2012-05-24T14:57:55Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/survey-research-methodology.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120057.html Mar 1, 2012 Mar 1, 2012

This study seeks to develop a new prognostic model, the Patient-Reported Outcome Mortality Prediction Tool (PROMPT), for six-month mortality in community-dwelling elderly patients.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120056.html Mar 1, 2012 Mar 1, 2012

This study developed a vision-targeted health state classification system based on the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire-25 (NEI VFQ-25).

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1210.html Jan 31, 2012 Jan 31, 2012

A first systematic picture of United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) leaders' views of priorities and approaches regarding sustainable development (SD). Survey and interview responses are drawn on to show the importance of SD and ways forward.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs/CP531-2011.html Jan 19, 2012 Jan 19, 2012

RAND Europe's annual report, Spotlight 2011, focuses on selected present and past RAND Europe signature research. With 2012 being our 20th anniversary year, the report features some of our most recent work while reflecting on how RAND Europe has developed and remained relevant over the last two decades. It also highlights selected research and corporate activity in 2011.

http://www.rand.org/labor/aging/dataprod.html Dec 21, 2011 Dec 21, 2011

The Health and Retirement Study is a longitudinal survey of the elderly dating back to 1992. With the support of the National Institute on Aging and Social Security Administration, RAND has made five data sets available for researchers.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs/CP659.html Dec 2, 2011 Dec 2, 2011

Documents RAND's responses to proposed changes in the Common Rule, which regulates Institutional Review Board protection of human research participants.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100297.html Sep 1, 2011 Sep 1, 2011

The Payback Framework is a conceptual approach previously used to evaluate impacts from health research. We tested its applicability to social sciences by using an adapted version to assess the impacts of the Future of Work (FoW) programme.

http://www.rand.org/labor/roybalfd/american_life.html Aug 17, 2011 Aug 17, 2011

RAND's American Life Panel surveys people age 40 and over on the Internet, which allows for greater flexibility in survey design and instantly accessible data. Current studies analyze opinions on Medicare Plan D, health shocks, and financial decisionmaking.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100181.html Jul 31, 2011 Jul 31, 2011

<p>The mean value of travel time savings obtained from a random parameters logit model estimated using the respondents who received the D-efficient design survey was closer to what is typically found in the literature.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100186.html Apr 30, 2011 Apr 30, 2011

This paper presents empirical findings from the comparison between two principal preference elicitation techniques: discrete choice experiments and profile-based best-worst scaling. Bes-worst scaling involves less cognitive burden for respondents and provides more information than traditional &quot;pick-one&quot; tasks asked in discrete choice experiments.

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/external_publications/EP20110054.html Apr 3, 2011 Apr 3, 2011

<p>This paper presents a model for the reorganization of clinical research to foster long-term participation by community clinicians.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs/CP509-2010-11.html Mar 31, 2011 Mar 31, 2011

MMIC (Multimode Interviewing Capacity) is an open source comprehensive information system under development by the RAND Corporation. MMIC integrates various traditional modes of collecting interview data, including telephone interviewing, self-administered surveys, and personal interviewing. MMIC is used to manage the whole data collection process from questionnaire design, sample management, and fieldwork monitoring to final dataset production.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs/CP508-2010-11.html Mar 31, 2011 Mar 31, 2011

The ALP (American Life Panel) consists of 5,000 respondents who are regularly interviewed over the Internet. The majority of the panel members have their own Internet access. The remaining panel members have been provided with Internet access by RAND through the provision of an Internet Player and a subscription. The basic rate for use of the Internet panel for research surveys is $3 per respondent per minute interview time.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110049.html Mar 26, 2011 Mar 26, 2011

A patient's social environment in an important dimension of treatment for chronic illness; interventions intended to help individuals understand and change their social environments could benefit from incorporating visualizations of social networks.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110021.html Feb 27, 2011 Feb 27, 2011

http://www.rand.org/labor/FLS/MHSS.html Feb 2, 2011 Feb 2, 2011

The Matlab Health and Socio-economic Survey, conducted in 1996, provides a unique microlevel data set for research on aging. In particular, these new data will support in-depth analyses &mdash; not possible with existing survey data &mdash; on interrelated topics having to do with life-cycle investments in the physical, economic, and social well-being of adults and the elderly.

http://www.rand.org/labor/FLS/IFLS.html Dec 6, 2010 Dec 6, 2010

The Indonesian Family Life Survey is an ongoing, longitudinal survey begun in 1993 that represents about 83% of the Indonesian population and includes over 30,000 individuals living in 13 of the country's 27 provinces.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR788.html Oct 28, 2010 Oct 28, 2010

The Performance Audit Handbook provides a first-stop shop for anyone interested in the theory and practice of delivering performance audits. It is intended for evaluators, researchers and anyone interested in the evaluation of the public sector.