abstract：OBJECTIVES:To provide updated estimates of narrow- and broad-spectrum antibiotic use among U.S. children. DATA SOURCES:Linked nationally representative data from the 2004-2010 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component and the 2000 Decennial Census. STUDY DESIGN:Relationships between individual-, family-, a...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Sarpong EM,Miller GE

更新日期：2015-06-01 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:Substantial investment in electronic health records (EHRs) has provided an unprecedented opportunity to use clinical decision support (CDS) to increase guideline adherence. To inform efforts to maximize adoption, we characterized the adoption of an otitis media (OM) CDS system, the impact of performance feedb...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Fiks AG,Zhang P,Localio AR,Khan S,Grundmeier RW,Karavite DJ,Bailey C,Alessandrini EA,Forrest CB

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether Massachusetts Health Reform improved health outcomes in uninsured patients with hyperlipidemia, diabetes, or hypertension. DATA SOURCE:Partners HealthCare Research Patient Data Registry (RPDR). STUDY DESIGN:We examined 1,463 patients with hyperlipidemia, diabetes, or hypertension who we...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Stryjewski TP,Zhang F,Eliott D,Wharam JF

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To demonstrate how expanding services covered by a "bundled payment" can also expand variation in the costs of treating patients under the bundle, using the Medicare dialysis program as an example. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Observational claims-based study of 197,332 Medicare hemodialysis beneficiaries enro...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Gupta C,Chertow GM,Linthicum MT,Van Nuys K,Belozeroff V,Quarles D,Lakdawalla DN

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We study the association between the timing of the Great Recession (GR) and health spending among uninsured adults distinguishing by citizenship/nativity status and time of U.S. residence. DATA SOURCE:Uninsured U.S. citizens and noncitizens from the 2005-2006 and 2008-2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Vargas Bustamante A,Chen J

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare utilization and preventive care receipt among patients of federal Section 330 health centers (HCs) versus patients of other settings. DATA SOURCES:A nationally representative sample of adults from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (2004-2008). STUDY DESIGN:HC patients were defined as those wit...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Laiteerapong N,Kirby J,Gao Y,Yu TC,Sharma R,Nocon R,Lee SM,Chin MH,Nathan AG,Ngo-Metzger Q,Huang ES

更新日期：2014-10-01 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：BACKGROUND:Patients are treated using observation services (OS) when their care needs exceed standard outpatient care (i.e., clinic or emergency department) but do not qualify for admission. Medicare and other private payers seek to limit this care setting to 48 hours. DATA SOURCE/STUDY SETTING:Healthcare Cost and Uti...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Hockenberry JM,Mutter R,Barrett M,Parlato J,Ross MA

更新日期：2014-06-01 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 measure the effects of race/ethnicity, area measures of socioeconomic status (SES) and geographic residency status, and health care supply (HCS) characteristics on breast cancer (BC)-related outcomes. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Female patients in Georgia diagnosed with BC in the years 2000-2009. STUDY DE...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Markossian TW,Hines RB,Bayakly R

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To decompose the change in pediatric and adult dental care utilization over the last decade. DATA:2001 through 2010 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. STUDY DESIGN:The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition was used to explain the change in dental care utilization among adults and children. Changes in dental care util...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Vujicic M,Nasseh K

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate disparities in mental health care episodes, aligning our analyses with decisions to start or drop treatment, and choices made during treatment. STUDY DESIGN:We analyzed whites, blacks, and Latinos with probable mental illness from Panels 9-13 of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, assessing ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Cook BL,Zuvekas SH,Carson N,Wayne GF,Vesper A,McGuire TG

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess whether physicians' reported electronic health record (EHR) use provides clinical benefits and whether benefits depend on using an EHR meeting Meaningful Use criteria or length of EHR experience. DATA SOURCE:The 2011 Physician Workflow study, representative of U.S. office-based physicians. STUDY D...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： King J,Patel V,Jamoom EW,Furukawa MF

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To illustrate how the analysis of bimodal U-shaped distributed utilization can be modeled with beta-binomial regression, which is rarely used in health services research. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Veterans Affairs (VA) administrative data and Medicare claims in 2001-2004 for 11,123 Medicare-eligible VA prim...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Liu CF,Burgess JF Jr,Manning WG,Maciejewski ML

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pay-for-performance (P4P) is commonly used to improve health care quality in the United States and is expected to be frequently implemented under the Affordable Care Act. However, evidence supporting its use is mixed with few large-scale, rigorous evaluations of P4P. This study tests the effect of P4P on qual...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Werner RM,Konetzka RT,Polsky D

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the effect of a nursing home's share of residents with a serious mental illness (SMI) on the quality of care. DATA SOURCES:Secondary nursing home level data over the period 2000 through 2008 obtained from the Minimum Data Set, OSCAR, and Medicare claims. STUDY DESIGN:We employ an instrumental va...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Rahman M,Grabowski DC,Intrator O,Cai S,Mor V

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine how the inclusion of post-acute evaluation and management (E&M) services as primary care affects assignment of Medicare beneficiaries to accountable care organizations (ACOs). DATA SOURCES:Medicare claims for a random 5 percent sample of 2009 Medicare beneficiaries linked to American Medical Ass...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： McWilliams JM,Chernew ME,Zaslavsky AM,Landon BE

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine the effects of changes in payment and risk adjustment on (1) the annual enrollment and switching behavior of Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries, and (2) the relative costliness of MA enrollees and disenrollees. DATA:From 1999 through 2008 national Medicare claims data from the 5 percent longit...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Morrisey MA,Kilgore ML,Becker DJ,Smith W,Delzell E

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate 2012 tax expenditures for employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) in the United States and to explore the sensitivity of estimates to assumptions regarding the incidence of employer premium contributions. DATA SOURCES:Nationally representative Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data from the 2005-2007 H...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Miller GE,Selden TM

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Microsimulation was used to assess the financial impact on hospitals of a surge in influenza admissions in advance of the H1N1 pandemic in the fall of 2009. The goal was to estimate net income and losses (nationally, and by hospital type) of a response of filling unused hospital bed capacity proportionately a...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Braithwaite S,Friedman B,Mutter R,Handrigan M

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare health care utilization between Canadian and U.S. residents. DATA SOURCES:Nationally representative 2007 surveys from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey for the United States and the Canadian Community Health Survey for Canada. STUDY DESIGN:We use descriptive and multivariate methods to examine...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Pylypchuk Y,Sarpong EM

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the association between bodyweight status and provision of population-based prevention services. DATA SOURCES:The National Association of City and County Health Officials 2005 Profile survey data, linked with two cross-sections of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey in 20...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Chen ZA,Roy K,Gotway Crawford CA

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Apply quantile regression for a high-resolution analysis of changes in wait time to treatment and assess its applicability to quality improvement data compared with least-squares regression. DATA SOURCE:Addiction treatment programs participating in the Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment. MET...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Choi D,Hoffman KA,Kim MO,McCarty D

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To demonstrate the value of shrinkage estimators when calculating a composite quality measure as the weighted average of a set of individual quality indicators. DATA SOURCES:Rates of 28 quality indicators (QIs) calculated from the minimum dataset from residents of 112 Veterans Health Administration nursing h...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Shwartz M,Peköz EA,Christiansen CL,Burgess JF Jr,Berlowitz D

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the benefits of a high-performance work environment (HPWE) for employees, patients, and hospitals. STUDY SETTING:Forty-five adult, medical-surgical units in nine hospitals in upstate New York. STUDY DESIGN:Cross-sectional study. DATA COLLECTION:Surveys were collected from 1,527 unit-based hospit...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Weinberg DB,Avgar AC,Sugrue NM,Cooney-Miner D

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To quantify between-unit variability in mean length of stay (LoS) between intensive care units (ICUs) after adjusting for differences in case mix using a method that does not require arbitrary trimming of data. SETTING:An analysis of registry data from pediatric ICUs (PICUs) in Australia and New Zealand. ST...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Straney L,Clements A,Alexander J,Slater A,ANZICS Paediatric Study Group.

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the value of a novel composite measure for identifying the best hospitals for major procedures. DATA SOURCE:We used national Medicare data for patients undergoing five high-risk surgical procedures between 2005 and 2008. STUDY DESIGN:For each procedure, we used empirical Bayes techniques to create...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Dimick JB,Staiger DO,Osborne NH,Nicholas LH,Birkmeyer JD

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the role of smoking cessation in body weight. DATA SOURCES:2004-2005 and 2009-2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Surveys (BRFSS) (N = 349,000), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Tax Burden on Tobacco (Orzechowski and Walker 2010). STUDY DESIGN:The Gaussian treatment effect mod...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Kasteridis P,Yen ST

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The primary aim of this article was to identify the latent failures that are perceived to underpin medication errors. STUDY SETTING:The study was conducted within three medical wards in a hospital in the United Kingdom. STUDY DESIGN:The study employed a cross-sectional qualitative design. DATA COLLECTION ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Lawton R,Carruthers S,Gardner P,Wright J,McEachan RR

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE. : To determine whether racial/ethnic disparities in colonoscopy use vary by physician availability. DATA SOURCE. : We used 100 percent Texas Medicare claims data for 2003-2007. STUDY DESIGN. : We identified beneficiaries aged 66-79 in 2007, examined racial/ethnic differences in colonoscopy use from 2003 to ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Benarroch-Gampel J,Sheffield KM,Lin YL,Kuo YF,Goodwin JS,Riall TS

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine trends in employer-sponsored health insurance coverage rates and its associated components between 2000 and 2008, to provide a baseline for later evaluations of the Affordable Care Act, and to provide information to policy makers as they design the implementation details of the law. DATA SOURCES:P...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Vistnes J,Zawacki A,Simon K,Taylor A

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To extend recent conceptual and methodological advances in disparities research to include the incorporation of genomic information in analyses of racial/ethnic disparities in health care and health outcomes. DATA SOURCES:Published literature on human genetic variation, the role of genetics in disease and re...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Shields AE,Crown WH

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:In the last few years there has been a steady uptake of mobile phone short message service (SMS) reminders to increase medical attendance rates. We undertook a review of studies that assessed the effectiveness of SMS reminders at increasing the uptake of appointments in health care settings. ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Guy R,Hocking J,Wand H,Stott S,Ali H,Kaldor J

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Methodologically sound mixed methods research can improve our understanding of health services by providing a more comprehensive picture of health services than either method can alone. This study describes the frequency of mixed methods in published health services research and compares the presence of meth...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Wisdom JP,Cavaleri MA,Onwuegbuzie AJ,Green CA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To translate a set of evidence-based clinical standards designed to allow paramedics to forego unnecessary and potentially harmful resuscitation attempts into a feasible new policy. DATA SOURCES/SETTING:Policy documents, meeting minutes, and personal communications between a large urban Emergency Medical Ser...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Grudzen CR,Richardson LD,Koenig WJ,Hoffman JR,Lorenz KA,Asch SM

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore state patterns in the racial life expectancy gap. DATA SOURCES:The 1997-2004 Multiple Cause of Death PUF, 2000 U.S. Census. STUDY DESIGN:We calculated life expectancy at birth for black and white men and women. DATA EXTRACTION METHODS:Data were obtained by the NCHS and U.S. Census Bureau. PRINC...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Bharmal N,Tseng CH,Kaplan R,Wong MD

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We evaluate the effects of the Nursing Home Quality Initiative (NHQI), which introduced quality measures to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Nursing Home Compare website, on facility performance and consumer demand for services. DATA SOURCES:The nursing home Minimum Data Set facility reports f...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Grabowski DC,Town RJ

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test whether nonprofit, for-profit, or government hospital ownership affects medical service provision in rural hospital markets, either directly or through the spillover effects of ownership mix. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Data are from the American Hospital Association, U.S. Census, CMS Healthcare Cost ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Horwitz JR,Nichols A

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00