Volume 51 | Number 5 | October 2016
Health Care System Organization and Regulation
Resilience among Employed Physicians and Mid‐Level Practitioners in Upstate New York
Anthony C. Waddimba M.D., M.Sc., D.Sc., Melissa Scribani M.P.H., Melinda A. Hasbrouck M.B.A., Nicole Krupa B.S., Paul Jenkins Ph.D., John J. May M.D., M.O.H.
Key Provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (): A Systematic Review and Presentation of Early Research Findings
Michael T. French, Jenny Homer M.P.A., M.P.H., Gulcin Gumus Ph.D., Lucas Hickling B.A.
Health System Consolidation and Diabetes Care Performance at Ambulatory Clinics
Daniel J. Crespin M.S.P.H., Jon B. Christianson Ph.D., Jeffrey S. McCullough Ph.D., Michael D. Finch Ph.D.
A Randomized, Controlled Trial of a Shared Panel Management Program for Small Practices
Tara F. Bishop, Andrew M. Ryan Ph.D., M.A., Melinda A. Chen, Jayme Mendelsohn, Daniel Gottlieb, Sarah Shih, Priya Desai, Elizabeth A. Wolff, Lawrence P. Casalino M.D., Ph.D.
Determinants of National Guard Mental Health Service Utilization in versus Non‐ Settings
Lisa A. Gorman Ph.D., Rebecca K. Sripada Ph.D., Dara Ganoczy M.P.H., Heather M. Walters M.A., Kipling M. Bohnert Ph.D., Gregory W. Dalack M.D., Marcia Valenstein M.D.
Use of Physical Therapy Following Total Knee Replacement Surgery: Implications of Orthopedic Surgeons’ Ownership of Physical Therapy Services
Jean M. Mitchell Ph.D., James D. Reschovsky Ph.D., Elizabeth Anne Reicherter P.T., D.P.T., Ph.D.
Prediction and Prevention
Do Smoking Bans Improve Neonatal Health?
Scott Hankins, Yelena Tarasenko
The Effect of Clinical Chorioamnionitis on Cesarean Delivery in the United States
Kerry M. Bommarito Ph.D., M.P.H., Gilad A. Gross M.D., Denise M. Willers M.D., Victoria J. Fraser M.D., Margaret A. Olsen Ph.D., M.P.H.
Development and Validation of HealthImpact: An Incident Diabetes Prediction Model Based on Administrative Data
Rozalina G. McCoy M.D., M.S., Vijay S. Nori Ph.D., Steven A. Smith M.D., Christopher A. Hane Ph.D.
Health Care Costs and Spending
The Relative Importance of Post‐Acute Care and Readmissions for Post‐Discharge Spending
Peter J. Huckfeldt Ph.D., Ateev Mehrotra M.D.,M.P.H., Peter S. Hussey Ph.D.
High‐Deductible Health Plans: Implications for Substance Use Treatment
Sujaya Parthasarathy Ph.D., Cynthia I. Campbell Ph.D.
Methods Articles
The Comparison of Matching Methods Using Different Measures of Balance: Benefits and Risks Exemplified within a Study to Evaluate the Effects of German Disease Management Programs on Long‐Term Outcomes of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
Birgit Fullerton Ph.D., Boris Pöhlmann Dipl.‐Inf. (F.H.), Robert Krohn Dipl.‐Demogr., John L. Adams Ph.D., M.S., Ferdinand M. Gerlach Prof. Dr. med., M.P.H., Antje Erler Dr. med, M.P.H.
Health Insurance Dynamics: Methodological Considerations and a Comparison of Estimates from Two Surveys
John A. Graves Ph.D., Pranita Mishra M.P.P.
Risk Adjustment Tools for Learning Health Systems: A Comparison of Dx and ‐ V21
Todd H. Wagner Ph.D., Anjali Upadhyay M.S., Elizabeth Cowgill M.P.H., Theodore Stefos Ph.D., Eileen Moran M.H.A., Steven M. Asch M.D., M.P.H., Peter Almenoff M.D.
Using Length of Stay to Control for Unobserved Heterogeneity When Estimating Treatment Effect on Hospital Costs with Observational Data: Issues of Reliability, Robustness, and Usefulness
Peter May Ph.D., Melissa M. Garrido Ph.D., J. Brian Cassel Ph.D., R. Sean Morrison M.D., Charles Normand D.Phil.