Concurrent and predictive validity of a self-reported measure of medication adherence.

abstract：:In response to health care reform, health care providers have begun to develop interorganizational networks. At present, however, relatively little is known about factors facilitating participation in networks. To this end, organizational characteristics and views were obtained from key informants from both "Lead" and...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Guihan M,Manheim LM,Hughes SL

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chinese Americans are one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the United States; however, language and cultural obstacles have challenged health workers and policy makers seeking to understand the health status and needs of this population. OBJECTIVES:This study is the first to use a large-scale probabi...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Chang DF,Chun CA,Takeuchi DT,Shen H

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies evaluating patient outcomes in dialysis as a function of quality of predialysis therapeutic care are lacking. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the association of quality of predialysis therapeutic practices with survival and hospitalization during the first year of dialysis. RESEARCH DESIGN:The AVantagE de la...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Thilly N,Boini S,Loos-Ayav C,Kessler M,Briançon S,Frimat L

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The practice of ordering "Do-Not-Resuscitate" (DNR) varies across hospitals. No research has explored how the DNR variation would affect cross-institutional performance reporting when DNR status is used as a risk adjustor. OBJECTIVE:We sought to assess the impact of DNR variation on performance reporting. ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Tabak YP,Johannes RS,Silber JH,Kurtz SG

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Planned health insurance reform promises and has started to cut reimbursement to Medicare managed care (MMC) plans. If such plans provide better care, adjusting for possible better health of their enrollees, then such reimbursement changes may have unforeseen quality consequences. OBJECTIVES:To examine whet...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Huesch MD

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Healthcare accrediting organizations and insurers increasingly require reporting of clinical data, and cancer treatment is one area of enhanced scrutiny. OBJECTIVES:To compare rates of received versus reported adjuvant breast cancer treatments, and to assess barriers to measuring and reporting treatments to...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Bickell NA,McAlearney AS,Wellner J,Fei K,Franco R

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Adverse outcome rates are increasingly used as yardsticks for the quality of hospital care. However, the validity of many outcome studies has been undermined by the application of one outcome to all patients in large, diagnostically diverse populations, many of which lack evidence of a link between anteceden...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Wray NP,Peterson NJ,Souchek J,Ashton CM,Hollingsworth JC

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a comprehensive evaluation of care received by enrollees in a prepaid community health care project, we studied the process of care for enrollees reported to have a urinary tract infection. The care given to 98 patients enrolled in a large prepaid group practice (PGP) and 69 patients seen by 45 physicians i...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： LoGerfo JP,Larson E,Richardson WC

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe a new model for classifying hospitalized patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) according to their severity of illness. In the first phase of the project, a clinical model indicating the relative severity of AIDS complications was formulated, based on the clinical literature and e...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Turner BJ,Kelly JV,Ball JK

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Except in cardiac surgery, measuring quality with procedure-specific mortality rates is unreliable because of small sample sizes at individual hospitals. Statistical power can be improved by combining mortality data from multiple operations. We sought to determine whether this approach would still be useful ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Dimick JB,Staiger DO,Birkmeyer JD

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：OBJECTIVE:We sought to project the lifetime cost of medical care for human immunodefiency virus (HIV)-infected adults using current antiretroviral therapy (ART) standards. METHODS:Medical visits and hospitalizations for any reason were from the HIV Research Network, a consortium of high-volume HIV primary care sites. ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Schackman BR,Gebo KA,Walensky RP,Losina E,Muccio T,Sax PE,Weinstein MC,Seage GR 3rd,Moore RD,Freedberg KA

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hospital occupancy, nurse staffing levels, weekend admission, and seasonal influenza have all been shown to be associated with in-hospital mortality. Yet, no study has simultaneously compared the strength of associations of these 4 factors with in-hospital mortality. OBJECTIVE:To compare the risk of in-hosp...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Schilling PL,Campbell DA Jr,Englesbe MJ,Davis MM

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is an analysis of patient choice of providers by the employees of the Security Pacific Bank of California and their dependents who have access to the Med Network Preferred Provider Organization (PPO). The empirical results show that not only is the PPO used by individuals who require relatively little med...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Wouters AV,Hester J

更新日期：1988-03-01 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：:Earlier studies have established substantial gender differences in the likelihood of obtaining a psychotropic drug prescription, and a correlation, especially among women, with such family characteristics as family responsibilities, marital separation, divorce or widowhood, and the presence of family stressors such as...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Cafferata GL,Meyers SM

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of health status measures in policy research relies considerably on patterns of mortality, life expectancy, and health status indicators, such as hospital readmission and institutionalization rates. In recent years the state of the art in health status measurement has advanced substantially with the de...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Steinwachs DM

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been recent increases in asthma prevalence, morbidity, and mortality in the United States. There is substantial evidence that problems in health care delivery may be contributing to these recent trends. Because of these recent changes, a reduction in asthma-related morbidity has been identified as a new nat...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Weiss KB,Budetti P

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Persons with behavioral disorders incur higher healthcare costs. Although they utilize behavioral health (BH) services others do not, they also have higher utilization of medical services OBJECTIVES:: To determine the degree to which higher costs for persons with BH disorders are attributable to utilization...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Freeman E,McGuire CA,Thomas JW,Thayer DA

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study developed an index of physician hospitalization practice style distinguishing physicians more prone to hospitalize patients from physicians less prone to hospitalize. The patients of physicians with markedly differing hospitalization styles are shown to be similar in such important characteristics as age, a...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Roos NP

更新日期：1989-10-01 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：:Previous research has neglected to delineate pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP) roles in tertiary care settings (TCS). New PNP roles have developed as TCS seek cost-effective solutions to providing quality patient care and to meeting new demands for outpatient care. The authors evaluated the roles of 11 PNPs in eight ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Cruikshank BM,Clow TJ,Seals B

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prospective payment for inpatient hospital care is based on the ideal that hospitals that produce similar outputs, as measured by the types of cases the hospital treats, should be paid similar prices. However, similar output is a multidimensional concept. Thus operationalization of this ideal will ultimately require a...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Vertrees JC,Manton KG

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substantial differences in the use of pediatric medical resources reinforce the need for identifying and understanding factors that influence the use of medical services for children. This research assesses the simultaneous impact of sociodemographic characteristics, health attitudes and beliefs, psychologic distress,...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Horwitz SM,Morgenstern H,Berkman LF

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:If shape of a person's utility function is associated with his health status, as is predicted by Prospect Theory, the use of utilities from the healthy could result in 'de facto' discrimination against the sick. OBJECTIVES:To determine if patients' utilities for hypothetical states and for their current hea...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Lenert LA,Treadwell JR,Schwartz CE

更新日期：1999-05-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Building on Andersen's behavioral model for the utilization of health care services, we examined factors associated with utilization of physician and hospital services among adults in Canada and the United States, with a focus on socioeconomic status (enabling resources in Andersen's framework). METHODS:Usi...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Blackwell DL,Martinez ME,Gentleman JF,Sanmartin C,Berthelot JM

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Moving patients from low-performing hospitals to high-performing hospitals may improve patient outcomes. These transfers may be particularly important in critical care, where small relative improvements can yield substantial absolute changes in survival. OBJECTIVE:To characterize the existing critical care n...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Iwashyna TJ,Christie JD,Moody J,Kahn JM,Asch DA

更新日期：2009-07-01 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:Patients with chronic disease who express stronger preference for their current health might be expected to have better outcomes than patients who assign lower utility to their current health state. OBJECTIVE:We sought to examine associations between preferences for current health and outcomes in a national...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Plantinga LC,Fink NE,Bass EB,Boulware LE,Meyer KB,Powe NR

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00