Volume 47 | Number 6 | December 2012
Best of the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting
Comparative Cost‐Effectiveness of Interventions to Improve Medication Adherence after Myocardial Infarction
Kouta Ito M.D., M.S., William H. Shrank M.D., Jerry Avorn, Amanda R. Patrick M.S.,, Troyen A. Brennan M.D., J.D., Elliot M. Antman M.D.,, Niteesh K. Choudhry M.D., Ph.D.
The Impact of Hospital Pay‐for‐Performance on Hospital and Medicare Costs
Gregory B. Kruse, Daniel Polsky, Elizabeth A. Stuart Ph.D., Rachel M. Werner M.D., Ph.D.
Use and Costs
Cost‐Effectiveness of an Electronic Medical Record Based Clinical Decision Support System
Todd P. Gilmer Ph.D., Patrick J. O'Connor M.D., M.P.H., JoAnn M. Sperl‐Hillen M.D., William A. Rush Ph.D., Paul E. Johnson Ph.D., Gerald H. Amundson B.S., Stephen E. Asche, Heidi L. Ekstrom M.A.
Food Insecurity, Processes of Care, and Self‐Reported Medication Underuse in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: Results from the California Health Interview Survey
John Billimek Ph.D., Dara H. Sorkin Ph.D.
Adoption of Diagnostic Technology and Variation in Caesarean Section Rates: A Test of the Practice Style Hypothesis in Norway
Jostein Grytten Ph.D., Lars Monkerud Ph.D., Rune Sørensen Ph.D.
A Two‐Compartment Mixed‐Effects Gamma Regression Model for Quantifying Between‐Unit Variability in Length of Stay among Children Admitted to Intensive Care
Lahn Straney, Archie Clements, Jan Alexander, Anthony Slater,
Is There a Statistical Relationship between Economic Crises and Changes in Government Health Expenditure Growth? An Analysis of Twenty‐Four European Countries
Jonathan Cylus B.A, Philipa Mladovsky M.Sc., Martin McKee
Quality of Care
Clinical Quality Performance in U.S. Health Centers
Leiyu Shi, Lydie A. Lebrun, Jinsheng Zhu, Arthur S. Hayashi, Ravi Sharma Ph.D., Charles A. Daly, Alek Sripipatana Ph.D., M.P.H., Quyen Ngo‐Metzger M.D., M.P.H.
Chronic Illness and Patient Satisfaction
Caroline S. Carlin Ph.D., Jon B. Christianson Ph.D., Patricia Keenan, Michael Finch
The Patient‐Centered Medical Home and Patient Experience
Grant R. Martsolf Ph.D., M.P.H., R.N., Jeffrey A. Alexander Ph.D., Yunfeng Shi, Lawrence P. Casalino M.D., Ph.D., Diane R. Rittenhouse, Dennis P. Scanlon Ph.D., Stephen M. Shortell Ph.D., M.P.H., M.B.A.
Post‐Acute Care
Assisted Living Expansion and the Market for Nursing Home Care
David C. Grabowski Ph.D., David G. Stevenson Ph.D., Portia Y. Cornell Ph.D.
Rehospitalization in a National Population of Home Health Care Patients with Heart Failure
Elizabeth A. Madigan, Nahida H. Gordon, Richard H. Fortinsky, Siran M. Koroukian, Ileana Piña, Jennifer S. Riggs
Health Plan and Physician Availability
The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Medicare Advantage Plan Availability and Enrollment
Christopher C. Afendulis, Mary Beth Landrum Ph.D., Michael E. Chernew Ph.D.
Residential Segregation and the Availability of Primary Care Physicians
Darrell J. Gaskin, Gniesha Y. Dinwiddie, Kitty S. Chan, Rachael R. McCleary
Methods Articles
Choosing Models for Health Care Cost Analyses: Issues of Nonlinearity and Endogeneity
Melissa M. Garrido Ph.D., Partha Deb Ph.D., James F. Burgess Ph.D., Joan D. Penrod Ph.D.
A Nonparametric Statistical Method That Improves Physician Cost of Care Analysis
Brent A. Metfessel, Robert A. Greene