A systematic process to facilitate evidence-informed decisionmaking regarding program expansion

While the Department of Defense supports more than 200 psychological health and traumatic brain injury programs, it lacks an approach and process to systematically develop, track, and assess the performance of this portfolio of programs. Further, there is not yet a uniform approach to decisionmaking...

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Main Authors: Martin, Laurie T., Farris, Coreen (Author), Adamson, David M. (Author), Weinick, Robin M. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Monica, CA Rand Corporation [2014]©2014, 2014
Series:RAND toolkit
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-70)
  • Introduction
  • Assessing programs for possible expansion
  • Quality of evaluation
  • Program effectiveness
  • Population and policy priorities
  • Decisionmaking regarding program expansion
  • Appendix A: Program abstraction form
  • Appendix B: The RAND Program Expansion Tool and instruction manual
  • Appendix C: Instruction manual for the RAND program assessment tool