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Special Issue of Health Services Research Links Health Care Research and Health Policy
February 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The articles in this special issue of Health Policy Research illustrate the role RWJF Clinical Scholars play in creating opportunities for linking research and health policy, and provides examples of scholars' work where research and health policy come together to improve health and health care.
Health Care for Prisoners in Haiti
September 21, 2011 | Journal Article
An adequate prison health care program is necessary for human rights and public health in Haiti.
The Disclosure Dilemma--Large-Scale Adverse Events
September 2, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines the ethical responsibilities of health care facilities following large-scale adverse events in the medical setting. These events range in severity and scope and pose difficult ethical questions about whether and how to disclose the adverse event to patients.
Moving Reform to the Bedside
June 7, 2010 | Journal Article
Physicians can help reshape the health care system while fulfilling their moral and professional duties to the public.
Computers, Conversation, Utilization and Commoditization
May 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Today's radiologists face professional problems, including commoditization of radiology services and an unsustainable growth rate of advanced imaging use, which are linked by a decline in radiologist-clinician communication. The result is the isolation of radiologists and a change in their professional role.
Toward a 21st-Century Health Care System
April 7, 2009 | Journal Article
This article presents eight recommendations to improve quality and lower costs of the U.S. health care system. The recommendations were created by the FRESH-thinking project--a series of workshops attended by physicians, health insurance executives, business leaders, economists, health policy experts, and hospital administrators.
Tracking the Changing Provider Landscape
November 1, 2001 | Journal Article
Using an established taxonomy of health networks and systems, these authors examined whether there was a nationwide trend away from the vertical and horizontal arrangements that serve as the backbone to organized delivery systems.
Trends in the Black-White Life Expectancy Gap in the United States
March 1, 2007 | Journal Article
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The Political Management of Managed Care
June 1, 2007 | Journal Article
Explaining Variations in State Health Maintenance Organization Regulations
The Patient as a Policy Factor
May 1, 2006 | Journal Article
One of the most striking changes in health care policy-making over the past 40 years has been the growing attentiveness to the voices of patients. This article traces the history of the consumer/survivor movement and analyzes its impact on the polic ...