2012-05-24T20:26:10Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/decisionmaking.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1207.html May 17, 2012 May 17, 2012

This report, by researchers from Partners HealthCare and the RAND Corporation, primarily describes the work associated with Task 4.8 of the Advancing Clinical Decision Support effort, a project intended to accelerate the effective use of computer-based clinical decision support (CDS) interventions to facilitate evidence-based clinical practice. Twenty-two CDS artifacts and 16 value sets were developed that cover the five CDS intervention types.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9653.html Apr 13, 2012 Apr 13, 2012

This report describes the socioeconomic environment officers will encounter if they leave active-duty service and analyzes its potential impact on Army retention and how it can be effectively communicated to officers making stay/leave decisions.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1129.html Apr 2, 2012 Apr 2, 2012

The federal electronic health record (EHR) incentive program includes clinical decision support (CDS) as a central requirement of improving health outcomes; however, a process for identifying and prioritizing the most promising targets for CDS has not been established. This report describes a protocol for eliciting high-priority targets for electronic CDS for individual clinical specialties and summarizes lessons learned.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF287.html Mar 9, 2012 Mar 9, 2012

These proceedings present the topics and findings discussed at a July 2010 workshop convened to examine how consumers of intelligence might be better served by analysis whose focus is longer term or more strategic than the current reporting that dominates today's intelligence production. An appendix presents relevant lessons from the private sector.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs/CP413-2012-02.html Feb 21, 2012 Feb 21, 2012

This brochure describes the quality standards for RAND research.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120085.html Feb 1, 2012 Feb 1, 2012

Freight transport is a rapidly expanding and changing economic sector.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/rgs_dissertations/RGSD292.html Jan 20, 2012 Jan 20, 2012

Applies robust decision methods to evaluate California's transportation policies that considers multiple views of the future, and identifies strategies that consistently reduce emissions at acceptable costs regardless of future conditions.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1123.html Dec 15, 2011 Dec 15, 2011

This monograph develops a comprehensive picture of the socioeconomic environment officers will encounter if they leave active-duty service and analyzes the potential impact of these factors on Army retention and how major differences between military and civilian employment can be effectively communicated to officers making stay/leave decisions.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20111103.html Dec 1, 2011 Dec 1, 2011

It is feasible to conduct online expert panels intended to facilitate consensus finding among geographically distributed participants. The online approach may be practical for engaging large and diverse groups of stakeholders around a range of health services research topics and can help conduct multiple parallel panels to test for the reproducibility of panel conclusions.

http://www.rand.org/multimedia/audio/2011/10/25/californias-water-challenges.html Oct 25, 2011 Oct 25, 2011

David Groves discusses an innovative approach to dealing with the many challenges that may contribute to sustainable and affordable solutions of long term water supplies in California.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR974.html Sep 29, 2011 Sep 29, 2011

The Air Force and other Defense Department entities conduct a host of security cooperation activities with partner air forces. However, there is currently no process for systematically tracking all these programs and activities. This report supplies Air Force planners with more-accessible information about resources for security cooperation, the rules that govern their use, and their application methods.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100169.html Jul 31, 2011 Jul 31, 2011

Any successful response to climate change--both the challenges of limiting the magnitude of future climate change and adapting to its impacts--will clearly involve policies that evolve over time in response to new information and that are robust over a wide range of difficult-to-predict future conditions.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1010.html Jul 15, 2011 Jul 15, 2011

Peer review is considered the gold standard for reviewing research proposals, but it is not always the best method for every research funding process. RAND Europe has developed a folio of cards highlighting a set of established approaches that offer unique alternatives to traditional peer review.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR846.html Apr 19, 2011 Apr 19, 2011

Geoengineering is risky, but could transform the portfolio of options for limiting future climate change. Some geoengineering approaches could prove fast acting and inexpensive and could be deployed by one or a few nations without global cooperation.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs/CP401-2011-01.html Feb 16, 2011 Feb 16, 2011

In the context of the RAND Corporation's mission to help improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis, the <em>Year in Review</em> offers an assessment of RAND's achievements in 2010.

http://www.rand.org/multimedia/video/2010/04/2/robust_decision_making.html Apr 1, 2010 Apr 1, 2010

Robert Lempert, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition, highlights the Robust Decision Making (RDM) method and presents an example of how RDM allowed a municipal water utility to revise their long term plans while still considering climate change.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR685.html Dec 2, 2009 Dec 2, 2009

<p>Bibliometrics is an increasingly important tool for research evaluation. The report provides an accessible, &lsquo;beginner&rsquo;s guide&rsquo; to bibliometric theory and application in the area of health research and development (R&amp;D) decision-making.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF267.html Aug 12, 2009 Aug 12, 2009

<p>The RAND Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition recently hosted a workshop that gave analysts and policymakers from many countries a collaborative opportunity to explore new methods and tools that can help improve long-term decisionmaking. </p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR513.html May 19, 2009 May 19, 2009

<p>This paper determines what demands and requirements there may be for a pan-European electronic Identity Management (eIDM) framework in 2015 and which services are likely to be developed on this infrastructure.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090336.html Mar 30, 2009 Mar 30, 2009

<p>Many scientists have called for a substantial new investment in climate modeling to increase the accuracy, precision, and reliability of climate predictions. Such investments are often justified by asserting that failure to improve predictions will prevent society from adapting successfully to changing climate.</p>