Profit incentives and the hospital industry: are we expecting too much?

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether Medicare enrollment at age 65 has an effect on the health trajectory of the near-elderly uninsured. DATA SOURCES:Eight biennial waves (1992-2006) of the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative panel survey of noninstitutionalized 51-61 year olds and their spouses. STUDY...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Polsky D,Doshi JA,Escarce J,Manning W,Paddock SM,Cen L,Rogowski J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine concordance between member self-reports and the organization's administrative claims data for two key health factors: number of chronic conditions, and number of prescription drugs. DATA:Medicare Advantage plan claims data and member survey data from 2011 to 2012. DESIGN:Mailed surveys to 15,000 ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Guerard B,Omachonu V,Harvey RA,Hernandez SR,Sen B

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the determinants of postsurgery length of stay (LOS) and inpatient mortality in the United States (California and Massachusetts) and Canada (Manitoba and Quebec). DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Patient discharge abstracts from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Nationwide Inpatient Sample ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Ho V,Hamilton BH,Roos LL

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Methodologically sound mixed methods research can improve our understanding of health services by providing a more comprehensive picture of health services than either method can alone. This study describes the frequency of mixed methods in published health services research and compares the presence of meth...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Wisdom JP,Cavaleri MA,Onwuegbuzie AJ,Green CA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the impact of the Short Stay Transfer Policy (SSTP) on practice patterns. DATA SOURCES:This study uses data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MEDPAR) file, Home Health Standard Analytical File, 1999 Provider of Service file, and data from th...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： FitzGerald JD,Boscardin WJ,Hahn BH,Ettner SL

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of Enroll America's field outreach activities on the number of individuals enrolled in Marketplace coverage during the first open enrollment period. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Marketplace enrollment for the initial open enrollment period linked with data on Enroll America's field activit...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Orzol S,Hula L

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We investigate the factors driving the downward trend in employer sponsored health insurance (ESI) coverage between 1999 and 2002 for low- and middle-income workers, and assess their insurance options in the absence of ESI coverage. DATA:We use the 1999 and 2002 rounds of the National Survey of America's Fam...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Shen YC,Long SK

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

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 evaluate the effects of depression treatment in primary care on patients' clinical status and employment, over six months. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Data are from a randomized controlled trial of quality improvement for depression that included 938 adults with depressive disorder in 46 managed primary ca...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Schoenbaum M,Unützer J,McCaffrey D,Duan N,Sherbourne C,Wells KB

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore why and how health systems are engaging in care delivery redesign (CDR)-defined as the variety of tools and organizational change processes health systems use to pursue the Triple Aim. STUDY SETTING:A purposive sample of 24 health systems across 4 states as part of the Agency for Healthcare Resear...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Scanlon DP,Harvey JB,Wolf LJ,Vanderbrink JM,Shaw B,Shi Y,Mahmud Y,Ridgely MS,Damberg CL

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RESEARCH OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of recent Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) changes on efficiency in skilled nursing homes. DATA SOURCE/STUDY SETTING:Medicare Cost Reports (MCR), On-line Survey Certification and Reporting System (OSCAR), Area Resource Files (ARF), a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Se...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Zhang NJ,Unruh L,Wan TT

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To construct a data tool, the Residential History File (RHF), that summarizes information from Medicare claims and nursing home (NH) Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessments to track people through health care locations, including non-Medicare-paid NH stays. DATA SOURCES:Online Survey of Certification and Reportin...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Intrator O,Hiris J,Berg K,Miller SC,Mor V

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of hospital affiliation, centralization, and managed care plan ownership on inpatient cost and quality. DATA SOURCES:Inpatient discharges from 3,957 community hospitals in 44 states and American Hospital Association Annual Survey data from 2010 to 2012. STUDY DESIGN:We conducted a retro...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Henke RM,Karaca Z,Moore B,Cutler E,Liu H,Marder WD,Wong HS

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the effect of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on birth outcomes. DATA SOURCE:The Child Development Supplement (CDS) of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The PSID provides extensive data on the income and well-being of a representative sa...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Foster EM,Jiang M,Gibson-Davis CM

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The planning, budgeting, and controlling processes (PBCP) largely subsume all of the planning and controlling activities of an organization. This paper discusses these activities within the context of a single management control system, focusing on three topics. First, a brief historical perspective of management conc...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Vraciu RA

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate whether tax-exempt hospitals' investments in community health are associated with patterns of governmental public health spending focusing specifically on the relationship between hospitals' community benefit expenditures and the spending patterns of local health departments (LHDs). STUDY DES...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Singh SR,Young GJ

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines forces that influence physicians to change the percentage of their admissions to a hospital (loyalty) and to cease admitting patients to a hospital altogether (exit). Because physicians are both members of a hospital and consumers of its services, their admitting patterns can be described using m...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Burns LR,Wholey DR

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article analyzes three methods used to forecast the transition of long-term care clients through a variety of possible home and facility placements and levels of care. The test population (N = 1,653) is derived from the larger population of clients admitted in 1978 to British Columbia's newly established Long-Ter...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Lane D,Uyeno D,Stark A,Kliewer E,Gutman G

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the effects of competition for both Medicare and HMO patients on the quality decisions of hospitals in Southern California. DATA SOURCE:Secondary discharge data from the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development for the State of California for the period 1989-1993. STUDY DESIGN:Outcome...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Gozvrisankaran G,Town RJ

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine whether physicians attend to gender prevalence data in diagnostic decision making for coronary heart disease (CHD) and to test the hypothesis that previously reported gender differences in CHD diagnostic certainty are due to discrimination arising from reliance on prevalence data ("statistical disc...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Maserejian NN,Lutfey KE,McKinlay JB

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:Uniform hospital discharge abstract data from Maryland were used to examine the homogeneity of trauma-related DRGs with respect to a well-established measure of injury severity, the Injury Severity Score (ISS). Thirty DRGs were identified as including trauma cases with a wide range of severity; for each of these DRGs,...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： MacKenzie EJ,Steinwachs DM,Ramzy AI,Ashworth JW 3rd,Shankar B

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Examination of the extent to which federal surveys provide the data needed to estimate the coverage/cost impacts of policy alternatives to address the problem of uninsurance. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Assessment of the major federal household surveys that regularly provide information on health insurance an...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Kenney G,Holahan J,Nichols L

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Patients discharged from a self-managed nursing unit are compared with patients from traditionally managed units on postdischarge outcomes. DATA SOURCES AND STUDY SETTING:Primary data were collected on patients discharged from eight nursing units in three clinical areas in one hospital from August through No...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Cassard SD,Weisman CS,Gordon DL,Wong R

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the effectiveness of financial incentives for smoking cessation in the Medicaid population. DATA SOURCES:Secondary data from the Medicaid Incentives for Prevention of Chronic Disease (MIPCD) program and Medicaid claims/encounter data from 2010 to 2015 for five states. STUDY DESIGN:Beneficiaries were...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Witman A,Acquah J,Alva M,Hoerger T,Romaire M

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that health systems provide better care to patients with high needs by comparing differences in quality between system-affiliated and nonaffiliated physician organizations (POs) and to examine variability in quality across health systems. DATA SOURCES:2015 Medicare Data on Provider Pra...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Kranz AM,DeYoreo M,Eshete-Roesler B,Damberg CL,Totten M,Escarce JJ,Timbie JW

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the feasibility, reliability, and validity of comprehensively assessing physician-level performance in ambulatory practice. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Ambulatory-based general internists in 13 states participated in the assessment. STUDY DESIGN:We assessed physician-level performance, adjuste...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Holmboe ES,Weng W,Arnold GK,Kaplan SH,Normand SL,Greenfield S,Hood S,Lipner RS

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine whether disparities in health care experiences of Medicare beneficiaries differ between managed care (Medicare Advantage [MA]) and traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare. DATA SOURCES:132,937 MA and 201,444 FFS respondents to the 2007 Medicare Consumer Assessment of Health Care Providers and S...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Elliott MN,Haviland AM,Orr N,Hambarsoomian K,Cleary PD

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine which components of medical homes affect time families spend arranging/coordinating health care for their children with special health care needs (CSHCNs) and providing health care at home. DATA SOURCES:2009-2010 National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (NS-CSHCN), a population-...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Miller JE,Nugent CN,Russell LB

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care have been documented; the elimination of such disparities is currently part of a national agenda. In order to meet this national objective, it is necessary that measures identify accurately the true prevalence of the construct of interest across diverse...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Ramírez M,Ford ME,Stewart AL,Teresi JA

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00