Health Services Research articles from February 2002

Health Services Research archives from February 2002

Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy update.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy (www.academyhealth.org) provides a professional home and technical assistance resource for researchers and policy professionals. Committed to the vision of improving health and health...

Putting practice into research. (AHRQ Update).
February 1, 2002... For many years, health services researchers have contended that clinicians and others who deliver, manage, purchase, or influence health care should seek out and use the latest and best evidence when making clinical, managerial, and policy...

Editor's special note.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... To Our Readers: You will note a significant change in this issue of HSR--it's bigger! Due to our new publishing arrangement with Blackwell Publishing, Inc., we have expanded HSR from approximately 160 pages per issue to approximately 288...

The Health Services Researcher, multiple identities. (Editorial Column).
February 1, 2002... This issue of the journal includes an updated definition of the field of health services research coming from a committee charged to do so by what was formerly known as the Association for Health Services Research (Lohr and Steinwachs 2002)....

Health Services Research: An evolving definition of the field. (Special Article).
February 1, 2002... In early 2000, the Board of Directors of the Association for HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH (AHSR) appointed an ad hoc committee to propose a current definition for the field. The committee was co-chaired by Kathleen Lohr and Donald Steinwachs, and...

Impact of the Oregon Health Plan on access and satisfaction of adults with low income. (Policy Impact).
February 1, 2002... The Oregon Health Plan (OHP) is Oregon's innovative Medicaid 1115 waiver program. It garnered national attention for its use of a prioritized list of services to define the program's benefit package. The priority list consists of paired medical...

State coverage expansions: Learning from research and practice. (Commentary).
February 1, 2002... One of the more vexing policy challenges of this era is how best to cover the rising numbers of uninsured Americans. Despite national attention to the problem and the surge in prosperity over the last decade, between 1990 and 1999, the...

Health insurance knowledge among medicare beneficiaries. (Other Articles).
February 1, 2002... The Medicare provisions of the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 resulted in some of the most sweeping changes to the Medicare program since its inception in 1965. In addition to several payment system changes intended to better control the...

Delivery of preventive health services for breast cancer control: A longitudinal view of a randomized controlled trial.
February 1, 2002... Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have become the standard methodology for evaluating intervention strategies used to change the delivery of preventive services. Over the last decade, studies of intervention strategies to promote the use of...

Access to health care and community social capital.
February 1, 2002... This study examines variability in access to health care across 22 major U.S. cities. We examine how reported experience with access to health care is related to two types of community characteristics: (1) health care system variables,...

Health care utilization and adults who are deaf: Relationship with age at onset of deafness.
February 1, 2002... Hearing impairment, with a prevalence of 9.35 percent, is the sixth most common chronic condition in the civilian, noninstitutionalized U.S. population (Collins 1997). Of the 20.3-million persons with hearing trouble, 4.8 million cannot hear...

Physician, practice, and patient characteristics related to primary care physician physical and mental health: Results from the physician worklife study.
February 1, 2002... Twenty years ago it would have been unusual to have a session on physician job satisfaction at a conference on health care research. Everyone knew that doctors had good jobs, even if they were difficult and challenging. The recent past has seen...

Helpful or harmful? The impact of strategic change on the performance of U.S. urban hospitals.
February 1, 2002... Strategic management provides a framework for guiding the management of all types of contemporary organizations. Over the past 2 decades, the concepts of strategic management have been increasingly applied within the health care industry....

Family structure, socioeconomic status, and access to health care for children. (Research Brief).
February 1, 2002... Many children who receive Medicaid were enrolled because they have a parent who receives public assistance. Because public assistance has traditionally been offered primarily to single mothers and because family structure may influence the...

Development of a scale to measure patients' trust in health insurers. (Methods).
February 1, 2002... The rapid growth of managed care has produced ethical and public policy concern about institutional constraints on medical decisions and the doctor-patient relationship (Families USA 1997). This concern has prompted efforts to evaluate the...

Methodologic implications of allocating multiple-race data to single-race categories.(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued revised standards for the collection and reporting of race and ethnicity data within the federal statistical system (Evinger 1997; OMB 1997a, 1997b). The prior standard, known as OMB-Directive...

Characterizing patient requests and physician responses in office practice.(TORP)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... Conclusions. The refined TORP shows evidence of both unitizing and classification reliability and should be a useful tool for understanding the clinical negotiation. In addition, the system appears applicable to both generalist and specialist...