Health Services Research articles from February 1998

Health Services Research archives from February 1998

A memorial, Alice Hersh, 1951-1997: the unfinished agenda.
February 1, 1998... In February of this past year the Board of the Association for Health Services Research met in Washington, DC to celebrate Alice Hersh's fifteen years of service and accomplishment as the leader of AHSR. It was a joyous occasion with the...

Getting at the management of care within managed care.
February 1, 1998... The importance of assessing the overall value derived through managed care was a major theme in Stephen Shortell's editorial in the December 1997 issue of Health Services Research. In this issue of HSR, Nelson, McHorney, Manning, and their...

Assessment of medical care by elderly people: general satisfaction and physical quality. (includes appendix)
February 1, 1998... With increasing competition in the healthcare market and growing interest in assessing patient outcomes, satisfaction measures are increasingly used by healthcare providers and health policymakers in evaluating the performance of the healthcare...

A longitudinal study of hospitalization rates for patients with chronic disease: results from medical outcomes study.
February 1, 1998... The current interest in promoting prepaid managed care systems and in extending insurance benefits to people who lack coverage increases the importance of evaluating healthcare systems based on indicators of value, that is, the level of quality...

An organizational field approach to resource environments in health care: comparing entries of hospitals and home health agencies in the San Francisco Bay region.
February 1, 1998... Despite their origins as charitable, eleemosynary institutions with roots in an earlier communal form of organization, hospitals and other forms of medical care organizations have long confronted the need to compete in the marketplace for...

Birth outcomes and the effectiveness of prenatal care.
February 1, 1998... Prenatal care has long been endorsed as a major means to identify and, one would hope, to reduce the risks of pre-term, low-birthweight, and other adverse pregnancy conditions and birth outcomes. Counseling about diet, smoking cessation, drug...

Practice variation in the use of interventions in high-risk obstetrics.
February 1, 1998... The relative effectiveness of both established and new clinical practices, along with variations in use of practice, are topics of longstanding interest in the field of obstetrics (Lomas, Sisk, and Stocking 1993). Both underuse of effective...

Is use of mechanical ventilation a reasonable proxy indicator for coma among medicare patients hospitalized for acute stroke?
February 1, 1998... In studies of the diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of cerebrovascular disease, it is essential to adjust for the severity of each patient's stroke in addition to the type of stroke. Although numerous scales and indexes for measuring stroke...

Commentary: establishing standards for the utility of administrative claims data.
February 1, 1998... The utility of administrative healthcare claims data for evaluating the delivery of health services has been well established. Over the past 25 years, the analysis of claims data has revealed unexplained practice variations in neighboring...

Predictors of California nursing facilities' acceptance of people with HIV/AIDS.
February 1, 1998... This article was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Health Services Research in Chicago, June 12-14 1995. Due to advancements in the treatment of AIDS, the disease has evolved from an end-stage terminal illness in the 1980s...