2012-05-10T18:07:54Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/r/romley_john_a.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG324.html 2005-10-18T06:44:00Z 2005-10-18T06:44:00Z

The military must attract, retain, and promote high-quality personnel. This monograph examines its ability to meet these goals. Using the quality index, we find that those who stay until midcareer and are promoted are significantly higher quality.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR777.html 2010-01-15T16:45:00Z 2010-01-15T16:45:00Z

Assesses the effect of air pollution on medical spending: The authors determined how much failing to meet air quality standards cost various purchasers of hospital care in California over 2005-2007.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070114.html 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mismatches between alcohol demand and supply of liquor stores in urban neighborhoods constitute an injustice for minorities and lower-income persons.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9501.html 2010-02-15T16:32:00Z 2010-02-15T16:32:00Z

Examines how California's failure to meet federal air quality standards has affected hospitalizations and insurers' costs.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1323.html 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Characterizes the density of liquor stores and bars that individuals face according to race, economic status, and age in the urban United States and finds mismatches between alcohol demand and the supply of liquor stores.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR757.html 2009-09-28T16:17:00Z 2009-09-28T16:17:00Z

Examines ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in California and compares California's regulation of ASCs with that in other states.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9471.html 2009-10-01T10:35:00Z 2009-10-01T10:35:00Z

Examines how California's ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) compare with hospital outpatient surgery departments and how the state compares with other states in regulating ASCs.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20081222.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pharmaceutical regulations in 19 developed countries from 1992 to 2004 are analyzed for their affect on pharmaceutical revenues. There has been a trend toward increased regulation, and most regulations reduce pharmaceutical revenues significantly.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080118.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The authors inferred quality at hospitals in greater Los Angeles from the revealed preference of pneumonia patients. The authors then decompose the joint contribution of quality and unobserved productivity to hospital costs, relying on heterogeneous tastes among patients for plausibly exogenous quality variation. They found that more productive hospitals provide higher quality, demonstrating that the cost of quality improvement is substantially understated by methods that do not take into account productivity differences.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080418.html 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Recognizing the importance of improving efficiency measurement of health care quality, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has sponsored this systematic review and analysis of available measures.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090607.html 2009-06-01T00:00:00Z 2009-06-01T00:00:00Z

Review and characterize existing health care efficiency measures in order to facilitate a common understanding about the adequacy of these methods.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20091111.html 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are important differences in perspective about the meaning of efficiency in health care and the appropriateness of measures.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110016.html 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

High Medicare spending is not associated with better health outcomes at a regional level, but patients admitted to California hospitals from 1999 to 2008 had lower inpatient mortality in those hospitals that spent more on end of life care.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100212.html 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z

This study investigates racial and ethnic disparities in hospital admission and emergency room visit rates resulting from exposure to ozone and fine particulate matter levels in excess of federal standards (

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR403.html 2007-09-17T16:34:00Z 2007-09-17T16:34:00Z

Examines how the availability of organizing as Limited Liability Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies affected law firms during the period 1993-1999.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR302.html 2005-10-13T18:27:00Z 2005-10-13T18:27:00Z

Professional service providers who wish to organize as multi-person firms have historically been limited to the partnership form. Such organizational forms trade the benefit of risk diversification off against the costs of diluted incentives and liab...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR541.html 2008-06-27T16:15:00Z 2008-06-27T16:15:00Z

The authors assess the impact of liability on various small-business firms, using caps on non-economic damages as a measure of liability pressure, comparing the number of small businesses before and after supreme court decisions to strike down caps.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG803.html 2011-09-21T08:00:00Z 2011-09-21T08:00:00Z

Discusses the potential usefulness and limitations of using utilization and cost metrics to evaluate the performance of U.S. Department of Defense military treatment facilities.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120092.html 2012-04-01T12:00:00Z 2012-04-01T12:00:00Z

This study estimated how healthy people value insurance coverage of specialty drugs, defined as high-cost drugs that treat cancer and other serious health conditions like multiple sclerosis, by quantifying willingness to pay via a survey.