Substitution between formally and informally provided care for the impaired elderly in the community.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Medicare hospitalizations involve both facility and physician services. Although several studies analyze hospital-level variations in Medicare inpatient facility and inpatient physician services per admission, few studies directly explore the relationship between these services. Theoretically, inpatient faci...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Miller ME,Welch WP,Wong HS

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The desired form and style of written drug information for patients were assessed in a national survey of oral contraceptive (OC) users. These women were queried about two forms of OC information: a short insert included with dispensed drugs and a longer brochure delivered by the physician upon patient request. Longer...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Mazis M,Morris LA,Gordon E

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The intensity of end-of-life care varies substantially both within and between areas. Differing practice patterns of individual physicians are likely influenced by their peers. OBJECTIVE:To assess whether intensity of end-of-life care previously provided by a physician's peers influences patterns of care at...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Keating NL,O'Malley AJ,Onnela JP,Gray SW,Landon BE

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data suggest that differences in patient preferences may account for racial disparities in the use of medical interventions. Racial disparities have also been noted in outcomes and the delivery of healthcare services in chronic disease. Whether treatment preferences in chronic disease differ by race is not k...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Constantinescu F,Goucher S,Weinstein A,Fraenkel L

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health care providers and health care training institutions need more specific, relevant, and useful information for providing culturally sensitive health care. OBJECTIVE:We sought to determine what patients considered to be culturally sensitive health care. RESEARCH DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS:We conducted 20...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Tucker CM,Herman KC,Pedersen TR,Higley B,Montrichard M,Ivery P

更新日期：2003-07-01 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：:Health insurance plans are evaluated here in terms of ability to guarantee financial access to a set of basic fertility-related health services. Extent of coverage is determined by whether a service is a contract benefit, its market cost, and how often it is used in a given population in one year. Comprehensive covera...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Muller C,Krasner M,Jaffe FS

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acceptance by target populations of new programs funded by government is a phenomenon which one should be able to explain with existing innovation theory. In a study of a newly formed group health practice, funded in part by OEO, it is found that a commonly used set of predictors has little utility in explaining indi...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Koontz VL

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Complex health care interventions involve multiple distinct elements that contribute to their functioning. Conducting systematic reviews of complex interventions has substantial challenges. Although methodological guidance exists, less is known about the practical strategies and approaches undertaken by syst...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Wilt TJ,Greer N,Duan-Porter W

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the setting of declining U.S. literacy, new policies include use of clear communication and low-literacy accessibility practices with all patients. Reliable methods for adapting health information to meet such criteria remain a pressing need. OBJECTIVES:To report method validation (study 1) and method re...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Hill-Briggs F,Schumann KP,Dike O

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Patient perceptions are increasingly used to measure quality of care in a diversity of health-care delivery settings. The goals of this article are to review the current use of patient perceptions and to review what is known about the sensitivity of patient perceptions for discerning variations in care acros...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Rosenthal GE,Shannon SE

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare mental health service utilization and its associated factors between African Americans and whites in the 1980s and 1990s. DESIGN:Household-based longitudinal study with baseline interviews in 1981 and follow-up interviews from 1993 to 1996. SETTING:The Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA)...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Cooper-Patrick L,Gallo JJ,Powe NR,Steinwachs DM,Eaton WW,Ford DE

更新日期：1999-10-01 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：:Previous research has estimated the effect of children's health care needs on women's market and nonmarket roles. This article reports the results of a study on the impact of health care for disabled children on women's nonmarket work. (Effects on women's market work are reported elsewhere.) Data from 369 families of ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Breslau N

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Physician and patient gender both influence medical communication. Nonverbal behavior is generally under-researched in the medical encounter but plays an important role for patient outcomes such as satisfaction. OBJECTIVE:This article aims at identifying how specific physician nonverbal behaviors predict an...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Mast MS,Hall JA,Köckner C,Choi E

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A process was developed to encourage individuals to take more responsibility for their health by using a client-held health record. The motivation for the record, called a Personal Life Health Plan (PLHP), stems from the fact that the majority of ills which afflict an individual can be abated by behavior changes. The ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Giglio R,Spears B,Rumpf D,Eddy N

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fried and colleagues described a frailty phenotype measured in the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS). This phenotype is manifest when ≥3 of the following are present: low grip strength, low energy, slowed waking speed, low physical activity, or unintentional weight loss. We sought to approximate frailty phen...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Segal JB,Chang H-Y,Du Y,Walston JD,Carlson MC,Varadhan R

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Although information technology (IT) may improve efficiency and quality of patient care, the adoption of clinical IT by physicians has been limited. This study investigates the relationships between physician practice revenue and use of clinical IT. RESEARCH DESIGN:We undertook a cross-sectional analysis of...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Furukawa MF,Ketcham JD,Rimsza ME

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Reliability and validity are as necessary for predrafted advance directive forms as they are for all clinical assessment instruments. Performance of predrafted advance directive forms with both lay persons and clinicians is relevant. Evidence relating to test- retest reliability, content validity, and criter...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Alpert HR,Hoijtink H,Fischer GS,Emanuel L

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors compared the continuity of care that family physicians, general internists, and medical subspecialists provided to their adult primary care patients. The 40 study physicians came from large, private multispecialty practices in the San Francisco Bay Area. The three physician types did not differ significant...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Goldberg HI,Dietrich AJ

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A combined optimization-simulation model is used to examine the extent of productivity and economic benefits to be gained from adding a physician's assistant to a one-physician ambulatory health care practice. It is shown that previous models (which have predicted productivity gains as large as 90 per cent) have overs...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Hershey JC,Kropp DH

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to examine the dimensions of physician work satisfaction across a variety of medical specialties and practice settings. METHODS:A modified version of the Scheckler et al survey instrument was mailed to all physicians in Marion County, Indiana. Forty-two percent (777) of the eli...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Bates AS,Harris LE,Tierney WM,Wolinsky FD

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In comparison to the living conditions that existed before 1949, the People's Republic of China (PRC) represents a remarkable story of achievement. Western knowledge about the PRC has recently increased by leaps and bounds as detente with the United States has allowed many Americans to witness the "awakening of the dr...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Louie R

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current health care reform efforts are focused on reorganizing health care systems to reduce waste in the US health care system. OBJECTIVE:To compare rates of overuse in different health care systems and examine whether certain systems of care or insurers have lower rates of overuse of health care services....

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Keyhani S,Falk R,Howell EA,Bishop T,Korenstein D

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although individuals' health insurance coverage changes frequently, previous analyses have not accounted for changes in insurance coverage over time. OBJECTIVE:We sought to determine the independent association between lack of insurance and the risk of a decline in self-reported overall health and death fro...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Baker DW,Sudano JJ,Durazo-Arvizu R,Feinglass J,Witt WP,Thompson J

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:The Medicare Part D benefit is complicated and may be costly, especially for vulnerable low-income populations where lack of resources and limited English proficiency may be barriers to optimal plan selection. OBJECTIVES:To identify vulnerable Medicare beneficiaries and lower their expected annual out-of-po...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Cutler TW,Stebbins MR,Smith AR,Patel RA,Lipton HL

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accurate estimation of medical care costs raises a host of issues, both practical and methodological. OBJECTIVES:This article reviews methods for estimating the long-term medical care costs associated with a cancer diagnosis. METHODS:The authors consider data from administrative claims databases and descri...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Etzioni R,Riley GF,Ramsey SD,Brown M

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although patients readmitted to intensive care units (ICUs) typically have poor outcomes, ICU readmission rates have not been studied as a measure of hospital performance. OBJECTIVES:To determine variation in ICU readmission rates across hospitals and associations of readmission rates with other ICU-based m...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Cooper GS,Sirio CA,Rotondi AJ,Shepardson LB,Rosenthal GE

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00