A to Z Index

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CAHPS® Hospital Survey (H-CAHPS) - Public-private initiative to develop standardized surveys of patients' experiences with ambulatory and facility-level care.
CalHealthReform - Site dedicated to informing policy-makers, the health care community, and the public about approaches to expanding public and private coverage.
California and Texas: Section 1115 Medicaid Demonstration Waivers Compared - This fact sheet compares and contrasts key provisions of the California and Texas Section 1115 Medicaid demonstration waivers. The Texas waiver, approved in December 2011, is modeled, in part, on the California waiver, which has been underway in that state since November 2010. Both waivers affect hundreds of thousands of Medicaid beneficiaries, involve billions of federal Medicaid matching funds, and are designed, in part, to promote changes in the health care delivery system that will result in better care for individuals, better population health, and reductions in costs through system improvements. They have a number of key similarities and differences as summarized in the side-by-side table within this fact sheet. These 5-year demonstrations are approved under section 1115 of the Social Security Act, which authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to waive certain federal Medicaid requirements to enable states to conduct demonstrations with federal Medicaid funds.
California Endowment Grant Application Guide - The California Endowment makes grants to organizations and institutions that directly benefit the health and well-being of Californians. Support is provided to nonprofit organizations with a valid tax exemption status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that are classified as a public charity and not as a "private foundation" under Section 509(a). If a proposal is from an unincorporated collaboration or community project, tax exemption verification and a letter of agreement signed by a lead applicant agency that is eligible for funding are required.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
California HealthCare Foundation Grants and RFPs - This resource is designed to assist applicants and grantees by providing guidelines, answers to frequently asked questions, and related forms.
California Office of Health Information and Research - Responsible for stewardship and distribution of vital statistics data (births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriage) and provides written reports and data tables analyzing these data.
Call for Papers: Methods for CER, PCOR, and QI Using EHR Data in a Learning Health System - This issue of E-Gems will focus on researchers developing innovative strategies to work with EHR data and develop new approaches for research and quality improvement that can improve patient outcomes.
Campbell Collaboration Colloquium - The annual meeting will be held in Chicagofrom May 21st to 23rd, 2013.
Can Shared Decisionmaking Improve Health Care Delivery and Control Costs? Current Perspectives and Possible Policy Levers, September 21, 2011, 11:30 a.m. EST - This is a forum/webcast to discuss study designs and outcome measures that can be used to address different comparative effectiveness research questions effectively.
Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health - National body that provides Canada's federal, provincial and territorial health care decision makers with credible, impartial advice and evidence-based information about the effectiveness and efficiency of drugs and other health technologies. It was formerly known as the Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment (CCOHTA)
Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement (CFHI) - The Foundation has brought researchers and decision makers together to create and apply knowledge to improve health services for Canadians. The Foundation is an independent, not-for-profit corporation, established with endowed funds from the federal government and its agencies, and incorporated under the Canada Corporations Act.
Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement Events - Information on past and upcoming events.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Funding Overview - CIHR provides funding opportunities for four themes of health research including health systems services, social, cultural, environmental and population health.
Canadian Statistics - Summary tables are organized by Subject including Health, Population and Demography and Social Conditions.
Cancer Care Outcomes Research & Surveillance Consortium - Supports prospective cohort studies on 10,000 patients with newly diagnosed lung or colorectal cancers recruited in geographically diverse populations and health care systems.
Cancer Control & Population Sciences Funding Opportunities - Cancer control funding opportunities including research involving surveillance, epidemiology, health services, behavioral science and cancer survivorship.
Cancer Control & Population Sciences Research on Tailored Messages - Presents research on tailored health messages, including the Personally Relevant Information About Screening Mammography (PRISM) project and a bibliography.
Cancer Control and Population Sciences Web-based Reports - Lists links to cancer control and population sciences web-based reports and resources.
Cancer Control P.L.A.N.E.T. (Plan, Link, Act, Network with Evidence-based Tools) - This NCI web portal provides cancer control planners, program staff, and researchers with access to web-based resources.
Cancer Quality of Care Measures Project - In this project, NCI is collaborating with other agencies and organizations to identify evidence-based quality measures for diagnosing and treating certain major types of cancer
Cancer statistics - Provides cancer statistics on incidence and survival data from 14 population-based cancer registries and three supplemental registries covering approximately 26 percent of the US population.
Capturing the real value of medical technology to society - The European Health Technology Institute for Socio-Economic Research (EHTI) has received a grant from the Institute for Health Technology Studies (InHealth) to provide evidence on the value of medical technology in improving health-related quality of life. Link to more information on this study.
CAQH (Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare) - Nonprofit alliance of health plans and trade associations. Seeks industry collaboration on initiatives that simplify healthcare administration and promotes quality interactions between plans, providers and other stakeholders.
Carotid Revascularization: Present Patterns of Use, What Will the Future Hold? (8/19/2010) - Upcoming AHRQ webcast.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) - Government-wide compendium of all federal programs, projects, services, and activities that provide assistance or benefits to the American public. Users can contact the office that administers a program for application instructions.
The CCDF Policies Database Book of Tables: Key Cross-State Variations in CCDF Policies as of October 1, 2011 - Child Care and Development Fund provides federal money to States, Territories, and Tribes to subsidize the cost of child care for lower-income families. This Book of Tables presents key aspects of the differences in CCDF-funded programs across United States, as of October 1, 2011.
CDC Conferences and Events - Highlights CDC conferences and events.
CDC Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Online Tools - The Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention has developed several online tools related to heart disease and stroke prevention data trends, policy, and training pieces for states.
CDC girding to open its cloud to public health - This article anticipates the potential effects of CDC's plan to open Informatics Research and Development Activity's cloud to federal, state, and local health departments.
CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities Report - United States, 2011 - Health disparities are differences in health outcomes between groups that reflect social inequalities. Despite progress over the past 20 years in reducing this problem, racial/ethnic, economic and other social disparities in health still exists and need to be addressed. This report is the first in a periodic series examining health disparities in the United States.
The CDC Public Health Law News - The CDC Public Health Law News is a monthly e-mail digest of current, worldwide news stories, court opinions, announcements and special features related to public health law and legislation. The News is free and available to anyone with an interest in public health law.
CDC Wonder - Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research. Access statistical research data published by CDC; Public-use data sets about deaths, cancer incidence, HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, vaccinations, births, census data and many other topics are available for query.
CDC's Prevention Research Centers - The Prevention Research Centers work as an interdependent network of community, academic, and public health partners to conduct prevention research and promote the wide use of practices proven to promote good health.
CDC's Procurement and Grants Office - Information on grants and business opportunities with the CDC.
Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research - The Center seeks to improve the health of individuals, families, and populations by understanding the problems, issues and alternatives in the design and delivery of health care services. This is accomplished through an interdisciplinary program of research, consultation, technical assistance and training that focuses on timely and policy-relevant questions concerning the accessibility, adequacy, organization, cost and effectiveness of health care services and the dissemination of this information to policy makers and the general public.
Center for Advancing Health - CFAH conducts research, communicates findings and advocates for policies that support everyone's ability to benefit from advances in health science.
Center for Clinical Health Policy Research - The Center develops state-of-the-art systematic reviews and meta-analyses, advances understanding of clinical topics, and is one of 13 Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs) nationwide designated and funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Center for Comparative Effectiveness in Genomic Medicine (CEGeM) - Coordinated, multidisciplinary center is the generation and synthesis of evidence to support the translation of genomic tools/markers into improvements in cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment and survivorship.
Center for Evidence-based Policy - The Center is a national leader in evidence-based decision making and policy design, working with federal, state and local policymakers in more than 20 states to use high-quality evidence to guide decisions, maximize resources and improve health outcomes.
Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc., Meetings - Upcoming meetings and events.
Center for Health Education Dissemination and Implementation Research (CHEDIR) - CHEDIR's mission is to conduct research on the production and dissemination of applicable concepts and practical tools for the integration of health care research and practice. To serve as a collaborative learning laboratory and a resource to stimulate, support, and evaluate high-priority translational research.
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion - An HSR&D Center of Excellence whose mission is to reduce disparities and promote equity in health and health care among vulnerable groups of veterans and other populations.
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, & Economic Research (CHQOER) - The Center's three research priority areas are: patient-centered care, medication effectiveness, and patient safety. Across these domains, researchers develop innovative methodologies and models of care to provide the most effective, efficient and appropriate care to our nation's veterans.
Center for Healthcare Strategies, Inc. - This is a non-profit health policy resource center dedicated to improving health care quality for low-income children, adults, people with chronic illnesses and disabilities, frail elders and racially and ethnically diverse populations experiencing disparities in care.
Center for Medical Technology Policy (CMTP) - Private, non-profit organization that provides a neutral forum in which patients, clinicians, payers, manufacturers and researchers can work together to design and implement prospective, real world studies to inform health care decisions.
Center for Medical Technology Policy (CMTP) Papers and Issue Briefs - These papers cover a range of topics, from comparative effectiveness methodologies to how clinical results may be used for evidence-based decision making.
Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation - Established by the Affordable Care Act, the Center for Innovation is a new engine for revitalizing and sustaining Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) as well as for improving the health care system for all Americans. The Innovation Center tests innovative care and payment models and encourages widespread adoption of practices that deliver better health care at lower costs.
Center for Mental Health Services Research Listserv - Electronic listserv of the Center. The mission of the Center for Mental Health Services Research is to be an internationally recognized academic center that conducts research on the nature, structure, effectiveness, and regulation of services for individuals with mental health conditions, and develops and disseminates knowledge to improve the lives of these individuals, their families, and other community members.
Center for Policy and Research Translation - Altarum Institute is a nonprofit health systems research and consulting organization. This blog is published on Tuesdays and Thursdays and contains content by health policy authorities.
Center for Public Health Systems and Services Research - Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, these grants encourage young investigators, including junior faculty and dissertation candidates, to submit proposals for an award of $10,000 to conduct research using PHSSR datasets from NLM's Health Services Research Resources (HSRR). New funding opportunities will become available in 2011.
Center for Public Health Systems and Services Research Discussion Twitter Feed - The CPHSSR's Twitter feed.
Center for Public Health Systems and Services Research Discussion YouTube Channel - The CPHSSR's YouTube channel.
The Center for Social Gerontology, Inc. - A non-profit research, training and social policy organization dedicated to promoting the individual autonomy of older persons and advancing their well-being in society. TCSG has pursued this goal through a wide variety of projects, including serving since 1985 as an Administration on Aging-funded National Support Center in Law & Aging.
Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) - A nonpartisan policy research organization located in Washington, D.C. HSC designs and conducts studies focused on the U.S. health care system to inform the thinking and decisions of policy makers in government and private industry.
Center for Studying Health System Change Conferences - Information on upcoming conferences.
Center for Studying Health System Change Surveys - The CTS includes periodic national surveys of households and physicians. For the first four rounds, the survey samples were concentrated in 60 communities that were randomly selected to provide a representative profile of change across the U.S. Among these communities, are 48 "large" metropolitan areas (with populations greater than 200,000), from which 12 communities were randomly selected to be studied in depth. Those 12 communities have larger survey samples and also comprise the communities used for the site visits. The latest rounds of the physician and household surveys, which are currently underway, are nationally representative but will not support community-level analyses.
Center of Excellence in Public Health Workforce Research and Policy - Based at the University of Kentucky, College of Public Health, the COEWRP is funded through a partnership between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Public Health Foundation to address the dearth of organized, interdiscipinary research about the characteristics and functions of the nation's public health workforce and the ability to develop cohesive policy and to fully understand the effect of that workforce on the public health system and population health.
Center of Excellence in Public Health Workforce Studies - The Office of Public Health Practice established a Center of Excellence in Public Health Workforce Studies in 2009 to conduct research on public health workforce capacity. Based at the Univeristy of Michigan, School of Public Health, funding support is provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through a cooperative agreement with the Public Health Foundation.
Center on Health Care Effectiveness - Resource for policymakers, the public, and other stakeholders, offering broad-based expertise to provide objective evidence to inform today's difficult health care decisions. Link to reports, publications, webinars.
Center on Health Disparities - The Center on Health Disparities was created to raise community awareness about local health disparities, improve capacity to deliver population-based care, and develop solutions to eliminate local disparities in health care.
Centers for Comparative and Health Systems Effectiveness - Developed to facilitate multidisciplinary, high impact comparative and systems effectiveness research and implementation. The CHASE Alliance consists of UW researchers and community partners interested in comparative effectiveness research, health disparities, health system evaluation, technology assessment, patient-centered outcomes, economic evaluation, and dissemination and translation.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) is one of the operating components of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. CDC's mission is to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Implementation Science - For the next phase of PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), increased attention will be given to evaluating the effectiveness and impact of PEPFAR programs; comparing evidence-based program models in complex health, social and economic contexts; and addressing operational questions related to program implementation within existing and developing health systems infrastructures.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Calendar - Upcoming events and conferences.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Public Health Preparedness and Response Research to Aid Recovery from Hurricane Sandy - This FOA will provide funds from the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013 to support research to aid recovery from the public health impact of Hurricane Sandy.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) Grant Opportunities - This website provides access to CMS Research & Demonstration grants, for example, the Hispanic Health Services Research grant program and the Historically Black Colleges and Universities grant.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. CMS is the federal agency which administers Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance Program. Provides information for health professionals, regional governments, and consumers.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Calendar of Events - Provides information about upcoming and past CMS events.
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine - Aims to develop, teach and promote evidence-based health care and provide support and resources to doctors and health care professionals to help maintain the highest standards of medicine.
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination - Part of the National Institute for Health Research, CRD undertakes high quality systematic reviews that evaluate the effects of health and social care interventions and the delivery and organisation of health care.
CER Database - Compiles comparative studies funded by NIH and AHRQ. The majority of these reviews are funded through the $1.1 billion in CER funding allocated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The database is accessible from the NPAF's website.
CER Evidence Summit - April 3-4 2012, Washington, DC - ExL Pharma's CER Evidence Summit: Counteracting the Impact of Generating Comparative Effectiveness Research Winners & Losers conference seeks to assist participants in developing a clear understanding of the role CER plays in both drug development and post-approval processes, as well as discovering new strategies in communicating CER evidence for life cycle management.
CER Inventory - Database intended to provide an inventory of comparative effectiveness research projects currently being funded by agencies within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), with the $1.1 billion dollars for comparative effectiveness research allocated in the 2009 stimulus legislation and projects being funded by the Effective Health Care Program at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
CER Newsfeed - Produced by the National Pharmaceutical Council, CER Newsfeed provides daily updates and information on CER.
CER Resources - This website provides access to CER datasets, CER presentations, and CER-related links.
Child and Adolescent Health - Tools, resources, and research findings.
Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit (CHEAR) - Research conducted by the CHEAR Unit provides information to improve the delivery of child health care and enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of public and private health care programs.
Child Health Insurance Research Initiative (CHIRI™) - CHIRI™ studies seek to uncover which health insurance and delivery features work best for low-income children, particularly minority children and those with special health care needs. Seven of the nine projects focus exclusively on or have separate analyses of children with special health care needs, and five explore disparities between minority and non-minority children.
Child Health Services Program at Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research - This program sponsors research and evaluation to assure that the health services available to children and women in their childbearing years are accessible, affordable, comprehensive, coordinated, community-based, culturally competent, and family-centered.
Child Health Services Research Discussion Board - The Child Health Services Research Interest Group provides a forum for researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and trainees to interact on health issues related to children. The Group provides opportunities to disseminate results, inform policy and clinical decision-making, build researchers' skills, and create networking opportunities for those interested in child health services.
Child Health Services Research Meeting Abstracts - Links to past meeting abstracts and poster presentations of the annual Child Health Services Research one-day meeting co-sponsored by AcademyHealth and AHRQ.
Child Health Services Research Speaker Series - AHRQ has sponsored a series of presentations on child health research issues since September 1999.
Child Trends
Child-Directed Marketing Within and Around Fast-Food Restaurants - The proportion of child-directed marketing within and around fast-food restaurants can vary by neighborhood income, race and ethnicity, according to this report.
Child-Only Coverage and the Affordable Care Act: Lessons for Policymakers - This Issue Brief from examines new state legislative and regulatory action to promote the availability of child-only policies in response to some insurers having ceased to offer coverage to children in need of individual health insurance.
Children of Immigrants Data Tool - Interactive tool designed to generate charts and tables with indicators on children, age 0 to 17, for the United States and for the 50 states and the District of Columbia using data from the American Community Survey.
Children's Electronic Health Record (EHR) Format - This format provides information to EHR system developers and others about the requirements that need to be present in an EHR system to address health care needs of children, especially those enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP.
Children's Health Coverage: Medicaid, CHIP, and Next Steps: View Video from 11/13/09 Briefing - The Alliance for Health Reform and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation co-sponsored this briefing to examine the factors which influence children's coverage. Questions addressed included: What are the trends in private sector coverage? How well are the enrollment simplification and outreach tools that are included in this year's CHIP reauthorization helping to reach those children who are eligible but unenrolled? How much does a child's coverage depend on where he or she lives?
The Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act: Progress After One Year - This issue of States in Action looks at progress in implementing these provisions and further opportunities for states a year after CHIPRA's enactment.
ChildStats.gov
CHIRr: Consumer Health Informatics Research Resource
CHP/PCOR Calendar of Events - This series of seminars and lectures on health policy and health-services research topics are generally free and open to the public.
Chronic Conditions Account For Rise In Medicare Spending From 1987 To 2006 - This study finds Health Care Reform must reflect changing health needs. The study notes that Medicare beneficiaries increasingly receive services for chronic conditions, including mental health conditions, rather than intensive inpatient services, such as episodic onsets of heart disease.
Chronic Conditions Dashboard - The Dashboard helps users find, analyze, and apply summarized data from CMS' Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse.
Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse - This database provides researchers with Medicare and Medicaid beneficiary, claims, and assessment data linked by beneficiary across the continuum of care. I
Clinical & Translational Science Awards - The Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs) program creates a definable academic home for clinical and translational research. CTSA institutions work to transform the local, regional, and national environment to increase the efficiency and speed of clinical and translational research across the country. In 2011, the CTSA Consortium reached its expected size of 60 medical research institutions located throughout the nation; linking them together to energize the discipline of clinical and translational science. The CTSA Consortium is funded by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Clinical & Translational Science Large Dataset Inventory - Inventory of datasets searchable by domain, population, unit of observation, publisher, time frame, and study design.
Clinical Data Research Network (CDRN) Applicant Town Hall - Registration is open for this free webinar, which will be held June 4, 2013 3:00 p.m. ET - 4:00 p.m. ET.
Clinical Practice Guidelines - Links to clinical practice guidelines.
Clinical Practice Guidelines We Can Trust - Eight standards are promoted in this report, including recommendations for establishing transparency in the practice, managing conflict of interest, external review, and group composition development.
Clinical Sites for an Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) (U01) - This grant would fund the establishment of clinical sites for an Undiagnosed Diseases Network.
Clinical/Research Electives Program: Health Services Research - This elective is intended for students who are interested in population-level health services research and disability-related public health issues. Previous coursework in research methods is helpful, but not required. Selection is based upon evidence of motivation to explore a breadth of topics included in health services research and appreciate potential policy implications. Applicants must possess good standing in medical school.
ClinicalTrials.gov - Registry of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world.
Closer Look: Health Disparities - Compare the Top 10 Causes of Death across Populations - This tool allows you to select specific demographics to examine disparities related to HP2020 goals.
Closing the Disparities Gap in Healthcare Quality With Performance Measurement and Public Reporting - This Issue Brief highlights the challenges the healthcare system faces as a result of disparities in care and summarizes initiatives at the national, regional, and local levels.
Closing the Gap in Healthcare Disparities through Dissemination and Implementation of Patient Centered Outcomes Research (U18) - This funding opportunity will support interventions that focus on the reduction of racial/ethnic healthcare disparities in under-resourced settings.
Closing the Quality Gap Series - This new series of reports focuses on improving the quality of health care through critical assessment of relevant evidence for selected settings, interventions, and clinical conditions.
CMA Infobase - Clinical practice guidelines produced or endorsed in Canada.
CMS 202 Comparative Effectiveness Research workshop scheduled for April 2011 - This workshop will familiarize attendees with the definition and principles of Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER), and how to conduct CER using quasi-experimental study designs in Medicare claims data.
CMS Chart Series
CMS Glossary - This searchable glossary explains terms found on the cms.hhs.gov Web site.
CMS Health Literacy Toolkit - Provides a detailed and comprehensive set of tools to help make written material in printed formats easier for people to read, understand, and use.
CMS Office of Legislation - The CMS Office of Legislation serves as a liaison and resource for the U.S. Congress to explain the polices, payment systems, and operations of the Medicare, Medicaid, and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The Office of Legislation responds to inquiries from Members of Congress and Congressional Committees.
CMS Office of the Actuary Health Reform Report - The report notes that 34 million uninsured people will gain coverage under the law, but that 23 million people, including 5 million illegal immigrants, will still be uninsured in 2019.
CMS Research Data Assistance Center (ResDAC) - Provides free assistance and training to academic and non-profit researchers interested in using CMS data for research.
CMS Research, Statistics, Data & Systems - This site provides access to CMS computer data and systems; research studies and reports; statistics, series, and trends; and files for order.
CMTP's Past Presentations - Links to various presentations on CER by CMTP staff.
Cochrane Collaboration - Improving healthcare decision-making globally, through systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare interventions.
Cochrane Collaboration Podcasts - Download podcasts on evidence-based healthcare.
The Cochrane Collaboration Top 50 Reviews - Cochrane Reviews are published in The Cochrane Library - an online collection of databases that brings together in one place rigorous and up-to-date research on the effectiveness of healthcare treatments and interventions, as well as methodology and diagnostic tests.
Collecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data in Electronic Health Records - Workshop Summary - The results of an IOM workshop held on October 12, 2012, this report looks at efforts to reduce health disparities of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people by including sexual orientation and gender identity in the electronic health record.
Colorado Department of Health: Health Data - Data from many programs within the State Health Department can be accessed at this site.
Colorado Trust - The Trust issues requests for proposals (RFP) and welcomes responses from nonprofit organizations and governmental entities across Colorado.
Commission to Build a Healthier America: Meeting - Registration is now open for the meeting, being held in Washington DC on June 19th, 2013. Separate registration is available for the webcast.
Common Ground: Transforming Public Health Information Systems - This White Paper presents the results of an RWJF funded initiative, which focused on helping public health agencies their information systems and systems performance, to better respond to health threats and chronic diseases.
Commonwealth Fund - Established in 1918 with the broad charge to enhance the common good, the mission of The Commonwealth Fund is to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults. This site provides access to data, surveys and numerous publications.
Commonwealth Fund - Implementation Science - Commonwealth has supported articles and conferences on implementation science.
Commonwealth Fund - Long-Term Care - Established in 1918 with the broad charge to enhance the common good, the mission of The Commonwealth Fund is to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults. This site provides access to data, surveys and numerous publications.
Commonwealth Fund - Quality - Links to publications, surveys, and other resources on health care quality.
The Commonwealth Fund Blog - Health policy blog from Commonwealth.
Commonwealth Fund E-mail Alerts - Sign up and manage e-alert subscriptions, publicly comment on select publications and other Web content, and save content to a personal library for easy reference.
Commonwealth Fund Health Care Disparities - The goals of the program are to improve the overall quality of health care delivered to low-income and minority Americans, and to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities. The program builds on efforts to improve quality of care overall in the United States, focusing on safety-net hospitals and ambulatory care providers serving large numbers of low-income and minority patients.
The Commonwealth Fund Health Care Reform Resources - Links to various multi-media formats featuring information on health care reform.
Commonwealth Fund Information for Grant Seekers - The Fund supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy. We are dedicated to helping people become more informed about their health care and improving care for vulnerable populations such as children, the elderly, low-income families, minorities, and the uninsured.
Commonwealth Fund Names David Blumenthal, M.D., as Its Next President
The Commonwealth Fund's 2009 International Symposium on Health Care Policy - Highlights of the ministers' roundtable from The Commonwealth Fund's 2009 International Symposium on Health Care Policy, "Top Priorities for Achieving a High Performance Health Care System." Participants included Carolyn Clancy, M.D., director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Andy Burnham MP, Secretary of State for Health, England; Thomas Björn Zeltner, M.D., former Secretary of State for Health, Switzerland; Abraham (Ab) Klink, Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, The Netherlands; Dr. Jonathan Coleman, Associate Minister of Health, New Zealand; Karin Johansson, State Secretary for Health, Sweden; Lord Ara Darzi, KBE, M.D., Former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, England.
The Communication Toolkit: Using Information to Get High Quality Care - Contains customizable materials to support consumers in identifying, understanding, and using health care information and evidence.
Community Benefit: Moving Forward with Evidence-Based Policy and PracticeProceedings of a National Conference (Fall 2009) - Published by Saint Louis University and Missouri Foundation for Health, this report describes the results of a June 27, 2009, preconference to the Annual Research Meeting of Academy Health.
The Community Guide (Guide to Community Preventive Services) - Free resource to help choose programs and policies to improve health and prevent disease in communities.
Community Health Centers in an Era of Health Reform: An Overview and Key Challenges to Health Center Growth - This brief looks at the impact of federally funded community health centers and the impact of the Affordable Care Act on their continued growth.
Community Health Data Initiative - The Community Health Data Initiative is a collaborative effort among government and non-government partners to establish a network of suppliers and demanders of community health data, indicators, and interventions. Its purpose is to help Americans understand health and health care system performance in their communities, thereby sparking and facilitating action to improve performance and value.
Community Health Indicators for the Washington Metropolitan Region - Report highlights some health problems in the Washington area and indicates that health can differ quite dramatically depending upon where one lives in the region. Race and ethnicity, education and income, family history and early life experience, even the neighborhoods and homes in which people live are important factors in determining health. These factors are collectively referred to as the social determinants of health.
Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) - County-specific data and reports on health status indicators. States and counties can use the indicators to check county health status, compare one's county to peers and the U.S., and characterize the overall health of the county and its citizens to support health planning.
Community Partnerships for Older Adults - This project report from an eight-year, RWJF initiative, discusses various projects meant to improve long-term care for the elderly.
Community Tool Box - The Community Tool Box is a global resource for free information on essential skills for building healthy communities. Its goal is to promote community health and development by connecting people, ideas and resources
Community Tool to Align Measurement - NQF's Community Tool to Align Measurement (Alignment Tool), developed in collaboration with the 16 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) community alliances, supports decisions to align measurement and public reporting. The Alignment Tool is a snapshot in time (as of February 2012) of the measures in use by the 16 AF4Q Alliances.
Community Tracking Study Physician Survey - The Community Tracking Study (CTS) Physician Survey was conducted in 1996-97, 1998-99, 2000-01 and 2004-05. Each of the first three surveys included responses from approximately 12,000 physicians; the fourth included more than 6,600 physicians. Data collection was focused primarily on physicians practicing in 60 randomly selected U.S. communities, allowing analyses to be conducted at both the national and community level. The CTS Physician Surveys were conducted by telephone by The Gallup Organization. Many of the same questions were asked during each round of the CTS Physician Survey, allowing researchers to track changes over time. In 2008, the CTS Physician Survey was replaced by the HSC Health Tracking Physician Survey, which included information from more than 4,700 physicians.
Community Transformational Grants: Funded National Networks - CDC has announced the three Dissemination and 3 Acceleration grants that will be funded under their Community Transformational Grants program. These grants will support dissemination and amplification of Evidence-based strategies to rural and frontier areas and areas with health disparities.
Community-Based Participatory Research at NIMH (R21)
Comparative Effectiveness and Personalized Medicine: An Essential Interface - Conference Blog - Post conference blog to the October 19-20, 2010, CER conference. Panelists participated in the blog for one week after the conference.
Comparative Effectiveness and Personalized Medicine: An Essential Interface - Videocast of Day One (10/19/2010) - A national conference on the status of comparative effectiveness research and its use in policy and practice.
Comparative Effectiveness and Personalized Medicine: An Essential Interface - Videocast of Day Two (10/20/2010) - Videocast of day two of a national conference on the status of comparative effectiveness research and its use in policy and practice.
Comparative Effectiveness News - Quarterly newsletter produced by the AHRQ Effective Health Care Program, covering the Program's recent activities and new research findings.
Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) Funded by ARRA in FY 2009 - Map and table show the number of grants funded and the total dollars awarded for research by state, territory, or district.
Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) Survey Course - This course will discuss the process, concepts and value of CER.
Comparative Effectiveness Research and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research in Public Health Settings: Design, Analysis and Funding Considerations - This presentation looks at the role of public health in PCOR and CER.
Comparative Effectiveness Research and Payers - During the recent Drug Information Association Annual Meeting, the National Pharmaceutical Council caught up with several health care experts to ask their thoughts on how payers are using comparative effectiveness research (CER). Visitors can view video interviews from this link.
Comparative Effectiveness Research and the Environment for Health Care Decision Making: A 2012 Survey of Health Care Stakeholders - NPC conducted a baseline survey (2010-2011) on a series of issues that describe elements of the changing decision-making environment. In 2011-2012, they re-surveyed stakeholders to assess changes in perceptions.
Comparative Effectiveness Research Funding - Information on ARRA, links to listening sessions on public comment on CER, and links to research plans from NIH, AHRQ, and the Office of the Secretary.
Comparative Effectiveness Research Glossary of Terms - Glossary of terms used in comparative effectiveness research.
Comparative Effectiveness Research Grant and ARRA Awards - These grants are funded by AHRQ as part of its comparative effectiveness portfolio.
Comparative Effectiveness Research Key Function Committee - Builds the field of CER by creating a learning community across CTSA institutions, spurring methods development, expanding training/education, promoting community/public engagement, and application of CER findings.
Comparative Effectiveness Research Online Training Center - These resources were developed with funding from the National Institutes of Health to provide training in Comparative Effectiveness Research methodology and application. While the IOM Priority Area for this program was Birth Outcomes, the modules were created to addresses CER methods and application more generally. There are 16 modules.
Comparative Effectiveness Research Public Use Data Pilot Project - Chronic Conditions - As part of the Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) Public Use Data Pilot Project, IMPAQ completed the CMS 2008 Chronic Conditions Public Use File (PUF). This PUF is an aggregated file in which each record is a profile or cell defined by the characteristics of Medicare beneficiaries. A profile is defined by all combinations of age category, gender, various chronic conditions, and dual-eligibility status of the beneficiaries. For each profile many claim related variables are provided in the form of averages.
Comparative Effectiveness Research Webinar - Join Winifred S. Hayes, MS, PhD, RN, President and CEO of Hayes, Inc. as she moderates a timely discussion on Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER).
Comparative Effectiveness Research: Methods and Applications, May 11-12, 2011 - The conference is being sponsored by The North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute, the UNC-GSK Center of Excellence in Pharmacoepidemiology and Public Health, and the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. The conference's theme will be "Comparative Effectiveness Research: Methods and Applications."
Comparative Effectiveness Resource Center - Educational site with access to resources ranging from national policy conference recordings to perspectives from leading experts, as well as links to position statements by stakeholder groups.
Comparing Health Care Quality: A National Directory - This website provides access to publicly available, free reports with information about the process of delivering care, actual outcome for patients, what patients said in surveys about their experience with physicians or hospitals, and/or cost.
Comparing Rural and Urban Medicare Part D Enrollment Patterns and Prescription Drug Coverage Rates - This study examined Medicare Part D enrollment rates in rural and urban areas and the resulting impact on rural beneficiaries' overall prescription drug coverage rates.
Compendium of Health Services Research to Inform Health Reform - AcademyHealth developed this compendium of ongoing or recently-completed health services research that has been funded by federal agencies and national foundations as a resource to inform health reform activities over the next few years.
Competency Assessments for Public Health Professionals
Competency Examination Program - Northern Virginia Community College has been awarded a two-year cooperative agreement to develop health information technology competency examinations for individuals completing short-term, non-degree training programs, and members of the workforce with relevant experience or others types of training.
The Composition of Children Enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP: A Summary - This fact sheet looks at the racial and ethnic variation in residential patterns and health status for children in Medicaid and CHIP.
Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR) - CEDR is a public-use repository of data from occupational and environmental health studies of workers at DOE facilities and nearby community residents.
Concentrated Poverty and Regional Equity: Findings from the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership Share Indicators Initiative - This paper looks at the relationship between concentrated poverty and regional equity.
Concepts in Economic Evaluation - This free, online course describes how economic theory is linked to economic evaluation techniques like cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis and introduces concepts that are specific to economic evaluation.
Confronting Costs: Stabilizing U.S. Health Spending While Moving Toward a High Performance Health Care System - This report examines specific ways in with health spending could be limited to a rate no greater than that of long-term growth in GDP.
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) - CBO provides budgetary and economic information in a variety of ways and at various points in the legislative process.
Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog - Since its founding in 1974, the Congressional Budget Office has produced independent, nonpartisan, timely analysis of economic and budgetary issues to support the Congressional budget process. The agency's long tradition of nonpartisanship is evident in each of the dozens of reports and hundreds of cost estimates its economists and policy analysts produce each year.
Connecticut Department of Public Health Statistics & Research - Access a variety of data (i.e., disparities, health statistics, population statistics) at this site.
Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine - Mission is to help transform medicine and healthcare through rigorous scientific studies, new models of clinical care, and innovative educational programs that integrate biomedicine, the complexity of human beings, the intrinsic nature of healing and the rich diversity of therapeutic systems. Conducts health services research.
Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine Events - Links to calendar of events.
Consumer-directed Health Plans: Do They Deliver? - This synthesis report and policy brief from RWJF, look at the impact of Consumer-directed health plans on the insurance market.
Controlling Health Insurance Premiums: Perspectives from the States, the Federal Government and Industry - The Affordable Care Act creates a process for states and the Department of Health and Human Services to review "unreasonable" premium increases and provide information to consumers about the process. The rules governing this rate review process went into effect September 1, 2011. This briefing by the Kaiser Family Foundation, held on September 22, 2011, addressed how these new rules might work and what the implications may be for the growth in health insurance premiums and the underlying cost of health care.
Cooperative Agreements for State Adolescent Treatment Enhancement and Dissemination - The purpose of this program is to provide funding to states/territories/tribes to improve treatment for adolescents and transitional aged youth through the development of a learning laboratory with collaborating local community-based treatment provider sites.
Core Centers for Musculoskeletal Biology and Medicine (P30) - This grant would support Research Core Centers in musculoskeletal biology and medicine, providing shared facilities and services to groups of established, currently funded investigators in this area.
Core Health Policy Library Recommendations, 2011 - This list focuses on core (essential/indispensible) health policy materials-books (print and e-books), journals (print and online), bibliographic databases, and select electronic resources such as alerts, blogs, newsletters, and Websites.
The Cost and Coverage Implications of the ACA Medicaid Expansion: National and State-by-State Analysis - This report provides state-by-state estimates of the impact of ACA on federal and state Medicaid costs, Medicaid enrollment, and the number of uninsured.
County Health Rankings & Roadmaps - Provides county-by-county health rankings in each of the 50 states, explanations of each health factor, and actionable strategies to improve the health of communities across the nation.
Creating "Systemness" within Healthcare Delivery: Can Success be Proven and Shared? - Presentations, videos, and biographies are available from this conference held November 28-29, 2012, in Washington, DC,
Creating Equal Opportunities for a Healthy Weight - A Workshop - Registration is open for this meeting, being held June 6-7, 2013 in Washington, DC.
Crisis Standards of Care: A Systems Framework for Catastrophic Disaster Response - This report is based on the work of a committee that developed guidance to enable health officials to establish and implement standards of care during disasters.
Cross-Cutting Issues: Progress in Implementing Selected Medicaid Provisions of the Affordable Care Act: A 10-State Analysis - Using data from 10 states (Alabama, Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Virginia), this report analyzes the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, with particular emphasis on modernization of Medicaid.
Culture, Language and Health Literacy - This collection of resources, including toolkits, videos, and workbooks, is aimed at healthcare providers, to enable them to better address the cultural, language and health literacy needs of their consumers.
The Current and Future Role and Impact of Medicaid in Rural Health - RUPRI examines the impact of Medicaid as a safety net in rural communities, as well as being a source of health care financing for the rural health system.
Current Challenges In Comparative Effectiveness Research - Videos from the briefing held October 11, 2012 in Washington, D.C. are available. Included are discussion on "Legal Issues On Promotion And Communication Of Comparative Effectiveness Research", "Patients' Concerns And Patient Centeredness", "The Use Of Research By Payers And Clinicians", and "Moving Comparative Effectiveness Research Forward".
Current OBSSR Funding Opportunities
Current RFAs
Cyber Seminars - Cyber seminars provide state-of-the-art training and special interest sessions as live Web conferences and as on demand archived presentations.
Cyberinfrastructure Training, Education, Advancement, and Mentoring for Our 21st Century Workforce

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