Impact of public reporting on quality of postacute care.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine concordance between member self-reports and the organization's administrative claims data for two key health factors: number of chronic conditions, and number of prescription drugs. DATA:Medicare Advantage plan claims data and member survey data from 2011 to 2012. DESIGN:Mailed surveys to 15,000 ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Guerard B,Omachonu V,Harvey RA,Hernandez SR,Sen B

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test for differences in patient outcomes when hospital and post-acute care (PAC) providers participate in accountable care organizations (ACOs). DATA/SETTING:Using Medicare claims, we examined changes in readmission, Medicare spending, and length of stay among patients admitted to ACO-participating hospit...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Agarwal D,Werner RM

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the source of observed lower risk-adjusted mortality for blacks than whites within the Veterans Affairs (VA) system by accounting for hospital site where treated, potential under-reporting of black deaths, discretion on hospital admission, quality improvement efforts, and interactions by age group....

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Volpp KG,Stone R,Lave JR,Jha AK,Pauly M,Klusaritz H,Chen H,Cen L,Brucker N,Polsky D

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organizations are increasingly becoming dynamic and unstable. This evolution has given rise to greater reliance on teams and increased complexity in terms of team composition, skills required, and degree of risk involved. High-reliability organizations (HROs) are those that exist in such hazardous environments where t...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Baker DP,Day R,Salas E

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess hospital and geographic variability in 30-day mortality after surgery for CRC and examine the extent to which sociodemographic, area-level, clinical, tumor, treatment, and hospital characteristics were associated with increased likelihood of 30-day mortality in a population-based sample of older CRC...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Schootman M,Lian M,Pruitt SL,Deshpande AD,Hendren S,Mutch M,Jeffe DB,Davidson N

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether Medicare enrollment at age 65 has an effect on the health trajectory of the near-elderly uninsured. DATA SOURCES:Eight biennial waves (1992-2006) of the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative panel survey of noninstitutionalized 51-61 year olds and their spouses. STUDY...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Polsky D,Doshi JA,Escarce J,Manning W,Paddock SM,Cen L,Rogowski J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To quantify the impact of multiyear utilization of preventive dental services on downstream dental care utilization and expenditures for children. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:We followed 0.93 million Medicaid-enrolled children who were 3-6 years old in 2005 from 2005 to 2011. We used Medicaid claims data of A...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Lee I,Monahan S,Serban N,Griffin PM,Tomar SL

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limited information exists concerning lifetime use of nursing home services by the aged. This article examines the longitudinal experience, over four years, of elderly individuals at high risk of institutionalization, and develops a simple model of nursing home use based on these observations. This model allows us to ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Manheim LM,Hughes SL

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During welfare reform, Congress passed legislation barring legal immigrants who entered the United States after August 1996 from Medicaid for five years after immigration. This legislation intended to bar only new immigrants (post-1996 immigrants) from Medicaid. However it may have also deterred the enrollme...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Kandula NR,Grogan CM,Rathouz PJ,Lauderdale DS

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE. : To determine whether racial/ethnic disparities in colonoscopy use vary by physician availability. DATA SOURCE. : We used 100 percent Texas Medicare claims data for 2003-2007. STUDY DESIGN. : We identified beneficiaries aged 66-79 in 2007, examined racial/ethnic differences in colonoscopy use from 2003 to ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Benarroch-Gampel J,Sheffield KM,Lin YL,Kuo YF,Goodwin JS,Riall TS

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study evaluates the relationship between hospital and regional characteristics and the prevalence of mobile computed tomography in rural hospitals. DATA SOURCES AND STUDY SETTING:Primary data were gathered from all rural hospitals in eight northwestern states (n = 471) in 1991. Secondary data sources in...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Hartley D,Moscovice I,Christianson J

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the impact of pay for performance in Medicaid on the quality and utilization of care. DATA SOURCES:Medicaid claims and encounter data in three intervention states (Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Alabama) and three comparison states. STUDY DESIGN:Difference-in-difference analysis with propensity sco...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Rosenthal MB,Landrum MB,Robbins JA,Schneider EC

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of four treatment modalities for substance abuse. DATA SOURCES:The study used data from the Services Research Outcomes Study (SROS), a survey of 3,047 clients in a random sample of 99 drug treatment facilities across the United States. Detailed sociodemograp...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Mojtabai R,Zivin JG

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY QUESTION:Continuous quality improvement (CQI) has been implemented at least to some degree in many health care settings, yet randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of CQI are rare. We ask whether, when, and how RCTs of CQI might be designed. STUDY DESIGN:We consider two applications of CQI: as a general philosophy ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Samsa G,Matchar D

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arthroscopic surgery of the knee has reduced in-hospital utilization of 37 percent for surgical treatment of internal derangements of the knee at The Mount Sinai Medical Center. In a study comparing arthrotomies of the knee in 1974 (N = 106) to arthroscopic surgery of the knee in 1984 (N = 221) it was found that while...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Pruzansky ME,Remer S,Freedman B

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe how the organization and dynamics of health systems changed between 1999 and 2001, in the context of expectations from the mid-1990s when managed care was in ascendance, and assess the implications for consumers and policymakers. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Data are from the Community Tracking Stu...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Lesser CS,Ginsburg PB,Devers KJ

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether Medicaid home care spending reduces the proportion of the disabled elderly population who do not get help with personal care. DATA SOURCES:Data on Medicaid home care spending per poor elderly person in each state is merged with data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey for 1992, ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Kemper P,Weaver F,Short PF,Shea D,Kang H

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Long Term Care Demonstration (channeling) was designed to provide coordinated community-based long-term care services to those older persons at high risk of nursing home placement. A key component of the program was the process established to accomplish this targeting effort. In this article, the outreach...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Applebaum RA

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine how the addition of generalist care managers and collaborative information technology to an ambulatory team affects the care of patients with diabetes. STUDY SETTING:Multiple ambulatory clinics within Intermountain Health Care (IHC), a large integrated delivery network. STUDY DESIGN:A retrospec...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Dorr DA,Wilcox A,Donnelly SM,Burns L,Clayton PD

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the role of health plan benefit design and price on consumers' decisions to purchase health insurance in the nongroup market and their choice of plan. DATA SOURCES AND STUDY SETTING:Administrative data from the three largest nongroup insurers in California and survey data about those insured in t...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Marquis MS,Buntin MB,Escarce JJ,Kapur K

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine if sufficient nurse staffing reduced in-hospital fractures in acute care hospitals. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:The Japanese Diagnosis Procedure Combination inpatient (DPC) database from July 2010 to March 2014 linked with the Surveys for Medical Institutions. STUDY DESIGN:We conducted a retrosp...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Morita K,Matsui H,Fushimi K,Yasunaga H

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop a framework that public health practitioners could use to measure the value of public health services. DATA SOURCES:Primary data were collected from August 2006 through March 2007. We interviewed (n=46) public health practitioners in four states, leaders of national public health organizations, an...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Jacobson PD,Neumann PJ

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the effect of worker heterogeneity, firm size, and establishment size on the breadth of employer health insurance offerings. DATA SOURCES:The data were drawn from the 1993 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Employer Health Insurance Survey of 22,000 business establishments selected randomly from ten s...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Moran JR,Chernew ME,Hirth RA

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effects of depression treatment in primary care on patients' clinical status and employment, over six months. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Data are from a randomized controlled trial of quality improvement for depression that included 938 adults with depressive disorder in 46 managed primary ca...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Schoenbaum M,Unützer J,McCaffrey D,Duan N,Sherbourne C,Wells KB

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE/PURPOSE:To stimulate discussion within the research and policy community about the value of and issues surrounding different ways to describe access to care in a health system reconfigured by the growth of managed care, competition, and other marketplace changes. PRINCIPLE FINDINGS:The concept of access has ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Gold M

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop a taxonomy of governing board roles in U.S. hospitals. DATA SOURCES:2005 AHA Hospital Governance Survey, 2004 AHA Annual Survey of Hospitals, and Area Resource File. STUDY DESIGN:A governing board taxonomy was developed using cluster analysis. Results were validated and reviewed by industry exper...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Lee SY,Alexander JA,Wang V,Margolin FS,Combes JR

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examines the degree to which a married individual's health habits and use of preventive medical care are influenced by his or her spouse's behaviors. STUDY DESIGN:Using longitudinal data on individuals and their spouses, we examine changes over time in the health habits of each person as a functio...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Falba TA,Sindelar JL

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop novel, scalable, and valid literacy profiles for identifying limited health literacy patients by harnessing natural language processing. DATA SOURCE:With respect to the linguistic content, we analyzed 283 216 secure messages sent by 6941 diabetes patients to physicians within an integrated system'...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Schillinger D,Balyan R,Crossley SA,McNamara DS,Liu JY,Karter AJ

更新日期：2020-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Assess proxy respondent effects on health care evaluations by Medicare beneficiaries. DATA SOURCE:110,215 respondents from the nationally representative 2001 CAHPS((R)) Medicare Fee-for-Service Survey. STUDY DESIGN/DATA COLLECTION/EXTRACTION METHODS:We compare the effects of both proxy respondents and proxy...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Elliott MN,Beckett MK,Chong K,Hambarsoomians K,Hays RD

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Apply quantile regression for a high-resolution analysis of changes in wait time to treatment and assess its applicability to quality improvement data compared with least-squares regression. DATA SOURCE:Addiction treatment programs participating in the Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment. MET...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Choi D,Hoffman KA,Kim MO,McCarty D

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00