Authors:Donna O. Farley, Cheryl L. Damberg, M. Susan Ridg
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: dissemination, evaluation, report, iii, implementation, focus, ahrq, patient, safety, initiative, assessment
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833042173
ISBN-13: 9780833042170

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has been carrying out its congressional mandate to establish a patient-safety research and development initiative to help health care providers reduce medical errors and improve patient safety. In September 2003, AHRQ entered into a four-year contract with the RAND Corporation to serve as the patient safety evaluation center for its patient safety initiative. The evaluation center is responsible for performing a longitudinal evaluation of the full scope of AHRQ

Authors:Donna O. Farley, Cheryl L. Damberg, M. Susan Ridg
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: report, final, evaluation, initiative, safety, ahrq, patient, assessment
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 083304480X
ISBN-13: 9780833044808

In September 2002, AHRQ entered into a four-year contract with the RAND Corporation to serve as the patient safety evaluation center for its patient safety initiative. The evaluation center is responsible for performing a longitudinal evaluation of the full scope of AHRQ’s patient safety activities and for providing regular feedback to support the continuing improvement of this initiative over the four-year project period. This is the fourth and final evaluation report prepared by RAND. It presents new results for the period from October 2005 through September 2006, synthesizes the full

Authors:Donna O. Farley, Sally C. Morton, Cheryl L. Dambe
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: research, practice, evaluation, report, moving, initiative, ahrq, patient, safety, assessment
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833041487
ISBN-13: 9780833041487

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is carrying out its congressional mandate to establish a patient-safety research and development initiative to help health care providers reduce medical errors and improve patient safety. In September 2003, AHRQ entered into a four-year contract with the RAND Corporation to serve as the Patient Safety Evaluation Center for its patient safety initiative. The evaluation center is responsible for performing a longitudinal evaluation of the full scope of AHRQ

Authors:Charles Wolf, Jr., Brian G. Chow, Gregory S. Jone
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: initiative, security, proliferation, enlargement, enhancement
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833045792
ISBN-13: 9780833045799

The purpose of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) is to prevent or at least inhibit the spread of weapons of mass destruction, their delivery systems, and related materials to or from states or non-state actors whose possession of such items would be a serious threat to global or regional security. So far, 91 countries have officially affiliated with PSI and participate in its activities. However, five key nations, whose addition would enhance PSI’s effectiveness, have so far been reluctant to do so. The authors look at the situation from the perspectives of these five

Authors:Charles Wolf, Jr., Brian G. Chow, Gregory S. Jone
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: initiative, training, manual, security, proliferation, commands, participation, combat
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2009
ISBN-10: 0833046969
ISBN-13: 9780833046963

The Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) is a cooperative effort to prevent or at least inhibit the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), their delivery systems, and related materials to or from states or non-state actors whose possession of such items would be a serious threat to global or regional security. Currently, 93 countries have endorsed PSI’s purpose and principles and participate in its activities. This manual

Authors:Walter S. Baer, Brent D. Fulton, Sergej Mahnovski
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: phase, report, initiative, gridwise, benefits, estimating
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 0833036416
ISBN-13: 9780833036414

GridWise

Authors:Sheila Nataraj Kirby, Jennifer Sloan McCombs, Hea
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: something, old, new, education, teacher, reforming
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2006
ISBN-10: 0833039822
ISBN-13: 9780833039828

Teacher education has been subject to both scathing criticism and innumerable efforts designed to reform it or to save it from being dismantled. One of the latest and most well funded efforts aimed at teacher education reform is boldly titled Teachers for a New Era (TNE). Eleven colleges and universities of various types nationwide were selected to participate in TNE. The TNE initiative emphasizes evidence-based decisionmaking, close collaboration between education and arts and sciences faculty, and teaching as an academically taught clinical-practice profession. The RAND Corporation and the M