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March 25, 2013 | Program Result
Researchers at McKinsey & Co. explored the potential of social impact bonds as a pay-for-performance means to finance the expansion of proven social service programs. Their study focused on two areas: homelessness and prisoner recidivism.
December 9, 2011 | Program Result
Researchers at the Boston University School of Management Health Policy Institute helped RWJF's Human Capital Team advance its role in increasing the number of health care workers who are highly proficient in quality improvement.
June 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Physicians need a method of quantifying the risks and benefits of treatment for patient subgroups (i.e., those with different health profiles). This article describes the development of the Potential for Benefit Scale (PBS), a composite measure of potential treatment response.
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The Chronic Care Model provides a framework for redesigning primary care teaching clinics and could give residents positive experiences related to caring for chronically ill patients.
May 15, 2011 | Program Result
Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care aimed at improving the overall quality of cardiac care while reducing racial, ethnic and language disparities in 10 participating hospitals from 2004 to 2008.
April 18, 2011 | Program Result
The overarching objective of the Dartmouth Atlas is to report local and regional variation in the performance of U.S. health care to policymakers and health systems and to provide interpretation of unwarranted variation that can guide policy.
December 23, 2009 | Program Result
An international research team led by investigators at the Boston University School of Public Health examined the factors that promote the use of evidence-based practice in routine health care.
May 25, 2009 | Journal Article
In this study, researchers found that almost one in three elderly Medicare patients received imaging service within a month of low-back pain diagnosis despite well-established guidelines stating patients with low-back pain do not require imaging until after a month of therapy.
November 17, 2008 | Program Result
The National Quality Forum used its consensus development process to identify evidence-based practices to treat substance use conditions that should receive high priority for widespread implementation.
September 1, 2000 | Program Result
In 1998, The University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Medicine convened the Sixth Annual International Cochrane Colloquium. View the grant results report from this colloquium.