Shrinkage estimators for a composite measure of quality conceptualized as a formative construct.

abstract：:A location model is used to determine the most efficient (i.e., least-cost) number and location of ambulance facilities in a rural area. The model incorporates response time and service time standards into the analysis and indicates the trade-off between costs and various time standards. The financial feasibility of i...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Daberkow SG

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the total hours of paid and unpaid personal assistance of daily living provided to adults living at home in the United States using nationally representative household survey data. DATA SOURCES:The Disability Followback Survey of the National Health Interview Survey on Disability (NHIS-D) conduct...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： LaPlante MP,Harrington C,Kang T

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze hospitalization patterns of persons with AIDS (PWAs) in a multi-state/multi-episode continuous time duration framework. DATA SOURCES:PWAs on Medicaid identified through a match between the state's AIDS Registry and Medicaid eligibility files; hospital admission and discharge dates identified throu...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Crystal S,Lo Sasso AT,Sambamoorthi U

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:(1) To examine the association of socioeconomic characteristics (SES) with hospitalization by age group, and when using measures of SES at the community as opposed to the individual level. (2) Thus, to support the inference that socioeconomic factors are important in the analysis of small area utilization da...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Hofer TP,Wolfe RA,Tedeschi PJ,McMahon LF,Griffith JR

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines forces that influence physicians to change the percentage of their admissions to a hospital (loyalty) and to cease admitting patients to a hospital altogether (exit). Because physicians are both members of a hospital and consumers of its services, their admitting patterns can be described using m...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Burns LR,Wholey DR

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Does a prepaid group practice relative to comparable fee-for-service plans lead to different mental health outcomes for its beneficiaries? To answer this question, we used data from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment. We observed no statistically significant or clinically meaningful differences in mental health outc...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Wells KB,Manning WG Jr,Valdez RB

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The extent to which patient experiences with hospital care are related to other measures of hospital quality and safety is unknown. METHODS; We examined the relationship between Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems scores and technical measures of quality and safety using service-...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Isaac T,Zaslavsky AM,Cleary PD,Landon BE

更新日期：2010-08-01 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 demonstrate how expanding services covered by a "bundled payment" can also expand variation in the costs of treating patients under the bundle, using the Medicare dialysis program as an example. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Observational claims-based study of 197,332 Medicare hemodialysis beneficiaries enro...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Gupta C,Chertow GM,Linthicum MT,Van Nuys K,Belozeroff V,Quarles D,Lakdawalla DN

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the impact of the Nursing Home Value-Based Purchasing demonstration on quality of care and Medicare spending. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Administrative and qualitative data from Arizona, New York, and Wisconsin nursing homes over the base-year (2008-2009) and 3-year (2009-2012) demonstration peri...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Grabowski DC,Stevenson DG,Caudry DJ,O'Malley AJ,Green LH,Doherty JA,Frank RG

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：:Using a sample of 3,000 urban hospitals, this article examines the contributions of selected hospital characteristics to variations in hospital technical efficiencies, while it accounts for multiple products and inputs, and controls for local environmental variations. Four hospital characteristics are examined: hospit...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Ozcan YA,Luke RD

更新日期：1993-02-01 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:To examine whether physicians attend to gender prevalence data in diagnostic decision making for coronary heart disease (CHD) and to test the hypothesis that previously reported gender differences in CHD diagnostic certainty are due to discrimination arising from reliance on prevalence data ("statistical disc...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Maserejian NN,Lutfey KE,McKinlay JB

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate episode-based payments for upper respiratory tract infections (URI) and perinatal care in Arkansas's Medicaid population. STUDY SETTING:Upper respiratory infection and perinatal episodes among Medicaid-covered individuals in Arkansas and comparison states from fiscal year (FY) 2011 to 2014. STUD...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Toth M,Moore P,Tant E,Rutledge R,Beil H,Arbes S,West N,West SL

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The design of health insurance, and the role out-of-pocket (OOP) payments play in it, is a key policy issue as rising health costs have encouraged greater cost-sharing measures. This paper compares the percentage of Americans spending large amounts OOP to meet their health needs with percentages in eight othe...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Baird K

更新日期：2016-08-01 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 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：:This article examines the effect of owning long-term care insurance policies on the amount of out-of-pocket costs incurred by the elderly during their nursing home stays, and the importance of different policy features and restrictions. Data were drawn from the 1985 National Nursing Home Survey, and from copies of lon...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Rice T,Thomas K,Weissert W

更新日期：1991-02-01 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：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：BACKGROUND:The use of Medicaid data to study cancer-related outcomes would be highly desirable. However, the accuracy of Medicaid claims data in the identification of incident cases of breast cancer is unknown. OBJECTIVES:(1) To estimate the sensitivity of Medicaid claims data for case ascertainment of breast cancer, ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Koroukian SM,Cooper GS,Rimm AA

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess costs, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) augmenting bronchodilator treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). DATA SOURCES:Claims between 1997 and 2005 from a large managed care database. STUDY DESIGN:Individual-level, fixed-effects regression ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Akazawa M,Stearns SC,Biddle AK

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the association between bodyweight status and provision of population-based prevention services. DATA SOURCES:The National Association of City and County Health Officials 2005 Profile survey data, linked with two cross-sections of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey in 20...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Chen ZA,Roy K,Gotway Crawford CA

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concepts of class, race, and ethnicity figure prominently in health services research in Britain. Occupational class has been employed for nearly a century to investigate social inequalities in health and access to care. More recently, researchers have identified differences in health status and utilization betwee...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Benzeval M,Judge K,Smaje C

更新日期：1995-04-01 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：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 explore why and how health systems are engaging in care delivery redesign (CDR)-defined as the variety of tools and organizational change processes health systems use to pursue the Triple Aim. STUDY SETTING:A purposive sample of 24 health systems across 4 states as part of the Agency for Healthcare Resear...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Scanlon DP,Harvey JB,Wolf LJ,Vanderbrink JM,Shaw B,Shi Y,Mahmud Y,Ridgely MS,Damberg CL

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether assigning a dedicated general practitioner (GP) to a nursing home reduces hospitalizations and readmissions. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Secondary data on hospitalizations and deaths by month for the universe of nursing home residents in Denmark from January 2011 through February 2014. S...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Weatherall CD,Hansen AT,Nicholson S

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the prevalence of seven social factors using physician notes as compared to claims and structured electronic health records (EHRs) data and the resulting association with 30-day readmissions. STUDY SETTING:A multihospital academic health system in southeastern Massachusetts. STUDY DESIGN:An obse...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Navathe AS,Zhong F,Lei VJ,Chang FY,Sordo M,Topaz M,Navathe SB,Rocha RA,Zhou L

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00