Health care coverage and access to care: the status of Minnesota's veterans.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess drug prescribing by primary care physicians in France for various types of conditions, and to identify patterns and risk factors for poor prescribing quality. METHODS:The orders (n = 23,080) written for patients with five target diseases (acute nasopharyngitis, acute tonsillitis, essential hyperten...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Coste J,Venot A

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The desired form and style of written drug information for patients were assessed in a national survey of oral contraceptive (OC) users. These women were queried about two forms of OC information: a short insert included with dispensed drugs and a longer brochure delivered by the physician upon patient request. Longer...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Mazis M,Morris LA,Gordon E

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Disabled Americans who qualify for Medicare coverage typically have multiple chronic conditions, are highly dependent on effective drug therapy, and have limited financial resources, putting them at risk for cost-related medication nonadherence (CRN). Since 2006, the Part D benefit has helped Medicare benefi...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Naci H,Soumerai SB,Ross-Degnan D,Zhang F,Briesacher BA,Gurwitz JH,Madden JM

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A factorial design randomized controlled trial to test several clinically feasible strategies primary-care practitioners may use in routine practice to increase patient participation in occult blood testing for colorectal cancer is reported. Three compliance-enhancing intervention strategies (physician/nurse talk, and...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Thompson RS,Michnich ME,Gray J,Friedlander L,Gilson B

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Barriers to colorectal cancer (CRC) screening are not well understood. OBJECTIVES:We sought to compare barriers to CRC screening reported by primary care physicians (PCPs) and by average-risk adults, and to examine characteristics of average-risk adults who identified lack of provider recommendation as a ma...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Klabunde CN,Vernon SW,Nadel MR,Breen N,Seeff LC,Brown ML

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Measures for pay-for-performance and public reporting programs may be based on clinical practice guidelines. The impact of guideline changes over time-and whether evolving clinical evidence can render measures based on prior guidelines misleading-is not known. OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of using differe...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Lin GA,Redberg RF,Anderson HV,Shaw RE,Milford-Beland S,Peterson ED,Rao SV,Werner RM,Dudley RA

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RESEARCH OBJECTIVE:Pharmacists are an expensive and limited resource in the hospital and outpatient setting. A pharmacist can spend up to 25% of their day planning. Time spent planning is time not spent delivering an intervention. A readmission risk adjustment model has potential to be used as a universal outcome-based...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Kabue S,Greene J,Kipnis P,Lawson B,Rinetti-Vargas G,Liu V,Escobar G

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) State Innovation Models (SIM) Initiative funds states to accelerate delivery system and payment reforms. All SIM states focus on improving diabetes care, but SIM's effect on 30-day readmissions among adults with diabetes remains unclear. METHODS:A quasi-exp...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Rodríguez HP,Fulton BD,Phillips AZ

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medical error reporting is an essential component of patient safety enhancement. However, increasingly, the literature points to a problem of underreporting of treatment errors, mainly as a result of the fear of malpractice lawsuits and limited formal data collection systems. Few studies, if any, have examin...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Naveh E,Katz-Navon T,Stern Z

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Seattle Prepaid Health Care Evaluation Project is a comparative study designed to assess the care received by persons enrolled in either a large prepaid group practice (PGP) or in a prepaid, independent practice setting in which physicians are reimbursed on a fee-for-service basis (IPP). As part of the study we as...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： LoGerfo JP,Efird RA,Diehr PK,Richardson WC

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To demonstrate a rigorous methodology that optimally balanced internal validity with generalizability to evaluate a statewide collaborative that implemented an evidence-based, collaborative care model for depression management in primary care. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING:Several operational features of the DIAM...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Crain AL,Solberg LI,Unützer J,Ohnsorg KA,Maciosek MV,Whitebird RR,Beck A,Molitor BA

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The published preferences for scale steps in a health-related quality-of-life scale have been noted to be contrary to some prior assumptions about their rank ordering. The differences noted are actually statistically nonsignificant, and the observed ordering has a clear intuitive explanation. Several alternative expla...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Bush JW,Anderson JP,Kaplan RM,Blischke WR

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Compare healthcare utilization and total payments for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) episodes-of-care among 5 health plan designs spanning the continuum of managed care. RESEARCH DESIGN:Medical and prescription claims analysis of CAP episodes among enrollees of employer-sponsored health plans. Episode ch...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Landsman PB,Smith DG,Fendrick AM

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Though demand for mental health services (MHS) among US veterans is increasing, MHS utilization per veteran is decreasing. With health and social service needs competing for limited resources, it is important to understand the association between patient factors, MHS utilization, and clinical outcomes. OBJE...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Fasoli DR,Glickman ME,Eisen SV

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Affordable Care Act allowed an optional Medicaid State Plan benefit for states to establish Health Homes coordinating care for people who have chronic conditions. Differences in medical home program incentives and implementation styles are important to understand in evaluating effects on key outcomes suc...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Shane DM,Nguyen-Hoang P,Bentler SE,Damiano PC,Momany ET

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic and the prevalence of HIV-positive persons in the population has provoked marked anxiety among hospital staffs of acquiring nosocomially transmitted HIV infections. A national telephone survey of key staff in a sample of 561 acute-care hospitals was undertaken to describ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Freeman HE

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Latino populations have disproportionately moved to areas in the Southeast and Midwest (emerging destinations), outside traditional Latino enclaves, in recent years. OBJECTIVE:To examine whether health care experiences differ between traditional and emerging destinations for Latino children. RESEARCH DESIG...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Saloner B,Gresenz CR

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are currently no Medicare claims-based algorithms to identify patients receiving nursing home care (NHC). This constitutes an important limitation in outcome studies using population-based data. OBJECTIVES:To assess the ability of claims data to identify patients receiving NHC, using the nursing home ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Koroukian SM,Xu F,Murray P

更新日期：2008-11-01 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: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:Current health care reform efforts are focused on reorganizing health care systems to reduce waste in the US health care system. OBJECTIVE:To compare rates of overuse in different health care systems and examine whether certain systems of care or insurers have lower rates of overuse of health care services....

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Keyhani S,Falk R,Howell EA,Bishop T,Korenstein D

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient Safety Indicator (PSI) 10, "Postoperative Physiologic and Metabolic Derangement" (PPMD), uses administrative data to detect postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) requiring dialysis and diabetes-related complications. We sought to evaluate the indicator'...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Zrelak PA,Romano PS,Tancredi DJ,Geppert JJ,Utter GH

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The integration of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies into a large organization such as the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) requires cultural change and deliberate planning to ensure feasibility and buy-in from staff and patients. At present, there is limited knowledge of VHA patient...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Fletcher CE,Mitchinson AR,Trumble EL,Hinshaw DB,Dusek JA

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To assess the feasibility of using the SF-36v2 mental health (MH) and mental component summary (MCS) scores for classification of risk for major depressive disorder (MDD), and to determine cut-off scores based on the sensitivity and specificity in a general US representative sample, and a chronic pain ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Bell JA,daCosta DiBonaventura M,Witt EA,Ben-Joseph R,Reeve BB

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, trends in hospital use were identified in Japanese cities. Data for all inpatient care in May 1985 (9,555 patients) and in May 1988 (11,205 patients) paid for by National Health Insurance in 12 cities in Osaka Prefecture were analyzed. The main factor affecting differences in inpatient days per insured ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Tatara K,Shinsho F,Nishigaki C,Takatorige T,Okamoto E,Kuroda K

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the Affordable Care Act has been successful in expanding Medicaid to >17 million people, insurance alone may not translate into access to health care. Even among the insured, substantial barriers to accessing services inhibit health care utilization. OBJECTIVES:We examined the effect of selected ba...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Allen EM,Call KT,Beebe TJ,McAlpine DD,Johnson PJ

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Issues that arise in the development of methods for measuring adequacy of physician performance (MAPP) are discussed. The comparative content validity, scorability, cost, and acceptability of four MAPP strategies are assessed using a sample of clinic-based physicians treating 30 patients with chronic obstructive pulmo...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Kemeny ME,Hargreaves WA,Gerbert B,Stone GC,Gullion DS

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Performance measures often fail to account for legitimate reasons why patients do not achieve recommended treatment targets. METHODS:We tested a novel performance measurement system for blood pressure (BP) control that was designed to mimic clinical reasoning. This clinically guided approach focuses on (1) ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Steinman MA,Lee SJ,Peterson CA,Fung KZ,Goldstein MK

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data abstracted from transportation company records showed that nursing home patients made an average of 3.6 trips per year for care out of the nursing home. The bulk of this care (55 per cent) was provided at University Hospital with over a quarter provided at private physicians' offices and community health centers....

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Kane RL,Hammer D,Byrnes N

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the likely effects of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accessibility Act (HIPAA), based on small firms' experiences under state small group insurance reforms that were similar in design to HIPAA. METHODS:Data on 17,818 small businesses (range, 2-50 employees) nationwide from the 1994 Nati...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Hing E,Jensen GA

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00