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December 1, 2003 | Program Result
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hosted a meeting of child health experts to develop an agenda for a national conference on the implementation of guidelines for providing health care services to children with special health care needs.
January 1, 2002 | Program Result
St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, Calif., assessed the feasibility of enhancing clinical decision-making using integrated management information systems and clinical guidelines.
June 4, 2008 | Toolkit
Hospitals that participated in Expecting Success reported monthly data on 20 cardiac care quality indicators, all analyzed by patient race, ethnicity and language.
April 21, 2009 | Program Result
The National Committee for Quality Assurance created, tested and disseminated tools to measure practice systems: formal processes and information systems used to ensure high-quality care and prevention of chronic illness.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Most larger U.S. medical practice groups have some strategy in place to treat patients' tobacco dependence. But few have instituted a broad, multistrategy effort as recommended by Public Health Service guidelines, according to this survey-based study.
National Program
Expecting Success was a national program aimed at improving the quality of cardiac care while reducing racial, ethnic and language disparities.
National Program
Initiative to increase the number of hospitals that have the capability to provide quality palliative care; create sufficient momentum that hospital-based palliative care becomes a standard practice in comprehensive patient care.
February 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
Paper explores the potential impact of comparative effectiveness research and looks at implications for quality of care and health outcomes.
March 1, 2005 | Program Result
From 1988 through 2003, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) supported the Development and Implementation of a Quality Improvement System for Home Health Care. The effort comprised six projects and was designed to improve the quality of home health, long-term and ambulatory care, and to study methods to improve health care quality in these settings.
January 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This paper reviews evidence published since 2000 about practices' ability to redesign care in accord with the Chronic Care Model (CCM) and the impacts of such redesign on clinical care and health outcomes. Implications for practice and research are discussed.