Volume 51 | Number 3 | June 2016
Health Policy Impact
California's Early Coverage Expansion under the Affordable Care Act: A County‐Level Analysis
Benjamin D. Sommers M.D., Ph.D., Kao‐Ping Chua M.D, Ph.D., Genevieve M. Kenney Ph.D., Sharon K. Long Ph.D. (economics), Stacey McMorrow Ph.D.
Impact of Medicare Age Eligibility on Health Spending among and Foreign‐Born Adults
Wassim Tarraf M.B.A., Ph.D., Gail A. Jensen Ph.D., Hector M. González Ph.D.
Health Care Disparities
Does Medicaid Managed Care Help Equalize Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Utilization?
James Marton Ph.D., Aaron Yelowitz Ph.D., Meredith Shores M.A., Jeffery C. Talbert Ph.D.
Racial and Gender Disparities in the Physician Assistant Profession
Darron T. Smith Ph.D., P.A.‐C., Cardell K. Jacobson Ph.D.
The Quality of Surgical and Pneumonia Care in Minority‐Serving and Racially Integrated Hospitals
Darrell J. Gaskin, Hossein Zare Ph.D., Adil H. Haider M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.S., Thomas A. LaVeist
Data Collection, Validity and Use
The Influence of Respondent Characteristics on the Validity of Self‐Reported Survey Responses
Barbara Guerard D.Sc., M.B.A., Vincent Omachonu Ph.D., Raymond A. Harvey M.P.H., S. Robert Hernandez Dr.P.H., Bisakha Sen Ph.D.
Evaluating Clinical Practice Guidelines Based on Their Association with Return to Work in Administrative Claims Data
Eric T. Roberts Ph.D., Eva H. DuGoff Ph.D., M.P.P., Sara E. Heins B.A., David I. Swedler M.P.H., Ph.D., Renan C. Castillo Ph.D., Dorianne R. Feldman M.D., M.S., Stephen T. Wegener M.A., Ph.D., Vladimir Canudas‐Romo Ph.D., Gerard F. Anderson Ph.D.
Disease‐Specific Trends of Comorbidity Coding and Implications for Risk Adjustment in Hospital Administrative Data
Ulrike Nimptsch M.P.H.
Health Care Utilization
Comparing the Health Care Experiences of Medicare Beneficiaries with and without Depressive Symptoms in Medicare Managed Care versus Fee‐for‐Service
Steven C. Martino Ph.D., Marc N. Elliott, Amelia M. Haviland Ph.D., Debra Saliba M.D., M.P.H., Q. Burkhart M.S., David E. Kanouse
Appropriateness of Prostate Cancer Imaging among Veterans in a Delivery System without Incentives for Overutilization
Danil V. Makarov M.D., M.H.S., Elaine Y. C. Hu M.S., Dawn Walter M.P.H., R. Scott Braithwaite M.D., M.Sc., Scott Sherman M.D., M.P.H., Heather T. Gold Ph.D., Xiao‐Hua Andrew Zhou Ph.D., Cary P. Gross M.D., Steven B. Zeliadt Ph.D.
The Effects of Job Insecurity on Health Care Utilization: Findings from a Panel of U.S. Workers
Rita Hamad M.D., M.P.H., M.S., Sepideh Modrek Ph.D., Mark R. Cullen M.D.
Methods Articles
A Multistate Model Predicting Mortality, Length of Stay, and Readmission for Surgical Patients
David E. Clark, Kaitlin R. Ostrander M.D., Brad M. Cushing M.D.
Using Bayesian Imputation to Assess Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Pediatric Performance Measures
David P. Brown Ph.D., Caprice Knapp Ph.D., Kimberly Baker M.L.I.S., Meggen Kaufmann
Research Briefs
Hospitals Known for Nursing Excellence Associated with Better Hospital Experience for Patients
Amy Witkoski Stimpfel Ph.D., R.N., Douglas M. Sloane Ph.D., Matthew D. McHugh Ph.D., J.D., M.P.H., R.N., Linda H. Aiken Ph.D., R.N.
Hospital Readmission Rates in States: Are Readmissions Higher Where More Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions Cluster?
Jayasree Basu Ph.D., M.B.A., Rosa Avila M.S.P.H., Richard Ricciardi Ph.D.,N.P.