Volume 44 | Number 6 | December 2009
Physicians and Coronary Heart Disease
Do Physicians Attend to Base Rates? Prevalence Data and Statistical Discrimination in the Diagnosis of Coronary Heart Disease
Nancy N. Maserejian, Karen E. Lutfey, John B. McKinlay
Cancer Care
Organizational Characteristics and Cancer Care for Nursing Home Residents
Jan P. Clement, Cathy J. Bradley, Chunchieh Lin
Hospice Characteristics and the Disenrollment of Patients with Cancer
Melissa D. A. Carlson, Jeph Herrin Ph.D., Qingling Du, Andrew J. Epstein, Emily Cherlin, R. Sean Morrison M.D., Elizabeth H. Bradley
Children's Care and Coverage
Utilization and Treatment
The Influence of Targeted Education on Medication Persistence and Generic Substitution among Consumer‐Directed Health Care Enrollees
Rebecca L. Sedjo, Emily R. Cox
Mistrust of Health Care Organizations Is Associated with Underutilization of Health Services
Thomas A. LaVeist, Lydia A. Isaac, Karen Patricia Williams
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Treatment of a Medicaid Population with Schizophrenia
Marcela Horvitz‐Lennon M.D., M.P.H., Thomas G. McGuire Ph.D., Margarita Alegria, Richard G. Frank Ph.D.
Patient Safety and Public Health
Development of a Measure of Patient Safety Event Learning Responses
Liane R. Ginsburg, You‐Ta Chuang, Peter G. Norton, Whitney Berta, Deborah Tregunno, Peggy Ng, Julia Richardson
Jurisdiction Size and Local Public Health Spending
Rexford E. Santerre
Research Briefs
Preventive HIV Vaccine Acceptability and Behavioral Risk Compensation among a Random Sample of High‐Risk Adults in Los Angeles (LA VOICES)
Peter A. Newman, Sung‐Jae Lee, Naihua Duan, Ellen Rudy, Terry K. Nakazono, John Boscardin, Lisa Kakinami, Steven Shoptaw, Allison Diamant, William E. Cunningham
Research Brief
Role and Involvement of Life End Information Forum Physicians in Euthanasia and Other End‐of‐Life Care Decisions in Flanders, Belgium
Yanna Van Wesemael, Joachim Cohen, Bregje D. Onwuteaka‐Philipsen, Johan Bilsen, Wim Distelmans, Luc Deliens