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October 30, 2008 | Journal Article
An exploration of patient perspectives on hospital care found moderately high levels of patient satisfaction with care and a relationship between higher nurse to patient-days ratio and patient satisfaction. Efforts to improve hospital care would benefit from addressing patient perspectives.
May 17, 2012 | Program Result
Researchers at Emory University Department of Emergency Medicine analyzed data from two Atlanta emergency departments to ascertain barriers to achieving standard metrics of performance for treatment of patients with pneumonia.
October 26, 2009 | Journal Article
Some hospitals that disproportionately care for poor patients are falling behind in adopting electronic health records (EHRs). A central policy question is whether health information technology investments prompted by the 2009 federal stimulus law will help close the gap.
May 11, 2009 | Program Result
From 1994 to 2007, staff at Friends' Health Connection (originally called Long Distance Love), New Brunswick, N.J., created and ran a program that enables hospitalized patients to communicate one-on-one with another patient who has the same illness.
February 28, 2009 | Video/Story
An international coalition is helping the health care sector become ecologically sustainable and reduce harm to public health and the environment.
September 1, 2004 | Program Result
Starting in 1997, investigators at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, analyzed the effects of advanced patient age on resource use in hospitals, clinical outcomes for the patient and the cost-effectiveness of selected life-sustaining treatments.
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.
June 4, 2008 | Story
This provides parents and their children with uninterrupted time to sleep or spend quiet time together.
April 24, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
An appendectomy in California could cost anywhere from $1,500 to more than $180,000, even at the same hospital or within the same county, according to a study led by RWJF Physician Faculty Scholar Renee Y. Hsia, MD, MSc. The study, published this we ...
August 8, 2011 | Video/Story
Aligning Forces for Quality takes root in Humboldt County, Calif.