2013-04-23T07:50:46Z Copyright (c) 2013, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/m/maglione_margaret_a.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20041237.html 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

This report addresses the following key questions: 1. What outcome variables are valid indicators of the quality of the end-of-life experience for the dying person and for the surviving loved ones? 2. What patient, family, and health care system factors are associated with better or worse outcomes at end of life?

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070921.html 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Describes prevalence of antiretroviral resistance in the developing world, focusing on treatment naive populations, resistance consequences of regimes to prevent mother-to-child transmission, and the relationship of medication adherence to resistance.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20060525.html 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Compare the effectiveness and adverse event profiles of AEDs in the treatment of bipolar mood disorder, neuropathic pain, and fibromyalgia.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20050919.html 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Authors assess the effectiveness and essential components of self-management programs for hypertension, osteoarthritis, and diabetes mellitus.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20050405.html 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In response to the increase in obesity, pharmacologic treatments for weight loss have become more numerous and more commonly used.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20050407.html 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Controversy exists regarding the effectiveness of surgery for weight loss and the resulting improvement in health-related outcomes.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR757.html 2010-05-07T16:32:00Z 2010-05-07T16:32:00Z

Reviews the available evidence on the prevalence, diagnosis, management, and prevention of food allergies.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1257.html 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reports the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled clinical trials of the effects of exercise on health and related outcomes for seniors.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1258.html 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Investigates the characteristics particular to chronic disease self-management programs that may be most responsible for their effectiveness.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080206.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Compares the benefits in fracture reduction and the harms from adverse events of various therapies for osteoporosis.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20040705.html 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sibutramine, orlistat, phentermine, diethylpropion (probably), bupropion, fluoxetine, and topiramate all promote weight loss.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080117.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Assesses evidence about interventions to improve palliative and end-of-life care.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20071006.html 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

In general, most measures have not undergone rigorous development and testing.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090308.html 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

To understand what is new in health information technology (IT), the authors updated a systematic review of health IT with studies published during 2004-2007. From 4,683 titles, 179 met inclusion criteria. They identified a proliferation of patient-focused applications although little formal evaluation in this area; more descriptions of commercial electronic health records (EHRs) and health IT systems designed to run independently from EHRs; and proportionately fewer relevant studies from the health IT leaders. Accelerating the adoption of health IT will require greater public-private partnerships, new policies to address the misalignment of financial incentives, and a more robust evidence base regarding IT implementation.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20051232.html 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As background for a National Institutes of Health State of the Science Conference on End-of-Life-Care, the authors performed a systematic review of end-of-life care and outcomes intended to evaluate the evidence in the field from the perspective of concerns important to patients, caregivers, and the health care system. This article relates the challenges in performing a systematic review of end-of-life care and outcomes, and describes the methods that the authors used to define the scope, search the literature, develop exclusion and inclusion criteria, incorporate various types of articles, and synthesize the results.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20050921.html 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Describes psychiatric adverse events occurring after ingestion of dietary supplements containing herbal ephedra.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20030716.html 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The basis for this report is formed from clinical and policy questions about heart failure mortality benefits and subpopulations.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20060706.html 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although Medicaid is the primary payer for public mental health systems, relatively little is known about managed care arrangements at the health plan level.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20060607.html 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Conventional wisdom suggests that coverage for substance abuse treatment under Medicaid is generally poor.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20020503.html 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the relative effectiveness of the diverse approaches used to promote preventive care activities, such as cancer screening and adult immunization.