AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

October 30th, 2012
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Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...

October 11th, 2012
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Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

October 2nd, 2012
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Diabetes is among the ten leading causes of death in both white and African American patients, bu...

October 2nd, 2012
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Secondary analysis of data from two studies examining palliative care in rural areas was conducte...

October 1st, 2012
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Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...

September 20th, 2012
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Patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction or congestive heart failure are more likely...

August 1st, 2012
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The Health Disparities Cancer Collaborative implemented six components of the chronic care model ...

August 1st, 2012
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This commentary was written by  Daren R. Anderson, MD, vice president and chief quality officer, ...

August 1st, 2012
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Purpose. This study assesses the impact of advance directives on end-of-life costs, drawing on ad...

August 1st, 2012
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This article discusses how clinically at-risk and socially disadvantaged populations may not be f...

August 1st, 2012
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This article discusses divergent concepts of population health between care delivery systems and ...

June 1st, 2012
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The authors found little evidence that participation in the Premier HQID program led to lower 30-...

March 28th, 2012
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In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...

March 1st, 2012
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This article discusses preliminary findings from the National Congress of American Indians Policy...

January 1st, 2012
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Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pioneer Portfolio, OpenNotes is being tested by...

December 20th, 2011
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The objective of this study was to describe health plan efforts to collect language data from its...

December 1st, 2011
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The October issue focuses on disparities in health care, including an article on high-cost, low-q...

October 1st, 2011
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In this article, the author argues that health equity is best achieved by securing access to high...

October 1st, 2011
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