Lifetime earnings for physicians across specialties.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cost-utility analyses using formulas to convert depression-free days (DFDs) to utility-weighted scores are increasingly common. These formulas are based on linear extrapolation of data documenting the correlation between depression symptom severity and generic health-related quality of life. OBJECTIVE:We so...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Pyne JM,Tripathi S,Williams DK,Fortney J

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Geographic rates of preventable hospitalization are used internationally as an indicator of accessibility and quality of primary care. Much research has correlated the indicator with the supply of primary care services, yet multiple other factors may influence these admissions. OBJECTIVE:To quantify the rel...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Falster MO,Jorm LR,Douglas KA,Blyth FM,Elliott RF,Leyland AH

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Assess the validity of Medicare claims for identifying myocardial infarction (MI). METHODS:We used data from 9951 Medicare beneficiaries 65 years and above in the Reasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke study. Between 2003 and 2012, 669 participants had an MI identified and adjudicated throu...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Colantonio LD,Levitan EB,Yun H,Kilgore ML,Rhodes JD,Howard G,Safford MM,Muntner P

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the most common infectious cause of death in the United States. To understand the effect of efforts to improve quality and efficiency of care in CAP, we examined the trends in mortality and costs among hospitalized CAP patients. METHODS:Using the National Inpatient Samp...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Ruhnke GW,Coca-Perraillon M,Kitch BT,Cutler DM

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well-documented that ratings of medical care received personally (personal referent) yield more favorable responses than ratings of care received by people in general (general referent). Hence general items are useful in achieving greater variation in responses to satisfaction surveys. However, the validity of g...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Hays RD,Ware JE Jr

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hospital occupancy, nurse staffing levels, weekend admission, and seasonal influenza have all been shown to be associated with in-hospital mortality. Yet, no study has simultaneously compared the strength of associations of these 4 factors with in-hospital mortality. OBJECTIVE:To compare the risk of in-hosp...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Schilling PL,Campbell DA Jr,Englesbe MJ,Davis MM

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is an analysis of patient choice of providers by the employees of the Security Pacific Bank of California and their dependents who have access to the Med Network Preferred Provider Organization (PPO). The empirical results show that not only is the PPO used by individuals who require relatively little med...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Wouters AV,Hester J

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is an increasing demand for electronic health record (EHR)-based risk stratification and predictive modeling tools at the population level. This trend is partly due to increased value-based payment policies and the increasing availability of EHRs at the provider level. Risk stratification models, howev...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Kharrazi H,Chi W,Chang HY,Richards TM,Gallagher JM,Knudson SM,Weiner JP

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has neglected to delineate pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP) roles in tertiary care settings (TCS). New PNP roles have developed as TCS seek cost-effective solutions to providing quality patient care and to meeting new demands for outpatient care. The authors evaluated the roles of 11 PNPs in eight ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Cruikshank BM,Clow TJ,Seals B

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The influence of payment mechanisms on physician decisions is not well understood. OBJECTIVES:The objective of this study was to test 2 null hypotheses: 1) physicians' clinical decisions would not be influenced by payment incentives; and 2) physicians would have equal concern about medical decisions made un...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Shen J,Andersen R,Brook R,Kominski G,Albert PS,Wenger N

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is growing attention given to the spiritual needs of dying patients and long-term care (LTC) facilities are common settings in which patients receive care as they approach death. OBJECTIVES:To describe the sources of support, the structure and processes of spiritual care in LTC, and examine the relati...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Daaleman TP,Williams CS,Hamilton VL,Zimmerman S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-two general medical outpatients were surveyed with an interview, questionnaires, and a medical record review to investigate the relationships among psychiatric disorder (depression and hypochondriasis), somatic symptoms, medical morbidity, and the utilization of ambulatory medical services. Medical utilization ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Barsky AJ,Wyshak G,Klerman GL

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of large numbers of patients with a history of substance abuse upon a health care system is rarely considered, nor is the health care system's response to such a clientele ever assessed. In this preliminary study, the collective effect of large numbers of substance abuse patients upon a clinic serving the u...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Cahill DF,Hodgkins BJ

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to assess the impact of removing prior-authorization restrictions on the use of thiazolidinediones (TZDs) and outcomes. METHODS:In a controlled interrupted time-series analysis, whereby new users of antidiabetic agents over 65 years of age in adjacent Canadian provinces with differe...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Gamble JM,Majumdar SR,Johnson JA,McAlister FA,Simpson SH,Eurich DT

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE:Patients with multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) are a critical but undefined group for quality measurement. We present a generally applicable systematic approach to defining an MCC cohort of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries that we developed for a national quality measure, risk-standardized ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Drye EE,Altaf FK,Lipska KJ,Spatz ES,Montague JA,Bao H,Parzynski CS,Ross JS,Bernheim SM,Krumholz HM,Lin Z

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We evaluated the association of medication refill adherence with demographic and prescription characteristics to determine whether such factors could guide intervention strategies in an indigent rural population. METHODS:The study was conducted at a University-based internal medicine practice serving an indi...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Schectman JM,Bovbjerg VE,Voss JD

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four separate human services programs and their West Philadelphia service consumers were studied by the 1971 Health Network Project: a hospital receiving ward, a community mental health satellite center, a public assistance district office, and a public child welfare agency. The basic hypotheses were that 1) the four ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Leopold EA,Schein L

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reference drug pricing (RP) is a cost-sharing strategy commonly used to control drug expenditures. Under RP, a benefit plan fully reimburses medications that are equally or less expensive than the reference price, and requires patients to pay the extra cost of therapeutically equivalent but higher priced dru...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Schneeweiss S,Dormuth C,Grootendorst P,Soumerai SB,Maclure M

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Estimates of health care cost are needed to conduct cost-effectiveness research at the facilities operated by the US Department of Veterans Affairs. METHODS:The medical literature was searched for VA studies to characterize different cost methods and identify their advantages and disadvantages. RESULTS:Dif...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Barnett PG

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the medical care resources devoted to diagnosing and treating cancer-related symptoms before a definitive cancer diagnosis. Previous research using SEER-Medicare data to measure incremental costs and utilization associated with cancer started with the date of diagnosis. We hypothesized ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Hornbrook MC,Fishman PA,Ritzwoller DP,Elston-Lafata J,O'Keeffe-Rosetti MC,Salloum RG

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to determine if a measure of severity of illness for psychiatric patients, the Psychiatric Severity of Illness Index, could produce psychiatric case mix groups that are more homogeneous with respect to resource use than the diagnosis-related groups (DRGs). Psychiatric Severity of Illness data...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Horn SD,Chambers AF,Sharkey PD,Horn RA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent federal legislation has contained the stipulation that participating health maintenance organizations (HMOs) include a quality assurance program which stresses health outcomes. This provision was ostensibly directed at correcting alleged abuses in HMOs serving the urban poor. One version of the outcome method w...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Schroeder SA,Donaldson MS

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a comparative analysis of questionnaire-based measures of functional status and clinical ratings of disability made by general practitioners and health visitors. Both approaches to functional assessment were used in rating 92 elderly primary care patients in terms of their performance of 13 mobili...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Kaufert JM,Green S,Dunt DR,Corkhill R,Creese AL,Locker D

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Alzheimer's-type dementia (ATD) is characterized by global intellectual deterioration, few systematic efforts have been made to characterize overall dysfunction of ATD patients. The Sickness Impact Profile (SIP) was administered to ATD patients and family members to determine the concurrent validity of family...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Krenz C,Larson EB,Buchner DM,Canfield CG

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to examine the dimensions of physician work satisfaction across a variety of medical specialties and practice settings. METHODS:A modified version of the Scheckler et al survey instrument was mailed to all physicians in Marion County, Indiana. Forty-two percent (777) of the eli...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Bates AS,Harris LE,Tierney WM,Wolinsky FD

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Loving-kindness meditation (LKM) is a practice intended to enhance feelings of kindness and compassion for self and others. OBJECTIVES:To assess whether participation in a 12-week course of LKM for veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with improved positive emotions, decentering,...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Kearney DJ,McManus C,Malte CA,Martinez ME,Felleman B,Simpson TL

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Teens and racial and ethnic minority women are less likely to initiate prenatal care (PNC) in the first trimester of pregnancy than their counterparts. OBJECTIVE:This study examines the impact of Medicaid program changes in the late 1990s on the timing of Medicaid enrollment and PNC initiation among pregnan...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Kuo TM,Gavin NI,Adams EK,Ayadi MF

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Validly interpreting scores based on patients' reports of their experiences using scales depends on a valid scoring system. The possibility exists that, although the creators of a scale intended to create a scale measuring a single construct, the questions may seem to measure more than one construct. Howev...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Carle AC,Weech-Maldonado R

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequential analysis can be used as an early warning system about potential unintended consequences of health policy decisions, generating follow-up investigations, but it should not be used as causal evidence. ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Lu CY,Simon G,Soumerai SB,Kulldorff M

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To estimate cost and outcomes of the Arthritis Foundation aquatic exercise classes from the societal perspective. DESIGN:Randomized trial of 20-week aquatic classes. Cost per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) gained was estimated using trial data. Sample size was based on 80% power to reject the null hypoth...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Patrick DL,Ramsey SD,Spencer AC,Kinne S,Belza B,Topolski TD

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00