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  1. Nursing staffing, financial performance and care quality ... This competitive renewal will examine the impact of the California minimum nurse staffing legislation ...
    Investigator:Mark, Barbara A
    Performing Organization:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Nursing
    Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Nursing
    Supporting Agency:Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
    Award:Grant
    Project UI:20000286
    Project Status:Archived
  2. Quality measurement in residential care ... The study will develop meaningful quality measures for vulnerable individuals residing in residential care facilities ( ...
    Investigator:Hawes, M C
    Performing Organization:Menorah Park
    Supporting Agency:Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
    Award:Grant
    Project UI:20000254
    Project Status:Archived
  3. Outcomes of instability on discharge in urban hospitals ... The introduction of prospective payment for Medicare in the 1980s resulted in shorter hospital ...
    Investigator:Halm, Ethan A
    Performing Organization:Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    Supporting Agency:Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
    Award:Grant
    Project UI:20000249
    Project Status:Archived
  4. Risk-Adjustment of 1-Year Health Status Outcomes in CAD ... This observational study will follow over 3,000 patients with acute coronary syndromes to identify ...
    Investigator:Spertus, John A
    Performing Organization:St. Luke's Hospital
    Supporting Agency:Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
    Award:Grant
    Project UI:20010101
    Project Status:Archived
  5. Benefits of Regionalizing Surgery for Medicare Patients ... This application is a resubmission of a proposal originally reviewed by Special Emphasis Panel ...
    Investigator:Birkmeyer, John D
    Performing Organization:Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Department of Surgery
    Supporting Agency:Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
    Award:Grant
    Project UI:20010216
    Project Status:Archived
  6. An Examination of Flexible Spending Accounts ... Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) allow employees to allocate pre-tax dollars into a special account to be ...
    Investigator:Showalter, Mark H
    Performing Organization:Brigham Young University
    Supporting Agency:Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
    Award:Grant
    Project UI:20011283
    Project Status:Archived
  7. Administrative Data and General Comorbidity Models ... Accurate and practical methods for performing risk adjustment are crucial for studies using administrative ...
    Investigator:Stukenborg, George J
    Performing Organization:University of Virginia, School of Medicine
    Supporting Agency:Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
    Award:Grant
    Project UI:20011286
    Project Status:Archived
  8. Optimizing Risk-Adjustment for Measuring ICU Quality ... The purpose of this career development award is to develop a research and training program that will ...
    Investigator:Glance, Laurent Gilles
    Performing Organization:University of Rochester Medical Center, Department of Anesthesiology
    Supporting Agency:Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
    Award:Grant
    Project UI:20011242
    Project Status:Archived
  9. Processes Predictive of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Complications ... BACKGROUND: According to the American Heart Association, cardiovascular disease ranks ...
    Investigator:O'Brien, Maureen M
    Performing Organization:University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine, Department of Medicine
    Supporting Agency:Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
    Award:Grant
    Project UI:20021459
    Project Status:Archived
  10. Measuring Mental Health Outcomes Fairly ... This proposal requests funds to convene a national research development conference on the topic of mental health ...
    Investigator:Hendryx, Michael S
    Performing Organization:Washington State University, Spokane
    Supporting Agency:Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
    Award:Grant
    Project UI:20021279
    Project Status:Archived
  11. Assessing Medicare Risk Adjustment Using HMO Data ... Medicare began contracting with risk-based managed care plans in 1985 with the primary goal of containing ...
    Investigator:Kan, Hongjun
    Performing Organization:RAND Corporation
    Supporting Agency:Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
    Award:Grant
    Project UI:20021308
    Project Status:Archived
  12. Medicaid Payment and Risk Adjusted Nursing Home Quality ... Quality of care problems have persisted for decades within nursing homes caring for Medicaid beneficiaries. ...
    Investigator:Grabowski, David C
    Performing Organization:University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Public Health
    Supporting Agency:Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
    Award:Grant
    Project UI:20021395
    Project Status:Archived
  13. Advancing Risk Adjustment for Schizophrenia ... The goal of this research application is to develop a new risk adjustment measure for indigent persons suffering ...
    Investigator:Martin, Bradley C
    Performing Organization:University of Georgia, College of Pharmacy
    Supporting Agency:Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
    Award:Grant
    Project UI:20021289
    Project Status:Archived
  14. Selection bias by Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes ... The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of Medicare HMO enrollment on the mortality and ...
    Investigator:Maciejewski, Matthew L
    Performing Organization:University of Washington, School of Public Health
    Supporting Agency:Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
    Award:Grant
    Project UI:20022294
    Project Status:Archived
  15. Assessing the performance of alternative risk adjusters ... Concerns about risk adjustment impede efforts to evaluate quality of care and establish fair reimbursement ...
    Investigator:Iezzoni, Lisa I
    Performing Organization:Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
    Supporting Agency:Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
    Award:Grant
    Project UI:99400550
    Project Status:Archived
  16. Declining hospital mortality in Cleveland--Is it real? ... Since the start of the Cleveland Health Quality Choice (CHQC) Program in 1991, in-hospital mortality ...
    Investigator:Baker, David W
    Performing Organization:Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, Department of Medicine
    Supporting Agency:Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
    Award:Grant
    Project UI:99400050
    Project Status:Archived
  17. Mortality risk adjustment using hospital claims data ... This project describes Dr. Stukenborg's plan to develop improved public domain hospital mortality ...
    Investigator:Stukenborg, George J
    Performing Organization:University of Virginia, School of Medicine
    Supporting Agency:Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
    Award:Grant
    Project UI:20043102
    Project Status:Archived
  18. Structuring markets and competition in health care ... We propose to develop and apply an overarching conceptual framework, drawn from economic theory, for ...
    Investigator:Newhouse, Joseph Paul
    Performing Organization:Harvard University, Harvard Medical School
    Supporting Agency:Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
    Award:Grant
    Project UI:20043154
    Project Status:Archived
  19. Categorizing nursing homes based on quality performance ... Minimum Data Set (MDS) nursing home quality indicators (QIs) have been used for a variety of purposes ...
    Investigator:Flood, Shannon N
    Performing Organization:University of Minnesota, School of Public Health
    Supporting Agency:Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
    Award:Grant
    Project UI:20052089
    Project Status:Archived
  20. Determinants of intrapartum obstetrical quality ... There are approximately 4 million deliveries per year in the US and childbirth is the second leading cause ...
    Investigator:Bailit, Jennifer L
    Performing Organization:Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences
    Supporting Agency:Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
    Award:Grant
    Project UI:20061019
    Project Status:Archived
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