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October 15, 2009 | Program Result
Rewarding Results: Aligning Payments with High-Quality Health Care was a national program of RWJF and California HealthCare Foundation that tested the use of financial incentives to improve the quality of health care.
August 16, 2004 | Program Result
Wake Forest University School of Medicine developed three survey instruments to measure patient trust in their physicians and subsequently used these instruments to examine how that trust changes after HMOs disclose the financial incentives they offer physicians.
October 1, 2004 | Program Result
Four organizations planned projects to demonstrate the use of financial incentives to reward providers for delivering high-quality health care.
August 1, 2003 | Program Result
In this 1998-2001 project, Terry S. Field, DSc, and researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., evaluated how a change in physicians' compensation method in the Fallon Healthcare System correlated with the provision of care for hypertension, diabetes mellitus and congestive heart failure.
May 17, 2012 | Program Result
Researchers at Emory University Department of Emergency Medicine analyzed data from two Atlanta emergency departments to ascertain barriers to achieving standard metrics of performance for treatment of patients with pneumonia.
March 1, 2005 | Program Result
In 2002, the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine sponsored a two-day conference to address policy and management concerns about the quality and cost of health services.
July 31, 2008 | Program Result
Starting in February 1995, investigators at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Seattle, conducted the Physician Compensation Research Project.
December 16, 2011 | Program Result
Interdisciplinary research teams at four institutions examined nursing's role in - and contribution to - medication management in hospital and transitional care settings.
May 20, 2011 | Program Result
Researchers at the University of Southern Maine studied the state's Pathways to Excellence system of reporting on health care quality. Practices that filed reports had higher scores on six indicators of health care quality than those that did not.
May 18, 2011 | Program Result
Creating a set of measures that would make the connection between what nurses do and the quality of care patients receive and studying their implementation in hospitals.