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Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND; Ph.D. Candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND; PhD Candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School
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Jun 22, 2022
Oct 20, 2022
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Journal Article
Mar 31, 2021
We measured gender differences for six patient experience measures and how gender gaps differ across Medicare plans.
Brochure
Mar 11, 2021
The cover story highlights research on improving the police response to homelessness; a second feature focuses on the millions of caregivers who provide support services to chronically ill loved ones but are not integrated into health care teams.
Mar 2, 2021
Patients, clinicians, and health systems increasingly align around the importance of high-quality communication in serious illness. We offer recommendations to advance serious illness communication quality measurement.
Compared with caregivers of non-Hispanic whites, caregivers of Asian decedents reported unmet needs for caregiver support and lack of respect for cultural traditions and religious/spiritual beliefs.
Feb 26, 2021
Opportunities exist to improve hospice care for symptom palliation and training for caregivers when their family members are at home or in an ALF setting. Efforts to improve care for cancer patients in the NH and ALF setting are especially needed.
Dec 29, 2020
This article assesses racial and ethnic disparities in care for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries and whether disparities differ between health system-affiliated physician organizations (POs) and nonaffiliated POs.
This article tests the hypothesis that health systems provide better care to patients with high needs by comparing differences in quality between system-affiliated and nonaffiliated physician organizations.
Content
Dec 1, 2020
RAND Health Care research on quality of care, measure development, patient experience, and assessing and improving performance.
Nov 24, 2020
RAND Europe conducted an independent evaluation of the Flow Coaching Academy programme. The evaluation looked at the effectiveness, impact and ability to scale of the programme.
Commentary
Nov 10, 2020
Periods of rapid change offer both opportunities and challenges for health care quality improvement. Understanding the building blocks that need to be in place to support improvement processes may help those seeking to embed improvement capabilities and capacity into their organisations, both as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
Oct 7, 2020
The authors demonstrate the feasibility of using natural language processing to extract key information from a large set of patient narratives about their health care experiences.
Oct 2, 2020
Overview of survey items used to assess patient experience and whether those items are on the CAHPS survey or not.
