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This product is part of the RAND Health working paper series. RAND working papers are intended to share researchers' latest findings and to solicit informal peer review. They have been approved for circulation by RAND Health but have not been formally edited or peer reviewed. Unless otherwise indicated, working papers can be quoted and cited without permission of the author, provided the source...

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We present RAND, an input-output relational abstract domain that expresses relations between values of non-recursive algebraic data types (ADTs), and numeric their scalar parts. RAND is parametrised on a user-provided domain, we lift to pairs variables projection paths. It constructed as disjunctive completion reduced product domains for relations, equalities, cases variant constructors. Using ...

BACKGROUND Globally, about seven million children under the age of five died in 2011. Local illness concepts are thought to be related to inappropriate health-seeking behaviour, and therefore, lead to child mortality. The aim of this study was to contribute to the definition of common local illness concepts with their effects on health-seeking behaviour for common childhood illnesses. METHODS...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) uses the resource-based relative value scale to pay physicians and other practitioners for professional services. The work values measure the relative levels of professional time and intensity (physical effort, skills, and stress) associated with providing services. CMS asked RAND to develop a model to validate the work values using external da...