Volume 49 | Number 1 | February 2014
Medicare
How Do Hospitals Cope with Sustained Slow Growth in Medicare Prices?
Chapin White Ph.D., Vivian Yaling Wu
Geographic Variations in the Cost of Treating Condition‐Specific Episodes of Care among Medicare Patients
James D. Reschovsky Ph.D., Jack Hadley, A. James O'Malley Ph.D., Bruce E. Landon M.D., M.B.A., M.S.
Medical Homes and Ambulatory Care
Partial and Incremental PCMH Practice Transformation: Implications for Quality and Costs
Michael L. Paustian Ph.D., Jeffrey A. Alexander Ph.D., Darline K. El Reda, Chris G. Wise, Lee A. Green M.D., M.P.H., Michael D. Fetters
Incentivizing Primary Care Providers to Innovate: Building Medical Homes in the Post‐Katrina New Orleans Safety Net
Diane R. Rittenhouse, Laura A. Schmidt, Kevin J. Wu, James Wiley
People and Teams Matter in Organizational Change: Professionals' and Managers' Experiences of Changing Governance and Incentives in Primary Care
Helen T. Allan, Sally Brearley, Richard Byng, Sara Christian, Julie Clayton, Maureen Mackintosh, Linnie Price, Pam Smith, Fiona Ross
Blending Group and Practice Site Scores to Increase the Reliability of Physician Quality Information
William H. Rogers, Kristy Thornton, Ted Glahn
Technology Diffusion
Adoption and Diffusion of Evidence‐Based Addiction Medications in Substance Abuse Treatment
Carolyn J. Heinrich, Grant R. Cummings
Trends in Volume after Negative Results from the Trial
David H. Howard Ph.D., Yu‐Chu Shen Ph.D.
Preventive Care
Geographic Disparities in Mammography Capacity in the South: A Longitudinal Assessment of Supply and Demand
Jan M. Eberth, Karl Eschbach, Jeffrey S. Morris, Hoang T. Nguyen, Md Monir Hossain, Linda S. Elting
State‐Level Unemployment and the Utilization of Preventive Medical Services
Nathan Tefft, Andrew Kageleiry
Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Assessing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Treatment across Episodes of Mental Health Care
Benjamin Lê Cook, Samuel H. Zuvekas Ph.D., Nicholas Carson, Geoffrey Ferris Wayne, Andrew Vesper, Thomas G. McGuire Ph.D.
Testing in the Nation's Opioid Treatment Programs, 2005–2011: The Role of State Regulations
Thomas D'Aunno Ph.D., Harold A. Pollack, Lan Jiang M.S., Lisa R. Metsch, Peter D. Friedmann
Methods Articles
Validity of Infant Race/Ethnicity from Birth Certificates in the Context of U.S. Demographic Change
Lisa Reyes Mason, Yunju Nam, Youngmi Kim
Using the Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding Method () to Create a Working Classification of Race and Ethnicity in a Diverse Managed Care Population: A Validation Study
Dzifa Adjaye‐Gbewonyo, Robert A. Bednarczyk, Robert L. Davis, Saad B. Omer
Generalizing Observational Study Results: Applying Propensity Score Methods to Complex Surveys
Eva H. DuGoff Ph.D., M.P.P., Megan Schuler, Elizabeth A. Stuart Ph.D.
Research Brief
Validation of Patient and Nurse Short Forms of the Readiness for Hospital Discharge Scale and Their Relationship to Return to the Hospital
Marianne E. Weiss, Linda L. Costa, Olga Yakusheva Ph.D., Kathleen L. Bobay