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March 1, 2004 | Journal Article
The authors recently found documentation discrepancies in 60 percent of resident daily-progress notes with respect to patient weight, medications, or vascular lines. To what extent information systems can decrease such discrepancies is unknown. The ...
September 1, 2006 | Program Result
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
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
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
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.
January 1, 1999 | Program Result
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.
December 15, 2007 | Program Result
Researchers at the University of Southern Maine examined the feasibility of using physician profiling software systems to rank physician specialists by their "cost efficiency".
October 1, 1998 | Program Result
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.
April 1, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
OpenNotes is an effort to convince patients, families, and clinicians to share openly any and, most often, all material that pertains to a patient’s care. The goal is to improve communication and help patients engage more actively in their care.
January 24, 2013 | Story
Campbell’s most important work as a clinical scholar was on the surgical treatment of pyloric stenosis (a narrowing of the lower part of the stomach).