Coronary artery bypass surgery: the relationship between inhospital mortality rate and surgical volume after controlling for clinical risk factors.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The United States has a culturally and demographically diverse populace, and the aim of this study was to examine differences in health preferences by sex, age, ethnicity, and race. METHODS:We assessed preferences for health outcomes defined by the PROMIS-29 survey in a sample of the US population. On the b...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Craig BM,Reeve BB,Cella D,Hays RD,Pickard AS,Revicki DA

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Similarities and differences in physician work intensity among specialties are poorly understood but have implications for quality of care, patient safety, practice organization and management, and payment. OBJECTIVE:To determine the magnitude and important dimensions of physician work intensity for 4 speci...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Horner RD,Szaflarski JP,Ying J,Meganathan K,Matthews G,Schroer B,Weber D,Raphaelson M

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from a national survey of veterans are analyzed to determine how age, income, health insurance and service-connected disability influence the veteran's choice of Veterans Administration (VA) hospitalization. Log-linear analysis is used to provide a model that expresses in numerically quantifiable terms (odds and ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Page WF

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Difference-in-differences (DID) estimation has become increasingly popular as an approach to evaluate the effect of a group-level policy on individual-level outcomes. Several statistical methodologies have been proposed to correct for the within-group correlation of model errors resulting from the clustering...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Rokicki S,Cohen J,Fink G,Salomon JA,Landrum MB

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Hospital-acquired catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is one of the first 6 conditions Medicare is targeting to reduce payment associated with hospital-acquired conditions under Congressional mandate. This study was to determine the positive predictive value (PPV) and sensitivit...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Zhan C,Elixhauser A,Richards CL Jr,Wang Y,Baine WB,Pineau M,Verzier N,Kliman R,Hunt D

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：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：BACKGROUND:The relationship between health status and Hispanic ethnicities, language, and nativity is poorly understood, due to the limitations and conflicting findings of previous studies. OBJECTIVES:To examine the effects of language and nativity on health status in Hispanic ethnic subgroups and non-Hispanic whites ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Jerant A,Arellanes R,Franks P

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：:Data from the 1980 to 1981 National Health Interview Survey on morbidity, principally bed-disability days, was age standardized and indexed by region of the United States and metropolitan and nonmetropolitan residence within region. There were substantial differences in both age-specific and age-adjusted morbidity by ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Blumberg MS

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Versus whites, blacks with diabetes have poorer control of hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), higher systolic blood pressure (SBP), and higher low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol as well as higher rates of morbidity and microvascular complications. OBJECTIVE:To examine whether several mutable risk factors were m...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Duru OK,Gerzoff RB,Selby JV,Brown AF,Ackermann RT,Karter AJ,Ross S,Steers N,Herman WH,Waitzfelder B,Mangione CM

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medicare and private plans are encouraging individuals to seek care at hospitals that are designated as centers of excellence. Few evaluations of such programs have been conducted. This study examines a large national initiative that designated hospitals as centers of excellence for knee and hip replacement....

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Mehrotra A,Sloss EM,Hussey PS,Adams JL,Lovejoy S,Soohoo NF

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study, like two earlier studies by the author, examines the effects of changing medical technologies on medical care costs by comparing the costs of treatment of a number of common illnesses at two points in time, 1971 and 1981. While the earlier studies, covering the periods 1951-1964 and 1964-1971, showed that ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Scitovsky AA

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is an analysis of patient choice of providers by the employees of the Security Pacific Bank of California and their dependents who have access to the Med Network Preferred Provider Organization (PPO). The empirical results show that not only is the PPO used by individuals who require relatively little med...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Wouters AV,Hester J

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The authors study the relationship between people's sense of community and problems they experience with the health-care system, specifically problems related to cost, access, provider choice, and satisfaction. METHODS:Data from a 1993 Florida poll (n = 1202) was used to conduct a multinomial logit analysis...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Ahern MM,Hendryx MS,Siddharthan K

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE:Patients with multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) are a critical but undefined group for quality measurement. We present a generally applicable systematic approach to defining an MCC cohort of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries that we developed for a national quality measure, risk-standardized ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Drye EE,Altaf FK,Lipska KJ,Spatz ES,Montague JA,Bao H,Parzynski CS,Ross JS,Bernheim SM,Krumholz HM,Lin Z

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In comparison to the living conditions that existed before 1949, the People's Republic of China (PRC) represents a remarkable story of achievement. Western knowledge about the PRC has recently increased by leaps and bounds as detente with the United States has allowed many Americans to witness the "awakening of the dr...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Louie R

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patient experience data can be collected by sampling patients periodically (eg, patients with any visits over a 1-year period) or sampling visits continuously (eg, sampling any visit in a monthly interval). Continuous sampling likely yields a sample with more frequent and more recent visits, possibly affecti...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Setodji CM,Burkhart Q,Hays RD,Quigley DD,Skootsky SA,Elliott MN

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The intensity of end-of-life care varies substantially both within and between areas. Differing practice patterns of individual physicians are likely influenced by their peers. OBJECTIVE:To assess whether intensity of end-of-life care previously provided by a physician's peers influences patterns of care at...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Keating NL,O'Malley AJ,Onnela JP,Gray SW,Landon BE

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although mental disorders constitute a significant public health problem in military populations, little is known about whether military members seek mental health treatment in a timely manner. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to examine delays in making the initial treatment contact for various me...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Fikretoglu D,Liu A,Pedlar D,Brunet A

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 2006 Massachusetts health reform substantially decreased uninsurance rates. Yet, little is known about the reform's impact on actual health care utilization among poor and minority populations, particularly for receipt of inpatient surgical procedures that are commonly initiated by outpatient physician r...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Hanchate AD,Lasser KE,Kapoor A,Rosen J,McCormick D,D'Amore MM,Kressin NR

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from the Cancer Control Supplement of the 1987 Health Interview Survey (NHIS), a nationally representative sample of the United States population, was used to examine rates of six screening tests for cancer. The rates of screening were compared for people who receive their usual source of medical care in an HMO o...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Bernstein AB,Thompson GB,Harlan LC

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there are large-scale forces that influence the economic behavior of the health care delivery system, it is the physician who has primary authority to make decisions about the use of resources. Consequently, when considering alternative options for controlling rising health care expenditures, it is useful to ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Grossman RM

更新日期：1983-08-01 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：:This article emphasizes the advantages and disadvantages of the National Center for Health Statistics Health Interview Surveys (HIS) when applied to the needs of ethnic minorities at the local level. While HIS gives information on health status of minorities and their use of services at the national level, this inform...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Salber EJ,Beza AG

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We studied the effects of health insurance, health care needs, and demographic and area characteristics on out-of-pocket health care spending for low and higher income insured populations. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We used the 2002 National Survey of America's Families to analyze out-of-pocket health spending. P...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Shen YC,McFeeters J

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:: Previous research suggests, but does not definitively establish, that a high level of uninsurance in a community may negatively affect access to and quality of health care for insured persons. OBJECTIVE:: To assess the effect of the level of uninsurance in a community on access to and satisfaction with ca...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Gresenz CR,Escarce JJ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research indicates that approximately one in five hospital admissions is unnecessary or inappropriate, based on accepted clinical criteria. Various cost-containment approaches have been initiated to reduce unnecessary hospital care. Among these approaches, hospital utilization review (UR) has shown promise as a cost-c...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Wickizer TM,Wheeler JR,Feldstein PJ

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The measurement of inpatient complications his received substantial attention in recent years because mortality rates and other outcome measures often appear unable to discriminate superior from inferior hospital care. Complication measurement holds out the promise of being more sensitive to variations in patient care...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Brailer DJ,Kroch E,Pauly MV,Huang J

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:When suffering becomes unbearable for patients they might request for euthanasia. OBJECTIVE:To study which patients request for euthanasia and which requests actually resulted in euthanasia in relation with diagnosis, care setting at the end of life, and patient demographics. DESIGN:A cross-sectional study...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Onwuteaka-Philipsen BD,Rurup ML,Pasman HR,van der Heide A

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00