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Research Briefs (5)

Flattening the Trajectory of Health Care Spending: Foster Efficient and Accountable Providers — Nov 15, 2012

Providers can dramatically improve American health care by focusing on value instead of volume, eliminating wasteful and inappropriate care, applying the best available evidence to their practices, and enhancing patient safety.

Where Do Americans Get Acute Care? Not at Their Doctor's Office — Sep 2, 2010

Less than half of acute care visits in the United States involve a patient's personal physician. Emergency physicians, who comprise only 4 percent of doctors, handle 28 percent of all acute care encounters and nearly all after-hours and weekend care.

Electronic Health Records are Associated with Higher Quality in Primary Care Practices — Oct 27, 2009

Demonstrating a link between use of electronic health records in community-based primary care practices and higher-quality care, this study encourages prioritization of such technologies and their advanced functionalities.

Quality Primary Care Requires More Than Insurance — Jan 12, 2006

This Research Brief summarizes research analyzing and comparing key components of children's primary care: having insurance, having a regular medical care provider, and actually receiving care when it is needed.

Triple Jeopardy for Vulnerable Children: Greater Health Needs, Less Access, Poorer Primary Care — Jan 1, 2006

This research brief summarizes an analysis of data from a nationwide survey to determine why children eligible to be in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) are not enrolled.

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Grant Martsolf

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Grant Martsolf

Grant Martsolf is an associate policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. Before coming to RAND, Martsolf spent one year as the senior manager of program evaluation at UPMC Health Plan and four years as a graduate research assistant at the Center for Health Care and Policy Research at the…

Walid F. Gellad

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Walid Gellad is an adjunct researcher at the RAND Corporation and an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a faculty member of the Pittsburgh Veterans Affairs (VA) Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP).

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