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Research Briefs
Below is a list of summaries of important RAND Health studies in the following areas:
Aging and Health
Life Expectancy Is Better Than Age as a General Predictor of Health Care Expenditures — 2008
Constrained Choice: Why Are Some Women and Men Able To Create and Maintain Healthy Lifestyles, While Others Are Not?— 2008
Modeling the Health and Medical Care Spending of the Future Elderly — 2008
Improving the Quality of Health Care for Older Adults — 2008
A Look inside the "Doughnut Hole": How Drug-Benefit Limits Affect Retiree Prescription Use — 2007
Health Coverage Options for Military Retirees— 2007
Vaccinating Residents and Staff Can Reduce Influenza Outbreaks in Nursing Homes — 2006
Redefining and Reforming Health Care for the Last Years of Life — 2006
Developing Quality of Care Indicators for the Vulnerable Elderly: The ACOVE Project — 2004
Future Health and Medical Care Spending of the Elderly — 2004
The Quality of Health Care Received by Older Adults — 2004
Costs of a Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit: A Comparison of Alternatives — 2002
Improving Access to Drugs for Medicare Beneficiaries: Can State Laws Help? — 2002
Extending Health Care Insurance to Specific Populations: Profile of RAND Work — 2000
Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren What Do We Know? — 2000
Prescription Drugs and the Elderly: Policy Implications of Medicare Coverage — 1999
Three Aspects of Health, Well-Being, and the Effective Functioning of the Elderly — 1998
Trends in Functional Limitations: Are Older Americans Living Longer and Better? — 1998
Government Policy and the Cost and Quality of Nursing Homes — 1996
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Insurance Companies' Fears of Covering Acupuncture Appear Unfounded — 2008
Ephedra—Is it Worth the Risk? — 2003
Changing Views of Chiropractic...and a National Reappraisal of Nontraditional Health Care — 2001
Diversity and Health
Children's Health in Washington, D.C. — 2009
Assessing Parolees' Health Care Needs and Potential Access to Health Care Services in California — 2009
The Socioeconomic, Health, Safety, and Education Disparities Faced by Boys and Men of Color in California — 2009
Out of the Ivory Tower, Into the Real World: Examples of Street-Smart Community Health Research — 2008
Constrained Choice: Why Are Some Women and Men Able To Create and Maintain Healthy Lifestyles, While Others Are Not? — 2008
Immigrants and Health Care: A Complex Picture — 2008
The Public Spends Little to Provide Health Care for Undocumented Immigrants — 2006
Disparities in Care for HIV Patients: Results of the HCSUS Study — 2006
Improving Access to Needed Health Care Improves Low-Income Children's Quality of Life— 2006
Triple Jeopardy for Vulnerable Children: Greater Health Needs, Less Access, Poorer Primary Care — 2006
Do Cardiologists Perceive Racial or Ethnic Disparities in the Treatment of Heart Patients? — 2005
Does Neighborhood Deterioration Lead to Poor Health? — 2005
HIV Testing Among Indigent Women: Who Gets Tested? — 2005
Access to HIV Care: Initial Results from the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study — 2000
Are People with Mental Illness Getting the Help they Need? — 2000
Extending Health Care Insurance to Specific Populations: Profile of RAND Work — 2000
Health Care Coverage for the Nation's Uninsured: Can We Get to Universal Coverage? — 2000
Preventing Very Low Birthweight Births: A Bundle of Savings — 1998
End-of-Life Care
Redefining and Reforming Health Care for the Last Years of Life — 2006
End-of-Life Care and Outcomes — 2004
Research brief (available at www.ahrq.gov)
Genetics and Health
Delivery of Genomic Medicine for Common Chronic Adult Diseases — 2008
Global Health
Improving Mass Delivery of Antiretroviral Therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa — 2009
Organizing for Quality: Inside the "Black Box" of Health Care Improvement in Europe and the United States — 2008
Estimating the Global Health Impact of Improved Diagnostic Tools for the Developing World — 2007
Health System Reconstruction and Nation-Building — 2007
Global Technology Revolution 2020: Technology Trends and Cross-Country Variation — 2006
The Arc: A Formal Structure for a Palestinian State — 2005
Building a Successful Palestinian State — 2005
Policy and Health in Asia: Financing and Allocating Public Expenditures — 2003
Policy and Health in Asia: Demographic and Epidemiologic Transitions — 2000
Health Economics and Financing
Prescription Drug Cost Sharing — 2009
Hold the Salt: Lowering Sodium Intake Would Improve Health and Save Money — 2009
Rural Hospitals Struggle to Attract Patients and Remain Viable — 2009
Controlling Health Care Spending in Massachusetts — 2009
Health Care Cost Growth and the Economic Performance of U.S. Industries — 2009
When Drug Cost-Sharing Increases, Patients Newly Diagnosed with a Chronic Illness Delay Starting Medication — 2009
Is the Economic Burden of Providing Health Insurance Greater for Small Firms Than for Large Firms? — 2008
Regulating Drug Prices — 2008
Life Expectancy Is Better Than Age as a General Predictor of Health Care Expenditures — 2008
Insurance Companies' Fears of Covering Acupuncture Appear Unfounded — 2008
Modeling the Health and Medical Care Spending of the Future Elderly — 2008
State Insurance Mandates and Consumer Directed Health Plans— 2008
A Look inside the "Doughnut Hole": How Drug-Benefit Limits Affect Retiree Prescription Use — 2007
Do Policies That Target Physicians Who Make Medical Malpractice Payments Reduce Negligent Injuries? — 2007
A Systematic Review of the Adverse Effects of Prescription Drug Cost Sharing — 2007
Health Coverage Options for Military Retirees— 2007
Behavioral Health Parity: Consequences for Federal Employee Health Plans — 2007
Obesity and Disability: The Shape of Things to Come — 2007
Consumer-Directed Health Care: Early Evidence Shows Lower Costs, Mixed Effects on Quality of Care — 2007
Measuring the benefits from research— 2007
Reviewing the returns of research: Capturing payback from funding by the Arthritis Research Campaign — 2007
The Health Insurance Experiment: A Classic RAND Study Speaks to the Current Health Care Reform Debate — 2006
The Public Spends Little to Provide Health Care for Undocumented Immigrants — 2006
Improving Access to Needed Health Care Improves Low-Income Children's Quality of Life — 2006
Triple Jeopardy for Vulnerable Children — 2006
Are Small Businesses Riskier Than Larger Ones? — 2006
Consumer Decisionmaking in the Insurance Market — 2006
Cutting Drug Co-Payments for Sicker Patients on Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs Could Save a Billion Dollars Every Year — 2006
Effects of Medicare's Prospective Payment System on the Quality of Hospital Care — 2006
Integrating Treatment for People with Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders in Public Systems of Care — 2006
Redefining and Reforming Health Care for the Last Years of Life — 2006
Analyzing—and Influencing—How the VA Allocates Its Health Care Dollars — 2005
Cost-Effective Allocation of Government Funds for Preventing HIV — 2005
Health Information Technology: Can HIT Lower Costs and Improve Quality? — 2005
How Cost Sharing Affects Use of Drugs by the Chronically Ill — 2005
The Managed Care Backlash: Did Consumers Vote with Their Feet? — 2005
State Efforts to Insure the Uninsured: An Unfinished Story — 2005
Changing the Medical Malpractive Dispute Process: What Have We Learned From California's MICRA? — 2004
Future Health and Medical Care Spending of the Elderly — 2004
Inside the Black Box of Managed Care Decisions: Understanding Patient Disputes Over Coverage Denials — 2004
Prospects for Change in the Individual Health Insurance Market — 2004
Cost Sharing Cuts Employers' Drug SpendingóBut Employees Don't Get the Savings — 2002
Costs of a Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit: A Comparison of Alternatives — 2002
The Health Risks of Obesity: Worse than Smoking, Drinking, or Poverty — 2002
Improving Access to Drugs for Medicare Beneficiaries: Can State Laws Help? — 2002
Low Levels of Insurance Reimbursement Impede Access to Cochlear Implants — 2002
Health Maintenance Organizations and the Changing Physician Workforce — 2001
Access to HIV Care: Initial Results from the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study — 2000
Are People with Mental Illness Getting the Help They Need? — 2000
Extending Health Care Insurance to Specific Populations — 2000
Health Care Coverage for the Nation's Uninsured: Can We Get to Universal Coverage? — 2000
Tracking Changes in Behavioral Health Services: How Has Managed Care Changed Care? — 2000
The Benefits and Costs of Drug Use Prevention — 1999
Binding Arbitration Is Not Frequently Used to Resolve Health Care Disputes — 1999
Caring for HIV Patients: Good News and Bad News — 1999
Introducing Managed Care in the Military Health System — 1999
A Portrait of the HIV+ Population in America: Initial Results from the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study — 1999
Prescription Drugs and the Elderly: Policy Implications of Medicare Coverage — 1999
Compensating Permanent Workplace Injuries — 1998
Effects of Access to Post-Retirement Health Insurance on Retirement Behavior and Insurance Coverage — 1998
Effects of Medicare's Prospective Payment System on the Quality of Hospital Care — 1998
How Does Managed Care Affect the Cost of Mental Health Services? — 1998
How Much Would Individual Insurance Premiums Cost Under Kassebaum-Kennedy? — 1998
Improving Block Grant Allocation Formulas — 1998
Preventing Very Low Birthweight Births: A Bundle of Savings — 1998
Government Policy and the Cost and Quality of Nursing Homes — 1996
Health Information Technology
Identity Crisis? Approaches to Patient Identification in a National Health Information Network — 2008
A National Health Information Network -- What Are the Real Privacy Issues? — 2008
Measuring the Quality of Cancer Care: The National Initiative for Cancer Care Quality (NICCQ) — 2006
Global Technology Revolution 2020: Technology Trends and Cross-Country Variation — 2006
Electronic Prescribing Systems: Making it Safer to Take Your Medicine? — 2005
Future Health and Medical Care Spending of the Elderly — 2005
Health Information Technology: Can HIT Lower Costs and Improve Quality? — 2005
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
South Los Angeles Ban on Fast-Food Chains Misses the Mark — 2009
HIV, STDs and Sexual Behavior
How Parental HIV Affects Children — 2009
Improving Mass Delivery of Antiretroviral Therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa — 2009
Exposure to Sex on TV May Increase the Chance of Teen Pregnancy — 2008
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Issues Among People with HIV: Lessons from HCSUS — 2007
Disparities in Care for HIV Patients: Results of the HCSUS Study — 2006
Cost-Effective Allocation of Government Funds for Preventing HIV — 2005
Do People with HIV Get the Dental Care They Need? Results of the HCSUS Study — 2005
HIV Testing Among Indigent Women: Who Gets Tested? — 2005
Reducing Sexual Risk Among Injection Drug Users — 2005
Does Watching Sex on Television Influence Teens' Sexual Activity? — 2004
Understanding the Sexual Behavior of Adolescents — 2002
Access to HIV Care: Initial Results from the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study — 2000
Caring for HIV Patients: Good News and Bad News — 1999
A Portrait of the HIV+ Population in America: Initial Results from the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study — 1999
Law, Ethics, and Health
A Policy-Relevant Picture of California's Ambulatory Surgery Centers— 2009
State Insurance Mandates and Consumer Directed Health Plans— 2008
Changing the Medical Malpractive Dispute Process: What Have We Learned From California's MICRA? — 2004
Inside the Black Box of Managed Care Decisions: Understanding Patient Disputes Over Coverage Denials — 2004
Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health
How Parental HIV Affects Children — 2009
Making It Easier for School Staff to Help Traumatized Students — 2009
Exposure to Sex on TV May Increase the Chance of Teen Pregnancy — 2008
Teens Who Work Are More Likely to Smoke — 2008
How Schools Responded to Student Mental Health Needs Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita — 2007
New Perspectives on Marijuana and Youth: Abstainers Are Not Maladjusted, but Lone Users Face Difficulties — 2007
Using Outcomes to Assess Teen Substance-Use Treatment Programs -- How Feasible? — 2007
Using the ''Getting to Outcomes'' Approach to Help Communities Prevent Underage Drinking — 2007
Should ART be part of a population policy mix? Assessing the demographic impact of Assisted Reproductive Technologies — 2007
How Schools Can Help Children Recover from Traumatic Experiences — 2006
Forging the Link Between Alcohol Advertising and Underage Drinking — 2006
Getting To Outcomes: Improving Community-Based Substance-Use Prevention — 2006
Improving Access to Needed Health Care Improves Low-Income Children's Quality of Life— 2006
Project ALERT Plus May Leverage the Effect of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign — 2006
Quality Primary Care Requires More Than Insurance — 2006
Triple Jeopardy for Vulnerable Children: Greater Health Needs, Less Access, Poorer Primary Care — 2006
Helping Children Cope with Violence: A School-Based Program That Works — 2005
Saturated in Beer — 2005
Stopping Violence Before it Starts: Identifying Early Predictors of Adolescent Violence — 2005
Classroom Drug Prevention Works — 2004
Does Watching Sex on Television Influence Teens' Sexual Activity? — 2004
Evaluating Substance Abuse Treatment Programs for Adolescent Probationers — 2004
Is Patient Volume a Useful Quality Measure for Very Low Birthweight Infants? — 2004
"Voltage Drops" in Children's Health Care: Barriers that Impede Children's Access to Quality Health Care — 2004
Does Early Smoking Signal Later Problems? — 2002
How to Improve Childhood Asthma: A Blueprint for Policy Action — 2002
Understanding the Sexual Behavior of Adolescents — 2002
What Are the True Benefits of School-Based Drug Prevention Programs? — 2002
After 9/11: Stress and Coping Across America — 2001
Guns in the Family: Firearm Storage Patterns in U.S. Homes with Children — 2001
Mental Health Care for Youth—Who Gets It? How Much Does it Cost? Who Pays? Where Does the Money Go? — 2001
Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren: What Do We Know? — 2000
The Benefits and Costs of Drug Use Prevention — 1999
The Effect of Case Management on Immunization Rates and Well-Child Care — 1998
Helping Adolescents Resist Drugs: Project ALERT — 1998
Preventing Very Low Birthweight Births: A Bundle of Savings — 1998
Teenage Alcohol Misuse: A Big Problem and a Different Solution — 1998
Youth Violence: A Public-Health Problem with Disturbing Correlations — 1998
Mental Health
Expanding Access to Mental Health Counselors Under TRICARE — 2009
Assessing Parolees' Health Care Needs and Potential Access to Health Care Services in California — 2009
Improving Mental Health Care for Returning Veterans — 2009
Making It Easier for School Staff to Help Traumatized Students — 2009
Out of the Ivory Tower, Into the Real World: Examples of Street-Smart Community Health Research — 2008
The Behavioral Health Care System is Poised for Change — 2008
The Societal Promise of Improving Care for Depression — 2008
Invisible Wounds: Mental Health and Cognitive Care Needs of America's Returning Veterans — 2008
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Issues Among People with HIV: Lessons from HCSUS — 2007
How Schools Responded to Student Mental Health Needs Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita — 2007
Behavioral Health Parity: Consequences for Federal Employee Health Plans — 2007
Anxiety Disorders Can Have Broad, Negative Health Effects — 2006
Integrating Treatment for People with Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders in Public Systems of Care — 2006
Meeting the Health Care Needs of Adults with Severe Mental Illness — 2006
Three Steps for Improving the Quality of Mental Health Care in the United States — 2006
Helping Children Cope with Violence: A School-Based Program That Works — 2005
The Relationship Between Volume and Quality in Mental Health Care — 2005
After 9/11: Stress and Coping Across America — 2001
Mental Health Care for Youth—Who Gets It? How Much Does it Cost? Who Pays? Where Does the Money Go? — 2001
Are People with Mental Illness Getting the Help They Need? — 2000
Partners in Care: Hope for Those Who Struggle with Hope — 2000
Tracking Changes in Behavioral Health Services: How Has Managed Care Changed Care? — 2000
The Benefits and Costs of Drug Use Prevention — 1999
How Does Managed Care Affect the Cost of Mental Health Services? — 1998
Improving the Quality and Cost-Effectiveness of Treatment for Depression — 1998
Teenage Alcohol Misuse: A Big Problem and a Different Solution — 1998
Military Health Policy
Using Civilian Facilities to Maintain Military Medical Skills — 2009
Expanding Access to Mental Health Counselors Under TRICARE — 2009
Enhancing Interoperability Among Enlisted Medical Personnel in the U.S. Military: A Case Study of Military Surgical Technologists — 2009
The Department of Defense Can Improve Its Response to and Management of Anthrax Incidents — 2009
Improving Mental Health Care for Returning Veterans — 2009
Gauging Future Demand for Veterans' Health Care: Does the VA Have the Forecasting Tools It Needs?— 2008
Invisible Wounds: Mental Health and Cognitive Care Needs of America's Returning Veterans — 2008
Health Coverage Options for Military Retirees— 2007
Analyzing—and Influencing—How the VA Allocates Its Health Care Dollars — 2005
Examining Possible Causes of Gulf War Illness: RAND Policy Investigations and Reviews of the Scientific Literature — 2005
Improving Quality of Care: How the VA Outpaces Other Systems in Delivering Patient Care — 2005
Pharmacy Benefits for Military Retirees: Controlling Costs Without Compromising Health — 2005
Domestic Violence in the Military: Implementing Collaborative MOUs — 2003
The Military Health System: How Might it Be Reorganized? — 2002
Improving Health Care Options for the Nation's Over-65 Military Retirees — 2001
Waiving Informed Consent: Military Use of Non-FDA-Approved Drugs in Combat — 2000
Introducing Managed Care in the Military Health System — 1999
Can the Military Help Prevent Drug Use Among Youth? — 1995
Neighborhoods and Health
South Los Angeles Ban on Fast-Food Chains Misses the Mark — 2009
Do Neighborhood Economic Conditions Influence the Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables? — 2008
Constrained Choice: Why Are Some Women and Men Able To Create and Maintain Healthy Lifestyles, While Others Are Not?— 2008
Using the "Getting to Outcomes" Approach to Help Communities Prevent Underage Drinking — 2007
How Neighborhoods Can Reduce the Risk of Obesity — 2007
How Schools Can Help Children Recover from Traumatic Experiences — 2006
Does Neighborhood Deterioration Lead to Poor Health? — 2005
Obesity and Health
Do Neighborhood Economic Conditions Influence the Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables? — 2008
Pathways to Obesity: Are People "Hardwired" to Overeat? — 2008
Modeling the Health and Medical Care Spending of the Future Elderly — 2008
Why People Overeat: Rethinking the Causes of Obesity— 2008
How Neighborhoods Can Reduce the Risk of Obesity — 2007
Obesity and Disability: The Shape of Things to Come — 2007
Future Health and Medical Care Spending of the Elderly: Implication for Medicare — 2005
Obese Women Receiving Breast Cancer Chemotherapy are Often Undertreated — 2005
Some Prescription Diet Drugs Promote Weight Loss — 2005
Weight Loss Surgery is More Effective than Diet and Exercise in Helping Severly Obese People Lose Weight — 2005
The Health Risks of Obesity: Worse Than Smoking Drinking, or Poverty, RAND — 2002
Public Health
Hold the Salt: Lowering Sodium Intake Would Improve Health and Save Money — 2009
Risk Communication in the Early Stages of the H1N1 (Swine Flu): Alert How Effective Were State and Local Public Health Departments? — 2009
Are Communities Ready to Conduct Rapid and Large-Scale Dispensing of Medications During a Public Health Emergency? — 2009
A Step Forward in Accountability for Public Health Emergency Preparedness: Developing Standards for Mass Antibiotic Dispensing — 2008
Constrained Choice: Why Are Some Women and Men Able To Create and Maintain Healthy Lifestyles, While Others Are Not?— 2008
Modeling the Health and Medical Care Spending of the Future Elderly — 2008
Why People Overeat: Rethinking the Causes of Obesity— 2008
Promoting Accountability in Public Health Emergency Preparedness — 2007
Bioterrorism with Zoonotic Disease: Public Health Preparedness Lessons from a Multiagency Exercise— 2007
Health Coverage Options for Military Retirees— 2007
Using the ''Getting to Outcomes'' Approach to Help Communities Prevent Underage Drinking — 2007
How Neighborhoods Can Reduce the Risk of Obesity — 2007
Obesity and Disability: The Shape of Things to Come — 2007
Vaccinating Residents and Staff Can Reduce Influenza Outbreaks in Nursing Homes — 2006
The Public Spends Little to Provide Health Care for Undocumented Immigrants — 2006
Improving Access to Needed Health Care Improves Low-Income Children's Quality of Life — 2006
Emergency Preparedness Is Stimulating Changes in Public Health Practice — 2006
Quality Improvement Methods Can Be Used to Improve Public Health Emergency Preparedness — 2006
HIV Testing Among Indigent Women: Who Gets Tested? — 2005
Obese Women Receiving Breast Cancer Chemotherapy Are Often Undertreated — 2005
Some Prescription Diet Drugs Promote Weight Loss — 2005
State Efforts to Insure the Uninsured: An Unfinished Story — 2005
Weight Loss Surgery is More Effective than Diet and Exercise in Helping Severely Obese People Lose Weight — 2005
Will Smallpox Vaccinations Save Lives? — 2005
Gaps in Public Health Preparedness: Lessons Learned in California — 2004
Role of Doctors Critical in Effective Public Health — 2004
Will Public Health's Response to Terrorism Be Fair? — 2004
Syndromic Surveillance: An Effective Tool for Detecting Bioterrorism?— 2004
Prisoner Reentry: What Are the Public Health Challenges? — 2003
The Health Risks of Obesity: Worse than Smoking, Drinking, or Poverty — 2002
Youth Violence: A Public-Health Problem with Disturbing Correlations — 1998
Public Health Systems and Preparedness
See research briefs at RAND's Public Health Systems & Preparedness website.
Quality of Care
Children's Health in Washington, D.C. — 2009
Prescription Drug Cost Sharing — 2009
Assessing Parolees' Health Care Needs and Potential Access to Health Care Services in California — 2009
Improving Mental Health Care for Returning Veterans — 2009
Out of the Ivory Tower, Into the Real World: Examples of Street-Smart Community Health Research — 2008
The Societal Promise of Improving Care for Depression — 2008
The Behavioral Health Care System is Poised for Change — 2008
Validating the Link Between Good Physician Process of Care and Better Health-Related Quality of Life for Patients — 2008
Organizing for Quality: Inside the ''Black Box'' of Health Care Improvement in Europe and the United States — 2008
Improving the Quality of Health Care for Older Adults — 2008
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Issues Among People with HIV: Lessons from HCSUS — 2007
A Systematic Review of the Adverse Effects of Prescription Drug Cost Sharing — 2007
Consumer-Directed Health Care: Early Evidence Shows Lower Costs, Mixed Effects on Quality of Care — 2007
Measuring the benefits from research— 2007
Reviewing the returns of research: Capturing payback from funding by the Arthritis Research Campaign — 2007
Discrete choice modelling: Methods for understanding why people make the choices that they do — 2007
Vaccinating Residents and Staff Can Reduce Influenza Outbreaks in Nursing Homes — 2006
Measuring the Quality of Cancer Care: The National Initiative for Cancer Care Quality (NICCQ) — 2006
Effects of Medicare's Prospective Payment System on the Quality of Hospital Care — 2006
The First National Report Card on Quality of Health Care in America — 2006
Improving Access to Needed Health Care Improves Low-Income Children's Quality of Life— 2006
Meeting the Health Care Needs of Adults with Severe Mental Illness — 2006
Quality Primary Care Requires More Than Insurance — 2006
Three Steps for Improving the Quality of Mental Health Care in the United States — 2006
Triple Jeopardy for Vulnerable Children: Greater Health Needs, Less Access, Poorer Primary Care — 2006
Do Cardiologists Perceive Racial or Ethnic Disparities in the Treatment of Heart Patients? — 2005
Do People with HIV Get the Dental Care They Need? Results of the HCSUS Study — 2005
Health Information Technology: Can HIT Lower Costs and Improve Quality? — 2005
HIV Testing Among Indigent Women: Who Gets Tested? — 2005
Improving Quality of Care: How the VA Outpaces Other Systems in Delivering Patient Care — 2005
The Relationship Between Volume and Quality in Mental Health Care — 2005
Developing Quality of Care Indicators for the Vulnerable Elderly: The ACOVE Project — 2004
Is Patient Volume a Useful Quality Measure for Very Low Birthweight Infants? — 2004
The Quality of Health Care Received by Older Adults — 2004
"Voltage Drops" in Children's Health Care: Barriers that Impede Children's Access to Quality Health Care — 2004
Consumer Choice and Health Care Quality — 2002
Report Cards for Health Care: Is Anyone Checking Them? — 2002
Measuring Quality of Care for Prostate Cancer — 2000
Partners in Care: Hope for Those Who Struggle with Hope — 2000
Caring for HIV Patients: Good News and Bad News — 1999
A Portrait of the HIV+ Population in America: Initial Results from the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study — 1999
Taking the Pulse of Health Care in America — 1999
Assessing the Appropriateness of Care: How Much is Too Much? — 1998
The Effect of Case Management on Immunization Rates and Well-Child Care — 1998
Effects of Medicare's Prospective Payment System on the Quality of Hospital Care — 1998
Improving the Quality and Cost-Effectiveness of Treatment for Depression — 1998
Substance Abuse
Assessing Parolees' Health Care Needs and Potential Access to Health Care Services in California — 2009
The Costs of Methamphetamine Use: A National Estimate — 2009
The Behavioral Health Care System is Poised for Change — 2008
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Issues Among People with HIV: Lessons from HCSUS — 2007
Teens Who Work Are More Likely to Smoke — 2008
New Perspectives on Marijuana and Youth: Abstainers Are Not Maladjusted, but Lone Users Face Difficulties — 2007
Using Outcomes to Assess Teen Substance-Use Treatment Programs -- How Feasible? — 2007
Using the ''Getting to Outcomes'' Approach to Help Communities Prevent Underage Drinking — 2007
Forging the Link Between Alcohol Advertising and Underage Drinking — 2006
Getting To Outcomes: Improving Community-Based Substance-Use Prevention — 2006
Integrating Treatment for People with Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders in Public Systems of Care — 2006
Project ALERT Plus May Leverage the Effect of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign — 2006
Assessing U.S. Drug Problems and Policy — 2005
Reducing Sexual Risk Among Injection Drug Users — 2005
Saturated in Beer — 2005
Classroom Drug Prevention Works — 2004
Evaluating Substance Abuse Treatment Programs for Adolescent Probationers — 2004
How State Medical Marijuana Laws Vary: A Comprehensive Review — 2003
Does Early Smoking Signal Later Problems? — 2002
Using Marijuana May Not Raise the Risk of Using Harder Drugs — 2002
What Are the True Benefits of School-Based Drug Prevention Programs? — 2002
Does Involuntary Outpatient Treatment Work? — 2000
Helping Adolescents Resist Drugs — 2000
Improving Block Grant Allocation Formulas — 1998
Can the Military Help Prevent Drug Use Among Youth? — 1995
Violence and Health
Out of the Ivory Tower, Into the Real World: Examples of Street-Smart Community Health Research — 2008
Curbing Teen Dating Violence: Evidence from a School Prevention Program — 2006
Helping Children Cope with Violence: A School-Based Program That Works — 2005