Health Services Research articles from June 2002

Health Services Research archives from June 2002

Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy update.
June 1, 2002... Current Academy Highlights THIS MONTH: The 2002 Academy Annual Research Meeting The 2002 Annual Research Meeting of the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy will be held June 23-25 at the Washington, DC, Hilton. The...

AHRQ's Fiscal Year 2003 budget proposal. (AHR Update).
June 1, 2002... On May 1, 2002, I presented the proposed Fiscal Year 2003 budget for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to the House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations. I would like to take this...

Annual report to our readers and the field: September 1, 2000--August 31, 2001. (Editorial Column).
June 1, 2002... OVERVIEW This annual report provides a summary of manuscript activity during the period September 1, 2000, through August 31, 2001. Table 1 provides an overall breakdown of the 207 new manuscripts received during this period compared...

Primary care, self-rated health, and reductions in social disparities in health. (Articles).
June 1, 2002... METHODS Data Data for the study were drawn from the 1996-1997 Community Tracking Study (CTS) household survey, a major initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The CTS is a national study of the rapidly changing health-care...

Can high quality overcome consumer resistance to restricted provider access? Evidence from a health plan choice experiment.
June 1, 2002... Consumer preferences for health plan provider network features and the impact of information on these preferences have important implications for the ability of managed care to generate cost savings and quality improvements. Research and...

Is managed care leading to consolidation in health-care markets?(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2002... There has recently been substantial consolidation among health-care providers in the United States. In 1980, most hospitals were freestanding, independent organizations. By 1996,40 percent of all community hospitals were members of a system and...

Is managed care leading to consolidation in health-care markets? (Commentary).
June 1, 2002... Dranove, Simon, and White (DSW) investigate the extent to which increased managed-care penetration is responsible for hospital and physician consolidation over the past 15 to 20 years. The implication of their question is clear: If managed care...

Nurse staffing and postsurgical adverse events: an analysis of administrative data from a sample of U.S. hospitals, 1990-1996. (Acute Care).
June 1, 2002... BACKGROUND AND SIGNIFICANCE Concerns of inadequate nurse staffing in hospitals and its potential adverse impacts on quality of care have been expressed recently in both the popular press (Appleby 1999; Berens 2000) and in the professional...

Concurrent prediction of hospital mortality and length of stay from risk factors on admission.
June 1, 2002... Predicting the outcome of serious illness or injury is increasingly important for the planning and assessment of interventions in the health-care system, as well as for its more traditional role in providing a prognosis for individual cases....

Do hospital length of stay and staffing ratio affect elderly patients' risk of readmission? A nation-wide study of Norwegian hospitals.
June 1, 2002... Hospitals are faced with an environment of changing policies, resources, and expectations. In recent years the main focus has been upon productivity and cost-containment. This has been a widely distributed tend, acting across differently...

Geographic variation in the use of post-acute care. (Post-acute Care).(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2002... BACKGROUND Payments for post-acute care (PAC) represent one of the fastest growing categories of Medicare spending. Medicare post-acute care includes care provided in skilled nursing care, rehabilitation hospitals, and home health used...

The relationship of post-acute home care use to Medicaid utilization and expenditures.
June 1, 2002... OBJECTIVES We report here on a study of the use of home care following hospital discharge by nonelderly adult Medicaid eligibles in the Greater Cleveland area. The study was prompted by the fact that post-acute home care (PAHC) use...

A National study of efficiency for dialysis centers: an examination of market competition and facility characteristics for production of multiple dialysis outputs.
June 1, 2002... In the health-care sector, the existence of conflicts of interest between the payers and the providers of health-care services are not surprising. The situation may take even more serious form in price-regulated health-care markets. The...

Use of the SF-12 instrument for measuring the health of homeless persons. (Methods).
June 1, 2002... Health status indicators derived from self-report have been shown to be useful in a variety of settings for the purpose of assessing and monitoring the functional health of an individual or population. This information can be used by medical...

Agreement between self-reported and routinely collected health-care utilization data among seniors.
June 1, 2002... Epidemiological and health services research has increasingly focused attention on health-care utilization among the aging population (Ory and Bond 1989). Many of these studies have consistently shown strong associations between health...

Clinical effectiveness research in managed-care systems: lessons from the Pediatric Asthma Care PORT.
June 1, 2002... The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) initially sponsored Patient Outcomes Research Teams (PORTs) to study, using observational designs, processes and outcomes of common health conditions (Maklan, Greene, and Gumming 1994). More...

Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (ACIC): a practical tool to measure quality improvement.
June 1, 2002... The prevalence of individuals with chronic illness is growing at an astonishing rate because of the rapid aging of the population and the greater longevity of individuals with chronic illness (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2000)....