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February 24, 2011 | Report
The report compares the rates of elective, or "preference-sensitive," procedures across regions and suggests that differences in clinicians' personal beliefs and opinions contribute to the variation.
June 12, 2012 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the Urban Institute studied whether patients use high-volume hospitals for procedures and services where volume is associated with outcomes, and whether there are disparities between minorities and Whites in using such hospitals.
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A study of the relationship of hospital characteristics to compliance with uterovaginal prolapse treatment recommendations found that although high-volume, teaching and private hospitals had better compliance rates than disproportionate share and public hospitals, compliance rates were low in all hospital types.
October 6, 2009 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry estimated the impact that eliminating disparities in health care between racial and ethnic minorities and whites would have on minority health.
January 31, 2008 | Story
Black pioneered research on designing ways to open the blood-brain barrier, enabling chemotherapeutic drugs to be delivered directly into a tumor.
February 1, 2007 | Program Result Report
The Harvard School of Public Health and Dartmouth Medical School examined data from 29 million Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in the Medicare fee-for-service program from 1992 though 2001.