AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Health Services Research articles from October 2001
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 October 2001
Employers as Agents for Their Employees.(health insurance coverage)
October 1, 2001... The recent debate over the proposed patients' bill of rights reminds us of the role employers play in determining who is covered by what kind of health insurance. Nearly two-thirds of Americans under age 65 obtain health insurance through the...
Hospital Registered Nurse Shortages: Environmental, Patient, and Institutional Predictors.(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 2001... Data Source. Secondary data from the American Hospital Association's Nursing Personnel Survey from 1990 and 1992 were used. The study population was all acutecare hospitals in the United States.
Objective. To examine the characteristics of...
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Access to Medical Care in Managed Care Plans.(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 2001... Objective. To examine the extent to which access differences between racial/ethnic minorities and whites in managed care plans are greater than such differences in other types of health plans.
Data Source. A nationally representative sample...
Outpatient Mastectomy: Clinical, Payer, and Geographic Influences.(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 2001... Objective. To determine (1) the use of outpatient services for all surgical breast procedures for breast cancer and (2) the influence of payer and state on the use of outpatient services for complete mastectomy in light of state and federal...
Evaluating the Benefits of Increasing Measles Immunization Rates.(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 2001... Objective. To calculate the cost-effectiveness, expressed in dollars per quality-adjusted life years (QALY), of increasing measles immunization rates.
Data Sources/Study Design. Published data were supplemented by expert opinion. We...
Preference Diversity and the Breadth of Employee Health Insurance Options.(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 2001... Objective. To examine the effect of worker heterogeneity, firm size, and establishment size on the breadth of employer health insurance offerings.
Data Sources. The data were drawn from the 1993 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Employer...
To Offer or Not to Offer: The Role of Price in Employers' Health Insurance Decisions.(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 2001... Objective. To estimate the effect of changes in price on employers' decisions to offer health insurance.
Data Sources/Study Setting. A 1993 survey of 22,347 private employers in ten states was used.
Study Design. Probit regression was...
Risk Adjusting Cesarean Delivery Rates: A Comparison of Hospital Profiles Based on Medical Record and Birth Certificate Data.(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 2001... Objectives. Compare the discrimination of risk-adjustment models for primary Cesarean delivery derived from medical record data and birth certificate data and determine if the two types of models yield similar hospital profiles of risk-adjusted...