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April 3, 2013 | Feature
Highlights from the Foundation's many stories and articles, enterprise-wide.
Health Care Delivery
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Doing Better by Doing Less: Approaches to Tackle Overuse of Services
January 16, 2013 | Issue Brief
The analysis focuses in on medically inappropriate and unnecessary services that drive up spending without making making patients better.
Improving Patient Decision-Making in Health Care Series
December 13, 2012 | Report
Dartmouth Atlas research highlights geographic variation in elective procedures across nine regions.
Methodology Issues in Implementation Science
April 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Four case studies on recommendations to advance implementation science.
Health and Health Care in 2032
June 20, 2012 | Report
The purpose of these scenarios is to help leaders in health and health care apply a futures perspective to their own work, and to access the kind of creativity and dynamism that can lead to surprising success.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation at Forty
October 24, 2012 | Book
This chapter of the Anthology provides the reader with some brief history of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Terrance Keenan: An Appreciation
October 1, 2012 | Book
An excerpt from Terrance Keenan: An Appreciation as it appears in To Improve Health and Health Care, Volume XV.
Project ECHO: Bringing Specialists' Expertise to Underserved Rural Areas
October 1, 2012 | Book
Project ECHO is an innovative way of providing medical expertise in the treatment of complex illnesses suffered by people living in rural areas.
Regulation of Medical Devices in the United States and European Union
March 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Both the United States (U.S.) and the European Union (E.U.) employ different systems and regulation policies on the approval and marketing procedures for medical devices. This article looks at their differences, challenges they face, and offers reco ...
Health Leads: Treating the Cause Not the Illness
August 10, 2011 | Story
For families that struggle to meet basic needs like adequate food or housing, clinical care is only part of the solution.