Volume 46 | Number 5 | October 2011
Spending and Utilization
Medical Spending and the Health of the Elderly
Jack Hadley, Timothy Waidmann, Stephen Zuckerman, Robert A. Berenson
The Relationship between Low Back Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Surgery, and Spending: Impact of Physician Self‐Referral Status
Jacqueline Baras Shreibati, Laurence C. Baker
Effect of Switching to a High‐Deductible Health Plan on Use of Chronic Medications
Sheila K. Reiss, Dennis Ross‐Degnan Sc.D., Fang Zhang Ph.D., Stephen B. Soumerai Sc.D., Alan M. Zaslavsky Ph.D., J. Frank Wharam M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O., M.P.H.
Health Behaviors and Utilization among Users of Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Treatment versus Health Promotion
Matthew A. Davis, Alan N. West, William B. Weeks, Brenda E. Sirovich
Payment and Markets
Modeling the Impact of Medicare Advantage Payment Cuts on Ambulatory Care Sensitive and Elective Hospitalizations
Lauren Hersch Nicholas
Designing Payment for Collaborative Care for Depression in Primary Care
Yuhua Bao, Lawrence P. Casalino M.D., Ph.D., Susan L. Ettner Ph.D., Martha L. Bruce, Leif I. Solberg, Jürgen Unützer
Rural Hospital Ownership: Medical Service Provision, Market Mix, and Spillover Effects
Jill R. Horwitz, Austin Nichols
Quality and Adverse Events
Quality and Cost Analysis of Nurse Staffing, Discharge Preparation, and Postdischarge Utilization
Marianne E. Weiss, Olga Yakusheva Ph.D., Kathleen L. Bobay
Staffing Ratios and Quality: An Analysis of Minimum Direct Care Staffing Requirements for Nursing Homes
John R. Bowblis Ph.D.
Adverse Drug Events in U.S. Adult Ambulatory Medical Care
Urmimala Sarkar, Andrea López, Judith H. Maselli, Ralph Gonzales
Cost‐Effectiveness and Quality of Life
The Cost‐Effectiveness of Three Screening Alternatives for People with Diabetes with No or Early Diabetic Retinopathy
David B. Rein, John S. Wittenborn, Xinzhi Zhang, Benjamin A. Allaire, Michael S. Song, Ronald Klein, Jinan B. Saaddine,
Empirical Validation of Patient versus Population Preferences in Calculating QALYs
Eva‐Julia Weyler, Afschin Gandjour
Methods Articles
An Assessment of Health Care Information and Management Systems Society and Leapfrog Data on Computerized Provider Order Entry
Mark L. Diana Ph.D., Abby Swanson Kazley, Nir Menachemi Ph.D., M.P.H.
Mapping Physician Networks with Self‐Reported and Administrative Data
Michael L. Barnett, Bruce E. Landon M.D., M.B.A., M.S., A. James O'Malley Ph.D., Nancy L. Keating M.D., M.P.H., Nicholas A. Christakis
Identifying Chronic Conditions in Medicare Claims Data: Evaluating the Chronic Condition Data Warehouse Algorithm
Yelena Gorina, Ellen A. Kramarow
Comparative for Policy Analysis: The Case of HIV Testing Policy Change at the Department of Veterans Affairs
Erika M. Langer, Allen L. Gifford M.D., Kee Chan
Research and Methods Briefs
Understanding Variations in Medicare Consumer Assessment of Health Care Providers and Systems Scores: California as an Example
Donna O. Farley, Marc N. Elliott, Amelia M. Haviland Ph.D., Mary Ellen Slaughter, Amy Heller
Lottery‐Based versus Fixed Incentives to Increase Clinicians' Response to Surveys
Scott D. Halpern, Rachel Kohn, Aaron Dornbrand‐Lo, Thomas Metkus, David A. Asch, Kevin G. Volpp
Enhancing Response Rates in Physician Surveys: The Limited Utility of Electronic Options
Keith Nicholls, Kathryn Chapman, Thomas Shaw, Allen Perkins, Margaret Murray Sullivan, Susan Crutchfield, Eddie Reed