Origins of Medical Innovation
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Individual inventors and scientists involved in the early stages of medical technology development play an important role in medical innovation.
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Biomarkers Unbound
June 21, 2012 | Journal Article
Biomarkers may prove important in medicine, but controversy about biomarker patents has increased in recent years.
Special Issue of Health Services Research Links Health Care Research and Health Policy
February 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The articles in this special issue of Health Policy Research illustrate the role RWJF Clinical Scholars play in creating opportunities for linking research and health policy, and provides examples of scholars' work where research and health policy come together to improve health and health care.
Cultural Authority and the Sovereignty of American Medicine
August 1, 2004 | Journal Article
In the current article, Pescosolido and Martin build on the history of medicine presented in Starr's 1982 book, The Social Transformation of Medicine. Specifically, they investigated how scientific medicine achieved professional dominance and sovere ...
New on the Human Capital Section of RWJF.org
October 29, 2009 | Story
Click on the links to read about a forum examining why it takes an average of 17 years for our nation's health care system to widely adopt some promising discoveries, and the latest work of the Initiative on the Future of Nursing.
Sex Cells
September 1, 2010 | Book
Unimaginable until the 20th century, the clinical practice of transferring eggs and sperm from body to body is now the basis of a bustling market.
Survey Takes the Pulse of Health Care in United States and Canada
October 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
Between 2001 and 2003, researchers at the federal National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collaborated with their counterparts at the Health Statistics Division of Statistics Canada to conduct a telephone survey on a broad range of health topics in both countries using the same questionnaire.
Credibility of Research Hinges on Its Independence from the Health Care System
July 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
Between 1999 and 2000, the Association for Health Services Research (AHSR), (now Academy Health) Washington, carried out a project designed to strengthen support for health services research – a field that has helped to identify solutions to problems of cost, quality, and access in the health care delivery system.
Consumer Beliefs and Use of Information about Health Care Cost, Resource Use, and Value
October 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
Increased investments in transparency—particularly of health care cost and resource use information—are meant to address the challenges of rising costs and inefficient care.
Health Care Systems and Alliances Increasingly Have Research Groups
April 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
The Center for Health Management Research at Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz., organized a project to study the nature and extent of research conducted by health care systems and alliances.