October 1, 1997
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Program Result
A three-day scientific workshop on tuberculosis in children, co-sponsored with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and 15 other government agencies and private health groups, was held in Atlanta, Ga., on August 1-3, 1994.
October 1, 1997
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Program Result
The University of California, San Francisco, carried out a qualitative evaluation of the Old Disease, New Challenge program to monitor and evaluate five demonstration strategies.
May 1, 1997
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Program Result
From 1992 to 1996, researchers from the University of California created a chronic care chartbook that describes national trends in chronic illness. The research team also published a series of background papers, which were eventually collected in a book.
June 1, 1997
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Program Result
Between 1993 and 1995, staff at the Center for Addictive Behaviors in Salem, Mass., carried out a planning phase of a project to develop and test a model of coordinated substance abuse treatment services for chronic substance abusers.
January 1, 1996
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Toolkit
Improving Chronic Illness Care (ICIC) is a national program dedicated to improving the quality of life among the 133 million Americans who suffer from diabetes, depression and other chronic conditions. An evaluation of ICIC was conducted by RAND Corporation, led by Emmett B. Keeler, Ph.D.
November 1, 1996
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Program Result
A 1992-1995 collaborative effort in Boston to expand and update a system to use electronic technology with the HIV/AIDS community became mired in internal difficulties and was terminated early.
November 1, 1996
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Program Result
The Urban Institute analyzed physician services provided to the elderly in the United States and Canada to determine whether cost or quantity controls (or some mixture of the two) have enabled Canada to hold the line on health care expenditures.