Health Care Education and Training

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Research conducted by: RAND Health; RAND Europe

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Analysis of Errors Reported By Surgeons at Three Teaching Hospitals — Jan 1, 2003

Little is known of the factors that underlie surgical errors. Incident reporting has been proposed as a method of obtaining information about medical errors to help identify such factors. Between November 1, 2000, and March 15, 2001, the authors conducted confidential interviews with randomly selected surgeons from three Massachusetts teaching hospitals to elicit detailed reports on surgical adverse events resulting from errors in management (incidents).

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Health Literacy: A Policy Challenge for Advancing High-Quality Health Care : Creating a Health-Literate America May Not Be Easy, but It Is the Right Goal for Health Policy — Jan 1, 2003

Health literacy, at the intersection of health and education, involves more than reading ability.

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Social Context and Adolescent Health Behavior: Does School-Level Smoking Prevalence Affect Students' Subsequent Smoking Behavior? — Jan 1, 2003

Paper examines the links between individual adolescent smoking behavior and actual and perceived smoking behavior in the individual's school cohort.

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Analysis of the Children's Hospital Graduate Medical Education Program Fund Allocations for Indirect Medical Education Costs — Jan 1, 2002

Analysis of the Children's Hospital Graduate Medical Education Program Fund Allocations for Indirect Medical Education Costs

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Initial Practice Locations of International Medical Graduates — Jan 1, 2002

Policymakers may influence the flow of new IMGs into states by changing the availability of GME positions.

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A Randomized Clinical Trial to Assess the Benefit of Offering On-Site Mobile Mammography in Addition to Health Education for Older Women — Jan 1, 2002

Clinical trial to compare the benefit of offering on-site mobile mammography in addition to an outreach program designed to increase mammography use.

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Graduate Medical Education: The Policy Debate — Jan 1, 2001

The cost of providing graduate medical education to the approximately 100,000 medical residents in the United States is approximately $18 billion.

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Combining Information: A Key Quantitative Skill for Policy-Makers — Jan 1, 2001

This paper emphasizes that education must be lifelong and respond with flexibility as new methodology develops.

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Mammography-related Anxiety: Effect of Preprocedural Patient Education — Jan 1, 2001

To determine the effect of preprocedural education on mammography-related anxiety.

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Evidence-based Dentistry and Health Services Research: Is One Possible Without the Other? — Jan 1, 2001

Barriers have been identified in the literature to the implementation of evidence-based practice in dentistry.

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Se siente usted... Cansado, Triste, Enojado, Enfadado, Irritable, Sin Esperanza? — Jan 1, 2000

This is a Spanish version of the patient education brochure (RAND/MR-1198/11-AHRQ).

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Training Agendas and Materials for Expert Leaders, Depression Nurse Specialists, and Psychotherapists — Jan 1, 2000

These training materials will help plan educational sessions for clinicians in a practice, and training sessions for the individuals who will implement the quality improvement programs.

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Beyond Depression: Partners in Care (video recording) — Jan 1, 2000

This script for the PIC patient education video exactly follows the patient-education brochure (RAND/MR-1198/11-AHRQ), providing additional reinforcement for the patient at home or among family members.

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School-based Drug Prevention: Challenges in Designing and Analyzing Social Experiments — Jan 1, 2000

Many important public-policy decisions rely on evaluating the effectiveness of social interventions.

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Healthy People 2010: Setting the Nation's Public Health Agenda — Jan 1, 2000

This article calls for medical schools to use a new set of standards to gauge how well they contribute to social welfare.

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What Students Bring to Medical School: Attitudes Toward Health Promotion and Prevention — Jan 1, 2000

Health care providers positive attitudes toward prevention and health promotion are important in achieving national health care goals.

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Self-study from Web-Based and Printed Guideline Materials: A Randomized, Controlled Trial Among Resident Physicians — Jan 1, 2000

On-line physician education is increasing, but its efficacy in comparison with existing self-study methods is unknown.

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The New Frontier, Increasing Geriatrics Expertise in Surgical and Medical Specialties — Jan 1, 2000

The basic principles are straightforward and well supported by research findings and clinical experience.

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Reducing Missed Opportunities to Vaccinate During Child Health Visits: How Effective Are Parent Education and Case Management? — Jan 1, 2000

Reducing Missed Opportunities to Vaccinate During Child Health Visits: How Effective Are Parent Education and Case Management?

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School-based Substance-Abuse Prevention: What Works, for Whom, and How? — Jan 1, 1999

The author assesses the degree to which drug use, risk factors, and program effectiveness vary across different racial/ethnic groups.

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