January 1, 2005
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Program Result Report
Howard K. Rabinowitz published Caring for the Country: Family Doctors in Small Rural Towns, which profiled 10 program graduates working in rural areas and discussed both the challenges and the career satisfaction they enjoy.
August 16, 2004
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Program Result Report
The Kaiser Foundation Research Institute tested a process designed to match patients with a primary care physician of their choosing and subsequently examined the effects of that process on patients' satisfaction with and trust in their physicians.
February 1, 2001
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Program Result Report
In 1998, Health Systems Research, Washington, held a conference on qualitative research in health services research.
August 1, 2000
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Program Result Report
The Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) developed a supplement to the Journal of General Internal Medicine on the role of the physician in managed care, which was published in January 1999.
September 1, 2000
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Program Result Report
From 1994 through 1997, the American Medical Association conducted a series of national surveys of residency program directors and graduating residents about the career opportunities of resident physicians.
September 1, 2000
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Program Result Report
From 1996 to 1999, researchers with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School assessed the long-term efficacy and benefit-cost of a brief intervention for problem drinkers.
April 1, 2008
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Program Result Report
Renaissance Health convened a small group of primary care innovators who have independently abandoned traditional primary care practices in favor of creating practices based on new alternative models.
November 28, 2007
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Program Result Report
Due to his overall poor health, William Hewitt of Center, Texas, a 68-year-old retired manager of a chicken processing plant, needed to have his teeth removed in a hospital, at a cost well beyond his means. This sidebar recounts how the East Texas Health Access Network arranged for Hewitt to have his teeth removed and get new dentures, for out-of-pocket costs of just over $1,000.
November 28, 2007
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Program Result Report
The West Virginia lead agency was the Center for Rural Health Development, a nonprofit organization created in 1994 to provide leadership in the state on rural health issues.
November 28, 2007
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Program Result Report
The ability of the Louisiana project to help people after the 2005 hurricanes Katrina and Rita added to its value, according to Michael Beachler, the national program director of the Southern Rural Access Program.