2012-05-10T18:07:25Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/l/leuschner_kristin_j.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG538.html 2007-07-29T23:30:00Z 2007-07-29T23:30:00Z

Helping the Army identify options to improve its future training strategy in the 2016 timeframe for Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs) equipped with Future Combat Systems (FCS) technologies.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG328.html 2005-06-14T09:58:00Z 2005-06-14T09:58:00Z

Policies and options for The Army School System (TASS) to meet the Army's current and future training demands

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG128.html 2004-09-02T22:17:00Z 2004-09-02T22:17:00Z

Describes the development and implementation of dollar cost banding, a new algorithm for computing inventories maintained by Army supply support activities (SSAs).

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG153.html 2004-10-27T17:18:00Z 2004-10-27T17:18:00Z

Looks at how Department of Defense (DoD) education, training, and development institutions are affected by the consolidation of DoD facilities and changes in governance structure.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR475z1.html 2007-04-22T23:35:00Z 2007-04-22T23:35:00Z

A companion volume to TR-475-HLTH that offers the instructions to the hospitals that were used for the feasibility study documented in that report.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR660.html 2009-08-11T15:39:00Z 2009-08-11T15:39:00Z

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response asked RAND to facilitate the development of a public health systems research agenda for emergency preparedness with a focus on both short- and long-term priorities.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR712.html 2009-08-17T10:52:00Z 2009-08-17T10:52:00Z

Describes a tool for assessing key features of good crisis decision making that focuses on the processes of decision making -- situational awareness, action planning, and process control -- and can be used for exploratory analysis and process improvement.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR285.html 2005-08-31T05:59:00Z 2005-08-31T05:59:00Z

Describes the response of state and local health departments to outbreaks of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), monkeypox, West Nile virus, and hepatitis A.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9131.html 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB73.html 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Change in the international environment and the nature of threats to U.S. interests-as well as the size of defense budgets-have placed tremendous strain on the U.S. policymakers who sought to achieve a balance between strategy, forces, and resources.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR543.html 2008-05-16T11:58:00Z 2008-05-16T11:58:00Z

Discusses an effort to develop a clear and widely applicable definition of public health emergency preparedness (PHEP) that can provide a basis on which to develop PHEP standards and measures.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR577.html 2009-12-30T16:10:00Z 2009-12-30T16:10:00Z

Currently, there are no established tools for identifying, measuring, and improving public health crisis decisionmaking. As a first step toward meeting this need, this paper describes a tool to measure and improve key aspects of decisionmaking.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR516.html 2007-12-09T12:14:00Z 2007-12-09T12:14:00Z

Lays out strategies and approaches for establishing or expanding a volunteer program to build workforce surge capacity in the event of a public health emergency.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100180.html 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

National performance standards for public health preparedness can be developed based on existing evidence, but would be helped immensely by a stronger evidence base.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1387.html 2001-01-01T12:05:21Z 2001-01-01T12:05:21Z

This report describes the challenges policymakers have faced as seen through the lens of the three major force structure reviews that have taken place over the past decade.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080717.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finds that a pilot quality improvement collaborative is a promising model for improving public health pandemic preparedness and may be useful for improving public health performance. Further efforts are needed to encourage robust implementation.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR598.html 2008-12-09T22:26:00Z 2008-12-09T22:26:00Z

A toolkit intended to help state and local health departments of all sizes incorporate quality improvement methods and promising strategies in six key domains into their current emergency preparedness activities.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1072.html 2011-05-09T08:00:00Z 2011-05-09T08:00:00Z

Develops and tests new tools and metrics to assess training and to document the impact of Army distributed learning courses at the program level.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR475.html 2007-04-24T05:51:00Z 2007-04-24T05:51:00Z

Describes the first phase of an effort to develop an approach to redesigning the National Hospital Discharge Survey and to identify and recommend, through a feasibility study, specific data elements and field procedures for that survey.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070403.html 2007-04-01T00:00:00Z 2007-04-01T00:00:00Z

Quality improvement (QI) methods have been used in many industries to improve performance and outcomes.