Volume 39 | Number 3 | June 2004
Policy Reports
Health Policy Roundtable Panel Discussion: Translating Health Insurance Studies into Policy Proposals
Christina E. Folz
Working Conditions of the Nursing Workforce Excerpts from a Policy Roundtable at AcademyHealth's 2003 Annual Research Meeting
Hollis A. Hope
Policy Research
Effects of Medicare Payment Changes on Nursing Home Staffing and Deficiencies
R.Tamara Konetzka, Deokhee Yi, Edward C. Norton Ph.D., Kerry E. Kilpatrick
Managed Care and Preventable Hospitalization among Medicaid Adults
Jayasree Basu Ph.D., M.B.A., Bernard Friedman, Helen Burstin
The Prevention Index: Using Technology to Improve Quality Assessment
Thomas M. Vogt, Mikel Aickin, Faruque Ahmed, Mark Schmidt
Smoking and Substance Abuse
The Effect of Smoking on Years of Healthy Life (YHL) Lost among Middle‐Aged and Older Americans
Truls Østbye, Donald H. Taylor Jr.
Alcohol Drinking Patterns and Health Care Utilization in a Managed Care Organization
Gary A. Zarkin, Jeremy W. Bray, Thomas F. Babor, John C. Higgins‐Biddle
Factors Associated with Physician Interventions to Address Adolescent Smoking
Tammy H. Sims, John R. Meurer, Mario Sims, Peter M. Layde
Linkage with Primary Medical Care in a Prospective Cohort of Adults with Addictions in Inpatient Detoxification: Room for Improvement
Richard Saitz M.D., M.P.H., Mary Jo Larson, Nicholas J. Horton, Michael Winter, Jeffrey H. Samet
Health Care Economics
Use of Midlevel Practitioners to Achieve Labor Cost Savings in the Primary Care Practice of an MCO
Douglas W. Roblin, David H. Howard Ph.D., Edmund R. Becker, E. Kathleen Adams, Melissa H. Roberts
The Lifetime Distribution of Health Care Costs
Berhanu Alemayehu, Kenneth E. Warner
Vulnerable Populations
Determining Personal Care Consumers' Preferences for a Consumer‐Directed Cash and Counseling Option: Survey Results from Arkansas, Florida, New Jersey, and New York Elders and Adults with Physical Disabilities
Kevin J. Mahoney, Lori Simon‐Rusinowitz, Dawn M. Loughlin, Sharon M. Desmond, Marie R. Squillace
Emergency Department Use among Michigan Children with Special Health Care Needs: An Introductory Study
Harold A. Pollack, Kevin J. Dombkowski, Janet B. Zimmerman, Matthew M. Davis, Anne E. Cowan, John R. Wheeler, A. Craig Hillemeier, Gary L. Freed