Volume 38 | Number 1p1 | February 2003
Quality and Outcomes of Care
Managed Care, Access to Specialists, and Outcomes among Primary Care Patients with Pain
David E. Grembowski, Diane Martin, Paula Diehr, Donald L. Patrick, Barbara Williams, Louise Novak, Richard Deyo, Wayne Katon, Deborah Dickstein, Ruth Engelberg, Harold Goldberg
Impact of Cardiac Service Availability on Case‐Selection for Angiography and Survival Associated with Angiography
Nandini Dendukuri, Sharon‐Lise T. Normand Ph.D., Barbara J. McNeil
Process of Care and Outcome after Acute Myocardial Infarction for Patients with Mental Illness in the VA Health Care System: Are There Disparities?
Laura A. Petersen M.D., M.P.H., Sharon‐Lise T. Normand Ph.D., Benjamin G. Druss M.D., M.P.H., Robert A. Rosenheck
Quality Improvement Implementation in the Nursing Home
Dan R. Berlowitz, Gary J. Young J.D., Ph.D., Elaine C. Hickey, Debra Saliba M.D., M.P.H., Brian S. Mittman, Elaine Czarnowski, Barbara Simon, Jennifer J. Anderson, Arlene S. Ash, Lisa V. Rubenstein, Mark A. Moskowitz
Public Policy Impact
Utilization of Home Health Services before and after the Balanced Budget Act of 1997: What Were the Initial Effects?
Nelda McCall, Andrew Petersons, Stanley Moore, Jodi Korb
The Effect of Health Plan Characteristics on Medicare+Choice Enrollment
Bryan E. Dowd, Roger Feldman Ph.D., Robert Coulam Ph.D.
Other Articles
Is Exposure to Income Inequality a Public Health Concern? Lagged Effects of Income Inequality on Individual and Population Health
Jennifer M. Mellor Ph.D., Jeffrey Milyo
Determinants of HMO Formulary Adoption Decisions
David Dranove, Edward F. X. Hughes, Mark Shanley
The Effect of Capitation on Switching Primary Care Physicians
Melony E. S. Sorbero, Andrew W. Dick Ph.D., Jack Zwanziger, Dana Mukamel, Nancy Weyl
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Purchase of Nongroup Health Insurance: The Roles of Community and Family‐Level Factors
Barry G. Saver, Mark P. Doescher, J. Morel Symons, George E. Wright, C. Holly Andrilla
Effectiveness and Cost‐effectiveness of Four Treatment Modalities for Substance Disorders: A Propensity Score Analysis
Ramin Mojtabai, Joshua Graff Zivin
Factors That Influence Line Managers' Perceptions of Hospital Performance Data
Liane Soberman Ginsburg
Methods
Primary Care Service Areas: A New Tool for the Evaluation of Primary Care Services
David C. Goodman M.D., M.S, Stephen S. Mick, David Bott, Therese Stukel, Chiang‐Hua Chang Ph.D., Nancy Marth, Jim Poage, Henry J. Carretta
Catching Up on Health Outcomes: The Texas Medication Algorithm Project
T. Michael Kashner Ph.D., J.D., Thomas J. Carmody, Trisha Suppes, A. John Rush, M. Lynn Crismon, Alexander L. Miller, Marcia Toprac, Madhukar Trivedi