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March 25, 2013 | Program Result 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 Result 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 Result 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 Result 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.
December 23, 2009 | Program Result 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.
November 17, 2008 | Program Result 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.
September 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
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.
December 1, 2007 | Program Result 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.
January 23, 2009 | Program Result Report
Between September 2005 and December 2007, Public Health Informatics Institute staff conducted telephone interviews and met with diverse stakeholders involved with childhood obesity to learn about their needs for information.
October 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
A partnership between the American College of Mental Health Administration and five major U.S. accrediting organizations produced a consensus set of indicators for behavioral health services.