State-level variations in racial disparities in life expectancy.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether (a) quality in schizophrenia care varies by race/ethnicity and over time and (b) these patterns differ across counties within states. DATA SOURCES:Medicaid claims data from California, Florida, New York, and North Carolina during 2002-2008. STUDY DESIGN:We studied black, Latino, and whi...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Horvitz-Lennon M,Volya R,Garfield R,Donohue JM,Lave JR,Normand SL

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine whether parental beliefs about routine checkups are associated with children's receipt of timely preventive care. DATA SOURCES:The 2001 United Way Outcomes and Community Impact Program telephone survey of San Diego County, including 918 households with children between 3 and 19 years of age, where...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Hughes SC,Wingard DL

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effect of partisan political control on financial performance, structure, and outcomes of for-profit and not-for-profit US nursing homes. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Nineteen-year panel (1996-2014) of state election outcomes, financial performance data from nursing home cost reports, operation...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Blankart CR,Foster AD,Mor V

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Our intention is to determine newborn costs and lengths of stay attributable to prenatal exposure to cocaine and other illicit drugs. DATA SOURCES AND STUDY SETTING:All parturients who delivered at a large municipal hospital in New York City between November 18, 1991 and April 11, 1992. STUDY DESIGN:A cross...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Joyce T,Racine AD,McCalla S,Wehbeh H

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare different methods for defining screening mammograms with Medicare claims and their impact on estimates of breast cancer screening rates. METHODS:Medicare outpatient facility and physician claims for 61,962 women in 1993 and 59,652 women in 1998 were reviewed for evidence of receipt of screening m...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Randolph WM,Mahnken JD,Goodwin JS,Freeman JL

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To produce cost estimates of proposed health insurance benefit mandates for the California legislature. DATA SOURCES:The 2001 California Health Interview Survey, 2002 Kaiser Family Foundation/Health Research and Education Trust California Employer Health Benefits Survey, Milliman Health Cost Guidelines, and ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Kominski GF,Ripps JC,Laugesen MJ,Cosway RG,Pourat N

更新日期：2006-06-01 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 settings of simulation evidence supporting use of nonlinear two-stage residual inclusion (2SRI) instrumental variable (IV) methods for estimating average treatment effects (ATE) using observational data and investigate potential bias of 2SRI across alternative scenarios of essential heterogenei...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Chapman CG,Brooks JM

更新日期：2016-12-01 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:Using a socio-ecological model, this study examines the influence of facility characteristics on the transition of nursing home residents to the community after a short stay (within 90 days of admission) or long stay (365 days of admission) across states with different long-term services and supports systems....

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Holup AA,Gassoumis ZD,Wilber KH,Hyer K

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effects of an alternative method of paying home health agencies for services to Medicare beneficiaries, based on a demonstration program. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Primary and secondary data collected on participating home health agencies in five states and their patients during the three-year...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Brown R,Phillips B,Bishop C,Thornton C,Ritter G,Klein A,Schochet P,Skwara K

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative delivery systems, such as HMOs, PPOs, and primary care case-management programs, have a long history in rural America despite significant impediments to their development. However, little is known about the effect of these systems on rural communities and their medical care delivery systems. Existing studi...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Christianson JB

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the determinants of postsurgery length of stay (LOS) and inpatient mortality in the United States (California and Massachusetts) and Canada (Manitoba and Quebec). DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Patient discharge abstracts from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Nationwide Inpatient Sample ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Ho V,Hamilton BH,Roos LL

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effect of dissemination and implementation of an intervention consisting of practice facilitation and a risk-stratified, population management dashboard on cardiovascular risk reduction for patients at high risk in small, primary care practices. STUDY SETTING:A total of 219 small primary care p...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Cykert S,Keyserling TC,Pignone M,DeWalt D,Weiner BJ,Trogdon JG,Wroth T,Halladay J,Mackey M,Fine J,In Kim J,Cene C

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the impact of the Short Stay Transfer Policy (SSTP) on practice patterns. DATA SOURCES:This study uses data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MEDPAR) file, Home Health Standard Analytical File, 1999 Provider of Service file, and data from th...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： FitzGerald JD,Boscardin WJ,Hahn BH,Ettner SL

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The volume and cost of services consumed by persons with AIDS (PWAs) during their last months of life are examined in this study. DATA SOURCES:This study utilizes data from the AIDS Costs and Service Utilization Survey (ACSUS). The ACSUS is the most comprehensive survey of medical services that are consumed ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Hellinger FJ,Fleishman JA,Hsia DC

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine if the availability of public ambulatory clinics affects preventable hospitalization (PH) rates of low-income and elderly populations. DATA SOURCES:PH rates were calculated using elderly and low-income discharges from 1995-97 Virginia hospital discharge data. Other data sources include the 1990 ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Epstein AJ

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the service experiences and outcomes of low-income Medicaid beneficiaries with disabilities under two different models for organizing home-based personal assistance services: agency-directed and consumer-directed. DATA SOURCE:A survey of a random sample of 1,095 clients, age 18 and over, who recei...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Benjamin AE,Matthias R,Franke TM

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model is described that predicts hospital census and computes, for each day, the number of elective admissions that will maximize the census over the short run, subject to constraints on the probability of overflow. Where a computer is available the model provides detailed predictions of census in units as small as ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Swain RW,Kilpatrick KE,Marsh JJ 3rd

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To decompose the change in pediatric and adult dental care utilization over the last decade. DATA:2001 through 2010 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. STUDY DESIGN:The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition was used to explain the change in dental care utilization among adults and children. Changes in dental care util...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Vujicic M,Nasseh K

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine facility variation in data quality of the level of pain documented in the minimum data set (MDS) as a function of level of hospice enrollment in nursing homes (NHs). DATA SOURCE:Clinical assessments on 3,469 nonhospice residents from 178 NHs were merged with On-line Survey Certification and Report...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Wu N,Miller SC,Lapane K,Roy J,Mor V

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine the effects of changes in payment and risk adjustment on (1) the annual enrollment and switching behavior of Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries, and (2) the relative costliness of MA enrollees and disenrollees. DATA:From 1999 through 2008 national Medicare claims data from the 5 percent longit...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Morrisey MA,Kilgore ML,Becker DJ,Smith W,Delzell E

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine how plan premiums are associated with physician network breadth, hospital network breadth, and hospital network quality on the Affordable Care Act's Health Insurance Marketplaces in all 50 states and the DC in 2016. DATA SOURCES:Data on plan premiums and characteristics came from 2016 Robert Wood ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Polsky D,Wu B

更新日期：2020-08-13 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 assess the extent and consistency of geographic differences in the use of post-acute care (PAC), and the stability of this pattern of variation. DATA SOURCES:The 5 percent Medicare data sample for 1996, 1997, and the first eight months of 1998 were used. STUDY DESIGN:Patterns of PAC use for various Diagn...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Kane RL,Lin WC,Blewett LA

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We evaluate the effects of the Nursing Home Quality Initiative (NHQI), which introduced quality measures to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Nursing Home Compare website, on facility performance and consumer demand for services. DATA SOURCES:The nursing home Minimum Data Set facility reports f...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Grabowski DC,Town RJ

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To demonstrate the value of shrinkage estimators when calculating a composite quality measure as the weighted average of a set of individual quality indicators. DATA SOURCES:Rates of 28 quality indicators (QIs) calculated from the minimum dataset from residents of 112 Veterans Health Administration nursing h...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Shwartz M,Peköz EA,Christiansen CL,Burgess JF Jr,Berlowitz D

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Properties of the inverse gaussian distribution are presented with comments on fitting the distribution to lentgh-of-stay data. A conceptual framework for the hospitalization process is described; it suggests that the inverse gaussian distribution has considerable potential as both a descriptive and prescriptive model...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Whitmore GA

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine how the inclusion of post-acute evaluation and management (E&M) services as primary care affects assignment of Medicare beneficiaries to accountable care organizations (ACOs). DATA SOURCES:Medicare claims for a random 5 percent sample of 2009 Medicare beneficiaries linked to American Medical Ass...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： McWilliams JM,Chernew ME,Zaslavsky AM,Landon BE

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To extend recent conceptual and methodological advances in disparities research to include the incorporation of genomic information in analyses of racial/ethnic disparities in health care and health outcomes. DATA SOURCES:Published literature on human genetic variation, the role of genetics in disease and re...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Shields AE,Crown WH

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00