Volume 41 | Number 2 | April 2006
Quality of Care
Quality Improvement Implementation and Hospital Performance on Quality Indicators
Bryan J. Weiner, Jeffrey A. Alexander Ph.D., Stephen M. Shortell Ph.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., Laurence C. Baker, Mark Becker, Jeffrey J. Geppert
Predicting Nursing Facility Residents' Quality of Life Using External Indicators
Howard B. Degenholtz, Rosalie A. Kane, Robert L. Kane, Boris Bershadsky, Kristen C. Kling
Assessing Behavior in Context
Do Physicians Always Flee from HMOs? New Results Using Dynamic Panel Estimation Methods
Timothy T. Brown Ph.D., Janet M. Coffman M.P.P., Ph.D., Brian C. Quinn, Richard M. Scheffler, Douglas D. Schwalm
Variation in Hospital Length of Stay: Do Physicians Adapt Their Length of Stay Decisions to What Is Usual in the Hospital Where They Work?
Judith D. Jong, Gert P. Westert, Ronald Lagoe, Peter P. Groenewegen Ph.D.
Religious Involvement and the Use of Mental Health Care
Katherine M. Harris, Mark J. Edlund, Sharon L. Larson
Implications of Expenditures on Care
Prescription Drug Expenditures and Population Demographics
Steven G. Morgan Ph.D.
Health Insurance and Health at Age 65: Implications for Medical Care Spending on New Medicare Beneficiaries
Jack Hadley, Timothy Waidmann
Underserved Populations
The Effect of Rural Hospital Closures on Community Economic Health
George M. Holmes, Rebecca T. Slifkin, Randy K. Randolph, Stephanie Poley
How Did Welfare Reform Affect the Health Insurance Coverage of Women and Children?
John Cawley, Mathis Schroeder, Kosali I. Simon Ph.D.
Disparities in Primary Care for Vulnerable Children: The Influence of Multiple Risk Factors
Gregory D. Stevens, Michael Seid, Ritesh Mistry, Neal Halfon
Disparities in the Reporting and Treatment of Health Conditions in Children: An Analysis of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
James P. Guevara, David S. Mandell, Anthony L. Rostain, Huaqing Zhao, Trevor R. Hadley
Methodological Issues
Application of Regression‐Discontinuity Analysis in Pharmaceutical Health Services Research
Ilene H. Zuckerman, Euni Lee, Anthony K. Wutoh, Zhenyi Xue, Bruce Stuart Ph.D.
Failure of ICD‐9‐CM Codes to Identify Patients with Comorbid Chronic Kidney Disease in Diabetes
Elizabeth F. O. Kern, Miriam Maney, Donald R. Miller, Chin‐Lin Tseng, Anjali Tiwari, Mangala Rajan, David Aron, Leonard Pogach
Should Episode‐Based Economic Profiles Be Risk Adjusted to Account for Differences in Patients' Health Risks?
J. William Thomas
Patient Turnover and Nursing Staff Adequacy
Lynn Y. Unruh, Myron D. Fottler