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August 13, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
I wasn’t even supposed to work that night. I had finished a long day of meetings, and found out at 6:30 pm that my colleague, who had called in sick twice in 40 years, had influenza and he knew it was best not to expose Emergency Department (ED) pat ...
July 7, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
To make matters worse, overloaded ERs are more common than they used to be – at least in part because some hospitals are closing down their emergency departments. Another recent study we published in JAMA (covered in the New York Times on May 18, 20 ...
January 4, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
Marie Crandall, M.D., M.P.H., RWJF Physician Faculty Scholar (2008-2011), has an article in the December 2010 Archives of Surgery, in which she reports findings from her research into whether seriously injured trauma patients in Illinois are being t ...
March 8, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Around the country, print, broadcast and online media outlets are covering the groundbreaking work of RWJF leaders, scholars, fellows and grantees.
August 16, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Around the country, print, broadcast and online media outlets are covering the groundbreaking work of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) leaders, scholars, fellows and grantees. Some recent examples: José A. Pagán, PhD, recipient of an RWJF Inves ...
July 6, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
This post is part of a series in which Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) leaders, scholars, grantees and alumni offer perspectives on the U.S. Supreme Court rulings on the Affordable Care Act. Julia Lynch, PhD, is an associate professor at the U ...
January 24, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The National Institute on Aging, the National Institutes of Health Pain Consortium and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration held panel discussions in 2010 to identify strategies for promoting safe pharmacological management of pain in older people. ...
August 25, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
Allison Stevens is a writer based in Washington, D.C. She writes about women’s issues, motherhood, politics and health, and also writes for a firm that works for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. At the beginning of the summer, my family and I too ...
May 10, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
Mary Naylor, R.N., Ph.D., F.A.A.N., program director of RWJF’s Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI), is the 2011 recipient of the GE Healthcare-AACN Pioneering Spirit Award, given by the American Association of Critical-Care ...
April 12, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
The Economist featured a story about Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Health & Society Scholar David Van Sickle, Ph.D., who created an asthma inhaler equipped with a global positioning system (GPS) device. Every time the inhaler is used, it rec ...