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December 13, 2012 | Issue Brief
Eliminating waste in the health care system has become a major focal point in the effort to reduce health care costs. Waste has been broadly defined to many areas: unnecessary services, treatment of avoidable injuries and more.
April 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Studies have shown that cancer care near the end of life is more aggressive than many patients prefer.
July 7, 2011 | Program Result Report
The World Health Organization Commission on Social Determinants of Health met in New Orleans from November 18-20, 2007 to discuss how social factors - such as access to money, education and safe housing - impact people's overall health and longevity.
November 17, 2008 | Program Result Report
The National Council of Churches USA conducted a survey to determine the range of health care related activities and services provided by the congregations, allowing it to create a database of congregational health care activities.
August 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
In 2005, Harvard University Press published The Health Care Mess: How We Got Into It and What It Will Take To Get Out. The co-authors were Julius B. Richmond, M.D., and Rashi Fein, Ph.D.
September 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
Beginning in May 1994, project staff at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston created "Clinical Crossroads," a monthly series of clinical case studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
December 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
Randall Baldwin Clark at the University of Virginia Law School Foundation, Charlottesville, Va., finished and disseminated his book, The Law Most Beautiful and Best: Medical Argument and Magical Rhetoric in Plato's Laws.
March 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, marketed The Lost Art of Caring: A Challenge to Health Professionals, Families, Communities and Society, which it published in June 2001.
January 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
The Kaiser Foundation Hospitals Research Institute in Portland, Ore., studied the feasibility of improving coordination of care for working-age adults with two or more chronic medical conditions.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The Grace Counseling Center in Madison, N.J., Drew University, Madison, N.J., and Morristown Memorial Hospital of Morristown, N.J. jointly sponsored a conference in 1998 on the integration of spirituality and medicine, which many health professionals now believe can significantly enhance healing.