Kinder, Gentler Reform Needed to Avoid Physician/Patient Divide
March 21, 2013 | Story
Will patient care suffer from reform’s drive toward efficiency? A physician asks her colleagues to proceed with caution.
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Comparison of Presenting Complaint vs Discharge Diagnosis for Identifying "Nonemergency" Emergency Department Visits
March 20, 2013 | Journal Article
Emergency department complaints on presenting at an emergency department often do not match up with a patient’s diagnosis on discharge.
The Manufacture of Recovery
March 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Paradigms shaping mental health policy have changed over the years; recovery is the most recent dominant paradigm.
Advanced Cognitive Training for Breast Cancer Survivors
October 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Memory training and speed-of-processing training show promise for treating cognitive concerns in breast cancer survivors.
Ethnic/Race Differences in the Attrition of Older American Survey Respondents
February 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The patterns of attrition among elderly participants in health research studies vary significantly by race and ethnicity. As population diversity increases, researchers should consider these differences when assembling survey panels in order to retain minority participants and avoid biased estimates.
2011 President's Message: Force Multipliers
July 1, 2011 | Annual Report/Video
In her 2011 President's Message, Risa Lavizzo-Mourey looks at forces affecting RWJF's work and describes some of the extraordinary members of the RWJF family who are leading a quiet revolution.
Kidney Transplant Patients' Perceptions, Beliefs and Barriers Related to Regular Nephrology Outpatient Visits
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Despite understanding the importance of post-transplant nephrology visits, kidney recipients skipped appointments because they wanted independence from doctors believed they could manage their own bodies and faced numerous post-transplant physical and emotional challenges, according to this study.
Adolescents' Needs for Health Care Privacy
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.
That Skimpy Hospital Gown Patients Hate: Project Seeks to Find an Alternative
July 31, 2009 | Program Result Report
During 2006–2008, a team at North Carolina State University College of Textiles in Raleigh investigated possible designs for a new patient gown and the market opportunity for such a product.
When Patients Choose Faith Over Medicine
January 10, 2005 | Journal Article
How physicians interpret and respond to medical conflicts that involve religion was the focus of the current investigation. Individual, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 21 physicians across a number of religious affiliations and the si ...