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Migration
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How Data Can Help Refugees, Homelessness in L.A., Harm Reduction: RAND Weekly Recap
May 6, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on tapping into Facebook data to help refugees, addressing homelessness in Los Angeles, understanding burnout among health care providers, and more.
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Health Care Quality
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Promoting Patient-Clinician Conversations to Reduce Cascades of Care
Kathleen L. Mulligan, Ishani Ganguli, Robert S. Rudin @rsrudin
Apr 27, 2022
The Joint Commission
A cascade of care is a seemingly uncontrollable sequence of medical services that is driven by the desire to avoid even the smallest risk of a bad outcome. What drives cascades? And what interventions might mitigate them?
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Gender Equity in the Workplace
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Gender Pay Gap Among Doctors, America's Labor Shortage, 'Hacking Equity': RAND Weekly Recap
Dec 17, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on the pay gap between female and male doctors, understanding America’s weird job market, social and emotional learning, and more.
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Vaccination
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Who Can Effectively Champion the Vax?
Lois M. Davis @LoisMDavis, Michael S. Pollard @MichaelSPollard
Apr 9, 2021
MedPage Today
Vaccine hesitancy appears to be one more hurdle in ending the COVID-19 pandemic. The CDC would typically lead a campaign to overcome it, but Americans' trust in the CDC has declined measurably. Health care professionals may be more effective messengers when it comes to COVID-19 vaccines.
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Health Care Workforce
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More Could Be Spent on Recruiting and Training Cancer Staff if the NHS Is to Provide a World-Class Cancer Service
Jenny George
Dec 10, 2020
The RAND Blog
Cancer is a leading cause of death in the UK. Action is needed now to recruit and train more NHS staff in certain key cancer-related roles if NHS is to meet its ambitions for improving cancer services over the next 10 years.
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Health Care Organization and Administration
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Can Primary Care Networks and Models of Vertical Integration Coexist in the NHS?
Manbinder Sidhu, Jon Sussex
Dec 7, 2020
The RAND Blog
Vertical integration with a hospital helps primary care practices that might otherwise have closed to remain in operation. It thereby creates the opportunity for the continued development and improvement of local primary care for patients.
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Health Care Organization and Administration
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How Hospitals Could Step in to Help Manage GP Practices
Manbinder Sidhu, Jon Sussex
Dec 1, 2020
Health Service Journal
The supply of doctors in primary care, known as 'GPs' in the UK, is falling behind a growing demand for their services, as GPs leave general practice in large numbers. One way to help struggling GP practices could be vertical integration—combining health care organizations operating at different stages along the patient pathway.
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Telemedicine
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Moving on from Telehealth-by-Desperation: What Will Make Telehealth Stick
Lori Uscher-Pines
Aug 18, 2020
Health Affairs Blog
During the COVID-19 pandemic telehealth has helped to maintain continuity of care for millions of Americans, preserve personal protective equipment, and facilitate social distancing. But that does not mean that telehealth will be embraced by patients and providers in the long run.
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Gender Equity in the Workplace
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The Link Between Workplace Diversity and the Gender Pay Gap
Christopher M. Whaley @cm_whaley, Anupam B. Jena
Aug 15, 2020
USA Today
Many factors explain the gender earnings gap, including workplace biases, differences in how credit is attributed, and differences in how men and women negotiate. But another factor could influence the pay women receive: the number of men in their workplace.
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Medical Professionals
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Looking After Those Who Look After Us—How COVID-19 May Affect NHS Staff
Christian Van Stolk
Apr 15, 2020
The RAND Blog
COVID-19 may leave a long legacy of poor health and well-being in the National Health Service workforce. This could affect quality of care and the financial performance of the system. We need to ensure that NHS organizations provide significant support for health care workers.
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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COVID-19's Effects on Mental Health, Food Access, and Education: RAND Weekly Recap
Apr 3, 2020
This weekly recap focuses on COVID-19 and mental health, food security challenges during the pandemic, supporting children while schools are closed, and more.
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Medical Professionals
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Amidst a Pandemic, a Mental Health Crisis May Be Looming
Sangeeta C. Ahluwalia @AhluwaliaPhD, Carrie M. Farmer @carriefarmer, Mahshid Abir
Apr 1, 2020
The RAND Blog
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on health care workers' mental health could be significant and may weaken the health care system's ability to resolve the crisis and survive over the long term. Interventions to promote psychological well-being should be implemented now.
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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Coronavirus Outbreak Intensifies: Q&A with RAND Experts
Mar 5, 2020
Cases of the coronavirus have now spread to several dozens of countries, infecting thousands and thousands of people across the globe. With concerns about the disease rising, we asked a group of RAND researchers to answer a wide range of questions about the crisis.
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Workplace Violence
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Is Training for NHS Staff to Manage Workplace Violence Effective?
Brandi Leach, Michael Whitmore
Sep 4, 2019
Nursing Times
Going to work should not mean being subjected to physical or verbal assault, but this is the reality faced by thousands of frontline NHS staff. De-escalation training may help staff manage patient violence and aggression, but there is not enough research about what works in specific healthcare contexts.
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Patient Experience
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A New Way to Capture the Patient Experience
May 2, 2019
Researchers have developed a more effective and reliable way for patients to provide narrative feedback about the care they receive. When the right questions are asked, patients' answers can help health care providers better understand the patient experience and learn how they could improve.
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Mental Health Treatment
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How a New Tool Could Help Mental Health Providers Deliver More Effective Care
Kimberly A. Hepner @KimberlyHepner, Terri Tanielian, David M. Adamson
Mar 1, 2019
The RAND Blog
The mental health workforce needs the proper tools to meet the needs of the communities it serves. A key element of this is high-quality training in how to deliver evidence-based treatments. RAND developed a new tool designed to assess how well a specific training aligns with the most critical features of effective training.
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