Volume 42 | Number 2 | April 2007
Predictors of Mortality
Hospice Enrollment and Evaluation of Its Causal Effect on Hospitalization of Dying Nursing Home Patients
Pedro L. Gozalo Ph.D., Susan C. Miller
Cancer Stage at Diagnosis and Survival among Persons with Social Security Disability Insurance on Medicare
Ellen P. McCarthy, Long H. Ngo, Thomas N. Chirikos, Richard G. Roetzheim, Donglin Li, Reed E. Drews, Lisa I. Iezzoni
Comparing Self‐Reported Health Status and Diagnosis‐Based Risk Adjustment to Predict 1‐ and 2 to 5‐Year Mortality
Kenneth Pietz Ph.D., Laura A. Petersen M.D., M.P.H.
Delayed Access to Health Care and Mortality
Julia C. Prentice, Steven D. Pizer Ph.D.
Quality and Satisfaction
Women's Satisfaction with Their On‐Going Primary Health Care Services: A Consideration of Visit‐Specific and Period Assessments
Roger T. Anderson, Carol S. Weisman, Fabian Camacho, Sarah Hudson Scholle M.P.H., Dr.P.H., Jillian T. Henderson, Deborah F. Farmer
Hospital Competition, Managed Care, and Mortality after Hospitalization for Medical Conditions in California
Jeannette Rogowski, Arvind K. Jain, José J. Escarce
Does the Market Value Racial and Ethnic Concordance in Physician–Patient Relationships?
Timothy T. Brown Ph.D., Richard M. Scheffler, Sarah E. Tom, Kevin A. Schulman M.D.
Do Professional Interpreters Improve Clinical Care for Patients with Limited English Proficiency? A Systematic Review of the Literature
Leah S. Karliner, Elizabeth A. Jacobs, Alice Hm Chen, Sunita Mutha
Substance Abuse
Primary Care Quality and Addiction Severity: A Prospective Cohort Study
Theresa W. Kim, Jeffrey H. Samet, Debbie M. Cheng, Michael R. Winter, Dana Gelb Safran, Richard Saitz M.D., M.P.H.
Racial Disparities in Completion Rates from Publicly Funded Alcohol Treatment: Economic Resources Explain More Than Demographics and Addiction Severity
Jerry O. Jacobson, Paul L. Robinson, Ricky N. Bluthenthal
Workplace Drug Testing and Worker Drug Use
Christopher S. Carpenter Ph.D.
Determinants of Utilization
The Complementarity and Substitution between Unconventional and Mainstream Medicine among Racial and Ethnic Groups in the United States
K. Tom Xu, Tommie W. Farrell
Explaining Direct Care Resource Use of Nursing Home Residents: Findings from Time Studies in Four States
Greg Arling, Robert L. Kane, Christine Mueller, Teresa Lewis
Children's Health Insurance
Methods Articles
Survey Conditioning in Self‐Reported Mental Health Service Use: Randomized Comparison of Alternative Instrument Formats
Naihua Duan, Margarita Alegria, Glorisa Canino, Thomas G. McGuire Ph.D., David Takeuchi
Development of an Algorithm to Identify Pregnancy Episodes in an Integrated Health Care Delivery System
Mark C. Hornbrook Ph.D., Evelyn P. Whitlock, Cynthia J. Berg, William M. Callaghan, Donald J. Bachman, Rachel Gold, F. Carol Bruce, Patricia M. Dietz, Selvi B. Williams