Health-Care Researchers to Receive Grants

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Health Care Policy and Research has awarded grants to eight researchers who are studying ways to improve the quality of health care in the United States. The grants, which total nearly $7.6 million, will be distributed over five years.

Among the recipients are three Harvard-affiliated researchers. They are:

Sheldon Greenfield, of the New England Medical Center Hospitals and adjunct professor of health policy at the School of Public Health, for a study to compare disease-specific measures of quality for patients suffering from three chronic conditions with general measures of quality. Total grant: $576,844.

Jeffrey Katz, of Brigham and Women's Hospital and assistant professor of medicine, for a study on the quality of hip replacements. Total grant: $472,306.

R. Heather Palmer, lecturer on health services at the School of Public Health and associate dean for students in the School of Public Health, for a study to better diagnose jaundice in newborn babies. Total grant: $2,449,037.