2012-05-24T14:57:24Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/pacific-northwest.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR991-1.html Jan 4, 2012 Jan 4, 2012

Safe Start Promising Approaches (SSPA) is the second phase of a community-based initiative focused on developing and fielding interventions to prevent and reduce the impact of children's exposure to violence. This report shares the results of SSPA, which was intended to implement and evaluate promising and evidence-based programs in 15 program sites across the country.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2011/04/05.html Apr 5, 2011 Apr 5, 2011

A series of new reports by the RAND Corporation outlines the impact that national health care reform will have on individual states, estimating the increased costs and coverage that are expected in five diverse states once reform is fully implemented in 2016.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2011/04/05/index4.html Apr 5, 2011 Apr 5, 2011

National health care reform will help 125,000 Montana residents obtain health insurance and increase health care spending by state government by about 3 percent when it is fully implemented in 2016.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9589.html Apr 1, 2011 Apr 1, 2011

Projects how the coverage-related provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will affect health insurance coverage and state government spending on health care in five states.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR973z2.html Apr 1, 2011 Apr 1, 2011

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act contains substantial new requirements aimed at increasing rates of health insurance coverage. This report provides estimates, based on the RAND COMPARE microsimulation model, of how the law will affect health insurance coverage and state government spending on health care in Montana through 2020.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR725.html Aug 24, 2009 Aug 24, 2009

<p>Presents the results of a two-year study that analyzes how patient safety practices are being adopted by U.S. health care providers, examines hospital experiences with a patient safety culture survey, and assesses patient safety outcomes trends. In case studies of four U.S. communities, researchers collected information on the dynamics of local patient safety activities and on adoption of safe practices by hospitals. </p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20081008.html Dec 31, 2007 Dec 31, 2007

<p>Finds risk and protective factors during adolescence that predict future regular smoking and multiple problem behavior among youth who had tried smoking by grade 7. Protective factors include good grades and parental disapproval of smoking/drug use.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR142.html Dec 13, 2004 Dec 13, 2004

<p>Measure 11, passed in Oregon in 1994, imposed long mandatory prison terms for designated offenses, prohibited &ldquo;earned time,&rdquo; and provided for mandatory waiver of youthful offenders to adult court. This study analyzes the implementation of Measure 11 and its impact on prosecution, sentencing, and convictions. Findings show that Measure 11 has altered sentencing and case processing practices in Oregon, with offenders convicted of violent and sex-related offenses serving longer prison terms, but fewer being sentenced for these offenses.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20040926.html Dec 31, 2003 Dec 31, 2003

<p>Discusses Oregon's Physicians orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20031009.html Dec 31, 2002 Dec 31, 2002

<p>The time is upon us to rethink how to evaluate resuscitation. People coming to the end of life with fragile health do not do well with resuscitation.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20030404.html Dec 31, 2002 Dec 31, 2002

<p>To identify predictors of the transition from experimentation to regular smoking in middle adolescence, late adolescence, and young adulthood.</p>

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2002/09/30/ST.html Sep 30, 2002 Sep 30, 2002

Published commentary by RAND staff

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1604.html Jan 1, 2002 Jan 1, 2002

This report examines the implications of using alternative power-generation technologies to meet future energy demands in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/drafts/DRU2539.html Dec 31, 2000 Dec 31, 2000

This report presents the findings of research on the impact of standards-related Washington State education reform on school and classroom practices, as reported by principals and teachers.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB309.html Dec 31, 1999 Dec 31, 1999

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19991005.html Dec 31, 1998 Dec 31, 1998

<p>Summarizes the October 1999 issue of Medical Care. Thie issue reports the results of an evaluation of a workers' compensation managed-care pilot in Washington State.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19970603.html Dec 31, 1996 Dec 31, 1996

<p>This paper reports on a qualitative study of how health care providers in the states of Washington and Oregon define and implement medical necessity.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19970602.html Dec 31, 1996 Dec 31, 1996

<p>The qualitative study described in this article addressed whether medical necessity remains a salient and useful concept in the Oregon Health Plan. Results indicate that defined coverage benefits, as described by the funded portion of the Prioritized List of Services, supplant medical necessity determinations for coverage, while managed care incentives limit the need for medical necessity determinations at the provider level.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19910503.html Dec 31, 1990 Dec 31, 1990

<p>In 1989 the Oregon State legislature passed the Oregon Basic Health Services Act, which created a Health Services Commission charged with developing a priority list of health services. The goal of this legislation was to permit the expansion of Medicaid to 100 percent of all Oregonians living in poverty by covering only services deemed to be of sufficient importance or priority.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19910505.html Dec 31, 1990 Dec 31, 1990

<p>The Oregon Health Services Commission recently completed work on its principal charge: creation of a prioritized list of health care services, ranging from the most important to the least important.</p>