Delivering Better Care

A learning network aims to address barriers to implementing research findings in clinical care through patient-centered clinical decision support. Research in this emerging area will be featured in Better Decisions Together, a new special section in AcademyHealth’s journal eGEMs.

This 2015-2017 Progress Report details how AcademyHealth worked with our members, partners, and funders to make both health care and research better all with the aim of making health and health care better for everybody.

As we bear witness to all the change afoot, our challenge is to identify when – and for whom – a change is an improvement. For those of us who produce the evidence that help us determine this, there is no time to rest.

New eGEMs section seeks to realize the dream of genuine patient-centered clinical decision support.

This rapid evidence review examines current evidence on opportunities and challenges for strengthening consumers’ engagement in their own health care.

While previous research suggests that people prioritize interpersonal aspects of care quality, new research finds they also value clinical aspects of quality. How highly people rate the importance of these two aspects varies depending on their health needs.

The Fall 2017 edition of VA FORUM highlights research on the role of nurses throughout the VA.