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PatientsLikeMe Calls For Researcher Participation in New Open Research Exchange™ Platform

May 20, 2013 | News Release

PatientsLikeMe names scientific advisory board for world's first open-participation research platform for patient-centered health outcome measures

Nurse Practitioners and Primary Care

May 15, 2013 | Issue Brief

Nurse practitioners can help meet the growing need for primary care, if state and federal policy-makers remove barriers that limit their ability to provide, and get paid for, a wider range of preventive services and acute care.

Susan Dentzer: Toward a Healthy America

May 9, 2013 | Culture of Health Post

These reports provide an important starting point for the next round of serious health care reforms.

Turn-Turn-Turning the Tables on a Pervasive Problem in Long-Term Care

May 6, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post

Yap and her co-investigators developed a cost-effective, nurse-led intervention that aimed to reduce the prevalence of pressure ulcers in long-term care facilities through a musical prompting system.

Adequate and Stable Nurse Staffing Is Key to Improving Care for Heart Failure Patients

May 1, 2013 | Story

New study finds nurse staffing plays important role in implementation of measures that improve care for heart failure patients in rural hospitals.

Bending the Curve: Person-Centered Health Care Reform

April 29, 2013 | Report

Experts recommend solutions for closing the gaps in quality and efficiency of health care.

Introducing a New Way to Measure Health Care Quality

April 18, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post

With support from Pioneer, NCQA and Archimedes, Inc., will develop and test the Global Cardiovascular Risk (GCVR) score over the coming months.

A Bipartisan Rx for Patient-Centered Care and System-Wide Cost Containment

April 18, 2013 | Report

The Bipartisan Policy Center recommends ways to contain health care spending while improving the quality and affordability of care.

Recent Research About Nursing, April 2013

April 10, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post

New studies focus on nurses’ confidence in hospital safety programs and nurse-led care for asthma patients.

NCQA To Test Pioneering Way to Measure Quality, Foster Wider Use of Prevention Strategies

April 9, 2013 | News Release

NCQA and RWJF announced a new approach to measuring quality that will provide a more sensitive gauge of risk factors and make it possible to create clinically meaningful incentives for providers to improve disease prevention.

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