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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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Online Guide Helps Health Organizations Adopt Electronic Health Records
A new online tool, called the
Dec 14, 2011
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More Young People Are Becoming Nurses; Trend May Help Ease Future Nursing Shortage
The number of people aged 23 to 26—primarily women—who became registered nurses increased by 62 percent from 2002 to 2009, approaching numbers not seen since the mid-1980s. This trend should ease some of the concern about a looming nursing shortage in the United States.
Dec 5, 2011
Commentary
The Role of Physicians in Controlling Medical Care Costs and Reducing Waste
Because the budget crisis is really a crisis, it behooves physicians to answer the waste question as rapidly as possible. Without an answer, there is no hope that an appropriate policy process for reining in health care costs will be identified.
Aug 9, 2011
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Most Massachusetts Physician Groups Engaged in Improving Patient Experience, but Focus is Not on Physician Role
Most Massachusetts physician groups are using results from a statewide patient survey to help improve patient experiences, but a significant number are not making use of the information or are making relatively limited efforts.
Dec 20, 2010
Commentary
Physician Compensation, Cost, and Quality
Pay for performance, transparency, and other innovative ways of compensating physicians will work only if, at the same time, the system for providing care is changed to one that has clear objectives and provides specific tools to help physicians achieve those objectives, writes Robert H. Brook.
Aug 18, 2010
Commentary
Medical Leadership in an Increasingly Complex World
It is time for physicians to think beyond making their institution, practice, or professional society better. The population needs, and deserves, such leadership, writes Robert H. Brook.
Jul 28, 2010
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Results of Physician Cost Profiling Can Vary Widely
Profiles created for physicians based on the cost of the care they provide can vary widely depending upon the methods used by insurance companies to create the profiles.
May 18, 2010
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Performance-Based Payments for Primary Care Providers May Worsen Disparities in Medical Care
Rewarding primary care physicians for providing better care to patients could end up widening medical disparities experienced by poorer people and by minorities. Increasing the number of primary care physicians is also not enough to boost U.S. health care quality and lower costs.
May 4, 2010
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Efforts to Promote Use of Lower-Cost Physicians May Be Based on Misleading Profiles
Increasingly common insurance plans that encourage patients to receive care from physicians who keep medical costs lower are based on unreliable estimates of doctor performance and may not achieve the intended savings.
Mar 17, 2010
Commentary
Continuing Medical Education: Let the Guessing Begin
It is time for a change before innovative medical researchers develop a new array of tests and measurements, making it even less likely that physicians will have the right answer, writes Robert Brook.
Jan 27, 2010
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Strategies Outlined to Test New Payment Models for Health Care
A new RAND study outlines methods that might be used to test a novel payment system for medical care that would provide doctors, hospitals and other health providers a set fee for treating an ailment such as hip replacement surgery.
Sep 29, 2009
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Limiting Work Hours For Medical Residents Could Cost $1.6 Billion Annually
New recommendations to limit the work hours of medical residents and improve their educational conditions could cost the nation's teaching hospitals about $1.6 billion annually to hire substitute workers, though society may benefit if such changes reduce medical errors as intended.
May 20, 2009
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Drug Education Also Helps Curb Risky Sexual Behavior
School-based drug education programs for adolescents can have a long-term positive impact on sexual behavior in addition to curbing substance abuse.
Apr 29, 2009
Commentary
Quality, Transparency, and the US Government
If the government is demanding transparency of physicians and hospitals, the very least the physicians and hospitals should do is demand transparency of the government, writes Robert Brook.
Apr 1, 2009
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Pay-For-Performance for Medical Groups Stimulates Changes in Practice
A large group of California physicians given financial incentives to improve the quality of medical care have begun to embrace an array of changes important to advancing quality.
Mar 11, 2009
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Vaccination of Nursing Home Staff, Residents, Key to Reducing Influenza Outbreaks
November 15, 2006 News Release: RAND Study Finds Vaccination of Nursing Home Staff, Residents, Key to Reducing Influenza Outbreaks.
Nov 15, 2006
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RAND Study Recommends Extensive Mental Health Training for Health Providers in Conflict-Affected Countries
Extensive training in mental health services can better prepare primary healthcare providers to treat people traumatized by widespread violence in developing nations.
Apr 12, 2006
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RAND Study Says Health Information Technology Can Improve Quality and Efficiency; More Evidence Needed About How to Put ...
Electronic health records and other electronic healthcare technology can help improve the quality of care and increase efficiency, but more work is needed to show most health providers how to adopt the technology.
Apr 11, 2006
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Afghanistan Without Doctors
Published commentary by RAND staff.
Aug 12, 2004
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Emergency Responders Believe They Have Inadequate Protection
Police, firefighters, medical technicians and other responders to emergencies around the United States believe they have inadequate protection against some of the dangers they face, particularly terrorist attacks, according to a RAND study issued today.
Aug 20, 2003

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Carl Berdahl

Affiliated Adjunct Physician Policy Researcher

Carl Berdahl (he/him) is an affiliated adjunct physician policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. Also an emergency physician and health services researcher at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, his primary research objective is to improve the quality and safety of emergency care by designing better…
Shreya S. Huilgol

Research Assistant

Shreya Huilgol (she/her) is a research assistant at the RAND Corporation. Her research interests include helping clinicians and staff within health care organizations make better decisions and understand how innovations are disseminated and implemented in health care settings, leading to better…

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