Volume 39 | Number 2 | April 2004

Quality

Relationship of Nursing Home Staffing to Quality of Care

John F. Schnelle, Sandra F. Simmons, Charlene Harrington, Mary Cadogan, Emily Garcia, Barbara M. Bates‐Jensen

Hospital–Physician Affiliations and Patient Treatments, Expenditures, and Outcomes

Kristin Madison

A Longitudinal Examination of Hospital Registered Nurse Staffing and Quality of Care

Barbara A. Mark, David W. Harless, Michael McCue, Yihua Xu

Managed Care and Insurance Coverage

The Impact of S‐CHIP Enrollment on Physician Participation in Medicaid in Alabama and Georgia

Janet M. Bronstein Ph.D., E. Kathleen Adams Ph.D., Curtis S. Florence

The Impact of Managed Care on Substance Abuse Treatment Services

Todd Olmstead, William D. White, Jody Sindelar

The Effects of HMO Penetration on Preventable Hospitalizations

Chunliu Zhan, Marlene R. Miller, Herbert Wong, Gregg S. Meyer

Practice Patterns

Trends in Inpatient Treatment Intensity among Medicare Beneficiaries at the End of Life

Amber E. Barnato, Mark B. Mcclellan, Christopher R. Kagay, Alan M. Garber

The Combined Effects of Participatory Styles of Elderly Patients and Their Physicians on Satisfaction

K. Tom Xu

Methods

Delays in Initial Treatment Contact after First Onset of a Mental Disorder

Philip S. Wang, Patricia A. Berglund, Mark Olfson, Ronald C. Kessler

Updated Variable‐Radius Measures of Hospital Competition

Carole Roan Gresenz, Jeannette Rogowski, José J. Escarce