Volume 39 | Number 5 | October 2004
Long‐Term Care
Potentially Inappropriate Medication Prescriptions among Elderly Nursing Home Residents: Their Scope and Associated Resident and Facility Characteristics
Denys T. Lau, Judith D. Kasper, D. E. B. Potter, Alan Lyles
Socioeconomic Disparities in the Use of Home Health Services in a Medicare Managed Care Population
Vicki A. Freedman, Jeannette Rogowski, Steven L. Wickstrom, John Adams, Jonas Marainen, José J. Escarce
Physical Rehabilitation following Medicare Prospective Payment for Skilled Nursing Facilities
Walter P. Wodchis
Mental Health
Mental Illness and Length of Inpatient Stay for Medicaid Recipients with AIDS
Donald R. Hoover, Usha Sambamoorthi Ph.D., James T. Walkup, Stephen Crystal
The Cost‐Effectiveness of Independent Housing for the Chronically Mentally Ill: Do Housing and Neighborhood Features Matter?
Joseph Harkness, Sandra J. Newman, David Salkever
The Effects of State Mental Health Parity Legislation on Perceived Quality of Insurance Coverage, Perceived Access to Care, and Use of Mental Health Specialty Care
Yuhua Bao, Roland Sturm
Cost Shifting to Jails after a Change to Managed Mental Health Care
Marisa Elena Domino Ph.D., Edward C. Norton Ph.D., Joseph P. Morrissey Ph.D., Neil Thakur
Patients and Ambulatory Care
Associations of Race, Education, and Patterns of Preventive Service Use with Stage of Cancer at Time of Diagnosis
Marian E. Gornick, Paul W. Eggers, Gerald F. Riley M.S.P.H
Monitoring Visual Status: Why Patients Do or Do Not Comply with Practice Guidelines
Frank A. Sloan Ph.D, Derek S. Brown, Emily Streyer Carlisle, Gabriel A. Picone, Paul P. Lee
Posthospital Care Transitions: Patterns, Complications, and Risk Identification
Eric A. Coleman M.D., M.P.H., Sung‐joon Min, Alyssa Chomiak, Andrew M. Kramer
Plan, Geographical, and Temporal Variation of Consumer Assessments of Ambulatory Health Care
Alan M. Zaslavsky Ph.D., Lawrence B. Zaborski, Paul D. Cleary Ph.D.
Coverage and the Safety Net
Communities and Hospitals: Social Capital, Community Accountability, and Service Provision in U.S. Community Hospitals
Shoou‐Yih D. Lee Ph.D., Wendy L. Chen, Bryan J. Weiner
The Unintended Impact of Welfare Reform on the Medicaid Enrollment of Eligible Immigrants
Namratha R. Kandula, Colleen M. Grogan, Paul J. Rathouz, Diane S. Lauderdale
Availability of Safety Net Providers and Access to Care of Uninsured Persons
Jack Hadley, Peter Cunningham
Subsidies and the Demand for Individual Health Insurance in California
M. Susan Marquis, Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, José J. Escarce, Kanika Kapur, Jill M. Yegian
Providers and Incentives
No Exit: An Evaluation of Measures of Physician Attrition
Diane R. Rittenhouse, Elizabeth Mertz, Dennis Keane, Kevin Grumbach
The Alignment and Blending of Payment Incentives within Physician Organizations
James C. Robinson, Stephen M. Shortell Ph.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., Rui Li, Lawrence P. Casalino M.D., Ph.D., Thomas Rundall
The Effect of HMOs on the Inpatient Utilization of Medicare Beneficiaries
Nasreen Dhanani, June F. O'Leary, Emmett Keeler, Anil Bamezai, Glenn Melnick