What Is COMPARE?
COMPARE is a transparent, evidence-based approach to providing information and tools to help policymakers, the media, and other interested parties understand, design, and evaluate health policies.
COMPARE has four objectives:
- Synthesize what is known about the current health care system.
- Describe policy options that have been proposed to address one or more existing challenges.
- Analyze the effects of different health care policy options on multiple dimensions of health system performance.
- Identify gaps in our knowledge about the effects of policy changes.
Rather than constructing specific policy proposals, COMPARE offers objective analyses of policy options currently being used, considered, or discussed by public and private policymakers
Who Is Conducting COMPARE?
RAND Health, a division of the RAND Corporation, is conducting COMPARE. RAND is a nonprofit research organization providing objective analysis and effective solutions to address public and private-sector challenges around the world. RAND Health is one of the world’s largest private health research groups, with an annual budget of more than $60 million and a research portfolio that focuses on health care quality, costs, and delivery, among other topics.
The material contained on the COMPARE website has gone through RAND’s rigorous quality assurance process.
How Can I Get More Information About COMPARE?
COMPARE is codirected by Elizabeth A. McGlynn and Jeffrey Wasserman. To obtain information, please email COMPARE@rand.org.