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February 19, 2011 | Program Result Report
McLeod Regional Medical Center of Florence, S.C., worked to speed up heart attack treatment, to reduce the time lapse from when the victim enters the emergency room to when the blocked artery is opened.
January 1, 2009 | Report
This report from Project HeathDesign captures key learnings from the work of the program's first nine grantee teams, as well as from its efforts to develop a common platform and explore the ethical, legal and social issues tied to next-generation personal health records (PHRs).
January 27, 2011 | Program Result Report
The Health Insurance Reform Project advanced the development of a rapid learning health system - involving millions of health records in searchable national databases - to fill knowledge gaps about health care and develop better health care policies.
January 11, 2010 | Journal Article
Antipsychotic prescribing patterns vary by nursing home and appear to be more a matter of facility prescribing culture than residents' clinical status.
September 21, 2010 | Story
Greatly improved scrutiny of prescription medication regimens is needed to protect children with chronic illnesses--such as cancer--from incorrect dosages and other problems.
January 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This paper proposes a national initiative for Medicare patients with cancer. New legislative authority will be needed for comparative effectiveness research, quality measurement and payment reforms in Medicare.
August 1, 2006 | Journal Article
This research analyzes a unique data set the authors collected concerning print and broadcast media attention in order to answer two questions: How is social burden of disease related to media attention? And, how do organized interest groups affect ...
August 20, 2009 | News Release
New Mexico's Project ECHO offers solution to health care worker shortage while improving health outcomes for poor patients with serious chronic diseases.
July 11, 2009 | Program Result Report
Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care supported evaluations of replicable efforts by managed care organizations to integrate effective tobacco-cessation interventions into everyday clinical practice and the basic health care these organizations provide.
September 24, 2008 | Story
Leadership of the nonprofit hospital and its parent corporation, McLeod Health, embraced a plan to automate the medication delivery process, adding safeguards against both prescribing and delivery mistakes.