Health Policy
September 17, 2012 | Feature/Topic
Browse research, insight and analysis on key issues affecting health and health care in the United States.
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars
May 1, 2013 | Program Result
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program builds population health leaders through innovative, interdisciplinary research.
Residents' Duty Hours: Toward an Empirical Narrative
November 22, 2012 | Journal Article
This article examines the debate around medical resident duty hours, specifically noting the discrepancy between duty-hour limits and the evidence base to support them. The authors suggest Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) grant programs a research exemption to address the issues of evaluation.
How Much Should Individuals Entering Health Professions Know About Health Policy?
September 21, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Health care providers should be educated about how the health care system has evolved and how policy levers work, RWJF Investigator Award in Health Policy Research recipient Miriam Laugesen writes.
Graduate Medical Education
August 16, 2012 | Issue Brief
A debate continues over the size and scope of federal subsidies to support residency training of the nation’s physicians. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), is the single ...
New Generation of Child Experts Trained in Advocacy, Collaborative Research
February 1, 2002 | Program Result
In 1999, the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry sponsored a conference on child health issues, focusing mainly on research as a tool for influencing public policy and clinical practice.
Investing in Nursing Education
April 11, 2012 | Report
In health care, the debate over policies that promote nurse educational progression is still raging. This paper reviews the evidence and the experiential knowledge to date, and proposes a preliminary framework for understanding the financial trade-offs that health care employers may want to consider as they determine the costs and benefits of investing in nursing education.
Center to Champion Nursing in America
August 2, 2012 | Program Result
The Center to Champion Nursing in America is an RWJF-AARP initiative to strengthen the nation's nursing workforce. It coordinates a national campaign to implement the Institute of Medicine's Future of Nursing report recommendations.
Nurse Researcher Bemoans End of National Survey on Nursing Workforce
July 25, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
HCB: The Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) are working together to create a minimum data set (MDS) on the supply of the nurse workforce. Will that project help to compensate for the ...
Effects of Nurse Staffing and Nurse Education on Patient Deaths in Hospitals With Different Nurse Work Environments
November 30, 2011 | Journal Article
Nurse staffing improvements have the greatest positive effect in hospitals with the best nurse working environments.
Interprofessional Care and the Future of Nursing
May 1, 2011 | Commentary
This editorial summarizes recommendations from the 2010 Institute of Medicine report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. The report issued recommendations for policy changes at the national, state and local levels.