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September 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
From 1998 to 2000, researchers at the New Hampshire-Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center under the direction of Stephen J. Bartels, M.D., M.S., tested the Outcomes-Based Treatment Plan.
February 6, 2013 | Story
RWJF Nurse Faculty Scholar finds that stroke survivors who practice Tai Chi may be less likely to fall.
January 5, 2010 | Journal Article
Increasing clinician awareness of racial disparities and improving communication may enhance diabetes care among Black patients. This study evaluated the effect of cultural competency training and performance feedback for primary care clinicians on diabetes care for Black patients.
July 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article looked at whether the use of biologically-based therapies, body-based therapies, or other alternative therapies were associated with a variety of quality-of-life outcomes among respondents age 55 and older.
March 30, 2004 | Program Result Report
The University of Michigan under the direction of William G. Weissert, Ph.D., developed and tested a model for paying for home care based on the risk of four adverse outcomes: death, hospitalization, nursing home use and functional decline.
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.
August 15, 2006 | Journal Article
Chronic kidney disease has been defined in terms of creatinine-based estimated glomerular filtration rate (GFR). This study examines an alternative serum measure of kidney function, cystatin C. The researchers' goal was to determine whether elevated ...
September 1, 2005 | Journal Article
Publicly reporting information stimulates providers' efforts to improve the quality of health care. The availability of mandated, uniform clinical data in all nursing homes and home health agencies has facilitated the public reporting of comparative ...
November 12, 2004 | Program Result Report
Valley Home Care used telemonitoring from 2001 through 2003 to provide "virtual" home health services to older Passaic and Bergen County patients with congestive heart failure and hypertension.
December 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
The Jewish Center for Aged, a 275-bed long-term care facility in Chesterfield, Mo., established a restorative nursing program intended to enhance the safety and comfort of residents.