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A Cluster Randomized Trial of Adding Peer Specialists to Intensive Case Management Teams in the Veterans Health Administration

Use of peer specialists (PSs)--individuals with serious mental illness who use their experiences to help others with serious mental illness--is increasing.

Jan 1, 2015
Journal Article

Factors Associated with Ordering Laboratory Monitoring of High-Risk Medications

Physicians don't always order recommended lab tests to monitor patients taking high-risk medications.

Dec 11, 2014
Commentary

The Great Patient Experience Survey Myth

Patient experience with care is an essential element in any assessment of health care quality. Surveys give patients a voice and provide fair and relevant indicators that complement other metrics of health care quality to inform patients' choices and providers' decisions about how to improve care.

Dec 10, 2014
Report

Patient Safety in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Current Status and Opportunities for Improvement

In a RAND study about the landscape of patient safety in Massachusetts, researchers interviewed expert observers (patients, health care leaders, and others) about progress to date and future opportunities to produce safer patient care.

Dec 2, 2014
Journal Article

Nudging Physician Prescription Decisions by Partitioning the Order Set: Results of a Vignette-Based Study

Provider treatment choice appears to be influenced by the grouping of menu options, suggesting that the layout of electronic health record (EHR) order sets is not an arbitrary exercise.

Nov 25, 2014
Journal Article

Examining the Value of Inpatient Nurse Staffing: An Assessment of Quality and Patient Care Costs

The study findings provide support for the value of inpatient nurse staffing as it contributes to improvements in inpatient care; increases in staff number and skill mix can lead to improved quality and reduced length of stay at no additional cost.

Oct 24, 2014
News Release

Making It More Difficult to Sue Physicians for Malpractice May Not Reduce 'Defensive Medicine'

Malpractice reform has been advocated by many experts as a key to reining in health care costs. Three states raised the standard for malpractice in the emergency room to gross negligence, but that did not translate into less-expensive care.

Oct 15, 2014
News Release

State Policies Can Influence Patient Access to Effective Heroin Treatment

State policies can influence the number of physicians licensed to prescribe buprenorphine, a drug that can treat addiction to heroin and other opioids in outpatient settings.

Oct 7, 2014
Journal Article

Making It More Difficult to Sue Physicians for Malpractice May Not Reduce 'Defensive Medicine'

Malpractice reform has been advocated by many experts as a key to reining in health care costs. Three states raised the standard for malpractice in the emergency room to gross negligence, but that did not translate into less-expensive care.

Oct 1, 2014
Dissertation

Designing Efficient Systematic Reviews Using Economical Allocation, Creation and Synthesis of Medical Evidence

Uses economical allocation, creation, and synthesis of medical evidence to design efficient systematic reviews.

Oct 1, 2014
Journal Article

State Policies Can Influence Patient Access to Effective Heroin Treatment

Buprenorphine is an effective alternative to methadone for treating opioid dependence because it can be taken at home rather than requiring patients to report daily to a licensed clinic. But it can only be prescribed by physicians who complete special training and obtain a waiver.

Sep 29, 2014
Report

Assessing the Potential to Expand Community College Baccalaureate Programs in Texas

Considers potential benefits and drawbacks of expanding community college baccalaureate degree programs in Texas, including current unmet workforce-development needs in nursing and several applied sciences occupations.

Aug 28, 2014
Report

Assessing the Potential to Expand Community College Baccalaureate Programs in Texas: Executive Summary

Summarizes a report on the potential benefits and drawbacks of expanding community college baccalaureate degree programs in Texas, including current unmet workforce-development needs in nursing and several applied sciences occupations.

Aug 28, 2014
Journal Article

Assessing the Validity of Using Serious Game Technology to Analyze Physician Decision Making

Physician non-compliance with clinical practice guidelines remains a critical barrier to high quality care.

Aug 1, 2014
News Release

Registered Nurses' Delayed Retirement Helps to Boost Nursing Supply in the U.S.

One reason that the nation's supply of registered nurses has grown substantially in recent years is that older RNs are working longer than in the past. From 1991 to 2012, among RNs working at age 50, 24 percent remained working as late as age 69. This compared to 9 percent from 1969 to 1990.

Jul 16, 2014
Journal Article

Primary Healthcare System and Practice Characteristics in Singapore

The main aim of this study was to acquire a comprehensive overview of the perceptions of primary care experts in Singapore about the state of primary care in Singapore, and to compare this with the state of primary care in other countries.

Jul 1, 2014
Journal Article

Practice Environments and Job Satisfaction in Patient-Centered Medical Homes

We undertook a study to evaluate the effects of medical home transformation on job satisfaction in the primary care setting.

Jul 1, 2014
Journal Article

Long-term Effects of the 2003 ACGME Resident Duty Hour Reform on Hospital Mortality

The long-term effects of reform are important to consider because adherence to duty hour restrictions was limited in the first few years after the transition, and oversight of residents since the transition may have changed.

Jul 1, 2014
Report

The Anesthesiologist Workforce in 2013: A Final Briefing to the American Society of Anesthesiologists

To understand how population and health care changes affect the anesthesiologist workforce, researchers conducted a national survey of American Society of Anesthesiologists members in 2013. This report documents their findings.

May 30, 2014
Report

Implementing a Rb-Rvs Fee Schedule for Physician Services

An examination of the impact of implementing a resource-based relative value scale to pay for physician and other practitioner services under the California workers' compensation system finds in the aggregate across all services, allowances are projected to increase 11.9 percent.

Apr 28, 2014

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