Health Services Research articles from August 2002

Health Services Research archives from August 2002

Looking forward to impact: moving beyond serendipity. (AHRQ Update).(Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... John M. Eisenberg A year ago in this space, our friend and colleague, the late John M. Eisenberg discussed the importance of measuring the impact of research sponsored and conducted by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)....

Tribute to John M. Eisenberg, M.D., M.B.A. (In Memoriam).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... The phrase, "larger than life," is often used to describe people who seem to live their life a notch above the rest of us. It could certainly be applied to John Eisenberg in terms of his many achievements and the profound impact he has had on...

In transition.(Editorial)
August 1, 2002... I am no longer the editor of (a Journal) and shall always try to do right and be good, so that God will not make me one (again)! -- Paraphrase, Mark Twain Actually, Mark Twain did not express my feelings as I complete my six years as...

Medicaid enrollment among elderly medicare beneficiaries: individual determinants, effects of state policy, and impact on service use. (Public Policy Impact).(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... Despite its potential for improving access to health care among low-income elderly persons, relatively little is known about take-up rates for Medicaid or its impact on service use among those enrolled. Existing literature has focused primarily...

The 2030 problem: caring for aging Baby Boomers.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... A major public policy concern in the long-term care field is the potential burden an aging society will place on the care-giving system and public finances. The "2030 problem" involves the challenge of assuring that sufficient resources and an...

The impact of financial incentives on physician productivity in Medical Groups. (Other Articles).(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... This article addresses an increasingly important issue in medical practice and health services research--the effect of financial incentives on physician behavior. Specifically, this study estimates the impact of financial incentives on...

Initial practice locations of International Medical Graduates.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... During the 1960s and early 1970s, there was a consensus that a growing shortage of physicians would soon bring the U.S. health care system to a state of crisis (e.g., Ginzberg et al. 1981), and physician workforce policy welcomed International...

Predicting patterns of mammography use: a geographic perspective on national needs for intervention research.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... Differential rates of mammography use by age, race, education, and income have been well documented for the United States during the past decade (cf., Mandelblatt et al. 1999). Recognition of these differentials has led to more intervention...

Physician referral patterns and race differences in receipt of coronary angiography.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... There is a large and growing literature in medicine and health services research showing that white patients are about twice as likely as African American patients to receive tertiary care cardiovascular procedures such as coronary angiography...

The determinants of HMOs' contracting with hospitals for bypass surgery.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) have transformed the market for health care services. Total HMO enrollment has increased from 33.3 million in 1990 to 80.9 million in 2000 (InterStudy 2001). Health maintenance organizations combine the...

Effects of CAHPS health plan performance information on plan choices by New Jersey Medicaid beneficiaries.(Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... As the move to managed care has limited the set of providers available through each health plan and introduced strong incentives to alter the process of health care, the stakes associated with health plan choices have increased enormously for...

Understanding team-based quality improvement for depression in primary care.
August 1, 2002... Primary care (PC) practices have been widely criticized for poor performance in caring for depression and are searching for effective methods for improving depression care quality. Team-based quality improvement (QI) methods such as Continuous...

Understanding coordination of care from the consumer's perspective in a regional health system.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... The 17 Health Regions established in Alberta, Canada, in 1994, to replace more than two hundred individual boards, exhibit many features of integrated health care delivery systems. Horizontal integration has been accomplished by consolidating...

Alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health care for uninsured and insured adults. (Research Briefs).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... The recent Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 1999) emphasized the importance of systematically addressing unmet need for mental health care nationally; similar concerns have been raised...

Issues in conducting randomized controlled trials of health services research interventions in nonacademic practice settings: the case of retail pharmacies.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... Health services researchers who conduct randomized controlled trials (RCT) evaluate interventions to improve the organization, delivery, quality, and/or outcomes of care. Often, such trials are implemented in academic or other clinical settings...

Diagnostic Cost Groups (DCGs) and concurrent utilization among patients with substance abuse disorders. (Methods).(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... Diagnosis-based risk adjustment systems are widely used to predict resource utilization, provide population-based health management, and make equitable comparisons across providers and facilities (Ettner and Notman 1997; Ettner et al. 1998;...

Managed behavioral health care: an instrument to characterize critical elements of public sector programs.
August 1, 2002... It has become commonplace in discussions of public behavioral health policy to note both the ubiquity and difficulty of defining managed care with any degree of precision. The term managed care is used to depict a wide variety of organizational...