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Home Mental Health Care For Gunshot Victims
RWJF Health & Society Scholar Jooyoung Lee advocates home-based mental health care for gunshot victims to recover from the lingering effects of their injuries.
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Increasing Life Expectancy Could Undercut Social Security Viability
Americans’ life expectancy is increasing more quickly than official government forecasts, RWJF Health & Society Scholar Samir Soneji finds.
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Adherence to Chronic Disease Medications among New York City Medicaid Participants
June 22, 2012 | Journal Article
Dispensing more medication at one fill may increase adherence and improve health outcomes.
Positive and Negative Spillovers of the Health Disparities Collaboratives in Federally Qualified Health Centers
December 1, 2010 | Journal Article
A study to assess the unintended effects of quality improvement interventions found that the Health Disparities Collaborative intervention had effects beyond what it intended, and that the unintended effects were more positive than negative.
California Hospitals Serving Large Minority Populations Were More Likely Than Others To Employ Ambulance Diversion
August 1, 2012 | Journal Article
It is well documented that racial and ethnic minority populations disproportionately use hospital emergency departments for safety-net care. But what is not known is whether emergency department crowding is disproportionately affecting minority popu ...
Glucose Variability and Mortality in Patients Hospitalized
July 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Critically ill patients (other than heart attack patients) may be more susceptible to the effects of fluctuating glucose levels.
lmpact of FDA Drug Risk Communications on Health Care Utilization and Health Behaviors
June 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Drug risks are often found after market approval. This article reviews prior literature on how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) communicates risks to the general public and providers, and its impact on drug utilization, health outcomes, a ...
A Phased Cluster-randomized Trial of Rural Hospitals Testing a Quality Collaborative to Improve Heart Failure Care
May 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Nurse staffing stability associated with improved performance measures in heart failure care in rural hospitals according to this study.
What Drives Frequent Emergency Department Use in an Integrated Health System? National Data From the Veterans Health Administration
April 11, 2013 | Journal Article
The sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with frequent ED use within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) are examined in this study.
Dissemination and Implementation: INQRI's Potential Impact
April 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Read the perspectives of principal investigators from INQRI-funded implementation sites: strategies, challenges, successes, and lessons learned.
Degree of Disability and Patterns of Caregiving among Older Americans with Congestive Heart Failure
January 1, 2008 | Journal Article
This article examined the impact of congestive heart failure (CHF) and other heart problems on the experience of disability among older adults.
Answering the Call to Action
June 1, 2012 | Report
In 2007, the Mayor’s Task Force on Teen Pregnancy released "A Call to Action; Helping New Haven Teens Avoid Unintended Pregnancy" with findings and recommendations on how to decrease the teen pregnancy rate in New Haven. After the release of this do ...