Patient-Provider Collaboration for Patient Safety
Susannah Fox provided data and insights about how Americans are presently using the internet and social media to assess healthcare quality.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Parents value libraries for their children The previous section highlights the importance parents place on public libraries for themselves and for their communities and the fact that parents are more likely than other adults to view libraries as important. Given those findings, it is not surprising that parents of minor children view public libraries as […]
Libraries’ strengths In addition to asking our online panel of library staff members about various services that libraries do offer or might offer in the future, we also asked about what they considered to be libraries’ strengths. One common theme was libraries’ role as a community center, and their connection to patrons and other local […]
Online Videos and Campaign 2012 The material that follows in this report illustrates how voters of various political and ideological stripes are utilizing online videos during the 2012 election campaign. Unless otherwise noted, all findings are based on registered voters who use the internet. This survey found that 78% of American adults are currently registered […]
A demographic portrait of creators and curators and users of various social media services The material that follows in this report is built around a series of tables that give a demographic portrait of creators and curators and users of various social media services. Creators are younger The table below covers anyone who said she […]
One lesson derived from coverage of the 2012 presidential campaign is that despite being viewed as anachronistic political pageants, some traditional set piece campaign events still have the potential to dramatically reshape a presidential race by changing the mainstream media narrative. In 2012, campaign coverage was significantly affected by several such events. That began with […]
At the turn of the year the United States avoided careening over a fiscal cliff – which would have triggered recession-inducing automatic tax increases and spending cuts – by passing legislation that raised some taxes, but did little to cut spending.