Healthcare utilization and expenditures for people with disabilities ... Healthcare for persons with disabilities is an important issue for public policy makers. ...

Using a novel geospatial statistical model to evaluate specific social and ecological determinants of health in children with antibiotic-resistant staphylococcal ...

The geography of acute care ... Groundbreaking federal programs including CMS's quality initiatives and AHRQ's quality and safety portfolio have increased ...

Home modifications: access, funding, and effectiveness ... Although widely used and recommended to prevent falls in the home, there is a gap in understanding ...

Healthcare in context: neighborhood and organizational network effects on HIV service provision ... Within the United States, community-based organizations ...

Virtualized homes: tools for better discharge planning ... As private homes are fast becoming critical locations for self-care and disease management, research ...

Patient safety in nursing homes: a closer look at improvement ... Recent improvements in measures of patient safety in nursing homes look, at first glance, ...

Neighborhood disparities and access to cardiac care ... Although many studies have revealed that blacks have less access to cardiac revascular procedures than ...

Institutional permeability in long-term care ... The public and academic image of residential long-term care in the U.S., particularly nursing facilities, ...

Modelling community disparity in breast cancer screening ... Although breast cancer screening has been proven to reduce the risk of mortality, low-income, ...

Neighborhood, discrimination and screening mammography ... The persistent racial/ethnic difference in stage at diagnosis of breast cancer leads to disproportionate ...

Creation of a PBRN to study healthcare delivery to a transitioning Latino community ... The Carolinas Healthcare System (CHS) Department of Family Medicine ...

Racial and ethnic variation in adolescent obesity: A multilevel study of neighborhoods ... The present study uses data from the National Longitudinal Study ...

Community integration after spinal cord injury: using photovoice to identify barriers and facilitators to community integration ... Spinal cord injuries (SCI) ...

Communities as partners in cancer clinical trials ... A 2004 AHRQ evidence-based practice report on community-based participatory research (CBPR) concluded ...

The economics of physical activity ... This study estimates the causal effect of physical activity on medical care utilization and costs. Unlike prior efforts ...

Comparative effectiveness of comprehensive care for adults with serious mental illness (SMI) ... Comprehensive care models are emerging as the new standard ...

Application and dissemination of a culture-centered approach to tailoring Comparative Effectiveness Research Summary Guides (CERSGs) ... The purpose of this ...

Outpatient emergency department utilization: prevalence and predictive modeling ... The goals of this project are to 1) calculate the prevalence rates for ...

Public reporting on housing with support services for aged and disabled consumers ... Housing with supportive services (HSS) is non-institutional housing with ...