A Decade in Review: Cancer Care Ontario's Approach to Symptom Assessment and Management.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Many patients have limited English proficiency and require an interpreter. The authors evaluated the effect of current interpreting practices on Spanish-speaking patients' satisfaction with the patient-provider relationship. METHODS:A cross-sectional survey was conducted of 457 patients seen in a public hos...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Baker DW,Hayes R,Fortier JP

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drug provision within the German statutory health insurance system has undergone several reforms, including the introduction of drug macrobudgets in 1993. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to investigate the extent to which statutorily (SHI) and fully privately (PHI) health-insured patients were pro...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Krobot KJ,Miller WC,Kaufman JS,Christensen DB,Preisser JS,Ibrahim MA

更新日期：2004-05-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Cutpoints are specific numeric values used to create discrete categories for patient-reported outcome (PRO) items or scales. Cutpoints are widely used in both clinical research and practice. This article offers a definition for cutpoints, describes strategies for determining actionable cutpoints, and discuss...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Shi Q,Mendoza TR,Cleeland CS

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retention study was implemented in Marshfield, Massachusetts in May 1974 in order to ascertain if cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills could be retained by secondary school students who had 15 months previously received training in mouth to mouth resuscitation and cardiac compression. The retention study also ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Vanderschmidt H,Burnap TK,Thwaites JK

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic explanation of the use of traditional medicine among the native American population living in the San Francisco Bay area. Several hypotheses concerning the factors associated with this behavior are tested. These include tribal grouping, socioeconomic and sociocultur...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Fuchs M,Bashshur R

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the reliability of Medicare Part A claims data for clinical and health services research related to the care of patients with cancer, the authors compared estimates of the incidence of and resection rates for cancer of the breast, colon, and lung derived from analysis of Medicare Part A data versus data fro...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Whittle J,Steinberg EP,Anderson GF,Herbert R

更新日期：1991-12-01 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：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：IMPORTANCE:Hospitals that serve poorer populations have higher readmission rates. It is unknown whether these hospitals effectively lowered readmission rates in response to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP). OBJECTIVE:To compare pre-post differences in readmission rates among hospitals with different ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Wasfy JH,Bhambhani V,Healy EW,Choirat C,Dominici F,Wadhera RK,Shen C,Wang Y,Yeh RW

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Veterans Health Administration encourages auricular acupuncture (Battlefield Acupuncture/BFA) as a nonpharmacologic approach to pain management. Qualitative reports highlighted a "gateway hypothesis": providing BFA can lead to additional nonpharmacologic treatments. This analysis examines subsequent use of t...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Thomas ER,Zeliadt SB,Coggeshall S,Gelman H,Resnick A,Giannitrapani K,Olson J,Kligler B,Taylor SL

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although studies have shown that a high rate of uninsurance in a community reduces access to and satisfaction with health care among the insured population, little is known about whether the community uninsurance rate also affects quality of care and clinical outcomes among the insured. OBJECTIVE:To assess ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Escarce JJ,Edgington SE,Roan Gresenz C

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:Broken appointments have been a major problem at the Anthony L. Jordan Health Center since it opened in 1968. In an earlier 6-month study of broken appointments at the center the authors found 48% of pediatric appointments and 43% of medicine appointments to be broken. Daily broken appointment rates were correlated be...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Morse DL,Coulter MP,Napodano RJ,Hwang HL,Lawrence C

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper the individual is employed as the unit of analysis to examine the extent to which the use of physician care by beneficiaries insured under the Canadian Medicare program is determined by medical needs and sociodemographic characteristics as opposed to economic considerations. The data were derived from th...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Broyles RW,Manga P,Binder DA,Angus DE,Charette A

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to estimate the effect of Medicare Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) enrollment on hospitalization rates and total inpatient days for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs) after controlling for selection. RESEARCH DESIGN:Simultaneous equations using a discrete facto...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Zeng F,O'Leary JF,Sloss EM,Lopez MS,Dhanani N,Melnick G

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Insurance expansions and service delivery system expansions are alternative policy instruments used to try to improve birth outcomes for low-income women. OBJECTIVES:The objective of this research is to investigate the effect of expansions of public insurance on access and birth outcomes for pregnant women ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Susan Marquis M,Long SH

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Labor unions have been a weak force in the medical marketplace. OBJECTIVES:To briefly review the history of physicians' and nurses' labor unions, explore the ethics of unions in medicine, and offer a solution that simultaneously serves patients and professionals. RESEARCH DESIGN:A selective review of the l...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Manthous CA

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's prevention quality indicators (PQIs) are used as a metric of area-level access to quality care. Recently, interest has expanded to using the measures at the level of payer or large physician groups, including public reporting or pay-for-performance programs. H...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Davies S,McDonald KM,Schmidt E,Schultz E,Geppert J,Romano PS

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To investigate patterns of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use disclosure across medical and sociobehavioral factors and to provide a model that takes into account factors in explaining those patterns. SUBJECTS:A total of 21,849 CAM use episodes from 7347 respondents in the 2007 US National Heal...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Shim JM,Schneider J,Curlin FA

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prescription of new drugs contributes to substantial increases in annual drug expenditures. A small proportion of physicians appear to be early users of new prescription drugs and little is known about their characteristics. OBJECTIVE:To estimate the initial utilization rate of new prescription drugs among ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Tamblyn R,McLeod P,Hanley JA,Girard N,Hurley J

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Use of antepartum tests of fetal well-being is widespread even though effectiveness in preventing fetal damage or stillbirth has not been established. The study objective was to examine whether aggressive use of these tests might contribute to increased rates of other birth outcomes, including low birth weig...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Helfand M,Zimmer-Gembeck MJ

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Efforts to identify hospital-acquired complications from claims data by applying exclusion rules to discharge diagnosis codes exhibit low positive predictive value (PPV). The PPV improves when a variable is added to each secondary diagnosis to indicate whether the condition was "present-on-admission" (POA) o...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Leibson CL,Needleman J,Buerhaus P,Heit JA,Melton LJ 3rd,Naessens JM,Bailey KR,Petterson TM,Ransom JE,Harris MR

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As interest in the problem-oriented medical record (POMR) develops, and more medical settings begin to implement the system, many observers are expressing a desire to know how well the system is being used and accepted. Moreover, settings currently using the POMR system have a need to document the effectiveness of the...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Hammett WH,Sandlow LJ,Bashook PG

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports on a study of the labor efficiency of 461 nursing homes located in Pennsylvania. Data envelopment analysis was used to estimate efficiency scores. Tobit equations were estimated for the entire sample and for subsamples consisting of for-profit (FP) and not-for-profit (NFP) nursing homes. The autho...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Rosko MD,Chilingerian JA,Zinn JS,Aaronson WE

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, trends in hospital use were identified in Japanese cities. Data for all inpatient care in May 1985 (9,555 patients) and in May 1988 (11,205 patients) paid for by National Health Insurance in 12 cities in Osaka Prefecture were analyzed. The main factor affecting differences in inpatient days per insured ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Tatara K,Shinsho F,Nishigaki C,Takatorige T,Okamoto E,Kuroda K

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Access to social services (eg, nutrition) can impact older adults' health care utilization and health outcomes. However, data documenting the relationship between receiving services and objective measures of health care utilization remain limited. OBJECTIVES:To link Meals on Wheels (MOW) program data to Med...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Shan M,Gutman R,Dosa D,Gozalo PL,Ogarek JA,Kler S,Thomas KS

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The United States has a culturally and demographically diverse populace, and the aim of this study was to examine differences in health preferences by sex, age, ethnicity, and race. METHODS:We assessed preferences for health outcomes defined by the PROMIS-29 survey in a sample of the US population. On the b...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Craig BM,Reeve BB,Cella D,Hays RD,Pickard AS,Revicki DA

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00