2012-05-24T14:16:36Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/medical-professionals.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9667.html May 16, 2012 May 16, 2012

Vaccine-preventable diseases take a heavy toll on U.S. adults despite the widespread availability of vaccines. Office-based providers can do more to promote adult vaccinations but need clearer guidance and a better business case to offer them.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120097.html Apr 1, 2012 Apr 1, 2012

The substantial expansion in the RN workforce between 2005 and 2010 is largely a temporary bubble that is likely to burst between 2010 and 2015 as the unemployment rate falls.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9648.html Mar 20, 2012 Mar 20, 2012

The use of dedicated anesthesia providers for routine gastroenterology (GI) procedures is seen as medically justifiable only for high-risk patients. Eliminating these services for low-risk patients could generate $1.1 billion in savings per year.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120073.html Mar 20, 2012 Mar 20, 2012

The use of dedicated anesthesia providers for routine gastroenterology (GI) procedures is seen as medically justifiable only for high-risk patients. Eliminating these services for low-risk patients could generate $1.1 billion in savings per year.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2012/03/20.html Mar 20, 2012 Mar 20, 2012

Use of anesthesia providers to monitor sedation during screening colonoscopies and other outpatient gastroenterology procedures more than doubled from 2003 to 2009 in the United States, with most of the increase among low-risk patients who may not need this service.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1188.html Feb 28, 2012 Feb 28, 2012

California has taken steps to implement components of a comprehensive professional development system for its early child education workforce. However, further advances are needed and more information is required to identify possible inefficiencies in the current system.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP356.html Feb 28, 2012 Feb 28, 2012

Uses two sources of representative data, the 2005 National Household Education Survey and the 2007 RAND California Preschool Study, to describe child care and early learning arrangements for the approximately 2.8 million California children ages 0 to 5 who are younger than the age at which they would enter kindergarten.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9638.html Feb 28, 2012 Feb 28, 2012

Offers recommendations for improving the education and training of California's early childhood workforce.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2012/01/11.html Jan 11, 2012 Jan 11, 2012

Promoting immunizations as a part of routine office-based medical practice is needed to improve adult vaccination rates, a highly effective way to curb the spread of diseases across communities, prevent needless illness and deaths, and lower health care costs.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1169.html Jan 11, 2012 Jan 11, 2012

Promoting immunizations as a part of routine office-based medical practice is needed to improve adult vaccination rates, a highly effective way to curb the spread of diseases across communities, prevent needless illness and deaths, and lower health care costs.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120062.html Jan 1, 2012 Jan 1, 2012

With or without electronic charting options, nurses spend about 19% of their time completing documentation, compared with all other categories of care.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120058.html Jan 1, 2012 Jan 1, 2012

The nurse practitioner (NP) workforce in the United States is expected to grow dramatically by 2025, easing concerns about a potential looming nursing shortage and suggesting that NPs will fill a substantial amount of future need for care.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2011/12/14.html Dec 14, 2011 Dec 14, 2011

A new online tool, called the "Unintended Consequences Guide," is available from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to help hospitals and other health care organizations anticipate, avoid, and address problems that can occur when adopting and using electronic health records.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9635.html Dec 13, 2011 Dec 13, 2011

Since Massachusetts enacted health reform legislation in 2006, health care employment in the state has grown more rapidly than in the rest of the United States, primarily in administrative positions.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100272.html Dec 5, 2011 Dec 5, 2011

The number of people aged 23 to 26—primarily women—who became registered nurses increased by 62 percent from 2002 to 2009, approaching numbers not seen since the mid-1980s. This trend should ease some of the concern about a looming nursing shortage in the United States.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2011/12/05.html Dec 5, 2011 Dec 5, 2011

The number of people aged 23 to 26—primarily women—who became registered nurses increased by 62 percent from 2002 to 2009, approaching numbers not seen since the mid-1980s. This trend should ease some of the concern about a looming nursing shortage in the United States.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100291.html Dec 1, 2011 Dec 1, 2011

Physicians prescribe more broadly than commonly perceived. Though narrow prescribers are more likely to prescribe highly advertised drugs, few physicians prescribe these drugs exclusively. Narrow prescribing has modest effects on medication adherence and out-of-pocket costs in some classes.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100187.html Sep 30, 2011 Sep 30, 2011

The Building Interdisciplinary Geriatric Health Care Research Centers initiative created centers that brought together individuals from a wide range of disciplines and helped them collaborate to develop new projects or build on existing efforts.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9610.html Sep 16, 2011 Sep 16, 2011

The most comprehensive analysis of the risk of malpractice claims by physician specialty in more than two decades finds that U.S. physicians have a greater than 75% career-long risk of facing litigation. In some specialties, doctors can be virtually certain of a lawsuit over the course of their careers. However, the vast majority of those claims will not result in payment to a plaintiff.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100185.html Aug 31, 2011 Aug 31, 2011

Analysis of the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Plan suggests national health care reform may require larger numbers of support personnel, rather than requiring greater numbers of physicians and nurses themselves.