The Adult Sickle Cell Quality of Life Measurement Information System, or ASCQ-Me, is a patient-reported outcome measurement system that assesses the physical, social, and emotional impact of Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). ASCQ-Me asks adults with SCD questions based on in-depth interviews and focus groups with patients. ...
Public pension systems in many U.S. states face large funding shortfalls. Movement toward defined contribution (DC) pension structures may reduce the likelihood of future shortfalls. We address some limitations of the existing literature by studying public-sector employees who are enrolled in either a defined benefit (DB) plan or hybrid DB-DC ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) established the Qualified Health Plan (QHP) Enrollee Experience Survey to provide actionable information to QHP issuers, as well as provide comparable and useful information to consumers about the quality of healthcare services and enrollee experience with QHPs created under the Affordable Care ...
AIR played a key role in developing Education at a Glance 2013, a report produced by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The report analyzes the education systems of the 34 OECD member countries and eight partner countries.
Today’s economic climate mandates and rewards cost-effective, performance-driven management. Performance management—a data-driven process to help improve services and outcomes—provides a structure that promotes the development and delivery of high-quality products and services.
Dr. David Osher, a vice president at the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and an expert on issues involving children's social and emotional development and learning, will be the featured speaker on October 18 at the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education (DLC) in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada as ...
With Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funding, AIR is working with the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission to evaluate the effects of the State of Maryland's modified payment structure for acute inpatient stays at non-federal hospitals.
Designed to improve medication use and outcomes and reduce the risk of adverse events for Medicare beneficiaries, medication therapy management (MTM) programs were included as a quality improvement requirement under the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003. AIR helped the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implement a new performance-based ...
AIR developed a systematic, transparent, evidence-based protocol to review and translate the extant research about juvenile drug courts and related interventions into comprehensive, reasonable, actionable, understandable, and measurable guidelines.