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State Policies Requiring Education for Buprenorphine Prescribers Boosts Use of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
States that want to increase access to buprenorphine, a lifesaving medication used to treat opioid use disorder, should consider efforts to enhance professional education and clinician knowledge.
May 26, 2023
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How to Strengthen Virginia's Health Care Workforce
Like the United States as a whole, Virginia faces a significant shortage of health care workers in nursing, primary care, and behavioral health. Multiple interventions could boost recruitment, retention, and the structural efficiency of health care delivered by these professions.
Nov 15, 2023

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Physicians with Waivers to Prescribe Buprenorphine for Opioid Addiction Have Capacity to Treat More Patients
Many American physicians who prescribe buprenorphine to treat individuals addicted to opioids are prescribing substantially below the patient limits allowed by law. More than 20 percent of waivered physicians treated only three or fewer patients.
Sep 20, 2016
Journal Article
Social Networks in Health Care Teams: Evidence from the United States
Health care teams could use social network analysis study findings to adjust team structures to help facilitate information exchange, promote collaboration, and improve team performance and patient outcomes.
Sep 20, 2016
Research Brief
Expanding Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice in Michigan: Effects on Health Care Delivery
Changing scope of practice regulations in Michigan to allow nurse practitioners to autonomously diagnose, treat, and prescribe medications could increase access to care, improve favorable utilization of care, and improve patient-centeredness.
Sep 15, 2016
Journal Article
Understanding Negative Feedback from South Asian Patients: An Experimental Vignette Study
Ethnic minority participants rated communication in simulated primary care visits substantially higher than White British participants, suggesting that lower scoring from minorities on the English GP Patient Survey reflects real quality differences.
Sep 15, 2016
Report
The Impact of Establishing a Full Scope of Practice for Nurse Practitioners in Michigan
RAND researchers examine the existing literature on the relationship between state scope-of-practice regulations for nurse practitioners and various health care delivery outcomes, then estimate the impact if Michigan expanded that scope of practice.
Sep 15, 2016
Journal Article
Patients Learning to Read Their Doctors' Notes: The Importance of Reminders
As patients gain access to clinicians' notes, explicit email invitations to review notes may foster patient engagement.
Sep 13, 2016
Journal Article
Mapping the Health Care Policy Landscape for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Professions Using Expert Panels and Literature Analysis
The policy environment related to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) would benefit from a discussion involving a wide range of stakeholders about how to unify definitions of CAM as a collection of treatments vs. CAM as a professional field.
Sep 12, 2016
Journal Article
How Policy Can Help Develop and Sustain Workforce Capacity in UK Dementia Research: Insights from a Career Tracking Analysis and Stakeholder Interviews
This article attempts to identify research support strategies likely to be effective for strengthening the UK's dementia research landscape and ensuring a sustainable and competitive workforce.
Sep 6, 2016
Journal Article
The Impact of Using Mid-Level Providers in Face-To-Face Primary Care on Health Care Utilization
When working under a physician's supervision, nurse practitioners and physician assistants do not increase utilization and spending.
Aug 25, 2016
Journal Article
Opioid Analgesic and Benzodiazepine Prescribing Among Medicaid-enrollees with Opioid Use Disorders: The Influence of Provider Communities
A substantial number of Medicaid enrollees were able to fill prescriptions for opioid analgesics, benzodiazepines, or both in the year following diagnosis for an opioid use disorder.
Aug 23, 2016
Journal Article
Evaluation of the ProPublica Surgeon Scorecard "Adjusted Complication Rate" Measure Specifications
Researchers call into question the validity of ProPublica's Surgeon Scorecord, used to report on individual surgeon outcomes, based on an assessment of its outcome measure with ACS-NSQIP data.
Aug 23, 2016
Journal Article
Creating Unidimensional Global Measures of Physician Practice Quality Based on Health Insurance Claims Data
Physician practice quality indicators from HEDIS (Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information) cannot be used to establish a uniform quality measure across clinical domains, but they can be used to create a small set of composite measures.
Aug 22, 2016
Report
Hepatitis C: Understanding factors that influence the physicians' treatment decisions
A study investigating the decisionmaking process undertaken by physicians when prescribing treatment for Hepatitis C and the comparative influence and importance of specific factors and combinations of factors.
Aug 19, 2016
Journal Article
Impact of a Risk Calculator on Risk Perception and Surgical Decision Making: A Randomized Trial
A surgical risk calculator could help surgeons make more accurate judgments of operative risks.
Jul 25, 2016
Journal Article
Surgeon Perception of Risk and Benefit in the Decision to Operate
When presented with four common clinical scenarios, surgeons' perceptions of treatment risks and benefits vary widely.
Jul 25, 2016
Journal Article
Patterns of Antipsychotic Prescribing by Physicians to Young Children
Prescribing antipsychotics for young children is relatively common, especially in rural areas.
Jul 25, 2016
Commentary
Can a Nurse Practitioner Replace a Physician?
The VA is considering expanding the role of nurse practitioners in order to provide veterans timely access to primary care services. Research has shown that nurse practitioners working in collaborative settings can provide high-quality care.
Jul 22, 2016
Journal Article
Measuring Moral Courage for Interns and Residents: Scale Development and Initial Psychometrics
The Moral Courage Scale for Physicians measures physicians' abilities to stand up for ethical beliefs in the context of patient care.
Jul 21, 2016
Dissertation
The Determinants of Job Satisfaction among Nurses, Midwives, and Auxiliary Nurses in Health Clinics: The Case of Bénin, West Africa
Using secondary data from a performance-based financing project in health facilities, this dissertation examines the concept of work satisfaction among health workers in Bénin.
Jul 13, 2016
Journal Article
Measuring Workplace Climate in Community Clinics and Health Centers
Combining items from existing survey sets would improve measurement of community clinic and health center workplace climates.
Jul 6, 2016

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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.…
Jason Michel Etchegaray

Associate Director, Disaster Management & Resilience Program, RAND Homeland Security Research Division

Jason M. Etchegaray is an associate director of the Disaster Management & Resilience Program, part of the RAND Homeland Security Research Division, and a senior behavioral social scientist at the RAND Corporation. He focuses on researching areas where industrial/organizational psychology…

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