Volume 45 | Number 6p1 | December 2010
Quality of Care
The Trade‐Off between Costs and Outcomes: The Case of Acute Myocardial Infarction
Jonas Schreyögg, Tom Stargardt
Consumers' Use of HCAHPS Ratings and Word‐of‐Mouth in Hospital Choice
John W. Huppertz Ph.D., Jay P. Carlson
Ranking Hospitals on Surgical Mortality: The Importance of Reliability Adjustment
Justin B. Dimick M.D., M.P.H., Douglas O. Staiger, John D. Birkmeyer M.D.
Total Quality Management and Performance in Substance Abuse Treatment Centers
Dail Fields, Paul M. Roman
What Is the Experience of National Quality Campaigns? Views from the Field
Elizabeth H. Bradley, Ingrid M. Nembhard, Christina T. Yuan, Amy F. Stern, Jeptha P. Curtis, Brahmajee K. Nallamothu, John E. Brush, Harlan M. Krumholz M.D., S.M.
Access to Care
Time Is Money: Opportunity Cost and Physicians' Provision of Charity Care 1996–2005
David Bradley Wright
Access to Primary and Preventive Care among Foreign‐Born Adults in Canada and the United States
Lydie A. Lebrun, Lisa C. Dubay
Receipt of Care and Reduction of Lower Extremity Amputations in a Nationally Representative Sample of U.S. Elderly
Frank A. Sloan Ph.D, Mark N. Feinglos, Daniel S. Grossman
Payment Policy and Regulation
Chronic Care Improvement in Primary Care: Evaluation of an Integrated Pay‐for‐Performance and Practice‐Based Care Coordination Program among Elderly Patients with Diabetes
Peter J. Fagan, Alyson B. Schuster, Cynthia Boyd, Jill A. Marsteller, Michael Griswold, Shannon M. E. Murphy, Linda Dunbar, Christopher B. Forrest M.D., Ph.D.,
Medicare Payments for Common Inpatient Procedures: Implications for Episode‐Based Payment Bundling
John D. Birkmeyer M.D., Cathryn Gust, Onur Baser, Justin B. Dimick M.D., M.P.H., Jason M. Sutherland Ph.D., Jonathan S. Skinner
State Regulatory Enforcement and Nursing Home Termination from the Medicare and Medicaid Programs
Yue Li Ph.D., Charlene Harrington, William D. Spector, Dana B. Mukamel Ph.D.
Advancing Methods
Development and Validation of a Disease‐Specific Risk Adjustment System Using Automated Clinical Data
Ying P. Tabak, Xiaowu Sun, Karen G. Derby, Stephen G. Kurtz, Richard S. Johannes
Derivation and Validation of a MEDLINE Search Strategy for Research Studies That Use Administrative Data
Carl Van Walraven, Carol Bennett, Alan J. Forster