@BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Preparing for the Revolution: Information Technology and the Future of the Research University", isbn = "978-0-309-08640-0", abstract = "The rapid evolution of information technology (IT) is transforming our society and its institutions. For the most knowledge-intensive entities of all, research universities, profound IT-related challenges and opportunities will emerge in the next decade or so. Yet, there is a sense that some of the most significant issues are not well understood by academic administrators, faculty, and those who support or depend on the institution's activities. This study identifies those information technologies likely to evolve in the near term (a decade or less) that could ultimately have a major impact on the research university. It also examines the possible implications of these technologies for the research university\u2014its activities (learning, research, outreach) and its organization, management, and financing\u2014and for the broader higher education enterprise. The authoring committee urges research universities and their constituents to develop new strategies to ensure that they survive and thrive in the digital age.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10545/preparing-for-the-revolution-information-technology-and-the-future-of", year = 2002, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", title = "New Partnerships for a Changing Environment: Why Drug and Alcohol Treatment Providers and Researchers Need to Collaborate", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9445/new-partnerships-for-a-changing-environment-why-drug-and-alcohol", year = 1999, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", title = "Plan for a Short-Term Evaluation of PEPFAR Implementation: Letter Report #1", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11472/plan-for-a-short-term-evaluation-of-pepfar-implementation-letter", year = 2006, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "The Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Lectures 2003: Keeping Patients Safe -- Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses", isbn = "978-0-309-09441-2", abstract = "Through the generosity of the Rosenthal Family Foundation (formerly the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation), a discussion series was created to bring greater attention to some of the significant health policy issues facing our nation today. Each year a major health topic is addressed through remarks and conversation between experts in the field. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) later publishes the proceedings from this event for the benefit of a wider audience. This volume summarizes an engaging discussion on the IOM 2002 report, Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11151/the-richard-and-hinda-rosenthal-lectures-2003-keeping-patients-safe", year = 2004, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Training Programs, Processes, Policies, and Practices", abstract = "TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 362: Training Programs, Processes, Policies, and Practices examines program components required to have a sound set of policies, processes, and procedures for planning, developing, implementing, funding, and evaluating state department of transportation training, development, and education programs.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13964/training-programs-processes-policies-and-practices", year = 2006, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Jaime Sepúlveda and Charles Carpenter and James Curran and William Holzemer and Helen Smits and Kimberly Scott and Michele Orza", title = "PEPFAR Implementation: Progress and Promise", isbn = "978-0-309-10982-6", abstract = "In 2003, Congress passed the United States Leadership Against HIV\/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act, which established a 5-year, $15 billion initiative to help countries around the world respond to their AIDS epidemics. The initiative is generally referred to by the title of the 5-year strategy required by the act--PEPFAR, or the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.\nPEPFAR Implementation evaluates this initiative's progress and concludes that although PEPFAR has made a promising start, U.S. leadership is still needed in the effort to respond to the HIV\/AIDS pandemic. The book recommends that the program transition from its focus on emergency relief to an emphasis on the long-term strategic planning and capacity building necessary for a sustainable response. PEPFAR Implementation will be of interest to policy makers, health care professionals, special interest groups, and others interested in global AIDS relief.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11905/pepfar-implementation-progress-and-promise", year = 2007, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Linda Casola", title = "Testing and Validating the Staffing Methodology for the Veterans Health Administration: Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief", abstract = "On June 21-22, 2021, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a virtual workshop on behalf of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). This was the final in a series of workshops undertaken as part of a consensus study to prepare a resource planning and staffing methodology for VHA Facility Management (Engineering) Programs. In its consensus study report, the committee determined that the implementation of a staffing methodology is necessary for the VHA - both in response to congressional mandates for workforce projections and for the purpose of making better, data-informed staffing decisions; thus, the VHA began to develop an engineering staffing tool. The purpose of this workshop was to provide an update on the current status of and future opportunities for the VHA staffing tool, examine benchmarking for facilities, and discuss implementation. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussion of the workshop.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26300/testing-and-validating-the-staffing-methodology-for-the-veterans-health-administration", year = 2021, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Ann Page", title = "Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses", isbn = "978-0-309-18736-7", abstract = "Building on the revolutionary Institute of Medicine reports To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, Keeping Patients Safe lays out guidelines for improving patient safety by changing nurses' working conditions and demands.\n\nLicensed nurses and unlicensed nursing assistants are critical participants in our national effort to protect patients from health care errors. The nature of the activities nurses typically perform \u2013 monitoring patients, educating home caretakers, performing treatments, and rescuing patients who are in crisis \u2013 provides an indispensable resource in detecting and remedying error-producing defects in the U.S. health care system. \n\nDuring the past two decades, substantial changes have been made in the organization and delivery of health care \u2013 and consequently in the job description and work environment of nurses. As patients are increasingly cared for as outpatients, nurses in hospitals and nursing homes deal with greater severity of illness. Problems in management practices, employee deployment, work and workspace design, and the basic safety culture of health care organizations place patients at further risk. \n\nThis newest edition in the groundbreaking Institute of Medicine Quality Chasm series discusses the key aspects of the work environment for nurses and reviews the potential improvements in working conditions that are likely to have an impact on patient safety.\n\n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10851/keeping-patients-safe-transforming-the-work-environment-of-nurses", year = 2004, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Continuing Education for Construction Professionals: Summary of a Symposium", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9138/continuing-education-for-construction-professionals-summary-of-a-symposium", year = 1994, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Spy Pond Partners LLC", title = "A Guide to Agency-Wide Knowledge Management for State Departments of Transportation", abstract = "TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 813: A Guide to Agency-Wide Knowledge Management for State Departments of Transportation presents guidance for state transportation agencies on adopting an explicit knowledge management (KM) strategy and the ways that organizations have implemented such strategies. KM is an umbrella term for a variety of techniques for preserving and enhancing the knowledge of an organization\u2019s employees and effectively employing that knowledge as a productive asset. A PowerPoint Presentation also accompanies the report.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22098/a-guide-to-agency-wide-knowledge-management-for-state-departments-of-transportation", year = 2015, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Neil E. Weisfeld and Victoria D. Weisfeld and Catharyn T. Liverman", title = "Military Medical Ethics: Issues Regarding Dual Loyalties: Workshop Summary", isbn = "978-0-309-12663-2", abstract = "Dual loyalties exist in many medical fields, from occupational health to public health. Military health professionals, as all health professionals, are ethically responsible for their patients' well-being. In some situations, however, military health professionals can face unique ethical tensions between responsibilities to individual patients and responsibilities to military operations. \nThis book summarizes the one-day workshop, Military Medical Ethics: Issues Regarding Dual Loyalties, which brought together academic, military, human rights, and health professionals to discuss these ethical challenges. The workshop examined two case studies: decisions regarding returning a servicemember to duty after a closed head injury, and decisions on actions by health professionals regarding a hunger strike by detainees. The workshop also addressed the need for improvements in medical ethics training and outlined steps for organizations to take in supporting better ethical awareness and use of ethical standards.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12478/military-medical-ethics-issues-regarding-dual-loyalties-workshop-summary", year = 2009, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Improving Student Learning: A Strategic Plan for Education Research and Its Utilization", isbn = "978-0-309-06489-7", abstract = "The state of America's schools is a major concern of policymakers, educators, and parents, and new programs and ideas are constantly proposed to improve it. Yet few of these programs and ideas are based on strong research about students and teachers\u2014about learning and teaching. Even when there is solid knowledge, the task of importing it into more than one million classrooms is daunting.\nImproving Student Learning responds by proposing an ambitious and extraordinary plan: a strategic education research program that would focus on four key questions:\n\n How can advances in research on learning be incorporated into educational practice?\n How can student motivation to achieve in school be increased?\n How can schools become organizations capable of continuous improvement?\n How can the use of research knowledge be increased in schools?\n\nThis book is the springboard for a year-long discussion among educators, researchers, policy makers, and the potential funders\u2014federal, state, and private\u2014of the proposed strategic education research program. The committee offers suggestions for designing, organizing, and managing an effective strategic education research program by building a structure of interrelated networks. The book highlights such issues as how teachers can help students overcome their conceptions about how the world works, the effect of expectations on school performance, and the particular challenges of teaching children from diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds.\nIn the midst of a cacophony of voices about America's schools, this book offers a serious, long-range proposal for meeting the challenges of educating the nation's children.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/6488/improving-student-learning-a-strategic-plan-for-education-research-and", year = 1999, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "John H. Cable and Jocelyn S. Davis", title = "Key Performance Indicators for Federal Facilities Portfolios: Federal Facilities Council Technical Report Number 147", isbn = "978-0-309-09522-8", abstract = "More than 30 federal departments and agencies with a wide range of missions and programs manage large inventories of facilities, also called portfolios. These portfolios range in size from a few hundred to more than a hundred thousand individual structures, buildings, and their supporting infrastructure. They are diverse in terms of facility types, mix of types, and geographic dispersal. For federal senior executives, facilities portfolio-related decisions revolve around the allocation of resources (staff, funding, time) for acquisition, renovation, operation, repair, and disposition of facilities. To make informed decisions, senior executives require information that will allow them to answer such questions as:\n\n What facilities do we have?\n What condition are they in?\n What facilities are needed to support the organization's missions?\n\n This study lays out a framework for developing and evaluating trends in facilities portfolio conditions, investments, and costs and identifies a set of key indicators that can be used to track performance over time. Some of the indicators are currently in use in some federal agencies; others will need to be developed.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11226/key-performance-indicators-for-federal-facilities-portfolios-federal-facilities-council", year = 2005, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Steve Olson", title = "Summertime Opportunities to Promote Healthy Child and Adolescent Development: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief", abstract = "What children and adolescents do and learn in the summertime can have profound effects on their health and well-being, educational attainment, and career prospects. To explore the influence of summertime activities on the lives of young people, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop in August 2016. The participants discussed a wide range of topics, including the value of play, healthy eating and physical activity, systemic approaches to skill development, program quality and measurement, and the interconnected ecosystem of activities that supports healthy development. The workshop highlighted the latest research on summer programming, as well as gaps in that research, and explored the key policy and practice issues for summertime opportunities to promote healthy child and adolescent development. This publication briefly summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/24606/summertime-opportunities-to-promote-healthy-child-and-adolescent-development-proceedings", year = 2016, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Improving Democracy Assistance: Building Knowledge Through Evaluations and Research", isbn = "978-0-309-11736-4", abstract = "Over the past 25 years, the United States has made support for the spread of democracy to other nations an increasingly important element of its national security policy. These efforts have created a growing demand to find the most effective means to assist in building and strengthening democratic governance under varied conditions.\nSince 1990, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has supported democracy and governance (DG) programs in approximately 120 countries and territories, spending an estimated total of $8.47 billion (in constant 2000 U.S. dollars) between 1990 and 2005. Despite these substantial expenditures, our understanding of the actual impacts of USAID DG assistance on progress toward democracy remains limited\u2014and is the subject of much current debate in the policy and scholarly communities.\nThis book, by the National Research Council, provides a roadmap to enable USAID and its partners to assess what works and what does not, both retrospectively and in the future through improved monitoring and evaluation methods and rebuilding USAID's internal capacity to build, absorb, and act on improved knowledge.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12164/improving-democracy-assistance-building-knowledge-through-evaluations-and-research", year = 2008, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", title = "Rewarding Provider Performance: Aligning Incentives in Medicare", isbn = "978-0-309-10216-2", abstract = "The third installment in the Pathways to Quality Health Care series, Rewarding Provider Performance: Aligning Incentives in Medicare, continues to address the timely topic of the quality of health care in America. Each volume in the series effectively evaluates specific policy approaches within the context of improving the current operational framework of the health care system. The theme of this particular book is the staged introduction of pay for performance into Medicare. Pay for performance is a strategy that financially rewards health care providers for delivering high-quality care. Building on the findings and recommendations described in the two companion editions, Performance Measurement and Medicare's Quality Improvement Organization Program, this book offers options for implementing payment incentives to provide better value for America's health care investments.\n\nThis book features conclusions and recommendations that will be useful to all stakeholders concerned with improving the quality and performance of the nation's health care system in both the public and private sectors.\n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11723/rewarding-provider-performance-aligning-incentives-in-medicare", year = 2007, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Strategic Planning and Management in Transit Agencies", abstract = "TRB\u2019s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 59: Strategic Planning and Management in Transit Agencies examines the value and benefits of strategic planning and management in transit agencies. The report also provides case studies from five transit agencies based on the comprehensiveness of process or presence of innovative or noteworthy practices.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13819/strategic-planning-and-management-in-transit-agencies", year = 2005, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Intelligent Sustainment and Renewal of Department of Energy Facilities and Infrastructure", isbn = "978-0-309-09444-3", abstract = "The United States Department of Energy's (DOE) facilities stewardship is extremely important to the department's ability to achieve its mission of protecting national, energy, and economic security with advanced science and technology and ensuring environmental cleanup. Intelligent Sustainment and Renewal of Department of Energy Facilities and Infrastructure evaluates the steps the department is taking to improve its facilities and infrastructure management. This report develops best-practice techniques for DOE real property asset management and guidelines for deciding when to repair, renovate, or replace DOE buildings.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11173/intelligent-sustainment-and-renewal-of-department-of-energy-facilities-and-infrastructure", year = 2004, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "H. David Jeong and Kunhee Choi and Chau Le and MengWai Yaw and Yangtian Yin and Douglas D. Gransberg and Ali Touran and Nan Gao and Michael Rahgozar", title = "Developing a Systematic Approach for Determining Construction Contract Time", abstract = "Excessive contract time is costly because it extends a construction crew\u2019s exposure to traffic, prolongs the inconvenience to the public, and subjects motorists to less than desirable safety conditions for longer periods.The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Web-Only Document 298: Developing a Systematic Approach for Determining Construction Contract Timeseeks to provide a systematic approach for determining construction contract time for a wide spectrum of highway projects.The document is supplemental to NCHRP Research Report 979:Systematic Approach for Determining Construction Contract Time: A Guidebook.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26536/developing-a-systematic-approach-for-determining-construction-contract-time", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Mark Smith and Robert Saunders and Leigh Stuckhardt and J. Michael McGinnis", title = "Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America", isbn = "978-0-309-26073-2", abstract = "America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual. Best Care at Lower Cost explains that inefficiencies, an overwhelming amount of data, and other economic and quality barriers hinder progress in improving health and threaten the nation's economic stability and global competitiveness. According to this report, the knowledge and tools exist to put the health system on the right course to achieve continuous improvement and better quality care at a lower cost. \nThe costs of the system's current inefficiency underscore the urgent need for a systemwide transformation. About 30 percent of health spending in 2009\u2014roughly $750 billion\u2014was wasted on unnecessary services, excessive administrative costs, fraud, and other problems. Moreover, inefficiencies cause needless suffering. By one estimate, roughly 75,000 deaths might have been averted in 2005 if every state had delivered care at the quality level of the best performing state. This report states that the way health care providers currently train, practice, and learn new information cannot keep pace with the flood of research discoveries and technological advances.\nAbout 75 million Americans have more than one chronic condition, requiring coordination among multiple specialists and therapies, which can increase the potential for miscommunication, misdiagnosis, potentially conflicting interventions, and dangerous drug interactions. Best Care at Lower Cost emphasizes that a better use of data is a critical element of a continuously improving health system, such as mobile technologies and electronic health records that offer significant potential to capture and share health data better. In order for this to occur, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, IT developers, and standard-setting organizations should ensure that these systems are robust and interoperable. Clinicians and care organizations should fully adopt these technologies, and patients should be encouraged to use tools, such as personal health information portals, to actively engage in their care.\nThis book is a call to action that will guide health care providers; administrators; caregivers; policy makers; health professionals; federal, state, and local government agencies; private and public health organizations; and educational institutions.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13444/best-care-at-lower-cost-the-path-to-continuously-learning", year = 2013, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" }