annual International Cochrane Colloquium. View the grant results report from this colloquium.
November 1, 2007 | Report
Research conducted by RWJF to support key message development for Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) communities.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
In 1999, the New York Academy of Sciences, New York, conducted a conference entitled, Socioeconomic Status and Health in Industrial Nations: Social, Psychological, and Biological Pathways.
September 1, 2012 | Journal Article
At the midpoint of the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative, the authors report on the learnings and challenges experienced in the initiative thus far.
August 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
16 communities. 37 million people. One goal.
September 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This article provides a description of the research design, data, and limitations of the independent evaluation of the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative.