RAND > RAND Health > Newsletter > June 2007


AddThis Social Bookmark Button

RAND Health Newsletter

The RAND Health Newsletter is a monthly update that features recent research from RAND Health.


Contents of June 2007 RAND Health newsletter:

  1. Quality of medical care increases when patients have multiple chronic illnesses
  2. Better access to federal and employer-provided time off helps working parents of chronically ill children
  3. Measures aimed at fighting medical malpractice suits may backfire
  4. Hospital-based integrative medicine: A case study of the barriers and factors facilitating the creation of a center
  5. Positive Youth Development interventions show success
  6. Distrust of medical and health leadership among minority populations in New Orleans
  7. Evidence-based practice & complementary and alternative medicine
  8. Quality of life in young men after radical prostatectomy
  9. June RAND Health Congressional Newsletter
  10. Recent research highlights and fact sheets from RAND Health

  1. Quality of medical care increases when patients have multiple chronic illnesses

    Patients with multiple illnesses received better, not worse, quality of care than patients with fewer illnesses. This may be in part because the former group either visits a doctor more often or visits specialists; yet some patients with multiple illnesses only visited their primary care physician while still seeing increased quality of care.

    News ReleaseNews release Read AbstractRead abstract More quality of care researchMore quality of care research
    Related Research:
    Read related abstract Older patients with multiple chronic conditions receive better care

    2. Citation: Higashi T, Wenger NS, Adams JL, Fung C, Roland M, McGlynn EA, Reeves D, Asch SM, Kerr EA, Shekelle PG. Relationship between Number of Medical Conditions and Quality of Care, New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 356, No. 24, June 14 2007, pp. 2496-2504

  2. Better access to federal and employer-provided time off helps working parents of chronically ill children

    Researchers found that 30 percent of parents interviewed had employer-provided leave benefits to care for ill family members and 15 percent had access to paid leave, though most reported missing work to care for an ill child at home.

    News ReleaseNews release

  3. Measures aimed at fighting medical malpractice suits may backfire

    A study aimed at assessing whether efforts such as publicizing physicians' histories of medical malpractice payments will substantially reduce rates of malpractice found that such efforts are ineffective and could even backfire.

    Read AbstractRead abstract More health economcs researchMore health economics research

    4. Citation: Adams JL, Garber S. Reducing Medical Malpractice by Targeting Physicians Making Medical Malpractice Payments, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1, March 2007, pp. 185-222

  4. Hospital-based integrative medicine: A case study of the barriers and factors facilitating the creation of a center

    This five-year study tracked the establishment of a hospital-based Integrative Medicine Center and conducted a stakeholder analysis of the hospital's experience in creating the center, which ultimately closed.

    Full DocumentFull document More complimentary and alternative researchMore complimentary and alternative research

    5. Citation: Couilter I, Ellison M, Hilton L, Rhodes H, Ryan G. Hospital-Based Integrative Medicine: A Case Study of the Barriers and Factors Facilitating the Creation of a Center, RAND, MG-591, 2007.

  5. Positive Youth Development interventions show success

    Positive Youth Development, an intervention designed for urban after-school settings, was effective in significantly lowering drug use among participants up to one year after the beginning of the program.

    Read AbstractRead abstract More substance abuse researchCurrent substance abuse research
    Related Research:
    Read related abstract Do misperceptions of schoolmate alcohol and marijuana use predict subsequent drug use among young adolescents?
    Read related abstract The density of liquor stores and bars in urban neighborhoods in the United States

    Citation: Tebes JK, Feinn R, Vanderploeg JJ, Chinman MJ, Shepard J, Brabham T, Genovese T, Connell C. Impact of a Positive Youth Development Program in Urban After-School Settings on the Prevention of Adolescent Substance Use, Journal of Adolescent Health, [Epub May 3 2007]

  6. Distrust of medical and health leadership among minority populations in New Orleans

    New Orleans residents' reactions to evacuation warnings and public health authorities' advice following Hurricane Katrina may be attributable to distrust of authorities, among other factors. Oral history and community memory play a role in continuing the traditional mistrust of medical and health authorities that persists in minority populations of New Orleans.

    Read AbstractRead abstract More diversity and health researchMore diversity and health research
    Related Research:
    Read related abstract Cultural competency and quality of care: Obtaining the patient's perspective
    Read related abstract Barriers to mental health care utilization for U.S. Cambodian refugees

    7. Citation: Cordasco K, Eisenman D, Glik D, Golden J, Asch S. They Blew the Levee: Distrust of Governmental Authorities Among Hurricane Katrina Evacuees, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, Vol. 18, No. 2, May 2007, pp 277-282

  7. Evidence-based practice & complementary and alternative medicine

    Standard evidence-based methods can be helpful to the complementary and alternative medical practice, but many standard research methods are not applicable. Researchers must be sensitive to this challenge as well as to political pressures behind the demand for applying such methods.

    Read AbstractRead abstract More Complementary and alternative medicine researchMore complementary and alternative medicine research

    8. Citation: Coulter ID. Evidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Promises and Problems, Forsch Komplementarmed, Vol. 14, No. 2, April 2007, pp. 102-108

  8. Quality of life in young men after radical prostatectomy

    After radical prostatectomy, men may experience changes in quality of life, including urinary difficulties and sexual dysfunction. This study explores the differences between problems experienced by younger men and those experienced by older men undergoing similar procedures.

    Read AbstractRead abstract More quality of care researchMore quality of care research

    9. Citation: Wright JL, Lin DW, Cowan JE, Carroll PR, Litwin MS, and the CaPSURE Investigators. Quality of Life in Young Men after Radical Prostatectomy, Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases, [Epub May 22 2007]

  9. June RAND Health Congressional Newsletter

    The June newsletter features an item researching the rise of severe obesity in the United States and a second on the effect neighborhoods can have in reducing the risks of obesity.

    Read newsletterRead newsletter Subscribe to newsletterSubscribe to newsletter

  10. Recent research highlights and fact sheets from RAND Health

    How Neighborhoods Can Reduce the Risk of Obesity – RB9267


Housekeeping

Please visit the RAND Health homepage to stay informed about current RAND Health research updates.

To subscribe or unsubscribe from this newsletter, please visit http://www.rand.org/health/mailinglist.html or send email to Dana_Torres@rand.org.

Mary Vaiana, Communications Director of RAND Health, can be reached at Mary_Vaiana@rand.org.

RAND Corporation
1776 Main Street
Santa Monica, CA 90401-3208
Tel: 310-393-0411

 

RAND Home Stay Informed Search RAND Publications View Cart Home About RAND Opportunities Research Areas Books and Publications View Shopping Cart