Variation in the rate of cervical spine surgery in Washington State.

abstract：:Mental health services were included in comprehensive benefits available with no out-of-pocket expenses to enrollees in the Seattle Prepaid Health Care Project. This study was designed to examine the characteristics of users as compared to nonusers of mental health services and to examine the possibility of lower use ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Diehr P,Williams SJ,Shortell SM,Richardson WC,Drucker WL

更新日期：1979-09-01 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：:In-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is associated with substantial costs beyond those of the resuscitation itself. These costs are important to understand because health care resources are limited. To that end, a model of CPR is proposed, including an examination of the effect of several variables on the c...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Ebell MH,Kruse JA

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine healthcare coverage and access disparities for American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) veterans compared with non-Hispanic white veterans. METHODS:We examined national survey data for honorably discharged veterans in the United States using National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data between 1997 an...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Johnson PJ,Carlson KF,Hearst MO

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The measurement of inpatient complications his received substantial attention in recent years because mortality rates and other outcome measures often appear unable to discriminate superior from inferior hospital care. Complication measurement holds out the promise of being more sensitive to variations in patient care...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Brailer DJ,Kroch E,Pauly MV,Huang J

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the health care experiences of American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIANs) due to limited data. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to investigate the health care experiences of AIAN Medicare beneficiaries relative to non-Hispanic Whites using national survey data pooled over 5 y...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Martino SC,Elliott MN,Hambarsoomian K,Garcia AN,Wilson-Frederick S,Gaillot S,Weech-Maldonado R,Haviland AM

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Emergency departments (ED) were on the front lines for possible cases of transmission during the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of the SARS catastrophe on an urban ED. METHODS:The patients' characteristics in an urban ED were collect...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Chen WK,Cheng YC,Chung YT,Lin CC

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Eliminating barriers to care is important for improving health service use. However, the barriers to mental health care have not been well investigated. OBJECTIVES:This study was designed to provide information about the barriers to mental health service use and to identify clinical factors associated with ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Wang J

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from a national survey of veterans are analyzed to determine how age, income, health insurance and service-connected disability influence the veteran's choice of Veterans Administration (VA) hospitalization. Log-linear analysis is used to provide a model that expresses in numerically quantifiable terms (odds and ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Page WF

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Growing adoption of electronic health records and increased emphasis on the reuse and integration of clinical care and administration data require a robust informatics infrastructure to inform health care effectiveness in real-world settings. The Scalable Architecture for Federated Translational Inquiries ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Kahn MG,Batson D,Schilling LM

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several quality assessment systems use administrative data to identify postoperative complications, with uncertain validity. OBJECTIVES:To determine how accurately postoperative complications are reported in administrative data, whether accuracy varies systematically across hospitals, and whether serious co...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Romano PS,Chan BK,Schembri ME,Rainwater JA

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was initiated to determine the extent of hospital capacity reduction in large U.S. cities. In addition, hospital bed and service additions were analyzed. Study data indicate that between 1976 and 1978 more than 5,000 beds were closed in the 36 cities surveyed. This constitutes 2.7% of total hospital beds in...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Ermann D,Aronoff R

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medication adherence may be a proxy for healthy behaviors and other factors that affect outcomes. Prior studies of the association between placebo adherence and health outcomes have been limited primarily to men enrolled in clinical trials and cardiovascular disease outcomes. We examined associations between...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Curtis JR,Larson JC,Delzell E,Brookhart MA,Cadarette SM,Chlebowski R,Judd S,Safford M,Solomon DH,Lacroix AZ

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The integration of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies into a large organization such as the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) requires cultural change and deliberate planning to ensure feasibility and buy-in from staff and patients. At present, there is limited knowledge of VHA patient...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Fletcher CE,Mitchinson AR,Trumble EL,Hinshaw DB,Dusek JA

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of sharing medical records in improving physician-older patient communication was evaluated in 203 ambulatory chronically ill older patients (mean age, 70.1 years) by a randomized controlled trial. Ninety-five experimental group patients received copies of their physicians' progress notes 1 week afte...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Bronson DL,Costanza MC,Tufo HM

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE:Patients with multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) are a critical but undefined group for quality measurement. We present a generally applicable systematic approach to defining an MCC cohort of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries that we developed for a national quality measure, risk-standardized ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Drye EE,Altaf FK,Lipska KJ,Spatz ES,Montague JA,Bao H,Parzynski CS,Ross JS,Bernheim SM,Krumholz HM,Lin Z

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This prospective study was conducted to determine the influence of primary care patients' health perceptions on their utilization of health care services. Patients' health perceptions were measured using the RAND Corporation's General Health Perceptions Questionnaire. Physicians provided scores of how they thought the...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Connelly JE,Philbrick JT,Smith GR Jr,Kaiser DL,Wymer A

更新日期：1989-03-01 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：:One of the techniques adopted recently by certain hospitals to meet the competitive pressure for reducing costs is physician profiling. Profiling produces periodic reports that compare a physician's resource consumption to a benchmark figure. This study analyzes the effectiveness and implications of one hospital's int...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Evans JH 3rd,Hwang Y,Nagarajan N

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Estimating influenza vaccine effectiveness using an unvaccinated comparison group may result in biased effect estimates. OBJECTIVES:To explore the reduction of confounding bias in an active comparison of high-dose versus standard-dose influenza vaccines, as compared with vaccinated versus unvaccinated compa...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Butler AM,Layton JB,Krueger WS,Kshirsagar AV,McGrath LJ

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, employers, insurers, and government purchasers have paid increased attention to the measurement of patient outcomes and health status. Such interest is stimulated less by policy or quality concerns than by the need to reduce health care expenditures. Any expected benefits which might accrue from healt...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Lansky D,Butler JB,Waller FT

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been controversy about whether confounding by indication for treatment--that is, owing to physicians' conscious efforts to base treatment decisions on patients' pretreatment prognoses--makes nonrandomized, observational comparisons of treatments invalid. Some now believe evidence from studies of practice var...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Poses RM,Smith WR,McClish DK,Anthony M

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Decades-long efforts to require parity between behavioral and physical health insurance coverage culminated in the comprehensive federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act. OBJECTIVES:To determine the association between federal parity and changes in mental health care utilization and spending, p...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Haffajee RL,Mello MM,Zhang F,Busch AB,Zaslavsky AM,Wharam JF

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study compared Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and non-VA mental health service use among male and female veterans. Because female veterans are a distinct minority in VA, it was hypothesized that they would be less likely to use VA mental health care than would male veterans. METHODS:Using data fro...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Hoff RA,Rosenheck RA

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The primary objective of this study was to examine veterans' reliance on health care services provided by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) within Minnesota and estimate the potential effect on uninsurance rates if all eligible veterans relied on VHA coverage. Secondary objectives were to compare vete...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Jonk YC,Call KT,Cutting AH,O'Connor H,Bansiya V,Harrison K

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To establish a baseline for the incidence of sepsis by severity and presence on admission in acute care hospital settings before implementation of a broad sepsis screening and response initiative. METHODS:A retrospective cohort study using hospital discharge abstracts of 5672 patients, aged 18 years and abov...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Jones SL,Ashton CM,Kiehne LB,Nicolas JC,Rose AL,Shirkey BA,Masud F,Wray NP

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate patterns of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use disclosure across medical and sociobehavioral factors and to provide a model that takes into account factors in explaining those patterns. SUBJECTS:A total of 21,849 CAM use episodes from 7347 respondents in the 2007 US National Heal...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Shim JM,Schneider J,Curlin FA

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about how Medicare Part D affects the medication refill adherence for cardiovascular and diabetes medications, particularly among beneficiaries without prior drug coverage. OBJECTIVES:To evaluate Medicare Part D's effect on medication adherence among beneficiaries with hyperlipidemia, hypert...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Zhang Y,Lave JR,Donohue JM,Fischer MA,Chernew ME,Newhouse JP

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) measures are becoming increasingly important for evaluating the effectiveness of medical interventions and assessing the health of populations. Preference-based instruments, a subset of HRQOL measures, allow comparisons of overall health status in populations and in clinical sett...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Gold M,Franks P,Erickson P

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to estimate the effect of Medicare Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) enrollment on hospitalization rates and total inpatient days for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs) after controlling for selection. RESEARCH DESIGN:Simultaneous equations using a discrete facto...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Zeng F,O'Leary JF,Sloss EM,Lopez MS,Dhanani N,Melnick G

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00