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December 1, 2005 | Journal Article
The authors conducted a cross-sectional survey of 466 parents to determine whether physician style affected (1) parents' proclivity for using antibiotics to treat children's acute otitis media (AOM) and (2) parents' rating of care by the physician. ...
October 1, 2004 | Journal Article
Quadagno critiques the assessment put forth by Paul Starr in his treatise The Social Transformation of Medicine (1982) on how physicians gained political, social, and economic capital. Quadagno asserts that Starr paid insufficient attention to the r ...
December 1, 2004 | Journal Article
This study examined racial differences in cardiac catheterization rates and reviewed whether patients' beliefs or other variables were associated with observed disparities. The authors performed a prospective observational cohort study of 1,045 whit ...
January 1, 2008 | Journal Article
Under-representing in medical research.
May 1, 2007 | Journal Article
Severity Reduction
July 27, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The boards also answered questions about how they handled the violations. Fifty-six percent of the boards said physician misconduct online led to serious disciplinary outcomes—license to practice was either restricted, suspended, or revoked. My coll ...
July 11, 2012 | Program Result
Health Care for All, a Boston-based consumer advocacy organization, worked to give consumers a voice in implementing state health reform legislation that expanded insurance coverage in Massachusetts, and in reforming its payment systems.
May 29, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), NPR and the Harvard School of Public Health commissioned a poll to better understand Americans’ experiences and attitudes related to the cost and quality of their medical care. Released on May 21st, Sick in ...
May 10, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Around the country, print, broadcast and online media outlets are covering the groundbreaking work of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) scholars, fellows and grantees. Some recent examples: Although losing a sense of smell is associated with the ...
May 4, 2012 | News Release
HHS Agencies Can Now Use ARCHeS Tool To Conduct Large Scale Analyses To Evaluate Health Spending, Treatment, and Effectiveness.