Performance of the Medicare Consumer Assessment of Health Care Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Physical Functioning Items.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes remains suboptimal. The contributing factors at the physician level are not well characterized, especially the relationship of patient volume and physician performance. OBJECTIVE:We sought to determine associations between the number of Medicare d...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Holmboe ES,Wang Y,Tate JP,Meehan TP

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:More than 70 million Americans are enrolled in a high-deductible health plan (HDHP), with high upfront cost-sharing to encourage strategies such as price shopping to mitigate out-of-pocket spending. Recent research suggests HDHP enrollees are reluctant to engage in these consumer strategies, but there is lit...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Cliff BQ,Krenz C,West BT,Levy H,Fendrick AM,Winkelman TNA,So J,Fagerlin A,Kullgren JT

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increased demand for health status measures in evaluating medical interventions has increased the importance of clarifying when to use generic versus disease-specific health status measures. The authors compared the performance of a well known generic health status measure, the Sickness Impact Profile (SIP), and a...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Damiano AM,Steinberg EP,Cassard SD,Bass EB,Diener-West M,Legro MW,Tielsch J,Schein OD,Javitt J,Kolb M

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Emergency Department (ED) boarding threatens patient safety. It is unclear whether boarding differentially affects patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) versus non-ICU settings. RESEARCH DESIGN AND SUBJECTS:We performed a 2-hospital, 18-month, cross-sectional, observational, descriptive study of ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Reznek MA,Upatising B,Kennedy SJ,Durham NT,Forster RM,Michael SS

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from the Longitudinal Survey of Income and Program Participation were used to examine the dynamics of health insurance among persons 55 to 64 years of age. Persons in this age range are especially vulnerable to incurring high health care costs. Between the summer of 1983 and early 1986, 21% of persons 55 to 64 ye...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Jensen GA

更新日期：1992-07-01 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：BACKGROUND:The appropriate use of medications can influence quality performance measures and costs. Drug-related morbidity and mortality represents a public health challenge due to the ineffective and unsafe consequences of medication use. This article addresses the impact of team-based care that incorporates comprehen...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Isetts BJ,Brummel AR,de Oliveira DR,Moen DW

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES:The importance of teams for improving quality of care has received increased attention. We examine both the correlates of self-assessed or perceived team effectiveness and its consequences for actually making changes to improve care for people with chronic illness. STUDY SETTING AND METHODS: Data ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Shortell SM,Marsteller JA,Lin M,Pearson ML,Wu SY,Mendel P,Cretin S,Rosen M

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most health insurance plans monitor ambulatory care quality using the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS), publicly reporting results at the plan level. Plan-level comparisons obscure the influence of patients served or settings where care is delivered. Mental illness, substance abuse, ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Clark RE,Weir S,Ouellette RA,Zhang J,Baxter JD

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As Medicaid clients have come to be enrolled in managed care, concerns have arisen about the ability of private sector systems to meet the needs of enrollees with substance abuse problems. OBJECTIVES:This project describes treatment initiation and duration for Medicaid and commercial substance abuse treatme...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： McFarland BH,Lynch FL,Freeborn DK,Green CA,Polen MR,Deck DD,Dickinson DM

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This article compares a linear risk-adjusted model of medical expenditures for Medicare patients with a model that explicitly account for skewness in distribution of expenditures. METHODS:A model of expenditures and a model of the square root of expenditures, each expressed as linear combinations of risk ad...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Veazie PJ,Manning WG,Kane RL

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Econometric modeling of healthcare costs and expenditures has become an important component of decision-making across a wide array of real-world settings. OBJECTIVES:The objective of this article is to provide a brief summary of important conceptual and analytical issues involved in econometric healthcare c...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Mullahy J

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In February 2002, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) raised medication copayments from $2 to $7 per 30-day supply of medication for certain veteran groups. We examined the impact of the copayment increase on medication acquisition from VA. METHODS:This was a retrospective cohort study using data from n...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Stroupe KT,Smith BM,Lee TA,Tarlov E,Durazo-Arvizu R,Huo Z,Barnett T,Cao L,Burk M,Cunningham F,Hynes DM,Weiss KB

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most studies have found that black men are less likely to receive aggressive therapy for nonmetastatic prostate cancer, even after controlling for covariates. However, previous studies have not accounted for the clustering of outcomes by facility. OBJECTIVE:We sought to compare the proportions of black and ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Rose AJ,Backus BM,Gershman ST,Santos P,Ash AS,Battaglia TA

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The relationship between psychiatric consultation and antipsychotic prescribing in nursing homes (NH) is unknown. OBJECTIVE:To identify the association between psychiatric consultant groups and NH-level antipsychotic prescribing after adjustment for resident case-mix and facility characteristics. RESEARCH ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Tjia J,Field T,Lemay C,Mazor K,Pandolfi M,Spenard A,Ho SY,Kanaan A,Donovan J,Gurwitz JH,Briesacher B

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One approach postulated to improve the provision of health care is effective utilization of team-based care including pharmacists. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to conduct a comprehensive systematic review with focused meta-analyses to examine the effects of pharmacist-provided direct patient ca...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Chisholm-Burns MA,Kim Lee J,Spivey CA,Slack M,Herrier RN,Hall-Lipsy E,Graff Zivin J,Abraham I,Palmer J,Martin JR,Kramer SS,Wunz T

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examine the relationship between health insurance coverage and children's access to and utilization of medical care. Access measures we study are having a usual source of care (USC) and lacking a USC for financial or insurance reasons. We also examine indicators for ambulatory visits, well-child visits, d...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Selden TM,Hudson JL

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the time health professionals spend with inpatients that are close to the end of life. SUBJECTS AND METHODS:We asked day-shift nurses to use a standardized log sheet to record how much time they spent in various categories of activity for 146 seriously ill medical inpatients with poor ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Sulmasy DP,Sood JR

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The linkage of SEER registry data with Medicare claims allows the longitudinal tracking of health care and outcomes for patients after a cancer diagnosis. One category of outcomes amenable to research using Medicare claims is complications of cancer treatments: the unintentional, adverse side effects or sequ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Potosky AL,Warren JL,Riedel ER,Klabunde CN,Earle CC,Begg CB

更新日期：2002-08-01 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Millions of Americans are burdened by out-of-pocket prescription costs. Although many survey measures have been developed to assess this burden, the construct validity and the factor structure of these instruments have not been rigorously assessed. OBJECTIVES:To characterize the factor structure and the con...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Burcu M,Alexander GC,Ng X,Harrington D

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there have been a number of studies linking psychological distress to the demand for medical care, few studies have examined this relationship among the aged. The issue is important, however, partly because it has been suggested that distress might cause some individuals to seek unneeded medical care. The fin...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Berkanovic E,Hurwicz ML

更新日期：1989-11-01 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：OBJECTIVES:The Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation (MCHPE) collaborated with a provincially-appointed Physician Resource Committee in an assessment of provincial physician resources. RESEARCH DESIGN:Beginning with map-based analyses of physician supply and contacts across the province, compared with the h...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Roos NP,Fransoo R,Bogdanovic B,Carriere KC,Frohlich N,Friesen D,Patton D,Wall R

更新日期：1999-06-01 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：BACKGROUND:Previous research has indicated that the needs of persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) for supportive services often go unmet. Although case management has been advocated as a method of decreasing unmet needs for supportive services, its effectiveness is poorly understood. OBJECTIVES:To ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Katz MH,Cunningham WE,Mor V,Andersen RM,Kellogg T,Zierler S,Crystal SC,Stein MD,Cylar K,Bozzette SA,Shapiro MF

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hospitalization is a difficult experience, especially for patients with dementia. Understanding whether better continuity of care (COC) reduces hospitalizations can indicate interventions that might help curb hospitalizations. OBJECTIVE:To estimate the causal impact of COC on hospitalizations and different ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Lei L,Cai S,Conwell Y,Fortinsky RH,Intrator O

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study was undertaken to characterize 2,000 patients attending a chiropractic teaching clinic and the effectiveness of the care they received. Fifty-two percent of the patients were between 21 and 34 years old; 41% categorized their occupation as professional and 14% as skilled blue collar; 79% presented ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Nyiendo J,Haldeman S

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Limited research suggests that rates of suicide death among transgender people may be higher than their nontransgender peers. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to compare rates of suicide deaths by different means between transgender and nontransgender patients. RESEARCH DESIGN:This secondary analy...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Blosnich JR,Boyer TL,Brown GR,Kauth MR,Shipherd JC

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study determined the intrarelationships and interrelationships of two sets of physician performance measures: technical quality and utilization of medical resources. The performance measures were based on 2,431 episodes in 15 diagnostic categories involving 454 physicians. A series of correlations were used to det...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Rhee SO,Lyons T,Payne B

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00