Report
Improving DoD's Weapon System Support Program: A Critical Readiness Driver Approach
The readiness and sustainability of weapon systems is a key factor in defense. The Weapon System Support Program prioritizes system parts, but performance is lacking. RAND examines program effectiveness and gives recommendations for the future.
Aug 29, 2019
Report
Updating the Costs of Compliance for California's Hospital Seismic Safety Standards
California Senate Bill 1953 requires structural and nonstructural upgrades to hospital buildings to enhance resilience to seismic events. This report estimates the costs to hospitals of compliance, with a focus on the 2030 deadline.
Mar 28, 2019
Report
Resources and Capabilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs to Provide Timely and Accessible Care to Veterans
The Department of Veterans Affairs health care system, with broad resources and capabilities, provides timely and high-quality care to most, but not all, patients. Meeting veterans' needs over the next five years will require additional capacity.
Dec 31, 2015
Report
Cataract Blindness and Simulation-Based Training for Cataract Surgeons: An Assessment of the HelpMeSee Approach
HelpMeSee Inc. is developing a simulator-based method for rapid cataract surgical training that RAND researchers determined could significantly help to close the backlog of cataract surgical cases, expected to reach 32 million globally by 2020.
Feb 21, 2013
Journal Article
Modeling Employer Self-Insurance Decisions After the Affordable Care Act
Self-insurance rates will increase among small firms only under the hypothetical situation that generous stop-loss policies are available to them after implementation of the ACA. Even if many small firms choose to self insure under this situation, it will not increase the premiums charged in the insurance exchanges by more than a few tenths of a percent.
2013
Report
Bridging the Gap: Prototype Tools to Support Local Disaster Preparedness Planning and Collaboration
RAND researchers developed an initial prototype tool to help determine capabilities and resources a locality will likely require during a disaster. The report also describes two social networking tools for local coordination of disaster preparedness.
Oct 12, 2012
Journal Article
A Queuing-Base Statistical Approximation of Hospital Emergency Department Boarding
A hospital Emergency Department's(ED's) wait times can be driven by high occupancy in its downstream InPatient hospital (IP).
Oct 1, 2011
Journal Article
A Markov Decision Process to Dynamically Match Hospital Inpatient Staffing to Demand
This paper applies a Markov decision process to the challenge of matching hospital staffing levels to inpatient demand.
Oct 1, 2011
Journal Article
Developing Nonlinear Queuing Regressions to Increase Emergency Department Patient Safety: Approximating Reneging with Balking
Strategic decisionmaking about the capacity of emergency departments should be based on measures of patient safety, such as the number of patients who leave without treatment because of ED crowding.
2010
Journal Article
A Statistical Markov Chain Approximation of Transient Hospital Inpatient Inventory
Predicting hospital inpatient inventories presents special statistical challenges.
2010