Outpatient patterns of care and longitudinal intensity of antiretroviral therapy for HIV-infected drug users.

abstract：:Satisfaction with health services is an aspect of quality of care that is of special importance for captive clients like low-income clinic users. Several methodologies have been reported, but validation has been difficult. This study compares two older scaling techniques with a new, nonmetric method to detect underlyi...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Hengst A,Roghmann K

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The variability in preferences used in quality-adjusted life-years estimation jeopardizes the comparability of cost-effectiveness analyses and has led the Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine (the PCEHM) to call for a catalog of "off-the-shelf" preference weights associated with conditions that...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Sullivan PW,Lawrence WF,Ghushchyan V

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling are tests for the prenatal diagnosis of cytogenetic abnormalities. We calculated the incremental costs per abnormal birth averted, and the incremental costs per quality-adjusted outcome, of amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling performed for the indication of maternal ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Heckerling PS,Verp MS

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goals of this study were to determine 1) the prevalence of exposure to intrafamilial violence among children attending a pediatric primary care clinic; 2) the prevalence of psychosocial distress among mothers bringing their children to the clinic; 3) the extent to which pediatricians are aware of family violence a...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Wissow LS,Wilson ME,Roter D,Larson S,Berman HI

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports the results of an analysis to determine the relationships between the quality of restorative dental care for 1,466 patients and 9 categories of dentist characteristics for 102 volunteer Washington practitioners. In this study, patients were recalled and restorations were examined clinically. Quest...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Milgrom P,Ratener P,Conrad D,Weinstein P

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In summary, readers are encouraged to read carefully the IRT articles in this special issue. They provide theoretical as well as practical arguments in favor of using IRT models in the health outcomes measurement field. At the same time, readers should be aware that the IRT field is complex and software is limited and...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Hambleton RK

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 3 primary administrative data sets developed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services (CMS) to support the Medicare Part D program implementation represent a valuable source of data for health services researchers. This paper describes the structure of the Medicare Part D program and the related...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Greenwald LM

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We investigated relationships at the health-plan level among member ratings of and reports on plans in the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Survey (CAHPS). We sought a more parsimonious description of the reports that can be used in analyses of the distribution and correlates of consumer-assessed quality....

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Zaslavsky AM,Beaulieu ND,Landon BE,Cleary PD

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes an instrument design effort aimed at measuring patient-satisfaction among older (65 years and over) subscribers of HMOs. The study was conducted in a multi-satellite prepaid group practice in Buffalo, New York. In order to be able to construct a satisfaction measure that would reflect the interest...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Cryns AG,Nichols RC,Katz LA,Calkins E

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We conducted a theoretically guided study of access to inpatient or residential treatment among a probability sample of homeless adults with alcohol or drug use disorders in Houston, Texas. METHODS:This study used a cross-sectional, retrospective design with data collected from a multistage random sample of...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Wenzel SL,Audrey Burnam M,Koegel P,Morton SC,Miu A,Jinnett KJ,Greer Sullivan J

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate differences in self-rated health (SRH) between web and mail questionnaires in a mixed mode survey and to provide a model that explains those differences. SUBJECTS:A total of 15,200 mail respondents and 17,829 web respondents from the 2008 US National Health Survey conducted by the Gallup Panel...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Shim JM,Shin E,Johnson TP

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although patients readmitted to intensive care units (ICUs) typically have poor outcomes, ICU readmission rates have not been studied as a measure of hospital performance. OBJECTIVES:To determine variation in ICU readmission rates across hospitals and associations of readmission rates with other ICU-based m...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Cooper GS,Sirio CA,Rotondi AJ,Shepardson LB,Rosenthal GE

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:State Medicaid programs introduce many types of prescribing restrictions to manage pharmaceutical use and expenditure. Little is known about the differential effect of implementing prior authorization (PA) policies at market entry versus waiting until several years later when prescribing behavior may already...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Roughead EE,Zhang F,Ross-Degnan D,Soumerai S

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute health shocks can reduce the ability to work and earn among working-age survivors. The full economic impact includes labor market effects on spouses/partners, but there is a knowledge gap in this area. OBJECTIVES:The objective of this study was to assess how 3 common health shocks, acute myocardial in...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Jeon SH,Stepner M,Rotermann M,Fransoo R,Sanmartin C,Scales DC,Wunsch H,Iwashyna TJ,Garland A

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The relative performance of three widely used generic health status measures (EQ-5D, a modified HUI3 [mHUI3], and SF-12) was compared within a general population sample. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Data were taken from a cohort of persons identified from the patient list of a large general practice in York, UK. T...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Macran S,Weatherly H,Kind P

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Studies of cancer recurrences and second primary tumors require information on outcome dates. Little is known about how well electronic health record-based algorithms can identify dates or how errors in dates can bias analyses. RESEARCH DESIGN:We assessed rule-based and model-fitting approaches to assign ev...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Chubak J,Onega T,Zhu W,Buist DSM,Hubbard RA

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomized clinical trial was performed to assess whether the results of a depression screening instrument, when provided to physicians, could influence their recognition and treatment of depression in a primary care setting. The intervention consisted of randomly informing or not informing physicians of the depress...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Magruder-Habib K,Zung WW,Feussner JR

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The health care left-a traditional source of critique and reform-has become intellectually less competent and politically less effective in carrying out its historic role in the continuing great debate over health policies and programs. Its credibility has diminished in recent years as it has come to operate on a seri...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Bellin LE

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the effect of survey mode (mail vs. telephone) on the likelihood of reporting health care-related discrimination based on race, ethnicity, or nationality. METHODS:We use data from a mixed-mode, mail and telephone survey of public health care program enrollees (N=2807), including Somali, Hmong, Afr...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Kemmick Pintor JB,McAlpine D,Beebe TJ,Johnson PJ

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the effect of after-hours telephone access to physicians and physician access to computerized medical records on hospitalizations and emergency room (ER) visits in an inner-city, adult, general medicine clinic. Patients were randomly assigned to a control (C) and two study groups (S1 and S2). Pati...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Darnell JC,Hiner SL,Neill PJ,Mamlin JJ,McDonald CJ,Hui SL,Tierney WM

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physicians who participate in preferred provider organizations (PPOs) usually agree to various types of utilization review and sometimes discount their charges or agree to accept lower fees. This study was performed to determine whether they provided more or fewer services to their PPO patients than to their indemnity...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Garnick DW,Luft HS,Gardner LB,Morrison EM,Barrett M,O'Neil A,Harvey B

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 1998, the Province of Ontario in Canada adopted price-cap "70/90" regulations whereby the first generic entrant was required to be priced at ≤70% of the associated brand-name product and subsequent generics were priced at ≤90% of the first generic price. The price-caps were further lowered to 50% in 2006 ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Zhang W,Guh D,Sun H,Marra CA,Lynd LD,Anis AH

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Self-care management is recognized as a key component of care for multimorbid older adults; however, the characteristics of those most likely to participate in Chronic Disease Self-Management (CDSM) programs and strategies to maximize participation in such programs are unknown. OBJECTIVES:To identify indivi...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Dattalo M,Giovannetti ER,Scharfstein D,Boult C,Wegener S,Wolff JL,Leff B,Frick KD,Reider L,Frey K,Noronha G,Boyd C

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Investigators have used a variety of operational definitions of nursing hours of care in measuring nurse staffing for health services research. However, little is known about which approach is best for nurse staffing measurement. OBJECTIVE:To examine whether various nursing hours measures yield different mo...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Park SH,Blegen MA,Spetz J,Chapman SA,De Groot HA

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pivotal role of women as wife, mother or adult daughter in performing health-related activities for family members has received little attention from health researchers or policymakers. Yet the majority of health problems do not reach the medical care system, but are dealt with informally or through other social s...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Carpenter ES

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prescription of new drugs contributes to substantial increases in annual drug expenditures. A small proportion of physicians appear to be early users of new prescription drugs and little is known about their characteristics. OBJECTIVE:To estimate the initial utilization rate of new prescription drugs among ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Tamblyn R,McLeod P,Hanley JA,Girard N,Hurley J

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：:A clustering method for the analysis of ambulatory morbidity data is presented. This approach reduces spurious variations resulting from idiosyncratic diagnosis labeling and coding habits of physicians and facilitates the analysis of the content of ambulatory medical care through the use of aggregate morbidity data. T...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Schneeweiss R,Rosenblatt RA,Cherkin DC,Kirkwood CR,Hart G

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The federal Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (OBRA) produced substantial changes in the Aid to Families With Dependent Children (AFDC) program. The main effect of the changes has been the denial of assistance and hence Medicaid coverage to many AFDC recipients with jobs. Our analysis of the health care and in...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Moscovice I,Davidson G

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To contrast the interpretations of treatment effect estimates using risk adjustment and instrumental variable (IV) estimation methods using observational data when the effects of treatment are heterogeneous across patients. We demonstrate these contrasts by examining the effect of breast conserving surgery p...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Brooks JM,Chrischilles EA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00