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Staff at Dartmouth Medical School Develop Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence (SQUIRE)

June 29, 2010 | Program Result

The SQUIRE guidelines for publishing research on quality improvement support complete, accurate, and transparent reporting, and are intended to speed development of the field.

New Measures to Gauge the Quality of Mammography Centers

July 27, 2009 | Program Result

During 2002 and 2003, researchers at the National Quality Forum were asked to facilitate the identification of topics for performance measure development useful for the consumer in selecting mammography centers.

Paths to Recovery: Changing the Process of Care for Substance Abuse

April 28, 2010 | Program Result

Paths to Recovery: Changing the Process of Care for Substance Abuse Programs used process improvement strategies to improve the quality and efficiency of substance abuse treatment at the provider level.

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.

Quality Improvement Training

December 9, 2011 | Program Result

Researchers at the Boston University School of Management Health Policy Institute helped RWJF's Human Capital Team advance its role in increasing the number of health care workers who are highly proficient in quality improvement.

The Instruction Manual for Designing Health Care Delivery in Battle Creek, Mich.

September 12, 2011 | Program Result

In Battle Creek, Mich., a health care system implements the Chronic Care Model throughout the community.

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.

Dartmouth Atlas Project

April 18, 2011 | Program Result

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.

Healthy Eating Research

April 5, 2013 | Program Result

Healthy Eating Research aims to reduce childhood obesity by funding studies to examine policy and environmental approaches with potential to improve children's diets - especially children in the groups at the highest risk for obesity.

Advancing the Role of Rapid Learning in Mainstream Health Care

March 25, 2013 | Program Result

Developing and promoting a rapid-learning health system, in which health information in large databases is analyzed to improve health care - the work of Lynn Etheredge and the Health Insurance Reform Project at George Washington University.

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