Health Services Research articles from June 2000

Health Services Research archives from June 2000

Quality Research for Quality Healthcare: the data connection.(AHRQ Update)
June 1, 2000... In keeping with our new name, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR), has a new slogan: "Quality Research for Quality Healthcare." This phrase reflects both our...

Annual report to our readers and the field: September 1, 1998--August 31, 1999.(Editorial Column)
June 1, 2000... OVERVIEW This third Annual Report to our readers and the field at large includes not only an update on activities from the past year but a summary of a special e-mail survey of AHSR members pertaining to the frequency of HSR journal...

Origins of health services research.(Special Perspective)
June 1, 2000... The idea that individual and population-based outcomes, benefits, hazards, and costs associated with medical interventions, practitioners, and institutions should be objects of research is not new. Sir William Petty and John Graunt in the...

Access of vulnerable groups to antiretroviral therapy among persons in care for HIV disease in the United States.(Access/Use of Services)
June 1, 2000... Multiple national surveys have documented the extent of access to medical care for the overall population of the United States (Aday et al. 1998; Andersen and Davidson 1996; Andersen, McCutcheon, Aday, et al. 1983; Hayward et al. 1988)....

Children of working low-income families in California: does parental work benefit children's insurance status, access, and utilization of primary health care?(Access/Use of Services)
June 1, 2000... Although barriers to access and utilization of health care have been amply documented for poor children in general, far less is known about the extent to which low-income children in working families experience barriers to care. Low-income...

Medical and psychosocial services in drug abuse treatment: do stronger linkages promote client utilization?(Access/Use of Services)
June 1, 2000... Approximately one of every ten Americans suffers from an addictive disorder, and 5.5 million Americans have problems severe enough to warrant addiction treatment (Gerstein and Harwood 1990; Kessler, McGonale, Zhao, et al. 1994). Drug abuse and...

Across time and space: variations in hospital use during Canadian health reform.(Access/Use of Services)
June 1, 2000... Substantial variation in the provision of medical and surgical services may reflect system capacity (bed and physician supply), patient health status, a lack of consensus within the provider community, and the discretionary nature of some...

A trauma resource allocation model for ambulances and hospitals.(Managerial and Policy Impact)
June 1, 2000... In the past decade, substantial progress has been made in developing guidelines for trauma care systems. These systems have emphasized the strategic placement of both trauma center hospitals and ambulances. The critical administrative,...

Comparing the agreement among alternative models in evaluating HMO efficiency.(Methods)(Health maintenance organizations)
June 1, 2000... In this article we analyze several methods for estimating firm efficiency and apply each approach to a nationwide sample of HMOs. Numerous ways exist to measure the technical efficiency of a firm, based on the firm's use of resource inputs...

Effect of multiple-source entry on price competition after patent expiration in the pharmaceutical industry.(Other)
June 1, 2000... Over the past several years, many pharmaceutical industry regulations have focused either on containing total drug expenditures through increased price competition or on stimulating innovation. The balance between competition and innovation is...