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August 27, 2009 | Program Result Report
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 Report
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.
August 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
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.
November 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
Researchers at Public Opinion Strategies conducted a national telephone survey of people's attitudes toward collecting racial and ethnic data for health care purposes.
February 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
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.
November 29, 2011 | Journal Article
Frequently updating social networks can support cooperation in large groups.
November 29, 2011 | Journal Article
Human interactions are not random but rather are structured in social networks, and ties in these networks are often dynamic, changing in response to the behavior of one’s social partners. This structure permits an important form of conditional acti ...
September 1, 2011 | Story
A Profile of Nicholas Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Better data on the quality of health care being delivered in the United States are urgently needed if efforts to reform the nation's health care system are to succeed.
September 16, 2010 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studied the flow of data in eight substance abuse treatment agencies for three major processes - admission, discharge and transfer between levels of care.