2013-04-26T22:07:04Z Copyright (c) 2013, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/h/hempel_susanne.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20081101.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reviews evidence on psychosocial interventions for non-professional careers of people with Parkinson's disease. Most studies were not designed to assess the clinical- or cost-effectiveness of the intervention for the careers.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20101322.html 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Assesses the effects of interactive communication between collaborating primary care physicians and key specialists on outcomes for patients receiving ambulatory care.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100109.html 2010-07-15T00:00:00Z 2010-07-15T00:00:00Z

Probiotics is the use of microorganisms in complementary and alternative medicine to prevent and treat certain illnesses. This review outlines the challenges associated with the design, implementation, data analysis, and interpretation of clinical trials in humans involving probiotics.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20081210.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Explores the heterogeneity in clinical quality improvement intervention publications. A classification framework was developed, and experts discussed unique issues and established standards relevant to each category to work toward synthesis.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100100.html 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

This article describes findings from a group of experts assembled to help improve the science of patient safety.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR907.html 2012-03-02T12:00:00Z 2012-03-02T12:00:00Z

Reviews and documents the existing evidence base for interventions to prevent falls in hospitals, provides an overview of the performance of existing tools with known measurement properties, and compiles available online resources.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110098.html 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

This study concluded that little evidence exists about the influence of context on patient safety interventions, but found significant gaps in the research that should be addressed by future work.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201000189.html 2010-12-01T00:00:00Z 2010-12-01T00:00:00Z

This report addresses the need for clearer understanding of the evidence base regarding the effectiveness and context-sensitivity of patient safety practices and presents recommendations for future research on this topic.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100192.html 2011-05-01T00:00:00Z 2011-05-01T00:00:00Z

Describing the theoretical basis for understanding why a given patient safety intervention works would help efforts to generalize evaluation results from one context to another.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100106.html 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

This article describes a theoretical framework, derived from the literature, for classifying diverse patient safety practices.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100184.html 2011-08-01T00:00:00Z 2011-08-01T00:00:00Z

This review of search strategies for quality improvement interventions found that consensus development for QI medical subject headings is urgently needed.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100138.html 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Continuous quality improvement (CQI) refers to a method for improving care, but no consensus definition exists. As a step toward improving CQI evidence reviews, this study identified CQI definitional features and tested an instrument for identifying articles with key features.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100220.html 2011-07-01T00:00:00Z 2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

Four domains of contextual features seem important for implementing patient safety practices: safety culture and teamwork, structural organization, external factors such as regulation, and availability of implementation and management tools.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20111103.html 2011-12-01T12:00:00Z 2011-12-01T12:00:00Z

It is feasible to conduct online expert panels intended to facilitate consensus finding among geographically distributed participants. The online approach may be practical for engaging large and diverse groups of stakeholders around a range of health services research topics and can help conduct multiple parallel panels to test for the reproducibility of panel conclusions.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110089.html 2011-06-01T00:00:00Z 2011-06-01T00:00:00Z

This article describes results of a systematic literature review focused on which interventions can be integrated into routine care to prevent pressure ulcers.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP51357.html 2012-01-01T12:00:00Z 2012-01-01T12:00:00Z

The amount of additional heterogeneity in effect sizes is a crucial factor in determining when associations between quality and effect sizes can be detected.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP50199.html 1993-09-01T12:00:00Z 1993-09-01T12:00:00Z

The authors presented a representative list of 162 political issues currently discussed in Germany and the German NEO-FFI to 184 subjects (45% university students).

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP50188.html 2006-10-01T12:00:00Z 2006-10-01T12:00:00Z

The authors determine whether any particular intervention or combination of interventions is effective in the treatment, management and rehabilitation of adults and children with a diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME).

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP50187.html 2008-07-01T12:00:00Z 2008-07-01T12:00:00Z

The aetiology of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) is still unknown. The identification of risk factors for CFS/ME is of great importance to practitioners.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP50189.html 2006-12-01T12:00:00Z 2006-12-01T12:00:00Z

Haematuria can be a symptom of serious underlying pathology (e.g. urological malignancy), but also has many benign causes (e.g. vigorous exercise).