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Social Impact Bonds: Analysis of a Mechanism for Financing Social Program Expansions

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.

Quality Improvement Training

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.

Who Can Respond to Treatment?

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.

Academia, Chronic Care, and the Future of Primary Care

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.

Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care

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.

Dartmouth Atlas Project

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.

What Promotes Evidence-Based Practice in Routine Nursing Care?

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.

Rapidity and Modality of Imaging for Acute Low Back Pain in Elderly Patients

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.

Consensus Standards Reached on 11 Evidence-Based Practices for Substance Abuse Conditions

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.

Cochrane Colloquium Focused on Systematic Review of the Effects of Health Care Interventions

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.

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