6 results match your criteria: "RAND Center for Causal Inference[Affiliation]"
Estimating the causal effects of modifiable, non-genetic factors on Huntington disease progression using propensity score weighting.
Parkinsonism Relat Disord
February 2021
CHDI Management/CHDI Foundation, 155 Village Boulevard, Suite 200, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Introduction: Despite being genetically inherited, it is unclear how non-genetic factors (e.g., substance use, employment) might contribute to the progression and severity of Huntington's disease (HD).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn Introduction to the Point/Counter-Point/Reply Exchange by Dr Stone and Professor Lu and Colleagues.
Med Care
May 2018
Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA.
Impact of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on opioid utilization among Medicare beneficiaries in 10 US States.
Addiction
October 2017
Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Background And Aims: Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) are a principal strategy used in the United States to address prescription drug abuse. We (1) compared opioid use pre- and post-PDMP implementation and (2) estimated differences of PDMP impact by reason for Medicare eligibility and plan type.
Design: Analysis of opioid prescription claims in US states that implemented PDMPs relative to non-PDMP states during 2007-12.
Patient Experiences with Care Differ with Chronic Care Management in a Federally Qualified Community Health Center.
Popul Health Manag
December 2017
2 RAND Corporation , Santa Monica, California.
This study compares patient experience among practices that vary in adoption of the chronic care management (CCM) dimension of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model that focuses on care coordination and management of chronic diseases. Study participants were 2903 adult patients (ages 18 years or older) at 14 primary care centers in California. Seven of the sites were classified as high (more CCM) and the other 7 low on a CCM index.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlternate policing strategies: Cost-effectiveness of cautioning for cannabis offences.
Int J Drug Policy
March 2017
RAND Center for Causal Inference,1200 South Hayes Street, Arlington, VA 22202-5050 USA.
Background: There is increasing international interest in alternatives to the use of arrest for minor drug offences. While Australia has been at the forefront in the provision of diversionary programs for minor drug offences there remain key gaps in knowledge about the cost-effectiveness of different approaches. Here we set out to assess the cost-effectiveness of cannabis cautioning schemes whereby police refer minor cannabis use and possession offenders to education and/or treatment instead of arresting and charging them.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEvaluating Differential Item Functioning in the English General Practice Patient Survey: Comparison of South Asian and White British Subgroups.
Med Care
September 2015
*RAND Center for Causal Inference, RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA †RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA ‡General Practice and Primary Care Research Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge §University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
Objective: To evaluate two 5-item patient experience scales from the English General Practice (GP) Patient Survey for evidence of differential item functioning (DIF) given prior evidence of substantially worse reported health care experiences for South Asian compared with white British respondents.
Setting: A national survey of English patients' primary care experiences.
Method: We used classic test and item response theory analysis to examine the possibility of DIF by patient ethnicity (South Asian, white British) after controlling for age, sex, health status, and quality of life in the English GP Patient Survey conducted in 2011/2012.