Volume 37 | Number 5 | October 2002
Quality
Quality of Cardiac Surgeons and Managed Care Contracting Practices
Dana B Mukamel, David L Weimer, Jack Zwanziger, Alvin I Mushlin
The Effects of Primary Care Depression Treatment on Patients' Clinical Status and Employment
Michael Schoenbaum, Jürgen Unützer, Daniel McCaffrey, Naihua Duan, Cathy Sherbourne, Kenneth B Wells
Whom Should We Profile? Examining Diabetes Care Practice Variation among Primary Care Providers, Provider Groups, and Health Care Facilities
Sarah L Krein, Timothy P Hofer, Eve A Kerr, Rodney A Hayward
Relationship between Regulatory Status, Quality of Care, and Three‐Year Mortality in Canadian Residential Care Facilities: A Longitudinal Study
Gina Bravo, Marie‐France Dubois, Philippe De Wals, Réjean Hébert, Lise Messier
Access
Plan Characteristics and SSI Enrollees' Access to and Quality of Care in Four TennCare MCOs
Steven C Hill, Judith Wooldridge
Expanding the Andersen Model: The Role of Psychosocial Factors in Long‐Term Care Use
Elizabeth H Bradley, Sarah A McGraw, Leslie Curry, Alison Buckser, Kinda L King, Stanislav V Kasl, Ronald Andersen
Costs
Quantifying Components of Drug Expenditure Inflation: The British Columbia Seniors' Drug Benefit Plan
Steven G Morgan
Competition among Hospitals for HMO Business: Effect of Price and Nonprice Attributes
Gary J Young, James F Burgess, Danielle Valley
The Cost of Doing Business: Cost Structure of Electronic Immunization Registries
John M Fontanesi, Don S Flesher, Michelle De Guire, Allan Lieberthal, Kathy Holcomb
Other
Breast Cancer and Women's Labor Supply
Cathy J. Bradley, Heather L. Bednarek, David Neumark
Methods
Using a Standardized Donor Ratio to Assess the Performance of Organ Procurement Organizations
Sheryl Stogis, Richard A Hirth, Robert L Strawderman, Jane Banaszak‐Holl, Dean G Smith
Assessing Population Health Care Need Using a Claims‐based ACG Morbidity Measure: A Validation Analysis in the Province of Manitoba
Robert J Reid, Noralou P Roos, Leonard MacWilliam, Norman Frohlich, Charlyn Black
An Approach to Forecasting Health Expenditures, with Application to the U.S. Medicare System
Ronald Lee, Timothy Miller
Using Administrative Data to Identify Indications for Elective Primary Cesarean Delivery
Kimberly D Gregory, Lisa M Korst, Jeffrey A Gornbein, Lawrence D Platt
A Demonstration of the Impact of Response Bias on the Results of Patient Satisfaction Surveys
Kathleen M Mazor, Brian E Clauser, Terry Field, Robert A Yood, Jerry H Gurwitz
Trust in the Medical Profession: Conceptual and Measurement Issues
Mark A Hall, Fabian Camacho, Elizabeth Dugan, Rajesh Balkrishnan