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Finding Better Ways to Treat Alcohol Abuse Among Seniors

May 1, 1997 | Program Result Report

The New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority created the Resident Education and Assistance Program to address problems of undiagnosed substance abuse among elderly residents living in subsidized public and private housing.

Operation Access in San Francisco Coordinates Free Surgeries for Low-Income and Uninsured People

January 31, 2004 | Program Result Report

From 1994 to 1998, staff at the Ambulatory Surgery Access Coalition implemented a program called Operation Access to increase access to ambulatory surgery services for medically indigent patients in San Francisco.

If Consumers and Purchasers Could Compare Health Care Quality, What Would It Do to Health Care?

June 10, 2013 | Program Result Report

The Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project promotes performance measurement as a tool to increase the transparency and accountability of the health care system, and advocates for more input from health care consumers and purchasers.

Pursuing Perfection: Raising the Bar for Health Care Performance

National Program

Program to help hospital and physician organizations dramatically improve patient outcomes by pursuing perfection in all of their major care processes.

Access to Care Impacts Hospitalization Rates for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions

April 1, 2001 | Program Result Report

The University of California studied access to primary care in selected communities to assess whether hospitalization rates for certain chronic conditions typically managed by outpatient care are valid and useful measures of community access to care.

Disharmony of Inpatient and Outpatient Services Hampers Treatment of Schizophrenics

August 1, 2001 | Program Result Report

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.

If You Have Pneumonia, Which Emergency Department will Give the Best Care?

May 17, 2012 | Program Result Report

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.

Pursuing Perfection: Raising the Bar for Health Care Performance

December 12, 2011 | Program Result Report

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.

The High-Value Health Care Project

September 28, 2011 | Program Result Report

The High-Value Health Care Project, an initiative of the Quality Alliance Steering Committee, promoted a comprehensive, uniform national approach to measuring the performance of the health care system, to foster transparency and improve quality.

Dartmouth Atlas Project

April 18, 2011 | Program Result Report

The overarching objective of the Dartmouth Atlas is to report local and regional variation in the performance of U.S. health care to policymakers and health systems and to provide interpretation of unwarranted variation that can guide policy.

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