Scholar’s Website Prepares Patients to Make Complex Medical Decisions
February 11, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
PrepareForYourCare.org is a free, easy-to-use online resource that guides patients through all the steps of advance care planning.
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Human Capital News Roundup: Electronic health records, advance care planning, myths about 'death panels,' and more.
January 17, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Around the country, print, broadcast and online media outlets are covering the groundbreaking work of RWJF leaders, scholars, fellows and grantees.
Advancing Measurement of Equity and Patient-Centered Care to Improve Health Care Quality
January 12, 2012 | Program Result Report
Advancing Measurement of Equity and Patient-Centered Care to Improve Health Care Quality was a targeted solicitation for proposals to expand understanding of how to make health care both more patient-centered and more equitable.
Nurse Leader's Seminal Research Addresses Pain Management for Older People
August 29, 2011 | Story
RWJF Executive Nurse Fellow Alum Keela Herr is exploring ways to ensure research she and others conducted is put into practice, so fewer seniors will suffer.
Physician Use of Advance Care Planning Discussions in a Diverse Hospitalized Population
July 18, 2010 | Journal Article
This article presents a study of advance care planning among minority hospital patients and physicians. The authors interviewed patients to find out what factors might encourage patients and physicians to engage in advance planning discussions.
Death is Certain, Strategy Isn't
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
RWJF spent two decades working on end-of-life issues in the United States. Through multiple partnerships and collaborations, the field of end-of-life care underwent significant change and improvement.
Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care
October 15, 2009 | Program Result Report
Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care was a program to identify, promote and institutionalize care practices that allow seriously ill people and their families to approach the end of life in physical, psychological, spiritual and emotional comfort.
Key Issues in Health Reform
August 20, 2009 | Issue Brief
Proposed health reform legislation aims to shake up the status quo in the delivery of health care and is raising questions about the role of the federal government, how to lower costs, and how to take care of the most seriously ill.
National Cancer Pain Initiative Resource Center Supports State-Level Initiatives as They Implement Pain Management Practices
January 28, 2009 | Program Result Report
Faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health established the Resource Center, to support the growth and development of State Pain Initiatives.
West Virginia Clarifies End-of-Life Care Laws
June 9, 2008 | Program Result Report
The West Virginia Initiative to Improve End-of-Life Care encouraged a process of policy change to aid physicians in treating patients at the end of their lives according to patients' wishes and to help patients to make those wishes clear.