Championing End-of-Life Care Policy Change
June 1, 2003 | Issue Brief
Montraditional activities and processes that enabled the coalitions to engage their publics and to change policy and culture in their communities and states.
Public Policy and Regulation
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Tracking Employment-Based Health Insurance
May 1, 2012 | Program Result Report
In 1997, researchers surveyed more than 22,000 public and private employers nationwide about the cost and benefits of the health insurance coverage they offered to workers and published findings in some 20 peer-reviewed articles.
The First National Snapshot of Health Care Quality in the United States
March 12, 2012 | Program Result Report
From 1997 to 2002, researchers with the RAND Corporation assessed the quality of care delivered to a large sample of patients living in 12 U.S. communities. This work provided the first national snapshot of health care quality in the United States.
Breaking Through the Denial about Health Care Quality in the United States
March 12, 2012 | Program Result Report
That Americans get only half of recommended care is not an easy message to deliver - or for people to receive. RAND researchers undertook an intensive communications campaign in hopes that their "bad news" would spur changes in health care policy.
Health Tracking
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To track and report on changes in the U.S. health care system and how they affect Americans' health.
Board and Care Homes Vary in Services Offered, Need Stricter Regulation
December 1, 1997 | Program Result Report
From 1991 to 1994, researchers from Brown University Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research examined factors affecting the quality of health care in board and care homes.
Tool to Help People with Advance Directives for Their End-of-Life Care Gets Increased Distribution Through Employers
October 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
Staff and consultants with the Commission on Aging with Dignity, a nonprofit organization in Tallahassee, Fla., revised and disseminated the Five Wishes advance directive, which is designed to help people write down their wishes about end-of-life care and discuss them with family members and physicians.
After-Hours Access To Primary Care Practices Linked With Lower Emergency Department Use And Less Unmet Medical Need
December 1, 2012 | Journal Article
One goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is to improve patients' access to primary care and the coordination of that care.
Testing PROMETHEUS Payment
September 17, 2012 | Program Result Report
The Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute furthered the development and pilot testing of its Prometheus bundled payment model. Researchers at RAND and the Harvard School of Public Health evaluated the initiative at three pilot sites.
Spending Differences Associated With the Medicare Physician Group Practice Demonstration
September 12, 2012 | Journal Article
In the Medicare Physician Group Practice Demonstration (PGPD), 10 accountable care organization (ACO) physician groups were eligible to receive a portion of savings generated if they also showed improvement on 32 quality measures. The Centers for Me ...