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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: Health care & Population. The organization has 9602 authors who have published 18570 publications receiving 744658 citations.
Topics: Health care, Population, Poison control, Public health, Mental health
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TL;DR: To improve patient safety the authors needed to identify hazards, determine how to measure them accurately, and identify solutions that work to reduce patient harm.
Abstract: Over the past 12 years, since the publication of the Institute of Medicine's report, “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System,” improving patient safety has been the focus of considerable public and professional interest. Although such efforts required changes in policies; education; workforce; and health care financing, organization, and delivery, the most important gap has arguably been in research. Specifically, to improve patient safety we needed to identify hazards, determine how to measure them accurately, and identify solutions that work to reduce patient harm. A 2001 report commissioned by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, “Making Health Care Safer: A Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices” (1), helped identify some early evidence-based safety practices, but it also highlighted an enormous gap between what was known and what needed to be known.
278 citations
TL;DR: If current trends in obesity continue, disability rates will increase by 1 percent per year more in the 50-69 age group than if there were no further weight gain.
Abstract: Are older Americans becoming more or less disabled? Unhealthy body weight has increased dramatically, but other data show that disability rates have declined. We use data from the Health and Retirement Study to estimate the association between obesity and disability, and we combine these data with trend estimates of obesity rates from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey. If current trends in obesity continue, disability rates will increase by 1 percent per year more in the 50–69 age group than if there were no further weight gain.
278 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors deal with methodological issues that arise in measuring household wealth and deal with the issue of over-sampling of very wealthy households and the number of questions that are asked.
277 citations
TL;DR: This paper outlines the theoretical structure of coalitions in parliamentary bodies, sketching out their application to the United States Congress, the United Nations Security Council, or any such body in which the acquisition of power is the payoff.
Abstract: In parliamentary bodies coalitions turn out to be either all-powerful or ineffectual. Conflicts which have such outcomes have been called simple games. This paper outlines their theoretical structure, sketching out their application to the United States Congress, the United Nations Security Council, or any other such body in which the acquisition of power is the payoff.
277 citations
TL;DR: Car ownership models found in the academic literature (with a focus on the recent literature and on models developed for transport planning) are classified into a number of model types as discussed by the authors, and the different model types are compared on a many of criteria: inclusion of demand and supply side of the car market, level of aggregation, dynamic or static model, long- or short-run forecasts, theoretical background, inclusion of car use, data requirements, treatment of business cars, car type segmentation, including car quality aspects, of licence holding, and treatment of scrappage.
277 citations
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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 |