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Bandolier - The first issue of Bandolier, an independent journal about evidence-based healthcare, written by Oxford scientists, (RAM AND HJM) was printed in February 1994. It has appeared monthly ever since and has become the premier source of evidence based healthcare information in the UK and worldwide for both healthcare professionals and consumers.
The Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program - Brings talented college seniors and recent graduates to Washington, D.C., where they are placed in congressional offices and learn about health policy issues, with a focus on issues affecting racial and ethnic minority and underserved communities.
Bariatric Surgery Fails to Shrink Healthcare Costs
Barriers to Meaningful Use in Medicaid: Analysis and Recommendations - This study focused on identifying the barriers to achieving Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records unique to health care professionals that serve high proportions of Medicaid-insured individuals and examined whether work environment-related factors or characteristics of the population they serve created barriers to adopting and using EHRs.
Basic Cancer Research in Cancer Health Disparities (U01)
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Beacon Community Program: Improving Health Through Health Information Technology - The Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program provides funding to 17 selected communities throughout the United States that have already made inroads in the development of secure, private, and accurate systems of electronic health record (EHR) adoption and health information exchange. The Beacon Program will support these communities to build and strengthen their health information technology (health IT) infrastructure and exchange capabilities to improve care coordination, increase the quality of care, and slow the growth of health care spending.
Behavioral & Integrative Treatment Development Program (R01) - This funding opportunity is available to encourage behavioral intervention development research targeting drug abuse treatment.
Behavioral & Integrative Treatment Development Program (R03) - This funding opportunity would fund discrete, well-defined projects that can be completed within two years. Projects of interest fall within the research domain of behavioral or integrated interventions targeting substance abuse or chronic pain.
Behavioral & Integrative Treatment Development Program (R34) - This grants would fund discrete well-defined projects that can be completed within three years. Projects of interest fall within the research domain of behavioral or integrated interventions targeting substance abuse or chronic pain.
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
Best Bets for Reducing Medicare Costs for Dual Eligible Beneficiaries: Assessing the Evidence - This study reviewed various projects and demonstrations to evaluate the best methods for reducing costs incurred by dual eligible beneficiaries.
Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America - This book, aimed at health care providers; administrators; caregivers; policy makers; health professionals; federal, state, and local government agencies; private and public health organizations; and educational institutions, looks at the barriers which hinder progress in improving health and currently threaten the nation's economic stability and global competitiveness. It also addresses the knowledge and tools available to better quality care at a lower cost.
Best Practices for Conducting Economic Evaluations in Health Care: A Systematic Review of Quality Assessment Tools - This systematic review examines the checklists used to evaluate best practices for conducting and reporting on economic evaluations in health care.
Best Practices Series - CDC's Best Practices User Guide: Coalitions-State and Community Interventions focuses on the critical role coalitions play in a comprehensive tobacco control program. According to Best Practices, communities need to work toward transforming the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of users and nonusers by changing the way tobacco is promoted, sold, and used.
Bioengineering Research Grants (BRG) (R01) - This grant encourages collaborations between the life and physical sciences to: 1) apply a multidisciplinary bioengineering approach to the solution of a biomedical problem; and 2) integrate, optimize, validate, translate or otherwise accelerate the adoption of promising tools, methods and techniques for a specific research or clinical problem in basic, translational, or clinical science and practice.
Biomedical and Behavioral Research Innovations to Ensure Equity (BRITE) in Maternal and Child Health (R15)
Biomedical Technology Research Center - This grant would fund Biomedical Technology Research Centers, which would conduct research and development on new technologies and new/improved instruments driven by the needs of basic, translational, and clinical researchers.
Black and Immigrant: Exploring the Effects of Ethnicity and Foreign-Born Status on Infant Health - In this report on the health outcomes of black immigrant mothers, researchers found that, while they have fewer preterm or low-birth-weight children than their American-born peers, they are more likely to experience adverse birth outcomes than other immigrant and U.S.-born women.
Blog by the HTAi Interest Sub-Group on Conditional Coverage/Access with Evidence Development. - The blog provides a simple platform for following recent news and sharing information on CED, AED and related forms of conditional coverage and managed entry.
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Technology Evaluation Center - Recognized for its leadership in evidence-based healthcare technology assessment. Its mission is to provide healthcare decision makers with timely, objective and scientifically rigorous assessments that synthesize the available evidence on the diagnosis, treatment, management and prevention of disease.
Blueprint for a Public Health and Safety Approach to Drug Policy - This report looks at the contradictory nature of current drug policy, as well as specific recommendations for reform.
BMC Health Services Research - Open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of health services research.
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making - An open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in relation to the design, development, implementation, use, and evaluation of health information technologies and decision-making within the healthcare setting.
Boards of Trustees for Medicare Annual Reports - The Medicare Program is the second-largest social insurance program in the U.S., with 47.5 million beneficiaries and total expenditures of $523 billion in 2010. The Boards of Trustees for Medicare (also Boards) report annually to the Congress on the financial operations and actuarial status of the program.
Breaking New Ground: Forming Research Collaboratives to Conduct Improvement Studies, OCT 26, 2010 - Presenters will discuss: Frontline engagement in quality improvement and preventing medication errors.
Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC): Data & Statistics - Provides information on the variables of major interest to the BCSC, such as demographic data and health history of women who come to participating radiology facilities for mammograms. Also provided are statistics that provide an overview of the data collected.
Bridging the Gap Between Cancer Mechanism and Population Science (U01) - This Funding Opportunity Announcement encourages applications for projects that bridge biological mechanism to population level scales. It should explore links between basic biology, population science, and potential health applications in treatment, prevention, diagnosis, and/or screening related to a cancer research question.
Briefing on National Survey of Consumers and Health IT - The California HealthCare Foundation hosted a briefing at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. to release the findings from a study on Americans' attitudes and experiences with health information technology. The findings document specific health benefits reported by people who have been using personal health records.
Briefing on State Medicaid Programs, the Recession and Health Reform - Panelists at this briefing examined the challenges facing states as they continue to struggle with the lingering impacts of the recession and begin preparing to implement health reform.
Brookings Institution - Nonprofit public policy organization that conducts independent research and provides recommendations.
Brookings Institution - Health - As noted on its website, With ongoing legal and political challenges to the sweeping health care reform legislation passed in 2010, the United States continues to struggle with the critical task of reforming its health care system to increase quality, access and efficiency. Brookings' experts deliver new ideas and offer policy solutions to improve health care both at home and globally.
Building a Business Case for Evidence-Based Medicine - Based on the results of a 2012 roundtable, this brief examines the economic issues that will require an evidence-based analysis of health care.
Building Advocacy for Policy Change to Improve the Nation's Health - In a program results report, RWJF looks at the work of the Trust for America's Health in advocating for improvements to public health systems and services research.
Building Health Reform's Research Arm - This is a January 9, 2012 interview with Dr. Anne Beal, the number two person at the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
Building the Electronic Clinical Data Infrastructure to Improve Patient Outcomes: CER Project Profiles - This report provides background on the programs and includes project profiles of the PROSPECT, DRN, and Enhanced Registry projects, and the EDM Forum.
Building the Informatics Infrastructure for Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER): A Review of the Grey Literature - This Issue Brief represents the results of a search of the peer-reviewed literature surrounding CER and clinical informatics.
Bureau of the Census (U.S.), Health Insurance - The Census Bureau collects health insurance data from two national surveys:(1) The Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) to the Current Population Survey (CPS)and (2) Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).

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