September 2, 1998
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Journal Article
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Minority Medical Education Program (MMEP), a large, eight-site program that seeks to improve the medical school acceptance rate of its participants.
September 1, 1998
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Program Result Report
As the cost of long-term care for the disabled and the elderly continued to rise during the early 1990s, policymakers and others sought new ways to control costs while maintaining or increasing satisfaction among those served.
September 1, 1998
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Program Result Report
Investigators at the University of Rhode Island developed and assessed an instrument based on the Transtheoretical Model of behavioral change.
September 1, 1998
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Program Result Report
The Park Ridge Center, Chicago, held a one-day seminar in 1997 in which experts, practitioners, and lay people explored the role of rituals in End-of-Life care in institutionalized settings.
September 1, 1998
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Program Result Report
From 1994 to 1997, staff at the California Association for Health Services (CAHSAH) constructed a uniform patient-level home health care database and developed a comprehensive patient classification system for home health care services. They also analyzed the collected data.
September 1, 1998
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Program Result Report
The National Committee for Quality Assurance convened a work group of experts in performance measurement and information technology who examined research literature, surveyed health plan information system capabilities, and interviewed 60 experts in the field.
September 1, 1998
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Program Result Report
During 1994 and 1995, researchers at the Western Consortium for Public Health explored the impact of reductions in Medicare and Medicaid spending on the levels of uncompensated care that hospitals provide to the medically indigent.
August 31, 1998
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Program Result Report
During 1997 and 1998, The Alliance for Health Reform produced a series of four forums on the topic of vulnerable populations and managed care.
August 31, 1998
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Program Result Report
SmokeFree Educational Services, Inc., New York, carried out a project to purchase a smokefree advertising campaign on the roofs of New York City taxi cabs.
August 31, 1998
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Program Result Report
Brandeis University's Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare planned, organized and conducted a conference on financing and delivering care for the poor and uninsured. They also published a book of papers on the same topic.