Journal Article
Medicare beneficiaries who died while enrolled in independent practice association model HMOs, including the Kaiser model, had many fewer hospital days during the two years before death than beneficiaries who died with fee-for-service coverage.
Journal Article
Finds that questions addressing the effect of pain on day-to-day functions are an important addition to standardized pain assessments in nursing homes, particularly for persons who report intermediate levels of pain severity.
Journal Article
The objective of the study is to identify the barriers and the facilitators for creating integrative medicine in a hospital-based centre.
Journal Article
Tests the accuracy of a brief cognitive assessment of nursing home (NH) residents and to determine whether facility nurses can reliably perform this assessment.
Journal Article
In the Consumer Assessment of Health Care Providers and Systems Hospital Survey, internal consistency reliability is low, and some care domains are not represented. Additional questions significantly improve the psychometric properties of the survey.
Journal Article
Pharmaceutical regulations in 19 developed countries from 1992 to 2004 are analyzed for their affect on pharmaceutical revenues. There has been a trend toward increased regulation, and most regulations reduce pharmaceutical revenues significantly.
Journal Article
The influence staffing levels, turnover, worker stability, and agency staff had on quality of care in nursing homes was examined.
Report
Analyzes the process of adopting clinical health information technology in hospitals and healthcare systems and derives policy strategies that could promote nationwide adoption.
Journal Article
US hospitals have had voluntary incident reporting systems for many years, but the effectiveness of these systems is unknown.
Report
Describes the first phase of an effort to develop an approach to redesigning the National Hospital Discharge Survey and to identify and recommend, through a feasibility study, specific data elements and field procedures for that survey.
Journal Article
Assess racial and ethnic differences in rates of completion from publicly funded alcohol treatment programs, and estimate extent to which any identified racial differences in completion rates are related to differences in patient characteristics.
Commentary
Published commentary by RAND staff: Saving Money and Saving Lives in Nursing Homes, in Washingtonpost.com.
Journal Article
U.S. hospital prices are rising again after years of limited growth.
Journal Article
Nursing homes in the near future would benefit by addressing the resident safety culture.
Journal Article
The health care system needs to be reengineered so that unnecessary and harmful care is eliminated and effective care is provided more efficiently.
Journal Article
Training, rewards, and workload are particularly important aspects of nurse aides' jobs.
Journal Article
Examines deficiency citations for medication use in nursing homes, including those for psychoactive drug use.
Journal Article
Implementing interventions aimed at creating a positive organizational climate (OC), as found in Magnet hospitals, may be a more effective strategy.
Journal Article
Examines changes in 15 quality measures for nursing homes, and assesses whether competition and/or excess demand have influenced these scores over a period of 1 year.
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Illustrates universal vulnerability through the stories of a native New Orleans physician helping his community after Katrina and a writer turned advocate for her mentally retarded brother.
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