Volume 39 | Number 4p1 | August 2004
Quality and Quality Improvement
Quality of Health Care: The Views of Homeless Youth
Josephine Ensign
Quality of Care for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in the Netherlands and the United States: A Comparison of Two Quality Improvement Programs
Gerlof D. Valk, Carry M. Renders, Didi M. W. Kriegsman, Katherine M. Newton, Jos W. R. Twisk, Jacques Th. M. van Eijk, Gerrit van der Wal, Edward H. Wagner
Patient Satisfaction, Treatment Experience, and Disability Outcomes in a Population‐Based Cohort of Injured Workers in Washington State: Implications for Quality Improvement
Thomas M. Wickizer, Gary Franklin, Deborah Fulton‐Kehoe, Judith A. Turner, Robert Mootz, Terri Smith‐Weller
Organizational Issues
Competing Values of Emergency Department Performance: Balancing Multiple Stakeholder Perspectives
Deborah Tregunno, G. Ross Baker, Jan Barnsley, Michael Murray
Health Insurance
The Relationship of Medicaid Payment Rates, Bed Constraint Policies, and Risk‐Adjusted Pressure Ulcers
David C. Grabowski Ph.D., Joseph J. Angelelli
Trust in Insurers and Access to Physicians: Associated Enrollee Behaviors and Changes over Time
Rajesh Balkrishnan, Mark A. Hall, Stephen Blackwelder, Donald Bradley
The Impact of Medicaid Managed Care on Pregnant Women in Ohio: A Cohort Analysis
Embry M. Howell, Lisa Dubay, Genevieve Kenney, Anna S. Sommers
The Effect of Benefits, Premiums, and Health Risk on Health Plan Choice in the Medicare Program
Adam Atherly Ph.D., Bryan E. Dowd Ph.D.,, Roger Feldman Ph.D.
Context or Composition: What Explains Variation in SCHIP Disenrollment?
Julie A. Phillips, Jane E. Miller Ph.D., Joel C. Cantor, Dorothy Gaboda
Practice Patterns
Variations in Nurse Practitioner Use in Veterans Affairs Primary Care Practices
Patty Y. Huang, Elizabeth M. Yano, Martin L. Lee, Betty L. Chang, Lisa V. Rubenstein
Influenza and Pneumococcal Vaccination Demand Responses to Changes in Infectious Disease Mortality
Ying‐Chun Li, Edward C. Norton Ph.D., William H. Dow Ph.D.
Adoption of Liquid‐Based Cervical Cancer Screening Tests by Family Physicians and Gynecologists
Karen M. Rappaport, Christopher B. Forrest M.D., Ph.D.,, Neil A. Holtzman
Antiretroviral Therapy and Health Care Utilization: A Study of Privately Insured Men and Women with HIV Disease
Fred J. Hellinger, William E. Encinosa
Hospice Use by Hispanic and Non‐Hispanic White Cancer Decedents
Nuha A. Lackan, Glenn V. Ostir, Jean L. Freeman, Yong‐Fang Kuo, Dong D. Zhang, James S. Goodwin
Methods
Economic Profiling of Primary Care Physicians: Consistency among Risk‐Adjusted Measures
J. William Thomas, Kyle L. Grazier, Kathleen Ward
Development of the Patient Activation Measure (PAM): Conceptualizing and Measuring Activation in Patients and Consumers
Judith H. Hibbard, Jean Stockard, Eldon R. Mahoney, Martin Tusler