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November 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
In 1996 and 1998, a range of organizations co-sponsored two multidisciplinary national conferences examining the problem of errors in medicine and health care.
December 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
The 14-member Committee on Children, Health Insurance, and Access to Care - appointed by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) - examined the relationship between health insurance coverage and children's access to health care.
January 1, 2008 | Toolkit
Providing appropriate language services depends on a health care organization¿s ability to accurately screen for language needs among its patients and to identify patients¿ preferred language for health care encounters. The use of standardized practices to collect this information will provide the hospital with an accurate assessment of the need for interpreter services, translated materials and signage.
January 17, 2008 | Evaluation
The evaluation assesses Lead States in Public Health Quality Improvement program in creating a peer network of innovator states to design and implement a process for systematic assessment of local public health agency capacity and performance.
January 1, 2008 | Book
In this chapter, Paul Brodeur, an award-winning journalist and former staff writer for The New Yorker, discusses an approach to organizing services for people with both substance abuse addiction and mental illness.
January 1, 2008 | Program Result Report
Pacific Business Group on Health researchers examined how consumers use patient ratings of physician quality to make selections of personal physicians.
February 6, 2008 | Toolkit
Systems that support delivering appropriate interpreter services to patients.
March 1, 2008 | Program Result Report
The Medical Society of New Jersey designed and tested the components of a physician-recognition/quality-improvement program to encourage quality improvement.
May 15, 2008 | Program Result Report
The Institute for Family-Centered Care and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement convened a meeting of experts designed to develop a set of recommendations for key constituents in health care for advancing patient- and family-centered care.
May 28, 2008 | Program Result Report
The Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation and RWJF co-funded an evaluation of the Building Effective Substance Abuse Treatment Initiative.