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Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality Centers of Excellence

Examining health systems in five regions to understand the role of incentives, use of health IT and organizational integration within systems and its impact on performance and evidence dissemination.

Can Risk-Adjusted Emergency Department Utilization Measure Quality or Value in Cancer Care?

Evaluating whether oncology patients’ risk-adjusted ED rates can be used as a hospital-level measure of quality and value of care.

Continuous Quality Improvement of the Pennsylvania Coordinated Medication Assisted Treatment (PacMAT)

Facilitation of technical assistance, including identifying facilitators and barriers to success, and lessons learned; spillover effects on local community outcomes; as well as site sustainability mapping and planning of the PA Coordinated Medication Assisted Treatment (PacMAT).

Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP)

This project, based on the CDC’s national DPP, involves planning and implementing an evidence-based lifestyle intervention to prevent Type 2 diabetes in the State College area

Disparities in the Quality of Inter-Hospital Transfers

This study aims to develop capacity and infrastructure for the Penn State CTSI Regulatory Impact, Regulatory and Ethics Core, including developing community engagement opportunities with Government Health Relations.

Estimation of Societal Costs to States Due to Opioid Epidemic

Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, this project investigates opioid manufacturer and distributor behavior in influencing the opioid epidemic and to estimates the societal costs borne by states as a result of the epidemic.

Evaluation of the Pennsylvania Rural Health Model 

An independent evaluation of the Pennsylvania Rural Health Model  being conducted by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The Impact of Pittsburgh’s Innovative Mobility Vouchers and Mobility Counseling on Racial and Economic Equity

This project studies the mobility vouchers and mobility counseling program as a means to increase housing choice, economic opportunity, residential mobility, and racial integration in a medium-sized American city.

Pennsylvania Rural Health Model

Designed in partnership with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), the Pennsylvania Rural Health Model is an alternative payment model designed to address the financial challenges faced by rural hospitals by transitioning them from fee-for-service to global budget payments.

Pennsylvania Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Training (SAFE-T) Center

Enhancing access to high-quality sexual assault care in underserved communities, the SAFE-T Center was launched with support from the Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime as a solution.

Permanent Change of Station and Variation in Cancer Prevention and Care in the TRICARE System

This study is to use the compulsory nature of the Permanent Change of Station (PCS) to better understand if practice patterns and other supply factors can explain variations in care.

RAPID: Developing Advanced Modeling and Analysis Tools to track Human Movement Patterns and Coronavirus / Infectious Disease Spread Dynamics in Geographical Networks

This project pursues fundamental research to develop continuous flow models for simulation of human traffic and coronavirus spread dynamics, prediction of real-time positions of infected population in the spatial network, and provide decision support tools for the design of healthcare policies under disruptive events and processes.

Reductions in Necessary Care as a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic

This project aims to estimate the impact of COVID-19 on three types of necessary care over three time periods.

Use of New Hepatitis C Drugs and Patients' Health Outcomes in Medicare

Examining use of new HCV drugs and the effects of those drugs on patients’ health outcomes in Medicare.