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Health Services Research articles from August 1999
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Health Services Research archives from August 1999
Effects of the Medicare Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration on the use of community-based services.(The Medicare Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Program)
August 1, 1999... Prior studies of people with dementia have found that they "underutilize" formal care (cf. Bass, Looman, and Ehrlich 1992; Biegel et al. 1993; Caserta et al. 1987; Webber, Fox, and Burnette 1994). Among the explanations for this is a general...
Effects of the Medicare Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration on caregiver burden and depression.(The Medicare Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Program)
August 1, 1999... The care of persons with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias is known to be a particularly challenging responsibility for family members. This results from the terminal nature of the illness and its preceding mental decline, a loss of...
Effects of the Medicare Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration on nursing home entry.(The Medicare Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Program)
August 1, 1999... As consciousness of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias has increased, so have questions about ways to fund and care appropriately for people with dementia. The attention of public policy has focused on care for people with dementia both in...
Do aftercare services reduce inpatient psychiatric readmissions?(Psychiatric Utilization)
August 1, 1999... In recent years, the continuum of care philosophy has transformed the treatment of children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbances (Stroul and Friedman 1986). Key to this philosophy is the notion that the needs of children and...
Differences between generalists and mental health specialists in the psychiatric treatment of Medicare beneficiaries.(Psychiatric Utilization)
August 1, 1999... A number of studies have documented that the majority of persons who are mentally ill are treated in the general medical sector (Regier, Goldberg, and Taube 1978; Schurman, Kramer, and Mitchell 1985; Regier, Narrow, Rae, et al. 1993). Other...
Response to health insurance by previously uninsured rural children.
August 1, 1999... Concerns over the large number of children without health insurance led Congress to expand Medicaid coverage to children in poverty through the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1990. An estimated 10 million children, however, remained uninsured in...
The hospital multistay rate as an indicator of quality of care.
August 1, 1999... Hospital use in the United States and in other developed nations is concentrated in the small proportion of the population that is repeatedly hospitalized in any given year. The 1990 U.S. National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) showed that...
Psychiatric comorbidity measures as predictors of retention in drug abuse treatment programs.
August 1, 1999... A consistent predictor of success following treatment for drug abuse is length of time spent in the treatment program (De Leon 1985; Hubbard, Marsden, Rachal, et al. 1989; Simpson and Sells 1982). Therefore, the efficient design of treatment...