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January 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
Researchers at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., conducted studies to learn how public and private strategies to contain health care costs have affected the development of new medical technologies, including equipment and pharmaceuticals.
October 1, 1998 | Program Result Report
The National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass., an independent, nonprofit economic research organization, undertook research into a variety of health care cost-containment issues between September 1995 and May 1997.
December 15, 2007 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the University of Southern Maine examined the feasibility of using physician profiling software systems to rank physician specialists by their "cost efficiency".
September 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
AcademyHealth undertook a range of activities from July 2003 through July 2005 to strengthen the field of health services research.
September 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
Victor R. Fuchs, Ph.D., expanded his earlier research by focusing on the allocation of health care resources and the effect on health outcomes, with an emphasis on the over-65 population.
March 30, 2004 | Program Result Report
The University of Massachusetts at Boston's Gerontology Institute conducted a research and demonstration project to encourage the use of low-cost adaptive equipment among older adult home care clients.
July 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
The National Institute for Health Care Management Research and Educational Foundation and the National Committee for Quality Health Care convened a conference to explore ways to accelerate the adoption of evidence-based innovations into medical practice.
March 25, 2013 | Program Result Report
Developing and promoting a rapid-learning health system, in which health information in large databases is analyzed to improve health care - the work of Lynn Etheredge and the Health Insurance Reform Project at George Washington University.
August 22, 2012 | Program Result Report
Project builds online self-tracking guide to advance health and research potential of observations of daily living.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
From 1995 to 1998, researchers at Stanford University looked at how managed care penetration in given geographic areas affected the diffusion and use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a technology that allows physicians to obtain very clear pictures of patients' internal organs and internal structures without invasive procedures.