Volume 38 | Number 5 | October 2003
Access and Quality
Disparities in Adolescent Health and Health Care: Does Socioeconomic Status Matter?
Paul W. Newacheck, Yun Yi Hung, M. Jane Park, Claire D. Brindis, Charles E. Irwin
Using Claims Data to Examine Mortality Trends Following Hospitalization for Heart Attack in Medicare
Arlene S. Ash, Michael A. Posner, Jeanne Speckman, Shakira Franco, Andrew C. Yacht, Lindsey Bramwell
Public Policy Impact
How State‐Funded Home Care Programs Respond to Changes in Medicare Home Health Care: Resource Allocation Decisions on the Front Line
Kirsten Corazzini
Expanding Public Health Insurance to Parents: Effects on Children's Coverage under Medicaid
Lisa Dubay, Genevieve Kenney
Methods
Methods for Using Medicare Data to Compare Procedure Rates among Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Whites
José J. Escarce, Thomas G. McGuire Ph.D.
Case‐Mix Adjusting Performance Measures in a Veteran Population: Pharmacy‐ and Diagnosis‐Based Approaches
Chuan‐Fen Liu M.P.H., Ph.D., Anne E. Sales, Nancy D. Sharp, Paul Fishman, Kevin L. Sloan, Jeff Todd‐Stenberg, W. Paul Nichol, Amy K. Rosen Ph.D., Susan Loveland
Working More Productively: Tools for Administrative Data
Leslie L. Roos, Ruth‐Ann Soodeen, Ruth Bond, Charles Burchill
Assessing the Validity of Insurance Coverage Data in Hospital Discharge Records: California OSHPD Data
Thomas C. Buchmueller, Mark E. Allen, William Wright