Background The science of implementation has offered little toward understanding how
different implementation strategies work. To improve outcomes of implementation efforts, the …

The concept of patient-centered care has received increased attention in recent years and
is now considered an essential aspiration of high-quality health care systems. Because of …

Objectives. We compared the health statuses of the indigenous populations of New Zealand
and the United States with those of the numerically dominant populations of these countries. …

Community health workers have potential to enhance primary care access and quality, but
remain underutilized. To provide guidance on their integration, we characterized roles and …

The cancer care system is increasingly complex, marked by multiple hand-offs between
primary care and specialty providers, inadequate communication among providers, and lack of …

BACKGROUND. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report Crossing the Quality Chasm proposed
6 aims for high‐quality healthcare: effective, safe, timely, efficient, equitable, and patient‐…

Background: Randomized, controlled trials have shown that nurse-led disease management
for patients with heart failure can reduce hospitalizations. Less is known about the cost-…

Background Anecdotes and limited evidence suggest that a significant percentage of cancer
patients encounter troublesome problems in the course of their care. Methods The authors …

BACKGROUND Treated but uncontrolled hypertension is highly prevalent in African American
and Hispanic communities. OBJECTIVE To test the effectiveness on blood pressure of …

Uncontrolled hypertension and its complications continue to be major health problems that
disproportionately affect poor minority communities. Although dietary modification is an …