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Jordan M. Harrison

Jordan M. Harrison

Policy Researcher

Pittsburgh Office

Education

B.S., University of Michigan; Ph.D., University of Michigan; M.S., University of Pennsylvania

One Page Bio

Overview

Jordan Harrison is a health policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. She works across a range of program and policy areas in health care and social and economic wellbeing. Her research interests center around the health care workforce, aging, and long-term care. She currently leads a study funded by the National Institute on Aging to evaluate the impact of managed long-term care programs on setting of care for older adults with dementia. Prior to joining RAND, she was a research fellow in the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania.

Harrison received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Research Focus

Publications

Journal Article
The Impact of Nurse Practitioner-Led Primary Care on Quality and Cost for Medicaid-Enrolled Patients in States With Pay Parity
This retrospective cohort study evaluated the quality and cost implications of receiving primary care from nurse practitioners (NPs) compared to physicians in 14 states that reimburse NPs at the Medicaid fee-for-service physician rate (pay parity).
May 16, 2023
Journal Article
Patient-Reported Quality Measures for Palliative Care: The Time Is Now
A recent CMS analysis revealed a lack of patient-reported measures in palliative care, particularly in symptom management and communication. We used a patient-centered approach to develop and test two measures for patients receiving palliative care.
May 4, 2023
Research Brief
Infection Control in Long-Term Care: Decisionmaking Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted a need to transform the decisionmaking culture in long-term care to make it more inclusive of residents, staff, and others who are affected by infection-control policies in these facilities.
Nov 9, 2022
Report
Policy Decisionmaking in Long-Term Care: Lessons from Infection Control During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Policies to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities have failed to balance community safety and resident well-being. Input from a range of stakeholders highlighted a need for inclusive policy decisionmaking in long-term care.
Oct 20, 2022
Journal Article
State Policies and Buprenorphine Prescribing by Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants
This cross-sectional study used pharmacy claims to examine the association of state policies with the odds of receiving buprenorphine treatment from a nurse practitioner or physician assistant versus a physician.
Jun 2, 2022
Journal Article
Beyond State Scope of Practice Laws for Advanced Practitioners: Additional Supervision Requirements for Buprenorphine Prescribing
This study of state laws governing buprenorphine prescribing found that these vary; nurse practitioner and physician assistant supervision should include state non-scope of practice laws.
Mar 31, 2022
Journal Article
Understanding What Works: Measuring and Monitoring Quality in Medi-Cal's Home and Community-Based Services
This issue brief describes challenges and opportunities related to measuring, reporting, and monitoring the quality of HCBS sponsored by Medi-Cal.
Jan 26, 2022
Journal Article
Practice Patterns, Work Environments, and Job Outcomes of Rural and Urban Primary Care Nurse Practitioners
This study compares urban and rural NPs using data from a survey of 1,244 primary care NPs in Arizona, California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington.
2022
Research Brief
New Patient-Centered Quality Measures for Office-Based Palliative Care
This research brief describes the development and testing of two patient-centered quality measures of symptom management and communication and provides considerations for palliative care providers that plan to use them.
Sep 13, 2021
Report
MACRA Palliative Care Quality Measure Development—Testing Summary Report: Measure Name: Receiving Desired Help for Pain
The authors describe the results of their national beta field test for a performance measure designed to assess the extent to which patients who used ambulatory palliative care received the help they wanted for their pain.
Sep 3, 2021
Report
MACRA Palliative Care Quality Measure Development—Testing Summary Report: Measure Name: Feeling Heard and Understood
The authors describe the results of their national beta field test for a performance measure designed to assess the extent to which patients who used ambulatory palliative care felt heard and understood by their palliative care provider and team.
Sep 3, 2021
Journal Article
Developing Health Equity Measures
This work identified existing approaches to health equity measurement and evaluated those approaches using input from an expert panel.
May 21, 2021
Journal Article
Does Integration of Palliative Care and Infection Management Reduce Hospital Transfers Among Nursing Home Residents?
We evaluated integration of palliative care and infection management (i.e. merging the goals of palliative care and infection management at end of life) in nursing homes and its association with hospital transfers for residents with advanced illness.
2021
Journal Article
Infection Trends in Home Health Care, 2013-2018
In this study, we used 2013-2018 OASIS assessment data linked to Medicare inpatient data to estimate trends in the prevalence of infection in hospital transfers among home health care patients and subsequent 30-day mortality.
2021
Journal Article
Methodology for a Six-State Survey of Primary Care Nurse Practitioners
To overcome the limitations of administrative data, we fielded a cross-sectional, mixed-mode (mail/online) survey of primary care NPs in six states to collect data directly from NPs on their clinical roles and practice environments.
2021
Journal Article
Surveying Primary Care Nurse Practitioners: An Overview of National Sampling Frames
The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of national sampling frames that can be used by researchers interested in surveying or studying the U.S. primary care nurse practitioner workforce.
2021