Volume 45 | Number 5p1 | October 2010
Quality and Outcomes
The Hospital Compare Mortality Model and the Volume–Outcome Relationship
Jeffrey H. Silber M.D., Ph.D., Paul R. Rosenbaum Ph.D., Tanguy J. Brachet, Richard N. Ross M.S., Laura J. Bressler, Orit Even‐Shoshan M.S., Scott A. Lorch M.D., M.S.C.E., Kevin G. Volpp
Surgeon and Hospital Volume as Quality Indicators for CABG in Taiwan: Examining Hazard to Mortality and Accounting for Unobserved Heterogeneity
Jason M. Hockenberry Ph.D., Hsien‐Ming Lien, Shin‐Yi Chou
Mortality among Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction: The Influences of Patient‐Centered Care and Evidence‐Based Medicine
Mark Meterko, Steven Wright, Hai Lin, Elliott Lowy, Paul D. Cleary Ph.D.
Examining the Relationship between Clinical Monitoring and Suicide Risk among Patients with Depression: Matched Case–Control Study and Instrumental Variable Approaches
Hyungjin Myra Kim Sc.D., Daniel Eisenberg, Dara Ganoczy M.P.H., Katherine Hoggatt, Karen L. Austin, Karen Downing, John F. McCarthy, Mark Ilgen, Marcia Valenstein M.D.
Utilization and Costs
Cost Sharing, Family Health Care Burden, and the Use of Specialty Drugs for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Pinar Karaca‐Mandic Ph.D., Geoffrey F. Joyce, Dana P. Goldman Ph.D., Marianne Laouri
Community and Individual Race/Ethnicity and Home Health Care Use among Elderly Persons in the United States
James B. Kirby, Denys T. Lau
Public Programs
Use of Outpatient Care in Veterans Health Administration and Medicare among Veterans Receiving Primary Care in Community‐Based and Hospital Outpatient Clinics
Chuan‐Fen Liu M.P.H., Ph.D., Michael Chapko, Chris L. Bryson, James F. Burgess Ph.D., John C. Fortney Ph.D., Mark Perkins, Nancy D. Sharp, Matthew L. Maciejewski Ph.D.
Effects of Mass Media Coverage on Timing and Annual Receipt of Influenza Vaccination among Medicare Elderly
Byung‐Kwang Yoo, Margaret L. Holland, Jay Bhattacharya M.D., Ph.D., Charles E. Phelps, Peter G. Szilagyi
How Does Medicaid‐Managed Care Impact Reporting of Medicaid Status?
Michael R. Plotzke, Jacob Alex Klerman, Michael Davern
Survey Research
Are Lower Response Rates Hazardous to Your Health Survey? An Analysis of Three State Telephone Health Surveys
Michael Davern, Donna McAlpine, Timothy J. Beebe, Jeanette Ziegenfuss, Todd Rockwood, Kathleen Thiede Call Ph.D.
A Randomized Trial Comparing Mail versus In‐Office Distribution of the CAHPS Clinician and Group Survey
Michael P. Anastario, Hector P. Rodriguez Ph.D., M.P.H., Patricia M. Gallagher Ph.D., Paul D. Cleary Ph.D., Dale Shaller, William H. Rogers, Karen Bogen, Dana Gelb Safran
Research Briefs
Declining Fertility and the Use of Cesarean Delivery: Evidence from a Population‐Based Study in Taiwan
Ke‐Zong M. Ma, Edward C. Norton Ph.D., Shoou‐Yih D. Lee Ph.D.
Place of Residence Affects Routine Dental Care in the Intellectually and Developmentally Disabled Adult Population on Medicaid
Julie Bershadsky, Robert L. Kane
Commentaries
Commentary: Assessing the Health Effects of Medicare Coverage for Previously Uninsured Adults: A Matter of Life and Death?
J. Michael McWilliams M.D., Ph.D., Ellen Meara, Alan M. Zaslavsky Ph.D., John Z. Ayanian