Health Services Research articles from August 2003

Health Services Research archives from August 2003

International conference features experts from around the world.(AcademyHealth Update)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
August 1, 2003... Join more than 500 of your colleagues in Washington, D.C., September 20-23, to hear world-renowned experts share their views on cross-country health care problems and possible solutions. Cohosted by AcademyHealth and the Agency for Healthcare...

International child health services research meeting: advancing knowledge, informing action, improving child health care.(AcademyHealth Update)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
August 1, 2003... This affiliate meeting of the 5th International Conference on the Scientific Basis of Health Services will be held on Saturday, September 20, 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. This meeting seeks to advance children's health care and health through...

Health policy orientation.(AcademyHealth Update)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
August 1, 2003... Learn how policy is developed and implemented at our nation's capital! Attend the 2003 Health Policy and Politics: An Orientation to Decision-Making in Washington, from September 29 to October 2. The program will provide individuals an...

Live Cyber Seminars in Health Services Research Methods.(AcademyHealth Update)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
August 1, 2003... Don't miss the live Cyber Seminars in Health Services Research Methods beginning this October! These easily accessible, fully web-based two-hour seminars are taught in real-time by health services research experts. Since there are no travel of...

Announcing AcademyHealth Interest Groups.(AcademyHealth Update)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... As a new member benefit, AcademyHealth is forming Interest Groups. While we strive to provide a broad range of services and resources for health services researchers, policy professionals, and practitioners, we also recognize the need for...

2004 National Health Policy Conference.(AcademyHealth Update)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
August 1, 2003... Save the date! The 2004 National Health Policy Conference will be held on January 28-29 at the Renaissance Washington, DC, Hotel. Join more than 800 colleagues for a first look at the 2004 health policy agenda. The conference features leading...

Annual Research Meeting.(AcademyHealth Update)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
August 1, 2003... If you missed the 20th Annual Research Meeting, visit www.academyhealth.org/2003 for web casts of certain sessions, presentations, and abstracts. Get ready for San Diego June 6-8, 2004. Abstracts will be due January 15. Visit...

Tribute to John M. Eisenberg.(Obituary)
August 1, 2003... Although this partial list of his titles illustrate the breadth and importance of his many contributions to the nation's health care system, it fails to capture the charisma, enthusiasm, and strengths with which he tackled these roles and...

From manuscript submission to accepted article: the process at HSR.(Editorial Column)
August 1, 2003... By the time this editorial is printed, we will have been coeditors for almost a year, and we thought it time to offer some observations based on our experience to date. While it would be fun to share our stories of awards the journal has...

Parents' perceptions of pediatric primary care quality: effects of race/ethnicity, language, and access.(Primary Care and Workforce Issues)(Illustration)
August 1, 2003... While these disparities have been shown to exist across groups of both adults and children, continued and expanded focus on the primary care experiences of children is important (Forrest, Simpson, and Clancy 1997; McGlynn and Halfon 1998; Wehr...

The contribution of nurse practitioners and physician assistants to generalist care in Washington State.(Primary Care and Workforce Issues)(Illustration)
August 1, 2003... Specifically, this study of Washington State addresses the following questions: * What is the total contribution to generalist care made by NPCs? * What is the role of NPCs in providing generalist care in rural Health Professional...

Economic consequences of underuse of generic drugs: evidence from Medicaid and implications for prescription drug benefit plans.(Primary Care and Workforce Issues)(Illustration)
August 1, 2003... Brand name drugs are typically more expensive than generic versions of the same drug, which in general have identical therapeutic effects. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) evaluates and approves the bioequivalence of generic drugs....

Variations in patterns of care and outcomes after acute myocardial infarction for Medicare beneficiaries in fee-for-service and HMO settings.(Primary Care and Workforce Issues)
August 1, 2003... There is substantial controversy about the quality of care in health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and other forms of managed care. Although there is a growing literature (Miller and Luft 1994, 1997, 2002), many studies rely on data from a...

Identifying physician-recognized depression from administrative data: consequences for quality measurement.(Primary Care and Workforce Issues)
August 1, 2003... Regardless of the condition, several factors limit the accuracy of administrative algorithms for disease identification. These factors include incompleteness of data submitted by providers for capitated visits and procedures (encounters) and...

Improved comorbidity adjustment for predicting mortality in Medicare populations.(Primary Care and Workforce Issues)
August 1, 2003... Comorbidity scores aggregate relevant comorbidities into a single variable. The attraction of such scores is that they are easy to apply and widely accepted tools. They can simplify data analysis, particularly when multiple hypotheses will be...

Do commercial managed care members rate their health plans differently than Medicaid managed care members?
August 1, 2003... New York State (NYS) is no exception to this trend. Managed care has been an option for Medicaid enrollees since 1984, and by 1995 it had grown to where more than 600,000 Medicaid recipients voluntarily enrolled in a managed care plan. Since...

Practice characteristics and HMO enrollee satisfaction with specialty care: an analysis of patients with glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy.
August 1, 2003... The published literature suggests that practice characteristics, including practice size, provider capitation, and certain forms of utilization review, are associated with patient satisfaction with primary care (Rubin et al. 1993; Kyes et al....

Measuring continuity of care for clients of public mental health systems.(Methods)
August 1, 2003... For the purposes of this paper, we conceptualized continuity of care as a characterization of an individual's outpatient service utilization pattern over time. We examined continuity of outpatient care specifically because discontinuity of...

Variations in hospitalization rates among nursing home residents: the role of discretionary hospitalizations.(Methods)(Illustration)
August 1, 2003... Findings from the larger body of geographic variations research exploring hospital use rates among community-based populations offers insight regarding methods that are likely to be useful in exploring variations in hospitalization rates among...

False positive mammograms and detection controlled estimation.(Methods)(a research project examines the incidence of false positive mammograms using the detection-controlled estimation technique)
August 1, 2003... This research project examined the incidence of false positive mammograms using an econometric technique known as detection-controlled estimation (DCE). This technique has been used successfully in the detection of economic events such as...