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Follow the Money: Promoting Greater Transparency in Department of Defense Security Cooperation Reporting

This report analyzes the obstacles that the Department of Defense (DoD) faces in tracking security cooperation spending and provides recommendations for streamlining DoD's reporting process to meet new requirements for transparency.

Sep 19, 2017

Beth Grill, Michael McNerney, Jeremy Boback, Renanah Miles, Cynthia Clapp-Wincek, David E. Thaler
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Journal Article

Impact of a Mental Health Based Primary Care Program on Quality of Physical Health Care

Programs to integrate physical health care services into specialty mental health clinics improved monitoring of psychiatric medication side effects, but did not improve other aspects of care among the seriously mentally ill.

Sep 19, 2017

Joshua Breslau, Emily Leckman-Westin, Hao Yu, Bing Han, Riti Pritam, Diana Guarasi, Marcela Horvitz-Lennon, Deborah M. Scharf, Harold Alan Pincus, Molly Finnerty
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Journal Article

Zonnic®: A New Player in an Old Field

Zonnic marks the tobacco industry's entry into nicotine-replacement therapy products, which may warrant new research and policy priorities.

Sep 19, 2017

Min Gong, Michael Stephen Dunbar, Claude Messan Setodji, William Shadel
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Journal Article

Barriers and Facilitators to Implementation of VA Home-Based Primary Care on American Indian Reservations: A Qualitative Multi-Case Study

Common experiences among Veterans Affairs medical centers expanding their home-based primary care services to rural American Indian reservations provide lessons learned for future expansions.

Sep 19, 2017

B. Josea Kramer, Sarah D. Cote, Diane I. Lee, Beth Creekmur, Debra Saliba
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Journal Article

Internalized Stigma as an Independent Risk Factor for Substance Use Problems Among Primary Care Patients: Rationale and Preliminary Support

High rates of internalized stigma - self-applied negative stereotypes - among primary care patients with opioid or alcohol use disorders were significantly related to greater substance use problems.

Sep 19, 2017

Magdalena Kulesza, Katherine E. Watkins, Allison J. Ober, Karen Chan Osilla, Brett Ewing
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Report

A Strategic Assessment of the Future of U.S. Navy Ship Maintenance: Challenges and Opportunities

This report assesses possible supply and demand capabilities in the ship maintenance workload for the U.S. Navy and notes long-term challenges facing mitigation efforts.

Sep 18, 2017

Bradley Martin, Michael McMahon, Jessie Riposo, James G. Kallimani, Angelena Bohman, Alyssa Ramos, Abby Schendt
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Retaining the Army's Cyber Expertise

Soldiers in the Army's Cyber career field require extensive training, and Army leadership is concerned that they will be lured away by lucrative civilian jobs. This report describes findings to inform the Army's retention strategy for these soldiers.

Sep 18, 2017

Jennie W. Wenger, Caolionn O'Connell, Maria C. Lytell
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Autonomous Vehicles and Federal Safety Standards: An Exemption to the Rule?

In this Perspective, we examine changes being considered to the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard exemption process that are aimed at facilitating deployment of autonomous vehicles.

Sep 18, 2017

Laura Fraade-Blanar, Nidhi Kalra
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Report

Knowing More, But Accomplishing What? Developing Approaches to Measure the Effects of Information-Sharing on Criminal Justice Outcomes

In this report, researchers explore measurement methods to assess how information-sharing affects criminal justice outcomes and offer lessons for future policy evaluation and information system design.

Sep 15, 2017

Brian A. Jackson, Lane F. Burgette, Caroline Stevens, Claude Messan Setodji, Erinn Herberman, Stephanie Kovalchik, Katie Mugg, Meagan Cahill, Jessica Hwang, Joshua Lawrence Traub
Research Brief

Research Brief

Mapping Vulnerability to Heat Waves in India

Using district-level data on demographic, social, economic, health, and environmental factors, RAND researchers created the first-ever tool for measuring and mapping India's population's vulnerability to heat waves: the Heat Vulnerability Index.

Sep 15, 2017

Gulrez Shah Azhar, Shubhayu Saha, Partha Ganguly, Dileep Mavalankar, Jaime Madrigano
Journal Article

Journal Article

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Receipt of Influenza and Pneumococcal Vaccination Among Long-Stay Nursing Home Residents

Despite a 2005 CMS mandate that all nursing home residents be offered the influenza and pneumococcal vaccinations, racial/ethnic disparities persist.

Sep 15, 2017

Andrew W. Dick, Patricia Stone
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Journal Article

Moving from Efficacy to Effectiveness: Implementing the Drug Market Intervention Across Multiple Sites

In this study, we examine the Drug Market Intervention (DMI) program, which was replicated dozens of times based on early successes. This study represents the first effectiveness trial of DMI by following a cohort of sites attempting to implement it.

Sep 15, 2017

Jessica Saunders, Michael Robbins, Allison J. Ober
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Educating Syrian Refugees: Challenges Facing Host Countries

Wealthy regional governments could share more of the responsibility of supporting refugee education with the current host countries so that an entire generation of Syrian children is not lost.

Sep 15, 2017

Rita Karam, Gail L. Zellman
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Journal Article

Collaborative Care for Opioid and Alcohol Use Disorders in Primary Care: The SUMMIT Randomized Clinical Trial

Among adults with opioid and alcohol use disorders, a collaborative care intervention—which integrates behavioral health care into primary care—increased both access to treatment and abstinence.

Sep 15, 2017

Katherine E. Watkins, Allison J. Ober, Karen Lamp, Mimi Lind, Claude Messan Setodji, Karen Chan Osilla, Sarah B. Hunter, Colleen M. McCullough, Kirsten Becker, Praise O. Iyiewuare, Allison Diamant, Keith G. Heinzerling, Harold Alan Pincus
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Journal Article

Standardizing the Measurement of Commercial Health Plan Primary Care Spending

Primary care is often acknowledged as the foundation of any high-performing health care delivery system. But how much of our health dollars go to supporting it?

Sep 15, 2017

Michael Bailit, Mark W. Friedberg, Margaret Houy
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Journal Article

Incentivizing Care Coordination in Managed Care

States with high primary care case management (PCCM) penetration provide more access to coordination of care than states with high HMO penetration.

Sep 15, 2017

Paul J. Chung, Carlos F. Lerner
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Journal Article

Understanding and Learning from the Diversification of Cannabis Supply Laws

Prohibitions on producing, distributing, and selling cannabis are loosening in various jurisdictions around the world, but the evidence base for assessing changes in cannabis supply laws remains weak..

Sep 15, 2017

Beau Kilmer, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
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Veterans' Health Insurance Coverage Under the Affordable Care Act and Implications of Repeal for the Department of Veterans Affairs

This report describes the Affordable Care Act's effects on nonelderly veterans' insurance coverage and demand for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care and assesses the coverage and VA utilization changes that could result from repeal.

Sep 14, 2017

Michael Dworsky, Carrie M. Farmer, Mimi Shen
Research Brief

How Might Veterans and the VA Health System Be Affected by Repeal of the Affordable Care Act?

The American Health Care Act would increase uninsurance among veterans and demand for Department of Veterans Affairs care by a greater margin than simply returning to pre-Affordable Care Act levels of coverage.

Sep 14, 2017

Michael Dworsky, Carrie M. Farmer, Mimi Shen
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Propensity Scores for Repeated Treatments: A Tutorial for the iptw Function in the TWANG Package

This tutorial describes the use of the TWANG package in R to estimate inverse probability of treatment weights (IPTWs) when one has time varying treatments or sequences of treatments over time.

Sep 14, 2017

Lane F. Burgette, Beth Ann Griffin, Daniel F. McCaffrey

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