2013-05-07T06:54:07Z Copyright (c) 2013, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/p/pearson_marjorie_l.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080321.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evaluates efforts of three major hospital systems to internally disseminate nursing unit change among medical-surgical units. All organizations carefully planned, coordinated, and implemented a spread process; none left dissemination to chance.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20091121.html 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this article we provide an assessment of the overall effect of TCAB, focusing on the experiences of the 10 hospitals that continued through phase 3 of the initiative.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20060108.html 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was evidence of broad success at implementation and maintenance of quality improvement for depression treatment in primary care.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19991209.html 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some nursing care processes affect health-related patient outcomes, the full extent of nursing process-outcome links is relatively understudied.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20061127.html 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adherence to dementia guidelines is poor despite evidence that guideline recommendations can improve symptoms and delay institutionalization.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20030013.html 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little is known about the implementation of collaborative processes or organizational change activities motivated by collaborative participation.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20020709.html 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Findings show variations in the quality of nursing care and support continued development of nursing quality assessment and improvement initiatives.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20021115.html 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using an existing data collection system staffed by skilled data collectors and managers should result in substantially more accurate and timely data.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20091122.html 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This paper focuses exclusively on the experiences of the 13 hospitals in the second phase of TCAB during which they tested more than 400 innovations.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110010.html 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

This study compared the cost-effectiveness of different public interventions for promoting exercise and found that community-based campaigns and school-based interventions have the greatest potential to be scaled up at the lowest costs.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070501.html 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The multi-organizational collaborative is a popular model for quality improvement (QI) initiatives.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20050414.html 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Motivation of health care professionals to improve quality of chronic illness care using the Chronic Care Model and Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20071129.html 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

This report identifies and examines the factors that purchasers and builders of patient self-management support programs should consider when they are deciding on program components. It is based on a literature review and interviews with self-management support experts to identify and evaluate a range of program models and their features.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19960008.html 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The authors systematically characterized the information provided by chest radiography reports on a nationally representative sample of 822 elderly patients hospitalized in 297 acute-care hospitals in five states who had an admission diagnosis of congestive heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, or pneumonia.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19960006.html 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A comprehensive literature review with meta-analysis examines the differences between vaginal and cesarean delivery on 23 psychosocial outcomes of childbirth.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110073.html 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Understanding how nurses are evaluating quality improvement interventions may contribute to improved measurement in the future.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR217.html 2005-02-16T06:38:00Z 2005-02-16T06:38:00Z

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9508.html 2011-08-03T10:30:00Z 2011-08-03T10:30:00Z

Summarizes key RAND studies on the causes of obesity, its economic and health consequences, and potential strategies for prevention, including work on health care costs, junk food, food deserts, school meals, and proximity of parks.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120062.html 2012-01-01T12:00:00Z 2012-01-01T12:00:00Z

With or without electronic charting options, nurses spend about 19% of their time completing documentation, compared with all other categories of care.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20050804.html 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

To measure organizations' implementation of Chronic Care Model (CCM) interventions for chronic care quality improvement (QI).