Inference With Difference-in-Differences With a Small Number of Groups: A Review, Simulation Study, and Empirical Application Using SHARE Data.

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：:The management information system (FP/MIS) used by the Howard University Center for Family Planning Services, which operates community family planning clinics in Washington, D.C. is described. The system was developed to satisfy program objectives in patient management, program planning and evaluation, resource manage...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Herson J,Crocker CL,Butts E,Phong LT,Haynes JA

更新日期：1977-05-01 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：:Between 1989 and 1992, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) awarded funding to 14 special projects known as Patient Outcomes Research Teams (PORTs). These large, complex projects form the centerpiece of the first generation of research under the Medical Treatment Effectiveness Program. In carrying ou...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Maklan CW,Greene R,Cummings MA

更新日期：1994-07-01 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：BACKGROUND:Adherence to medication treatment plans is important for chronic disease (CD) management. Cost-related nonadherence (CRN) puts patients at risk for complications. Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPI) suffer from high rates of CD and socioeconomic disparities that could increase CRN behaviors. OBJEC...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： McElfish PA,Long CR,Payakachat N,Felix H,Bursac Z,Rowland B,Hudson JS,Narcisse MR

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-eight interviews of hospitalized patients by freshmen medical students were examined for common response patterns. Response profiles were constructed for each medical student and subjected to cluster analysis. Four common response patterns were identified: Questioning Facilitators, Declaring Facilitators, Elabor...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Brent EE,Beckett DE

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The present study evaluated alternative patient classification systems for skilled nursing facility and rehabilitation facility patients. METHODS:Medicare patients were selected from a random sample of 27 rehabilitation facilities and 65 skilled nursing facilities participating in a national longitudinal st...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Eilertsen TB,Kramer AM,Schlenker RE,Hrincevich CA

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 2006 Massachusetts health reform substantially decreased uninsurance rates. Yet, little is known about the reform's impact on actual health care utilization among poor and minority populations, particularly for receipt of inpatient surgical procedures that are commonly initiated by outpatient physician r...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Hanchate AD,Lasser KE,Kapoor A,Rosen J,McCormick D,D'Amore MM,Kressin NR

更新日期：2012-07-01 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

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:Functional limitations of persons living with HIV affect their care needs and ability to perform social roles such as employment. Earlier estimates are outdated, and nationally representative estimates of prevalence and distribution of these limitations have not previously been available. OBJECTIVES:The obj...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Crystal S,Fleishman JA,Hays RD,Shapiro MF,Bozzette SA

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Research on frequent emergency department (ED) use shows that a subgroup of patients visits multiple EDs. This study characterizes these individuals. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to determine how many frequent ED users seek care at multiple EDs and to identify sociodemographic, clinical, and co...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Giannouchos TV,Washburn DJ,Kum HC,Sage WM,Ohsfeldt RL

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population-based, retrospective analysis of Medicare Part A and Blue Cross hospital insurance claims data was used to determine whether hospice home care cost savings to third-party insurers are substantial and result from the substitution of less expensive home care visits for more costly hospital inpatient days. T...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Brooks CH,Smyth-Staruch K

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite little available evidence to determine whether recently introduced selective α-1 blockers and 5-α reductase inhibitors (5-ARIs) are superior to the existing agents in treating benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), they are being increasingly prescribed. OBJECTIVE:To describe the prescribing patterns o...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Han LC,Kim SP,Gross CP,Ross JS,Van Houten HK,Smaldone MC,Krambeck AE,Shah ND

更新日期：2014-02-01 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：BACKGROUND:Outcome measures, like hospital standardized mortality ratios (HSMRs), are increasingly used to assess quality of care. The validity of HSMRs and their accuracy to reflect quality of care is heavily contested. OBJECTIVE:We explored apparent and potential shortcomings and adverse effects of the HSMR in the a...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： van Gestel YR,Lemmens VE,Lingsma HF,de Hingh IH,Rutten HJ,Coebergh JW

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess drug prescribing by primary care physicians in France for various types of conditions, and to identify patterns and risk factors for poor prescribing quality. METHODS:The orders (n = 23,080) written for patients with five target diseases (acute nasopharyngitis, acute tonsillitis, essential hyperten...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Coste J,Venot A

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In response to the growing concern about healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) developed the National Action Plan to Prevent Healthcare-associated Infections. A key focus of the Action Plan is the setting of HAI metrics and targets and the enhancement and d...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Weinberg DA,Kahn KL

更新日期：2014-02-01 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:Population-based cancer registries represent a potentially valuable tool to evaluate treatment; however, information on the completeness of registry treatment data is sparse. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the completeness of registry treatment data for patients with colorectal cancer and to identify predictors of c...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Cress RD,Zaslavsky AM,West DW,Wolf RE,Felter MC,Ayanian JZ

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression is associated with poor chronic illness outcomes, but it is unknown whether depression influences the quality of communication during the clinical encounter. We investigated whether diabetes patients with depressive symptoms, compared with those without depressive symptoms, report worse clinician-...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Swenson SL,Rose M,Vittinghoff E,Stewart A,Schillinger D

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1979, MEDICAL CARE published a supplement that summarized and evaluated existing research on changes in health care patterns associated with mental health, alcoholism, and drug abuse treatment. This paper, limited to alcoholism treatment, reviews research that has been completed since the 1979 supplement. Considera...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Holder HD

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Among patients with type 2 diabetes, it is not known whether risk factor control is better or worse for those who also have heart disease, depression, multiple other comorbidities, and associated management challenges. OBJECTIVE:To examine the relationship between this complex constellation of multimorbidit...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Malik S,Billimek J,Greenfield S,Sorkin DH,Ngo-Metzger Q,Kaplan SH

更新日期：2013-02-01 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:Continuity of nursing care in hospitals remains poor and not prioritized, and we do not know whether discontinuous nursing care is negatively impacting patient outcomes. OBJECTIVES:This study aims to examine nursing care discontinuity and its effect on patient clinical condition over the course of acute hos...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Yakusheva O,Costa DK,Weiss M

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study associations between payer and provision of services for patients hospitalized for coronary atherosclerosis, the authors analyzed abstracts of 24,424 discharges from California acute care hospitals during 1989. Services examined included receipt of coronary artery bypass surgery, percutaneous transluminal cor...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Kuykendall DH,Johnson ML,Geraci JM

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physicians who participate in preferred provider organizations (PPOs) usually agree to various types of utilization review and sometimes discount their charges or agree to accept lower fees. This study was performed to determine whether they provided more or fewer services to their PPO patients than to their indemnity...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Garnick DW,Luft HS,Gardner LB,Morrison EM,Barrett M,O'Neil A,Harvey B

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the association of drug users' outpatient patterns of care with subsequent intensity of antiretroviral therapy (ART). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Annual types of ART in 8897 New York State Medicaid drug users who were prescribed ART for > or =6 months in 1996 or 1997 were determined. From pharmacy claim...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Laine C,Hauck WW,Turner BJ

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To help resolve the current controversy over the validity of early readmission as an indicator of the quality of care, the authors critically reviewed the literature using meta-analysis to derive summary estimates of effect and evaluate inter-study heterogeneity. METHODS:The authors selected reports meeting...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Ashton CM,Del Junco DJ,Souchek J,Wray NP,Mansyur CL

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00