In recently published studies, Commonwealth Fund–supported researchers explored:
- the effects on health outcomes of collaborations between primary care physicians and specialists for patients with diabetes, psychiatric conditions, and cancer, in the Annals of Internal Medicine;
- current knowledge about a particular type of community-based housing for elderly adults, affordable clustered housing, in Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research;
- whether performance-based financial incentives for medical groups were associated with improved primary care patient experiences, in the Journal of General Internal Medicine;
- patterns of palliative and chronic care medication use among elderly Medicare beneficiaries as the probability of death increased, in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society;
- the amount of household resources allocated to out-of-pocket health spending in the year before Medicare's Part D drug benefit took effect, in Medical Care; and
- patients' views of the care they receive in community health centers, in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.
