Health Services Research and Development: a tool for hospital management.

abstract：:The axioms of utility theory are restated in terms of health outcomes, and some additional assumptions, consistent with the assumptions implicit in health status index models, are adduced to develop a consistent theory of the utility of health states. On the basis of the axioms and specific assumptions, techniques for...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Torrance GW

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RESEARCH OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of recent Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) changes on efficiency in skilled nursing homes. DATA SOURCE/STUDY SETTING:Medicare Cost Reports (MCR), On-line Survey Certification and Reporting System (OSCAR), Area Resource Files (ARF), a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Se...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Zhang NJ,Unruh L,Wan TT

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine factors associated with guideline-concordant adjuvant therapy among breast cancer patients in a rural region of the United States and to present an advancement in quality-of-care assessment in the context of multiple treatments. DATA SOURCES:Chart abstraction on initial therapy received by 868 wom...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Guy GP Jr,Lipscomb J,Gillespie TW,Goodman M,Richardson LC,Ward KC

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To compare the costs of physician-owned cardiac, orthopedic, and surgical single specialty hospitals with those of full-service hospital competitors. DATA SOURCES:The primary data sources are the Medicare Cost Reports for 1998-2004 and hospital inpatient discharge data for three of the states where single sp...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Carey K,Burgess JF Jr,Young GJ

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the effect of rural hospital closures on the local economy. DATA SOURCES:U.S. Census Bureau, OSCAR, Medicare Cost Reports, and surveys of individuals knowledgeable about local hospital closures. STUDY DESIGN:Economic data at the county level for 1990-2000 were combined with information on hospita...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Holmes GM,Slifkin RT,Randolph RK,Poley S

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To estimate the effect of Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on the frequency and payment source for Emergency Department (ED) visits for dental care. STUDY DESIGN:Retrospective, quasi-experimental study. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:We used the State Emergency Department Database to comp...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Elani HW,Kawachi I,Sommers BD

更新日期：2020-06-01 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 examine how case managers in a state-funded home care program allocate home care services in response to information about a client's Medicare home health care status, with particular attention to the influence of work environment. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Primary data collected on 355 case managers and...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Corazzini K

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of validity as it applies to measures of health and health status is examined in the context of a set of standard, widely accepted definitions of validity. Criterion validity is shown to be irrelevant to health status measures because of the lack of a single specific, directly observable measure of health ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Kaplan RM,Bush JW,Berry CC

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between income and health is well established: the higher an individual's income, the better his or her health. However, recent research suggests that health may also be affected by the distribution of income within society. We outline the potential mechanisms underlying the so-called relative income ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Kawachi I,Kennedy BP

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Independent freestanding emergency departments (IFEDs) have proliferated over the last decade, largely in Texas. We examined the IFED physician workforce composition and changes in emergency physician workforce supply across states and in rural Texas over the period of IFED proliferation following a 2009 legi...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Luo Q,Chong N,Chen C

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare process of care and outcome after acute myocardial infarction, for patients with and without mental illness, cared for in the Veterans Health Administration (VA) health care system. DATA SOURCES/SETTING:Primary clinical data from 81 VA hospitals. STUDY DESIGN:This was a retrospective cohort study...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Petersen LA,Normand SL,Druss BG,Rosenheck RA

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the predictors of unit and item nonresponse, the magnitude of nonresponse bias, and the need for nonresponse weights in the Consumer Assessment of Health Care Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Hospital Survey. METHODS:A common set of 11 administrative variables (41 degrees of freedom) was used to pred...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Elliott MN,Edwards C,Angeles J,Hambarsoomians K,Hays RD

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the development of an instrument for assessing workforce perceptions of hospital safety culture and to assess its reliability and validity. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Primary data collected between March 2004 and May 2005. Personnel from 105 U.S. hospitals completed a 38-item paper and pencil sur...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Singer S,Meterko M,Baker L,Gaba D,Falwell A,Rosen A

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the effectiveness of financial incentives for smoking cessation in the Medicaid population. DATA SOURCES:Secondary data from the Medicaid Incentives for Prevention of Chronic Disease (MIPCD) program and Medicaid claims/encounter data from 2010 to 2015 for five states. STUDY DESIGN:Beneficiaries were...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Witman A,Acquah J,Alva M,Hoerger T,Romaire M

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess whether physicians' reported electronic health record (EHR) use provides clinical benefits and whether benefits depend on using an EHR meeting Meaningful Use criteria or length of EHR experience. DATA SOURCE:The 2011 Physician Workflow study, representative of U.S. office-based physicians. STUDY D...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： King J,Patel V,Jamoom EW,Furukawa MF

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the factors associated with delivery of preterm infants at neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) hospitals in Arkansas during the period 2001-2006, with a focus on the impact of a Medicaid supported intervention, Antenatal and Neonatal Guidelines, Education, and Learning System (ANGELS), that expande...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Bronstein JM,Ounpraseuth S,Jonkman J,Lowery CL,Fletcher D,Nugent RR,Hall RW

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether the interaction between individual race/ethnicity and community racial/ethnic composition is associated with health-related home care use among elderly persons in the United States. DATA SOURCES:A nationally representative sample of community-dwelling elders aged 65+ from the 2000 to 2...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Kirby JB,Lau DT

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterize the types of hospices with higher rates of patient disenrollment from the Medicare Hospice Benefit and the markets in which these hospices operate. DATA SOURCE:Secondary analyses of Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results-Medicare data. Analyses included patients who died of cancer from 19...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Carlson MD,Herrin J,Du Q,Epstein AJ,Cherlin E,Morrison RS,Bradley EH

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To understand reasons why California has lower Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) scores than the rest of the country, including differing patterns of CAHPS scores between Medicare Advantage (MA) and fee-for-service, effects of additional demographic characteristics of beneficiari...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Farley DO,Elliott MN,Haviland AM,Slaughter ME,Heller A

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare health care utilization between Canadian and U.S. residents. DATA SOURCES:Nationally representative 2007 surveys from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey for the United States and the Canadian Community Health Survey for Canada. STUDY DESIGN:We use descriptive and multivariate methods to examine...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Pylypchuk Y,Sarpong EM

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The planning, budgeting, and controlling processes (PBCP) largely subsume all of the planning and controlling activities of an organization. This paper discusses these activities within the context of a single management control system, focusing on three topics. First, a brief historical perspective of management conc...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Vraciu RA

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the effect of post-hospital Medicare home health and informal care on the functional status of 755 Medicare beneficiaries six weeks after hospital discharge for treatment of stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), congestive heart failure (CHF), hip procedures, and hip fractures. STU...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Penrod JD,Kane RL,Finch MD,Kane RA

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the implications of serious and chronic health problems on the willingness of enrollees to switch health plans if they are dissatisfied with their current arrangements. DATA SOURCE:A large (20,283 respondents) survey of employees of three national corporations committed to the model of managed com...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Schlesinger M,Druss B,Thomas T

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:(1) To identify resident and organizational factors associated with the use of advance care plans pre- and post-implementation of the Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA), and (2) to identify changes (pre- and post-implementation of the PSDA) in the relationship between these factors and the use of advance ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Castle NG,Mor V

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the applicability of a multiattribute utility model for measuring the severity of a patient's illness. A single medical problem (an analysis of the costs and benefits of different burn care systems) was used to test the model. Physicians estimated the relative importance of an...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Gustafson DH,Holloway DC

更新日期：1975-04-01 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 explain variation in direct care resource use (RU) of nursing home residents based on the Resource Utilization Groups III (RUG-III) classification system and other resident- and unit-level explanatory variables. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Primary data were collected on 5,314 nursing home residents in 156 ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Arling G,Kane RL,Mueller C,Lewis T

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the hospital coding response to a payment model using a case-mix measurement system based on multiple diagnoses and the resulting impact on a hospital cost model. DATA SOURCES:Financial, clinical, and supplementary data for all Ontario short stay hospitals from years 1997 to 2002. STUDY DESIGN:Di...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Preyra C

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00