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abstract：BACKGROUND:Since COVID-19 has caused dramatic changes in everyday life, a major concern is whether patients have adequate access to mental health care despite shelter-in-place ordinances, school closures, and social distancing practices. OBJECTIVES:The aim was to examine the availability of telehealth services at outp...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Cantor JH,McBain RK,Kofner A,Stein BD,Yu H

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the effect of after-hours telephone access to physicians and physician access to computerized medical records on hospitalizations and emergency room (ER) visits in an inner-city, adult, general medicine clinic. Patients were randomly assigned to a control (C) and two study groups (S1 and S2). Pati...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Darnell JC,Hiner SL,Neill PJ,Mamlin JJ,McDonald CJ,Hui SL,Tierney WM

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Medical error reporting is an essential component of patient safety enhancement. However, increasingly, the literature points to a problem of underreporting of treatment errors, mainly as a result of the fear of malpractice lawsuits and limited formal data collection systems. Few studies, if any, have examin...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Naveh E,Katz-Navon T,Stern Z

更新日期：2006-02-01 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：:The effect of large numbers of patients with a history of substance abuse upon a health care system is rarely considered, nor is the health care system's response to such a clientele ever assessed. In this preliminary study, the collective effect of large numbers of substance abuse patients upon a clinic serving the u...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Cahill DF,Hodgkins BJ

更新日期：1991-10-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Individuals without health insurance in general receive fewer health services and are more likely than insured patients to experience poor outcomes. The main goal of this research was to study whether physicians' clinical recommendations vary for insured and uninsured patients, implying that physicians' choi...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Mort EA,Edwards JN,Emmons DW,Convery K,Blumenthal D

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The variability in preferences used in quality-adjusted life-years estimation jeopardizes the comparability of cost-effectiveness analyses and has led the Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine (the PCEHM) to call for a catalog of "off-the-shelf" preference weights associated with conditions that...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Sullivan PW,Lawrence WF,Ghushchyan V

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:When suffering becomes unbearable for patients they might request for euthanasia. OBJECTIVE:To study which patients request for euthanasia and which requests actually resulted in euthanasia in relation with diagnosis, care setting at the end of life, and patient demographics. DESIGN:A cross-sectional study...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Onwuteaka-Philipsen BD,Rurup ML,Pasman HR,van der Heide A

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：OBJECTIVE:We sought to project the lifetime cost of medical care for human immunodefiency virus (HIV)-infected adults using current antiretroviral therapy (ART) standards. METHODS:Medical visits and hospitalizations for any reason were from the HIV Research Network, a consortium of high-volume HIV primary care sites. ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Schackman BR,Gebo KA,Walensky RP,Losina E,Muccio T,Sax PE,Weinstein MC,Seage GR 3rd,Moore RD,Freedberg KA

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is unclear if volume-outcome relationships exist in inpatient rehabilitation. OBJECTIVES:Assess associations between facility volumes and 2 patient-centered outcomes in the 3 most common diagnostic groups in inpatient rehabilitation. RESEARCH DESIGN:We used hierarchical linear and generalized linear mod...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Graham JE,Deutsch A,O'Connell AA,Karmarkar AM,Granger CV,Ottenbacher KJ

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Teaching hospitals have higher charges than nonteaching hospitals, and teaching patients within a single institution incur higher charges than do private patients. Teaching hospitals claim that these higher charges are due to caring for patients with more complex illnesses. Critics claim that the increased charges are...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Jones KR

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors of this study examine temporal patterns of medical expenditures by Medicare beneficiaries. A random sample of 204,917 individuals who were alive and in the program from 1974 to 1977 was investigated. Individuals hospitalized in 1974 were found to have twice the rate of hospitalization in 1975, 1976, or 197...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Anderson G,Knickman JR

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cataract surgery is the most frequently performed surgical procedure on Medicare beneficiaries, with an annual cost to the Medicare program of more than $3.4 billion. In this study, the relationship between demographic, environmental, and provider-related factors, and the likelihood that cataract surgery will be perfo...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Javitt JC,Kendix M,Tielsch JM,Steinwachs DM,Schein OD,Kolb MM,Steinberg EP

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Administrative data from Manitoba, Canada document variation in procedure utilization rates over a period of 15 years. With coronary angiography and cardiovascular surgery centralized in the capital, Winnipeg, previous analyses from 1977 to 1983 found angiography and coronary artery bypass surgery (CABS) rat...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Hartford K,Ross LL,Walld R

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the Affordable Care Act has been successful in expanding Medicaid to >17 million people, insurance alone may not translate into access to health care. Even among the insured, substantial barriers to accessing services inhibit health care utilization. OBJECTIVES:We examined the effect of selected ba...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Allen EM,Call KT,Beebe TJ,McAlpine DD,Johnson PJ

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To enhance the efficient utilization of health providers, medical care researchers are increasingly concerned with the measurement of task performance. One job analysis methodology that is widely used is the task inventory technique, characterized by retrospective self-reporting. The purpose of this study was to valid...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Nelson EC,Jacobs AR,Breer PE

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Broken appointments have been a major problem at the Anthony L. Jordan Health Center since it opened in 1968. In an earlier 6-month study of broken appointments at the center the authors found 48% of pediatric appointments and 43% of medicine appointments to be broken. Daily broken appointment rates were correlated be...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Morse DL,Coulter MP,Napodano RJ,Hwang HL,Lawrence C

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We evaluated the longitudinal course of the relationship between patient satisfaction and quality of life (QoL) in Chinese breast and nasopharyngeal cancer patients. METHODS:A sample of Chinese breast (n = 250) and nasopharyngeal (n = 242) cancer patients were assessed during their first outpatient visit (b...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Wong WS,Fielding R

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Practice patterns and patient-reported outcomes of care are compared in detail for ten physicians and 12 new health practitioners delivering ambulatory care in two departments of a prepaid group practice, the Columbia Medical Plan (CMP). All providers completed questionnaires for a 50 per cent random sample of patient...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Levine DM,Morlock LL,Mushlin AI,Shapiro S,Malitz FE

更新日期：1976-04-01 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:The linkage of SEER registry data with Medicare claims allows the longitudinal tracking of health care and outcomes for patients after a cancer diagnosis. One category of outcomes amenable to research using Medicare claims is complications of cancer treatments: the unintentional, adverse side effects or sequ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Potosky AL,Warren JL,Riedel ER,Klabunde CN,Earle CC,Begg CB

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The practice of ordering "Do-Not-Resuscitate" (DNR) varies across hospitals. No research has explored how the DNR variation would affect cross-institutional performance reporting when DNR status is used as a risk adjustor. OBJECTIVE:We sought to assess the impact of DNR variation on performance reporting. ...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Tabak YP,Johannes RS,Silber JH,Kurtz SG

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To contrast the interpretations of treatment effect estimates using risk adjustment and instrumental variable (IV) estimation methods using observational data when the effects of treatment are heterogeneous across patients. We demonstrate these contrasts by examining the effect of breast conserving surgery p...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Brooks JM,Chrischilles EA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Seattle Prepaid Health Care Evaluation Project is a comparative study designed to assess the care received by persons enrolled in either a large prepaid group practice (PGP) or in a prepaid, independent practice setting in which physicians are reimbursed on a fee-for-service basis (IPP). As part of the study we as...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： LoGerfo JP,Efird RA,Diehr PK,Richardson WC

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We evaluated the association of medication refill adherence with demographic and prescription characteristics to determine whether such factors could guide intervention strategies in an indigent rural population. METHODS:The study was conducted at a University-based internal medicine practice serving an indi...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Schectman JM,Bovbjerg VE,Voss JD

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nearly half of US births are financed by Medicaid, and one-third of births occur by cesarean delivery, at double the cost of vaginal delivery. With the goal of reducing unnecessary cesarean use and improving value, in 2009 Minnesota's Medicaid program introduced a blended payment rate for uncomplicated birth...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Kozhimannil KB,Graves AJ,Ecklund AM,Shah N,Aggarwal R,Snowden JM

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The United States has a culturally and demographically diverse populace, and the aim of this study was to examine differences in health preferences by sex, age, ethnicity, and race. METHODS:We assessed preferences for health outcomes defined by the PROMIS-29 survey in a sample of the US population. On the b...

journal_title：Medical care

authors： Craig BM,Reeve BB,Cella D,Hays RD,Pickard AS,Revicki DA

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00