Health Services Research articles from April 1996

Health Services Research archives from April 1996

Requiem or reveille for health services research?(Editorial)
April 1, 1996... These are difficult and uncertain times for the field of health services research. Everywhere one turns one hears of research proposals and opportunities being tossed aside for lack of funding prospects. It is alarming, especially for young...

Practice setting and physician influences on judgments of colon cancer treatment by community physicians.
April 1, 1996... Colorectal cancer, a major public health problem in the United States, is the second most common cancer and in cancer mortality is surpassed only by lung cancer (Garfinkel 1991). The primary treatment is surgery, with more than 80 percent of...

Efficiency measurement and the operationalization of hospital production.
April 1, 1996... The popularity of nonparametric techniques, collectively termed data envelopment analysis (DEA), has largely contributed to the increased interest in the measurement of hospital efficiency during the last decade. This methodological framework...

Assessment of HCFA's 1992 Medicare Hospital Information Report of mortality following admission for hip arthroplasty. (Health Care Financing Administration)
April 1, 1996... The usefulness of administrative data in evaluating the quality of care and formulating policy has been a vigorously debated topic for many years. The intensity and frequency of the debates have increased recently in view of the apparent...

Risk indicators for hospitalization during the last year of life.
April 1, 1996... OVERVIEW The task of providing appropriate but affordable care to older people at the end of life is a challenge of major importance. The elderly population continues to grow, both as a proportion of the total population and in absolute...

Trauma systems and the costs of trauma care.
April 1, 1996... Trauma is the leading cause of death for those under the age of 45 and the fourth leading cause of death for all Americans. In 1985, about 2.3 million Americans were hospitalized and about 143,000 lives were lost due to injury (Rice, MacKenzie,...

The impact of market and organizational characteristics on nursing care facility service innovation: a resource dependency perspective.
April 1, 1996... Objective. Using resource dependency theory as a conceptual framework, this study investigates both the organizational and environmental factors associated with an emerging health care service delivery innovation, the provision of specialty care...