Academic Practice Partnerships: A National Dialogue
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Academic nursing-practice partnerships create systems for nurses to enhance their learning opportunities and advance their profession.
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Adoption of Policies to Treat Tobacco Dependence in US Medical Groups
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Most larger U.S. medical practice groups have some strategy in place to treat patients' tobacco dependence. But few have instituted a broad, multistrategy effort as recommended by Public Health Service guidelines, according to this survey-based study.
Translation of Evidence-Based Clinical Standards into a New Prehospital Resuscitation Policy in Los Angeles
February 1, 2012 | Journal Article
In an example of "community-partnered participatory research," an EMS agency and a research team collaborated to rapidly develop and implement changes to long-established guidelines regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation, demonstrating how evidence-based research can influence policy and benefit patients.
A Road Map for Improving the Performance of Performance Measures
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This article discusses the current impasse in the field of quality measurement and what is needed to overcome this deadlock.
A Phased Cluster-randomized Trial of Rural Hospitals Testing a Quality Collaborative to Improve Heart Failure Care
May 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Nurse staffing stability associated with improved performance measures in heart failure care in rural hospitals according to this study.
Interventions to Improve Parental Communication About Sex
March 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Adolescents can benefit from a parent talking to them about sex parents can learn better ways to communicate.
Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care
National Program
Expecting Success was a national program aimed at improving the quality of cardiac care while reducing racial, ethnic and language disparities.
Center to Advance Palliative Care
National Program
Initiative to increase the number of hospitals that have the capability to provide quality palliative care; create sufficient momentum that hospital-based palliative care becomes a standard practice in comprehensive patient care.
Spreading the Word
January 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
This project included three activities in conjunction with the April 1996 release of the federal Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Smoking Cessation Clinical Practice Guideline.
Pocket Guide to Help Smokers Quit Goes to 200,000 Primary Care Docs in 1996
July 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
The AMA produced and disseminated a pocket guide, Helping Smokers Quit: A Guide for Primary Care Clinicians, prepared by the federal Agency for Health Care Policy and Research as a summary of its Clinical Practice Guideline on Smoking Cessation.