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January 12, 2012 | Program Result Report
Advancing Measurement of Equity and Patient-Centered Care to Improve Health Care Quality was a targeted solicitation for proposals to expand understanding of how to make health care both more patient-centered and more equitable.
December 8, 2010 | Journal Article
Physician payment reform holds the potential to improve quality of care while controlling costs.
May 6, 2010 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and colleagues nationally examined the differences in work conditions between ambulatory clinics that serve large numbers of minority patients and clinics that do not.
October 15, 2009 | Program Result Report
RWJF launched Reach Out: Physicians' Initiative to Expand Care to Underserved Americans in 1992.
December 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
Report identifies messages that were most likely to engage physicians to consider becoming early adopters of—and advocates for—performance measurement and public reporting.
February 9, 2009 | Journal Article
Primary-care clinics serving 30 percent or more minority patients were more chaotic than clinics with fewer minority patients, employed more women physicians, and had less access to medical supplies and referral specialists. These factors contribute to physician burnout, and are sources of disparities in health-care delivery to minority patients.
September 8, 2009 | Program Result Report
The Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program seeks to increase the number of faculty from historically disadvantaged backgrounds who can achieve senior rank in academic medicine.
March 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
The Idaho Area Health Education Center served as the lead agency in a project to establish a community-development approach to the recruitment and retention of health care providers in its rural areas.
January 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
The Foundation for Accountability conducted a series of surveys to evaluate the feasibility of using Internet-based surveys of consumers to develop quality ratings of physicians, hospitals, health plans and other health care providers.
January 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
The Church Health Center of Memphis led a community-wide effort to expand the "Memphis Plan," which the center had created in 1991 as an affordable health care program for lower-wage, uninsured working people.