Volume 44 | Number 1 | February 2009
Nursing Home Care
Modeling Efficiency at the Process Level: An Examination of the Care Planning Process in Nursing Homes
Robert H. Lee, Marjorie J. Bott, Byron Gajewski, Roma Lee Taunton
Maintaining Continuity of Care for Nursing Home Residents: Effect of States' Medicaid Bed‐Hold Policies and Reimbursement Rates
Orna Intrator Ph.D., Mark Schleinitz, David C. Grabowski Ph.D., Jacqueline Zinn, Vincent Mor Ph.D.
Effects of State Minimum Staffing Standards on Nursing Home Staffing and Quality of Care
Jeongyoung Park, Sally C. Stearns
National Release of the Nursing Home Quality Report Cards: Implications of Statistical Methodology for Risk Adjustment
Yue Li Ph.D., Xueya Cai, Laurent G. Glance, William D. Spector, Dana B. Mukamel Ph.D.
Impacting Treatment Use and Costs
Multilevel Analysis of the Chronic Care Model and 5A Services for Treating Tobacco Use in Urban Primary Care Clinics
Dorothy Y. Hung Ph.D., M.A., M.P.H., Donna R. Shelley
Assessing the Impact of Drug Use on Hospital Costs
Bruce C. Stuart, Jalpa A. Doshi, Joseph V. Terza Ph.D.
Environmental Context and Access
Transportation Brokerage Services and Medicaid Beneficiaries' Access to Care
Jinkyung Kim, Edward C. Norton Ph.D., Sally C. Stearns
The Effect of Community‐Level Unemployment on Preventive Oral Health Care Utilization
Brian C. Quinn, Ralph A. Catalano, Eugene Felber
Patient Safety
Validity of Selected AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators Based on VA National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Data
Patrick S. Romano M.D., M.P.H., Hillary J. Mull Ph.D., Peter E. Rivard, Shibei Zhao, William G. Henderson, Susan Loveland, Dennis Tsilimingras, Cindy L. Christiansen, Amy K. Rosen Ph.D.
Advancing Measurement of Patient Safety Culture
Liane Ginsburg, Debra Gilin, Deborah Tregunno, Peter G. Norton, Ward Flemons, Mark Fleming
Management Interventions
Organizational Cost of Quality Improvement for Depression Care
Chuan‐Fen Liu M.P.H., Ph.D., Lisa V. Rubenstein, JoAnn E. Kirchner, John C. Fortney Ph.D., Mark W. Perkins, Scott K. Ober, Jeffrey M. Pyne M.D., Edmund F. Chaney
Effect of Evidence‐Based Acute Pain Management Practices on Inpatient Costs
John M. Brooks Ph.D., Marita G. Titler, Gail Ardery, Keela Herr
Translating Research into Practice Intervention Improves Management of Acute Pain in Older Hip Fracture Patients
Marita G. Titler, Keela Herr, John M. Brooks Ph.D., Xian‐Jin Xie, Gail Ardery, Margo L. Schilling, J. Lawrence Marsh, Linda Q. Everett, William R. Clarke
Methods
What's the Risk? A Simple Approach for Estimating Adjusted Risk Measures from Nonlinear Models Including Logistic Regression
Lawrence C. Kleinman, Edward C. Norton Ph.D.
Comparing Cost‐of‐Illness Estimates from Alternative Approaches: An Application to Diabetes
Amanda A. Honeycutt, Joel E. Segel, Thomas J. Hoerger, Eric A. Finkelstein