This interim report, the first of two reports to Congress, uses qualitative and quantitative data to document the development of the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), particularly focusing on changes states have made since Congress reauthorized CHIP in 2009. The report found that CHIP...

At the start of implementation of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, this article found that a minority of U.S. hospitals, 10.7 percent, exchange clinical data electronically with unaffiliated providers.

In this study, school children wore a validated accelerometer and completed the Previous Day Physical Activity Recall for three consecutive days. When applied to the holdout sample, an algorithm of predicted minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity showed good agreement with the actual...

This report estimates the effects of reimbursement strategies and provider-level interventions to reduce hospital readmissions. Several quality-improvement interventions have proved effective in reducing readmission rates, but relatively few hospitals have adopted these programs, in large part...

This article examines the central role academic medicine can play in the growth of comparative effectiveness research, the implications of this research for comprehensive health care reform, and opportunities to use evidence-based medicine to address high costs and suboptimal outcomes in the...

This document presents a proposal for enhancement of the Benefit Offset Simulation Model (BOSIM), which was initially developed to support the design of the Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND). BOND tests alternative Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) work rules that increase...