Glenn Flores, MD, FAAP
November 5, 2006 | Story
"The Clinical Scholars Program provided me with a rigorous background in research methodology that was crucial," says Flores.
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Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records
January 1, 2009 | Report
This report from Project HeathDesign captures key learnings from the work of the program's first nine grantee teams, as well as from its efforts to develop a common platform and explore the ethical, legal and social issues tied to next-generation personal health records (PHRs).
The Story of Tyjhe Hargrove
June 4, 2006 | Program Results Report
Tyjhe Hargrove, who was 5 years old when his mother joined Affinity Health Plan, has suffered from asthma since he was a baby. He has trouble breathing when the weather is especially cold or especially hot or the air is full of pollen.
Rural Puerto Ricans Get Lessons in Self-Managing Chronic Diseases
July 24, 2006 | Program Results Report
The Corporacion de Servicios de Salud y Medicina Avanzada developed a chronic disease prevention and control project to reach into rural communities and help educate those with chronic illnesses manage their own care.
Project on Chippewa Reservation Leads to Better Health Outcomes
December 9, 2004 | Program Results Report
The Peter Christiansen Health Center of the Lac du Flambeau Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa piloted an evidence-based medicine/continuous quality improvement model of care for diabetes, asthma and heart disease.
New Evaluation Methods Grade HMO Performance in Managing Chronic Diseases
January 15, 2002 | Program Results Report
The National Committee for Quality Assurance worked on developing standard measures of HMO performance in caring for enrollees with four chronic illnesses: childhood asthma, diabetes, major depression and coronary artery disease.
Partnerships for Quality Education
April 9, 2008 | Program Results Report
The goal of Partnerships for Quality Education (PQE) was to align training of physicians and nurse practitioners with the demands of 21st century clinical practice.
Duke University Builds GIS Model to Integrate Data and Analyzes Local Health Issues
October 17, 2008 | Program Results Report
Researchers at Duke University built a model based on geographic information systems to integrate highly localized geographic data with other health, demographic and environmental data to analyze local health issues in six NC counties.
Evaluation of Achieving Competence Today (ACT)
January 2, 2007 | Evaluation
Achieving Competence Today (ACT) was a program of Partnerships for Quality Education, a national initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Michael Yedidia, Ph.D., and Colleen Gillespie, Ph.D., of Rutgers University conducted an evaluation of ACT through a post-training survey of ACT II learners, and pre- and post-training study of ACT III learners and leaders.