Volume 54 | Number 1 | February 2019
UNDERSTANDING AND OVERCOMING DATA LIMITATIONS
Using predicted Spanish preference to target bilingual mailings in a mail survey with telephone follow‐up
Marc N. Elliott, David J. Klein M.S., Paul Kallaur MA, Julie A. Brown, Ron D. Hays, Nate Orr M.A., Alan M. Zaslavsky Ph.D., Megan K. Beckett Ph.D., Sarah Gaillot Ph.D., Carol A. Edwards BA, Amelia M. Haviland Ph.D.
Imputation of race/ethnicity to enable measurement of performance by race/ethnicity
Ann Haas M.S.,M.P.H, Marc N. Elliott, Jacob W. Dembosky M.P.M., John L. Adams Ph.D., M.S., Shondelle M. Wilson‐Frederick PhD, Joshua S. Mallett MS, Sarah Gaillot Ph.D., Samuel C. Haffer PhD, Amelia M. Haviland Ph.D.
Alive or dead: Validity of the Social Security Administration Death Master File after 2011
Matthew A. Levin MD, Hung‐Mo Lin ScD, Gautham Prabhakar BA, Patrick J. McCormick MD MEng, Natalia N. Egorova PhD
Response error and the Medicaid undercount in the current population survey
James M. Noon MA, Leticia E. Fernandez PhD, Sonya R. Porter PhD
An empiric approach to identifying physician peer groups from claims data: An example from breast cancer care
Jeph Herrin Ph.D., Pamela R. Soulos M.P.H., Xiao Xu Ph.D., Cary P. Gross M.D., Craig Evan Pollack M.D., M.H.S.
SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
Assessing the social determinants of health care costs for Medicaid‐enrolled adolescents in Washington State using administrative data
Deleena A. Patton PhD, Qinghua Liu PhD, Jaimie D. Adelson PhD, Barbara A. Lucenko PhD
Do racial and ethnic disparities in health care use vary with health?
Adam I. Biener Ph.D., Samuel H. Zuvekas Ph.D.
Predictive modeling of housing instability and homelessness in the Veterans Health Administration
Thomas Byrne Ph.D., Ann Elizabeth Montgomery Ph.D., Jamison D. Fargo Ph.D.
VARIATION IN COST AND QUALITY
Estimating the hospital costs of inpatient harms
Priyanka Anand PhD, Keith Kranker PhD, Arnold Y. Chen MD, Msc
What drives variation in spending for breast cancer patients within geographic regions?
Anna D. Sinaiko Ph.D., M.P.P., Alyna T. Chien M.D., M.S., Michael J. Hassett M.D., M.P.H., Pragya Kakani BA, Danielle Rodin MD, MPH, David J. Meyers M.P.H., Belen Fraile MD, Meredith B. Rosenthal Ph.D., Mary Beth Landrum Ph.D.
Quality‐based ratings in Medicare and trends in kidney transplantation
Mariétou H. Ouayogodé PhD
Identifying high‐cost episodes in lower extremity joint replacement
Lindsey M. Philpot PhD, MPH, Kristi M. Swanson MS, Jonathan Inselman MS, William J. Schoellkopf MS, James M. Naessens Sc.D., Bijan J. Borah PhD, Stephanie Peterson BS, Barbara Gladders MS, Nilay D. Shah Ph.D., Jon O. Ebbert MD, MSc
Guideline‐concordant initiation of oral anticoagulant therapy for stroke prevention in older veterans with atrial fibrillation eligible for Medicare Part D
Nicolae Done PhD, Amanda M. Roy PharmD, Yingzhe Yuan MPH, Steven D. Pizer Ph.D., Adam J. Rose M.D., M.Sc., F.A.C.P., Julia C. Prentice
MENTAL HEALTH AND PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATIONS
Initiation of new psychotropic prescriptions without a psychiatric diagnosis among adults: Rates, correlates, and national trends from 2006 to 2015
Taeho Greg Rhee PhD, MSW, Robert A. Rosenheck
Maternal psychopathology and mental health treatment delay in adolescents from a national cohort
Esther Stalujanis MSc, Gunther Meinlschmidt PhD, Angelo Belardi MSc, Marion Tegethoff PhD
LONG TERM CARE OUTCOMES
Effects of long‐term care setting on spousal health outcomes
Jing Dong PhD, MPH, Harold Pollack PhD, Rita Tamara Konetzka PhD
The effect of political control on financial performance, structure, and outcomes of US nursing homes
Carl Rudolf Blankart PhD, Andrew D. Foster, Vincent Mor Ph.D.
PRIMARY CARE ACCESS AND OUTCOMES
Changes in primary care access at community health centers between 2012/2013 and 2016
Brendan Saloner Ph.D., Adam S. Wilk PhD, Douglas Wissoker Ph.D., Molly Candon PhD, Katherine Hempstead Ph.D., Karin V. Rhodes M.D., M.S., Daniel E. Polsky PhD, MPP, Genevieve M. Kenney Ph.D.
Medication adherence, costs, and visits of nurse practitioner and primary care physician patients: Evidence from three cohorts of Medicare beneficiaries
Ulrike Muench PhD, RN, Chaoran Guo PhD, Cindy Thomas PhD, Jennifer Perloff Ph.D.