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June 12, 2013 | Report
A brief from the Dartmouth Atlas Project examines how the care that chronically ill patients received at the end of life changed among hospitals and regions from 2007 to 2010.
June 10, 2013 | Program Result Report
The Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project promotes performance measurement as a tool to increase the transparency and accountability of the health care system, and advocates for more input from health care consumers and purchasers.
National Program
Program to help hospital and physician organizations dramatically improve patient outcomes by pursuing perfection in all of their major care processes.
April 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Interdisciplinary research teams create synergies to solve problems and improve health care.
July 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The United Hospital Fund of New York worked to develop, validate and implement a research technique called small-area analysis, used to identify communities with high rates of unnecessary hospitalization and limited access to primary care.
March 25, 2013 | Program Result Report
From 2008 to 2012, Health Care Without Harm worked to embed best practices for environmental sustainability into health care and to create a business plan for Practice Greenhealth, which has hospital and business members.
September 28, 2012 | Program Result Report
An analysis of the differences in the way 10 health insurance plans in Massachusetts covered the medical costs associated with serious diseases.
September 26, 2012 | Journal Article
Using observation units in hospitals to provide care to certain patients can be more efficient than admitting them to the hospital and can result in shorter lengths-of-stay and lower costs.
June 1, 2009 | Journal Article
A patient care plan, including current fall risk status and appropriate interventions, should be made available to the patient, the patient's health care team and family to reduce falls.
April 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The emphasis that hospitals place on cutting-edge technology and niche specialty services to attract physicians and patients has set the stage for health care's most recent competitive trend: an increased level of targeted, geographic service expansion to "capture" well-insured patients.