Volume 56 | Number 3 | June 2021
PRIMARY CARE
The impact of patient‐centered medical home certification on quality of care for patients with diabetes
Caroline S. Carlin Ph.D., Kevin Peterson MD, MPH, Leif I. Solberg
Patient experiences after implementing lean primary care redesigns
Dorothy Y. Hung Ph.D., M.A., M.P.H., Gabriela Mujal MPH, Anqi Jin PhD, Su‐Ying Liang
Practice‐site‐level measures of primary care comprehensiveness and their associations with patient outcomes
Ann S. O’Malley MD, MPH, Eugene C. Rich MD, Lisa Shang MS, Tyler Rose BS, Arkadipta Ghosh, Dmitriy Poznyak Ph.D., Deborah Peikes PhD, Matt Niedzwiecki PhD
VETERANS HEALTH
Continuity of care and health care cost among community‐dwelling older adult veterans living with dementia
Lianlian Lei M.A., Orna Intrator Ph.D., Yeates Conwell, Richard H. Fortinsky, Shubing Cai
Inequities in access to VA’S aid and attendance enhanced pension benefit to help Veterans pay for long‐term care
Kali S. Thomas Ph.D., Emily Corneau MPH, Courtney Van Houtven Ph.D., Portia Cornell PhD, David Aron, David Dosa M.D., M.P.H., Susan Allen PhD
Developing network adequacy standards for VA Community Care
Kristin M. Mattocks PhD, MPH, A. Rani Elwy Ph.D., Elizabeth M. Yano, Justin Giovannelli JD, MPP, Michael Adelberg MA, MPP, Michelle A. Mengeling PhD, Kristin J. Cunningham PMP, Kameron L. Matthews MD, JD, FAAFP
BEHAVIORAL AND MENTAL HEALTH
Socioeconomic status and the effectiveness of treatment for first‐episode psychosis
Daniel Bennett PhD, Robert Rosenheck MD
A best‐worst scaling experiment to identify patient‐centered claims‐based outcomes for evaluation of pediatric antipsychotic monitoring programs
Thomas I. Mackie PhD, MPH, Katherine M. Kovacs MBA, MPH, Cassandra Simmel PhD, Stephen Crystal, Sheree Neese‐Todd MA, Ayse Akincigil PhD
Behavioral health home impact on transitional care and readmissions among adults with serious mental illness
Alene Kennedy‐Hendricks PhD, Sachini Bandara PhD, MS, Gail L. Daumit MD, MHS, Alisa B. Busch MD, MS, Elizabeth M. Stone MSPH, Elizabeth A. Stuart Ph.D., Karly A. Murphy MD, MHS, Emma E. McGinty PhD, MS
An equivalence analysis of provider education in youth mental health care
Elizabeth A. McGuier PhD, Scott D. Rothenberger PhD, Abbey Friedman BS, David J. Kolko PhD
HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS
Hospital‐based health systems 20 years later: A taxonomy for policy research and analysis
Stephen M. Shortell Ph.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., Daniel J. Gottlieb MS, Pablo Martinez Camblor PhD, A. James O’Malley PhD
Evaluating the robustness of the CMS Hospital Value‐Based Purchasing measurement system
Lee Revere Ph.D., Barbara Langland‐Orban Ph.D., John Large PhD, MS, Yijiong Yang PhD candidate
The implementation cost of a safety‐net hospital program addressing social needs in Atlanta
Kara E. MacLeod DrPH, John M. Chapel BS, Matthew McCurdy MPH, Jasmin Minaya‐Junca MPH, Diane Wirth ANP‐BC, CACP, Anekwe Onwuanyi MD, Rashon I. Lane MA
MEDICARE
Population‐level changes in outcomes and Medicare cost following the introduction of new cancer therapies
Bora Youn PhD, Ira B. Wilson M.D., M.Sc., Vincent Mor Ph.D., Nikolaos A. Trikalinos MD, Issa J. Dahabreh MD, ScD
Physician trajectories of abandoning long‐course breast radiotherapy and their cost impact
Xiao Xu Ph.D., Pamela R. Soulos M.P.H., Jeph Herrin Ph.D., Shi‐Yi Wang M.D., Ph.D., Craig Evan Pollack M.D., M.H.S., Suzanne B. Evans MD, MPH, James B. Yu MD, MHS, Cary P. Gross M.D.
Differences in patient perceptions of integrated care among black, hispanic, and white Medicare beneficiaries
Emilia J. Ling SM, Molly Frean BA, Jody So BA, Maike Tietschert MSc, Nancy Song BA, Christian Covington BA, Hassina Bahadurazada MD, Sonia Khurana BA, Luis Garcia MS, Sara J. Singer M.B.A, Ph.D.
DUAL ELIGIBLES
Do dual eligible beneficiaries experience better health care in special needs plans?
Amelia M. Haviland Ph.D., Marc N. Elliott, David J. Klein M.S., Nate Orr M.A., Katrin Hambarsoomian M.S., Alan M. Zaslavsky Ph.D.
Does Medicaid coverage of Medicare cost sharing affect physician care for dual‐eligible Medicare beneficiaries?
Eric T. Roberts Ph.D., Sunita M. Desai PhD
METHODS CORNER
Connecting policy to licensed assisted living communities, introducing health services regulatory analysis
Lindsey Smith MPP, Paula Carder PhD, Taylor Bucy MPH, Jaclyn Winfree MS, Joan F. Brazier MS, Brian Kaskie PhD, Kali S. Thomas Ph.D.
Development of claims‐based measures of unplanned acute care with superior power for assessing the effectiveness of interventions following acute care
Arnold Y. Chen MD, Msc, Laura Blue PhD, Jason Tilipman MPP, Nancy McCall Sc.D.
Fitting marginalized two‐part models to semicontinuous survey data arising from complex samples
Valerie A. Smith Dr.P.H., Brady T. West PhD, Shiyu Zhang MA, MSc