Volume 46 | Number 6pt1 | December 2011
Quality of Care
Does Information Matter? Competition, Quality, and the Impact of Nursing Home Report Cards
David C. Grabowski Ph.D., Robert J. Town Ph.D.
Comparing Patient Outcomes across Payer Types: Implications for Using Hospital Discharge Records to Assess Quality
Daniel D. Maeng, Grant R. Martsolf Ph.D., M.P.H., R.N.
Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratios: Sensitivity Analyses on the Impact of Coding
Alex Bottle, Brian Jarman, Paul Aylin
Abandonment of High‐Dose Chemotherapy/Hematopoietic Cell Transplants for Breast Cancer Following Negative Trial Results
David H. Howard Ph.D., Carolyn Kenline, Hillard M. Lazarus, Charles F. LeMaistre, Richard T. Maziarz, Philip L. McCarthy Jr., Susan K. Parsons, David Szwajcer, James Douglas Rizzo, Navneet S. Majhail
Examining Multiple Sources of Differential Item Functioning on the linician & roup Survey
Hector P. Rodriguez Ph.D., M.P.H., Paul K. Crane
Children's Care
Medicare
The Relationship between Physician Compensation Strategies and the Intensity of Care Delivered to Medicare Beneficiaries
Bruce E. Landon M.D., M.B.A., M.S., James D. Reschovsky Ph.D., A. James O'Malley Ph.D., Hoangmai H. Pham, Jack Hadley
Depression and the Health Care Experiences of Medicare Beneficiaries
Steven C. Martino Ph.D., Marc N. Elliott, David E. Kanouse, Donna O. Farley, Q. Burkhart M.S., Ron D. Hays
Managed Care and the Diffusion of Endoscopy in Fee‐for‐Service Medicare
Lee Rivers Mobley, Sujha Subramanian Ph.D., Julia Koschinsky, H. E. Frech, Laurel Clayton Trantham, Luc Anselin
Hospital Care
Variation in Hospital Costs, Payments, and Profitabilty for Cardiac Valve Replacement Surgery
James C. Robinson
The Accuracy of Present‐on‐Admission Reporting in Administrative Data
L. Elizabeth Goldman M.D., M.C.R., Philip W. Chu M.S., Dennis Osmond, Andrew Bindman M.D.
Financial Incentive
Does Medication Adherence Following a Copayment Increase Differ by Disease Burden?
Virginia Wang Ph.D., Chuan‐Fen Liu M.P.H., Ph.D., Christopher L. Bryson, Nancy D. Sharp, Matthew L. Maciejewski Ph.D.
“All the Money in the World …” Patient Perspectives Regarding the Influence of Financial Incentives
Heather Schacht Reisinger, Rachel Horner Brackett, Colin D. Buzza, Monica B. Williams Páez, Ryan Gourley, Mark W. Vander Weg, Alan J. Christensen, Peter J. Kaboli
Methods Brief
Assessment of a Novel Hybrid Delphi and Nominal Groups Technique to Evaluate Quality Indicators
Sheryl Davies M.A., Patrick S. Romano M.D., M.P.H., Eric M. Schmidt, Ellen Schultz M.S., Jeffrey J. Geppert, Kathryn M. McDonald M.M.