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• Daily HealthBeat Tip Podcasts Details

  - Link to various HealthBeat podcasts, many of which are HSR-related.

• DATA - Data Across Sectors for Health Details

  - DASH is a national initiative to support multi-sector collaborations sharing data and information to improve the health of their communities.

• Data Acquisition, Curation, and Use for a Continuously Learning Health System Details

  - A open access article from JAMA on developing a learning health system where all stakeholders can contribute, share, and analyze data that can be used by multiple health information systems.

• Data and Program Reports Details

  - Starting from February 2016, Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records Incentive Program payment and registration data in report form are available.

• Data and Statistics: Tools & Maps Details

  - This site provides access to several NYC tools for statistical analysis, including: Epiquery, Environmental Public Health Tracking portal, Birth and Death Records, Childhood Lead Poisoning, Injury, Pregnancy Risks and The Geographical Information System (GIS) Center.

• Data Breach Aftermath and Recovery for Individuals and Institutions: Proceedings of a Workshop (2016) Details

  - Summary of a January 2016 National Academies workshop on how organizations can work to protect and help consumers after a data breach.

• Data Brief: Evaluation of National Distributions of Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings Details

  - CMS has worked to standardize hospital ratings and has created a new consumer site Hospital Compare, a searchable database of hospitals and ratings. This brief discusses the measures and data used to create the ratings.

• Data for Change: How States Have Used APCDs to Drive Innovation Details

  - An overview of how state-run all-payer claims databases can support evidence-based policymaking and help patients navigate the health care system.

• Data for Individual Health (2014) Details

  - Building on the JASON study, this report looked at the possibilites of developing a health data infrastructure capable of bridging from a health IT technology vision focused on the care of individuals to one focused on the health of individuals.

• Data Harmonization Advisory Committee Details

  - Consists of members from the PHSSR community including: National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO), Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), National Association of Local Boards of Health (NALBOH), local, state and federal systems researchers and academic institutions. Its main goal is to review the primary data survey instruments used by NACCHO, ASTHO and NALBOH to collect program activity data, governance and population data of local & state governing bodies of health throughout the nation.

• Data Methods Toolkit Details

  - Provides information on qualitative methods which are most often used in implementation research and quantitative methods most often used in impact evaluation

• Data quality: strategies for improving healthcare data Details

  - A post on strategies to establish value for clinicians and healthcare providers, provide interoperability, and monitor and share data.

• Data Repository - Colorado Health Institute Details

  - Data from Colorado counties, also arranged under broad topics. The repository is also searchable.

• Data Resource Center for Children and Adolescent Health Glossary of Terms Details

  - Glossary of terms.

• Data Visualization Skills and Tools for Librarians Details

  - Originally aired on October 28, 2015, the archived version of the webcast is available for purchase.

• Data.CMS.gov Details

  - This tool derives its data from the Physician and Other Supplier Public Use File, describing care delivered to Medicare beneficiaries in the fee-for-service program.

• DATA.gov Details

  - Provides access to datasets generated by the Federal Government and includes descriptions of the datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets.

• Database of HSR&D Citations Details

  - Updated monthly, this searchable database contains citations from journals, meetings, conferences, and reports that are credited to VA HSR&D researchers.

• Database of Promoting Health Effectiveness Reviews (DoPHER) Details

  - Focused coverage of systematic and non-systematic reviews of effectiveness in health promotion and public health worldwide. This register currently contains details of over 2,500 reviews of health promotion and public health effectiveness.

• Databaseof Instruments for Resource Use Measurement (DIRUM) Details

  - DIRUM is an open-access database of resource-use questionnaires for use by health economists involved in trial-based economic evaluations

• DataFinder Details

  - Search for indicators and locations, and create custom reports.

• DataONE Data Catalog Details

  - DataONE search allows the user to search 168,000 publicly accessible data packages, with information relevant to community-related health research.

• DataONE Webinar Series Details

  - One-hour Webinars on data science occur monthly at 9am (PT) on the second Tuesday of the month.

• Dating Matters: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships - Capacity Assessment and Planning Tool (DM-CAPT) Details

  - DM-CAPT is a free online tool that allows comprehensive teen dating prevention initiatives to assess their capacity to implement comprehensive teen dating violence prevention programs by surveying stakeholders.

• Dating Matters: Understanding Teen Dating Violence Prevention Details

  - This free online course is designed to communicate the relevance of teen dating violence prevention to educators, school personnel, youth leaders, and others working to improve the health of teens. It is part of a set of tools which allows comprehensive teen dating prevention initiatives to assess their capacity to implement comprehensive teen dating violence prevention programs by surveying stakeholders.

• David A. Winston Health Policy Fellowship Details

  - A 12-month health policy fellowship in Washington, D.C.. Applications due October 14, 2016.

• David and Lucile Packard Foundation Details

  - The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is a private foundation located in California that invests in and takes smart risks with innovative people and organizations to improve the lives of children, enable the creative pursuit of science, advance reproductive health, and conserve and restore earth's natural systems.

• DBH Training Institute: Behavioral Health Education & e-Learning Details

  - Classroom and online training events sponsored by the DC Department of Behavioral Health Training Institute.

• Debunk the Myths: Grant Application Video Series
• December 14, 2011, Quality Net Conference - Speech by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Details

  - This links to the speech made by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at the CMS QualityNet Conference.

• Delaware Health Information and Statistics Details

  - Access statistics and demographics.

• Delivering coordinated, high quality care for patients Details

  - A post from CMS on the advantages to the new bundled payment models proposed in July.

• Delivering on the Promise of Better Care for Older Adults Details

  - A post from the CMS blog on the recent update to the Programs of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE).

• The DELTA FOCUS Program: Intimate Partner Violence is Preventable Details

  - DELTA FOCUS (Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancements and Leadership Through Alliances, Focusing on Outcomes for Communities United with States) is a five-year cooperative agreement funding a 10 state domestic violence coalition (Alaska, California, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island) to engage in primary prevention of intimate partner violence.

• Demand-Driven Open Data Details

  - DDOD is a framework of tools and methodologies to provide a systematic, ongoing and transparent mechanism. Users may request specific data for their own use case.

• Democratizing Health: The Power of Community (September 2016) Details

  - An article that discusses benefits to and examples of how health is being democratized in California.

• Demographics and Health Care Access and Utilization of Limited-English-Proficient and English-Proficient Hispanics (2008) Details

  - This report is based on data from the 2004 Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS-HC). Updates to prior work are presented through a profile of LEP Hispanic adults and their health care using a large national sample and a respondent-report measure of English proficiency.

• Demonstrating Impact of a Model Pediatric EHR Format Details

  - This model EHR record format for children is the result of a grant to 10 states, and several states will be evaluating the project.

• Department of Defense (DOD) Details

  - The DOD funds health services research studies, e.g., impact of discrimination on medical care and quality of life for breast cancer survivors; quality of care indicators for early-stage prostate cancer.

• Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) Details

  - DHSS is the government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services.

• Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research & Development Funding Details

  - This page provides information on Veterans Administration HSR&D funding programs and research solicitations.

• Department of Veterans Affairs/Health Services Research and Development Meetings Details

  - Highlights HSR&D's upcoming and past meetings.

• Design and Implementation of N-of-1 Trials: A User's Guide Details

  - This document discusses the design and implementation of n-of-1 trials.

• Designing an Exchange: A Toolkit for State Policymakers Details

  - Designed to provide technical assistance to states, this legislative toolkit will assist with the design of health insurance Exchanges.

• Designing Consumer Health IT: A Guide for Developers and Systems Designers (2012) Details

  - This guide is aimed at IT developers, and presents the 10 recommendations that can be used to produce outstanding consumer IT products.

• Designing Health Literate Mobile Apps Details

  - This discussion paper presents a case study to assist developers in creating health literate mobile apps.

• Designing More Affordable and Effective Health Care Details

  - A new website discusses an ongoing case study which health care delivery is being adjusted to meet the needs of high-need, high-cost patients and other vulnerable populations.

• Detailed reports on the financial outlook for Social Security's Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) Trust Funds Details

  - The Social Security Act requires that the Board, among other duties, report annually to the Congress on the actuarial (financial) status of the OASI and DI Trust Funds.

• Detecting Potential Overbilling in Medicare Reimbursement via Hours Worked Details

  - A new brief from the Leonard Davis Institute examines the means available to detect the 3% of physicians who overbill for Medicare services.

• Determining and Controlling the Cost of Health Care Details

  - A health policy Snapshot looks at health care price transparency and the ways in which to create a more efficient health care delivery model.

• Developing a Framework for Evaluating the Patient Engagement, Quality, and Safety of Mobile Health Applications Details

  - A new study examines the ways in which pricing subsidies influence the demand for information about a new preventative health technology.

• Developing a Protocol for Observational Comparative Effectiveness Research: A User's Guide Details

  - The intention of this User's Guide is to identify standards and best practices for designing observational comparative effectiveness research.

• Developing Alternative Payment Models: Key Considerations and lessons Learned from Years of Collaboration with CMS Details

  - A new issue brief looks at the issues that arise in designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating alternative payment models

• Developing Measures of Shared Decision Making (R01) Details

  - A grant to fund applications to develop, test, and evaluate measures of shared decision making between clinicians and patients that can be used to conduct research in clinical settings.

• Developing New Clinical Decision Support to Disseminate and Implement Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Findings (R18) Details

  - This funding opportunity supports research projects which will facilitate the dissemination and implementation of findings from Patient-Centered Outcomes Research into clinical practice.

• Development of the Community Health Improvement Navigator Database of Interventions Details

  - This report describes the development of the database of interventions included in the Community Health Improvement Navigator. The database of interventions allows the user to easily search for multisector, collaborative, evidence-based interventions to address the underlying causes of the greatest morbidity and mortality in the United States: tobacco use and exposure, physical inactivity, unhealthy diet, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity.

• Development of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Survey of Health Attitudes: Description and Top-Line Summary Data Details

  - A free ebook examines the development of the National Survey of Health Attitudes.

• Diagnostic and Treatment Guidelines on Domestic Violence (1992) Details

  - These guidelines are intended to: provide an overview of the issue, assist in identification of victims through screening, help in the assessment of impact, provide questions to meaningful responses, provide resources for referral and the legal aspects of reporting requirements.

• Differences in Receipt of Three Preventive Health Care Services by Race/Ethnicity in Medicare Advantage Plans: Tracking the Impact of Pay for Performance, 2010 and 2013 Details

  - An article from Preventing Chronic Disease on racial/ethnic disparities based on the Quality Bonus Payment Demonstration, a pay-for-performance (P4P) program added to Medicare Advantage plans.

• Directory of Health Organizations Details

  - This link provides access to a database containing location and descriptive information about a wide variety of information resources including organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned with health and biomedicine. Each record may contain information on the publications, holdings, and services provided.

• Directory of Implementation Science Training Programs (March, 2011) Details

  - This training directory lists fellowships, short-term training programs and other resources for training in the field of dissemination and implementation science (and related fields such as Knowledge Translation, etc.).

• Directory of Training Programs in Health Services Research and Health Policy Details

  - A searchable database of information about U.S. and international post-baccalaureate certificate, master's, doctoral, and postdoctoral programs in the fields of health services research and health policy

• Disability Research and Policy: New Evidence and Promising Ideas Details

  - Presentations from the Disability Research Center Annual Meeting on October 15-16, 2013 are available

• Disaster Recovery in the Cloud Details

  - This on-demand one-hour webinar looks at the Cloud as a venue for Disaster Recovery.

• Disparities in Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Mental Health Services in the U.S. Details

  - A report which investigates disparities in mental health and mental health services for minority youth.

• Disparities in Health and Health Care: Five Key Questions and Answers Details

  - This brief looks at health care disparities using several factors including race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, geographic location, age, and language.

• Disparities in Individuals' Access and Use of Health Information Technology in 2014 Details

  - Data Brief 34 examines individual's use of online medical records, and the disparities shown from EHR access.

• Disparities in Mental Health Services Research Details

  - This program plans, stimulates, disseminates, and supports research on the complex factors that influence disparities in mental health services, particularly across special population groups such as racial and ethnic groups, as well as women and children, and persons living in rural and frontier areas.

• Disparities in the Health and Well-Being of Children and Youth in Rural Areas Details

  - A May 2016 webinar from the Altarum Institute that discussed rural childrens' health, mortality, trends, and challenges.

• Disparities Policy
• Disrupting the Status Quo: Seeking Innovations from Poorer Communities, RWJF Call for Proposals. Details

  - RWJF issues a call for proposals that seeks to support evaluation of disruptive innovations that improve the health of low-resource communities-without increasing costs.

• Dissemination & Implementation Measurement Compendium (2012) Details

  - This white paper provides researchers with a synthesis of validated measurement tools designed to assess D&I-related constructs.

• Dissemination and Implementation Details

  - This website links to dissemination and implementation meetings and webinars.

• Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01) Details

  - This FO would support efforts to identify, develop, test, evaluate and/or refine strategies to disseminate and implement evidence-based practices into public health, clinical practice, and community settings

• Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R03) Details

  - This FO would support efforts to identify, develop, test, evaluate and/or refine strategies to disseminate and implement evidence-based practices into public health, clinical practice, and community settings

• Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R21) Details

  - This FO would support efforts to identify, develop, test, evaluate and/or refine strategies to disseminate and implement evidence-based practices into public health, clinical practice, and community settings

• Dissemination and Implementation Roundtable Details

  - This webinar took place on July 29, 2013. The slides and agenda are available.

• Dissemination and Implementation Science Data Sources Details

  - This website provides access to related data sources and tools, compiled by CHEDIR.

• Dissemination of Rural Health Research: A Toolkit Details

  - This toolkit is designed to assist researchers in reaching their target audiences through the development of appropriate, timely, accessible, and applicable products.

• Dissemination Toolkit: New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research Details

  - Resources to support the goals of a 2013 workshop on child abuse and neglect are available.

• District of Columbia's Department of Health Details

  - The Mission of the Department of Health is to promote and protect the health, safety and quality of life of residents, visitors and those doing business in the District of Columbia.

• Diversitydata.org
• DiversityDataKids Details

  - This tool allows you to analyze data by race/ethnicity, compare data across states, metropolitan areas, counties, large cities, and large school districts, and compare policy indicators across states.

• Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP) Details

  - Mission is to protect patients and healthcare personnel and promote safety, quality, and value in the healthcare delivery system by providing national leadership.

• Do Cultural Competency Interventions Work?: A Systematic Review on Improving Rehabilitation Outcomes for Ethnically and Linguistically Diverse Individuals with Disabilities (2011) Details

  - This Technical Brief from SEDL describes a systematic review which looked at the ability of cultural competency interventions to improve rehabilitation outcomes for ethnically and linguistically diverse individuals with disabilities, and if so, for whom and under what conditions.

• Do Health Impact Assessments Make a Difference?: A National Evaluation of HIAs in the United States Details

  - The methods by which to conduct and screen HIA targets effectively are discussed in this 2014 brief and supplement

• Doctors use Bitcoin tech to improve transparency in clinical trial research Details

  - Using Bitcoin technology, a new method which would prevent clinical trial documents from being altered has been developed.

• DOD Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs Details

  - Provides a brief description and key elements of all award mechanisms.

• Does ACA Insurance Coverage Expansion Improve the Financial Performance of Rural Hospitals? (2016) Details

  - In a new findings brief, the effect of the ACA on changes in payer mix, uncompensated care and unreimbursed costs and financial performance in hospitals.

• Does Equitable Access to Healthcare Include Access to Electronic Health Records? Details

  - An article summarizing EHR use at the state level. Also includes an Excel spreadsheet that compares meaningful use and EHR adoption at the state level.

• Does Medicare Advantage Cost Less Than Traditional Medicare? Details

  - This issue brief provides an analysis of the costs of Medicare Advantage vs. traditional Medicare.

• Does The Hospital Compare 5-Star Rating Promote Public Health? Details

  - A discussion of the CMS' Hospital Compare quality scores and how a focus on quality can improve community health.

• Domestic Violence and Abuse: How Health Services, Social Care and the Organisations They Work with can Respond Effectively (NICE) (2014) Details

  - The National Institute on Health and Care Excellence (NICE-UK) have established guidelines on domestic violence and abuse, including violence perpetrated on men, on those in same-sex relationships and on young people.

• Domestic Violence Legislation 2013-2014 Details

  - This document outlines state policies over a two-year period in the areas of domestic violence, victim's rights, and funding for victim services.

• Domestic Violence Quality Assessment/Quality Improvement Tool for Clinics, Hospitals, and Other Health Systems Details

  - A tool which allows healthcare organizations to assess and improve quality of care in relation to domestic violence.

• Domestic Violence Resource Network (DVRN) Details

  - The Network includes two national resource centers, four special issue resource centers, three culturally-specific resource centers, the National Domestic Violence Hotline, and the National LGBTQ DV Capacity Building Learning Center. The DVRN works collaboratively to promote practices and strategies to improve our nation's response to domestic violence.

• Domestic Violence Screening and Assessment Protocol for Preventive Services (2012) Details

  - A set of tools to assist in the screening for child and intimate partner abuse.

• Domestic Violence/Domestic Abuse Definitions and Relationships Details

  - This website outlines state laws on domestic violence or abuse, the individual definitions of conduct amounting to domestic violence or abuse, and the relationships which may be considered domestic violence or abuse.

• Domestic Violence: Understanding the Basics Details

  - This 1 hour interactive eLearning module is designed to acquaint new advocates and health care professionals with the issues surrounding domestic violence.

• Dr. Know: A Knowledge Commons in Health Details

  - This paper argues for an open system of knowledge, what it would mean, and how to reach the goal.

• Dr. Rima Rudd on Health Literacy Details

  - Dr. Rudd discusses the need to define and develop health literacy environments that support scientific principles, integrate health literacy findings and are conducive to efficacious action at an April 2015 conference.

• Draft 2017 Interoperability Standards Advisory Details

  - The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published the draft 2017 Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) for public comment.

• Draft Health Center Program Compliance Manual Details

  - Comments are solicited on this draft manual, and will be accepted until 11:59pm ET on November 22, 2016.

• Draft Research Plan for Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse of Elderly and Vulnerable Adults: Screening Details

  - The final Research Plan will be used to guide a systematic review of the evidence by researchers at an Evidence-based Practice Center. The resulting Evidence Review will form the basis of the USPSTF Recommendation Statement on this topic.

• Drug Approvals and Databases Details

  - Links to various FDA databases, i.e., Adverse Event Reporting post-marketing safety surveillance program, Orange Book, Clinical Investigator Inspection List, Bioresearch Monitoring Information System, Dissolution Methods, etc.

• Drug Effectiveness Review Project (DERP) Details

  - Collaboration of the Center for Evidence-based Policy and the Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center who have joined together to produce systematic, evidence-based reviews of the comparative effectiveness and safety of drugs in many widely used drug classes, and to apply the findings to inform public policy and related activities in local settings.

• Drugs and Alcohol: Open Access Sources Details

  - (Virginia Commonwealth University) - This web portal uses open access initiatives to provide drug abuse prevention, treatment, and policy stakeholders with access to journal articles, monographs, book chapters, conference proceedings, technical manuals, and education and training resources.

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