abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess relationships between changes in Medicare Advantage (MA) payment rates and Medicare beneficiary hospitalizations and to simulate the effects of scheduled payment cuts on ambulatory care sensitive (ACS) and elective hospitalization rates. DATA:State Inpatient Database discharge abstracts from Arizon...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Nicholas LH

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To understand reasons why California has lower Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) scores than the rest of the country, including differing patterns of CAHPS scores between Medicare Advantage (MA) and fee-for-service, effects of additional demographic characteristics of beneficiari...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Farley DO,Elliott MN,Haviland AM,Slaughter ME,Heller A

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the factors associated with delivery of preterm infants at neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) hospitals in Arkansas during the period 2001-2006, with a focus on the impact of a Medicaid supported intervention, Antenatal and Neonatal Guidelines, Education, and Learning System (ANGELS), that expande...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Bronstein JM,Ounpraseuth S,Jonkman J,Lowery CL,Fletcher D,Nugent RR,Hall RW

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine whether disparities in health care experiences of Medicare beneficiaries differ between managed care (Medicare Advantage [MA]) and traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare. DATA SOURCES:132,937 MA and 201,444 FFS respondents to the 2007 Medicare Consumer Assessment of Health Care Providers and S...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Elliott MN,Haviland AM,Orr N,Hambarsoomian K,Cleary PD

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the association between dialysis facility chain affiliation and patient mortality. STUDY SETTING:Medicare dialysis population. STUDY DESIGN:Data from the United States Renal Data System (USRDS) were used to identify 3,601 free-standing dialysis facilities and 34,914 Medicare patients' incidence t...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Zhang Y,Cotter DJ,Thamer M

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess whether distance to services or diagnosis at a hospital-based medical center compared with a community clinic influences the receipt of psychotherapy versus pharmacotherapy for depression. DATA SOURCE:Veterans Affairs (VA) administrative data for 132,329 depressed veterans between October 2003 and ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Pfeiffer PN,Glass J,Austin K,Valenstein M,McCarthy JF,Zivin K

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The Patient Activation Measure (PAM) quantifies the extent to which people are informed about and involved in their health care. Objectives were to determine the psychometric properties of PAM among multimorbid older adults and evaluate a theoretical, four-stage model of patient activation. Methods. A cross-...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Skolasky RL,Green AF,Scharfstein D,Boult C,Reider L,Wegener ST

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine factors associated with Medicaid acceptance for substance abuse (SA) services by outpatient SA treatment programs. DATA SOURCES:Secondary analysis of 2003-2006 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services data combined with state Medicaid policy and usage measures and other publicly avail...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Terry-McElrath YM,Chriqui JF,McBride DC

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To construct a data tool, the Residential History File (RHF), that summarizes information from Medicare claims and nursing home (NH) Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessments to track people through health care locations, including non-Medicare-paid NH stays. DATA SOURCES:Online Survey of Certification and Reportin...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Intrator O,Hiris J,Berg K,Miller SC,Mor V

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the feasibility, reliability, and validity of comprehensively assessing physician-level performance in ambulatory practice. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:Ambulatory-based general internists in 13 states participated in the assessment. STUDY DESIGN:We assessed physician-level performance, adjuste...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Holmboe ES,Weng W,Arnold GK,Kaplan SH,Normand SL,Greenfield S,Hood S,Lipner RS

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop and validate a disease-specific automated inpatient mortality risk adjustment system primarily using computerized numerical laboratory data and supplementing them with administrative data. To assess the values of additional manually abstracted data. METHODS:Using 1,271,663 discharges in 2000-2001,...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Tabak YP,Sun X,Derby KG,Kurtz SG,Johannes RS

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing numbers of Americans are living with multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) and disabilities. Addressing health care needs of persons with MCCs or disabilities presents challenges on many levels. For health services researchers, priorities include (1) considering MCCs and disabilities in comparative effectivene...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Iezzoni LI

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether the interaction between individual race/ethnicity and community racial/ethnic composition is associated with health-related home care use among elderly persons in the United States. DATA SOURCES:A nationally representative sample of community-dwelling elders aged 65+ from the 2000 to 2...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Kirby JB,Lau DT

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the effect of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on birth outcomes. DATA SOURCE:The Child Development Supplement (CDS) of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The PSID provides extensive data on the income and well-being of a representative sa...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Foster EM,Jiang M,Gibson-Davis CM

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The extent to which patient experiences with hospital care are related to other measures of hospital quality and safety is unknown. METHODS; We examined the relationship between Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems scores and technical measures of quality and safety using service-...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Isaac T,Zaslavsky AM,Cleary PD,Landon BE

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To characterize the types of hospices with higher rates of patient disenrollment from the Medicare Hospice Benefit and the markets in which these hospices operate. DATA SOURCE:Secondary analyses of Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results-Medicare data. Analyses included patients who died of cancer from 19...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Carlson MD,Herrin J,Du Q,Epstein AJ,Cherlin E,Morrison RS,Bradley EH

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We report the validation of an instrument to measure mistrust of health care organizations and examine the relationship between mistrust and health care service underutilization. METHODS:We conducted a telephone survey of a random sample of households in Baltimore City, MD. We surveyed 401 persons and followed...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： LaVeist TA,Isaac LA,Williams KP

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop a framework that public health practitioners could use to measure the value of public health services. DATA SOURCES:Primary data were collected from August 2006 through March 2007. We interviewed (n=46) public health practitioners in four states, leaders of national public health organizations, an...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Jacobson PD,Neumann PJ

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare safety climate between diverse U.S. hospitals and Veterans Health Administration (VA) hospitals, and to explore the factors influencing climate in each setting. DATA SOURCES:Primary data from surveys of hospital personnel; secondary data from the American Hospital Association's 2004 Annual Survey ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Singer SJ,Hartmann CW,Hanchate A,Zhao S,Meterko M,Shokeen P,Lin S,Gaba DM,Rosen AK

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Evidence supporting the use of public reporting of quality information to improve health care quality is mixed. While public reporting may improve reported quality, its effect on quality of care more broadly is uncertain. This study tests whether public reporting in the setting of nursing homes resulted in im...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Werner RM,Konetzka RT,Stuart EA,Norton EC,Polsky D,Park J

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2004, the State of Wisconsin introduced a change to their Medicaid Policy allowing medical care providers to be reimbursed for fluoride varnish treatment provided to Medicaid enrolled children. OBJECTIVE:To determine the extent by which a state-level policy change impacted access to fluoride varnish trea...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Okunseri C,Szabo A,Jackson S,Pajewski NM,Garcia RI

更新日期：2009-08-01 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 determine whether Medicare enrollment at age 65 has an effect on the health trajectory of the near-elderly uninsured. DATA SOURCES:Eight biennial waves (1992-2006) of the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative panel survey of noninstitutionalized 51-61 year olds and their spouses. STUDY...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Polsky D,Doshi JA,Escarce J,Manning W,Paddock SM,Cen L,Rogowski J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To test whether state Certificate of Need (CON) regulations influence procedural mortality or the provision of coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) and percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI). DATA SOURCES:Medicare inpatient claims obtained for 1989-2002 for patients age 65+ who received CABG or PC...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Ho V,Ku-Goto MH,Jollis JG

更新日期：2009-04-01 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

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess costs, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) augmenting bronchodilator treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). DATA SOURCES:Claims between 1997 and 2005 from a large managed care database. STUDY DESIGN:Individual-level, fixed-effects regression ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Akazawa M,Stearns SC,Biddle AK

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To simplify the decision-making process, we propose and implement an approach to assess the stability of health plan performance over time when multiple indicators of performance exist. DATA SOURCE:National Committee for Quality Assurance Health Care Effectiveness Data and Information Set data for childhood ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Swaminathan S,Chernew M,Scanlon DP

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the impact of a locally adapted evidence-based quality improvement (EBQI) approach to implementation of smoking cessation guidelines into routine practice. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING:We used patient questionnaires, practice surveys, and administrative data in Veterans Health Administration (VA) p...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Yano EM,Rubenstein LV,Farmer MM,Chernof BA,Mittman BS,Lanto AB,Simon BF,Lee ML,Sherman SE

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To efficiently estimate race/ethnicity using administrative records to facilitate health care organizations' efforts to address disparities when self-reported race/ethnicity data are unavailable. DATA SOURCE:Surname, geocoded residential address, and self-reported race/ethnicity from 1,973,362 enrollees of a...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Elliott MN,Fremont A,Morrison PA,Pantoja P,Lurie N

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the costs of physician-owned cardiac, orthopedic, and surgical single specialty hospitals with those of full-service hospital competitors. DATA SOURCES:The primary data sources are the Medicare Cost Reports for 1998-2004 and hospital inpatient discharge data for three of the states where single sp...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Carey K,Burgess JF Jr,Young GJ

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the extent to which the elimination of behavioral health benefits for selected beneficiaries of Oregon's Medicaid program affected general medical expenditures among enrollees using outpatient mental health and substance abuse treatment services. DATA SOURCE/STUDY SETTING:Twelve months of claims...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： McConnell KJ,Wallace NT,Gallia CA,Smith JA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop a taxonomy of governing board roles in U.S. hospitals. DATA SOURCES:2005 AHA Hospital Governance Survey, 2004 AHA Annual Survey of Hospitals, and Area Resource File. STUDY DESIGN:A governing board taxonomy was developed using cluster analysis. Results were validated and reviewed by industry exper...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Lee SY,Alexander JA,Wang V,Margolin FS,Combes JR

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Assess proxy respondent effects on health care evaluations by Medicare beneficiaries. DATA SOURCE:110,215 respondents from the nationally representative 2001 CAHPS((R)) Medicare Fee-for-Service Survey. STUDY DESIGN/DATA COLLECTION/EXTRACTION METHODS:We compare the effects of both proxy respondents and proxy...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Elliott MN,Beckett MK,Chong K,Hambarsoomians K,Hays RD

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RESEARCH OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of recent Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) changes on efficiency in skilled nursing homes. DATA SOURCE/STUDY SETTING:Medicare Cost Reports (MCR), On-line Survey Certification and Reporting System (OSCAR), Area Resource Files (ARF), a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Se...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Zhang NJ,Unruh L,Wan TT

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine organizational structural attributes associated with counselor-client contact. DATA SOURCES:Data were collected in 2004 and 2005 for a federally funded project, which simultaneously examines organizational structure, functioning, and resources among outpatient substance abuse treatment programs. ...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Knight DK,Broome KM,Simpson DD,Flynn PM

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To use statistical process control charts to monitor in-hospital outcomes at the hospital level for a wide range of procedures and diagnoses. DATA SOURCES:Routine English hospital admissions data. STUDY DESIGN:Retrospective analysis using risk-adjusted log-likelihood cumulative sum (CUSUM) charts, comparing...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Bottle A,Aylin P

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examines the degree to which a married individual's health habits and use of preventive medical care are influenced by his or her spouse's behaviors. STUDY DESIGN:Using longitudinal data on individuals and their spouses, we examine changes over time in the health habits of each person as a functio...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Falba TA,Sindelar JL

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine whether parental beliefs about routine checkups are associated with children's receipt of timely preventive care. DATA SOURCES:The 2001 United Way Outcomes and Community Impact Program telephone survey of San Diego County, including 918 households with children between 3 and 19 years of age, where...

journal_title：Health services research

authors： Hughes SC,Wingard DL

更新日期：2008-02-01 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