Product Description: An evaluation of the first two years of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and Veterans' Affairs' Patient Safety Improvement Corps program for improving health care professionals' patient-safety knowledge and skills. Data were collected through in-person interviews at the final training session, and through telephone follow-up interviews one year later...read more

Product Description: The papers in these proceedings were selected from those presented at a May 2003 research colloquium on the workers' compensation medical benefit delivery system and workers' return to work after treatment. They provide an overview of the access, cost, and quality issues confronting the system and identify mechanisms that might improve the quality and efficiency of the medical care provided to injured workers...read more