2012-05-24T14:16:47Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/medical-ethics.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100137.html Jun 30, 2011 Jun 30, 2011

Clinical decision support (CDS) refers to electronic technology used to enhance clinical decision making. The basic challenge for policymakers interested in promoting adoption of CDS is to ensure that liability concerns do not derail the clinical value of new CDS technology.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110055.html Apr 5, 2011 Apr 5, 2011

A paradigm shift involving acknowledgement of the value of clinicians in the context of community research, establishment of a stable infrastructure to support a cohort of clinicians across time and research studies, and realignment of incentives to encourage participation in clinical research is required.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110053.html Apr 3, 2011 Apr 3, 2011

<p>New National Institutes of Health policies call for expansion of practice-based research to improve the clinical research enterprise and facilitate dissemination of evidence-based medicine. This paper describes organizational strategies that influence clinicians' decisions to participate in clinical research.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9524.html Apr 7, 2010 Apr 7, 2010

<p>Investigates the relationship between safety outcomes in hospitals and malpractice claiming against providers, using data for California hospitals and insurers from 2001 through 2005.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB536.html Jan 28, 2008 Jan 28, 2008

<p>Provides an overview of ethics and ethical reviews in biomedical research. The purpose of the document is to brief non-specialists on the key aspects of the evolution and current debate of biomedical research ethics and assessment of proposed research by ethics committees or review boards. The briefing highlights principle areas of consensus and tension, and outlines different approaches to the formal ethical scrutiny of proposed research.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9305.html Dec 5, 2007 Dec 5, 2007

<p>This research brief describes the effects of state health-insurance mandates and consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) on the access to and affordability of health insurance for small businesses.</p>

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2004/08/12/WSJ.html Aug 12, 2004 Aug 12, 2004

Published commentary by RAND staff.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9039.html Dec 31, 2003 Dec 31, 2003

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9071.html Dec 31, 2003 Dec 31, 2003

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20030512.html Dec 31, 2002 Dec 31, 2002

<p>To determine the number of embryos stored at assisted reproductive technology (ART) clinics in the United States and their current disposition.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20030421.html Dec 31, 2002 Dec 31, 2002

<p>The guidelines contain (and maintain) core elements that define the discipline of epidemiology and its fundamental duties, but they are also intended to be dynamic and evolving, responsive to a changing professional and social environment.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20030718.html Dec 31, 2002 Dec 31, 2002

<p>Owing to widespread public concern about the adequacy of protections for human research subjects and recent instances of serious injury to subjects at several major research institutions, lawsuits against investigators, institutional review boards, and academic institutions are becoming increasingly common. Several claim-promoting conditions are ripe to promote the further growth of this litigation and raise the stakes for research institutions.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20030507.html Dec 31, 2002 Dec 31, 2002

<p>Physicians play an inescapable role in presenting and shaping health care decisions. Patients and families find it essential to rely on physicians when fear, lack of information, unfamiliarity, and other factors limit their independence and authority. Legalizing PAS threatens to make patients and families suspicious at a time when they would like to rely on a trusting relationship with their physician.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP436.html Dec 31, 1995 Dec 31, 1995

The transplant imperative : protecting living donors from the pressure to donate

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19950002.html Dec 31, 1994 Dec 31, 1994

<p>Recent debate over undocumented immigrants access to health care has centered on cost, but often ignores the ethical dilemma presented to providers, who are divided between their duty to the patients welfare and their role as gatekeeper in the distribution of society's health care resources.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P6551.html Dec 31, 1979 Dec 31, 1979

A commentary on three papers presented at the American Enterprise Conference on Rationing of Medical Services. Examines medical services and the equity of health care: ...

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<em>Senior Behavioral Scientist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School</em><br>M.A. in sociology, University of California, Los Angeles