Volume 43 | Number 2 | April 2008
Public Premiums and Benefit Design
The Effect of Premium Changes on SCHIP Enrollment Duration
Jill Boylston Herndon Ph.D., W. Bruce Vogel Ph.D., Richard L. Bucciarelli, Elizabeth A. Shenkman Ph.D.
Impact of Multitiered Copayments on the Use and Cost of Prescription Drugs among Medicare Beneficiaries
Boyd H. Gilman, John Kautter
Drug Use Patterns in Severely Mentally Ill Medicare Beneficiaries: Impact of Discontinuities in Drug Coverage
Linda Simoni‐Wastila, Ilene H. Zuckerman, Thomas Shaffer, Christopher M. Blanchette, Bruce Stuart Ph.D.
How Effective Are Copayments in Reducing Expenditures for Low‐Income Adult Medicaid Beneficiaries? Experience from the Oregon Health Plan
Neal T. Wallace, K. John McConnell Ph.D., Charles A. Gallia, Jeanene A. Smith
Disparities
Testing for Statistical Discrimination by Race/Ethnicity in Panel Data for Depression Treatment in Primary Care
Thomas G. McGuire Ph.D., John Z. Ayanian, Daniel E. Ford, Rachel E. M. Henke, Kathryn M. Rost, Alan M. Zaslavsky Ph.D.
Language and Regional Differences in Evaluations of Medicare Managed Care by Hispanics
Robert Weech‐Maldonado Ph.D., Marie N. Fongwa, Peter Gutierrez, Ron D. Hays
Guidelines and Quality
Physician Characteristics and the Reported Effect of Evidence‐Based Practice Guidelines
Christine E. Sammer, Kristine Lykens, Karan P. Singh
Impact of Medicaid Reimbursement on Mental Health Quality Indicators
Nicole M. Bellows, Helen A. Halpin
Strategic Orientation and Nursing Home Response to Public Reporting of Quality Measures: An Application of the Miles and Snow Typology
Jacqueline S. Zinn, William D. Spector, David L. Weimer Ph.D., Dana B. Mukamel Ph.D.
Program Structure and Counselor–Client Contact in Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment
Danica K. Knight, Kirk M. Broome, D. Dwayne Simpson, Patrick M. Flynn
Hospital Use and Costs
Cost of Hospital Care for Older Adults with Heart Failure: Medical, Pharmaceutical, and Nursing Costs
Marita G. Titler, Gwenneth A. Jensen, Joanne McCloskey Dochterman, Xian‐Jin Xie, Mary Kanak, David Reed, Leah L. Shever
Parental Mental and Pain‐Related Health and Pediatric Ambulatory Care Sensitive Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations
Joseph E. Logan, Anne W. Riley, Lawrence E. Barker
Risks and Causes of Hospitalizations among Physicians in Taiwan
Chi‐Miao Lin, Chiang‐Hsing Yang, Fung‐Chang Sung, Chung‐Yi Li
Mental Health and the Life Span
Depression and Retirement in Late Middle‐Aged U.S. Workers
Jalpa A. Doshi, Liyi Cen, Daniel Polsky
Dementia and Medicare at Life's End
Vicki L. Lamb, Frank A. Sloan Ph.D, Anil S. Nathan
Methods
Identifying Persons with Treated Asthma Using Administrative Data via Latent Class Modelling
Robert J. Prosser, Bruce C. Carleton, M. Anne Smith
Development of a Measure of Physician Engagement in Addressing Racial and Ethnic Health Care Disparities
G. Caleb Alexander, Shang Lin, Maliha A. Sayla, Matthew K. Wynia
Research Brief
Coping with Prescription Drug Cost Sharing: Knowledge, Adherence, and Financial Burden
Mary Reed, Richard Brand, Joseph P. Newhouse Ph.D., Joe V. Selby, John Hsu M.D., M.B.A.