Volume 45 | Number 1 | February 2010
Hospitals and Nursing Homes
Has Pay‐for‐Performance Decreased Access for Minority Patients?
Andrew M. Ryan Ph.D., M.A.
The Role of Outpatient Facilities in Explaining Variations in Risk‐Adjusted Readmission Rates between Hospitals
Scott A. Lorch M.D., M.S.C.E., Michael Baiocchi, Jeffrey H. Silber M.D., Ph.D., Orit Even‐Shoshan M.S., Gabriel J. Escobar, Dylan S. Small
Trends in Hospital Cost and Revenue, 1994–2005: How Are They Related to HMO Penetration, Concentration, and For‐Profit Ownership?
Yu‐Chu Shen Ph.D., Vivian Y. Wu Ph.D., M.S., Glenn Melnick
Acute Myocardial Infarction and Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Outcomes in Specialty and General Hospitals: Analysis of State Inpatient Data
Peter Cram, Levent Bayman, Joanna Popescu, Mary S. Vaughan‐Sarrazin
The “Nursing Home Compare” Measure of Urinary/Fecal Incontinence: Cross‐Sectional Variation, Stability over Time, and the Impact of Case Mix
Yue Li Ph.D., John Schnelle, William D. Spector, Laurent G. Glance, Dana B. Mukamel Ph.D.
Pharmaceuticals and Prescribing
Show Us the Money: Lessons in Transparency from State Pharmaceutical Marketing Disclosure Laws
Susan Chimonas, Natassia M. Rozario, David J. Rothman
The Value of Specialty Oncology Drugs
Dana P. Goldman Ph.D., Anupam B. Jena M.D., Ph.D., Darius N. Lakdawalla Ph.D., Jennifer L. Malin, Jesse D. Malkin, Eric Sun
Impact of Medicare Part D on Medicare–Medicaid Dual‐Eligible Beneficiaries' Prescription Utilization and Expenditures
Anirban Basu Ph.D., Wesley Yin, G. Caleb Alexander
Electronic Prescribing at the Point of Care: A Time–Motion Study in the Primary Care Setting
Emily Beth Devine, William Hollingworth, Ryan N. Hansen, Nathan M. Lawless, Jennifer L. Wilson‐Norton, Diane P. Martin, David K. Blough, Sean D. Sullivan
Physician Practice
Use of Interpreters by Physicians Treating Limited English Proficient Women with Breast Cancer: Results from the Provider Survey of the Los Angeles Women's Health Study
Danielle E. Rose, Diana M. Tisnado, Jennifer L. Malin, May L. Tao, Melinda A. Maggard, John Adams, Patricia A. Ganz, Katherine L. Kahn M.D.
The Role of Monetary and Nonmonetary Incentives on the Choice of Practice Establishment: A Stated Preference Study of Young Physicians in Germany
Oliver H. Günther, Beate Kürstein, Steffi G. Riedel‐Heller, Hans‐Helmut König M.D., M.P.H.
Public Programs
SCHIP's Impact on Dependent Coverage in the Small‐Group Health Insurance Market
Eric E. Seiber Ph.D., Curtis S. Florence
Obstetric Complications in Women with Diagnosed Mental Illness: The Relative Success of California's County Mental Health System
Dorothy Thornton, Sylvia Guendelman, Nap Hosang
Methods
The Utility of the State Buy‐In Variable in the Medicare Denominator File to Identify Dually Eligible Medicare‐Medicaid Beneficiaries: A Validation Study
Siran M. Koroukian, Bassam Dahman, Glenn Copeland, Cathy J. Bradley
Assessing Heterogeneity of Treatment Effects: Are Authors Misinterpreting Their Results?
Erik Fernandez y Garcia, Hien Nguyen, Naihua Duan, Nicole B. Gabler, Richard L. Kravitz M.D., M.S.P.H.
Research and Methods Briefs
Predictors of Adequate Depression Treatment among Medicaid‐Enrolled Adults
Carrie Farmer Teh, Mark J. Sorbero, Mark J. Mihalyo, Jane N. Kogan, James Schuster, Charles F. Reynolds, Bradley D. Stein M.D., Ph.D.
Spatial Implications Associated with Using Euclidean Distance Measurements and Geographic Centroid Imputation in Health Care Research
Stephen G. Jones, Avery J. Ashby, Soyal R. Momin, Allen Naidoo