Factors affecting costs in Medicaid populations with behavioral health disorders.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Process measures have been developed and implemented to evaluate the quality of care patients receive in the hospital. This study examines whether there is an association between the quality of in-hospital cardiac care and a hospital's proportion of low-income patients. METHODS AND RESULTS:A retrospective a...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Culler SD,Schieb L,Casper M,Nwaise I,Yoon PW

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The authors compare two generic measures of health status with disease-specific measures in a randomized controlled trial of transurethral resection of the prostate with laser vaporization prostatectomy for benign prostatic hypertrophy. METHODS:Patients entered into the trial completed the following questio...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Jenkinson C,Gray A,Doll H,Lawrence K,Keoghane S,Layte R

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines changes in the service mix of California hospitals as part of their response to shifts in the system of reimbursement between 1983 and 1988. The Hospital Discharge Data Set and the Annual Hospital Disclosure Report produced by California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development were us...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Zwanziger J,Melnick GA,Simonson L

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies evaluating relationships between physician background characteristics (e.g. years of practice and medical training) and quality of care have found few consistent associations. Site of practice variables have been better predictors of quality than have characteristics of individual physicians. This study explor...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Salem-Schatz SR,Avorn J,Soumerai SB

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Patient perceptions are increasingly used to measure quality of care in a diversity of health-care delivery settings. The goals of this article are to review the current use of patient perceptions and to review what is known about the sensitivity of patient perceptions for discerning variations in care acros...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Rosenthal GE,Shannon SE

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The intensity of end-of-life care varies substantially both within and between areas. Differing practice patterns of individual physicians are likely influenced by their peers. OBJECTIVE:To assess whether intensity of end-of-life care previously provided by a physician's peers influences patterns of care at...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Keating NL,O'Malley AJ,Onnela JP,Gray SW,Landon BE

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study proposes methods for blending design components of clinical effectiveness and implementation research. Such blending can provide benefits over pursuing these lines of research independently; for example, more rapid translational gains, more effective implementation strategies, and more useful info...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Curran GM,Bauer M,Mittman B,Pyne JM,Stetler C

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：:The techniques of cost-effectiveness are employed to simplify resource allocation decisions concerned with the use of land and air transport systems in the health services of a developing country. Outcome classifications are produced for patients seen by mobile and fixed primary care units. The mobile services examine...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Walker G,Gish O

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When studying variation in medicine, traditional hypothesis-testing procedures are too limited to obtain useful inferences except in special situations. More generally, full probability modelling is necessary. Even a relatively simple example can illustrate this point rather dramatically. The development and applicati...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Rubin DB

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We investigated relationships at the health-plan level among member ratings of and reports on plans in the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Survey (CAHPS). We sought a more parsimonious description of the reports that can be used in analyses of the distribution and correlates of consumer-assessed quality....

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Zaslavsky AM,Beaulieu ND,Landon BE,Cleary PD

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mental health services were included in comprehensive benefits available with no out-of-pocket expenses to enrollees in the Seattle Prepaid Health Care Project. This study was designed to examine the characteristics of users as compared to nonusers of mental health services and to examine the possibility of lower use ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Diehr P,Williams SJ,Shortell SM,Richardson WC,Drucker WL

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multiple claims-based proxy measures of poor function have been developed to address confounding in observational studies of drug effects in older adults. We evaluated agreement between these measures and their associations with treatment receipt and mortality in a cohort of older colon cancer patients. MET...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Mayer SE,Tan HJ,Peacock Hinton S,Sanoff HK,Stürmer T,Hester LL,Faurot KR,Jonsson Funk M,Lund JL

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survey data measuring outpatient health expenditure are evaluated for item nonresponse, measurement error, and bias. Item nonresponse is high for persons whose health care is financed through the public sector, but is otherwise manageable. Estimates of mean total and out-of-pocket physician and dental expenditure from...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Marquis KH,Marquis MS,Newhouse JP

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) is an acute/long-term managed care plan designed to care for the most frail and vulnerable Medicare beneficiaries. To our knowledge, this is a first study to examine patterns and predictors of disenrollment from PACE. OBJECTIVE:PACE, with its comprehe...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Temkin-Greener H,Bajorska A,Mukamel DB

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Veterans Health Administration does not routinely collect and document sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data, despite existing health disparities among sexual and gender minority Veterans. Because of the legacy of previous Department of Defense (DoD) policies that prohibited disclosure of se...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Ruben MA,Blosnich JR,Dichter ME,Luscri L,Shipherd JC

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Teamwork in health care settings is widely recognized as an important factor in providing high-quality patient care. However, the behaviors that comprise effective teamwork, the organizational factors that support teamwork, and the relationship between teamwork and patient outcomes remain empirical questions...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Valentine MA,Nembhard IM,Edmondson AC

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prescribing of exogenous testosterone is increasing. Because of the risks associated with testosterone, it is important to follow evidence-based procedures when initiating therapy. OBJECTIVE:We evaluated whether dispensing of testosterone was preceded by appropriate ascertainment of androgen deficiency, and...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Jasuja GK,Bhasin S,Reisman JI,Berlowitz DR,Rose AJ

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Administrative data from Manitoba, Canada document variation in procedure utilization rates over a period of 15 years. With coronary angiography and cardiovascular surgery centralized in the capital, Winnipeg, previous analyses from 1977 to 1983 found angiography and coronary artery bypass surgery (CABS) rat...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Hartford K,Ross LL,Walld R

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A valid and reliable vignette-based measure of DSM-III psychiatric diagnostic knowledge was administered to practicing primary care physicians (PCPs; generally, internal and family practice medicine) and mental health professionals (MHPs, in psychiatry and psychology). Recognition, diagnosis, and treatment recommendat...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Andersen SM,Harthorn BH

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The second phase of the ADHC Evaluation Study was designed to assess ADHC provided under contract by community ADHC programs. Outcomes for the 163 patients enrolled in this prospective cohort evaluation were compared with those of patients assigned to ADHC provided directly by VA (VA-ADHC) and customary care in the ra...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Rothman ML,Diehr P,Hedrick SC,Erdly WW,Nickinovich DG

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The challenges facing healthcare in the 21st century frequently seem intractable and insurmountable. Systemic problems impair the quality and continuity of care and caregivers' quality of life. For over 25 years, the Clinical Practice Model Resource Center (CPMRC) in Grand Rapids, MI, has focused on transfor...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Wesorick B,Doebbeling B

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The authors developed an "off-the-shelf" source of health-related quality of life (HRQL) scores for cost-effectiveness analysts unable to collect primary data. METHODS:The authors derived and conducted preliminary validation on a set of health-related quality of life scores for chronic conditions using nati...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Gold MR,Franks P,McCoy KI,Fryback DG

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines relationships between true and treated prevalence of mental illness in a community by examining the use of mental health and other professional services for emotional problems and the relationship of this use to the individual's diagnostic status. The results are based upon a third round of 515 int...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Myers JK,Weissman MM

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legal factors related to the malpractice liability insurance purchased by general dentists in the United States were investigated using a comprehensive multivariate model that assessed the contribution of legal provisions affecting the probability of a malpractice claim, the probability of a payment, and the average s...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Milgrom P,Whitney C,Conrad D,Fiset L,O'Hara D

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent combat operations have involved large numbers of personnel. Long-term health effects of military deployment remain largely unknown. OBJECTIVES:To examine patterns and trends in long-term disability among combat veterans and to relate disability to aspects of wartime experience. PARTICIPANTS:A total ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Clarke PM,Gregory R,Salomon JA

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1961, Group Health Association, a large, non-hospital based, prepaid group practice in Washington, D.C. established an after-hours walk-in clinic on its premises for the care of medical problems requiring prompt attention. Within a year, this clinic's operation was extended to daytime hours for the use of the consu...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Turner RW

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accurate measurement of physician job satisfaction in organized practice settings is important for both policy and administrative purposes. Previous efforts to measure physician job satisfaction have been unsatisfactory because of either conceptual or methodologic weaknesses. New measures of physician job satisfac...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Lichtenstein R

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Studies of cancer recurrences and second primary tumors require information on outcome dates. Little is known about how well electronic health record-based algorithms can identify dates or how errors in dates can bias analyses. RESEARCH DESIGN:We assessed rule-based and model-fitting approaches to assign ev...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Chubak J,Onega T,Zhu W,Buist DSM,Hubbard RA

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medication adherence may be a proxy for healthy behaviors and other factors that affect outcomes. Prior studies of the association between placebo adherence and health outcomes have been limited primarily to men enrolled in clinical trials and cardiovascular disease outcomes. We examined associations between...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Curtis JR,Larson JC,Delzell E,Brookhart MA,Cadarette SM,Chlebowski R,Judd S,Safford M,Solomon DH,Lacroix AZ

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00