Mobile health services: a study in cost-effectiveness.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Teamwork in health care settings is widely recognized as an important factor in providing high-quality patient care. However, the behaviors that comprise effective teamwork, the organizational factors that support teamwork, and the relationship between teamwork and patient outcomes remain empirical questions...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Valentine MA,Nembhard IM,Edmondson AC

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the effects of health plan enrollment [health maintenance organizations (HMO) or fee-for-service (FFS)], a change in Medicare reimbursement policy which allowed for annual rather than biennial mammograms, and Health Plan Employer Data Information Set (HEDIS) measures on stage at diagnosis among old...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Habermann EB,Virnig BA,Riley GF,Baxter NN

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this review is to identify and analyze published studies that have evaluated disparities for opportunistic infection (OI) prophylaxis between blacks and whites with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the United States. METHODS:The authors conducted...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Oramasionwu CU,Koeller JM,Lawson KA,Brown CM,Morse GD,Frei CR

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data abstracted from transportation company records showed that nursing home patients made an average of 3.6 trips per year for care out of the nursing home. The bulk of this care (55 per cent) was provided at University Hospital with over a quarter provided at private physicians' offices and community health centers....

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Kane RL,Hammer D,Byrnes N

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many of the large ongoing national surveys of the US population contain a question that asks for the respondent's self-reported health status: "excellent," "very good," "good," "fair," or "poor." These surveys could be used to conduct cost-utility analyses of health care policies, treatments or other interve...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Nyman JA,Barleen NA,Dowd BE,Russell DW,Coons SJ,Sullivan PW

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：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:Although mental disorders constitute a significant public health problem in military populations, little is known about whether military members seek mental health treatment in a timely manner. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to examine delays in making the initial treatment contact for various me...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Fikretoglu D,Liu A,Pedlar D,Brunet A

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients often receive medical care from many different providers. Consequently, the various episodes of care may not be integrated into a meaningful whole, and the quality of care may suffer. Before this possibility can be evaluated, it is necessary to develop a measure of the integrating process. The authors studied...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Fletcher RH,O'Malley MS,Fletcher SW,Earp JA,Alexander JP

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This paper presents a profile of the use of antipsychotic medications in the treatment of schizophrenia in a national health system. METHODS:Prescription drug records written for antipsychotic medications between June 1999 and September 1999 were collected for patients diagnosed with schizophrenia in the De...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Leslie DL,Rosenheck RA

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines the quality of acute episodic care for five diagnostic categories amenable to one-visit diagnosis and treatment at the nation's largest chain of investor-owned ambulatory care centers. A total of 803 medical records were audited for five common conditions and measured against specific protocols. ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Parks CL,Cashman S,Winickoff RN,Bicknell WJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An important part of examining the adequacy of measures for use in ethnically diverse populations is the evaluation of differential item functioning (DIF) among subpopulations such as those administered the measure in different languages. A number of methods exist for this purpose. OBJECTIVE:The objective o...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Orlando Edelen MO,Thissen D,Teresi JA,Kleinman M,Ocepek-Welikson K

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Latinos make up the largest group of minority children in the United States. Despite great diversity among Latino children, studies have traditionally treated them as a monolithic group. Few studies have examined patterns and determinants of access to and use of health care for different subgroups of Latino ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Perez VH,Fang H,Inkelas M,Kuo AA,Ortega AN

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Self-care management is recognized as a key component of care for multimorbid older adults; however, the characteristics of those most likely to participate in Chronic Disease Self-Management (CDSM) programs and strategies to maximize participation in such programs are unknown. OBJECTIVES:To identify indivi...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Dattalo M,Giovannetti ER,Scharfstein D,Boult C,Wegener S,Wolff JL,Leff B,Frick KD,Reider L,Frey K,Noronha G,Boyd C

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 2016 President's Cancer Panel Connected Health report calls for thoroughly characterizing the team structures and processes involved in coordinating care for people with chronic conditions. We developed a multilevel care coordination framework by integrating existing frameworks from the teams and care co...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Weaver SJ,Che XX,Petersen LA,Hysong SJ

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Queues arise in medical care and serve as allocators in the absence of an effective market and when resources become perceptibly constrained. This is essentially the case in all countries where money is not the means for gaining access to medical services. A study estimated that the total wait in England was 96 days f...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Bloom BS,Fendrick AM

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effectiveness of standardized, patient-centered label (PCL) instructions to improve comprehension of prescription drug use compared with typical instructions. METHODS:A total of 500 adult patients recruited from 2 academic and 2 community primary care clinics in Chicago, IL and Shreveport, LA...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Wolf MS,Davis TC,Curtis LM,Webb JA,Bailey SC,Shrank WH,Lindquist L,Ruo B,Bocchini MV,Parker RM,Wood AJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Measures for pay-for-performance and public reporting programs may be based on clinical practice guidelines. The impact of guideline changes over time-and whether evolving clinical evidence can render measures based on prior guidelines misleading-is not known. OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of using differe...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Lin GA,Redberg RF,Anderson HV,Shaw RE,Milford-Beland S,Peterson ED,Rao SV,Werner RM,Dudley RA

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past decade physicians have identified the need to expand patient assessment to include global function and quality of life. During the same period, the busy clinic has evolved into the location where this assessment seems most appropriate. Integrating functional health assessment into a busy clinical practice ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Wasson J,Keller A,Rubenstein L,Hays R,Nelson E,Johnson D

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) State Innovation Models (SIM) Initiative funds states to accelerate delivery system and payment reforms. All SIM states focus on improving diabetes care, but SIM's effect on 30-day readmissions among adults with diabetes remains unclear. METHODS:A quasi-exp...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Rodríguez HP,Fulton BD,Phillips AZ

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The author highlights changes in hospital utilization that have occurred in association with restructuring of Ontario hospitals. The basic features of the epidemiology of hospital utilization described link the analysis of the organizational and structural components of hospitals with a more comprehensive ev...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Anderson GM

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Physical functioning is an important health domain for adults. OBJECTIVE:Evaluate physical functioning items in Medicare beneficiaries. RESEARCH DESIGN:Survey data from the 2010 Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Medicare survey. SUBJECTS:The 366,701 respondents were 58% female; 38% w...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Hays RD,Mallett JS,Gaillot S,Elliott MN

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medicare's Nonpayment Program of 2008 (hereafter called Program) withholds hospital reimbursement for costs related to hospital-acquired conditions (HACs). Little is known whether a hospital's Medicare patient load [quantified by the hospital's Medicare utilization ratio (MUR), which is the proportion of inp...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Thirukumaran CP,Glance LG,Temkin-Greener H,Rosenthal MB,Li Y

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：OBJECTIVE:We sought to evaluate the extent of changes in usual source of care and associations with perceived health care access, quality, and use. RESEARCH DESIGN:We collected cross-sectional data on adults from the 1998 to 1999 Community Tracking Household Survey (n = 48,720). Linear and logistic regressions account...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Smith MA,Bartell JM

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Risk adjustment is useful for adjusting health care payments based on patients' health status. OBJECTIVE:This work seeks to examine how well pharmacy- and diagnosis-based risk adjusters predict child health expenditures in Medicaid populations. RESEARCH DESIGN:We used 1994-1995 Medicaid claims files for al...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Kuhlthau K,Ferris TG,Davis RB,Perrin JM,Iezzoni LI

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physician integration strategies are attempts to bring physicians into hospital administration by giving them a role on the hospital board, employing them in administrative or clinical capacities, or expanding the administration issues dealt with by medical staff committees. This study used a production function model...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Morrisey MA,Alexander JA,Ohsfeldt RL

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Administrative databases are increasingly being used to study the incident dialysis population and have important advantages. However, traditional methods of risk adjustment have limitations in this patient population. OBJECTIVE:Our objective was to develop a prognostic index for 1-year mortality in inciden...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Quinn RR,Laupacis A,Hux JE,Oliver MJ,Austin PC

更新日期：2011-03-01 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:The economic impact of trauma in older persons is a matter of increasing concern to public health practitioners and planners, yet it is an issue that has not been widely studied. Available evidence does suggest, however, that falls are the costliest category of injury among older persons. METHODS:This study...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Rizzo JA,Friedkin R,Williams CS,Nabors J,Acampora D,Tinetti ME

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00