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Engaging Primary Care Practices in Quality Improvement: Strategies for Practice Facilitators

Kristin Geonnotti, Erin Fries Taylor, Deborah Peikes, Lisa Schottenfeld, Hannah Burak, Robert McNellis and Janice Genevro

Family Self-Sufficiency: A Holistic View of Self-Regulation and Its Implications for Human Services Programs

Elizabeth Cavadel and Jacqueline Kauff

Design and Methods in the Early Head Start Study

Richard A. Faldowski, Rachel Chazan-Cohen, John M. Love and Cheri Vogel

Nonsampling Error in a Survey of Department of Defense Health Care Beneficiaries

Nancy A. Clusen, Eric Schone, Daniel Kasprzyk and Thomas V. Williams

Empirical Bayes Shrinkage Estimates of State Food Stamp Participation Rates for 1994-1999

Allen L. Schirm and Laura A. Castner

The Right Tool for the Job: A Meta-Regression of Employment Strategies' Effects on Different Outcomes

Lauren Vollmer, Annalisa Mastri, Alyssa Maccarone and Emily Sama-Miller

Medicare Advantage in 2006-2007: What Congress Intended?

Marsha Gold

Charter-School Management Organizations: Diverse Strategies and Diverse Student Impacts

Joshua Furgeson, Brian Gill, Joshua Haimson, Alexandra Killewald, Moira McCullough, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Bing-ru Teh, Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz, Melissa Bowen, Allison Demeritt, Paul Hill and Robin Lake

Making Replication Work: Building Infrastructure to Implement, Scale-up, and Sustain Evidence-Based Early Childhood Home Visiting Programs with Fidelity

Kimberly Boller, Deborah Daro, Patricia Del Grosso, Russell Cole, Diane Paulsell, Bonnie Hart, Brandon Coffee-Borden, Debra Strong, Heather Zaveri and Margaret Hargreaves

How Do Employment Outcomes of Medicaid Buy-In Participants Vary Based on Prior Medicaid Coverage? An Example from Massachusetts

Marsha Langer Ellison, Mihail Samnaliev, Alexis D. Henry, Jody Schimmel Beauchamp, Annette Shea and Jay Himmelstein

Trends in Food Stamp Program Participation Rates: 1999 to 2005

Kari Wolkwitz

Making a Plan and Sticking to It: Implementing an Enhanced Version of HealthTeacher in Chicago (Executive Summary)

Rachel Shapiro and Ellen Kisker

Features of Health Care Interventions Associated With Reduced Services and Spending

Randall Brown, James Derzon, Boyd Gilman, Danielle Whicher and Stacy Dale

Declining Response Rates in Federal Surveys: Trends and Implications (Background Paper)

John L. Czajka and Amy Beyler

Report to Congress on the Evaluation of Medicare Disease Management Programs

Arnold Chen, Randall Brown, Dominick Esposito, Jennifer Schore and Rachel Shapiro

A Snapshot of Quality in Child Care Centers That Partner with Early Head Start Programs: Insights from Baby FACES 2018

Yange Xue, Patricia Del Grosso and Barbara Lepidus Carlson

Reporting Period and Reliability of AHRQ, CMS 30-Day and HAC Quality Measures

Eric Schone, Mai Hubbard and David Jones

Employment of Advanced Practice Clinicians in Vertically Integrated Health Systems Reflects Larger Trends Toward Consolidation

David Jones, Michael F. Furukawa, Rachel Machta, Arlene S. Bierman and Eugene Rich

Implementing a Large-Scale Test of Marriage and Relationship Skills Education: Building Strong Families

Alan M. Hershey and M. Robin Dion

Analysis of the Variation in Efficiency of Medicare Advantage Plans

Marsha Gold and Maria Cupples Hudson

Using Quality Information for Health Care Decisions and Quality Improvement

Tim Lake, Chris Kvam and Marsha Gold

Putting Paper to Work: How Rethinking Forms Can Put People First and Improve Engagement in Human Services Programs

AnnaMaria McCutcheon, Katie Bodenlos and Annalisa Mastri

State-Level Youth Unemployment Rates from 2019 to 2021

Hande Inanc and Megan Caruso

Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans: Opportunities for Health Plans and States

James M. Verdier

How Does a Value-Added Model Compare to the Colorado Growth Model?

Elias Walsh and Eric Isenberg

Promoting Medicaid and Food Stamp Participation: Establishing Eligibility Procedures That Support Participation and Meet Families' Needs

LaDonna Pavetti, Kathleen Maloy and Liz Schott

Complementary Feeding and Micronutrient Status: A Systematic Review

Julie E. Obbagy, Laural K. English, Tricia L. Psota, Yat Ping Wong, Nancy F. Butte, Kathryn G. Dewey, Mary Kay Fox, Frank R. Greer, Nancy F. Krebs, Kelley S. Scanlon and Eve E. Stoody

Promoting Opportunity Demonstration: Treatment Group Members’ Perspectives on Reporting Earnings and Using the POD Benefit Offset

Noelle Denny-Brown, Rebecca Coughlin, David Wittenburg, Isabel Musse, Heather Gordon, Shauna Robinson and Aleksandra Wec

Evaluation of Demonstration Projects to End Childhood Hunger (EDECH): The Kentucky Ticket to Healthy Food Project

Andrew Gothro, Gregory Chojnacki, Rebecca Kleinman, Philip Gleason, Nicholas Redel, Breanna Wakar, Sarah Forrestal and Ronette Briefel

Evaluation of the Cash and Counseling Demonstration: 9 Month Instrument

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Identification of Youth Psychosocial Problems During Pediatric Primary Care Visits

Jonathan D. Brown, Anne W. Riley and Lawrence S. Wissow

Teen Activities and Attitudes Study: Wave 2 Questionnaire

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Ticket to Work at the Crossroads: A Solid Foundation with an Uncertain Future

David Stapleton, Gina Livermore, Criag Thornton, Bonnie O'Day, Robert Weathers, Krista Harrison, So O'Neil, Emily Sama Martin, David Wittenburg and Debra Wright

Teacher Turnover and Access to Effective Teachers in the School District of Philadelphia

Erin Dillon and Steven Malick

Healthy Marriage Programs: Learning What Works

M. Robin Dion

Home Visiting: The Potential for Cost Savings from Home Visiting Due to Reductions in Child Maltreatment

Heather Zaveri, Andrew Burwick and Erin Maher

The Challenge in Balancing Data Collection Innovations, Remaining Practical, and Being Cost-Effective (presentation)

Leonard Hart, Scott Reid and Erin Slyne

Food Insecurity and the Risks of Depression and Anxiety in Mothers and Behavior Problems in Their Preschool-Aged Children

Robert C. Whitaker, Shannon M. Phillips and Sean M. Orzol

Evaluation of HRSA's Clinical Pharmacy Demonstration Projects

Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Lindsay Harris, Meredith Lee and Rebecca Nyman

IDEAS from the Field: A Case Study of the Healthy Visions Program

Kim McDonald, Alicia Meckstroth and Susan Zief

A Focused Look at Rural Schools Receiving School Improvement Grants (Book Chapter)

Linda Rosenberg, Megan Davis Christianson, Megan Hague Angus and Emily Rosenthal

Background Information on Integration and Medicaid MLTSS Market Trends for Panel Discussion on How States Are Positioning for Integration (Presentation)

Danielle Chelminsky and Jim Verdier

Evaluation of Experience Corps: Student Reading Outcomes

Nancy Morrow-Howell, Melissa Jonson-Reid, Stacey McCrary, YungSoo Lee, Ed Spitznagel, Emily Dwoyer, Kathy Sonnenfeld and Susan Sprachman

Impacts of Comprehensive Teacher Induction: Final Results from a Randomized Controlled Study

Steven Glazerman, Eric Isenberg, Sarah Dolfin, Martha Bleeker, Amy Johnson, Mary Grider and Matthew Jacobus

Efficient Orthogonal Designs: Testing the Comparative Effectiveness of Alternative Ways of Implementing Patient-Centered Medical Home Components (Issue Brief)

Jelena Zurovac, Deborah Peikes, Aparajita Zutshi and Randy Brown

Early Experience Under Medicare+Choice: Final Summary Report

Anna Cook, Tim Lake and Bob Schmitz

Emergency Playbook for Federal Human Services Programs

Emma Pottinger, Samantha Zepeda and Allon Kalisher

Evidence Scan of Work Experience Programs

Samina Sattar

Supporting Quality in Home-Based Child Care: A Compendium of 23 Initiatives

Toni Porter, Diane Paulsell, Tahra Nichols, Carol Begnoche and Patricia Del Grosso

Helping TANF Recipients Stay Employed: Early Evidence from the GAPS Initiative

Robert G. Wood and Diane Paulsell

Program Snapshot: Work Success

Kristen Joyce and Mary Anne Anderson

Partnering to Improve the Quality of Infant-Toddler Care: Findings from the National Descriptive Study of Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships

Patricia Del Grosso, Jaime Thomas, Nickie Fung, Michael Levere and Scilla Albanese

How Are the Costs of Care for Medical Falls Distributed? The Costs of Medical Falls by Component of Cost, Timing, and Injury Severity

Alex A. Bohl, Elizabeth A. Phelan, Paul. A. Fishman and Jeffrey R. Harris

Timeless Strategy Meets New Medium: Going Negative on Congressional Campaign Websites, 2002-2006

James N. Druckman, Martin Kifer and Michael Parkin

Outcomes of Vascular and Cardiac Surgeries

Eric Schone

Reengaging Respondents after Receipt of an Incentive to Reduce Item Nonresponse: When Is the Best Time to Reengage? (Presentation)

Jaimie Grazi, Andrews Hurwitz, Erin Panzarella and Martha Kovac

A Profile of Kindergarten Readiness in East Yakima: Fall 2007

Kimberly Boller, Diane Paulsell, Nikki Aikens, Liz Potamites, Barbara Carlson and Martha Kovac

The Effect of Interview Experience on Follow-Up Response Propensity in a Longitudinal Survey (presentation)

Matt Sloan and Debra Wright

Employment Among SSA Disability Program Beneficiaries: 1996-2007

Arif Mamun, Paul O'Leary, David Wittenburg and Jesse Gregory

Correlates of Use of Specialty Care

Karen Kuhlthau. Rebecca M. Nyman, Timothy G. Ferris, Anne C. Beal and James M. Perrin

Strategies for Measuring the Quality of Psychotherapy: A White Paper to Inform Measure Development and Implementation

Jonathan Brown, Sarah Hudson Scholle and Melissa Azur

Causal Validity Considerations for Including High Quality Non-Experimental Evidence in Systematic Reviews

John Deke

Targeted Help for the Hard-to-Employ: Outcomes of Two Philadelphia Welfare-to-Work Programs

Michelle VanNoy and Irma Perez-Johnson

Determining Whether a Complex Intervention Occurred: The Case of the National Long-Term Care Demonstration

Barbara R. Phillips

Coordinating Employment Services Across the TANF and WIA Programs

Gretchen G. Kirby, Julia Lyskawa, Michelle Derr and Elizabeth Brown

Do We Know Whom to Serve? Issues in Using Risk Factors to Identify Dropouts

Philip M. Gleason and Mark Dynarski

Case Study of an Employment and Training Program Serving Single Mothers with Low Income: Climb Wyoming

Katie Eddins and Julia Lyskawa

Measure Twice, Cut Once, Part 1: Using the RSA-911 Case Service Report to Monitor Pre-Employment Transition Services

Todd Honeycutt and Purvi Sevak

Understanding Alignment in Children’s Early Learning Experiences: Policies and Practices from Across the United States

Jessica F. Harding, Dana Charles McCoy and Meghan P. McCormick

Head Start: What Do We Know About Its Effectiveness? What Do We Need to Know?

John M. Love, Louisa Banks Tarullo, Helen H. Raikes and Rachel Chazan-Cohen

What Can We Expect Under Personal Reemployment Accounts? Predictions and Procedures

Paul T. Decker and Irma L. Perez-Johnson

Medicare Incentives for Using EHRs: Insights from Site Visits to Small and Mid-Sized Physician Practices

Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Lorraine Johnson, Christopher Fleming, Rachel Shapiro and Brenda Natzke

Tips for States Using Enrollment Brokers in the Capitated Financial Alignment Demonstrations: Beneficiary FAQs and Suggested Responses

Danielle Chelminsky, Julie Stone and Claire Postman

Evaluation of the Costs to Medicare of Covering Therapeutic Shoes for Diabetic Patients

Judith Wooldridge and Lorenzo Moreno

Evidence-Based Practices for Medicaid Beneficiaries with Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder

Jonathan D. Brown, Allison Barrett, Henry Ireys, Emily Caffery and Kerianne Hourihan

Evaluation Design for the Environmental and Natural Resource Management Project to Improve Hydropower Generation in Malawi

Kristen Velyvis, Matt Sloan, Claudia Ringler, Ephraim Nkonya, Hua Xie, Helen Powell, Jeremy Brecher-Haimson, Anca Dumitrescu, Thomas Coen and Arif Mamun

Establishing Accountability to Reduce Job Loss After Injury or Illness

Jennifer Christian

Early Childhood Home Visiting Models: Reviewing Evidence of Effectiveness

Various Authors

Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance

Committee on Prevention of Obesity in Children and Youth of which Robert C. Whitaker is a Member

Serving Child Welfare Families with Substance Abuse Issues: Grantees' Use of Evidence-Based Practices and the Extent of Evidence

Debra A. Strong, Sarah A. Avellar, Caroline Massad Francis, Megan Hague Angus and Andrea Mraz Esposito

National Estimates of Mental Health Insurance Benefits (Journal Article)

Myles Maxfield, Lori Achman, Jeffrey A. Buck and Judith L. Teich

Supporting Adult Learners from Enrollment to Completion

Ann Person, Julie Bruch, Lisbeth Goble, Veronica Severn and Ashley Hong

Complementary Feeding and Food Allergy, Atopic Dermatitis/Eczema, Asthma, and Allergic Rhinitis: A Systematic Review

Julie E. Obbagy, Laural K. English, Yat Ping Wong, Nancy F. Butte, Kathryn G. Dewey, David M. Fleischer, Mary Kay Fox, Frank R. Greer, Nancy F. Krebs, Kelley S. Scanlon and Eve E. Stoody

Medicare Basics: An Overview for States Seeking to Integrate Care for Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees

Jenna Libersky, James Verdier and Ryan Stringer

Using Pragmatic Clinical Trials to Test the Effectiveness of Patient-Centered Medical Home Models in Real-World Settings (Issue Brief)

Deborah Peikes, Kristin Geonnotti and Winnie Wang

Reinvesting in America's Youth: Lessons from the 2009 Recovery Act Summer Youth Employment Initiative

Jeanne Bellotti, Linda Rosenberg, Samina Sattar, Andrea Mraz Esposito and Jessica Ziegler

Measurement and Evaluation Checklist: Refine the Solution (Phase 2)

Ryan Ruggiero, Mikia Manley, Virginia Knechtel, Kate Place and Megan Shoji

Updated Findings from the HHS Teen Pregnancy Prevention Evidence Review: January 2011 Through April 2013

Brian Goesling, Joanne Lee, Julieta Lugo-Gil and Timothy Novak

Aggregating Claims Data Across Payers: Approaches, Challenges, and Lessons Learned from the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative

Anne Mutti, Erin Fries Taylor, Deborah Peikes, Janel Jin, Kristie Liao and Ha Tu

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Children's Health Care in the Military Health System

Kate Stewart, Patricia Collins Higgins, Catherine McLaughlin, Tom Croghan, Tom Williams, Elder Granger and S. Ward Casscells

Effects of Water Quality, Sanitation, Handwashing, and Nutritional Interventions on Diarrhoea and Child Growth in Rural Kenya: A Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial

Clair Null, Christine P. Stewart, Amy J. Pickering, Holly N. Dentz, Benjamin F. Arnold, Charles D. Arnold, Jade Benjamin-Chung, Thomas Clasen, Kathryn G. Dewey, Lia C. H. Fernald, Alan E. Hubbard, Patricia Kariger, Audrie Lin, Stephen P. Luby, Andrew Mertens, Sammy M. Njenga, Geoffrey Nyambane, Pavani K. Ram, John M. Colford and Jr.

Design for an Impact Study of Four PREP Programs

Robert G. Wood, Brian Goesling, Susan Zief and Jean Knab

How WFNJ Clients Are Faring Under Welfare Reform: An Early Look

Anu Rangarajan and Robert G. Wood

Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program Site Visit Report: The State of California"s Healthy Families Program

Corinna Hawkes and Embry Howell

The Effects of Cash and Counseling on Personal Care Services and Medicaid Costs in Arkansas

Stacy Dale, Randall Brown, Barbara Phillips, Jennifer Schore and Barbara Lepidus Carlson

A Compendium of State and Local Initiatives to Expand or Retain Employer-Based Coverage

Deborah Chollet and Lynn Taylor

What Do We Know About Health Care Access and Quality in Medicare Advantage Versus the Traditional Medicare Program?

Marsha Gold and Giselle Casillas

Tip Sheet: Strategies for Educating Patients on Home Dialysis

Jeff Forman, Meg Maxwell and Bess Fleischman

Engaging Patients and Families in the Medical Home

Sarah Hudson Scholle, Phyllis Torda, Deborah Peikes, Esther Han and Janice Genevro

Helping Workers Who Develop Medical Problems Stay Employed: Expanding Washington's COHE Program Beyond Workers' Compensation

David Stapleton and Jennifer Christian