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Medical professionals include doctors, nurses, hospice workers, emergency medical technicians, and other trained caregivers. RAND research has analyzed retention and job satisfaction among medical professionals, examined civilian and military health care education and training, and explored the impact of the many policies that affect physicians' and nurses' duties and performance.

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Rural Physicians' Perspectives on the Medicare Quality Payment Program

Mar 5, 2019

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently launched its Quality Payment Program (QPP), which changes how physicians are paid under Medicare. Researchers interviewed rural physicians to determine if their practices could successfully participate and how the program could be modified to support small rural practices.
Commentary

Amidst a Pandemic, a Mental Health Crisis May Be Looming

Apr 1, 2020

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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Options for Maintaining Clinical Proficiency During Peacetime

The U.S. Army Medical Department cares for war wounded during conflict and operates medical treatment facilities that care for service members, their beneficiaries, and military retirees. How can the Army help providers prepare at home for wartime?

May 19, 2020
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Planning Hospital Needs for Ventilators and Respiratory Therapists in the COVID-19 Crisis

During the coronavirus pandemic, many hospitals have run short of ventilators, as well as respiratory therapists who are trained to operate them. RAND researchers developed a model that can help hospitals prepare for and respond to shortages.

May 13, 2020
Journal Article

Journal Article

Psychological Symptoms Among Frontline Healthcare Workers During COVID-19 Outbreak in Wuhan

To examine the psychosocial impact of COVID-19 on frontline healthcare workers in Wuhan, we collected data between February 13-17, 2020 through a smartphone-based survey.

May 12, 2020
Commentary

How COVID-19 May Affect NHS Staff

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.

Apr 15, 2020
Blog

COVID-19's Effects on Mental Health, Food Access, and Education: RAND Weekly Recap

This weekly recap focuses on COVID-19 and mental health, food security challenges during the pandemic, supporting children while schools are closed, and more.

Apr 3, 2020
Journal Article

Journal Article

Differences in Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Clinician and Group Survey Scores by Recency of the Last Visit: Implications for Comparability of Periodic and Continuous Sampling

Patient experiences an be collected by sampling patients periodically (visits over a 1-year period)or continuously (any visit in a monthly interval). We explored differences in Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Clinician and Group scores using both sampling methods.

Mar 18, 2020
Journal Article

Association Between Opioid Prescribing in Medicare and Pharmaceutical Company Gifts by Physician Specialty

The value of opioid-related gifts given to physicians varies substantially by provider specialty, as does the relationship between payment amounts and prescriber behavior in the following year.

Mar 13, 2020
Q&A

Coronavirus Outbreak Intensifies: Q&A with RAND Experts

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.

Mar 5, 2020
Journal Article

Journal Article

When Financial Incentives Backfire: Evidence from a Community Health Worker Experiment in Uganda

Despite stronger financial incentives for community health workers, the entrepreneurial model led to substantially less effort (fewer household visits) than the free delivery model. Our results call into question the notion that an entrepreneurial model necessarily increases community health worker effort relative to free distribution.

Feb 13, 2020
Dissertation

Dissertation

Physician Professional Satisfaction, Job Role and Income in the United States

Three papers covering different aspects of physicians' working lives: factors related to professional satisfaction; perceptions about administrative work; and physician job roles; and an analysis of sex differences in income.

Jan 14, 2020
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Responses to Comments on RAND Global Services Reports

RAND researchers respond to comments on three earlier reports related to post-operative visits bundled into Medicare payments for many procedures.

Dec 19, 2019
Tool

Tool

User Guide for the Training in Psychotherapy (TIP) Tool 2.0

The Training in Psychotherapy (TIP) Tool assesses how well psychotherapy trainings for community-based providers include elements of trainings identified as potentially effective. This guide provides an update of the TIP Tool based on pilot testing.

Dec 11, 2019
Journal Article

Journal Article

Growth and Distribution of Child Psychiatrists in the United States: 2007–2016

Despite the increased ratio of child psychiatrists per children over the past decade, a shortage remains, particularly in places with lower levels of income and education.

Nov 6, 2019
Commentary

Is Training for NHS Staff to Manage Workplace Violence Effective?

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.

Sep 4, 2019
Journal Article

Journal Article

Medical Practice Consolidation and Physician Shared Patient Network Size, Strength, and Stability

Practice consolidation can increase the stability of physician networks, which may have positive implications for organizational effectiveness.

Aug 20, 2019
News Release

California Rules to Limit Surprise Medical Bills Are Working, but Influence Insurer-Provider Bargaining

A California law that limits the size of bills from out-of-network physicians for care delivered in hospitals appears to be protecting patients' financial liability. But it has shifted bargaining leverage in favor of insurance plans and had potential unintended consequences.

Aug 12, 2019
Report

Report

Reviewing the Evidence Base for De-escalation Training: A Rapid Evidence Assessment

RAND Europe conducted an evidence assessment of the de-escalation training literature and found that training may help staff manage patient violence and aggression but de-escalation training may not reduce the number of violent/aggressive incidents.

Aug 6, 2019
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Survey-Based Reporting of Post-Operative Visits for Select Procedures with 10- or 90-Day Global Periods: Final Report

For many surgeries and procedures, Medicare and most other insurers cover a bundle of services, including post-operative visits, during the global period. This survey was designed to capture the level of post-operative visits during this period.

Jul 31, 2019
Report

Using Claims-Based Estimates of Post-Operative Visits to Revalue Procedures with 10- and 90-Day Global Periods

This report describes how CMS could use new claims-based data on post-operative visits to adjust the valuations of surgical procedures with 10- and 90-day global periods.

Jul 31, 2019

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