Volume 48 | Number 6pt1 | December 2013
Best of the 2013 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting
Massachusetts Coverage Expansion Associated with Reduction in Primary Care Utilization among Medicare Beneficiaries
Amelia M. Bond, Chapin White Ph.D.
Accountable Care Organizations in the United States: Market and Demographic Factors Associated with Formation
Valerie A. Lewis Ph.D., Carrie H. Colla Ph.D., Kathleen L. Carluzzo, Sarah E. Kler, Elliott S. Fisher M.D.
Is a Baccalaureate in Nursing Worth It? The Return to Education, 2000–2008
Joanne Spetz Ph.D., Timothy Bates
Assessing Progress toward Becoming a Patient‐Centered Medical Home: An Assessment Tool for Practice Transformation
Donna M. Daniel, Edward H. Wagner, Katie Coleman, Judith K. Schaefer, Brian T. Austin, Melinda K. Abrams, Kathryn E. Phillips, Jonathan R. Sugarman
Effect of Hospital– Referral Linkages on Rehospitalization
Momotazur Rahman Ph.D., Andrew D. Foster, David C. Grabowski Ph.D., Jacqueline S. Zinn, Vincent Mor Ph.D.
Outcomes and Quality of Care
Malpractice Litigation and Nursing Home Quality of Care
R. Tamara Konetzka Ph.D., Jeongyoung Park, Robert Ellis, Elmer Abbo
The Proportion of Work‐Related Emergency Department Visits Not Expected to Be Paid by Workers' Compensation: Implications for Occupational Health Surveillance, Research, Policy, and Health Equity
Matthew R. Groenewold, Sherry L. Baron
How Medicare Part D Benefit Phases Affect Adherence with Evidence‐Based Medications Following Acute Myocardial Infarction
Bruce Stuart Ph.D., Amy Davidoff, Mujde Erten, Stephen S. Gottlieb, Mingliang Dai, Thomas Shaffer, Ilene H. Zuckerman, Linda Simoni‐Wastila, Lynda Bryant‐Comstock, Rahul Shenolikar
Implications of Metric Choice for Common Applications of Readmission Metrics
Sheryl Davies M.A., Olga Saynina, Ellen Schultz M.S., Kathryn M. McDonald M.M., Laurence C. Baker
Plan–Provider Integration, Premiums, and Quality in the Medicare Advantage Market
Austin B. Frakt, Steven D. Pizer Ph.D., Roger Feldman Ph.D.
Variations in Care
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Childhood Asthma Treatment in the United States
Eric M. Sarpong Ph.D., G. Edward Miller Ph.D.
Geographic Variation in Ambulatory Electronic Health Record Adoption: Implications for Underserved Communities
Jennifer King, Michael F. Furukawa, Melinda B. Buntin Ph.D.
Nursing Home Quality and Financial Performance: Does the Racial Composition of Residents Matter?
Latarsha Chisholm, Robert Weech‐Maldonado Ph.D., Alex Laberge, Feng‐Chang Lin, Kathryn Hyer Ph.D., M.P.P.
Methods
Global Comparators Project: International Comparison of Hospital Outcomes Using Administrative Data
Alex Bottle, Steven Middleton, Cor J. Kalkman, Edward H. Livingston, Paul Aylin
Characterizing the Public's Preferential Attitudes Toward End‐of‐Life Care Options: A Role for the Threshold Technique?
R. Trafford Crump Ph.D., H. Llewellyn‐Thomas Ph.D.