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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.
February 23, 2012 | Journal Article
By measuring increased driving time to the nearest emergency department (ED), this study examines ED access and adverse patient outcomes or changes in patient health profiles. Using acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients, the study looks at whet ...
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.
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.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
In the University Hospitals of Cleveland's Collaborative Care Unit, nurse practitioners manage the delivery of care and clinical decision-making. This project examined the impact of the collaborative care model on costs and quality of care at the hospital using a randomized controlled trial over a two-year period.
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.
January 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Approximately 3 million children in the United States are hospitalized every year. This study examines children and adolescents' views of the quality of their nursing care while hospitalized and their physical and emotional states.
December 12, 2011 | Program Result Report
Most of the seven health care organizations in this RWJF national program made "tremendous progress" in improving the quality of their care, however none reached the goal of organizational transformation to a fundamentally new health care model.
December 1, 2011 | Program Result Report
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine applied a step-by-step approach used to dramatically reduce aviation fatalities to improve the use of two devices that account for a disproportionate share of medical errors in hospitals.