Volume 41 | Number 6 | December 2006
Health Insurance
The Effect of Two Publicly Funded Insurance Programs on Use of Dental Services for Young Children
Tegwyn H. Brickhouse, R. Gary Rozier, Gary D. Slade
Health Insurance Take‐up by the Near‐Elderly
Thomas C. Buchmueller, Sabina Ohri
What's Driving the Downward Trend in Employer‐Sponsored Health Insurance?
Yu‐Chu Shen Ph.D., Sharon K. Long Ph.D. (economics)
Preventive Care
Is Some Provider Advice on Smoking Cessation Better Than No Advice? An Instrumental Variable Analysis of the 2001 National Health Interview Survey
Yuhua Bao, Naihua Duan, Sarah A. Fox
Colorectal Cancer Screening in the Elderly Population: Disparities by Dual Medicare–Medicaid Enrollment Status
Siran M. Koroukian, Fang Xu, Avi Dor, Gregory S. Cooper
Physician Differences
Comparing United States versus International Medical School Graduate Physicians Who Serve African‐ American and White Elderly
Daniel L. Howard, Carol D. Bunch, Wilberforce O. Mundia, Thomas R. Konrad, Lloyd J. Edwards, M. Ahinee Amamoo, Yhenneko Jallah
How Do Doctors in Different Countries Manage the Same Patient? Results of a Factorial Experiment
John McKinlay, Carol Link, Sara Arber, Lisa Marceau, Amy O'Donnell, Ann Adams
Explaining Variations
Variation in Chemotherapy Utilization in Ovarian Cancer: The Relative Contribution of Geography
Daniel Polsky, Katrina A. Armstrong, Thomas C. Randall, Richard N. Ross M.S., Orit Even‐Shoshan M.S., Paul R. Rosenbaum Ph.D., Jeffrey H. Silber M.D., Ph.D.
Racial Variation in End‐of‐Life Intensive Care Use: A Race or Hospital Effect?
Amber E. Barnato, Zekarias Berhane, Lisa A. Weissfeld, Chung‐Chou H. Chang, Walter T. Linde‐Zwirble, Derek C. Angus,
Methods
Can the Quality of Care in Family Practice Be Measured Using Administrative Data?
Alan Katz, Ruth‐Ann Soodeen, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Carolyn De Coster, Dan Chateau
Estimating the Effect of Smoking Cessation on Weight Gain: An Instrumental Variable Approach
Daniel Eisenberg, Brian C. Quinn
Effect of Dialysis Center Profit‐Status on Patient Survival: A Comparison of Risk‐Adjustment and Instrumental Variable Approaches
John M. Brooks Ph.D., Christopher P. Irwin, Lawrence G. Hunsicker, Michael J. Flanigan, Elizabeth A. Chrischilles, Jane F. Pendergast
Research Brief
Caught in the Act? Prevalence, Predictors, and Consequences of Physician Detection of Unannounced Standardized Patients
Carol E. Franz, Ron Epstein, Katherine N. Miller, Arthur Brown, Jun Song, Mitchell Feldman, Peter Franks M.D., Steven Kelly‐Reif, Richard L. Kravitz M.D., M.S.P.H.