AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Health Services Research articles from June 1996
Journal focusing on research, public policy formulation, and health services management with the latest findings, methods, and thinking on important policy and practice issues.
Set up an RSS feed
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Health Services Research archives from June 1996
Demographic variation in the rate of knee replacement: a multi-year analysis.
June 1, 1996... The escalation in health care costs and the push for national and state health reform has provoked societal and governmental interest in the apparent geographic variation in the frequency of performance of medical procedures and therapies. The...
Using physician claims to identify postoperative complications of carotid endarterectomy.
June 1, 1996... While mortality rates are commonly used to evaluate surgical outcomes, such measures fail to identify nonfatal, but costly, complications, especially among procedures with generally low death rates. Low postoperative mortality rates for a group...
Measuring hospital use without claims: a comparison of patient and provider reports.
June 1, 1996... Hospital admissions and length of stay are key outcome variables in a growing number of health services studies. Despite their importance as measures of practice patterns and of effectiveness, determining the frequency and intensity of hospital...
Reactions of salaried physicians to hospital decline.
June 1, 1996... Recent developments in health care systems around the world are characterized by a serious decrease in resources and considerable cutbacks that threaten the survival of many health care organizations. One of the outcomes of this development,...
Physician impact on hospital admission and on mortality rates in the medicare population.
June 1, 1996... Much concern has been expressed in the past three or four decades about the inadequacy of the care available to the aged, the poor, and other vulnerable populations (Weissman and Epstein 1993). This has resulted in a variety of programs,...
Mobile technology in rural hospitals: the case of the CT scanner. (computed tomography)
June 1, 1996... BACKGROUND
Considerable research has been done on the diffusion of medical technology over the past 20 years, often using the hospital as the unit of analysis and focusing on high-cost equipment such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and...