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April 18, 2011 | Program Result
Ten hospitals throughout the country joined a collaborative learning network, developed strategies to improve the quality and accessibility of their language services, and tested them using five standardized performance improvement measures.
July 1, 2010 | Program Result
Staff at One Economy Corporation created and expanded Manage Your Diabetes, an interactive Web site designed to help people with low incomes and low literacy skills monitor and control their diabetes.
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article examines changes in the prevalence of diabetes in Mexican Americans aged 75 and older since the early 1990s. Mexican Americans have higher rates of diabetes than non-Hispanic White Americans but little is known about older Mexican Americans with diabetes.
October 1, 2009 | Journal Article
News media coverage of diabetes shapes public perception of the disease. This study found that articles published between 2005 and 2006, in major U.S. newspapers, framed type 2 diabetes as the result of behavioral, rather than social, factors.
February 1, 2004 | Journal Article
The health care community has taken an increased interest in depression as a risk factor for type 2 diabetes. The authors of this article report on a prospective analysis of type 2 diabetes in middle-aged adults from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Comm ...
September 1, 2007 | Journal Article
This study examined the impact that race has on the prevalence of self-reported diabetes for Hispanic and non-Hispanic people. Data from the National Health Information Survey (NHIS) was used to investigate how race/ethnicity was related to self-rep ...
October 1, 2005 | Program Result
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine tested whether growth in the market penetration of managed care organizations and the incentives they use to control costs have a spillover effect on the health care received by Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries.
August 1, 2012 | Journal Article
If doctors are rewarded for cost savings, does quality suffer as a result? This study shows the two are not mutually exclusive. Findings suggest that improving the quality of care for patients with diabetes saves money.
February 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Veterans who visited VA facilities with longer primary care wait times had significantly lower primary care utilization compared with veterans who visited VA facilities with shorter primary care wait times.
August 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Higher medication adherence rates for two classes of drugs saved Medicare dollars over three years.