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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
Report
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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Enhancing Military–Civilian Medical Synergies: The Role of Army Medical Practice in Civilian Facilities
RAND researchers assessed Army medical practice in U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and non-Veterans Affairs civilian facilities and suggested opportunities for improving military-civilian synergies.
Jun 22, 2016
Commentary
Can Hospital Services Work in Primary Care Settings?
Shifting health care from hospitals to the community will only be justified if patient satisfaction and convenience is valued above costs to the NHS, or if this shift reduces health care costs in the long term.
Jun 2, 2016
Commentary
Debunking Myths About Patient Experience Surveys
Patient experience surveys give patients a voice. They can provide fair and relevant indicators that complement other metrics of health care quality to monitor and improve care.
May 27, 2016
Journal Article
Training and Capacity Building in LMIC for Research in Heart and Lung Diseases: The NHLBI-UnitedHealth Global Health Centers of Excellence Program
A public-private partnership created a program to train and mentor early stage researchers who study of heart and lung diseases from 11 Centers of Excellence around the world.
May 25, 2016
Commentary
NIHR's Impacts on the Health Research Landscape
The National Institute for Health Research is now ten years old. What benefits has it had on the health research landscape in the UK since its formation?
May 19, 2016
Report
The National Institute for Health Research at 10 Years: An impact synthesis: 100 Impact Case Studies
This report celebrates 100 examples of positive change arising from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)'s support of research over the last 10 years, highlighting how it has transformed R&D in and for the NHS and the people it serves.
May 18, 2016
Report
An evaluation of the first phase of Q: Engaging the founding cohort in a co-designed approach to health care improvement
Q is an initiative, led by the Health Foundation and supported by NHS England, designed to connect people skilled in quality improvement across the UK. We carried out an embedded evaluation of its first phase, co-design with the founding cohort.
May 9, 2016
Journal Article
Physician Professional Satisfaction and Area of Clinical Practice: Evidence from an Integrated Health Care Delivery System
High levels of physician professional satisfaction were found across multiple specialties and primary care in the closed, integrated practice setting of Southern California Permanente Medical Group.
May 9, 2016
Research Brief
Minding the Gaps: Measuring Quality Based on Episodes of Care
An episode-based framework of health care quality measurement could provide a more complete picture of care than current methods. Existing quality measures could be used, but new ones would need to be developed to fill gaps in the framework.
May 6, 2016
Commentary
What Makes Stakeholders Want to Become Involved in Research?
Involving stakeholders in comparative-effectiveness research is important. But competing demands for their time can make this a challenge. Why do stakeholders get involved in this research, or not?
May 2, 2016
Essay
Science and the Healing Arts
Americans spend billions of dollars out of pocket seeking relief from chronic conditions in alternative schools of health, such as acupuncture or chiropractic. What would it take to more fully integrate such practices into the mainstream?
Apr 29, 2016
Journal Article
What Drives Variation in Antibiotic Prescribing for Acute Respiratory Infections?
Clinicians are more likely to prescribe antibiotics inappropriately when they are feeling rushed, don't feel strongly that antibiotics are overused, and don't think patient demand for antibiotics is a problem in their practice.
Apr 27, 2016
Journal Article
Estimating Surgical Procedure Times Using Anesthesia Billing Data and Operating Room Records
Anesthesia and operating room (OR) times can be used to estimate surgical time, thereby improving the payment for surgical procedures in the Medicare fee schedule.
Mar 18, 2016
Journal Article
Medicare Prescription Plan Enrollees' Experiences Compared to Their Medicare Advantage Counterparts
Medicare enrollees with standalone prescription coverage reported less positive experience with their plans than their counterparts in Medicare Advantage plans.
Mar 14, 2016
Journal Article
Fostering a Commitment to Quality: Best Practices in Safety-Net Hospitals
To support efforts at the recently opened Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles to develop a culture of quality, a team of scholars identified best practices based on interviews with high-performing hospital systems.
Mar 14, 2016
Journal Article
An Examination of Hospital Nurse Staffing and Patient Experience with Care: Differences Between Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Estimates
This study examines the association between hospital nurse staffing and Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) scores.
Mar 2, 2016
Journal Article
A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Team-Based Competition to Increase Learner Participation in Quality-Improvement Education
We investigated whether the incorporation of team-based game mechanics into an evidence-based online learning platform could increase resident participation in a QI curriculum.
Feb 29, 2016
Journal Article
Episode-based Approaches to Measuring Health Care Quality
Developing an episode-based framework of health care quality measurement would allow for more comprehensive assessments of care quality than currently available methods.
Feb 29, 2016
Commentary
Relationships Between Physician Professional Satisfaction and Patient Safety
Health system leaders should view regular and detailed assessment of physician professional satisfaction as an invaluable early warning system for potential threats to quality and safety. But simply surveying doctors on their overall levels of job satisfaction isn't enough.
Feb 23, 2016
Research Brief
Advancing Complementary and Alternative Medicine Professions: Practitioners Face Many Policy Hurdles to Finding Their Place in Mainstream Medicine
The policy challenges associated with coverage, licensure, scope of practice, institutional privileges, and research may prevent complementary and alternative medicine professionals from practicing to the full extent of their capabilities.
Feb 8, 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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