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Patient Evaluation

Journal Article

Cost-Effectiveness of Community-to-Clinic Tailored Navigation for Colorectal Cancer Screening in an Underserved Population: Economic Evaluation Alongside a Group-Randomized Trial

Adding community-to-clinic tailored navigation to a community-based colorectal cancer screening promotion program may be highly cost-effective.

May 13, 2022
Research Brief

Assessing the potential impact of developments in genetic testing on the British insurance industry

Predictive genetic testing provides individuals with information about their future risk of developing health conditions. Determining whether a genetic test could affect the insurance industry is complex and needs to be evaluated on a per-test basis.

Apr 8, 2022
Journal Article

Standardized Assessment of Depression Symptoms in Post-Acute Care: A Screening Threshold Approach

The present study tested a gateway version of a depression screening protocol (PHQ-2 to 9). Findings suggest the feasibility of a gateway scoring approach to standardized assessment of depression symptoms among PAC patients.

Mar 8, 2022
Report

Assessing the impact of developments in genetic testing on insurers' risk exposure

Predictive genetic testing provides individuals with information about their future risk of developing health conditions. Determining whether a genetic test could affect the insurance industry is complex and needs to be evaluated on a per-test basis.

Feb 3, 2022
Blog

Supporting Asian Americans, U.S. Gun Policy, Climate Migrants: RAND Weekly Recap

This weekly recap focuses on how to support Asian Americans, the U.S. gun policy debate, the education “arms race,” and more.

Mar 26, 2021
News Release

Use of Common Cancer Screenings Rebounded Quickly After Dropping at Start of the Pandemic

Screenings for breast cancer and colon cancer dropped dramatically during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, but use of the procedures returned to near-normal levels by the end of July 2020.

Mar 22, 2021
Journal Article

Project SLIP: Implementation of a PrEP Screening and Linkage Intervention in Primary Care

The study developed and pilot-tested a PrEP screener for use in primary care clinics to help facilitate PrEP uptake. Findings suggest that brief HIV risk screening in primary care is acceptable, feasible, and shows preliminary effects in increasing PrEP referral rates.

Mar 5, 2021
Journal Article

Association of Primary and Specialty Care Integration on Physician Communication and Cancer Screening in Safety-Net Clinics

This study aimed to describe strategies CHCs use to integrate care with specialists and examine whether more strongly integrated CHCs have higher rates of screening for colorectal and cervical cancers and report better communication with specialists.

Feb 12, 2021
Multimedia

Benefits of Mental Health Task Sharing

Lynsay Ayer, senior behavioral scientist with the RAND Corporation, describes how task sharing helps fill the need for more mental health care providers.

Jun 8, 2020
Report

Improving U.S. Military Accession Medical Screening Systems

The project team outlined advantages and disadvantages of the two main systems for medically screening applicants to the U.S. armed forces and recommended a hybrid model as potentially more effective and efficient.

Oct 24, 2019
Report

Identifying Safety-Net Resources at Health Centers to Prevent Infectious Disease Transmission Resulting from the Opioid Epidemic

This study highlights factors that affect Community Health Centers' ability to reduce infectious disease transmission related to the opioid epidemic.

Jun 18, 2019
Journal Article

Randomized Controlled Dissemination Study of Community-to-Clinic Navigation to Promote CRC Screening: Study Design and Implications

The purpose of this study is to extend the pilot study in a group-randomized controlled trial to test the effectiveness of tailored messaging delivered by Community Health Navigators to guide individuals from especially hard-to-reach, multicultural, and underinsured communities into primary care clinics for referral for CRC screening (Phase I) and to continue navigation after referral to track effects of the intervention on completion of CRC screening (Phase II).

Jun 11, 2019
Journal Article

Effect of Time to Diagnostic Testing for Breast, Cervical, and Colorectal Cancer Screening Abnormalities on Screening Efficacy: A Modeling Study

Even relatively small delays in diagnostic testing after an abnormal cancer screening test can reduce screening effectiveness, though the impact varies by cancer type.

Jan 24, 2018
Journal Article

Specialty Societies and Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations--Reply

Gynecologists order twice as many mammograms as family medicine and/or general practice physicians; physician specialty society guidelines may account for this wide variation.

Jan 24, 2018
Journal Article

Linking Reminders and Physician Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations: Results From a National Survey

Physicians are more likely to recommend mammograms when they are reminded to do so, despite variation in how much they trust mammogram guidelines.

Dec 18, 2017
Journal Article

When Guidelines Conflict: A Case Study of Mammography Screening Initiation in the 1990s

Analyzing the history of age-mammography patterns in the US may help us better understand and address current guideline conflicts.

Dec 5, 2017
Journal Article

Primary Care Providers with More Experience and Stronger Self-Efficacy Beliefs Regarding Women Veterans Screen More Frequently for Interpersonal Violence

Some primary care provider experiences and beliefs regarding women's health care influence rates of screening for military sexual trauma (MST) and/or intimate partner violence (IPV) .

Sep 6, 2017
Journal Article

The Werther Effect Revisited: Measuring the Effect of News Items on User Behavior

A new methodology detects how news coverage can have both positive and negative effects on people; feedback to journalists might offer an opportunity to modify a publication to reduce negative effects.

May 24, 2017
Journal Article

Follow-up of Positive Fecal Test Results: Sooner Is Better, but How Much Better?

Patients prefer less invasive approaches such as fecal immunochemical test (FIT) for colorectal cancer screening, but the effectiveness of FIT depends on annual screenings for those with negative test results and colonoscopy if FIT tests are positive.

May 23, 2017
Tool

SUMMIT Study Protocol for Opioid or Alcohol Use Disorders

This integrated collaborative care protocol created for the SUMMIT study outlines procedures for screening, brief intervention, and treatment for patients with opioid or alcohol use disorders.

May 11, 2017

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