Health Services Research articles from April 2007

Health Services Research archives from April 2007

Hospice enrollment and evaluation of its causal effect on hospitalization of dying nursing home patients.(Predictors of Mortality)
April 1, 2007

Cancer stage at diagnosis and survival among persons with social security disability insurance on Medicare.(Predictors of Mortality)
April 1, 2007

Comparing self-reported health status and diagnosis-based risk adjustment to predict 1- and 2 to 5-year mortality.(Predictors of Mortality)
April 1, 2007

Delayed access to health care and mortality.(Predictors of Mortality)
April 1, 2007

Women's satisfaction with their on-going primary health care services: a consideration of visit-specific and period assessments.(Quality and Satisfaction)
April 1, 2007

Hospital competition, managed care, and mortality after hospitalization for medical conditions in California.(Quality and Satisfaction)
April 1, 2007

Does the market value racial and ethnic concordance in physician-patient relationships?(Quality and Satisfaction)
April 1, 2007

Do professional interpreters improve clinical care for patients with limited English proficiency? A systematic review of the literature.(Quality and Satisfaction)
April 1, 2007

Primary care quality and addiction severity: a prospective cohort study.(Substance Abuse)(Author abstract)(Clinical report)
April 1, 2007... Primary care is being asked to expand its role in the identification and management of addictive disorders (National Council for Community Behaviorial Healthcare 2003; New Freedom Commission on Mental Health 2003). Training sessions for primary...

Racial disparities in completion rates from publicly funded alcohol treatment: economic resources explain more than demographics and addiction severity.(Substance Abuse)
April 1, 2007

Workplace drug testing and worker drug use.(Substance Abuse)
April 1, 2007

The complementarity and substitution between unconventional and mainstream medicine among racial and ethnic groups in the United States.(Determinants of Utilization)(Author abstract)
April 1, 2007... Racial and ethnic differences have been extensively studied in modem medical research in the United States as equality in health has become one of the priority issues of health policies. To some extent, racial and ethnic differences are a more...

Explaining direct care resource use of nursing home residents: findings from time studies in four states.(Determinants of Utilization)
April 1, 2007

Determinants of children's participation in California's Medicaid and SCHIP programs.(Children's Health Insurance)(State Children's Health Insurance Program)
April 1, 2007

The effect of new insurance coverage on the health status of low-income children in Santa Clara County.(Children's Health Insurance)
April 1, 2007

Survey conditioning in self-reported mental health service use: randomized comparison of alternative instrument formats.(Methods Articles)
April 1, 2007

Development of an algorithm to identify pregnancy episodes in an integrated health care delivery system.(Methods Articles)
April 1, 2007

Correction to "commentary: social experimentation at its best: the cash and counseling demonstration and its implications.".(Erratum)(Correction notice)
April 1, 2007