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Minnesota's Senior Health Options Integrates Long-Term and Acute Care

January 14, 2009 | Program Result

Minnesota's Department of Human Services planned, developed and implemented Minnesota Senior Health Options, a managed care program that blends funds from the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

Nurse Practitioners and Physicians Assistants Handle Same Acute Care Activities as Doctors

July 22, 2002 | Program Result

The University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing compared the activities of midlevel practitioners, such as nurse practitioners and physician's assistants, with the activities of resident physicians.

Researchers Identify Four Key Areas to Reduce Health Care Disparities and Save Lives of African Americans and Hispanics

October 6, 2009 | Program Result

Researchers at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry estimated the impact that eliminating disparities in health care between racial and ethnic minorities and whites would have on minority health.

Nurses and Medication Management

December 16, 2011 | Program Result

Interdisciplinary research teams at four institutions examined nursing's role in - and contribution to - medication management in hospital and transitional care settings.

Measuring the Contributions of Nurses to High-Value Health Care

May 18, 2011 | Program Result

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.

Getting Out the Word on Effective Tobacco Treatment

July 15, 2010 | Program Result

The Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention updated educational information and tools in a revised tobacco cessation treatment guideline, created new ones, and disseminated them to clinicians and consumers to spur the guideline's widespread use.

Supporting Regional Response Team Learning Networks

June 3, 2010 | Program Result

In December 2005 RWJF funded nine hospital associations and health care systems with grants of up to $150,000 apiece for each to work with at least 25 of their member hospitals to establish rapid response teams.

New Guide Shows How to Provide Psychological First Aid After Terrorist Acts or Natural Disasters

October 20, 2009 | Program Result

The National Center for Child Traumatic Stress Network and the National Center for PTSD designed, printed and distributed the second edition of the Psychological First Aid Field Operations Guide.

Medical Students at Six Schools Learn how to Provide Palliative Care - And Their Teachers Learn How to Teach It

September 30, 2009 | Program Result

From November 2006 to May 2009, investigators at the Medical College of Wisconsin helped six medical schools develop educational programs for palliative care and trained faculty at those schools to teach in the field.

Allies Against Asthma: A Program to Combine Clinical and Public Health Approaches to Chronic Illness

June 1, 2009 | Program Result

Allies Against Asthma supported the efforts of seven community-based coalitions to improve the management of pediatric asthma in their areas.

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