Volume 44 | Number 3 | June 2009
Health Care Efficiency
A Systematic Review of Health Care Efficiency Measures
Peter S. Hussey Ph.D., Han De Vries, John Romley, Margaret C. Wang, Susan S. Chen, Paul G. Shekelle, Elizabeth A. McGlynn
Quality and Performance
Effects of the Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration on Medicare Patient Mortality and Cost
Andrew M. Ryan Ph.D., M.A.
Managed Care Quality of Care and Plan Choice in New York SCHIP
Hangsheng Liu Ph.D., Charles E. Phelps, Peter J. Veazie, Andrew W. Dick Ph.D., Jonathan D. Klein, Laura P. Shone, Katia Noyes, Peter G. Szilagyi
The Relationship between Hospital Volume and Mortality in Mechanical Ventilation: An Instrumental Variable Analysis
Jeremy M. Kahn, Thomas R. Ten Have, Theodore J. Iwashyna
Organizational and Market Influences on Physician Performance on Patient Experience Measures
Hector P. Rodriguez Ph.D., M.P.H., Ted Von Glahn, William H. Rogers, Dana Gelb Safran
Retention, Learning by Doing, and Performance in Emergency Medical Services
Guy David PhD, Tanguy Brachet
Medicare and Medicaid
The Health Effects of Medicare for the Near‐Elderly Uninsured
Daniel Polsky, Jalpa A. Doshi, José Escarce, Willard Manning, Susan M. Paddock Ph.D., Liyi Cen, Jeannette Rogowski
Insurance Disruption due to Spousal Medicare Transitions: Implications for Access to Care and Health Care Utilization for Women Approaching Age 65
Jessica R. Schumacher, Maureen A. Smith M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., Jinn‐Ing Liou, Nancy Pandhi
An Examination of the Medicaid Undercount in the Current Population Survey: Preliminary Results from Record Linking
Michael Davern, Jacob Alex Klerman, David K. Baugh, Kathleen Thiede Call Ph.D., George D. Greenberg
Utilization and Expenditures
Impact of Pharmacy Benefit Design on Prescription Drug Utilization: A Fixed Effects Analysis of Plan Sponsor Data
M. Christopher Roebuck, Joshua N. Liberman
Effect of an Expenditure Cap on Low‐Income Seniors' Drug Use and Spending in a State Pharmacy Assistance Program
Christine E. Bishop Ph.D., Andrew M. Ryan Ph.D., M.A., Daniel M. Gilden, Joanna Kubisiak, Cindy Parks Thomas
The Within‐Year Concentration of Medical Care: Implications for Family Out‐of‐Pocket Expenditure Burdens
Thomas M. Selden
Health Care Utilization and Costs Associated with Physical and Nonphysical‐Only Intimate Partner Violence
Amy E. Bonomi, Melissa L. Anderson, Frederick P. Rivara, Robert S. Thompson
Chronic Illness and Nursing Homes
Preferences, Beliefs, and Self‐Management of Diabetes
Frank A. Sloan Ph.D, Norma A. Padrón PhD, MPH, MA, Alyssa C. Platt
Factors Associated with Increasing Nursing Home Closures
Nicholas G. Castle, John Engberg Ph.D., Judith Lave, Andrew Fisher