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Improving Joint Expeditionary Medical Planning Tools Based on a Patient Flow Approach — Apr 24, 2012

The authors propose a planning concept for U.S. military expeditionary medical care that, by promoting patient flow rate as the common unit of measurement, will help integrate medical planning across treatment and evacuation functions, across the increasing levels of care, and across the different military services.

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Reducing Costs, Increasing Capability: A New Equipping Strategy for Combat Support Hospitals — Nov 21, 2011

Describes a new equipping strategy for the Army's Combat Support Hospitals.

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Complex trauma research in the UK: A rapid review of the funding landscape — Apr 18, 2011

This documented briefing presents the results of a rapid review of the funding landscape for complex trauma research in the UK. Recommendations are made about how to strengthen this niche and orphan area of research.

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The Economics of Air Force Medical Service Readiness — Jan 12, 2011

The Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) currently runs three in-theater hospitals for severely injured or wounded personnel. Part of the practioners' preparation was treating DoD beneficiaries for a broad range of injuries and illnesses. Opportunities for this preparation are not as numerous "in house" as they once were, and AFMS does not always get proper credit for those gained elsewhere. Proper credit for that work is important for…

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New Equipping Strategies for Combat Support Hospitals — Jun 30, 2010

Combat Support Hospitals, when not deployed, keep a partial set of equipment at home station with the remainder in long-term storage, a strategy that has created maintenance and obsolescence challenges. This briefing describes a new strategy for configuring home station equipment sets and proposes that deploying CSHs eliminate much of the unit-owned equipment currently in long-term storage, actions that will sharply reduce total equipment…

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Israeli Military Medical Experience: Ideas for the U.S. Air Force's Medical Service? — Dec 31, 1981

Based on selective conversations with Israeli physicians, nurses, and administrators, the Note describes facets of Israeli military medical organization, functioning, and thinking that might be applicable to the U.S. Air Force.

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Terri Tanielian

Director, RAND Center for Military Health Policy Research; Senior Social Research Analyst
M.A. in psychology, American University; B.A. in psychology, Boston University

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Terri Tanielian is a senior social research analyst at the RAND Corporation and director of the RAND Center for Military Health Policy Research. She oversees RAND's diverse military health research portfolio and maintains relationships with senior military health leaders. She was the…

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