Susan Lovejoy

Addresses one step in the process of moving from teamwork training to teamwork practices that improve outcomes of care: identifying outcomes that are most likely to be affected as teamwork practices improve in an implementing organization. It discusses a literature search, methods for selecting and testing candidate measures, measures highly rated by clinical experts, and results of measure testing on administrative data of the DoD health system.

Arkansas' Tobacco Settlement Proceeds Act invests the state's share of the tobacco Master Settlement Agreement funds in seven health-related programs. This report assesses the progress of each of the funded programs in achieving its long-range goals, tracks the programs' process indicators, and updates trends in outcome measures developed to monitor effects of the funded programs on smoking and other health-related outcomes.