CAHPS Item Set for Addressing Health Literacy – Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) – US
CAHPS Item Set for Addressing Health Literacy - Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS)
“The CAHPS Consortium, led by RAND, has developed a supplemental set for the CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey that focuses on assessing providers’ activities to foster and improve the health literacy of patients. Health literacy is commonly defined as patients’ [...]
A Compendium of Sexual Assault Research – RAND – December 2009
A Compendium of Sexual Assault Research
By: Margaret C. Harrell, Laura Werber Castaneda, Marisa Adelson, Sarah Gaillot, Charlotte Lynch, Amanda Pomeroy
RAND Corporation ISBN/EAN: 9780833047922 Pages: 318 Document Number: TR-617-OSD Year: 2009
“Recognition of the prevalence and pernicious effects of sexual assault, and especially of acquaintance rape, has increased dramatically since the early 1990s. During this time, a [...]
Changing the translational research landscape: a review of the impacts of Biomedical Research Centres in England – RAND Corporation – 2009
Changing the translational research landscape: a review of the impacts of Biomedical Research Centres in England – RAND Corporation – 2009
By: Sonja Marjanovic, Bryony Soper, Ala’a Shehabi, Claire Celia, Anais Reding, Tom Ling
“This report describes a review of the Biomedical Research Centres (BRC) scheme, undertaken for the DH 18 months after the BRCs were commissioned. [...]
Evaluating Grant Peer Review in the Health Sciences: A review of the literature RAND Corporation, August 2009
Evaluating Grant Peer Review in the Health Sciences: A review of the literature RAND Corporation, August 2009
By: Sharif Ismail, Alice Farrands, Steven Wooding
“More than 95% of the £2 billion of public funding for medical research each year in the UK is allocated by peer review. Long viewed as a respected process of quality assurance for [...]
A National Agenda for Public Health Systems Research on Emergency Preparedness – RAND Corporation – August 2009
A National Agenda for Public Health Systems Research on Emergency Preparedness – RAND Corporation – August
By: Joie Acosta, Christopher Nelson, Ellen Burke Beckjord, Shoshana R. Shelton, Erin Murphy, Kristin J. Leuschner, Jeffrey Wasserman 126 p. Document Number: TR-660-DHHS 2009
“Improving public health emergency preparedness is at the top of the national agenda, but the lack of [...]
Risk Communication in the Early Stages of the H1N1 (Swine Flu) Alert – How Effective Were State and Local Public Health Departments? – US – August 2009
Risk Communication in the Early Stages of the H1N1 (Swine Flu) Alert – How Effective Were State and Local Public Health Departments?
By: Jeanne S. Ringel, Elizabeth Trentacost, Nicole Lurie
Presents an assessment of how effectively state and local health departments communicated information regarding the April 2009 H1N1 virus (swine flu) outbreak via the Web to their [...]
Issues and Ideas on Innovation: Informing the NHS Next Stage Review – RAND – August 2009
Issues and Ideas on Innovation: Informing the NHS Next Stage Review
RAND Corporation August 2009
By: Jonathan Grant, Philipp-Bastian Brutscher, Annalijn Conklin, Michael Hallsworth, Anna-Marie Vilamovska, Evi Hatziandreu
34 p. Document Number: DB-554-DH
“This document briefing, prepared for the Department of Health, presents a ‘think piece’ on the key issues and ideas on innovation in the NHS. The objective [...]
Public Health Preparedness and Response to Chemical and Radiological Incidents: Functions, Practices, and Areas for Future Work – RAND – 2009
Public Health Preparedness and Response to Chemical and Radiological Incidents: Functions, Practices, and Areas for Future Work
By: Tom LaTourrette, Lynn E. Davis, David R. Howell, Preethi R. Sama, David J. Dausey
RAND Corporation 2009 66 p. Document Number: TR-719-DHHS
“One area of public health emergency preparedness that has not been examined in depth is preparedness for incidents [...]
Study on the requirements and options for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) application in healthcare: Final report – RAND – 20 July 2009
Study on the requirements and options for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) application in healthcare: Final report – RAND – 20 July 2009
By: Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau, Helen Rebecca Schindler, Lorenzo Valeri, Anna-Marie Vilamovska, Evi Hatziandreu, Annalijn Conklin
“This report provides an assessment of the main drivers, obstacles and uncertainties surrounding the deployment of RFID in healthcare in [...]
Health Departments Get Mixed Marks for Using Web to Communicate About Flu Crisis – RAND US – 7 July 2009
FOR RELEASE
Tuesday July 7, 2009
“Health Departments Get Mixed Marks for Using Web to Communicate About Flu Crisis
State and local health departments get mixed marks for efforts to convey information about the H1N1 virus to the public using their Web sites immediately after U.S. officials declared a public health emergency in April, according to a new [...]
Support for Students Exposed to Trauma: The SSET Program – US – 2009
Support for Students Exposed to Trauma: The SSET Program
By: Lisa H. Jaycox, Audra Langley, Kristin L. Dean RAND Corporation, 2009
Document Number: TR-675-NIMH Year: 2009 Series: (Technical) Reports ISBN/EAN: 9780833047328
“Exposure to community and interpersonal violence is a public health crisis that adversely affects many children in American communities. After witnessing or experiencing trauma, many children experience [...]
The Effects of Substance Use on Workplace Injuries Cover: The Effects of Substance Use on Workplace Injuries – RAND – June 2009
The Effects of Substance Use on Workplace Injuries Cover: The Effects of Substance Use on Workplace Injuries
By: Rajeev Ramchand, Amanda Pomeroy, Jeremy Arkes RAND Corporation
Pages: 53
Document Number: OP-247-ADHS
Year: 2009
“Occupational injuries are a serious public-health issue and cause significant morbidity and mortality in the United States. In 2004, there were 3.4 million admissions to emergency rooms [...]
Value of Pharmaceutical Innovation: The Access Effects, Diffusion Process, and Health Effects of New Drugs
Value of Pharmaceutical Innovation: The Access Effects, Diffusion Process, and Health Effects of New Drugs RAND corporation Document RGSD-242 2009
By: Ze Cong
“This dissertation consists of three papers concerning the introduction of new drugs. The first paper investigates the access effects of new drugs, estimating the increase in the number of prescriptions and the number of [...]
Centerpiece: Health Information Technology Savings Dwarf Costs over the First 15 Years, Then Keep Growing – RAND Review Spring 2009
Centerpiece: Health Information Technology Savings Dwarf Costs over the First 15 Years, Then Keep Growing
RAND Review Spring 2009 — Vol. 33, No. 1 [pdf 3.3 MB]
Advanced Care: The Promise of Health Information Technology for Cost, Quality, and Privacy – RAND Review Spring 2009
Advanced Care: The Promise of Health Information Technology for Cost, Quality, and Privacy
By Richard Hillestad and Federico Girosi
RAND Review Spring 2009 — Vol. 33, No. 1 [pdf 3.3 MB]
Mapping the impact: Exploring the payback of arthritis research RAND Corporation 2009
Mapping the impact: Exploring the payback of arthritis research RAND Corporation document MG-862-ARC 2009
By: Steven Wooding, Edward Nason, Tony Starkey, Stephen Hanney, Jonathan Grant
“The decision of the Arthritis Research campaign (arc) to map its entire research portfolio and analyze the returns and outcomes associated with individual investments was ground-breaking. Nothing similar had been attempted by [...]
Study on the requirements and options for RFID application in healthcare – RAND, 2009
Study on the requirements and options for RFID application in healthcare: Identifying areas for Radio Frequency Identification deployment in health care delivery: A review of relevant literature RAND Corporate Technical Report TR-608-EC 2009
By: Anna-Marie Vilamovska, Evi Hatziandreu, Helen Rebecca Schindler, Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau, Han de Vries, Joachim Krapels
“This document is the first deliverable of the [...]
Participatory Health Research: International Observatory on Health Research Systems – RAND corporation Technical Report TR 667 2009
Participatory Health Research: International Observatory on Health Research Systems RAND corporation Technical Report TR 667 2009 prepared for the UK Department of Health
By: Sharif Ismail
“This document is a thematic report that provides an overview of public participation in health research. The report is part of a series available from RAND Europe’s Observatory on Health Research [...]
Costs and benefits of health technology information – May 2009 – report done by RAND on behalf of the Health Foundation
Costs and benefits of health technology information : an updated systematic review [675kb PDF]
An updated systematic review Author Paul G Shekelle and Caroline L Goldzweig Date published May 2009
The Health Foundation [UK]
“This report summarises the available international evidence on the costs and benefits of clinical health information technology (HIT) systems. This study has been undertaken [...]
Drug Education Also Helps Curb Risky Sexual Behavior – RAND study
Drug Education Also Helps Curb Risky Sexual Behavior
“School-based drug education programs for adolescents can have a long-term positive impact on sexual behavior in addition to curbing substance abuse, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
Researchers found that young adults who had been exposed to a popular drug abuse prevention program as adolescents were less likely [...]
Initial Evaluation of the Cities Readiness Initiative – March 2009
Initial Evaluation of the Cities Readiness Initiative
By: Henry H. Willis, Christopher Nelson, Shoshana R. Shelton, Andrew M. Parker, John A. Zambrano, Edward W. Chan, Jeffrey Wasserman, Brian A. Jackson
RAND Corporation March 2009
The Cities Readiness Initiative (CRI) was created in 2004 to help the nation’s largest metropolitan areas develop the ability to provide life-saving medications in [...]
The Effect of Regulation on Pharmaceutical Revenues – Experience in Nineteen Countries
The Effect of Regulation on Pharmaceutical Revenues – Experience in Nineteen Countries
By: Neeraj Sood, Han de Vries, Italo Gutierrez, Darius N. Lakdawalla, Dana P. Goldman
We describe pharmaceutical regulations in nineteen developed countries from 1992 to 2004 and analyze how different regulations affect pharmaceutical revenues. First, there has been a trend toward increased regulation. Second, most [...]
Demonstrating and Communicating Research Impact: Preparing NIOSH Programs for External Review
Demonstrating and Communicating Research Impact: Preparing NIOSH Programs for External Review
This book describes the methodology that RAND researchers developed to help the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) research programs demonstrate and communicate the impact of their activities. The methodology is based on the use of logic models, outcome worksheets, and outcome [...]
Improving Patient Safety in the EU – Assessing the expected effects of three policy areas for future action
By: Annalijn Conklin, Anna-Marie Vilamovska, Han de Vries, Evi Hatziandreu
This report, written and published in English in 2008, was prepared for the Health and Consumer Protection Commission (DG SANCO) in support of their Impact Assessment of the Patient Safety and Quality Legislative proposal for 2008. It presents our findings of a study in which we [...]
Occupational Safety and Health for Public Safety Employees: Assessing the Evidence and the Implications for Public Policy
Occupational Safety and Health for Public Safety Employees: Assessing the Evidence and the Implications for Public Policy
Tom LaTourrette, David S. Loughran, Seth A. Seabury
RAND corporation report 2008 ISBN 978-0-8330-4621-5
From the preface:
The provision of public safety is one of the most important responsibilities of government, and workers charged with protecting the public, such as police officers [...]
Medical Research: What’s it worth?
This report provides the first quantitative estimates of the economic benefits of public and charitably funded medical research in the UK. Acting on the recommendation of the UK Evaluation Forum, the Wellcome Trust, the Medical Research Council and the Academy of Medical Sciences commissioned this study to develop methodology and calculate the economic benefits of [...]
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