Utilization of health services as events: an exploratory study.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To understand public attitudes about and recommendations to address antibiotic overuse by employing public deliberation (a method for eliciting informed input on value-laden issues). DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Participants in 24 Community Deliberation groups (CD; n = 263), four Citizens' Panel groups (CP; n ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Richmond J,Mangrum R,Wang G,Maurer M,Sofaer S,Yang M,Carman KL

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the hospital coding response to a payment model using a case-mix measurement system based on multiple diagnoses and the resulting impact on a hospital cost model. DATA SOURCES:Financial, clinical, and supplementary data for all Ontario short stay hospitals from years 1997 to 2002. STUDY DESIGN:Di...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Preyra C

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports an evaluation of the impact of three administrative technologies--Admission Scheduling (AS) Systems, Outpatient Surgery (OPS) Programs, and Preadmission Testing (PAT) Programs--on the number of acute care beds required by a hospital. The evaluation mechanism reported here is called the ADTECH Comp...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Martin JB,Dahlstrom GA,Johnston CM

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:A1c levels are widely used to assess quality of diabetes care provided by health care systems. Currently, cross-sectional measures are commonly used for such assessments. OBJECTIVE:To study within-patient longitudinal changes in A1c levels at Veterans Health Administration (VHA) facilities as an alternative to...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Thompson W,Wang H,Xie M,Kolassa J,Rajan M,Tseng CL,Crystal S,Zhang Q,Vardi Y,Pogach L,Safford MM

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe differences in patient experiences of hospital care by preferred language within racial/ethnic groups. DATA SOURCE:2014-2015 HCAHPS survey data. STUDY DESIGN:We compared six composite measures for seven languages (English, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Other) within appl...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Quigley DD,Elliott MN,Hambarsoomian K,Wilson-Frederick SM,Lehrman WG,Agniel D,Ng JH,Goldstein EH,Giordano LA,Martino SC

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine factors associated with guideline-concordant adjuvant therapy among breast cancer patients in a rural region of the United States and to present an advancement in quality-of-care assessment in the context of multiple treatments. DATA SOURCES:Chart abstraction on initial therapy received by 868 wom...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Guy GP Jr,Lipscomb J,Gillespie TW,Goodman M,Richardson LC,Ward KC

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Can Medicare beneficiaries make rational and informed decisions about their coverage under the Medicare program? Recent policy developments in the Medicare program have been based on the theory of competition in medical care. One of the key assumptions of the competitive model is the free flow of adequate information,...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Davidson BN

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Examine the endogenous relationship between uncompensated care and hospital patient experience scores. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Survey, CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, and the US Census Bureau. STUDY DESIGN:The exogenous c...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Camilleri S,Diebold J

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes a model development process that represents a useful step in classifying populations in terms of risk of institutionalization (Inst-Risk II). A four-category risk classification system--"High risk, Some risk, Low risk, and Very Low Risk"--was developed, based on combinations of measures of funct...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Morris JN,Sherwood S,Gutkin CE

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the impact of the Nursing Home Value-Based Purchasing demonstration on quality of care and Medicare spending. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Administrative and qualitative data from Arizona, New York, and Wisconsin nursing homes over the base-year (2008-2009) and 3-year (2009-2012) demonstration peri...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Grabowski DC,Stevenson DG,Caudry DJ,O'Malley AJ,Green LH,Doherty JA,Frank RG

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The case mix-adjusted pattern of use of health care services, especially posthospital care, is compared before and after the introduction of Medicare's Prospective Payment System (PPS). DATA SOURCES:The 1982 and 1984 National Long Term Care Surveys (NLTCS) linked to Medicare administrative records 1982-1986 ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Manton KG,Woodbury MA,Vertrees JC,Stallard E

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine how frequently patients revisit the emergency department after an initial encounter, and to describe revisit capture rates for the same hospital, health system, and geographic region. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Florida state data from January 1, 2010, to June 30, 2011, from the Healthcare Cost ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Rising KL,Karp DN,Powell RE,Victor TW,Carr BG

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics as well as health services use associated with successful community discharge. DATA SOURCE:Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility-Patient Assessment Instrument and Medicare Provider Analysis and Review files. STUDY DESIGN:We retrospectively examined ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Cary MP Jr,Prvu Bettger J,Jarvis JM,Ottenbacher KJ,Graham JE

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the performance of various risk adjustment models in behavioral health applications such as setting mental health and substance abuse (MH/SA) capitation payments or overall capitation payments for populations including MH/SA users. DATA SOURCES/STUDY DESIGN:The 1991-93 administrative data from the...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Ettner SL,Frank RG,McGuire TG,Hermann RC

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We study the association between the timing of the Great Recession (GR) and health spending among uninsured adults distinguishing by citizenship/nativity status and time of U.S. residence. DATA SOURCE:Uninsured U.S. citizens and noncitizens from the 2005-2006 and 2008-2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Vargas Bustamante A,Chen J

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We report the validation of an instrument to measure mistrust of health care organizations and examine the relationship between mistrust and health care service underutilization. METHODS:We conducted a telephone survey of a random sample of households in Baltimore City, MD. We surveyed 401 persons and followed...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： LaVeist TA,Isaac LA,Williams KP

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the prevalence of seven social factors using physician notes as compared to claims and structured electronic health records (EHRs) data and the resulting association with 30-day readmissions. STUDY SETTING:A multihospital academic health system in southeastern Massachusetts. STUDY DESIGN:An obse...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Navathe AS,Zhong F,Lei VJ,Chang FY,Sordo M,Topaz M,Navathe SB,Rocha RA,Zhou L

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One method used to determine utilization rates of cervical screening is women's self-report. Few studies have assessed the accuracy of this measure--none has been conducted in Australia--although there are a number of reasons for suspecting its validity. This study examined and quantified the accuracy of self-report o...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Bowman JA,Redman S,Dickinson JA,Gibberd R,Sanson-Fisher RW

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE/PURPOSE:To stimulate discussion within the research and policy community about the value of and issues surrounding different ways to describe access to care in a health system reconfigured by the growth of managed care, competition, and other marketplace changes. PRINCIPLE FINDINGS:The concept of access has ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Gold M

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether assigning a dedicated general practitioner (GP) to a nursing home reduces hospitalizations and readmissions. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Secondary data on hospitalizations and deaths by month for the universe of nursing home residents in Denmark from January 2011 through February 2014. S...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Weatherall CD,Hansen AT,Nicholson S

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:(1) To identify resident and organizational factors associated with the use of advance care plans pre- and post-implementation of the Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA), and (2) to identify changes (pre- and post-implementation of the PSDA) in the relationship between these factors and the use of advance ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Castle NG,Mor V

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of substance abuse claims redaction on Medicare spending estimates for beneficiaries with serious mental illness. DATA SOURCES:The 2012 claims and unredacted beneficiary-level Medicare spending totals from CMS's Chronic Conditions Warehouse. STUDY DESIGN:We identified beneficiaries with...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Roberto P,Brandt N,Onukwugha E,Stuart B

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Independent freestanding emergency departments (IFEDs) have proliferated over the last decade, largely in Texas. We examined the IFED physician workforce composition and changes in emergency physician workforce supply across states and in rural Texas over the period of IFED proliferation following a 2009 legi...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Luo Q,Chong N,Chen C

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate disparities in mental health care episodes, aligning our analyses with decisions to start or drop treatment, and choices made during treatment. STUDY DESIGN:We analyzed whites, blacks, and Latinos with probable mental illness from Panels 9-13 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, assessing ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Cook BL,Zuvekas SH,Carson N,Wayne GF,Vesper A,McGuire TG

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:As part of a project to estimate physician requirements for the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) developed and tested empirically based models of physician staffing, by specialty, that could be applied to each VA facility. DATA SOURCE/STUDY SETTING:These analyses used selected ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Lipscomb J,Kilpatrick KE,Lee KL,Pieper KS

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test whether nonprofit, for-profit, or government hospital ownership affects medical service provision in rural hospital markets, either directly or through the spillover effects of ownership mix. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Data are from the American Hospital Association, U.S. Census, CMS Healthcare Cost ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Horwitz JR,Nichols A

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the effects of state prescription contraception insurance mandates on unintended, mistimed, and unwanted births in a sample of privately insured recent mothers. DATA:We pooled Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) data from 1997 to 2012 to study 209,964 privately insured recent mothers ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Johnston EM,Adams EK

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Building on the original taxonomy of hospital-based health systems from 20 years ago, we develop a new taxonomy to inform emerging public policy and practice developments. DATA SOURCES:The 2016 American Hospital Association's (AHA) Annual Survey; the 2016 IQVIA Healthcare Organizations and Systems (HCOS) dat...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Shortell SM,Gottlieb DJ,Martinez Camblor P,O'Malley AJ

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine if members of commercial managed care and Medicaid managed care rate the experience with their health plans differently. DATA SOURCES:Data from both commercial and Medicaid Consumer Assessment of Health Plan Surveys (CAHPS) in New York State. STUDY DESIGN:Regression models were used to determin...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Roohan PJ,Franko SJ,Anarella JP,Dellehunt LK,Gesten FC

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the comparative safety of laparoscopic and open colectomy across surgeons varying in experience with laparoscopy. DATA SOURCES:National Medicare data (2008-2010) for beneficiaries undergoing laparoscopic or open colectomy. STUDY DESIGN:Using instrumental variable methods to address selection bia...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Sheetz KH,Norton EC,Birkmeyer JD,Dimick JB

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00