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RAND Corporation
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About: RAND Corporation is a nonprofit organization based out in Santa Monica, California, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Health care. The organization has 9602 authors who have published 18570 publications receiving 744658 citations.
Topics: Population, Health care, Poison control, Mental health, Public health
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TL;DR: In this article, the hedonic theory of housing markets is used to generate a multinomial logit model of household behavior in an urban housing market and the extreme value distribution required to justify the estimation technique emerges endogenously as part of the analysis.
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TL;DR: This article discusses how to avoid biased questions in survey instruments, how to motivate people to complete instruments and how to evaluate instruments in the context of survey evaluation.
Abstract: This article discusses how to avoid biased questions in survey instruments, how to motivate people to complete instruments and how to evaluate instruments. In the context of survey evaluation, we discuss how to assess survey reliability i.e. how reproducible a survey's data is and survey validity i.e. how well a survey instrument measures what it sets out to measure.
215 citations
TL;DR: In NHSN hospitals across the US, the CL Bundle is associated with lower infection rates only when compliance is high, and hospitals must target improving bundle implementation and compliance as opposed to simply instituting policies.
Abstract: Background
Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) represent a serious patient safety issue. To prevent these infections, bundled interventions are increasingly recommended. We examine the extent of adoption of Central Line (CL) Bundle elements throughout US intensive care units (ICU) and determine their effectiveness in preventing CLABSIs.
215 citations
TL;DR: The financial strain of unaffordable housing is associated with trade-offs that may harm health, and programs that target housing affordability for both renters and homeowners may be an important means for improving health.
214 citations
TL;DR: Estimated long-term economic damages of childhood psychological problems are large-a lifetime cost in lost family income of approximately $300,000, and total lifetime economic cost for all those affected of 2.1 trillion dollars.
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| Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darien Wood | 160 | 2174 | 136596 |
| Herbert A. Simon | 157 | 745 | 194597 |
| Ron D. Hays | 135 | 781 | 82285 |
| Paul G. Shekelle | 132 | 601 | 101639 |
| John E. Ware | 121 | 327 | 134031 |
| Linda Darling-Hammond | 109 | 374 | 59518 |
| Robert H. Brook | 105 | 571 | 43743 |
| Clifford Y. Ko | 104 | 514 | 37029 |
| Lotfi A. Zadeh | 104 | 331 | 148857 |
| Claudio Ronco | 102 | 1312 | 72828 |
| Joseph P. Newhouse | 101 | 484 | 47711 |
| Kenneth B. Wells | 100 | 484 | 47479 |
| Moyses Szklo | 99 | 428 | 47487 |
| Alan M. Zaslavsky | 98 | 444 | 58335 |
| Graham J. Hutchings | 97 | 995 | 44270 |