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September 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
The University of California, San Francisco, conducted an exploratory case study of innovative practices of large capitated physician organizations aimed at improving patient safety.
August 25, 2003 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the Health Research and Education Trust, in collaboration with the Wharton School, studied joint hospital and physician group efforts to create integrated service arrangements and facilitated managed care contracting.
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.
September 19, 2011 | Program Result Report
In 2009 and 2010, researchers at UCLA and RAND measured the impact of high local rates of uninsurance on access to care and the quality of care among adults with health insurance.
May 20, 2011 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the University of Southern Maine studied the state's Pathways to Excellence system of reporting on health care quality. Practices that filed reports had higher scores on six indicators of health care quality than those that did not.
January 27, 2011 | Program Result Report
Prescription for Health tested the use of tools and evidence-based models in primary care to counsel patients to change four leading behaviors associated with premature death: smoking, risky drinking, unhealthy diet, and physical inactivity.
October 15, 2009 | Program Result Report
RWJF launched Reach Out: Physicians' Initiative to Expand Care to Underserved Americans in 1992.
October 15, 2009 | Program Result Report
Rewarding Results: Aligning Payments with High-Quality Health Care was a national program of RWJF and California HealthCare Foundation that tested the use of financial incentives to improve the quality of health care.
April 21, 2009 | Program Result Report
The National Committee for Quality Assurance created, tested and disseminated tools to measure practice systems: formal processes and information systems used to ensure high-quality care and prevention of chronic illness.
March 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
The Center for Research in Ambulatory Health Care Administration developed, tested and demonstrated a national physician profiling system for ambulatory health care.