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Is More Medical Care Better Medical Care?

March 1, 2003 | Program Result Report

Between 1997 and 2001 Investigators at the Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical Center, Hanover, N.H, conducted two research projects that examined how the increasing availability of health care technology and specialist physicians influence the delivery of health care and health outcomes.

Systems that Track Case Outcomes May Prove a Hard Sell in Bare-Budget Times

July 1, 2001 | Program Result Report

Family Service America developed both a bi-weekly newsletter on child and family issues and a database to track and evaluate outcomes, allowing family service agencies to compare their performances and demonstrate their effectiveness in the field.

Are Children of Moderately Low Birth Weight at Increased Risk for Poor Health?

July 1, 2006 | Journal Article

Recent research on health risks associated with low birth weight has focused on very low birth weight as opposed to moderately low birth weight (MLBW) children. This study asks whether MLBW children also experience ongoing vulnerability to poor health or whether their rates of morbidity are comparable to the rates for the general population.

Why Pediatricians Need Lawyers to Keep Children Healthy

July 1, 2004 | Journal Article

Pediatricians recognize that social and nonmedical factors influence child health and that there are many government programs and laws designed to provide for children's basic needs. However, gaps in implementation result in denials of services, lea ...

Increasing Interpretation Through Policy Change

August 11, 2009 | Story

Seattle Children's Hospital incorporated language services metrics into the hospital dashboard and changed hospital policy to require interpretation two times a day for patients.

Improving the Health of Babies Born in Baltimore Through a Leadership Development Program

August 27, 2009 | Program Result Report

Babies Born Healthy Leadership in Action Program sought to improve birth outcomes in Baltimore and helped actual and potential leaders develop leadership skills while working together on the problem of infant mortality.

Evaluation of HMO-School Partnerships to Improve Children's Health Shows Some Improvement

October 1, 2002 | Program Result Report

From 1999 to 2001, researchers at Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Kaiser Foundation Research Institute evaluated two projects that were part of the Kaiser Permanente Cares for Kids Demonstration Projects.

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