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May 8, 2013 | Feature
Newly released federal data shows pricing for common inpatient procedures varies greatly, and allows consumers to see how hospital charges in their area compare nationally and regionally for the same procedure.
June 10, 2013 | Program Result Report
The Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project promotes performance measurement as a tool to increase the transparency and accountability of the health care system, and advocates for more input from health care consumers and purchasers.
September 9, 2010 | Program Result Report
The National Quality Forum convened a steering committee that created a framework for evaluating the efficiency of health care over time and identified gaps in current health care quality measurement.
November 18, 2009 | Program Result Report
Tanya Ott, a traditional public radio station journalist, and Connie Kohler, Dr.P.H., a professor who produces radio soap operas for an African-American audience, teamed up to take on the stigma and social cost of mental illness in the Bible Belt state of Alabama.
November 18, 2009 | Program Result Report
New Hampshire Public Television (NHPTV) built on the awareness of an audience drawn to a previous NHPTV project, the 2004 broadcast of a program called "The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's," and its related outreach throughout the state.
July 8, 2009 | Program Result Report
Developing a business model for measuring and reporting quality
July 29, 2009 | Program Result Report
During 2006 and 2007, the Institute of Medicine convened an interdisciplinary committee to recommend an organizational framework for assessing evidence on the clinical effectiveness of health care services available to consumers.
April 16, 2008 | Program Result Report
In 2006, the National Academy of Sciences - Institute of Medicine sponsored four public workshops across the country to engage key policy-makers and stakeholders in a discussion of the state of emergency care in the United States.
October 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The National Coalition on Health Care and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement produced and disseminated two reports profiling model strategies for managing chronic disease and providing care in the intensive care unit.
September 9, 2011 | Program Result Report
From 2004 to 2010, the National Partnership for Women and Families in Washington organized a broad-based network of consumer advocates at the grassroots and national levels to bring the consumer perspective to health care quality issues.
May 24, 2011 | Program Result Report
The National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO) worked to improve state reporting on the quality of hospital-based and other health care and coordinated state and national efforts to standardize reports on the quality of health care.