Since 2010, RAND has worked with the Kurdistan Regional Government to improve its health care system. This phase focused on a primary care management information system, physician dual practice reform, and patient safety training.
Medicare patients without a personal physician reported worse patient experiences, and were 3 times more likely than those with a physician not to have seen any health care provider in the last 6 months.
For training medical residents, a safety workshop compared with a hospital-based online curriculum did not significantly improve overall resident perceptions of patient safety, though the workshop did lead to improvements among senior residents.
This scoping study assessed the feasibility of, and best approach to, an evaluation of Communities of Practice, self-organising and self-governing groups of people who strive to be better practitioners by sharing new knowledge and practices.
Since 2010, RAND has worked with the Kurdistan Regional Government to improve its health care system. This phase focused on a primary care management information system, physician dual practice reform, and patient safety training.
Results suggest that narrative based video games have the potential to influence physician behavior, although the real world implications remain unclear.
Exposing medical students and residents to rural practice during their training is a promising approach to addressing the shortfall of providers in rural communities.
Deploying trained navigators - who can support and evaluate a patient's choice of a clinician-is a promising strategy for equitably promoting higher quality decision-making about provider choices.
Gynecologists order twice as many mammograms as family medicine and/or general practice physicians; physician specialty society guidelines may account for this wide variation.
This report assesses California workers' compensation-required reports -- including the structure and content, level of effort, and allowances -- and compares the elements and processes with other systems to inform potential improvements.
It would be beneficial to combine training of health-care professionals in how to speak up about patient safety issues with training of supervisors in how to manage concerns raised by employees.
Decreasing the reliance of VA providers on opioid prescribing for chronic pain requires local availability of nonpharmacologic pain therapies (NPTs) as well as provider efficacy in prescribing NPTs.
Helping clinicians reflect on how their experiences influence their current screening patterns may be an important approach to improving their adherence to revised breast cancer screening guidelines.
Most buprenorphine prescribers treat many fewer patients than allowed by the current patient limit. Increasing the limit above 100 would likely improve access only for patients of a few high prescribers.
