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Oct 1, 2009

Strengthening Prevention Performance Using Technology: A Formative Evaluation of Interactive Getting to Outcomes®

This article reports on a formative evaluation of efforts to build community-based prevention capacity in two states (Tennessee and Missouri) using an Internet-based system known as interactive Getting To Outcomes® (iGTO).
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Aug 24, 2009

Assessing Patient Safety Practices and Outcomes in the U.S. Health Care System

Presents the results of a two-year study that analyzes the extent to which patient safety practices are being adopted by U.S. health care providers, and assesses trends in patient safety outcomes.
Research

Jan 1, 2009

Recanting of Life-Time Inhalant Use: How Big a Problem and What to Make of It

To establish the prevalence of recanting of life-time inhalant use, the authors identify correlates of recanting to gain insight to its causes and develop a method for distinguishing recanters who truly are versus are not life-time users of inhalants.
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Jan 1, 2008

Reducing Early Smokers' Risk for Future Smoking and Other Problem Behavior: Insights from a Five-Year Longitudinal Study

Finds risk and protective factors during adolescence that predict future regular smoking and multiple problem behavior among youth who had tried smoking by grade 7. Protective factors include good grades and parental disapproval of smoking/drug use.
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Jan 1, 2008

Marijuana Use and High School Dropout: The Influence of Unobservables

Examines the extent to which time-varying factors, including substance use, influence the likelihood of heavy and persistent marijuana users dropping out of school and determines that parental and peer influences drive this result.
Research

Jan 1, 2008

Developmental Trajectories of Substance Use from Early to Late Adolescence: A Comparison of Rural and Urban Youth

This study underscores the diversity of drug use within rural communities, suggesting that living in a very rural area is protective against some forms of drug use but that living in a rural area that includes a medium or large town is not.
Research

Jun 20, 2006

The Arts and State Governments: At Arm’s Length or Arm in Arm?

Describes efforts by state arts agencies to more firmly establish their value to their state governments and clarifies risks and rewards of bringing the arts and political worlds closer together.
Research

Dec 13, 2004

Oregon’s Measure 11 Sentencing Reform: Implementation and System Impact

The impacts of Measure 11 on crime and its prosecution in Oregon.
Research

Jan 1, 2004

Oregon's Lessons for Improving Advance Care Planning

Discusses Oregon's Physicians orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form.
Research

Jan 1, 2003

Predictors of the Transition to Regular Smoking During Adolescence and Young Adulthood

To identify predictors of the transition from experimentation to regular smoking in middle adolescence, late adolescence, and young adulthood.
Research

Jan 1, 2003

Regulating Hearts and Minds: The Mismatch of Law, Custom, and Resuscitation Decisions

People coming to the end of life with fragile health do not do well with resuscitation.
Commentary

Sep 30, 2002

Creating a World Center for Scientist-Explorers

Published commentary by RAND staff

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Strengthening Prevention Performance Using Technology: A Formative Evaluation of Interactive Getting to Outcomes®

Assessing Patient Safety Practices and Outcomes in the U.S. Health Care System

Recanting of Life-Time Inhalant Use: How Big a Problem and What to Make of It

Reducing Early Smokers' Risk for Future Smoking and Other Problem Behavior: Insights from a Five-Year Longitudinal Study

Marijuana Use and High School Dropout: The Influence of Unobservables

Developmental Trajectories of Substance Use from Early to Late Adolescence: A Comparison of Rural and Urban Youth

The Arts and State Governments: At Arm’s Length or Arm in Arm?

Oregon’s Measure 11 Sentencing Reform: Implementation and System Impact

Oregon's Lessons for Improving Advance Care Planning

Predictors of the Transition to Regular Smoking During Adolescence and Young Adulthood

Regulating Hearts and Minds: The Mismatch of Law, Custom, and Resuscitation Decisions

Creating a World Center for Scientist-Explorers

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Strengthening Prevention Performance Using Technology: A Formative Evaluation of Interactive Getting to Outcomes®

Assessing Patient Safety Practices and Outcomes in the U.S. Health Care System

Recanting of Life-Time Inhalant Use: How Big a Problem and What to Make of It

Reducing Early Smokers' Risk for Future Smoking and Other Problem Behavior: Insights from a Five-Year Longitudinal Study

Marijuana Use and High School Dropout: The Influence of Unobservables

Developmental Trajectories of Substance Use from Early to Late Adolescence: A Comparison of Rural and Urban Youth

The Arts and State Governments: At Arm’s Length or Arm in Arm?

Oregon’s Measure 11 Sentencing Reform: Implementation and System Impact

Oregon's Lessons for Improving Advance Care Planning

Predictors of the Transition to Regular Smoking During Adolescence and Young Adulthood

Regulating Hearts and Minds: The Mismatch of Law, Custom, and Resuscitation Decisions

Creating a World Center for Scientist-Explorers

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