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April 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The University of California studied access to primary care in selected communities to assess whether hospitalization rates for certain chronic conditions typically managed by outpatient care are valid and useful measures of community access to care.
March 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
An effort to help enhance the quality and equality of U.S. health care.
November 22, 2011 | Program Result Report
Alabama was one of 12 states participating in Advancing Recovery: State and Provider Partnerships for Quality Addiction Treatment. The state joined with three adolescent service providers to implement continuing care as their evidence-based practice.
April 10, 2007 | Book
Transforming Care at the Bedside
May 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
From 1988 to 1999, staff at Duke University Medical Center designed and conducted a randomized controlled clinical trial to evaluate the nonmedical outcomes for patients with coronary artery disease who received either coronary artery bypass graft surgery or percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.
October 1, 2005 | Journal Article
This study examined whether strategies designed to increase patients' use of primary care services resulted in decreases or increases in the use and cost of other kinds of health services.
June 15, 2011 | Journal Article
Patients with time-sensitive conditions are adversely affected when the nearest emergency department is temporarily not available.
November 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the University of Maryland studied the impact of nursing staff levels on patient outcomes in California hospitals for the period 1996 and 2000.
August 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Although geographic access to emergency departments has deteriorated in only a small number of communities, these communities tended to be poor, unemployed or Hispanic, suggesting an increasing disparity in access to emergency care.
July 17, 2007 | Journal Article
Reduce fatigue-related errors, but may raise risk by increasing transfers of responsibility for patients.