Volume 47 | Number 5 | October 2012
Introducing the Best of the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting
Early Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Health Insurance Coverage of Young Adults
Joel C. Cantor, Alan C. Monheit, Derek Delia, Kristen Lloyd M.P.H.
The Effect of State Regulatory Stringency on Nursing Home Quality
Dana B. Mukamel Ph.D., David L. Weimer Ph.D., Charlene Harrington, William D. Spector, Heather Ladd M.S., Yue Li Ph.D.
What Hospital Inpatient Services Contributed the Most to the 2001–2006 Growth in the Cost per Case?
Jared Lane K. Maeda Ph.D., M.P.H., Susan O. Raetzman M.S.P.H., Bernard S. Friedman Ph.D.
The Relationship between Mental Health Diagnosis and Treatment with Second‐Generation Antipsychotics over Time: A National Study of Medicaid‐Enrolled Children
Meredith Matone M.H.S., Russell Localio Ph.D., Yuan‐Shung Huang M.S., Susan dosReis Ph.D., Chris Feudtner M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., David Rubin M.D., M.S.C.E.
Outcomes and Measurement
Composite Measures for Rating Hospital Quality with Major Surgery
Justin B. Dimick M.D., M.P.H., Douglas O. Staiger, Nicholas H. Osborne, Lauren H. Nicholas, John D. Birkmeyer M.D.
Reporting of Quality Indicators and Improvement in Hospital Performance: The . Regional Outcome Evaluation Program
Cristina Renzi, Chiara Sorge, Danilo Fusco, Nera Agabiti, Marina Davoli, Carlo A. Perucci
Comparison of Distribution‐ and Anchor‐Based Approaches to Infer Changes in Health‐Related Quality of Life of Prostate Cancer Survivors
Ravishankar Jayadevappa, Stanley Bruce Malkowicz, Marsha Wittink, Alan J. Wein, Sumedha Chhatre
The Effectiveness of Chronic Care Management for Heart Failure: Meta‐Regression Analyses to Explain the Heterogeneity in Outcomes
Hanneke W. Drewes, Lotte M. G. Steuten, Lidwien C. Lemmens, Caroline A. Baan Ph.D., Hendriek C. Boshuizen, Arianne M. J. Elissen, Karin M. M. Lemmens, Jolanda A. C. Meeuwissen, Hubertus J. M. Vrijhoef
Care Coordination for the Chronically Ill: Understanding the Patient's Perspective
Daniel D. Maeng, Grant R. Martsolf Ph.D., M.P.H., R.N., Dennis P. Scanlon Ph.D., Jon B. Christianson Ph.D.
Costs and Insurance
Subsidies: Was the Carrot Enticing Enough?
Ilana Graetz, Mary Reed, Vicki Fung Ph.D., William H. Dow Ph.D., Joseph P. Newhouse Ph.D., John Hsu M.D., M.B.A.
Take‐Up of Public Insurance and Crowd‐Out of Private Insurance under Recent Expansions to Higher Income Children
Carole Roan Gresenz, Sarah E. Edgington, Miriam Laugesen, José J. Escarce
Impacts of Rising Health Care Costs on Families with Employment‐Based Private Insurance: A National Analysis with State Fixed Effects
Hao Yu Ph.D., Andrew W. Dick Ph.D.
Variations in Use of Services
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health and Health Care among Adolescents
May Lau, Hua Lin, Glenn Flores
Hospital‐Level Variation in the Use of Intensive Care
Christopher W. Seymour, Theodore J. Iwashyna, William J. Ehlenbach, Hannah Wunsch, Colin R. Cooke M.Sc., M.D., M.S.
Delays in Seeking Conventional Medical Care and Complementary and Alternative Medicine Utilization
Stephanie L. Ayers, Jennie J. Kronenfeld