Volume 41 | Number 1 | February 2006
Managed Care, Insurance and Health Care Delivery
Managed Care Market Share and Primary Treatment for Cancer
Nancy L. Keating M.D., M.P.H., Mary Beth Landrum Ph.D., Ellen Meara, Patricia A. Ganz, Edward Guadagnoli
Does Wait‐List Size at Registration Influence Time to Surgery? Analysis of a Population‐Based Cardiac Surgery Registry
Boris Sobolev, Adrian Levy, Robert Hayden, Lisa Kuramoto
A Needle in a Haystack? Uninsured Workers in Small Businesses That Do Not Offer Coverage
Richard Kronick, Louis C. Olsen
A Measure of Trust in Insurers
Susan Dorr Goold M.D., M.H.S.A., M.A., David Fessler, Cheryl A. Moyer
How Adults' Access to Outpatient Physician Services Relates to the Local Supply of Primary Care Physicians in the Rural Southeast
Donald E. Pathman, Thomas C. Ricketts III, Thomas R. Konrad
Child Health Services
The Effects of Child‐Only Insurance Coverage and Family Coverage on Health Care Access and Use: Recent Findings among Low‐Income Children in California
Sylvia Guendelman, Megan Wier, Veronica Angulo, Doug Oman
Parent‐Identified Barriers to Pediatric Health Care: A Process‐Oriented Model
Elisa J. Sobo, Michael Seid, Leticia Reyes Gelhard
Mental Health Services
Effect of Social Security Payments on Substance Abuse in a Homeless Mentally Ill Cohort
Marc I. Rosen, Thomas J. McMahon, Haiqun Lin M.D., Ph.D., Robert A. Rosenheck
Benefit–Cost in the California Treatment Outcome Project: Does Substance Abuse Treatment “Pay for Itself”?
Susan L. Ettner Ph.D., David Huang, Elizabeth Evans, Danielle Rose Ash, Mary Hardy, Mickel Jourabchi, Yih‐Ing Hser
IRB and Methodological Issues
Impact of Institutional Review Board Practice Variation on Observational Health Services Research
Lee A. Green M.D., M.P.H., Julie C. Lowery, Christine P. Kowalski, Leon Wyszewianski
Does Date Stamping ICD‐9‐CM Codes Increase the Value of Clinical Information in Administrative Data?
Laurent G. Glance, Andrew W. Dick Ph.D., Turner M. Osler, Dana B. Mukamel Ph.D.
Overcoming Bias in Estimating the Volume–Outcome Relationship
Alexander C. Tsai, Mark Votruba, John F. P. Bridges, Randall D. Cebul
The Reliability of Survey Assessments of Characteristics of Medical Clinics
Peter V. Marsden, Bruce E. Landon M.D., M.B.A., M.S., Ira B. Wilson M.D., M.Sc., Keith McInnes, Lisa R. Hirschhorn, Lin Ding, Paul D. Cleary Ph.D.
Psychometric Properties of the Dutch Version of the Hospital‐Level Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Survey Instrument
Onyebuchi A. Arah, A. H. A. Ten Asbroek, Diana M. J. Delnoij, Johan S. De Koning, Piet J. A. Stam, Aldien H. Poll, Barbara Vriens, Paul F. Schmidt, Niek S. Klazinga