Interest in evaluating which health care interventions work best under what circumstances has surged in recent years as … health care spending has risen. This brief, the first from Mathematica’s Center on Health Care Effectiveness, looks at the … new comparative effectiveness research (CER) initiative passed as part of health care reform. The authors discuss the …

Using biennial national surveys, this article examines registered nurses' views of health policy, including their … expectations of health reform. The authors found that strong clinical leadership, participation in developing an achievable vision …

Employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) is the dominant source of coverage for nonelderly adults in the United States …

Using a variety of data sources, this paper examines health care utilization patterns of Healthy San Francisco … enrollees. The findings suggest that the program, designed to increase uninsured people's access to health care, is increasing … access to primary care for participating adults, improving self-reported health status, and altering care-seeking behavior. …

This article examines successful models used by hospital emergency departments, health department outpatient clinics …