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April 21, 2009 | Program Result
The National Committee for Quality Assurance created, tested and disseminated tools to measure practice systems: formal processes and information systems used to ensure high-quality care and prevention of chronic illness.
April 2, 2009 | News Release
More working-age Americans with chronic conditions go without care as medical-bill problems rise.
February 23, 2006 | Program Result
As a result of this project, the family nurse practitioner project integrated managed care content and Web-based resources into two core courses and planned to make managed care clinical experiences a required part of the training project.
July 24, 2006 | Program Result
The Corporacion de Servicios de Salud y Medicina Avanzada developed a chronic disease prevention and control project to reach into rural communities and help educate those with chronic illnesses manage their own care.
December 1, 2006 | Program Result
The RAND Corporation synthesized and disseminated information on effective community interventions to address racial and ethnic disparities in six health areas.
October 1, 2004 | Program Result
Four organizations planned projects to demonstrate the use of financial incentives to reward providers for delivering high-quality health care.
December 1, 2004 | Program Result
The Peter Christiansen Health Center of the Lac du Flambeau Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa piloted an evidence-based medicine/continuous quality improvement model of care for diabetes, asthma and heart disease.
January 1, 2003 | Program Result
Pamela J. Blake, an independent consultant specializing in qualitative research, conducted 13 focus groups with diabetes patients to better understand barriers to the capacity of such patients to manage their health and health care.
September 1, 2003 | Program Result
From 1998 to 2002, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine developed a home-based, nurse-directed system of care for people with multiple chronic conditions and tested it in a managed care clinic.
January 1, 2002 | Program Result
The Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound developed and evaluated a new approach to providing managed primary care to patients with chronic conditions within chronic care clinics that facilitate collaboration among patients, families and clinicians.