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Commentary

Creating a World Center for Scientist-Explorers

Published commentary by RAND staff

Sep 30, 2002
Journal Article

Combining Surveys and Case Studies to Examine Standards-Based Education Reform

This paper uses examples from the study of the effects of the Washington education reform to explore how these methods can be used in complementary ways. It presents specific examples of the benefits of using both methods and makes recommendations for more effective integration of case study and survey methods in the future.

May 1, 2002
Journal Article

Effects of CAHPS Performance Information on Health Plan Choices by Iowa Medicaid Beneficiaries

The authors found that CAHPS information did not affect health plan choices by Iowa Medicaid beneficiaries.

Jan 1, 2002
Journal Article

Reducing Firearms Violence Through Directed Police Patrol

A specific deterrence strategy whereby the police utilize directed patrol to focus on suspicious activities and locations reduced violent gun crime.

Jan 1, 2001
Report

The Effects of the Washington Education Reform on Schools and Classrooms: Initial Findings

A growing number of states are implementing standards-based accountability systems in efforts to improve student achievement. This briefing reports the initial findings from a study of Washington state’s reform. Although early test results showed that only a minority of students achieved the rigorous ...

Jan 1, 2000
Journal Article

Managed Care and the Workers' Compensation Bargain

Summarizes the October 1999 issue of Medical Care. Thie issue reports the results of an evaluation of a workers' compensation managed-care pilot in Washington State.

Jan 1, 1999
Journal Article

Toward a K-12 Education Accountability System in Washington State

This report sketches a strong and unique accountability system for Washington State, one that is driven by measurements of student performance and incentives to improve, creates clear lines of responsibility, gives every school a chance to perform and improve, employs powerful incentives, and doesn't stop until every child is in a good school.

Dec 1, 1997
Journal Article

Defining and Implementing Medical Necessity in Washington State and Oregon

This paper reports on a qualitative study of how health care providers in the states of Washington and Oregon define and implement medical necessity.

Jan 1, 1997
Journal Article

Medical Necessity and Defined Coverage Benefits in the Oregon Health Plan

The qualitative study described in this article addressed whether medical necessity remains a salient and useful concept in the Oregon Health Plan.

Jan 1, 1997
Journal Article

The Oregon Priority-Setting Exercise: Quality of Life and Public Policy

In 1989 the Oregon State legislature passed the Oregon Basic Health Services Act, which created a Health Services Commission charged with developing a priority list of health services. The goal of this legislation was to permit the expansion of Medicaid to 100 percent of all Oregonians living in poverty by covering only services deemed to be of sufficient importance or priority.

Jan 1, 1991
Journal Article

Setting Health Care Priorities in Oregon: Cost-Effectiveness Meets the Rule of Rescue

The Oregon Health Services Commission recently completed work on its principal charge: creation of a prioritized list of health care services, ranging from the most important to the least important.

Jan 1, 1991
Report

Diverting Prisoners to Intensive Probation: Results of an Experiment in Oregon

This Note presents the results of an evaluation of an ISP implemented by Marion County, Oregon, which documents a number of important lessons regarding implementing a prison-diversion ISP.

Jan 1, 1990
Report

Comparisons Among Three Diverse Cities: San Jose, California, Seattle, Washington, and St. Louis, Missouri

Description of RAND's comparative urban research program, emphasizing comparisons and problems that emerged in a study of three cities. The intent of the research was to create a framework to guide policy decisions at all levels of government.

Jan 1, 1974

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