A decision theory approach to measuring severity in illness.

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 demonstrate how a researcher can investigate the appropriateness of a published comorbidity summary measure for use with a given sample. DATA SOURCE:Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results linked to Medicare claims data. STUDY DESIGN:We examined Kaplan-Meier estimated survival curves for four disease...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Egleston BL,Uzzo RG,Beck JR,Wong YN

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the development of an instrument for assessing workforce perceptions of hospital safety culture and to assess its reliability and validity. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Primary data collected between March 2004 and May 2005. Personnel from 105 U.S. hospitals completed a 38-item paper and pencil sur...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Singer S,Meterko M,Baker L,Gaba D,Falwell A,Rosen A

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To estimate county-level associations between in utero exposure to threatened evictions and preterm birth in the United States. DATA SOURCES:Complete birth records were obtained from the National Center for Health Statistics (2009-2016). Threatened evictions were measured at the county level using eviction c...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Khadka A,Fink G,Gromis A,McConnell M

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of four treatment modalities for substance abuse. DATA SOURCES:The study used data from the Services Research Outcomes Study (SROS), a survey of 3,047 clients in a random sample of 99 drug treatment facilities across the United States. Detailed sociodemograp...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Mojtabai R,Zivin JG

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the effects of varying diagnostic and pharmaceutical criteria on the performance of claims-based algorithms for identifying beneficiaries with hypertension, heart failure, chronic lung disease, arthritis, glaucoma, and diabetes. STUDY SETTING:Secondary 1999-2000 data from two Medicare+Choice healt...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Rector TS,Wickstrom SL,Shah M,Thomas Greeenlee N,Rheault P,Rogowski J,Freedman V,Adams J,Escarce JJ

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify patient characteristics and health care experiences associated with primary care linkage after alcohol or drug detoxification. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Primary data collected over two years. Subjects were adults without primary medical care, in an urban residential detoxification program. STUD...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Saitz R,Larson MJ,Horton NJ,Winter M,Samet JH

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine factors associated with ruptured appendicitis among children, using administrative databases. Insurance-related differences in the risk of ruptured appendix among adults in California have previously been described (Braveman, Schaaf, Egerter, et al. 1994). DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:State of Mar...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Gadomski A,Jenkins P

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether Medicaid home care spending reduces the proportion of the disabled elderly population who do not get help with personal care. DATA SOURCES:Data on Medicaid home care spending per poor elderly person in each state is merged with data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey for 1992, ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Kemper P,Weaver F,Short PF,Shea D,Kang H

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that a greater commitment to strategic adaptation, as exhibited by more extensive implementation of a subacute/rehabilitation care strategy in nursing homes, will be associated with superior performance. DATA SOURCES:Online Survey, Certification, and Reporting (OSCAR) data from 1997 to...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Zinn JS,Mor V,Feng Z,Intrator O

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate whether community-based health insurance (CBHI) protects household assets in rural Burkina Faso, Africa. DATA SOURCES:Data were used from a household panel survey that collected primary data from randomly selected households, covering 41 villages and one town, during 2004-2007(n = 890). STUDY DE...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Parmar D,Reinhold S,Souares A,Savadogo G,Sauerborn R

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the impact of the number of choices and age on measures of performance in choosing a Medicare prescription drug plan. DATA SOURCE/STUDY SETTING:One hundred ninty-two healthy individuals age 18 and older, half age 65 or older, in Claremont, California. STUDY DESIGN:Participants were randomly assigne...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Hanoch Y,Rice T,Cummings J,Wood S

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To understand patient loyalty to providers over time, informing effective population health management. STUDY SETTING:Patient care-seeking patterns over a 6-year timeframe in Minnesota, where care systems have a significant portion of their revenue generated by shared-saving contracts with public and private...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Carlin CS

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：:This paper addresses two questions: (1) Does adjusting for case mix have any effect on prospective admission-based reimbursement? and (2) How does the way in which case type is defined (DRG, ICD9CM, Age, etc) affect reimbursement systems? Data from 20 Maryland hospitals provided the basis for analysis, and the results...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Kinzer D,Warner M

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the source of observed lower risk-adjusted mortality for blacks than whites within the Veterans Affairs (VA) system by accounting for hospital site where treated, potential under-reporting of black deaths, discretion on hospital admission, quality improvement efforts, and interactions by age group....

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Volpp KG,Stone R,Lave JR,Jha AK,Pauly M,Klusaritz H,Chen H,Cen L,Brucker N,Polsky D

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test for differences in patient outcomes when hospital and post-acute care (PAC) providers participate in accountable care organizations (ACOs). DATA/SETTING:Using Medicare claims, we examined changes in readmission, Medicare spending, and length of stay among patients admitted to ACO-participating hospit...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Agarwal D,Werner RM

更新日期：2018-12-01 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 examine the ways in which the costs of nonresidential mental health care depend on (1) the type of provider who initiates the treatment episode and (2) the level of cost sharing imposed on the patient. STUDY SETTING:The 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey, a national probability sample of the U.S. ci...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Holmes AM,Deb P

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study the impact of eliminating cost sharing for screening mammography on mammography rates in a large Medicare Advantage (MA) health plan which in 2010 eliminated cost sharing in anticipation of the Affordable Care Act mandate. STUDY SETTING:Large MA health maintenance organization offering individual-s...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Jena AB,Huang J,Fireman B,Fung V,Gazelle S,Landrum MB,Chernew M,Newhouse JP,Hsu J

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the effect of post-hospital Medicare home health and informal care on the functional status of 755 Medicare beneficiaries six weeks after hospital discharge for treatment of stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), congestive heart failure (CHF), hip procedures, and hip fractures. STU...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Penrod JD,Kane RL,Finch MD,Kane RA

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess hospital and geographic variability in 30-day mortality after surgery for CRC and examine the extent to which sociodemographic, area-level, clinical, tumor, treatment, and hospital characteristics were associated with increased likelihood of 30-day mortality in a population-based sample of older CRC...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Schootman M,Lian M,Pruitt SL,Deshpande AD,Hendren S,Mutch M,Jeffe DB,Davidson N

更新日期：2014-08-01 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 examine implementation of the Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB) and Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB) programs, enacted in 1988. The article summarizes the origin of the QMB and SLMB programs, describes what we have learned about QMB and SLMB enrollment in state Medicaid programs and, des...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Lamphere JA,Rosenbach ML

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The Standard Gamble (SG) technique is recommended for measurement of individuals' preferences under uncertainty and to express the outcome of different therapeutic choices in utility values to be used in clinical decision analysis and health program evaluation. The article alerts users of this technique to pr...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Gafni A

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To quantify racial and socioeconomic status (SES) disparities in oral health, as measured by tooth loss, and to determine the role of dental care use and other factors in explaining disparities. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:The Florida Dental Care Study, comprising African Americans (AAs) and non-Hispanic whi...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Gilbert GH,Duncan RP,Shelton BJ

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To synthesize lessons learned from the experiences of Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality-funded patient safety projects in implementing safe practices. DATA SOURCES:Self-reported data from individual and group interviews with Original, Challenge, and Partnerships in Implementing Patient Safety (PIPS...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Taylor SL,Ridgely MS,Greenberg MD,Sorbero ME,Teleki SS,Damberg CL,Farley DO

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00