Evidence of sample use among new users of statins: implications for pharmacoepidemiology.

abstract：:The purpose of this article is to examine children's use of ambulatory physician services in relation to three dimensions of family life: maternal employment, single-parent versus two-parent households, and the presence of a nuclear or extended family. Data from the National Medical Care Expenditure Survey show that m...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Cafferata GL,Kasper JD

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We sought to evaluate the extent of changes in usual source of care and associations with perceived health care access, quality, and use. RESEARCH DESIGN:We collected cross-sectional data on adults from the 1998 to 1999 Community Tracking Household Survey (n = 48,720). Linear and logistic regressions account...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Smith MA,Bartell JM

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Measures for pay-for-performance and public reporting programs may be based on clinical practice guidelines. The impact of guideline changes over time-and whether evolving clinical evidence can render measures based on prior guidelines misleading-is not known. OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of using differe...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Lin GA,Redberg RF,Anderson HV,Shaw RE,Milford-Beland S,Peterson ED,Rao SV,Werner RM,Dudley RA

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We conducted a theoretically guided study of access to inpatient or residential treatment among a probability sample of homeless adults with alcohol or drug use disorders in Houston, Texas. METHODS:This study used a cross-sectional, retrospective design with data collected from a multistage random sample of...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Wenzel SL,Audrey Burnam M,Koegel P,Morton SC,Miu A,Jinnett KJ,Greer Sullivan J

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Estimating influenza vaccine effectiveness using an unvaccinated comparison group may result in biased effect estimates. OBJECTIVES:To explore the reduction of confounding bias in an active comparison of high-dose versus standard-dose influenza vaccines, as compared with vaccinated versus unvaccinated compa...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Butler AM,Layton JB,Krueger WS,Kshirsagar AV,McGrath LJ

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The economic impact of trauma in older persons is a matter of increasing concern to public health practitioners and planners, yet it is an issue that has not been widely studied. Available evidence does suggest, however, that falls are the costliest category of injury among older persons. METHODS:This study...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Rizzo JA,Friedkin R,Williams CS,Nabors J,Acampora D,Tinetti ME

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Managed care is the dominant form of health insurance in the United States, covering millions of children. Little is known about whether inner-city parents adequately understand managed care's complex definitions and rules. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to examine managed care knowledge and prac...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Flores G,Abreu M,Sun D,Tomany SC

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:An important factor contributing to the steep rise in health care costs in the late 1960s was a reversal from the predominance of acute illness to that of chronic disease. Beginning with the philosophy of Illich and Levin, and the practical instruments of Fries, Sehnert, Vickery, and Ferguson, a new movement...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Shoor S,Lorig KR

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The authors examined how the courts have responded to public and private insurers' use of medical appropriateness criteria to establish coverage and payment policies. METHODS:A structured review of all federal and state court health insurance cases decided between 1960 and June 1994 that involved a dispute ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Anderson G,Hall MA,Smith TR

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding barriers to health care access experienced by people with disabilities who are members of underserved racial/ethnic groups is key to developing interventions to improve access. OBJECTIVE:To conduct a scoping review of the literature to examine the published literature on barriers to health car...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Peterson-Besse JJ,Walsh ES,Horner-Johnson W,Goode TD,Wheeler B

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Earlier studies estimated annual income differences across specialties, but lifetime income may be more relevant given physicians' long-term commitments to specialties. METHODS:Annual income and work hours data were collected from 6381 physicians in the nationally representative 2004-2005 Community Tracking...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Leigh JP,Tancredi D,Jerant A,Romano PS,Kravitz RL

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients have longer lengths of hospital stay (LOS) in VA medical centers than in the general health care system. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to determine whether resource use and outcome differences between VA and non-VA inpatient rehabilitation facilities remain after controlling for patient...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Stineman MG,Ross RN,Hamilton BB,Maislin G,Bates B,Granger CV,Asch DA

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We evaluated the longitudinal course of the relationship between patient satisfaction and quality of life (QoL) in Chinese breast and nasopharyngeal cancer patients. METHODS:A sample of Chinese breast (n = 250) and nasopharyngeal (n = 242) cancer patients were assessed during their first outpatient visit (b...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Wong WS,Fielding R

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical practice guidelines quickly become outdated. One reason they might not be updated as often as needed is the expense of collecting expert judgment regarding the evidence. The RAND-UCLA Appropriateness Method is one commonly used method for collecting expert opinion. We tested whether a less expensive...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Washington DL,Bernstein SJ,Kahan JP,Leape LL,Kamberg CJ,Shekelle PG

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Understanding provider perceptions of and experiences with order entry and order checks (drug alerts) in an electronic prescribing system may help improve medication safety technology. DESIGN:Cross-sectional, national survey of Veterans Administration physicians practicing in various specialties. MEASUREMEN...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Spina JR,Glassman PA,Simon B,Lanto A,Lee M,Cunningham F,Good CB

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Seizures and epilepsy are common in older adults especially in some minorities. Despite the importance of medical care to maximize seizure control, little is known about its quality across racial groups. One indicator of quality care is the receipt of electroencephalograms (EEG), and magnetic resonance imagi...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Pisu M,Richman JS,Martin RC,Kim Y,Kratt P,Clements K,Funkhouser E,Knowlton R,Faught E

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Administrative database research can provide insight into the real-world effectiveness of invasive electrophysiology procedures. However, no validated algorithm to identify these procedures within administrative data currently exists. OBJECTIVE:To develop and validate algorithms to identify atrial fibrillat...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Singh SM,Webster L,Calzavara A,Wijeysundera HC

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although self-care is emerging as a growing movement wherein lay persons are assuming more responsibility for prvention, detection and treatment of health problems, we have almost no basic descriptive studies of attitudes toward self-care of professionals and consumers. The present study explored the reliability and v...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Green KE,Moore SH

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:There are situations in which patient self-reported health-related quality of life must be substituted by proxy assessments. Pickard and Knight recently delineated 2 proxy perspectives that may influence the nature of proxy measurements: the "proxy-patient" (the proxy's assessment from the patient's perspective) a...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Gundy CM,Aaronson NK

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data abstracted from transportation company records showed that nursing home patients made an average of 3.6 trips per year for care out of the nursing home. The bulk of this care (55 per cent) was provided at University Hospital with over a quarter provided at private physicians' offices and community health centers....

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Kane RL,Hammer D,Byrnes N

更新日期：1977-02-01 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：:The differences between female and male general practitioners (GPs) were studied regarding three different factors: 1) Do female GPs see more female patients than their male colleagues in the same practice?; 2) Are female GPs confronted with different types of health problems from their male colleagues?; and 3) Do fem...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Bensing JM,van den Brink-Muinen A,de Bakker DH

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The published preferences for scale steps in a health-related quality-of-life scale have been noted to be contrary to some prior assumptions about their rank ordering. The differences noted are actually statistically nonsignificant, and the observed ordering has a clear intuitive explanation. Several alternative expla...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Bush JW,Anderson JP,Kaplan RM,Blischke WR

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient Safety Indicator (PSI) 10, "Postoperative Physiologic and Metabolic Derangement" (PPMD), uses administrative data to detect postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) requiring dialysis and diabetes-related complications. We sought to evaluate the indicator'...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Zrelak PA,Romano PS,Tancredi DJ,Geppert JJ,Utter GH

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to describe the self-reported health status of the general adult U.S. population using 3 multi-attribute preference-based measures: the EQ-5D, Health Utilities Index Mark 2 (HUI2), and Mark 3 (HUI3). METHODS:We surveyed the general adult U.S. population using a probability sample with oversa...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Luo N,Johnson JA,Shaw JW,Feeny D,Coons SJ

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the life expectancy for the US population has increased, a high proportion of this population has lived with ≥1 chronic conditions. We have quantified the burden of disease associated with 15 chronic conditions and combinations of conditions by estimating quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) for olde...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Jia H,Lubetkin EI,Barile JP,Horner-Johnson W,DeMichele K,Stark DS,Zack MM,Thompson WW

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The authors study the relationship between people's sense of community and problems they experience with the health-care system, specifically problems related to cost, access, provider choice, and satisfaction. METHODS:Data from a 1993 Florida poll (n = 1202) was used to conduct a multinomial logit analysis...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Ahern MM,Hendryx MS,Siddharthan K

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：RESEARCH OBJECTIVE:Pharmacists are an expensive and limited resource in the hospital and outpatient setting. A pharmacist can spend up to 25% of their day planning. Time spent planning is time not spent delivering an intervention. A readmission risk adjustment model has potential to be used as a universal outcome-based...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Kabue S,Greene J,Kipnis P,Lawson B,Rinetti-Vargas G,Liu V,Escobar G

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven general surgeons in a prepaid group practice previously shown to have a mean operative work load of 9.2 hernia equivalents (HE) per week were found to have a standardized mean daytime working week of 56.2 hours, exclusive of evening activities of which 50.7 hours were devoted to professional activities. The surg...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Watkins RN,Hughes EF,Lewit EM

更新日期：1976-10-01 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