October 1, 2005
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Program Result
The University of Michigan Institute for Social Research conducted a national survey on Americans' knowledge, attitudes, values and behavior regarding genetic testing and compared results to public opinion surveys from 1990.
December 1, 2003
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Program Result
The Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center refined and evaluated the Community Resource Connection, an administrative system that identified health care needs among elderly patients and linked them to appropriate services.
March 1, 2002
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Program Result
The National Mental Illness Screening Project, in collaboration with National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, conducted the first National Alcohol Screening Day, which was held April 8, 1999.
November 1, 2001
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Program Result
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Bethesda, Md., convened a panel to recommend ways to promote universal hearing screening programs for newborns.
July 31, 2008
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Program Result
Sharon Levy, MD, and colleagues at the Children's Hospital Corp. in Boston analyzed the features of home drug-testing kits for adolescents available through the Internet.
August 28, 2008
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Program Result
The University of California, Berkeley, worked to expand the 2006 Binational Health Week, chiefly by helping local volunteer groups to provide more health screenings for underserved populations and by convening key officials on health issues.
February 10, 2007
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Program Result
The Ebenezer Baptist Church Dollars for Scholars created its Bridging the Gap Project to provide free HIV testing and counseling and care coordination to people living with HIV/AIDS.
April 5, 2007
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Program Result
The Alcohol Research Center at the University of Connecticut Health Center conducted a study of the practicality and effectiveness of a low-cost intervention to address risky drinking by patients attending managed care clinics.
December 29, 2007
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Program Result
Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston surveyed primary care physicians to ascertain their current practices regarding drug testing adolescents, compare those practices with professional guidelines.
November 1, 2009
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Journal Article
This article examines prenatal ultrasound use in the United States between 1995 and 2006. There is no professional consensus on the appropriate use of ultrasounds during pregnancies considered low-risk, and little is known about national trends of prenatal ultrasound use.