Health Services Research articles from October 2003

Health Services Research archives from October 2003

Strengthening the health services research to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health care.(AHRQ Update)
October 1, 2003... In a October 2002 AHRQ Update, we presented initiatives, including research, training, and data collection supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), designed to help reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health care...

Socioeconomic status and the fates of adolescents.(Editorial Column)
October 1, 2003... In this issue of Health Services Research, Newacheck and colleagues update the evidence on the association between socioeconomic status--specifically, income--and the health care and health stares of adolescents in the United States. Using the...

Disparities in adolescent health and health care: does socioeconomic status matter?(Access and Quality)
October 1, 2003... ********** The relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and health status is well documented. Lower socioeconomic status, as measured by income, is associated with worse outcomes on a range of health status measures, including...

Using claims data to examine mortality trends following hospitalization for heart attack in Medicare.(Access and Quality)
October 1, 2003... ********** One-year mortality following hospitalization for heart attack (acute myocardial infarction [AMI]) is an object of surveillance within the National Acute Myocardial Infarction (NAMI) Project, a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...

How state-funded home care programs respond to changes in Medicare home health care: resource allocation decisions on the front line.(Public Policy Impact)
October 1, 2003... ********** During the last decade, Medicare home health expenditures rapidly increased at a rate deemed unsustainable by federal-level policymakers (Goldberg and Schmitz 1994). Between 1988 and 1996, the average annual growth rate in...

Expanding public health insurance to parents: effects on children's coverage under Medicaid.(Public Policy Impact)
October 1, 2003... ********** Over the past several years there as been increasing policy interest in expanding eligibility for public health insurance coverage to parents. Recent changes in federal policy have provided greater access to federal matching...

Methods for using Medicare data to compare procedure rates among Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Whites.(Methods)
October 1, 2003... ********** Research on racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the United States has mainly compared blacks and whites (Institute of Medicine 2002; Mayberry, Mili, and Ofili 2000). Pioneering and influential research on treatment...

Case-mix adjusting performance measures in a veteran population: pharmacy- and diagnosis-based approaches.(Methods)
October 1, 2003... ********** The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the largest public-sector health care system in the United States, and one of the largest nationwide health care systems in the country. Over the last seven years, VHA has developed...

Working more productively: tools for administrative data.(Methods)
October 1, 2003... ********** Managing research without stifling creativity has been an issue for a number of years (Brooks 1995; Kidder 2000). In health services research and epidemiology, the growth of large administrative databases and the teamwork...

Assessing the validity of insurance coverage data in hospital discharge records: California OSHPD data.(Methods)
October 1, 2003... ********** Health services researchers use hospital discharge data to investigate a wide range of research questions. Discharge data is the basis for nearly all empirical analyses of hospital competition (recent examples include Keeler,...