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Strategies for Enhancing Prehospital Outcomes for Cardiac Arrest (EPOC)

The Enhancing Prehospital Outcomes for Cardiac Arrest study sought to identify best practices to address out-of-hospital cardiac arrest events. RAND researchers developed 49 strategies covering all levels of prehospital response.

Jul 20, 2022
Periodical

RAND Review: July-August 2022

Features explore environmental racism; the economic value to the UK of improving languages education in schools; and causes of civilian harm in Raqqa, Syria, and ways to reduce civilian casualties in current and future military operations.

Jul 8, 2022
Commentary

Countering Abortion Misinformation in the Post-Roe Environment

Misinformation could become a major barrier to individuals trying to find safe, legal, and quality reproductive care. How might states, health insurers, and technology companies address this problem?

Jul 6, 2022
Report

Understanding and evaluating the impact of dental program accreditation

Dental program accreditation activities undertaken by the Australian Dental Council influence education providers via directive, anticipatory, strategic, stakeholder, and relational impact mechanisms.

Jun 30, 2022
Research Brief

Dental program accreditation: Exploring mechanisms of impact

The Australian Dental Council's approach to dental program accreditation uses directive, anticipatory, strategic, stakeholder, and relational impact mechanisms to influence education providers and ensure graduates are sufficiently competent.

Jun 30, 2022
Journal Article

US Health Care Workforce Changes During the First and Second Years of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Health care employment levels declined from 22.2 million in 2019 to 21.1 million, in 2020 but rebounded to 21.8 million in second quarter of 2021.

Jun 22, 2022
Journal Article

NHS Staff Wellbeing: Why Investing in Organisational and Management Practices Makes Business Sense

This is a summary of the findings of a rapid evidence review and economic analysis commissioned by the International Public Policy Observatory (IPPO) to advise policymakers on how to improve NHS staff wellbeing.

Jun 22, 2022
Report

How Available and Accessible Are Mental Health Services in NYC?

Across the United States and in New York City in particular, the use of mental health services is low and care is not equitably distributed. Non-Hispanic white individuals are more likely to seek care than non-Hispanic Black or Hispanic individuals. Provider shortages and a lack of integration across service settings are two barriers, and COVID-19 exacerbated these challenges.

Jun 22, 2022
Journal Article

State Policies and Buprenorphine Prescribing by Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants

This cross-sectional study used pharmacy claims to examine the association of state policies with the odds of receiving buprenorphine treatment from a nurse practitioner or physician assistant versus a physician.

Jun 2, 2022
Journal Article

Evaluation of a Home-Based, Nurse Practitioner–led Advanced Illness Care Program

Evaluation of a nurse-led, home-based serious illness care program (Advanced Illness Care) at UPMC, a health system in Pittsburgh, PA.

Jun 1, 2022
Journal Article

Serious Illness Communication Skills Training During a Global Pandemic

Description of adaptation of communication skills training to tele-training during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jun 1, 2022
Commentary

Addressing the Shortage of Behavioral Health Clinicians: Lessons from the Military Health System

Access to behavioral health services is one of the top challenges for the U.S. health care system, due in part to a shortage of licensed mental health providers. One potential solution to expanding the behavioral health workforce can be found in the U.S. military.

May 23, 2022
Journal Article

Protecting the Mental and Physical Well-Being of Frontline Health Care Workers During COVID-19: Study Protocol of a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

The COVID-19 pandemic has placed health care workers at unprecedented risk of stress, burnout, and moral injury. This paper describes the design of an ongoing cluster randomized controlled trial to compare the effectiveness of Stress First Aid (SFA) to Usual Care (UC) in protecting the well-being of frontline health care workers.

May 17, 2022
Blog

How Data Can Help Refugees, Homelessness in L.A., Harm Reduction: RAND Weekly Recap

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.

May 6, 2022
Report

Assessing Burnout Among Military Health Care Providers

Health care provider burnout poses a threat to mental and behavioral health care for service members, veterans, and their families. How prevalent is burnout? What workplace factors are associated with increased risk for burnout? And what interventions could help?

May 3, 2022
Commentary

Promoting Patient-Clinician Conversations to Reduce Cascades of Care

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?

Apr 27, 2022
Report

Key Factors in Designing the Health System–Community Pathways Program for African American/Black Children and Young Adults

This report describes the development of key factors in framework design for the Health System-Community Pathways Program, which aims to increase representation of African American/Black communities in the U.S. health care system workforce.

Apr 14, 2022
Journal Article

Beyond State Scope of Practice Laws for Advanced Practitioners: Additional Supervision Requirements for Buprenorphine Prescribing

This study of state laws governing buprenorphine prescribing found that these vary; nurse practitioner and physician assistant supervision should include state non-scope of practice laws.

Mar 31, 2022
Report

Exploration of Early COVID-19 Responses in Select Middle East Nations

Prior to the pandemic, many countries in the Middle East struggled with health care capacity and access. COVID-19 placed significant additional strain on health care delivery in the region. What common challenges did Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, and Tunisia face in their pandemic responses?

Mar 24, 2022
News Release

Audio-Only Telehealth Remains Common at Safety Net Health Clinics; Trend Raises Questions About Quality

Rapid adoption of telehealth helped safety net clinics in California to maintain consistent levels of service after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the use of audio-only care has persisted in the clinics longer than in other types of health care settings.

Mar 15, 2022

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