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Charting Nursing's Future
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Charting Nursing's Future policy briefs focus on nurses and nursing, with the most recent issues in the series addressing recommendations from the Institute of Medicine's landmark Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health report.
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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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Linkages between Nursing and the Quality of Patient Care
April 1, 2013 | Journal Article
An expansive body of literature reflects the state of the science—and the increased importance of INQRI’s goal to measure and enhance nursing’s contribution to the quality of patient care.
Measuring Nurses' Impact on Health Care Quality
April 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Four Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) teams summarize their work to close the gaps in measuring quality of nursing care.
Facilitators and Challenges to Conducting Interdisciplinary Research
April 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Interdisciplinary research teams create synergies to solve problems and improve health care.
The Factors Associated with High-Quality Communication for Critically Ill Children
March 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Communication with family members about prognosis and goals of care often occur close to death for patients in the pediatric intensive care unit.
Assessing Quality Improvement in Health Care
March 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Gaps in the role of theory to enhance the practice of QI research are explored in this research.
April Issue of Health Affairs Focuses on Patient Safety and Health Care Quality
April 7, 2011 | Journal Article
In a special issue of Health Affairs, researchers address the many challenges that face our nation's health care system as we look to close the gaps in quality and safety of care.
Measuring Racial Disparities in the Quality of Ambulatory Diabetes Care
December 1, 2010 | Journal Article
A study to measure and report racial disparities in ambulatory diabetes care across groups of physicians who treat ambulatory diabetes patients found that a major source of disparities is the low quality of the physician-hospital networks from which Black patients receive care.
Hospital Staffing, Organization, and Quality of Care
February 1, 2002 | Journal Article
The International Hospital Outcomes Study was conducted to determine the effects of hospital organizational support and nurse staffing on nurses' dissatisfaction with their jobs, nurse burnout and nurse reports of quality of patient care.
Influence of Patients' Socioeconomic Status on Clinical Management Decisions
January 1, 2008 | Journal Article
This article investigated the role of socioeconomic status in physicians' clinical management of patients.
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.