Predicting psychosocial risk in patients with breast cancer.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We conducted a theoretically guided study of access to inpatient or residential treatment among a probability sample of homeless adults with alcohol or drug use disorders in Houston, Texas. METHODS:This study used a cross-sectional, retrospective design with data collected from a multistage random sample of...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Wenzel SL,Audrey Burnam M,Koegel P,Morton SC,Miu A,Jinnett KJ,Greer Sullivan J

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although there are several studies of the human and system factors that influence the outcomes of cardiac surgery, it remains difficult to draw conclusions because many do not simultaneously adjust for the characteristics of patients, physicians, and institutions. The current study explores the associations ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Norcini JJ,Boulet JR,Opalek A,Dauphinee WD

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the medical care resources devoted to diagnosing and treating cancer-related symptoms before a definitive cancer diagnosis. Previous research using SEER-Medicare data to measure incremental costs and utilization associated with cancer started with the date of diagnosis. We hypothesized ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Hornbrook MC,Fishman PA,Ritzwoller DP,Elston-Lafata J,O'Keeffe-Rosetti MC,Salloum RG

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The techniques of cost-effectiveness are employed to simplify resource allocation decisions concerned with the use of land and air transport systems in the health services of a developing country. Outcome classifications are produced for patients seen by mobile and fixed primary care units. The mobile services examine...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Walker G,Gish O

更新日期：1977-04-01 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

abstract：:This article reports on a study of the labor efficiency of 461 nursing homes located in Pennsylvania. Data envelopment analysis was used to estimate efficiency scores. Tobit equations were estimated for the entire sample and for subsamples consisting of for-profit (FP) and not-for-profit (NFP) nursing homes. The autho...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Rosko MD,Chilingerian JA,Zinn JS,Aaronson WE

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present research was designed to identify psychosocial correlates of adherence among patients receiving hemodialysis at two outpatient clinics. The 116 participants were interviewed concerning their knowledge of treatment, health beliefs, treatment history, social support, personal characteristics, and adherence t...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Cummings KM,Becker MH,Kirscht JP,Levin NW

更新日期：1982-06-01 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：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：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：BACKGROUND:Recent combat operations have involved large numbers of personnel. Long-term health effects of military deployment remain largely unknown. OBJECTIVES:To examine patterns and trends in long-term disability among combat veterans and to relate disability to aspects of wartime experience. PARTICIPANTS:A total ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Clarke PM,Gregory R,Salomon JA

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the hypothesis that the ability of physicians to speak the same language as asthmatic patients promotes patient compliance and the use of scheduled office appointments in preference to emergency services, the charts of 96 Spanish-speaking patients with asthma were reviewed. Of these patients, 65 were cared for...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Manson A

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the temporal association between symptoms of psychiatric disorder and physical aspects of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in a sample of HIV-positive adults. METHODS:Sample included 2431 participants at baseline and the first follow-up (FU1; approximately 8 months later). Measures incl...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Orlando M,Tucker JS,Sherbourne CD,Burnam MA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

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 purpose of this article is to examine children's use of ambulatory physician services in relation to three dimensions of family life: maternal employment, single-parent versus two-parent households, and the presence of a nuclear or extended family. Data from the National Medical Care Expenditure Survey show that m...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Cafferata GL,Kasper JD

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The authors evaluate a measure of the validity of utility elicitations and study the potential effects of invalid elicitations on population utility values. METHODS:The authors used a computerized survey to describe and measure preferences for three common side-effects of anti-psychotic drugs (tardive dyski...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Lenert LA,Morss S,Goldstein MK,Bergen MR,Faustman WO,Garber AM

更新日期：1997-09-01 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:Travel time, an access barrier, may contribute to attrition of women veterans from Veterans Health Administration (VHA) care. OBJECTIVE:We examined whether travel time influences attrition: (a) among women veterans overall, (b) among new versus established patients, and (c) among rural versus urban patients...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Friedman SA,Frayne SM,Berg E,Hamilton AB,Washington DL,Saechao F,Maisel NC,Lin JY,Hoggatt KJ,Phibbs CS

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management information system (FP/MIS) used by the Howard University Center for Family Planning Services, which operates community family planning clinics in Washington, D.C. is described. The system was developed to satisfy program objectives in patient management, program planning and evaluation, resource manage...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Herson J,Crocker CL,Butts E,Phong LT,Haynes JA

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The SF-12 is a multidimensional generic measure of health-related quality of life. It has become widely used in clinical trials and routine outcome assessment because of its brevity and psychometric performance, but it cannot be used in economic evaluation in its current form. OBJECTIVES:We sought to derive...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Brazier JE,Roberts J

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomized clinical trial was performed to assess whether the results of a depression screening instrument, when provided to physicians, could influence their recognition and treatment of depression in a primary care setting. The intervention consisted of randomly informing or not informing physicians of the depress...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Magruder-Habib K,Zung WW,Feussner JR

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the impact on hospital ranking of different aggregation methods when creating a composite score from a set of quality indicators relating to a single clinical condition. DESIGN:The analysis was based on 14966 medical records taken from all French hospitals that treated over 30 patients with acut...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Couralet M,Guérin S,Le Vaillant M,Loirat P,Minvielle E

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary care teams face daily time pressures both during patient encounters and outside of appointments. OBJECTIVES:We theorize 2 types of time pressure, and test hypotheses about organizational determinants and patient consequences of time pressure. RESEARCH DESIGN:Cross-sectional, observational analysis ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： McDonald KM,Rodriguez HP,Shortell SM

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current health care system reform proposals center on reducing the number of uninsured by extending private health insurance coverage. Discussion has also included enrolling Medicaid recipients in private programs. Much of the deliberation concerning extending coverage has centered on cost, but largely has not address...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Hahn B

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Most tests of the practice-makes-perfect hypothesis have used cross-sectional data, which reveal that patients receiving surgery in high-volume hospitals tend to experience better postsurgery outcomes. This study uses longitudinal data to explicitly examine whether any given hospital's patient outcomes chang...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Hamilton BH,Ho V

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The authors examined how the courts have responded to public and private insurers' use of medical appropriateness criteria to establish coverage and payment policies. METHODS:A structured review of all federal and state court health insurance cases decided between 1960 and June 1994 that involved a dispute ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Anderson G,Hall MA,Smith TR

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For patients recovering from severe acute illness, admission to a long-term acute care hospital (LTAC) is an increasingly common alternative to continued management in an intensive care unit (ICU). OBJECTIVE:To examine the effectiveness of LTAC transfer in patients with chronic critical illness. RESEARCH D...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Kahn JM,Werner RM,David G,Ten Have TR,Benson NM,Asch DA

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:A valid and reliable vignette-based measure of DSM-III psychiatric diagnostic knowledge was administered to practicing primary care physicians (PCPs; generally, internal and family practice medicine) and mental health professionals (MHPs, in psychiatry and psychology). Recognition, diagnosis, and treatment recommendat...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Andersen SM,Harthorn BH

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study investigates the use of data from automated systems within a large managed care plan to create indicators of clinical quality. METHODS:Measures from the first year of Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set, HEDIS 2.0, are used to compare chart review and automated analysis methodologies. T...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Dresser MV,Feingold L,Rosenkranz SL,Coltin KL

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00