Moving Toward Racial and Ethnic Equity in Health Care
March 1, 2011 | Report
An effort to help enhance the quality and equality of U.S. health care.
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If You Have Pneumonia, Which Emergency Department will Give the Best Care?
May 17, 2012 | Program Result
Researchers at Emory University Department of Emergency Medicine analyzed data from two Atlanta emergency departments to ascertain barriers to achieving standard metrics of performance for treatment of patients with pneumonia.
Electronic Health Records in Ambulatory Care - A National Survey of Physicians
January 7, 2009 | Story
While there is growing support for the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) in the ambulatory care setting, only a small number of surveyed physicians are currently using these.
How Registries Can Help Performance Measurement Improve Care
June 1, 2010 | Report
Paper describes solutions for leveraging both administrative and registry data to make additional performance results available, as well as further increase registry use for performance measurement and other purposes.
Giving Shelter and Health Care to Homeless in Savannah, Ga.
December 1, 2005 | Program Result
Two competing hospital organizations - Memorial Health University Medical Center and St. Joseph's/Candler Hospital System - helped develop and support a health center and related shelter clinics.
Disharmony of Inpatient and Outpatient Services Hampers Treatment of Schizophrenics
August 1, 2001 | Program Result
From 1991 to 1998, researchers from the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, studied the care of schizophrenia patients who are covered by Medicaid in New York State.
Pursuing Perfection: Raising the Bar for Health Care Performance
December 12, 2011 | Program Result
Most of the seven health care organizations in this RWJF national program made "tremendous progress" in improving the quality of their care, however none reached the goal of organizational transformation to a fundamentally new health care model.
Factors Related to Medicaid Payment Acceptance at Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment Programs
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Providing treatment for patients with substance abuse can result in significantly reduced lifetime medical costs. In order for more patients to receive substance abuse treatment, efforts must be made to increase acceptance of Medicaid at substance abuse facilities.
Measuring the Performance of Individual Physicians by Collecting Data from Multiple Health Plans
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Quality measurement and reporting have emerged as important tools that providers, health plans, and other stakeholders can use to identify gaps in quality and focus resources on improving care.
Alabama Helps Addicted Adolescents Recover from Substance Abuse with Continuing Care
November 22, 2011 | Program Result
Alabama was one of 12 states participating in Advancing Recovery: State and Provider Partnerships for Quality Addiction Treatment. The state joined with three adolescent service providers to implement continuing care as their evidence-based practice.