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May 24, 2011 | Program Result
The National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO) worked to improve state reporting on the quality of hospital-based and other health care and coordinated state and national efforts to standardize reports on the quality of health care.
August 27, 2009 | Program Result
The Health Research and Educational Trust worked with New Jersey hospitals to improve the procedures hospital staff uses to collect data about patients' race and ethnicity.
July 29, 2009 | Program Result
Telephone surveys show how acute-care hospitals collect data on race, ethnicity and language and whether and how they use that data to improve quality of patient care.
November 1, 2005 | Program Result
Researchers at Public Opinion Strategies conducted a national telephone survey of people's attitudes toward collecting racial and ethnic data for health care purposes.
August 1, 2000 | Program Result
From 1990 through 1997, the Council of State Boards of Nursing developed the Nursing Information System, a database of detailed information on licensed nurses nationwide.
October 31, 2008 | Program Result
Health care quality has received considerable expert attention in the past decade, but there is little evidence that consumers are seeking out information about the quality of care that providers offer.
November 1, 2004 | Program Result
Since March 1985, staff of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, Ann Arbor, Mich., has prepared, archived, and disseminated data collections created through grantmaking by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).
February 1, 2002 | Program Result
During 1993 and 1994, the Public Health Foundation continued redesigning its state health data reporting system and to maintain key project staff while awaiting the reinstatement of federal funding.
June 1, 2002 | Program Result
Rhode Island's KIDSNET wanted its registry to meet the needs of Rhode Island's private providers its success depended on it, since nearly 100 percent of immunizations in the state are given by private sector providers.
September 1, 2002 | Program Result
News & Numbers: A Guide to Reporting Statistical Claims and Controversies in Health and Other Fields, a widely used 1989 book by Victor Cohn aimed at helping journalists understand and report on data in the health fields and other fields, was revised and expanded between 1998 and 1999.