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Regionalization of Critical Care Medicine Could Achieve Better Outcomes at Reduced Costs

April 1, 1998 | Program Result

IHC Care, an integrated, multi-hospital, nonprofit health care system in Utah, examined the delivery of critical care medicine in a multi-hospital system and developed analytic models to determine the potential impact of regionalization.

Two Reports Profile Best Practices in Chronic Illness and ICU Care

October 1, 2003 | Program Result

The National Coalition on Health Care and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement produced and disseminated two reports profiling model strategies for managing chronic disease and providing care in the intensive care unit.

A Story of Implementing Palliative Care in an Inner-City Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit

May 15, 2008 | Program Result

The Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) at University Hospital in Newark is the sort of place people land without warning: a gunshot wound late at night; a car accident on the way home from the movies.

Developing a Research and Education Agenda to Improve End-of-Life Care in Intensive Care Units

May 15, 2008 | Program Result

With $107,906 from the Special Opportunities Fund of from RWJF's Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care national program, researchers from the University of Washington organized and convened a workshop.

Experts Propose 18 Quality Measures to Improve Care of the Dying in ICUs

June 12, 2008 | Program Result

Members of the RWJF Critical Care End-of-Life Peer Workgroup conducted a series of five studies to develop ways to optimize care of patients dying in intensive care units (ICUs).

Wisdom at Work: Retaining Experienced Nurses

July 1, 2010 | Program Result

RWJF launched Wisdom at Work: Retaining Experienced Nurses in 2006 to build an evidence base for what works to retain experienced nurses in hospital settings and to develop a better understanding of the impact of existing interventions on the work environment for older nurses.

For Some Premature Infants Smaller Hospitals Work Just Fine

March 1, 2003 | Program Result

The Harvard University School of Public Health studied recent changes in obstetric referral patterns, their impact on infant mortality and how these patterns are associated with changes in the market environment.

Introducing Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Services in Seven Intensive Care Units

May 15, 2008 | Program Result

The University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle created an intervention designed to improve the quality of end-of-life care in the intensive care unit (ICU).

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