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National Program
Initiative to reduce emergency department visits, increase reliance on primary care providers, improve adherence to clinical protocols, and improve patient knowledge of and compliance with therapeutic regimens.
August 30, 2010 | Program Result
Mountain Health Choices promised additional benefits to low-income families who agreed to some basic rules designed to increase personal responsibility and strengthen their relationship to a medical home.
October 29, 2009 | Program Result
Mercer Human Resource Consulting joined with a local union and a health system in Atlantic City, N.J., to pilot test a new primary care delivery model called the Ambulatory-Intensive Caring Unit.
December 1, 2006 | Program Result
Baylor College of Medicine collected information on emergency department pediatric asthma visits and studied the impact of an intervention to educate ED pediatric asthma patients and parents in managing the disease.
June 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Physicians need a method of quantifying the risks and benefits of treatment for patient subgroups (i.e., those with different health profiles). This article describes the development of the Potential for Benefit Scale (PBS), a composite measure of potential treatment response.
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Children in low-income families living far from an immunization provider can miss basic vaccinations because parents lack their own transportation. This study examined how the availability of immunization providers affected vaccination rates among low-income children in Washington, D.C.
October 1, 2009 | Program Result
One Economy Corporation designed, launched and marketed a Web site, DC Healthcare for You, designed to help low-income residents navigate the Washington health care system and gain access to information on health.
April 1, 2006 | Program Result
Project SHARED developed a community-based project to enable chronically ill, low-income people in two inner-city neighborhoods to better manage their own health and to engage in behavior change that supported health.
December 1, 2006 | Program Result
The Managing Pediatric Asthma: Emergency Department Demonstration Program developed and tested emergency department-based systems to improve pediatric asthma care.
December 1, 2006 | Program Result
Emergency department staff at the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu and three partner institutions instructed pediatric asthma patients and their parents in asthma management.