Factors associated with the time nurses spend at the bedsides of seriously ill patients with poor prognoses.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent combat operations have involved large numbers of personnel. Long-term health effects of military deployment remain largely unknown. OBJECTIVES:To examine patterns and trends in long-term disability among combat veterans and to relate disability to aspects of wartime experience. PARTICIPANTS:A total ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Clarke PM,Gregory R,Salomon JA

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Utility scores can be assessed indirectly using preference-based instruments and used as weightings for quality-adjusted life years in economic analyses. It is not clear whether available instruments yield similar results or what domains of health are contributing to the overall score in a sample of patients...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Marra CA,Esdaile JM,Guh D,Kopec JA,Brazier JE,Koehler BE,Chalmers A,Anis AH

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has neglected to delineate pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP) roles in tertiary care settings (TCS). New PNP roles have developed as TCS seek cost-effective solutions to providing quality patient care and to meeting new demands for outpatient care. The authors evaluated the roles of 11 PNPs in eight ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Cruikshank BM,Clow TJ,Seals B

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent federal legislation has contained the stipulation that participating health maintenance organizations (HMOs) include a quality assurance program which stresses health outcomes. This provision was ostensibly directed at correcting alleged abuses in HMOs serving the urban poor. One version of the outcome method w...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Schroeder SA,Donaldson MS

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Loving-kindness meditation (LKM) is a practice intended to enhance feelings of kindness and compassion for self and others. OBJECTIVES:To assess whether participation in a 12-week course of LKM for veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with improved positive emotions, decentering,...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Kearney DJ,McManus C,Malte CA,Martinez ME,Felleman B,Simpson TL

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Most Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care System enrollees age 65+ also have the option of obtaining care through Medicare. Reliance upon VA varies widely and there is a need to optimize its prediction in an era of expanding choice for veterans to obtain care within or outside of VA. We examined whether survey-b...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Wong ES,Maciejewski ML,Hebert PL,Reddy A,Liu CF

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a report on the extension of the concept of the appropriateness of a procedure to the necessity, or crucial importance, of that procedure. To state that a procedure is crucial means that withholding the procedure would be deleterious to the patient's health. Appropriateness and necessity ratings for six proced...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Kahan JP,Bernstein SJ,Leape LL,Hilborne LH,Park RE,Parker L,Kamberg CJ,Brook RH

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Evidence is building that primary care is associated with quality of care and cost effectiveness. Still, little is known of the contribution of specific attributes of primary care to important health outcomes, such as the delivery of preventive services. This study tests the association of specific attribute...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Flocke SA,Stange KC,Zyzanski SJ

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute health care utilization often occurs among persons experiencing homelessness. However, knowing which individuals will be persistent super-utilizers of acute care is less well understood. OBJECTIVE:The objective of the study was to identify those more likely to be persistent super-utilizers of acute ca...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Szymkowiak D,Montgomery AE,Johnson EE,Manning T,O'Toole TP

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Federal, state, and local governments provide substantial subsidies to so-called "safety-net" hospitals, in part, to offset the loss in revenue associated with providing a disproportionate share (DSH) of care to low-income and uninsured patients, with the goal to improve access to care for uninsured and ensu...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Fonkych K,Melnick G

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In response to the growing concern about healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) developed the National Action Plan to Prevent Healthcare-associated Infections. A key focus of the Action Plan is the setting of HAI metrics and targets and the enhancement and d...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Weinberg DA,Kahn KL

更新日期：2014-02-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To compare trends in office-based treatment of mental disorders between Hispanics and non-Hispanics. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS:Analysis of a nationally representative sample of visits to office-based physicians conducted between 1993 and 2002 (N = 251,905). Visits were grouped into 3 discrete time pe...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Blanco C,Patel SR,Liu L,Jiang H,Lewis-Fernández R,Schmidt AB,Liebowitz MR,Olfson M

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier studies have established substantial gender differences in the likelihood of obtaining a psychotropic drug prescription, and a correlation, especially among women, with such family characteristics as family responsibilities, marital separation, divorce or widowhood, and the presence of family stressors such as...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Cafferata GL,Meyers SM

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Persons with behavioral disorders incur higher healthcare costs. Although they utilize behavioral health (BH) services others do not, they also have higher utilization of medical services OBJECTIVES:: To determine the degree to which higher costs for persons with BH disorders are attributable to utilization...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Freeman E,McGuire CA,Thomas JW,Thayer DA

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to develop a "time-insensitive" predictive instrument (TIPI) for acute hospital mortality due to congestive heart failure. In Phase 1, based on prospectively collected data on 401 congestive heart failure patients among 5,773 study patients who presented to six New England hospitals over ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Selker HP,Griffith JL,D'Agostino RB

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study was the first of its kind to evaluate and compare the quality of private and public community health centers (CHCs) in urban China. METHODS:A total of 2501 CHCs in 35 cities were chosen in 2011 using a multistage sampling method, and data on human resources, medical equipment and drug inventory w...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Yin X,Gong Y,Yang C,Tu X,Liu W,Cao S,Yang H,Lu Z

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The relationship between psychiatric consultation and antipsychotic prescribing in nursing homes (NH) is unknown. OBJECTIVE:To identify the association between psychiatric consultant groups and NH-level antipsychotic prescribing after adjustment for resident case-mix and facility characteristics. RESEARCH ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Tjia J,Field T,Lemay C,Mazor K,Pandolfi M,Spenard A,Ho SY,Kanaan A,Donovan J,Gurwitz JH,Briesacher B

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although cardiac procedures are commonly used to treat cardiovascular disease, they are costly. Administrative data sources could be used to track cardiac procedures, but sources of such data have not been validated against clinical registries. OBJECTIVES:To examine accuracy of cardiac procedure coding in a...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Lee DS,Stitt A,Wang X,Yu JS,Gurevich Y,Kingsbury KJ,Austin PC,Tu JV

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the association of drug users' outpatient patterns of care with subsequent intensity of antiretroviral therapy (ART). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Annual types of ART in 8897 New York State Medicaid drug users who were prescribed ART for > or =6 months in 1996 or 1997 were determined. From pharmacy claim...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Laine C,Hauck WW,Turner BJ

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Geriatric rehabilitation is a multidisciplinary set of evaluative, diagnostic, and therapeutic interventions whose purpose is to restore functional ability or enhance residual functional capability in elderly people with disabling impairments. The Boston Working Group on Improving Health Care Outcomes Through Geriatri...

journal_title：Medical care

authors：

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medication error occurring during the care of HIV-infected patients may lead to treatment failure, drug toxicity, or even death. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to ascertain and confirm 5 categories of medication error in the care of HIV-infected patients. RESEARCH DESIGN:This study was a retrosp...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： DeLorenze GN,Follansbee SF,Nguyen DP,Klein DB,Horberg M,Quesenberry CP Jr,Blick NT,Tsai AL

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The total utilization rate of ambulatory illness-related physician services in Finland is higher in big urban health center areas than in rural areas. When only the health center physician utilization rates were studied the finding was opposite. A notable finding related to the impact of the national health planning w...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Kekki P

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to determine whether parents rate their children's care differently when they also rate their own care than when they do not. METHODS:Subjects were employees of Washington State who had been enrolled in a health plan for at least 6 months and who had at least one covered child. Sub...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Shaul JA,Fowler FJ Jr,Zaslavsky AM,Homer CJ,Gallagher PM,Cleary PD

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：IMPORTANCE:Hospitals that serve poorer populations have higher readmission rates. It is unknown whether these hospitals effectively lowered readmission rates in response to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP). OBJECTIVE:To compare pre-post differences in readmission rates among hospitals with different ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Wasfy JH,Bhambhani V,Healy EW,Choirat C,Dominici F,Wadhera RK,Shen C,Wang Y,Yeh RW

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing surgical access to previously underserved populations in the United States may require a major expansion of the use of operating rooms on weekends to take advantage of unused capacity. Although the so-called weekend effect for surgery has been described in other countries, it is unknown whether US...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Glance LG,Osler T,Li Y,Lustik SJ,Eaton MP,Dutton RP,Dick AW

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the increasing use of colonoscopy there is growing concern about the quality of these procedures. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the rates of complete colonic evaluation after an incomplete colonoscopy and their associated factors. METHODS:Men and women > or =50 years old living in Ontario on January 1, 1997 w...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Rizek R,Paszat LF,Stukel TA,Saskin R,Li C,Rabeneck L

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to determine the extent to which the medical record contained evidence of coordination of care. Coordination of care was defined as the recognition of information (problems, therapies, intervening visits and tests) about patients from one visit to a follow-up visit. Overall, there was concordan...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Starfield B,Steinwachs D,Morris I,Bause G,Siebert S,Westin C

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cost-benefit (CBA) and cost-effectiveness analyses (CEA) are methods that enumerate the costs and consequences associated with health-related technologies, services, and programs. This article examines the trends in published CBA and CEA of personal health services from 1979 through 1990. It is based on a bibliography...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Elixhauser A,Luce BR,Taylor WR,Reblando J

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the setting of declining U.S. literacy, new policies include use of clear communication and low-literacy accessibility practices with all patients. Reliable methods for adapting health information to meet such criteria remain a pressing need. OBJECTIVES:To report method validation (study 1) and method re...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Hill-Briggs F,Schumann KP,Dike O

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00