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- 1From: Health Services Research. (Vol. 35, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedChildren's health care has been a longstanding priority at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). This year alone, the Agency has released several widely publicized research findings, including: * A new...
- 2From: Health Services Research. (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedObjective. To examine the extent to which linkage mechanisms (on-site delivery, external arrangements, case management, and transportation assistance) are associated with increased utilization of medical and psychosocial...
- 3From: Health Services Research. (Vol. 35, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedObjectives. To evaluate the costs of implementing a church-based, telephone-counseling program for increasing mammography use, and to identify the components of costs and the likely cost-effectiveness in hypothetical...
- 4From: Health Services Research. (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedObjective. To analyze the effect of multiple-source drug entry on price competition after patent expiration in the pharmaceutical industry. Data Sources. Originators and their multiple-source drugs selected from the 35...
- 5From: Health Services Research. (Vol. 35, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedCarolyn M. Clancy [1] Thirty years ago, a landmark clinical trial established the effectiveness of annual screening mammography for reducing mortality from breast cancer in women over the age of 50 (Shapiro, Strax, and...
- 6From: Health Services Research. (Vol. 35, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedObjective. To assess the outcomes of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, AHCPR) first decade of focus on outcomes and effectiveness research...
- 7From: Health Services Research. (Vol. 35, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedObjective. To investigate how baseline health insurance coverage affects subsequent out-of-pocket costs and utilization of health services over a two-year period. Data Source. The first two waves of the Health and...
- 8From: Health Services Research. (Vol. 35, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedObjective. To learn whether consumer reports of health plan quality can affect health plan selection. Data Sources. A sample of 311 privately insured adults from Los Angeles County. Study Design. The design was a...
- 9From: Health Services Research. (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedObjective. To examine financial and nonfinancial access to care and utilization of primary health care services among children of working low-income families earning below 200 percent of the federal poverty level in...
- 10From: Health Services Research. (Vol. 35, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjective. To examine changes in hospital use in British Columbia during a decade of capacity reductions. Data Sources/Study Setting. The data used are all separation records for British Columbia hospitals for the...
- 11From: Health Services Research. (Vol. 35, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedObjective. To examine implementation of the Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB) and Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB) programs, enacted in 1988. The article summarizes the origin of the QMB and SLMB...
- 12From: Health Services Research. (Vol. 35, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjective. To determine the impact of parity in mental health benefits on the marginal prices that consumers face for mental health treatment. Data Sources/Data Collection. We used detailed information on health plan...
- 13From: Health Services Research. (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedObjective. To describe the efficiency of HMOs and to test the robustness of these findings across alternative models of efficiency. This study examines whether these models, when constructed in parallel to use the same...
- 14From: Health Services Research. (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedObjective. To develop a mathematical model for the location of trauma care resources. Data Sources/Study Setting. Severely injured patients queried from Maryland hospital discharge and vital statistics data. A spatial...
- 15From: Health Services Research. (Vol. 35, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe concept of the indirect cost of graduate medical education was introduced into the hospital payment lexicon in 1980 by the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA). HCFA stated that, in calculating the Section 223...
- 16From: Health Services Research. (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedObjectives. To investigate change in hospital utilization in a population and to discuss analytical strategies using large administrative databases, focusing on variations in rates of different types of hospital...
- 17From: Health Services Research. (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn 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...
- 18From: Health Services Research. (Vol. 35, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedObjective. To determine the effect of treatment by a cardiologist on mortality of elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI, heart attack), accounting for both measured confounding using risk-adjustment...
- 19From: Health Services Research. (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedObjective. To employ the behavioral model of health services use in examining the extent to which predisposing, enabling, and need factors explain the treatment of the HIV-positive population in the United States with...
- 20From: Health Services Research. (Vol. 35, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedObjective. To investigate the effect of price on the health insurance decisions of Medicare-eligible retirees in a managed competition setting. Data Source. The study is based on four years of administrative data from...