Health Care Program Evaluation

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California's Historic Effort to Reduce the Stigma of Mental Illness: The Mental Health Services Act — Apr 24, 2013

In a historic effort to reduce the stigma of mental illness, California voters approved the Mental Health Services Act in 2004.

Oral Health Literacy Assessment: Development of an Oral Health Literacy Instrument for Spanish Speakers — Jan 1, 2013

The authors develop an oral health literacy instrument for Spanish-speaking adults, evaluate its psychometric properties, and determine its comparability to an English version.

An Implementation Evaluation of the Community Engagement and Planning Intervention in the CPIC Depression Care Improvement Trial — Jan 1, 2013

The goal of this paper is to document and evaluate the process of implementing an evidence-based depression intervention in community settings through the use of community-academic partnered approaches.

Medicare Postacute Care Payment Reforms Have Potential To Improve Efficiency Of Care, But May Need Changes To Cut Costs — Sep 1, 2012

ACA-mandated payment reforms need to achieve more than a one-time cost saving.

Unraveling the IT Productivity Paradox -- Lessons for Health Care — Jun 14, 2012

Productivity gains that can be achieved by widely adopting health information technology are likely to come from the reengineering of health care and may require new measurement tools to accurately gauge their impact.

Involving Primary Care Clinicians in Quality Improvement: An Independent Evaluation of the Health Foundation's Engaging with Quality in Primary Care Programme : Final Report — Apr 1, 2012

Clinicians need to focus fully on quality improvement to ensure their interventions achieve full potential.

Voluntary After-School Program Can Reduce Alcohol Use Among Middle School Children — Feb 8, 2012

If prevention researchers build programs with developmentally relevant content, and provide this content in an engaging, confidential, and non-judgmental way, it can help middle school-aged children avoid alcohol.

Effect of an Employer-Sponsored Health and Wellness Program on Medical Cost and Utilization — Jan 1, 2012

PepsiCo's comprehensive health and wellness program increased medical costs for participants in the first year, but reduced costs in the following years.

Voluntary After-School Alcohol and Drug Programs for Middle School Youth: If You Build It Right, They Will Come — Jan 1, 2012

This study describes CHOICE, a voluntary after-school program which targeted AOD use among middle school students.

Employing Continuous Quality Improvement in Community-Based Substance Abuse Programs — Jan 1, 2012

This article aims to describe continuous quality improvement (CQI) for substance abuse prevention and treatment programs in a community-based organization setting.

Cost and Outcomes Analysis of Child Well-Being — Dec 1, 2011

This book chapter explores the use of cost and outcome measures as a complement to traditional program evaluation in assessing child well-being, especially for early childhood intervention programs.

The Impact of Medical Insurance for the Poor in Georgia: A Regression Discontinuity Approach — Nov 1, 2011

Improving access to health care and financial protection of the poor is a key concern for policymakers in low- and middle-income countries, but there have been few rigorous program evaluations.

Academic Health Centers and Comparative Effectiveness Research: Baggage, Buckets, Basics, and Bottles — Jun 1, 2011

This editorial attempts to clarify the concept of "comparative effectiveness research" by categorizing the key activities that take place under its rubric.

The Role of Theory in Research to Develop and Evaluate the Implementation of Patient Safety Practices — May 1, 2011

Describing the theoretical basis for understanding why a given patient safety intervention works would help efforts to generalize evaluation results from one context to another.

Using a Cross-Study Design to Assess the Efficacy of Motivational Enhancement Therapy-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 5 (MET/CBT5) in Treating Adolescents with Cannabis-Related Disorders — Jan 1, 2011

Youth with marijuana problems who received a research-based treatment (motivational enhancement therapy plus cognitive behavioral therapy [MET/CBT5]) had better outcomes than similar youth treated in community-based programs.

Assessing the Evidence for Context-Sensitive Effectiveness and Safety of Patient Safety Practices: Developing Criteria — Dec 1, 2010

This report addresses the need for clearer understanding of the evidence base regarding the effectiveness and context-sensitivity of patient safety practices and presents recommendations for future research on this topic.

Evaluation of UK Integrated Care Pilots: Research Protocol — Sep 1, 2010

In response to concerns that the needs of the aging population for well-integrated care were increasing, the English National Health Service (NHS) appointed 16 Integrated Care Pilots following a national competition.

Strengthening Prevention Performance Using Technology: A Formative Evaluation of Interactive Getting to Outcomes — Oct 1, 2009

This article reports on a formative evaluation of efforts to build community-based prevention capacity in two states (Tennessee and Missouri) using an Internet-based system known as interactive Getting To Outcomes® (iGTO).

An Ethnographic Study of Classifying and Accounting for Risk at the Sharp End of Medical Wards — Aug 1, 2009

An understanding of how staff identify, classify, narrativise and orient to patient safety risks is important in understanding responses to efforts to effect change.

Early Experiences of Employing Consumer-Providers in the VA — Nov 1, 2008

In 2005, the VA created consumer-providers (CPs)--individuals with experience of serious mental illness who support others with similar conditions. Data from the groups suggest that hiring and employing CPs within VA has been feasible, beneficial, and acceptable to most members of clinical teams.

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