Volume 44 | Number 2p1 | April 2009
Quality and Patient Safety
Learning and Improving in Quality Improvement Collaboratives: Which Collaborative Features Do Participants Value Most?
Ingrid M. Nembhard
Impact of Public Reporting on Unreported Quality of Care
Rachel M. Werner M.D., Ph.D., R. Tamara Konetzka Ph.D., Gregory B. Kruse
Relationship of Safety Climate and Safety Performance in Hospitals
Sara Singer, Shoutzu Lin, Alyson Falwell, David Gaba, Laurence Baker
Impact of Performance Obstacles on Intensive Care Nurses' Workload, Perceived Quality and Safety of Care, and Quality of Working Life
Ayse P. Gurses, Pascale Carayon, Melanie Wall
Hospital Services and Outcomes
Time to Send the Preemie Home? Additional Maturity at Discharge and Subsequent Health Care Costs and Outcomes
Jeffrey H. Silber M.D., Ph.D., Scott A. Lorch M.D., M.S.C.E., Paul R. Rosenbaum Ph.D., Barbara Medoff‐Cooper, Susan Bakewell‐Sachs, Andrea Millman, Lanyu Mi, Orit Even‐Shoshan M.S., Gabriel J. Escobar
Anesthesia Provider Model, Hospital Resources, and Maternal Outcomes
Jack Needleman, Ann F. Minnick
Certificate of Need (CON) for Cardiac Care: Controversy over the Contributions of CON
Vivian Ho, Meei‐Hsiang Ku‐Goto, James G. Jollis
Methods
Effects of Survey Mode, Patient Mix, and Nonresponse on CAHPS Hospital Survey Scores
Marc N. Elliott, Alan M. Zaslavsky Ph.D., Elizabeth Goldstein, William Lehrman, Katrin Hambarsoomians, Megan K. Beckett Ph.D., Laura Giordano
Use of Prolonged Travel to Improve Pediatric Risk‐Adjustment Models
Scott A. Lorch M.D., M.S.C.E., Jeffrey H. Silber M.D., Ph.D., Orit Even‐Shoshan M.S., Andrea Millman
Adjusting for Subgroup Differences in Extreme Response Tendency in Ratings of Health Care: Impact on Disparity Estimates
Marc N. Elliott, Amelia M. Haviland Ph.D., David E. Kanouse, Katrin Hambarsoomian M.S., Ron D. Hays
Enhancement of Identifying Cancer Specialists through the Linkage of Medicare Claims to Additional Sources of Physician Specialty
Lori A. Pollack, Walter Adamache, Christie R. Eheman, A. Blythe Ryerson, Lisa C. Richardson M.D., M.P.H.
Method to Develop Health Care Peer Groups for Quality and Financial Comparisons Across Hospitals
Margaret M. Byrne, Christina N. Daw, Harlan A. Nelson, Tracy H. Urech, Kenneth Pietz Ph.D., Laura A. Petersen M.D., M.P.H.
Methods and Research Briefs
The American Community Survey and Health Insurance Coverage Estimates: Possibilities and Challenges for Health Policy Researchers
Michael Davern, Brian C. Quinn, Genevieve M. Kenney Ph.D., Lynn A. Blewett
Variation in Drug Prices at Pharmacies: Are Prices Higher in Poorer Areas?
Walid F. Gellad, Niteesh K. Choudhry M.D., Ph.D., Mark W. Friedberg M.D.,M.P.P., M. Alan Brookhart Ph.D., Jennifer S. Haas, William H. Shrank M.D.