Health Policy
September 17, 2012 | Feature/Topic
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How Do Physicians Rate High-Tech Medicine?
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.
The Effect of Point-of-Care Personal Digital Assistant Use on Resident Documentation Discrepancies
March 1, 2004 | Journal Article
The authors recently found documentation discrepancies in 60 percent of resident daily-progress notes with respect to patient weight, medications, or vascular lines. To what extent information systems can decrease such discrepancies is unknown. The ...
Advancing the Role of Rapid Learning in Mainstream Health Care
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.
Does a Video-Interpreting Network Improve Delivery of Care in the Emergency Department?
October 18, 2011 | Journal Article
Video interpreting services had minimal impact on health care outcomes in this study of two hospitals in California.
An Innovative Device to Detect Patterns of Asthma and Improve Treatment
July 6, 2011 | Story
"CDC and state health departments often conduct joint investigations of disease outbreaks, but only a tiny fraction of these investigations have focused on asthma. The reason is a lack of timely and specific data about the geography of asthma."
The Association Between Diffusion of the Surgical Robot and Radical Prostatectomy Rates
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A study to determine the relationship between the acquisition of surgical robots and the amount of radical prostatectomy (RP) procedures in hospitals and regions found increased performance of RPs in hospitals and regions that had surgical robots.
Investigator Advances "Desktop" Theory of Medicine
March 10, 2011 | Story
Computers, biomarkers, risk assessments and other new tools are redefining how we measure disease and the ways medical professionals diagnose and treat patients.
A Spatial Agent-Based Model for the Simulation of Adults' Daily Walking Within a City
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.
Using Google Street View to Audit Neighborhood Environments
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.
Medical Sociology and Technology
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This essay, from a supplement to the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, reviews changes in medical technology that occurred over the past 50 years. The authors consider developments in fetal medicine, medicalization, the history of psychotropics and theoretical movements.