Quality of Care Research Profile

Comprehensive Assessment of Reform Efforts (COMPARE)

An interdisciplinary initiative to provide objective, reliable information about the likely effects of proposed health care reforms. Through this project, RAND is providing neutral assessments of proposed health care reforms to advance the discussion of solutions.
Contact: Elizabeth McGlynn, PhD (Elizabeth_McGlynn@rand.org) or Jeffrey Wasserman, PhD (Jeffrey_Wasserman@rand.org)

Health Care Efficiency Measures

A systematic review and analysis by the Southern California Evidence-Based Practice Center of the literature on health care efficiency measures and the collection, categorization, and evaluation of the measures.
Contact: Paul Shekelle, MD, PhD (Paul_Shekelle@rand.org) or Elizabeth McGlynn, PhD (Elizabeth_McGlynn@rand.org)

Advancing the Science of Continuous Quality Improvement

Developing evidence-based methods for identifying and applying relevant quality criteria to published articles that empirically evaluate continuous quality improvement literature.
Contact: Lisa Rubenstein, MD (Lisa_Rubenstein@rand.org)

Web-Based Tool to Improve Nursing Home Care

Creating a simulation tool with which nursing home decisionmakers can test the effects on quality of potential changes in staffing levels, turnover, stability, and/or agency use.
Contact: John Engberg, PhD (John_Engberg@rand.org)

Evaluating Quality Improvement Training Programs

An evaluation of the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative's Perfecting Patient Care (PPC) System to provide evidence about whether and how the PPC training programs increase the ability of organizations to successfully engage in work to improve health and health care.
Contact: Donna Farley, PhD, MPH (Donna_Farley@rand.org) or Kristy Morganti, PhD, MPH (Kristy_Morganti@rand.org)