Research, Tools, and Guides

TeamBirth implementation is not a single event but a journey. We describe this journey using a high level implementation pathway which describes the phases any site will go through to bring about effective and sustainable TeamBirth practice change. The TeamBirth Implementation Pathway provides an evidence-based foundation for an implementation roadmap with activities that guide effective… Continue reading TEAMBIRTH IMPLEMENTATION RESOURCES

Creating a home hospital program takes a great deal of financial, time, and personnel resources, just like any service line. With high rates of hospital closures and a significant number of hospitals at risk of being closed across the rural landscape in the United States, many believe a rural home hospital model is key to… Continue reading Rural Home Hospital Implementation Roadmap

We know many systems, hospitals, and communities want to launch a home hospital program. Doing so requires a major investment in time and resources, yet no one wants to reinvent the wheel if there are already high-quality knowledge products available. Systems launching or improving a home hospital program have indeed spent time and money to… Continue reading Home Hospital Knowledge Products
Meagan Elam, DrPH, MS with colleagues from the BU School of Public Health published research that identifies gaps in current implementation strategies of the Surgical Safety Checklist and provides guidance on how to address them in high-income surgical settings.


Dr. Asaf Bitton discusses new Health Affairs Forefront article published from Ariadne Labs and collaborators at Massachusetts Health Quality Partners and Milbank Memorial Fund that demonstrates how scorecards can help strengthen struggling primary care systems in the U.S.
Our Better Evidence team in BMJ Global Health on finding that the data on the current medical school landscape in Africa was outdated, incomplete and needing updating. Their research identified 444 medical schools in Africa, a 160+% increase from the previous estimate of 169 schools in 2010.

Singapore General Hospital’s published results in Social Science and Medicine on our collaboration looking to go beyond assessing checklist compliance and to better understand potential sociopsychological mechanisms of the variations in SSC practices.

Members of our Primary Health Care program, with colleagues Barbra G. Rabson, MPH and Christopher F. Koller, share lessons from their work in developing Primary Care Scorecards globally and in the US and strategies to strengthen and implement high-quality primary care for everyone.


Latest research from the Home Hospital team assessed the feasibility and acceptability of rural home hospital as a substitute to traditional hospital care

Dr. Rebecca Weintraub in Vaccine Insights explaining the COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Planner and the Vaccine Equity Planner.
