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September 20, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care looks at why more than a million patients choose to undergo bypass surgery or angioplasty every year.
March 25, 2013 | Program Results Report
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 Results Report
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.
May 15, 2011 | Program Results Report
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 Results Report
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.
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.
December 23, 2009 | Program Results Report
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.
December 28, 2007 | Program Results Report
The Center for Health Care Strategies produced a paper examining how state governments employ purchasing levers to encourage the use of evidence-based practices in the field of substance abuse treatment.
November 17, 2008 | Program Results Report
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.