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Switching Cluster Membership in Cluster Randomized Control Trials: Implications for Design and Analysis

With a focus on cluster switching that violates treatment assignment, the goal of this article is to explore the challenges posed for the analysis of clustered RCTs and to propose a potential solution to these challenges.

Jun 16, 2020

Jonathan Schweig, John F. Pane, Daniel F. McCaffrey
Journal Article

Strengthening the Quality of Early Childhood Education and Care Through Inclusion

Ensuring effective access to quality early childhood education and care for all remains a challenge in Europe, especially for those from disadvantaged backgrounds. This policy memo helps decision makers better understand this challenge and suggests some possible solutions.

Jun 16, 2020

Susie Lee, Barbara Janta
Report

Report

A Changing Climate: Exploring the Implications of Climate Change for UK Defence and Security

This study explores the effects of climate change on UK defence and security and proposes a conceptual framework to support the UK Ministry of Defence in assessing and adapting climate change-related risks.

Jun 16, 2020

Kate Cox, Anna Knack, Martin Robson, Neil Adger, Pauline Paille, Jon Freeman, James Black, Ruth Harris
Dissertation

Dissertation

Fulfilling Clandestiny: Reframing the "Crime-Terror Nexus" by Exploring Conditions of Insurgent and Criminal Organizations' Origins, Incentives, and Strategic Pivots

Explores the fundamental relationship and underlying incentives that drive criminal and ideological strategies and operations.

Jun 15, 2020

Etienne Rosas
Dissertation

Dissertation

Public Health and Safety Consequences of Liberalizing Drug Laws: Insights from Cannabis Legalization

Evaluates past policy changes surrounding national legalization of cannabis and identifies feasible policy responses for contemporary or anticipated issues.

Jun 15, 2020

Steven Davenport
Journal Article

What China Wants in South Asia

This brief outlines the issues facing different South Asian countries with respect to their relationships with China.

Jun 12, 2020

Derek Grossman
Journal Article

Journal Article

Assessing the Impacts of Digital Government Transformation in the EU: Conceptual Framework and Empirical Case Studies

Researchers developed an original conceptual framework for assessing the impacts of Digital Government transformation in the EU. Case studies in different policy areas and EU countries were then used to test and validate it.

Jun 12, 2020

Cristiano Codagnone, Giovanni Liva, Egidijus Barcevicius, Gianluca Misuraca, Luka Klimaviciete, Michele Benedetti, Irene Vanini, Giancarlo Vecchi, Emily Ryen Gloinson, Katherine Stewart, Stijn Hoorens, Salil Gunashekar
Report

Data Access and Use Among Middle and High School Principals

This American Educator Panels Data Note provides insights into middle and high school principals' access to several types of data about their students' outcomes and experiences, along with the ways in which principals report using those data.

Jun 11, 2020

Laura S. Hamilton, William R. Johnston
Report

Report

Limb Salvage and Recovery After Blast-Related Injury: Proceedings and Expert Findings from a U.S. Department of Defense International State-of-the-Science Meeting

These conference proceedings summarize findings and recommendations of an expert-led meeting that addressed questions about when to emphasize limb salvage over other treatment options -- such as amputation -- for individuals with blast-related injuries.

Jun 11, 2020

Tepring Piquado, Emily Hoch, Charles C. Engel
Tool

Understanding and Using Research on Gun Policy in America: An Interdisciplinary Unit Plan Based on RAND's Gun Policy in America Website, Suggested Grades 10–12

As part of the Gun Policy in America initiative, RAND researchers developed a unit plan centered on the evidence-based resources on the project website. The unit, designed for grades 10-12, helps students understand existing gun policy research.

Jun 11, 2020

Elaine Lin Wang, Rosanna Smart
Journal Article

Journal Article

Researching the Appropriateness of Care in the Complementary and Integrative Health Professions: Part 5: Selection, Protection, and Abstraction

Of the records abstracted, many revealed incomplete provider documentation regarding the details of and rationale for care. Better documentation and more standardized record keeping would facilitate future research using patient records.

Jun 11, 2020

Carol P. Roth, Ian D. Coulter, Lisa Kraus, Gery W. Ryan, Gary A. Jacob, Joyce S. Marks, Eric Hurwitz, Howard Vernon, Paul G. Shekelle, Patricia M. Herman
Journal Article

Journal Article

Workplace Health: Long-Term Sickness Absence and Capability to Work

Researchers provided evidence on reducing sickness absence in the workplace to support National Institute for Health and Care Guidance (NICE) guidelines on how to help people return to work after long-term sickness absence.

Jun 11, 2020

Michael Whitmore
Journal Article

Journal Article

Researching the Appropriateness of Care in the Complementary and Integrative Health Professions: Part 3: Designing Instruments With Patient Input

This article documents the challenges and the efforts involved in designing data collection tools to facilitate the inclusion of patient data into appropriateness decisions.

Jun 10, 2020

Margaret D. Whitley, Ian D. Coulter, Gery W. Ryan, Ron D. Hays, Cathy D. Sherbourne, Patricia M. Herman, Lara Hilton
Journal Article

Journal Article

Researching the Appropriateness of Care in the Complementary and Integrative Health Professions: Part 4: Putting Practice Back Into Evidence-based Practice by Recruiting Clinics and Patients

This study found that clinics can be successfully recruited for practice-based studies, and patients can be recruited using iPads. Obtaining patient records presents considerable challenges, and clinics varied in whether they had electronic files, nonelectronic records, or a mixture.

Jun 10, 2020

Ian D. Coulter, Gursel Rafig oglu Aliyev, Margaret D. Whitley, Lisa Kraus, Praise O. Iyiewuare, Gery W. Ryan, Lara Hilton, Patricia M. Herman
Journal Article

From COVID-19 Research to Vaccine Application: Why Might It Take 17 Months Not 17 Years and What Are the Wider Lessons?

Experts consider how monitoring the development of a COVID-19 vaccine could help to identify which of the approaches speeding development and deployment could be usefully applied more widely in the future.

Jun 9, 2020

Stephen Hanney, Steven Wooding, Jon Sussex, Jonathan Grant
Journal Article

Journal Article

Coping and Management Techniques Used by Chronic Low Back Pain Patients Receiving Treatment From Chiropractors

Persons with chronic back pain were proactive in their coping strategies and frequently used self-care coping strategies like those provided by chiropractors in patient education. In alignment with patients' beliefs that their condition was chronic and lifelong, many patients attempted a wide range of coping strategies to relieve their pain.

Jun 9, 2020

Cathy D. Sherbourne, Gery W. Ryan, Margaret D. Whitley, Carlos Ignacio Gutierrez Gaviria, Ron D. Hays, Patricia M. Herman, Ian D. Coulter
Report

Report

Evidence on the Validity, Reliability, and Usability of the Measuring and Improving Student-Centered Learning (MISCL) Toolkit: Key Takeaways and Lessons on Developing Tools for School Improvement

This report summarizes a study on the validity, reliability, and usability of the Measuring and Improving Student-Centered Learning Toolkit, which was developed to help high schools measure the extent of student-centered learning in classrooms.

Jun 8, 2020

Julia H. Kaufman, Elizabeth D. Steiner, Jonathan Schweig, Sophie Meyers, Karen Christianson
Research Brief

Research Brief

Ensuring That the Measuring and Improving Student-Centered Learning Toolkit Is Easy to Use and Produces Accurate, Meaningful Results

This research brief summarizes the validity, reliability, and usability of the Measuring and Improving Student-Centered Learning Toolkit, which was developed to help high schools assess the extent of student-centered learning in their schools.

Jun 8, 2020

Julia H. Kaufman, Elizabeth D. Steiner, Jonathan Schweig, Sophie Meyers, Karen Christianson
Report

COVID-19 Air Traffic Visualization: A New Tool Helps Analyze Commercial Air Travel Involving Infected Passengers

In this report—the first in a series on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic—the researchers introduce a new tool to visualize how COVID-19 infections and commercial air travel have interacted to export infection risk across the world.

Jun 5, 2020

Russell Hanson, Christopher A. Mouton, Adam R. Grissom, John P. Godges
Report

COVID-19 Air Traffic Visualization: COVID-19 Cases in China Were Likely 37 Times Higher Than Reported in January 2020

In this report—part of a series on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic—the researchers estimate the likely number of infections in China in early 2020.

Jun 5, 2020

Christopher A. Mouton, Russell Hanson, Adam R. Grissom, John P. Godges

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