Volume 42 | Number 4 | August 2007
Self‐Management and Health Care Utilization
Do Increases in Patient Activation Result in Improved Self‐Management Behaviors?
Judith H. Hibbard, Eldon R. Mahoney, Ronald Stock, Martin Tusler
The Effect of Immediate Reading of Screening Mammograms on Medical Care Utilization and Costs after False‐Positive Mammograms
Kate A. Stewart, Peter J. Neumann, Suzanne W. Fletcher, Mary B. Barton
The Relationship between Work Hours and Utilization of General Practitioners in Four Canadian Provinces
Deshayne B. Fell, George Kephart, Lori J. Curtis, Kelly Bower, Nazeem Muhajarine, Robert Reid, Leslie Roos
Utilizing New Prescription Drugs: Disparities among Non‐Hispanic Whites, Non‐Hispanic Blacks, and Hispanic Whites
Junling Wang, Ilene H. Zuckerman, Nancy A. Miller, Fadia T. Shaya, Jason M. Noel, C. Daniel Mullins
Health Insurance
The Impacts of the State Children's Health Insurance Program on Children Who Enroll: Findings from Ten States
Genevieve Kenney
Effects of the State Children's Health Insurance Program on Access to Dental Care and Use of Dental Services
Hua Wang, Edward C. Norton Ph.D., R. Gary Rozier
The Impact of Welfare Reform on Insurance Coverage before Pregnancy and the Timing of Prenatal Care Initiation
Norma I. Gavin, E. Kathleen Adams Ph.D., Willard G. Manning, Cheryl Raskind‐Hood, Matthew Urato
Quality of Care and Mortality
Do Hospitals Provide Lower Quality Care on Weekends?
David J. Becker Ph.D.
Is Thirty‐Day Hospital Mortality Really Lower for Black Veterans Compared with White Veterans?
Kevin G. Volpp, Roslyn Stone, Judith R. Lave Ph.D., Ashish K. Jha M.D., M.P.H., Mark Pauly, Heather Klusaritz, Huanyu Chen, Liyi Cen, Nancy Brucker, Daniel Polsky
Reduced Mortality: The Unexpected Impact of a Telephone‐Based Care Management Intervention for Older Adults in Managed Care
Gretchen E. Alkema, Kathleen H. Wilber Ph.D., George R. Shannon, Douglas Allen
Nursing Home and Hospice
Hospitalization of Nursing Home Residents: The Effects of States' Medicaid Payment and Bed‐Hold Policies
Orna Intrator Ph.D., David C. Grabowski Ph.D., Jacqueline Zinn, Mark Schleinitz, Zhanlian Feng Ph.D., Susan Miller, Vince Mor
Hospice Care: What Services Do Patients and Their Families Receive?
Melissa D. A. Carlson, R. Sean Morrison M.D., Theodore R. Holford, Elizabeth H. Bradley
Methods Articles
Examining the Scope of Multibusiness Health Care Firms: Implications for Strategy and Financial Performance
S. Noorein Inamdar
Overestimating Outcome Rates: Statistical Estimation When Reliability Is Suboptimal
Rodney A. Hayward, Michele Heisler, John Adams, R. Adams Dudley, Timothy P. Hofer M.D., M.S.
The Adequacy of Household Survey Data for Evaluating the Nongroup Health Insurance Market
Joel C. Cantor, Alan C. Monheit, Susan Brownlee, Carl Schneider
Qualitative Data Analysis for Health Services Research: Developing Taxonomy, Themes, and Theory
Elizabeth H. Bradley, Leslie A. Curry, Kelly J. Devers
Notes from the Field: Jumpstarting the IRB Approval Process in Multicenter Studies
Jan Blustein M.D.,Ph.D., Marsha Regenstein, Bruce Siegel, John Billings
Administrative Data Algorithms Can Describe Ambulatory Physician Utilization
Baiju R. Shah, Janet E. Hux, Andreas Laupacis, Bernard Zinman, Karen Cauch‐Dudek, Gillian L. Booth