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February 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Alzheimers researchers face the ethical question of how to obtain consent from patients whose decision-making is impaired. This study compared the ability of Alzheimers patients to provide their own consent to their capacity to appoint a research proxy.
November 23, 2009 | Story
Advocates say media portrayals of nurses matter.
December 1, 2010 | Journal Article
A study of adolescents' privacy preferences in a health care setting found that adolescents value psychological, social, physical and informational privacy, and recommended that providers consider all aspects of privacy when caring for adolescents.
February 23, 2012 | Report
The Urban Institute produces a series of reports documenting coverage trends across the country.
December 1, 2004 | Program Result
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, sponsored a two-day conference designed to discuss patient advocacy as an emerging field of public health.
January 31, 2008 | Story
For David T. Grande, MD, MPA, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars provided a bridge to academia.
February 25, 2013 | News Release
PatientsLikeMe has been awarded a $1.9 million grant from RWJF to create the world's first open-participation research platform for the development of patient-centered health outcome measures.
February 25, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Jamie Heywood, co-founder of PatientsLikeMe, and Paul Tarini, senior program officer of the Pioneer Team at RWJF, share their views on creating an open-access platform to develop measures that matter to patients.
May 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article examines the relationship between depression and perceived communication quality between patients and doctors. Interactions between physicians and patients are an important component of health care quality, and little is known about whether depression influences patients' perceptions of communication quality.
February 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Inappropriate patterns of antibiotic use are highly prevalent among injection drug users. This qualitative study constitutes initial research towards developing an intervention to improve antibiotic use behaviors. The study recruited focus group participants from syringe exchange facilities in Philadelphia.