Volume 42 | Number 6p1 | December 2007
Hospitals
Effect of Critical Access Hospital Conversion on Patient Safety
Pengxiang Li, John E. Schneider, Marcia M. Ward
Using Performance Data to Identify Preferred Hospitals
Meredith B. Rosenthal Ph.D., Mary Beth Landrum Ph.D., Ellen Meara, Haiden A. Huskamp Ph.D., Rena M. Conti, Nancy L. Keating M.D., M.P.H.
Differences in the Implementation of Diagnosis‐Related Groups across Clinical Departments: A German Hospital Case Study
Hans‐Gerd Ridder, Vanessa Doege, Susanne Martini
Quality and Outcomes
Patient Outcomes and Evidence‐Based Medicine in a Preferred Provider Organization Setting: A Six‐Year Evaluation of a Physician Pay‐for‐Performance Program
Amanda S. Gilmore, Yingxu Zhao, Ning Kang, Kira L. Ryskina, Antonio P. Legorreta, Deborah A. Taira, Richard S. Chung
Does Quality Improvement Work? Evaluation of the Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaborative
David H. Howard Ph.D., Laura A. Siminoff, Virginia McBride, Monica Lin
The Cost‐Effectiveness of Improving Diabetes Care in U.S. Federally Qualified Community Health Centers
Elbert S. Huang M.D., M.P.H., Qi Zhang, Sydney E. S. Brown, Melinda L. Drum, David O. Meltzer, Marshall H. Chin M.D., M.P.H.
Health Insurance
The Role of Product Design in Consumers' Choices in the Individual Insurance Market
M. Susan Marquis, Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, José J. Escarce, Kanika Kapur
Physician Supply
Mortality and Physician Supply: Does Region Hold the Key to the Paradox?
Thomas C. Ricketts III, George M. Holmes
Methods Articles
Triangulating Patient and Clinician Perspectives on Clinically Important Differences in Health‐Related Quality of Life among Patients with Heart Disease
Kathleen W. Wyrwich, Stacie M. Metz, Kurt Kroenke, William M. Tierney, Ajit N. Babu, Fredric D. Wolinsky Ph.D.
Pediatric Patient Safety Events during Hospitalization: Approaches to Accounting for Institution‐Level Effects
Anthony D. Slonim, James P. Marcin M.D., M.P.H., Wendy Turenne, Matt Hall, Jill G. Joseph