2013-05-16T08:21:56Z Copyright (c) 2013, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/b/brook_robert_h.html http://www.rand.org/commentary/2010/06/09/JAMA.html 2010-06-09T13:42:00Z 2010-06-09T13:42:00Z

If patients do not take prescribed medications, are not appropriately vaccinated, or do not obtain preventive screening tests, they may incur costs that others will need to subsidize, writes Robert Brook.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2010/04/21/JAMA.html 2010-04-21T04:00:00Z 2010-04-21T04:00:00Z

Increased health care coverage raises issues in addition to cost containment. Increased coverage will mean increased demand for primary care physicians, writes Robert Brook.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2010/01/27/JAMA.html 2010-01-27T05:00:00Z 2010-01-27T05:00:00Z

It is time for a change before innovative medical researchers develop a new array of tests and measurements, making it even less likely that physicians will have the right answer, writes Robert Brook.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2009/10/07/JAMA.html 2009-10-07T04:00:00Z 2009-10-07T04:00:00Z

Successful health care reform may provide virtually all individuals in the United States an adequate health insurance package. However, the need to increase value for health care dollars will extend far beyond the current policy window, writes Robert Brook.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2009/09/02/JAMA.html 2009-09-02T04:00:00Z 2009-09-02T04:00:00Z

The appropriateness assessment system is a concrete way the medical profession could respond to the need to produce more efficient and effective care, writes Robert Brook.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2009/07/08/JAMA.html 2009-07-08T04:00:00Z 2009-07-08T04:00:00Z

Since the government is using taxpayer dollars to fund the comparative effectiveness initiative, it would be appropriate to have an organizing principle to guide the selection of which aspects of medical care to examine, writes Robert Brook.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2009/06/17/JAMA.html 2009-06-17T04:00:00Z 2009-06-17T04:00:00Z

It is time for physicians to commit as a profession to helping the President and Congress achieve the vision of a new health care system by improving the way medicine is practiced, writes Robert Brook.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2009/04/01/JAMA.html 2009-04-01T04:00:00Z 2009-04-01T04:00:00Z

If the government is demanding transparency of physicians and hospitals, the very least the physicians and hospitals should do is demand transparency of the government, writes Robert Brook.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2008/07/09/JAMA.html 2008-07-09T04:00:00Z 2008-07-09T04:00:00Z

As a new political window for health care reform is approached, building trust and motivating collaboration between community members and the individuals who produce information about the system is critical, writes Robert Brook.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19961206.html 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Review of book on fertility change in Malaysia: Richard Leete. Malaysia's Demographic Transition: Rapid Development, Culture, and Politics.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20000702.html 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standardized clinical criteria to identify patients presenting to the ED whose care may be safely deferred to a later date in a nonemergency setting.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19900006.html 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A discussion of hospital-wise quality assurance and approaches to quality appraisal, including staging, criteria mapping, health accounting and medical auditing.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080925.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the enormous and ongoing increase in health care expenditures, patients receive only half of recommended care, and many receive care that is equivocal or harmful. Ideas to improve quality are examined.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20010512.html 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Assess the effect of providing free health care services to low-income adults.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080719.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Health care news often focuses on business or professional entities and trust, but journalists rarely ask if research that examines the function and structure of the health care system with the goal of changing health policy should be believed.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090412.html 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The authors compared the prevalence of condom use during a variety of sexual acts portrayed in adult films produced for heterosexual and homosexual audiences to assess compliance with state Occupational Health and Safety Administration regulations.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090420.html 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some solutions for producing a better health care system in the United States and abroad call for paying clinicians more for better performance.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090321.html 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of off-label prescribing to children at United States outpatient visits and to determine how drug class, patient age, and physician specialty relate to off-label prescribing.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20001109.html 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To improve quality of care, both overuse and underuse of important procedures must be addressed.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19980308.html 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Establishing the efficacy of emergency care for patients--what should or should not be done in the emergency department.