Prior authorization policies for selective cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors in Medicaid: a policy review.

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：BACKGROUND:Depression is associated with poor chronic illness outcomes, but it is unknown whether depression influences the quality of communication during the clinical encounter. We investigated whether diabetes patients with depressive symptoms, compared with those without depressive symptoms, report worse clinician-...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Swenson SL,Rose M,Vittinghoff E,Stewart A,Schillinger D

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2007 Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) implemented standardized systematic symptom evaluation in all cancer patients in Ontario using the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System. The initial implementation did not include symptom management guidance and this limited the success of the implementation. Within a short ti...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Barbera L,Moody L

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients often receive medical care from many different providers. Consequently, the various episodes of care may not be integrated into a meaningful whole, and the quality of care may suffer. Before this possibility can be evaluated, it is necessary to develop a measure of the integrating process. The authors studied...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Fletcher RH,O'Malley MS,Fletcher SW,Earp JA,Alexander JP

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data were obtained from the American Medical Association on Iranian physicians practicing in the U.S., and from the Iranian Medical Registry on U.S.-trained Iranian physicians who have returned to practice in Iran. There were 2,066 Iranian physicians practicing in the U.S. in 1972, 1,234 (60%) of whom were not undergo...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Ronaghy HA,Zeighami E,Zeighami B

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The second phase of the ADHC Evaluation Study was designed to assess ADHC provided under contract by community ADHC programs. Outcomes for the 163 patients enrolled in this prospective cohort evaluation were compared with those of patients assigned to ADHC provided directly by VA (VA-ADHC) and customary care in the ra...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Rothman ML,Diehr P,Hedrick SC,Erdly WW,Nickinovich DG

更新日期：1993-09-01 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:High opioid dosage has been associated with overdose, and clinical guidelines have cautioned against escalating dosages above 100 morphine-equivalent mg (MEM) based on the potential harm and the absence of evidence of benefit from high dosages. However, this 100 MEM threshold was chosen somewhat arbitrarily....

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Bohnert AS,Logan JE,Ganoczy D,Dowell D

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association of underutilization of drugs prescribed for the treatment of hypertension and acute-care hospital readmissions was evaluated. The data base consisted of computerized hospitalization records and computerized out-patient pharmacy records, checked by chart audit for validity. The number of days' supply of...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Maronde RF,Chan LS,Larsen FJ,Strandberg LR,Laventurier MF,Sullivan SR

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Limited literacy has repeatedly been linked to problems comprehending health information, although the majority of studies to date have focused on reading various print health materials. We sought to investigate patients' ability to recall spoken medical instructions in the context of a hypothetical clinical...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： McCarthy DM,Waite KR,Curtis LM,Engel KG,Baker DW,Wolf MS

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cost-utility analyses using formulas to convert depression-free days (DFDs) to utility-weighted scores are increasingly common. These formulas are based on linear extrapolation of data documenting the correlation between depression symptom severity and generic health-related quality of life. OBJECTIVE:We so...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Pyne JM,Tripathi S,Williams DK,Fortney J

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：: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：OBJECTIVES:Medicare hospitalizations involve both facility and physician services. Although several studies analyze hospital-level variations in Medicare inpatient facility and inpatient physician services per admission, few studies directly explore the relationship between these services. Theoretically, inpatient faci...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Miller ME,Welch WP,Wong HS

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Having health insurance is usually associated with better access to care and better health outcomes. For patients receiving care at Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), where care is provided regardless of insurance status, the role health insurance status plays in affecting receipt of ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Gold R,DeVoe J,Shah A,Chauvie S

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:Spinal mobilization and manipulation are 2 therapies found to be generally safe and effective for chronic low back pain (CLBP). However, the question remains whether they are appropriate for all CLBP patients. RESEARCH DESIGN:An expert panel used a well-validated approach, including an evidence synthesis an...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Herman PM,Hurwitz EL,Shekelle PG,Whitley MD,Coulter ID

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To estimate cost and outcomes of the Arthritis Foundation aquatic exercise classes from the societal perspective. DESIGN:Randomized trial of 20-week aquatic classes. Cost per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) gained was estimated using trial data. Sample size was based on 80% power to reject the null hypoth...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Patrick DL,Ramsey SD,Spencer AC,Kinne S,Belza B,Topolski TD

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic explanation of the use of traditional medicine among the native American population living in the San Francisco Bay area. Several hypotheses concerning the factors associated with this behavior are tested. These include tribal grouping, socioeconomic and sociocultur...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Fuchs M,Bashshur R

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Queues arise in medical care and serve as allocators in the absence of an effective market and when resources become perceptibly constrained. This is essentially the case in all countries where money is not the means for gaining access to medical services. A study estimated that the total wait in England was 96 days f...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Bloom BS,Fendrick AM

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The techniques of cost-effectiveness are employed to simplify resource allocation decisions concerned with the use of land and air transport systems in the health services of a developing country. Outcome classifications are produced for patients seen by mobile and fixed primary care units. The mobile services examine...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Walker G,Gish O

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hospital occupancy, nurse staffing levels, weekend admission, and seasonal influenza have all been shown to be associated with in-hospital mortality. Yet, no study has simultaneously compared the strength of associations of these 4 factors with in-hospital mortality. OBJECTIVE:To compare the risk of in-hosp...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Schilling PL,Campbell DA Jr,Englesbe MJ,Davis MM

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To enhance the efficient utilization of health providers, medical care researchers are increasingly concerned with the measurement of task performance. One job analysis methodology that is widely used is the task inventory technique, characterized by retrospective self-reporting. The purpose of this study was to valid...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Nelson EC,Jacobs AR,Breer PE

更新日期：1975-02-01 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:It is unclear if volume-outcome relationships exist in inpatient rehabilitation. OBJECTIVES:Assess associations between facility volumes and 2 patient-centered outcomes in the 3 most common diagnostic groups in inpatient rehabilitation. RESEARCH DESIGN:We used hierarchical linear and generalized linear mod...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Graham JE,Deutsch A,O'Connell AA,Karmarkar AM,Granger CV,Ottenbacher KJ

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Indication bias is the major challenge in assessing treatment effectiveness in observational studies. We explored the potential advantages of using an instrumental variable approach in the context of primary androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer. METHODS:We identified 31,930 men in the link...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Kuo YF,Montie JE,Shahinian VB

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Indwelling urinary catheters are used postoperatively in hip fracture care. Their use beyond the immediate postoperative period may result in excess nosocomial infections. OBJECTIVES:The objectives of this study were to explore the relationship between extended indwelling urinary catheterization and outcome...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Wald H,Epstein A,Kramer A

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) serve as regular sources of preventive and primary care for low-income families within their communities and are key parts of the health care safety net. OBJECTIVES:Compare admissions and emergency room visits for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs) among ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Falik M,Needleman J,Wells BL,Korb J

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New drugs and other medical advances in organ transplantation are expected to increase the rate of retention of transplanted kidneys, or grafts, and therefore also raise patient survival rates. In particular, the immunosuppressive drug cyclosporine has been found to reduce the likelihood of rejection of a transplanted...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Ruth RJ,Wyszewianski L,Campbell DA

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00