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Presenting Quality Data to Vulnerable Groups: Charts, Summaries or Behavioral Economic Nudges?OBJECTIVES: Despite the increased focus on health care consumers' active choice, not enough is known about how to best facilitate the choice process. We sought to assess methods of improving this process for vulnerable consumers in the United States by …
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Voice is not enough: A multilevel model of how frontline voice can reach implementation… during the critical stage after employees voice and before performance outcomes are measured is nascent. We draw on …
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A New Approach to the Comparative Analysis of Health Systems: Invasive Treatment for Heart Disease in the US, France, and Their Two World Cities… comparisons that assess dimensions of health system performance indicate that the US provides higher rates of …
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Points for Place: Can State Governments Shape Siting Patterns of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Developments?There is considerable controversy about the allocation of Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC). Some charge that credits are disproportionately allocated to developments in poor, minority neighborhoods without additional investments and thereby …
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Behavior Changes After Notification of HIV InfectionTo learn more about how people who did not volunteer for testing react to information about HIV infection, we assessed short-term behavior changes in HIV-positive blood donors. Methods. Blood donors who were notified at the New York Blood Center that they …
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The Influence of Primary Care and Hospital Supply on Ambulatory Care–Sensitive Hospitalizations Among Adults in Brazil, 1999–2007… the contribution of the FHP to improved health system performance and reflect the complexity of the health reform …
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Using Comparative Analysis to Address Health System Caricatures… and compare different systems with respect to salient performance measures. Despite findings from recent …
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The Role of Matched Controls In Building An Evidence Base For Hospital Avoidance Schemes: A Retrospective EvaluationObjective To test whether two hospital-avoidance interventions altered rates of hospital use: “intermediate care” and “integrated care teams.” Data Sources/Study Setting Linked administrative data for England covering the period 2004 to 2009. Study Design …
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Employment Retention for Formerly-Incarcerated IndividualsCEO provides employment placement and retention services to newly released, formerly-incarcerated individuals. Historically, such programs focused on job placement as the desirable outcome. However, a recent shift in emphasis to job retention requires …
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Assessment of Corporate Social Responsibility Growth Opportunities for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Thailand's Electronics Manufacturing Industry and Vietnam's Food Processing Industry… developing sustainable management models to enhance their performance and social impact through ethical and …
Alumni In Action
Bryan Brown… Some particular items I've been involved with include performance reports about our COVID-response shelters, …
Alumni In Action
Andrew Chi… The team I oversaw was responsible for monitoring the performance of clinical programs (e.g., digital data …
Alumni In Action
Kimberly Worsham… experience as a consultant to improve operational performance, reporting, capacity, data management, and …
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Surgical Decompression is Associated with Decreased Mortality in Patients with Sepsis and Ureteral CalculiPurpose : The combination of sepsis and ureteral calculus is a urological emergency. Traditional teaching advocates urgent decompression with nephrostomy tube or ureteral stent placement, although published outcomes validating this treatment are lacking. …
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NYC Housing Commissioner Vicki Been Discusses Affordable Housing Initiative at Urban Policy ForumVicki Been returned to NYU Wagner to discuss her role at the helm the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and the ambitious city program to build and preserve 200,000 affordable apartment units in a decade’s time. The …
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The Search for Social EntrepreneurshipResearch on social entrepreneurship is finally catching up to its rapidly growing potential. In The Search for Social Entrepreneurship, Paul Light explores this surge of interest to establish the state of knowledge on this growing phenomenon and suggest …
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Public Education in the Dynamic City: Lessons from New York City… is evidence of continuing segregation and disparities in performance between students of different races and …
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Access to, use of and satisfaction with health services among adults enrolled in Brazil’s Family Health Strategy: evidence from the 2008 National Household SurveyObjective To assess the effects of participation in Brazil’s primary healthcare programme (the Family Health Strategy or FHS) on access, use and satisfaction with health services among adults. Methods Data are from the 2008 National Household Survey …
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A Water Availability Intervention in NYC Public Schools: Influence on Youth Water and Milk Behaviors.Objectives. We determined the influence of “water jets” on observed water and milk taking and self-reported fluid consumption in New York City public schools. Methods. From 2010 to 2011, before and 3 months after water jet installation in 9 schools, we …
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Evidence-based treatment for opioid disorders: A 23-year national study of methadone dose levels… also identify factors associated with variation in program performance. Program directors and clinical supervisors of …
Alumni In Action
Florence Juillard… more effective. The heavy emphasis on learning and using performance management tools is also something that has …
Capstone Projects
Streamlining the NYPH Restraint Data Monitoring ProcessNew York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH) Department of Nursing is committed to the provision of safe, quality care to its diverse patient population. The vision of the Department of Nursing is to be one of the nation's leaders in nursing best practices; …
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Evaluation of the World Banks Secondary Urban Development Program in the Kingdom of Bhutan… key aspects of Thimpu's and Paro's organization and performance of particular interest to the client: the system …
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Who’s Involved … Region, and as Head of the Public Sector Management and Performance Division at the OECD. Barbara Nunberg worked …