Preferences for current health and their association with outcomes in patients with kidney disease.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Among patients with type 2 diabetes, it is not known whether risk factor control is better or worse for those who also have heart disease, depression, multiple other comorbidities, and associated management challenges. OBJECTIVE:To examine the relationship between this complex constellation of multimorbidit...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Malik S,Billimek J,Greenfield S,Sorkin DH,Ngo-Metzger Q,Kaplan SH

更新日期：2013-02-01 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:Reference drug pricing (RP) is a cost-sharing strategy commonly used to control drug expenditures. Under RP, a benefit plan fully reimburses medications that are equally or less expensive than the reference price, and requires patients to pay the extra cost of therapeutically equivalent but higher priced dru...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Schneeweiss S,Dormuth C,Grootendorst P,Soumerai SB,Maclure M

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors compared the personal characteristics, measures of functional status/case mix, and discharge outcomes of nursing home patients admitted to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in 1984 for the first time (first admissions) to those of patients with a prior history of nursing home care (readmissions). Compared ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Lewis MA,Leake B,Clark V,Leal-Sotelo M

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The practice of ordering "Do-Not-Resuscitate" (DNR) varies across hospitals. No research has explored how the DNR variation would affect cross-institutional performance reporting when DNR status is used as a risk adjustor. OBJECTIVE:We sought to assess the impact of DNR variation on performance reporting. ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Tabak YP,Johannes RS,Silber JH,Kurtz SG

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We sought to quantify Veterans Health Administration (VA) patients' utilization of coronary revascularization in the private sector and to assess the potential impact of directing this care to high-performance hospitals. METHODS:Using VA and New York State administrative and clinical databases, we conducted ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Weeks WB,Bott DM,Bazos DA,Campbell SL,Lombardo R,Racz MJ,Hannan EL,Wright SM,Fisher ES

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：:In this study, changes in the number, site, and source of follow-up visits and allowed charges were examined for follow-up visits provided to Medicare surgical patients between 1984 and 1986. Among the 21 surgical procedures studied, follow-up visits decreased by 5.2%, after adjusting for case mix. Despite the physici...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Kominski GF,Biddle AK

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study compared Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and non-VA mental health service use among male and female veterans. Because female veterans are a distinct minority in VA, it was hypothesized that they would be less likely to use VA mental health care than would male veterans. METHODS:Using data fro...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Hoff RA,Rosenheck RA

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Given strict residency controls and geographic imbalances in health care resources, China may experience serious urban-rural health disparities. OBJECTIVES:To investigate urban-rural disparities in the patterns of health status and health care utilization in China and to examine the evolution of these dispa...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Fang H,Chen J,Rizzo JA

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Services targeting social determinants of health-such as income support, housing, and nutrition-have been shown to improve health outcomes and reduce health care costs for older adults. Nevertheless, evidence on the properties of effective collaborative networks across health care and social services sectors...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Brewster AL,Yuan CT,Tan AX,Tangoren CG,Curry LA

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Incorporating patients' preferences into colorectal cancer (CRC) screening recommendations has been identified as a potential mechanism for increasing adherence. This study used conjoint analysis to describe variation in CRC screening preferences among racially/ethnically diverse primary care patients. METH...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Hawley ST,Volk RJ,Krishnamurthy P,Jibaja-Weiss M,Vernon SW,Kneuper S

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：BACKGROUND:Although individuals' health insurance coverage changes frequently, previous analyses have not accounted for changes in insurance coverage over time. OBJECTIVE:We sought to determine the independent association between lack of insurance and the risk of a decline in self-reported overall health and death fro...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Baker DW,Sudano JJ,Durazo-Arvizu R,Feinglass J,Witt WP,Thompson J

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) continues to increase. These patients require medical care from physicians who are well trained and who are willing to provide that care. In 1985, we undertook a survey of 314 heterosexual and homosexual physicians in Los Angeles County to determine...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Richardson JL,Lochner T,McGuigan K,Levine AM

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new technique for identifying inefficient hospitals, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), is field tested by application to a group of teaching hospitals. DEA is found to provide meaningful insights into the location and nature of hospital inefficiencies as judged by the opinion of a panel of hospital experts. DEA provi...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Sherman HD

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Physician and patient gender both influence medical communication. Nonverbal behavior is generally under-researched in the medical encounter but plays an important role for patient outcomes such as satisfaction. OBJECTIVE:This article aims at identifying how specific physician nonverbal behaviors predict an...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Mast MS,Hall JA,Köckner C,Choi E

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Past research in continuity of medical care has generally examined its determinants or its consequences. A model is proposed which combines these lines of research and incorporates a continuity measure as a process and specifying variable. The validity of this model is tested with a set of data consisting of 1,410 per...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Hennelly VD,Boxerman SB

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Personal health records offer patients access to view their own health information and to manage their care online through secure patient portal tools. Little is known about the patient-reported experience in using health portals to manage chronic conditions. OBJECTIVE:In a patient-centered research study, ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Reed ME,Huang J,Millman A,Graetz I,Hsu J,Brand R,Ballard DW,Grant R

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors conducted two studies of routine medical visits, investigating the relation of physician gender, patient gender, and physician age to patient satisfaction, and the correlations between communication behaviors and satisfaction separately for different combinations of patient and physician gender. Study 1 wa...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Hall JA,Irish JT,Roter DL,Ehrlich CM,Miller LH

更新日期：1994-12-01 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：:Health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) measures are becoming increasingly important for evaluating the effectiveness of medical interventions and assessing the health of populations. Preference-based instruments, a subset of HRQOL measures, allow comparisons of overall health status in populations and in clinical sett...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Gold M,Franks P,Erickson P

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article analyzes reported data on length of stay of discharged patients from the 1977 National Nursing Home Survey. Assuming that patients admitted to nursing homes are one of two types, short-stayers and long-stayers, the statistically best-fitting proportions and expected lengths of stay for the two types are d...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Keeler EB,Kane RL,Solomon DH

更新日期：1981-03-01 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:Millions of traumatized refugees worldwide have resettled in the United States. For one of the largest, the Cambodian community, having their mental health needs met has been a continuing challenge. A multicomponent health information technology screening tool was designed to aid provider recognition and tre...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Sorkin DH,Rizzo S,Biegler K,Sim SE,Nicholas E,Chandler M,Ngo-Metzger Q,Paigne K,Nguyen DV,Mollica R

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The profile-based SF-12 has a low respondent burden and is used widely in clinical settings to monitor health and evaluate programs. Deriving preference scores for the SF-12 health profile would permit its use in cost-effectiveness analyses. Previous mapping studies of SF family instruments to preference-bas...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Franks P,Lubetkin EI,Gold MR,Tancredi DJ

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Application of generic and specific measures of health status and quality of life to different diseases, conditions, states, and populations is increasing. Four strategies for using these measures are separate generic and specific measures, modified generic measures, disease-specific supplements, and batteries. The pr...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Patrick DL,Deyo RA

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Relative to traditional fee-for-service Medicare, managed care plans caring for Medicare beneficiaries may be better positioned to promote recommended services and discourage burdensome procedures with little clinical value at the end of life. OBJECTIVE:To compare end-of-life service use for enrollees in Me...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Stevenson DG,Ayanian JZ,Zaslavsky AM,Newhouse JP,Landon BE

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical practice guidelines quickly become outdated. One reason they might not be updated as often as needed is the expense of collecting expert judgment regarding the evidence. The RAND-UCLA Appropriateness Method is one commonly used method for collecting expert opinion. We tested whether a less expensive...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Washington DL,Bernstein SJ,Kahan JP,Leape LL,Kamberg CJ,Shekelle PG

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the psychometric assumptions underlying the construction and scoring of SF-36 scales and summary measures among clinical trial participants with arthritis. METHODS:Cross-sectional SF-36 data from the baseline assessment of adult patients (n = 1,016) participating in four placebo-controlled clinic...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Kosinski M,Keller SD,Hatoum HT,Kong SX,Ware JE Jr

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00