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September 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
Victor R. Fuchs, Ph.D., expanded his earlier research by focusing on the allocation of health care resources and the effect on health outcomes, with an emphasis on the over-65 population.
January 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
Researchers at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., conducted studies to learn how public and private strategies to contain health care costs have affected the development of new medical technologies, including equipment and pharmaceuticals.
March 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A spatial agent-based model (ABM) simulation of individuals' walking behavior in a city demonstrated that ABMs can effectively formalize the dynamic processes behind and facilitate understanding of individuals' walking behavior.
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Google Street View allows researchers to conduct "virtual" audits of a neighborhood's characteristics. This study compared observations made from Google Street View images with data from a previous field audit of New York City blocks.
March 25, 2013 | Program Result Report
Developing and promoting a rapid-learning health system, in which health information in large databases is analyzed to improve health care - the work of Lynn Etheredge and the Health Insurance Reform Project at George Washington University.
August 20, 2009 | Journal Article
This study explored the reasons hospitals chose to either adopt or reject an innovative telemedicine approach to supporting delivery of intensive care.
May 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Today's radiologists face professional problems, including commoditization of radiology services and an unsustainable growth rate of advanced imaging use, which are linked by a decline in radiologist-clinician communication. The result is the isolation of radiologists and a change in their professional role.
February 25, 2008 | Journal Article
This study evaluates two Internet decision-making interventions for men considering a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test.
March 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
From mid-1999 to mid-2002, BoardSource (formerly the National Center for Non-Profit Boards), Washington, developed new tools and resources to strengthen the effectiveness of the governing boards of voluntary health and health-related organizations.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
From 1995 to 1998, researchers at Stanford University looked at how managed care penetration in given geographic areas affected the diffusion and use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a technology that allows physicians to obtain very clear pictures of patients' internal organs and internal structures without invasive procedures.