Volume 43 | Number 6 | December 2008
Quality and Efficiency
Does Competition Improve Health Care Quality?
Dennis P. Scanlon Ph.D., Shailender Swaminathan Ph.D., Woolton Lee, Michael Chernew Ph.D.
The Effects of Quality Improvement for Depression in Primary Care at Nine Years: Results from a Randomized, Controlled Group‐Level Trial
Kenneth B. Wells, Lingqi Tang, Jeanne Miranda, Bernadette Benjamin, Naihua Duan, Cathy D. Sherbourne
Improving Health Care Efficiency and Quality Using Tablet Personal Computers to Collect Research‐Quality, Patient‐Reported Data
Amy P. Abernethy, James E. Herndon, Jane L. Wheeler, Meenal Patwardhan, Heather Shaw, H. Kim Lyerly, Kevin Weinfurt
Measuring Hospital Inefficiency: The Effects of Controlling for Quality and Patient Burden of Illness
Ryan L. Mutter, Michael D. Rosko, Herbert S. Wong Ph.D.
Case‐Mix Adjustment of Consumer Reports about Managed Behavioral Health Care and Health Plans
Laura L. Eselius, Paul D. Cleary Ph.D., Alan M. Zaslavsky Ph.D., Haiden A. Huskamp Ph.D., Susan H. Busch
Persistence of HMO Performance Measures
Shailender Swaminathan Ph.D., Michael Chernew Ph.D., Dennis P. Scanlon Ph.D.
Patient Safety and Medical Errors
Revealing and Resolving Patient Safety Defects: The Impact of Leadership WalkRounds on Frontline Caregiver Assessments of Patient Safety
Allan Frankel, Sarah Pratt Grillo, Mary Pittman, Eric J. Thomas, Lisa Horowitz, Martha Page, Bryan Sexton
The Impact of Medical Errors on Ninety‐Day Costs and Outcomes: An Examination of Surgical Patients
William E. Encinosa, Fred J. Hellinger
Insurance
The Effect of Renewal Policy Changes on SCHIP Disenrollment
Jill Boylston Herndon Ph.D., W. Bruce Vogel Ph.D., Richard L. Bucciarelli, Elizabeth A. Shenkman Ph.D.
The Effectiveness of Covering Smoking Cessation Services for Medicare Beneficiaries
Geoffrey F. Joyce, Raymond Niaura, Margaret Maglione, Jennifer Mongoven, Carrie Larson‐Rotter, James Coan, Pauline Lapin, Sally Morton
Medical Malpractice Reform and Employer‐Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums
Michael A. Morrisey Ph.D., Meredith L. Kilgore Ph.D., Leonard (Jack) Nelson
Assessing Treatment Effects of Inhaled Corticosteroids on Medical Expenses and Exacerbations among COPD Patients: Longitudinal Analysis of Managed Care Claims
Manabu Akazawa, Sally C. Stearns, Andrea K. Biddle
Drug Treatment
Dosage Patterns in Methadone Treatment: Results from a National Survey, 1988–2005
Harold A. Pollack, Thomas D'Aunno Ph.D.
Access and Utilization
Is Neighborhood Access to Health Care Provision Associated with Individual‐Level Utilization and Satisfaction?
Rosemary Hiscock, Jamie Pearce, Tony Blakely, Karen Witten
Methods and Research Briefs
Can Additional Patient Experience Items Improve the Reliability of and Add New Domains to the CAHPS Hospital Survey?
Arlyss Anderson Rothman, Hayoung Park, Ron D. Hays, Carol Edwards B.A., R.Adams Dudley
Accuracy of Physician Billing Claims for Identifying Acute Respiratory Infections in Primary Care
Geneviève Cadieux, Robyn Tamblyn
Adverse Hospital Events for Mentally Ill Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
Yue Li Ph.D., Laurent G. Glance, Xueya Cai, Dana B. Mukamel Ph.D.