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March 25, 2013 | Program Result Report
From 2008 to 2012, Health Care Without Harm worked to embed best practices for environmental sustainability into health care and to create a business plan for Practice Greenhealth, which has hospital and business members.
September 26, 2012 | Journal Article
Using observation units in hospitals to provide care to certain patients can be more efficient than admitting them to the hospital and can result in shorter lengths-of-stay and lower costs.
July 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The United Hospital Fund of New York worked to develop, validate and implement a research technique called small-area analysis, used to identify communities with high rates of unnecessary hospitalization and limited access to primary care.
June 1, 2009 | Journal Article
A patient care plan, including current fall risk status and appropriate interventions, should be made available to the patient, the patient's health care team and family to reduce falls.
April 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The emphasis that hospitals place on cutting-edge technology and niche specialty services to attract physicians and patients has set the stage for health care's most recent competitive trend: an increased level of targeted, geographic service expansion to "capture" well-insured patients.
March 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
An effort to help enhance the quality and equality of U.S. health care.
September 28, 2012 | Program Result Report
An analysis of the differences in the way 10 health insurance plans in Massachusetts covered the medical costs associated with serious diseases.
August 1, 2006 | Journal Article
There is a lack of data comparing the quality of care given by pediatricians who mainly practice in hospitals with the quality of care given by those who practice in the community. The purpose of this study was to assess whether pediatric hospitalis ...
October 1, 2005 | Journal Article
This study examined whether strategies designed to increase patients' use of primary care services resulted in decreases or increases in the use and cost of other kinds of health services.
March 1, 2011 | Report
An effort to help enhance the quality and equality of U.S. health care.