Carepartner experiences with hospital care.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Physician and patient gender both influence medical communication. Nonverbal behavior is generally under-researched in the medical encounter but plays an important role for patient outcomes such as satisfaction. OBJECTIVE:This article aims at identifying how specific physician nonverbal behaviors predict an...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Mast MS,Hall JA,Köckner C,Choi E

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Federal interest in prepaid group practices as a means to control rising health care costs in reviving. This article is an empirical study of price and membership at a prepaid group practice among employees of Yale University. This article is the first to estimate the effect of price on the decision for membership in ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： McGuire TG

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The economic impact of trauma in older persons is a matter of increasing concern to public health practitioners and planners, yet it is an issue that has not been widely studied. Available evidence does suggest, however, that falls are the costliest category of injury among older persons. METHODS:This study...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Rizzo JA,Friedkin R,Williams CS,Nabors J,Acampora D,Tinetti ME

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper the individual is employed as the unit of analysis to examine the extent to which the use of physician care by beneficiaries insured under the Canadian Medicare program is determined by medical needs and sociodemographic characteristics as opposed to economic considerations. The data were derived from th...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Broyles RW,Manga P,Binder DA,Angus DE,Charette A

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medicare and private plans are encouraging individuals to seek care at hospitals that are designated as centers of excellence. Few evaluations of such programs have been conducted. This study examines a large national initiative that designated hospitals as centers of excellence for knee and hip replacement....

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Mehrotra A,Sloss EM,Hussey PS,Adams JL,Lovejoy S,Soohoo NF

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Once just a small part of the Medicare program, private managed care plans now cover over one-third of all Medicare beneficiaries and cost the Federal government ~$210 billion each year. Importantly, the evolution of Medicare managed care policy has been far from linear; for several decades there have been d...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Adrion ER

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medicare's Nonpayment Program of 2008 (hereafter called Program) withholds hospital reimbursement for costs related to hospital-acquired conditions (HACs). Little is known whether a hospital's Medicare patient load [quantified by the hospital's Medicare utilization ratio (MUR), which is the proportion of inp...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Thirukumaran CP,Glance LG,Temkin-Greener H,Rosenthal MB,Li Y

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally agreed that patients have a right to be adequately informed. However, little is known about the extent to which doctors and patients agree about information that should be disclosed. We studied what patients want to know, as contrasted with what physicians report actually disclosing, in a population of...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Faden RR,Becker C,Lewis C,Freeman J,Faden AI

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Healthcare organizations have undergone major change efforts in the past decade. Sustained change is related to continued alignment among organizational participants and may fail with incongruent perceptions of change. This study identifies factors contributing to the alignment in perceptions of organizational ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Walston SL,Chou AF

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adherence is a factor in the outcome of medical treatment, but the strength and moderators of the adherence-outcome association have not been systematically assessed. OBJECTIVES:A quantitative review using meta-analysis of three decades of empirical research correlating adherence with objective measures of ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： DiMatteo MR,Giordani PJ,Lepper HS,Croghan TW

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite little available evidence to determine whether recently introduced selective α-1 blockers and 5-α reductase inhibitors (5-ARIs) are superior to the existing agents in treating benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), they are being increasingly prescribed. OBJECTIVE:To describe the prescribing patterns o...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Han LC,Kim SP,Gross CP,Ross JS,Van Houten HK,Smaldone MC,Krambeck AE,Shah ND

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with depression use more health services than patients without depression. However, when depression symptoms respond to treatment, use of health services declines. Most depression quality improvement studies increase total cost in the short run, which if unevenly distributed across stakeholders, cou...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Fortney JC,Maciejewski ML,Tripathi SP,Deen TL,Pyne JM

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Breast cancer missed on diagnostic mammography may contribute to delayed diagnoses, whereas false-positive results may lead to unnecessary invasive procedures. Whether accuracy of diagnostic mammography at facilities serving vulnerable women differs from other facilities is unknown. OBJECTIVE:To compare the...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Goldman LE,Walker R,Miglioretti DL,Smith-Bindman R,Kerlikowske K,National Cancer Institute Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium.

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The "Unborn Child" (UC) option provides state Medicaid/Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) programs with a new strategy to extend prenatal coverage to low-income women who would otherwise have difficulty enrolling in or would be ineligible for Medicaid. OBJECTIVES:To examine the association of the UC...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Jarlenski MP,Bennett WL,Barry CL,Bleich SN

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is limited information on patients' knowledge about their cost-sharing requirements and how that influenced their care-seeking behavior. OBJECTIVE:To examine patients' knowledge of their office visit copayments, their self-reported responses to perceived and actual copayments, and discussions with phy...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Benedetti NJ,Fung V,Reed M,Price M,Brand R,Newhouse JP,Hsu J

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The decision to perform orthopedic surgery requires substantial discretion and judgment. Similar conditions have been associated with health care disparities in other fields, but the extent of racial and ethnic disparities in orthopedics is unknown. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the quality of extant orthopedic lit...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Schoenfeld AJ,Tipirneni R,Nelson JH,Carpenter JE,Iwashyna TJ

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:If shape of a person's utility function is associated with his health status, as is predicted by Prospect Theory, the use of utilities from the healthy could result in 'de facto' discrimination against the sick. OBJECTIVES:To determine if patients' utilities for hypothetical states and for their current hea...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Lenert LA,Treadwell JR,Schwartz CE

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes remains suboptimal. The contributing factors at the physician level are not well characterized, especially the relationship of patient volume and physician performance. OBJECTIVE:We sought to determine associations between the number of Medicare d...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Holmboe ES,Wang Y,Tate JP,Meehan TP

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Quality improvement organizations (QIOs) are contracted to improve the quality of care delivered to Medicare beneficiaries. The purpose of this study was to determine whether provider participation in New York State QIO activities resulted in significant improvements in the quality of diabetes care during th...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Wu WY,Chen JJ,Shih A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Insurance expansions and service delivery system expansions are alternative policy instruments used to try to improve birth outcomes for low-income women. OBJECTIVES:The objective of this research is to investigate the effect of expansions of public insurance on access and birth outcomes for pregnant women ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Susan Marquis M,Long SH

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patient experience data can be collected by sampling patients periodically (eg, patients with any visits over a 1-year period) or sampling visits continuously (eg, sampling any visit in a monthly interval). Continuous sampling likely yields a sample with more frequent and more recent visits, possibly affecti...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Setodji CM,Burkhart Q,Hays RD,Quigley DD,Skootsky SA,Elliott MN

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This paper presents a profile of the use of antipsychotic medications in the treatment of schizophrenia in a national health system. METHODS:Prescription drug records written for antipsychotic medications between June 1999 and September 1999 were collected for patients diagnosed with schizophrenia in the De...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Leslie DL,Rosenheck RA

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We sought to project the lifetime cost of medical care for human immunodefiency virus (HIV)-infected adults using current antiretroviral therapy (ART) standards. METHODS:Medical visits and hospitalizations for any reason were from the HIV Research Network, a consortium of high-volume HIV primary care sites. ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Schackman BR,Gebo KA,Walensky RP,Losina E,Muccio T,Sax PE,Weinstein MC,Seage GR 3rd,Moore RD,Freedberg KA

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The association between volume of patients treated and quality of care has important implications for patient referral policies and approaches to quality improvement. Most studies have focused on hospital volume alone and health outcomes. OBJECTIVES:The objective of this work was to examine the association ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Willison DJ,Soumerai SB,Palmer RH

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of sharing medical records in improving physician-older patient communication was evaluated in 203 ambulatory chronically ill older patients (mean age, 70.1 years) by a randomized controlled trial. Ninety-five experimental group patients received copies of their physicians' progress notes 1 week afte...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Bronson DL,Costanza MC,Tufo HM

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to determine if a measure of severity of illness for psychiatric patients, the Psychiatric Severity of Illness Index, could produce psychiatric case mix groups that are more homogeneous with respect to resource use than the diagnosis-related groups (DRGs). Psychiatric Severity of Illness data...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Horn SD,Chambers AF,Sharkey PD,Horn RA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Under the Affordable Care Act, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has greatly expanded inpatient fee-for-value programs including the Hospital Value-based Purchasing (HVBP) program. Existing evidence from the HVBP program is mixed. There is a need for a systematic review of the HVBP program to in...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Hong YR,Nguyen O,Yadav S,Etzold E,Song J,Duncan RP,Turner K

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hospital discharge planning has been hampered by the lack of predictive models. OBJECTIVE:To develop predictive models for nonelective rehospitalization and postdischarge mortality suitable for use in commercially available electronic medical records (EMRs). DESIGN:Retrospective cohort study using split va...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Escobar GJ,Ragins A,Scheirer P,Liu V,Robles J,Kipnis P

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to compare poisoning mortality rates of states served by a poison control center certified by the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) to those that are not served by a certified center because health policy has been based on certification status. METHODS:Poiso...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Chyka PA,Somes GW

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nearly half of US births are financed by Medicaid, and one-third of births occur by cesarean delivery, at double the cost of vaginal delivery. With the goal of reducing unnecessary cesarean use and improving value, in 2009 Minnesota's Medicaid program introduced a blended payment rate for uncomplicated birth...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Kozhimannil KB,Graves AJ,Ecklund AM,Shah N,Aggarwal R,Snowden JM

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00