Volume 55 | Number 2 | April 2020
EVALUATION OF SAFETY‐NET POLICIES
Relationship between initiation of 340B participation and hospital safety‐net engagement
Sayeh S. Nikpay PhD, MPH, Melinda B. Buntin Ph.D., Rena M. Conti
Trends in smoking documentation rates in safety net clinics
Stephen P. Fortmann MD, Steffani R. Bailey PhD, Neon B. Brooks PhD, Brian Hitsman PhD, Sarah Stuart Rittner MA, Suzanne E. Gillespie MS, Christian Nissen Hill MD, MPH, Michael C. Leo PhD, Phillip M. Crawford MS, Weiming Hu MS, Dana S. King BA, ALM, Conall O'Cleirigh PhD, Jon Puro MPA, HA, Mary Ann McBurnie PhD
NURSING AND PATIENT OUTCOMES
Outcomes of primary care delivery by nurse practitioners: Utilization, cost, and quality of care
Chuan‐Fen Liu M.P.H., Ph.D., Paul L. Hebert Ph.D., Jamie H. Douglas MA, Emily L. Neely M.P.H., Christine A. Sulc B.A., Ashok Reddy M.D., M.Sc., Anne E. Sales, Edwin S. Wong Ph.D.
Development and use of an adjusted nurse staffing metric in the neonatal intensive care unit
Daniel S. Tawfik MD, MS, Jochen Profit MD, MPH, Eileen T. Lake Ph.D., R.N., Jessica B. Liu PhD, Lee M. Sanders MD, MPH, Ciaran S. Phibbs Ph.D.
QUALITY AND COST OF HEALTH CARE
Assessment of nursing home reporting of major injury falls for quality measurement on nursing home compare
Prachi Sanghavi PhD, Shengyuan Pan BA, Daryl Caudry MS
Eight‐year post‐trial follow‐up of health care and long‐term care costs of tele‐based health coaching
Erja Mustonen MSc, Iiris Hörhammer PhD, Pilvikki Absetz PhD, Kristiina Patja MD, PhD, Johanna Lammintakanen PhD, Martti Talja MD, PhD, Risto Kuronen MD, PhD, Miika Linna D.Sc. (Tech)
Payments for outpatient joint replacement surgery: A comparison of hospital outpatient departments and ambulatory surgery centers
Kathleen Carey, Jake R. Morgan M.S.
Accounting for the burden and redistribution of health care costs: Who uses care and who pays for it
Katherine Grace Carman PhD, Jodi Liu PhD, Chapin White Ph.D.
MEDICAID AND SUBSTANCE USE TREATMENT
Evaluating the role of Section 1115 waivers on Medicaid coverage and utilization of opioid agonist therapy among substance use treatment admissions
Kayla N. Tormohlen MPH, Noa Krawczyk PhD, Kenneth A. Feder PhD, Kira E. Riehm MS, Rosa M. Crum MD, Ramin Mojtabai
Association between state Medicaid expansion status and naloxone prescription dispensing
Minji Sohn PhD, Jeffery C. Talbert Ph.D., Chris Delcher PhD, Emily R. Hankosky PhD, Michelle R. Lofwall MD, Patricia R. Freeman PhD
MEASURING HOSPITAL READMISSIONS
Is mortality readmissions bias a concern for readmission rates under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program?
Irene Papanicolas PhD, E. John Orav Ph.D., Ashish K. Jha M.D., M.P.H.
The association of hospital teaching intensity with 30‐day postdischarge heart failure readmission and mortality rates
David M. Shahian MD, Xiu Liu MS, Elizabeth A. Mort MD, MPH, Sharon‐Lise T. Normand Ph.D.
Resurrecting immortal‐time bias in the study of readmissions
Lee A. Hugar MD, MSCR, Tudor Borza MD, MS, Mary K. Oerline M.S., Brent K. Hollenbeck M.D., M.S., Ted A. Skolarus MD, MPH, Bruce L. Jacobs MD, MPH
Suitability of elderly adult hospital readmission rates for profiling readmissions in younger adult and pediatric populations
Emily M. Bucholz MD, PhD, MPH, Sara L. Toomey M.D., M.Phil., M.P.H., M.Sc., Neel M. Butala M.D., M.B.A., Alyna T. Chien M.D., M.S., Robert W. Yeh M.D., M.Sc., M.B.A., Mark A. Schuster M.D., Ph.D.
TIMELINESS OF CARE
The effect of rural hospital closures on emergency medical service response and transport times
Katherine E. M. Miller MSPH, Hailey J. James MHA, George Mark Holmes PhD, Courtney H. Van Houtven Ph.D.
Development of a novel metric of timely care access to primary care services
Adam J. Batten BS, Matthew R. Augustine MD, MS, Karin M. Nelson, Peter J. Kaboli
METHODS CORNER
Performance of ICD‐10‐CM diagnosis codes for identifying children with Sickle Cell Anemia
Sarah L. Reeves PhD, Brian Madden MS, Meng Wu Ph.D., Lauren S. Miller Ph.D., David Anders PhD, Michele Caggana ScD, Lindsay W. Cogan Ph.D., Mary Kleyn MSc, Isabel Hurden MPH, Gary L. Freed, Kevin J. Dombkowski
Measures of care fragmentation: Mathematical insights from population genetics
Noah A. Rosenberg PhD, Donna M. Zulman M.D., M.S.
A comparison of methods for health policy evaluation with controlled pre‐post designs
Stephen O'Neill PhD, Noemi Kreif PhD, Matt Sutton, Richard Grieve