Privately insured patients provided better medical access than others

Access to primary care was better for those with private insurance than for those with Medicaid among randomly selected health care providers in the Washington, D.C. area.

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Finding solutions for complementary and alternative medicines

Some suggest that complimentary and alternative medicines should adopt health services research methods as a solution to problems faced in randomized control trials. However, the unique needs of the field demand caution in following this course of action.

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Evidence-based or culturally specific treatments?

The current literature is insufficient to determine the effectiveness of evidence-based treatments for ethnically diverse youth.

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RAND Health Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) project

Pain, anxiety, and depression likely linked in primary care patients

Awareness of the links between pain, anxiety and depression could be especially helpful in primary care settings.

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Access to care and race in public assistance programs

A recent study found no racial/ethnic disparities in health services utilization among enrollees in IMPACT, a prostate cancer treatment program providing free prostate cancer treatment to low-income or underinsured men in California..

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Health disparities as a national initiative

Health disparities research should be treated as a multidisciplinary field that requires a large team science initiative to examine its effect on health outcomes.

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RAND Health Center for Population Health and Health Disparities

August RAND Health Congressional Newsletter

The August RAND Health Congressional newsletter highlights research tying neighborhood economic conditions to the consumption of fruits and vegetables, findings that life expectancy is a better predictor of health care spending than age is, and a report showing that the Institute of Medicine's Quality Improvement framework is useful for behavioral health care.

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PTSD in Latino Patients: Illness Beliefs, Treatment Preferences, and Implications for Care

Little is known about how Latinos with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) understand their illness and their preferences for mental health treatment.

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Assessment of AHRQ patient safety initiative

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is carrying out its congressional mandate to establish a patient-safety research and development initiative to help health care providers reduce medical errors and improve patient safety. This report is the second of four annual reports prepared by RAND as AHRQ's Patient Safety Evaluation Center.

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