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April 18, 2011 | Program Result
The overarching objective of the Dartmouth Atlas is to report local and regional variation in the performance of U.S. health care to policymakers and health systems and to provide interpretation of unwarranted variation that can guide policy.
January 1, 2011 | Toolkit
This resource contains instructions for the Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system and how it is used for the purpose of symptom assessment and management. It is a multiple software/hardware system that consists mainly in a telephone calling system ...
January 23, 2009 | Program Result
Between September 2005 and December 2007, Public Health Informatics Institute staff conducted telephone interviews and met with diverse stakeholders involved with childhood obesity to learn about their needs for information.
July 1, 2000 | Program Result
From 1997 to 1999, efforts by coalitions of businesses, health systems and providers in Muncie, Ind. Topeka, Kan. and Milwaukee worked to improve local health care using the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care.
March 1, 2007 | Evaluation
This report explores the goals of RWJF's Health e-Technologies Initiative: Building the Science of e-Health (HETI), which included expanding the body of knowledge about the efficacy, costs, cost effectiveness and overall quality of e-health applications currently in use for health behavior change and chronic disease management, and the expansion of the body of knowledge about how to evaluate, compare and improve them.
November 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
This paper reviews the evolution of QI initiatives, the current evidence about whether QI interventions work, QI's promise for the future, and how to help it find success in health care.
June 25, 2012 | Program Result
Improving the Science of Continuous Quality Improvement Program and Evaluation funded nine teams of researchers to address a core question within health care environments: "How will we know that change is an improvement?"
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A study evaluating communication between local health departments (LHDs) and health care professionals in Kentucky during the outbreak of influenza H1N1 found that communication between LHDs and physicians and pharmacists was inadequate.
April 15, 2011 | Program Result
No longer are Health Impact Assessment practitioners handicapped by a lack of standards and practical guidance - they have a new website: http://hiaguide.org
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
For almost a decade, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has supported major efforts in enhancing the field of public health services and systems research (PHSSR) as part of their larger efforts toward advancing the science and practice of pub ...