A high-resolution analysis of process improvement: use of quantile regression for wait time.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Examine the impact of the 2011 shortage of the drug cytarabine on patient receipt and timeliness of induction treatment for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). STUDY DESIGN:A retrospective cohort was utilized to examine odds of receipt of inpatient induction chemotherapy and time to first dose across major (N = 10...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Hedlund NG,Isgor Z,Zwanziger J,Rondelli D,Crawford SY,Hynes DM,Powell LM

更新日期：2018-12-01 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 assess the association between aggregate unemployment and hospital discharges for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) among adults and seniors, 1995-2011. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Community hospital discharge data from states collected for the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) State Inpatient...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Carls GS,Henke RM,Karaca Z,Marder WD,Wong HS

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of the Delphi iteration procedure in developing explicit criteria for ambulatory care assessment. Practicing internists chose items they believed to be essential with regard to the care of certain specified conditions. The initial responses were tabulated and "fed-back" to the participants. The ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Romm FJ,Hulka BS

更新日期：1979-01-01 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 discuss and quantify the incentives that Medicare managed care plans have to avoid (through selective enrollment or disenrollment) people who are at risk for very high costs, focusing on Medicare beneficiaries in the last year of life-a group that accounts for more than one-quarter of Medicare's annual exp...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Buntin MB,Garber AM,McClellan M,Newhouse JP

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the effect of the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) for skilled nursing facilities (SNF) on the delivery of rehabilitation therapy to residents. DATA SOURCES:Resident-level data are based on the Resident Assessment Instrument Minimum Data Set for nursing facilities. All elderly residents a...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Wodchis WP

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

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 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:Building on the original taxonomy of hospital-based health systems from 20 years ago, we develop a new taxonomy to inform emerging public policy and practice developments. DATA SOURCES:The 2016 American Hospital Association's (AHA) Annual Survey; the 2016 IQVIA Healthcare Organizations and Systems (HCOS) dat...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Shortell SM,Gottlieb DJ,Martinez Camblor P,O'Malley AJ

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In late 1982, as an alternative to Medicaid, Arizona implemented a prepaid, competitively bid medical care program--the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS). Before its introduction, the poor had been cared for primarily by a network of county-supported centers. Impact of the AHCCCS initiative was exam...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Freeman HE,Kirkman-Liff BL

更新日期：1985-08-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To synthesize lessons learned from the experiences of Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality-funded patient safety projects in implementing safe practices. DATA SOURCES:Self-reported data from individual and group interviews with Original, Challenge, and Partnerships in Implementing Patient Safety (PIPS...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Taylor SL,Ridgely MS,Greenberg MD,Sorbero ME,Teleki SS,Damberg CL,Farley DO

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In response to rising demand and increased costs for home care services for frail elderly and disabled Medicaid clients, New York City implemented cluster care, a shared-aide model of home care. Our objective: to evaluate the effects of cluster care on home care hours and costs, client functioning, depressiv...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Feldman PH,Latimer E,Davidson H

更新日期：1996-10-01 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:This study investigated whether unexpected length of stay (LOS) could be used as an indicator to identify hospital patients who experienced complications or whose care exhibited low adherence to normative practices. DATA SOURCES AND STUDY SETTING:We analyzed 1,477 cases admitted for one of three medical cond...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Kuykendall DH,Ashton CM,Johnson ML,Geraci JM

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All admissions to a 1,100-bed Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital were screened to identify 171 terminally ill patients with informal caregivers who were then randomly assigned to VA hospital-based team home care (HBHC, N = 85) or customary care (N = 86). Patient functioning, and patient and caregiver morale ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Hughes SL,Cummings J,Weaver F,Manheim L,Braun B,Conrad K

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the insurance status of workers at small businesses, and to describe the status of uninsured persons by the employment characteristics (employment status, firm size, and whether the employer offers insurance) of the head of household. DATA SOURCES:Data from the March and February 2001 Current Pop...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Kronick R,Olsen LC

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To use statistical process control charts to monitor in-hospital outcomes at the hospital level for a wide range of procedures and diagnoses. DATA SOURCES:Routine English hospital admissions data. STUDY DESIGN:Retrospective analysis using risk-adjusted log-likelihood cumulative sum (CUSUM) charts, comparing...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Bottle A,Aylin P

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of propensity to use ambulatory care is defined as the probability that a utilization occurs in a very small interval of time, given that no utilization has been observed before. With this definition of utilization, survival analysis can be used to assess the effect of a set of predictors on utilization. T...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Béland F

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the effect of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on birth outcomes. DATA SOURCE:The Child Development Supplement (CDS) of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The PSID provides extensive data on the income and well-being of a representative sa...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Foster EM,Jiang M,Gibson-Davis CM

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine reported experiences of gender discrimination and harassment among US women. DATA SOURCE AND STUDY DESIGN:Data come from a nationally representative, probability-based telephone survey of 1596 women, conducted January-April 2017. METHODS:We calculated the percentages of women reporting gender dis...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： SteelFisher GK,Findling MG,Bleich SN,Casey LS,Blendon RJ,Benson JM,Sayde JM,Miller C

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine financial and nonfinancial access to care and utilization of primary health care services among children of working low-income families earning below 200 percent of the federal poverty level in California, and to compare them to children in nonworking low-income families and in families earning ove...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Guendelman S,Wyn R,Tsai YW

更新日期：2000-06-01 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: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 examine trends in employer-sponsored health insurance coverage rates and its associated components between 2000 and 2008, to provide a baseline for later evaluations of the Affordable Care Act, and to provide information to policy makers as they design the implementation details of the law. DATA SOURCES:P...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Vistnes J,Zawacki A,Simon K,Taylor A

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Methodologically sound mixed methods research can improve our understanding of health services by providing a more comprehensive picture of health services than either method can alone. This study describes the frequency of mixed methods in published health services research and compares the presence of meth...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Wisdom JP,Cavaleri MA,Onwuegbuzie AJ,Green CA

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：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：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