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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
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Designing the Health System–Community Pathways Program for African American Children and Young Adults
Low representation of African American/Black individuals in the health care workforce can be traced to a history of exclusionary practices that leave them less likely to pursue health careers. A pathway program aims to increase representation of African American/Black communities in the health care workforce and improve the quality of their educational and work experiences.
Apr 14, 2022

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Governing Academic Medical Center Systems: Choosing Among Alternative Governance Approaches
This assessment of governance approaches for academic medical centers (AMCs) helped the University of California respond to changes in the funding environment and provides a systematic way for any AMC to weigh the strengths and weaknesses of its governance approaches..
Oct 10, 2017
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Health Sector Reform in the Kurdistan Region — Iraq: Primary Care Management Information System, Physician Dual Practice Finance Reform, and Quality of Care Training
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.
Oct 5, 2017
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The Impact of Health Reform on Purchased Care Access: National Health Reform and Modernization of the Military Health System Study
Newly insured patients through the Affordable Care Act coverage expansion may change how civilian providers interact with the TRICARE program. Some physicians may face financial incentives to drop TRICARE patients for newly insured patients.
Sep 27, 2017
Journal Article
An Emergency Medicine-Primary Care Partnership to Improve Rural Population Health: Expanding the Role of Emergency Medicine
Working in partnership, emergency medicine and primary care can address rural populations' most pressing social and medical needs.
Sep 26, 2017
Report
Understanding how organisations ensure that their decision making is fair
The UK General Medical Council commissioned RAND Europe to investigate the tools, practices and processes used by organisations to support fair decision making in a regulatory context.
Sep 20, 2017
Journal Article
Clinicians, Staff at Safety-Net Medical Clinics Report Increasing Dissatisfaction with Workplace
Physicians, nurses and other staff members at medical clinics that care for people from lower-income communities are increasingly dissatisfied with their jobs, adding to evidence that the health care workforce is under stress.
Aug 11, 2017
News Release
Clinicians, Staff at Safety-Net Medical Clinics Report Increasing Dissatisfaction with Workplace
Physicians, nurses and other staff members at medical clinics that care for people from lower-income communities are increasingly dissatisfied with their jobs, adding to evidence that the health care workforce is under stress.
Aug 7, 2017
Journal Article
Utilization of Registered Nurses in Primary Care Teams: A Systematic Review
Embedding registered nurses into primary care teams can increase patient access to primary care services and alleviate organizational workload.
Aug 4, 2017
Journal Article
Trends in Visits to Specialist Physicians Involving Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants, 2001 to 2013
While the number of NPs and PAs involved in the care of patients of specialist physicians has increased, visits involving NPs or PAs remain a small proportion of overall specialty visits.
Aug 2, 2017
Journal Article
Provision of Peer Specialist Services in VA Patient Aligned Care Teams: Protocol for Testing a Cluster Randomized Implementation Trial
Assessing the impact of outside assistance on the deployment of peer specialists in Veterans Health Administration Patient Aligned Care Teams will provide critical data to administrators and policy makers.
Jun 7, 2017
Journal Article
Development and Feasibility of a Structured Goals of Care Communication Guide
Studies demonstrate the benefits of discussing goals of care and advance care planning, yet many patients with serious illness do not engage in such discussions with healthcare providers.
May 30, 2017
Journal Article
Partnering to Improve Care: The Case of the Veterans' Health Administration's Quality Enhancement Research Initiative
Understanding the respective experiences and perspectives of researchers and operations partners (i.e., policymakers, managers, clinical leaders) can help improve research partnership success.
May 30, 2017
Journal Article
Speaking Up About Traditional and Professionalism-Related Patient Safety Threats: A National Survey of Interns and Residents
Interns and residents often observe unprofessional behavior, but they are less likely to speak up about it, compared with traditional patient safety threats, even when they see high potential for patient harm.
May 25, 2017
Journal Article
Physician Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations Following Guideline Changes: Results of a National Survey
Physicians' recommendations for when to start and end breast cancer screening vary, depending on their level of trust with the guideline-issuing organization.
May 23, 2017
Journal Article
Lessons Learned from an Integrated MTM Program
A community health center in western Massachusetts offers a model of integrated care, in which pharmacists play key roles in decision making and charting.
May 11, 2017
Journal Article
Organizational Structures and Outcomes of Newly Hired and Experienced Nurse Practitioners in New York State
To fully leverage the growing nurse practitioner workforce, health care organizations will need to address organizational barriers that NPs currently face.
May 9, 2017
Research Brief
MACRA's Effects on Medicare Payment Policy and Spending
Estimates how sensitive physician behavior is to the design of alternative payment models under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA).
May 3, 2017
Report
Development and Maintenance of Standardized Cross Setting Patient Assessment Data for Post-Acute Care: Summary Report of Findings from Alpha 1 Pilot Testing
This report presents results of the first Alpha 1 feasibility test of proposed items to include in the post-acute care patient assessment instruments for measuring seven areas of health status for Medicare beneficiaries.
Apr 27, 2017
Research Brief
Nurse-Designed Care Models: What Can They Tell Us About Advancing a Culture of Health?
This brief summarizes findings from case studies of three innovative nurse-designed care models, and it discusses lessons learned from these case studies that might inform our understanding of the health sector's role in building a Culture of Health.
Apr 19, 2017
Report
Nurse-Designed Care Models and Culture of Health: Review of Three Case Studies
This report presents case studies of three nurse-designed care models that help foster a culture of health -- an action framework that focuses on well-being and equity with the goal of empowering and supporting people to lead healthier lives.
Apr 19, 2017

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Julia Rollison

Director, Social and Behavioral Policy Program

Julia Rollison (she/her) is director, Social and Behavioral Policy Program, and a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. Her research focuses on pressing public health issues as well as health care access and quality, with emphasis on reproductive health and the health care workforce.…
Jordan M. Harrison

Policy Researcher

Jordan Harrison is a health policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. She works across a range of program and policy areas in health care and social and economic wellbeing. Her research interests center around the health care workforce, aging, and long-term care. She currently leads a study…

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