Volume 44 | Number 4 | August 2009
Health Services Research and Policy
Increased Children's Access to Fluoride Varnish Treatment by Involving Medical Care Providers: Effect of a Medicaid Policy Change
Christopher Okunseri B.D.S., M.Sc., D.D.P.H.R.C.S.E., F.F.D.R.C.S.I., Aniko Szabo Ph.D., Scott Jackson, Nicholas M. Pajewski, Raul I. Garcia D.M.D., M.M.Sc.
How Much Choice Is Too Much? The Case of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
Yaniv Hanoch Ph.D., Thomas Rice, Janet Cummings, Stacey Wood
Policies that Impact Care
Impact of Public Reporting on Quality of Postacute Care
Rachel M. Werner M.D., Ph.D., R. Tamara Konetzka Ph.D., Elizabeth A. Stuart Ph.D., Edward C. Norton Ph.D., Daniel Polsky, Jeongyoung Park
Effects of Payment Changes on Trends in Post‐Acute Care
Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, Carrie Hoverman Colla, José J. Escarce
Health Insurance Coverage and Mortality Revisited
Richard Kronick
Changes in Regional Variation of Medicare Home Health Care Utilization and Service Mix for Patients Undergoing Major Orthopedic Procedures in Response to Changes in Reimbursement Policy
John D. FitzGerald, W. John Boscardin, Susan L. Ettner Ph.D.
Policies that Impact Workforce
Change in Oregon Maternity Care Workforce after Malpractice Premium Subsidy Implementation
Ariel K. Smits, Valerie J. King, Rebecca E. Rdesinski, Lisa G. Dodson, John W. Saultz
Practice Location Choice by New Physicians: The Importance of Malpractice Premiums, Damage Caps, and Health Professional Shortage Area Designation
Chiu‐Fang Chou, Anthony T. Lo Sasso
Does the Under‐ or Overrepresentation of Minority Physicians across Geographical Areas Affect the Location Decisions of Minority Physicians?
Timothy Brown, Jenny X. Liu, Richard M. Scheffler
Cost Implications of Organizing Nursing Home Workforce in Teams
Dana B. Mukamel Ph.D., Shubing Cai, Helena Temkin‐Greener Ph.D.
Patient Characteristics that Impact Health and Use
Interpersonal Processes of Care and Patient Satisfaction: Do Associations Differ by Race, Ethnicity, and Language?
Anna María Nápoles, Steven E. Gregorich, Jasmine Santoyo‐Olsson, Helen O'Brien, Anita L. Stewart
Lifestyles, Demographics, Dietary Behavior, and Obesity: A Switching Regression Analysis
Steven T. Yen Ph.D., Zhuo Chen, David B. Eastwood
Organizational Factors that Impact Health and Use
Urologist Ownership of Ambulatory Surgery Centers and Urinary Stone Surgery Use
John M. Hollingsworth M.D., M.S., Zaojun Ye, Seth A. Strope M.D., M.P.H., Sarah L. Krein, Ann T. Hollenbeck, Brent K. Hollenbeck M.D., M.S.
Does Deinstitutionalization Increase Suicide?
Jangho Yoon Ph.D., Tim A. Bruckner
Methods
How Bad Is Depression? Preference Score Estimates from Depressed Patients and the General Population
Jeffrey M. Pyne M.D., John C. Fortney Ph.D., Shanti Tripathi, David Feeny, Peter Ubel, John Brazier
Racial Segregation and Disparities in Health Care Delivery: Conceptual Model and Empirical Assessment
Mary S. Vaughan Sarrazin, Mary E. Campbell, Kelly K. Richardson, Gary E. Rosenthal