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Medical professionals include doctors, nurses, hospice workers, emergency medical technicians, and other trained caregivers. RAND research has analyzed retention and job satisfaction among medical professionals, examined civilian and military health care education and training, and explored the impact of the many policies that affect physicians' and nurses' duties and performance.

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Most Prescriptions for Opioid Addiction Medication Buprenorphine Are Written by a Small Number of Providers

Jun 1, 2021

Half of all patient-months of buprenorphine treatment during 2016 and 2017 were prescribed by just 4.9% of the physicians and other providers who prescribed the drug during the period.
Commentary

Who Can Effectively Champion the Vax?

Apr 9, 2021

Vaccine hesitancy appears to be one more hurdle in ending the COVID-19 pandemic. The CDC would typically lead a campaign to overcome it, but Americans' trust in the CDC has declined measurably. Health care professionals may be more effective messengers when it comes to COVID-19 vaccines.

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Commentary

Combating Abortion Misinformation in the Post-Roe Environment

Misinformation could become a major barrier to individuals trying to find safe, legal, and quality reproductive care. How might states, health insurers, and technology companies address this problem?

Jul 6, 2022
Report

Understanding and evaluating the impact of dental program accreditation

Dental program accreditation activities undertaken by the Australian Dental Council influence education providers via directive, anticipatory, strategic, stakeholder, and relational impact mechanisms.

Jun 30, 2022
Research Brief

Dental program accreditation: Exploring mechanisms of impact

The Australian Dental Council's approach to dental program accreditation uses directive, anticipatory, strategic, stakeholder, and relational impact mechanisms to influence education providers and ensure graduates are sufficiently competent.

Jun 30, 2022
Report

How Available and Accessible Are Mental Health Services in NYC?

Across the United States and in New York City in particular, the use of mental health services is low and care is not equitably distributed. Non-Hispanic white individuals are more likely to seek care than non-Hispanic Black or Hispanic individuals. Provider shortages and a lack of integration across service settings are two barriers, and COVID-19 exacerbated these challenges.

Jun 22, 2022
Journal Article

NHS Staff Wellbeing: Why Investing in Organisational and Management Practices Makes Business Sense

This is a summary of the findings of a rapid evidence review and economic analysis commissioned by the International Public Policy Observatory (IPPO) to advise policymakers on how to improve NHS staff wellbeing.

Jun 22, 2022
Journal Article

US Health Care Workforce Changes During the First and Second Years of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Health care employment levels declined from 22.2 million in 2019 to 21.1 million, in 2020 but rebounded to 21.8 million in second quarter of 2021.

Jun 22, 2022
Journal Article

State Policies and Buprenorphine Prescribing by Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants

This cross-sectional study used pharmacy claims to examine the association of state policies with the odds of receiving buprenorphine treatment from a nurse practitioner or physician assistant versus a physician.

Jun 2, 2022
Journal Article

Evaluation of a Home-Based, Nurse Practitioner–led Advanced Illness Care Program

Evaluation of a nurse-led, home-based serious illness care program (Advanced Illness Care) at UPMC, a health system in Pittsburgh, PA.

Jun 1, 2022
Journal Article

Serious Illness Communication Skills Training During a Global Pandemic

Description of adaptation of communication skills training to tele-training during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jun 1, 2022
Journal Article

Protecting the Mental and Physical Well-Being of Frontline Health Care Workers During COVID-19: Study Protocol of a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

The COVID-19 pandemic has placed health care workers at unprecedented risk of stress, burnout, and moral injury. This paper describes the design of an ongoing cluster randomized controlled trial to compare the effectiveness of Stress First Aid (SFA) to Usual Care (UC) in protecting the well-being of frontline health care workers.

May 17, 2022
Blog

How Data Can Help Refugees, Homelessness in L.A., Harm Reduction: RAND Weekly Recap

This weekly recap focuses on tapping into Facebook data to help refugees, addressing homelessness in Los Angeles, understanding burnout among health care providers, and more.

May 6, 2022
Report

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
Commentary

Promoting Patient-Clinician Conversations to Reduce Cascades of Care

A cascade of care is a seemingly uncontrollable sequence of medical services that is driven by the desire to avoid even the smallest risk of a bad outcome. What drives cascades? And what interventions might mitigate them?

Apr 27, 2022
Report

Key Factors in Designing the Health System–Community Pathways Program for African American/Black Children and Young Adults

This report describes the development of key factors in framework design for the Health System-Community Pathways Program, which aims to increase representation of African American/Black communities in the U.S. health care system workforce.

Apr 14, 2022
Journal Article

Beyond State Scope of Practice Laws for Advanced Practitioners: Additional Supervision Requirements for Buprenorphine Prescribing

This study of state laws governing buprenorphine prescribing found that these vary; nurse practitioner and physician assistant supervision should include state non-scope of practice laws.

Mar 31, 2022
News Release

Audio-Only Telehealth Remains Common at Safety Net Health Clinics; Trend Raises Questions About Quality

Rapid adoption of telehealth helped safety net clinics in California to maintain consistent levels of service after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the use of audio-only care has persisted in the clinics longer than in other types of health care settings.

Mar 15, 2022
Report

Audio-Only Telehealth Remains Common at Safety Net Clinics; Raises Questions About Quality

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, rapid adoption of telehealth helped safety net clinics in California maintain service. But the use of audio-only care has persisted in the clinics, raising questions about the quality of care and equity for low-income patients.

Mar 14, 2022
Journal Article

Nurse Aide Retention in Nursing Homes

The research presented provides information on nurse aide retention in nursing homes as a workforce challenge and its impact on quality.Retention may be an additional staffing characteristic of nursing facilities with policy and practice relevance.

Feb 8, 2022
Journal Article

Nursing Home Patient Safety Culture Perceptions Among US and Immigrant Nurses

This study compared the PSC perceptions of foreign and domestic born and trained nurses working in urban NHs in 5 states to analyze how nurses' patient safety culture perceptions corresponded to their personal and professional characteristics.

Feb 8, 2022
News Release

Despite Push to Reward Physicians for Quality and Value, Most Health Systems Base Pay on Volume

Despite efforts by insurance companies and other payers to move toward compensating physicians based on the quality and value of care they provide, most physicians employed in group practices owned by health systems are paid primarily based on the volume of care they provide.

Jan 28, 2022

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