Financial and Health Burdens of Chronic Disease Grow Between 2003 and 2007
April 2, 2009 | News Release
More working-age Americans with chronic conditions go without care as medical-bill problems rise.
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Recent Research About Nursing, March 2009
March 24, 2009 | Story
Highlights from the nursing field.
Updates on Human Capital Grantees and Research
February 26, 2009 | Story
Selected highlights from newspapers, journals and other media.
Duke University Builds GIS Model to Integrate Data and Analyzes Local Health Issues
October 17, 2008 | Program Result 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.
The Story of Tyjhe Hargrove
June 4, 2006 | Program Result 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 Result 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 1, 2004 | Program Result 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 1, 2002 | Program Result 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 Result 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.
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.