Volume 37 | Number 6 | December 2002
Access to Care
Medigap Premiums and Medicare HMO Enrollment
Catherine G McLaughlin, Michael Chernew Ph.D., Erin Fries Taylor
Health Insurance and Mammography: Would a Medicare Buy‐In Take Us to Universal Screening?
Donald H Taylor, Lynn Van Scoyoc, Sarah Tropman Hawley
Racial Differences in Predictors of Dental Care Use
Gregg H Gilbert, Ging R Shah, Brent J Shelton, Marc W Heft, Edward H Bradford, L. Scott Chavers
The Lack of Effect of Market Structure on Hospice Use
Theodore J Iwashyna, Virginia W Chang, James X Zhang, Nicholas A Christakis
Quality of Care
Error Reduction and Performance Improvement in the Emergency Department through Formal Teamwork Training: Evaluation Results of the MedTeams Project
John C Morey, Robert Simon, Gregory D Jay, Robert L Wears, Mary Salisbury, Kimberly A Dukes, Scott D Berns
Specialty Health Care, Treatment Patterns, and Quality: The Impact of a Mental Health Carve‐Out on Care for Depression
Susan H Busch
An Observational Study of Antibiotic Prescribing Behavior and the Hawthorne Effect
Rita Mangione‐Smith, Marc N Elliott, Laurie McDonald, Elizabeth A McGlynn
Cost of Care
Medical Expenditures during the Last Year of Life: Findings from the 1992–1996 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey
Donald R Hoover, Stephen Crystal, Rizie Kumar, Usha Sambamoorthi Ph.D., Joel C Cantor
Methods
Using Medicare Data to Estimate the Prevalence of Breast Cancer Screening in Older Women: Comparison of Different Methods to Identify Screening Mammograms
Whitney M Randolph, Jonathan D Mahnken, James S Goodwin, Jean L Freeman
Measuring What People Value: A Comparison of “Attitude” and “Preference” Surveys
Kathryn A Phillips, F. Reed Johnson, Tara Maddala
Measuring Preferences for Health Care Interventions Using Conjoint Analysis: An Application to HIV Testing
Kathryn A Phillips, Tara Maddala, F. Reed Johnson