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• BCAP Toolkit: Enhancing Child Development Services in Medicaid Managed Care
  Purvi Kobawala Smith. (Hamilton, NJ: Center for Health Care Strategies. October 2005). This toolkit reflects the experiences of the Enhancing Child Development Services in Medicaid Managed Care workgroup - 10 health plans and a primary care case management program - that collaborated to develop best practices for enhancing child development services. (From web Summary)
  http://www.chcs.org/publications3960/publications_show.htm?doc_id=300749

• The Breakthrough Series: IHI’s Collaborative Model for Achieving Breakthrough Improvement
  IHI Innovation Series white paper. (Boston: Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 2003). Available online at http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Results/WhitePapers/TheBreakthroughSeriesIHIsCollaborativeModelforAchieving%20BreakthroughImprovement.htm From website: IHI’s Innovation Series white papers were developed to further the mission of improving the quality and value of health care. The findings and tools in these reports provide you with an opportunity to understand and evaluate the issues, and begin testing changes that can help your organization make breakthrough improvements.
  http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Results/WhitePapers/TheBreakthroughSeriesIHIsCollaborativeModelforAchieving%20BreakthroughImprovement.htm

• The paths from research to improved health outcomes
  Paul Glasziou and Brian Haynes. ACP Journal Club. Mar/Apr 2005; 142(2): A8-A10. Available online at: http://www.cebm.net/index.aspx?o=1307 This article discusses the role of evidence based medicine in improved health outcomes.
  http://www.cebm.net/index.aspx?o=1307