The inverse Gaussian distribution as a model of hospital stay.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To extend recent conceptual and methodological advances in disparities research to include the incorporation of genomic information in analyses of racial/ethnic disparities in health care and health outcomes. DATA SOURCES:Published literature on human genetic variation, the role of genetics in disease and re...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Shields AE,Crown WH

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This commentary summarizes the methods and topics addressed in the special issue of HSR focused on linkage of United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and non-VA datasets. The issue illustrates that researchers are increasingly linking diverse datasets as a valuable method for obtaining outcomes, tre...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Hynes DM,Maciejewski ML,Atkins D

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effect of partisan political control on financial performance, structure, and outcomes of for-profit and not-for-profit US nursing homes. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Nineteen-year panel (1996-2014) of state election outcomes, financial performance data from nursing home cost reports, operation...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Blankart CR,Foster AD,Mor V

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine organizational structural attributes associated with counselor-client contact. DATA SOURCES:Data were collected in 2004 and 2005 for a federally funded project, which simultaneously examines organizational structure, functioning, and resources among outpatient substance abuse treatment programs. ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Knight DK,Broome KM,Simpson DD,Flynn PM

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Can Medicare beneficiaries make rational and informed decisions about their coverage under the Medicare program? Recent policy developments in the Medicare program have been based on the theory of competition in medical care. One of the key assumptions of the competitive model is the free flow of adequate information,...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Davidson BN

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study evaluates the relationship between hospital and regional characteristics and the prevalence of mobile computed tomography in rural hospitals. DATA SOURCES AND STUDY SETTING:Primary data were gathered from all rural hospitals in eight northwestern states (n = 471) in 1991. Secondary data sources in...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Hartley D,Moscovice I,Christianson J

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To efficiently estimate race/ethnicity using administrative records to facilitate health care organizations' efforts to address disparities when self-reported race/ethnicity data are unavailable. DATA SOURCE:Surname, geocoded residential address, and self-reported race/ethnicity from 1,973,362 enrollees of a...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Elliott MN,Fremont A,Morrison PA,Pantoja P,Lurie N

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In response to rising demand and increased costs for home care services for frail elderly and disabled Medicaid clients, New York City implemented cluster care, a shared-aide model of home care. Our objective: to evaluate the effects of cluster care on home care hours and costs, client functioning, depressiv...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Feldman PH,Latimer E,Davidson H

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of out-migration of nurses on the health systems in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). SETTING:The countries of SSA. DESIGN AND METHODS:Review of secondary sources: existing publications and country documents on the health workforce; documents prepared for the Joint Learning Initiative Global Hu...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Dovlo D

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To measure the effects of race/ethnicity, area measures of socioeconomic status (SES) and geographic residency status, and health care supply (HCS) characteristics on breast cancer (BC)-related outcomes. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Female patients in Georgia diagnosed with BC in the years 2000-2009. STUDY DE...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Markossian TW,Hines RB,Bayakly R

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe differences in patient experiences of hospital care by preferred language within racial/ethnic groups. DATA SOURCE:2014-2015 HCAHPS survey data. STUDY DESIGN:We compared six composite measures for seven languages (English, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Other) within appl...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Quigley DD,Elliott MN,Hambarsoomian K,Wilson-Frederick SM,Lehrman WG,Agniel D,Ng JH,Goldstein EH,Giordano LA,Martino SC

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a sample of 3,000 urban hospitals, this article examines the contributions of selected hospital characteristics to variations in hospital technical efficiencies, while it accounts for multiple products and inputs, and controls for local environmental variations. Four hospital characteristics are examined: hospit...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Ozcan YA,Luke RD

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Independent freestanding emergency departments (IFEDs) have proliferated over the last decade, largely in Texas. We examined the IFED physician workforce composition and changes in emergency physician workforce supply across states and in rural Texas over the period of IFED proliferation following a 2009 legi...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Luo Q,Chong N,Chen C

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study is designed to assess the cost of services provided to Medicare beneficiaries by nurse practitioners (NPs) billing under their own National Provider Identification number as compared to primary care physicians (PCMDs). DATA SOURCE:Medicare Part A (inpatient) and Part B (office visit) claims for 20...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Perloff J,DesRoches CM,Buerhaus P

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite frequent reference to the Health Belief Model (HBM), few studies address the internal consistency (within questionnaires) or the stability across populations of scales used to measure HBM variables. As part of a 1983 Michigan statewide blood pressure survey, trained interviewers administered 32 health belief q...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Weissfeld JL,Brock BM,Kirscht JP,Hawthorne VM

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the implications of serious and chronic health problems on the willingness of enrollees to switch health plans if they are dissatisfied with their current arrangements. DATA SOURCE:A large (20,283 respondents) survey of employees of three national corporations committed to the model of managed com...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Schlesinger M,Druss B,Thomas T

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Eight grant teams used Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality infrastructure development research grants to enhance the clinical content of and improve race/ethnicity identifiers in statewide all-payer hospital administrative databases. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS:Grantees faced common challenges, including recr...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Pine M,Kowlessar NM,Salemi JL,Miyamura J,Zingmond DS,Katz NE,Schindler J

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the costs of physician-owned cardiac, orthopedic, and surgical single specialty hospitals with those of full-service hospital competitors. DATA SOURCES:The primary data sources are the Medicare Cost Reports for 1998-2004 and hospital inpatient discharge data for three of the states where single sp...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Carey K,Burgess JF Jr,Young GJ

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines forces that influence physicians to change the percentage of their admissions to a hospital (loyalty) and to cease admitting patients to a hospital altogether (exit). Because physicians are both members of a hospital and consumers of its services, their admitting patterns can be described using m...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Burns LR,Wholey DR

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To construct a data tool, the Residential History File (RHF), that summarizes information from Medicare claims and nursing home (NH) Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessments to track people through health care locations, including non-Medicare-paid NH stays. DATA SOURCES:Online Survey of Certification and Reportin...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Intrator O,Hiris J,Berg K,Miller SC,Mor V

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine how the inclusion of post-acute evaluation and management (E&M) services as primary care affects assignment of Medicare beneficiaries to accountable care organizations (ACOs). DATA SOURCES:Medicare claims for a random 5 percent sample of 2009 Medicare beneficiaries linked to American Medical Ass...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： McWilliams JM,Chernew ME,Zaslavsky AM,Landon BE

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To demonstrate how a researcher can investigate the appropriateness of a published comorbidity summary measure for use with a given sample. DATA SOURCE:Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results linked to Medicare claims data. STUDY DESIGN:We examined Kaplan-Meier estimated survival curves for four disease...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Egleston BL,Uzzo RG,Beck JR,Wong YN

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare process of care and outcome after acute myocardial infarction, for patients with and without mental illness, cared for in the Veterans Health Administration (VA) health care system. DATA SOURCES/SETTING:Primary clinical data from 81 VA hospitals. STUDY DESIGN:This was a retrospective cohort study...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Petersen LA,Normand SL,Druss BG,Rosenheck RA

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explain the association of out-of-pocket (OOP) cost, community-level factors, and individual characteristics on statin therapy nonadherence. DATA SOURCES:BlueCross BlueShield of Texas claims data for the period of 2008-2011. STUDY DESIGN:A retrospective cohort of 49,176 insured patients, aged 18-64 years...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Abbass I,Revere L,Mitchell J,Appari A

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The primary aim of this article was to identify the latent failures that are perceived to underpin medication errors. STUDY SETTING:The study was conducted within three medical wards in a hospital in the United Kingdom. STUDY DESIGN:The study employed a cross-sectional qualitative design. DATA COLLECTION ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Lawton R,Carruthers S,Gardner P,Wright J,McEachan RR

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine measures of need for health care and their relationship to utilization of health services in different racial and ethnic groups in California. DATA SOURCE:Telephone interviews obtained by random-digit dialing and conducted between April 1993 and July 1993 in California, with 7,264 adults (ages 18-...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Osmond DH,Vranizan K,Schillinger D,Stewart AL,Bindman AB

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arthroscopic surgery of the knee has reduced in-hospital utilization of 37 percent for surgical treatment of internal derangements of the knee at The Mount Sinai Medical Center. In a study comparing arthrotomies of the knee in 1974 (N = 106) to arthroscopic surgery of the knee in 1984 (N = 221) it was found that while...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Pruzansky ME,Remer S,Freedman B

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the predictors of unit and item nonresponse, the magnitude of nonresponse bias, and the need for nonresponse weights in the Consumer Assessment of Health Care Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Hospital Survey. METHODS:A common set of 11 administrative variables (41 degrees of freedom) was used to pred...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Elliott MN,Edwards C,Angeles J,Hambarsoomians K,Hays RD

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test how Certificate of Need laws affect all-cause mortality in the United States. DATA SOURCES:The data of 1992-2011 all-cause mortality are from the Center for Disease Control's Compressed Mortality File; control variables are from the Current Population Survey, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Syste...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Bailey J

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concepts of class, race, and ethnicity figure prominently in health services research in Britain. Occupational class has been employed for nearly a century to investigate social inequalities in health and access to care. More recently, researchers have identified differences in health status and utilization betwee...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Benzeval M,Judge K,Smaje C

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00