Recently added articles from Health Services Research:
New professional development resources available.(AcademyHealth Update)
Oct 01, 2009; ... AcademyHealth is offering a new professional development catalog through http://www.academyhealth.org/training. These resources include online methods seminars, presentation training guides, online research tools, and links to national data resources ....
Health policy orientation October 26-29, 2009--Washington, DC.(AcademyHealth Update)
Oct 01, 2009; ... With a one-to-one ratio of faculty to participants, the orientation offers an in-depth understanding of formal and informal policy making processes and the players who shape health policy. The program is ideal for health policy ...
NCHS/AcademyHealth Health Policy Fellowship application deadline: January 4, 2010.(AcademyHealth Update)
Oct 01, 2009; ... The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and AcademyHealth are seeking applicants for their 2010 Health Policy Fellowship. This program brings visiting scholars in health services research-related disciplines to NCHS to collaborate on ...
National Health Policy Conference February 8-9, 2010--Washington, DC.(AcademyHealth Update)(Brief article)(Conference notes)
Oct 01, 2009; ... The 2010 National Health Policy Conference (NHPC) will bring health care reform into focus by clarifying key priorities of national health care reform and explaining implications for stakeholders. Cosponsored by AcademyHealth and Health Affairs, the NHPC is the first opportunity to get a ...
Annual Research Meeting (ARM)--call for abstracts opens November 2.(AcademyHealth Update)
Oct 01, 2009; ... The call for abstracts for the 2010 Annual Research Meeting (ARM) opens November 2. More than 50 percent of the conference agenda is decided through the abstract review ...
Research and reform: toward a high-value health system.(Editorial)
Oct 01, 2009; Chernew, Michael ... Years from now, when we look back at the health care reform discussions of 2009, we will undoubtedly learn a lot about the strengths and weaknesses of the process. The current process has followed a different path than that of the early 1990s. I hope that, in addition to the inevitable ...
Employer-sponsored insurance, health care cost growth, and the economic performance of U.S. industries.(Costs, Use and Outcomes)(Statistical data)
Oct 01, 2009; Sood, Neeraj ... The rate of growth in health care costs in the United States has outpaced the growth rate in the gross domestic product (GDP) for many years. Correspondingly, the share of GDP accounted for by health care spending increased from 4.5 percent in 1940, to 12.2 percent in 1990, to 16.0 percent ...
Impact of financial incentives for prenatal care on birth outcomes and spending.(Costs, Use and Outcomes)
Oct 01, 2009; Rosenthal, Meredith B. ... In the health care sector, command and control mechanisms for influencing practice patterns have given way to a reliance on financial incentives for both physicians and patients to encourage adherence to evidence-based and recommended care (Rosenthal et al. 2006). Health care services ...
From pubs to scrubs: alcohol misuse and health care use.(Costs, Use and Outcomes)(Survey)(Clinical report)
Oct 01, 2009; Balsa, Ana I. ... Alcohol consumption can affect health and health care use in both the short- and long-run. Although some studies show that moderate drinking is protective of health (Thun et al. 1997; Rimm 2000; Rehm, Greenfield, and Rogers 2001; Rehm et al. 2003), the primary public health concern with ...
Differential effect of the State Children's Health Insurance Program expansions by children's age.(Insurance and Access)
Oct 01, 2009; Lurie, Ithai Zvi ... In 1996, a year before the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was signed into law, a federal mandate set different income eligibility levels for public health insurance by age. States were required to extend eligibility for public health insurance to children younger than 6 ...
Medicaid managed care and health care access for adult beneficiaries with disabilities.(Insurance and Access)
Oct 01, 2009; Burns, Marguerite E. ... After more than a decade of experimentation with Medicaid managed care (MMC) for adults with disabilities (AWD), there is little evidence about how this policy change influences beneficiaries' access to health care (Ireys, Thornton, and McKay 2002). Yet the health and quality of life of ...
Community demographics and access to health care among U.S. Hispanics.(Insurance and Access)
Oct 01, 2009; Gresenz, Carole Roan ... Across a range of measures of access to care, disparities between U.S. Hispanics and other racial/ethnic groups are substantial: Hispanics are less likely to have insurance coverage and a usual source of care compared with whites, have fewer ambulatory visits to physicians than whites, and ...
Comparing safety climate between two populations of hospitals in the United States.(Quality and Safety)(Survey)
Oct 01, 2009; Singer, Sara J. ... Based on mounting evidence that better safety climate is related to lower incidence (Naveh, Katz-Navon, and Stern 2005; Hofmann and Mark 2006; Neal and Griffin 2006; Vogus and Sutcliffe 2007; Singer et al. 2008b) and greater reporting (Cohen et al. 2004; Weingart et al. 2004; Gandhi et al ....
Provider monitoring and pay-for-performance when multiple providers affect outcomes: an application to renal dialysis.(Quality and Safety)(Report)
Oct 01, 2009; Hirth, Richard A. ... Private and public payers are focusing on measuring and rewarding quality and efficiency in health care (Milgate and Cheng 2006; Rosenthal et al. 2006). Such efforts include "pay-for-performance" (P4P) systems that reward measured performance, capitation systems that put providers at ...
Measuring racial/ethnic disparities across the distribution of health care expenditures.(Disparities)(Report)
Oct 01, 2009; Le Cook, Benjamin ... One of the continuing concerns in the health policy literature has been the marked differences in access to and extent of health care utilization across racial and ethnic subgroups. Studies of health care disparities in the early part of this decade found significant racial and ethnic ...
Improving disparity estimates for rare racial/ethnic groups with trend estimation and Kalman filtering: an application to the national health interview survey.(Disparities)(Survey)
Oct 01, 2009; Elliott, Marc N. ... Eliminating racial/ethnic health disparities is a major federal policy goal; however, most national health surveys have limited ability to assess the health of racial/ethnic population subgroups (e.g., national origin subgroups of Hispanic ethnicity or Asian race) (Waksberg, Levine, and ...
New prescription medication gaps: a comprehensive measure of adherence to new prescriptions.(Methods)
Oct 01, 2009; Karter, Andrew J. ... Medication nonadherence has well-established clinical consequences. In diabetes, poorer medication adherence has been associated with poorer glycemic, blood pressure, and lipid control (Morris et al. 1997; Ho et al. 2006a), higher rates of acute metabolic events (Morris et al. 1997), and ...
Social and economic costs of food allergies in Europe: development of a questionnaire to measure costs and health utility.(Methods)
Oct 01, 2009; Fox, Margaret ... Very little is known about the socioeconomic consequences of food allergies (FAs). These may stretch beyond the individuals with FAs to other family members, households, and to other sectors in society. Policy makers require information about the socioeconomic consequences of FAs in order ...
Validating household reports of health care use in the medical expenditure panel survey.(Methods)
Oct 01, 2009; Zuvekas, Samuel H. ... The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is a widely used nationally representative survey of the levels and determinants of health care use and spending by U.S. households. Before its inception in 1996, these data were collected decennially in the 1987 National Medical Expenditure ...
Development and validation of a risk-adjustment tool in acute asthma.(Methods)
Oct 01, 2009; Tsai, Chu-Lin ... Risk adjustment is an important method in health services research, particularly when profiling provider performance and adjusting capitation-based payment (Iezzoni et al. 1998; Majeed, Bindman, and Weiner 2001a, b; Blumenthal et al. 2005). A number of risk-adjustment tools have been ...
