The Johns Hopkins ACG® System Bibliography provides links to more than 900 papers and reports from across the globe detailing various studies utilizing the ACG System in a variety of locations, populations, and innovative applications.
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Canadian Public Policy 37:563-576. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada Residents of Ontario aged 65 years and older are covered by a provincially funded prescription […]
Insurance Markets and Companies: Analyses and Actuarial Computations 2:7-15. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA In this paper, a Medical Productivity Index (MPI) is proposed […]
Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto (masters thesis). University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada Osteoporosis is a major public health problem resulting in substantial hip […]
Waltham, MA, USA: Brandeis University (doctoral dissertation). Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA Health care organizations must find creative ways to achieve cost-efficient, high-quality primary care […]
Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation 34:97-106. Addiction Research Institute, Center for Social Work Research, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA Uninsured working adults with […]
Br J Gen Pract 61:e12-e21. Department of Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK BACKGROUND: In developed countries, primary health care increasingly involves the care […]
Arch Neurol 68:107-112. Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Foothills Hospital, Calgary, AB, Canada OBJECTIVE: To explore the relationship between antiepileptic drug (AED) use […]
PLoS One 5:e15883. Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada BACKGROUND: Increasing attention is being paid to variations […]
BMC Health Serv Res 10:343. Department of Health Policy & Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA BACKGROUND: Predictive modeling […]
Osteoporos Int 22:2439-2448. Division of General Internal Medicine, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, QC, Canada Non-traumatic fractures at typical osteoporotic sites are associated with increased […]
Aging Ment Health 15:204-213. School of Health Science, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden OBJECTIVE: The relationship between sleep complaints, comorbidity and health-related quality of […]
Am J Pharm Benefits 2:412-420. University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA OBJECTIVE: To assess the relationship between copayment level and drug switching among […]
Winnipeg, MB, Canada: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada This report provides a snapshot of […]
Quality Matters December 2010/January 2011. Commonwealth Fund, New York, NY, USA Health reform strategies such as creating patient-centered medical homes depend on an actively engaged […]
Popul Health Manag 13:309-317. HealthMedia, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, USA The objective of this study was to determine the economic impact of the Hawaii Medical […]
Med Clin (Barc) 136:183-191. Directorate of Planning, Badalona Serveis Assistencials SA, Badalona, Spain BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: To determine the incidence of cardiovascular events (CVE) and […]
Health Policy 101:133-139. Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK The English system of health resource allocation has been described as the apotheosis of […]
Front Psychiatry 1:144. Health Services and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, UK OBJECTIVES: To examine longitudinal patterns of complexity, continuity, […]
London, UK: University College London (doctoral dissertation). University College London, London, UK This thesis describes the first large-scale studies in the United Kingdom to adjust […]
Am J Manag Care 16:833-840. Center for Child Health Care Studies, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, […]
Vaccine 29:240-246. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of influenza vaccines in reducing […]
Prim Care Diabetes 5:25-31. Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA AIMS: Examine potential associations between inclusion […]
Gynecol Oncol 120:63-67. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada OBJECTIVE: This population-based study characterizes available physician […]
BMC Health Serv Res 10:A18. Discovery Health, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa INTRODUCTION: Various clinical tools exist that categorize health-care data into homogenous cohorts. The tools […]
BMC Health Serv Res 10:A8. Ministry of Health, Malaysia; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA Introduction: The study focused on the […]
Harefuah 149:665-669. Published in Hebrew. Planning & Health Policy Division, Clalit Health Services Head Offices, Israel BACKGROUND: Equitable distribution of healthcare resources and fair assessments […]
Winnipeg, MB, Canada: University of Manitoba (masters thesis). University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada The Johns Hopkins ACG(r) Case-Mix System grouped various physician and hospital […]
Baltimore, MD, USA: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Schneider Institute for Health Policy, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, […]
Health Serv Res 45:1763-1782. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Healthcare LLC, Glen Burnie, MD, USA OBJECTIVE: […]
Adm Policy Ment Health 37:379-387. Health Services Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, UK Patterns of behavioral health service utilization were examined […]
Diabetes Care 33:2314-2319. Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA OBJECTIVE: Evaluate use of a web-based shared medical record (SMR) between older patients […]
Health Aff 29:1432-1441. Department of Family Medicine at the Alpert Medical School, Brown University, in Providence, RI, USA From 1978 on, Spain rapidly expanded and […]
Healthc Policy 6:88-103. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Many investigators have reported higher rates of cardiac procedures for males […]
Popul Health Manag 13:201-207. Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Obesity is underdiagnosed, hampering system-based health promotion […]
BMC Health Serv Res 10:195. Division of Health Care Policy & Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, US BACKGROUND: This study sought to describe the incidence […]
A retrospective cohort study of a new therapy? Rockville, MD, USA: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA BACKGROUND: Exenatide […]
New York, NY, USA: Commonwealth Fund. Commonwealth Fund, New York, NY, USA CareOregon, a Portland, Oregon-based nonprofit Medicaid health plan, developed two innovative programs to […]
Rev Panam Salud Publica 27:49-55. Published in Spanish. Dirección de Planificación, Badalona Serveis Assistencials, S.A., Barcelona, Spain OBJETIVOS. Evaluar los resultados de la aplicación del […]
Primärvårdsersättning efter socioekonomi eller sjukdomsbörda. [Primary health care reimbursement based on socioeconomics or disease burden. Registry study from Östergötland shows different results depending on analysis […]
Baltimore, MD, USA: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Schneider Institutes for Health Policy, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, […]
Toronto, ON, Canada: Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada Recent investments by the Ontario Ministry of Health and […]
Montreal, QC, Canada: Montreal Health and Social Services Agency. Published in French; also have English translation. Montreal Health and Social Services Agency, Montreal, QC, Canada […]
Semergen doi:10.1016/j.semerg.2009.12.003. Published in Spanish. Servicio Canario de la Salud, Santa Cruzde Tenerife, Spain The analysis of the morbidity and management of its knowledge is […]
Taipei, Taiwan: Veterans General Hospital Taipei. Published in Chinese. Department of Medical Affairs and Planning, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC The goal […]
J Hum Resources 45:517-548. Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Research has shown […]
J Healthc Manag 11:311-326. Published in Chinese. OBJECTIVES: There has been a rising number and cost of patients with regular hemodialysis in Taiwan. The objective […]
Rockville, MD, USA: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA BACKGROUND. Bariatric surgery leads to weight loss, but it is […]
BMC Health Serv Res 10:126./p> Institute of Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan BACKGROUND: Medication claims are commonly used to […]
BMC Public Health 10:244. Aragon Health Sciences Institute, Zaragoza, Spain BACKGROUND: The computerisation of primary health care (PHC) records offers the opportunity to focus on […]
Med Care 48:402-408. Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia, School of Population and Public Health, Vancouver, BC, Canada BACKGROUND: Given […]
G Chir 31:211-214. Published in Italian. Department of Surgical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. The ACG (Adjusted Clinical Groups) case-mix system is a classification […]
J Gen Intern Med 25:920-925. Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA BACKGROUND: Research has documented greater health care costs attributable to intimate partner violence […]
Health Policy 97:122-129. Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada OBJECTIVE: We examined changes in patterns of benzodiazepine […]
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 95:3272-3276. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada CONTEXT: Abdominal obesity is a major risk factor for diabetes. Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) […]
J Altern Complement Med 16:411-417. Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this analysis was to compare health […]
Winnipeg, MB, Canada: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Many Manitobans have a chronic disease—indeed […]
Richmond, VA, USA: Virginia Commonwealth University (doctoral dissertation). Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA This study explored how being enrolled in a program that both […]
Chronic Dis Can 30:46-55. University of British Columbia, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada To date there has been little investigation of the prevalence […]
Clin Med Res 8:51-52. Maccabi Healthcare Services, Tel Aviv, Israel BACKGROUND: With an ever increasing population of HMO members with chronic disease and continuing economic […]
Popul Health Manag 13:21-26. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) […]
Med Care 48:175-182. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to evaluate an administrative data-based risk adjustment […]
J Bone Miner Res 25:388-392. Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada The World Health Organization (WHO) fracture risk assessment system (FRAX) allows […]
J Health Care Poor Underserved 21:92-111. St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD, USA The increased use of managed care in Medicaid warrants […]
BMC Health Serv Res 10:22. Aragon Health Science Institute, Zaragoza, Spain BACKGROUND: In the financing of a national health system, where pharmaceutical spending is one […]
BMC Med 8:7. Department of Health Policy & Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA BACKGROUND: Diagnosis-based risk adjustment is […]
Manitoba, 1999-2003. Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto (doctoral dissertation). University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada This thesis examines hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions […]
Rev Panam Salud Publica 27:49-55. Published in Spanish. Dirección de Planificación, Badalona Serveis Assistencials, S.A., Barcelona, Spain OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the results of implementing a […]
Child Youth Serv Rev 32:103-112. Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA Federal policymaking in the last decade has dramatically expanded performance measurement […]
J Ambul Care Manage 33:38-49; discussion 69-70. ACS Government Healthcare Solutions, Helena, MT, USA As Medicaid spending rises quickly, controlling cost while coordinating care and […]
Prim Care Companion J Clin Psychiatry 12:PCC.09m00837. Health Services Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, UK OBJECTIVE: To describe and quantify the […]
J Occup Environ Med 52:15-21. Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA We evaluated the effect […]
Gastroenterology 138:896-904. Section of Gastroenterology, Division of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada BACKGROUNDS and AIMS: Recent studies have shown an association between […]
J Clin Epidemiol 63:412-421. Institute for Work and Health, Toronto, ON, Canada OBJECTIVE: To examine if there are systematic differences in the predictors of self-rated […]
BMC Health Serv Res 9(Suppl 1):A7. Ministry of Health, Malaysia Introduction: Malaysian health care is a parallel system with both public and private sectors. […]
A study focusing on the Swedish national drug register. BMC Health Serv Res 0:A6. Ensolution, Stockholm, Sweden INTRODUCTION: The aim of the project was to […]
BMC Health Serv Res 9:A16. Johns Hopkins HealthCare, Glen Burnie, MD, USA Introduction: Johns Hopkins HealthCare contracts with the US Department of Defense (DOD) […]
European Neuropsychopharmacology 19:S340-S341. Badalona Serveis Assistencials SA, Directorate ofPlanning, Badalona. Barcelona, Spain BACKGROUND: Prescription drug costs are rapidly increasing in most countries. The pharmaceutical expenditure […]
Arch Intern Med 169:1692-1697. Department of Human Development and Family Science, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA BACKGROUND: We characterized the relative risk of a […]
JTrauma 67:834-840. Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA BACKGROUND: Hurricane Katrina, which struck the Gulf Coast […]
Baltimore, MD, USA: Johns Hopkins University (doctoral dissertation). Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA BACKGROUND. Work limitations are functional limitations within the work context resulting […]
J Clin Psychiatry 70:1461-1466. Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA OBJECTIVE: This study examines the […]
Aten Primaria 42:420-430. Published in Spanish. Dirección de Planificación, Badalona Serveis Assistencials S.A., Badalona, Barcelona, Spain OBJECTIVES: Mediterranean populations are traditionally considered to be associated […]
BMC Public Health 9:347. Blekinge Centre of Competence, Karlskrona, Sweden BACKGROUND: Adequate resource allocation is an important factor to ensure equity in health care. Previous […]
Med Clin (Barc) 133:290-295. Published in Spanish. Dirección de Planificación, Badalona Serveis Assistencials SA, Badalona, Barcelona, España BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: To determine the health care […]
York, UK: University of York. University of York, York, UK Health care providers are almost always universally reimbursed by third party purchasers. As a result, […]
Ann Fam Med 7:396-405. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada PURPOSE: Universal coverage of physician services should serve to reduce socioeconomic disparities in […]
Schizophr Res 113:95-100. Department of Psychiatry, University of Manitoba, CancerCare Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada It is estimated that mammography screening can reduce mortality from breast […]
Schizophr Res 113:101-106. Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Winnipeg, MB, Canada CONTEXT: Barriers to cervical cancer screening […]
J Womens Health 18:1133-1143. Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA BACKGROUND: Many women use […]
Gac Sanit 24:13-19. Published in Spanish. Dirección de Planificación, Badalona Serveis Assistencials S.A., Badalona, Barcelona, Spain OBJECTIVE: To determinate the impact of comorbidity, resource use […]
Med Care 47:813-821. Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA BACKGROUND: Many clinical and health services research studies are […]
Baltimore, MD, USA: Johns Hopkins University (doctoral dissertation). Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM: Hypertension is one of the most common […]
J Ambul Care Manage 32:216-225. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA Approximately 7 of 10 (and 95% of the elderly) people […]
Diabetes Care 32:1182-1187. Department of Health Services, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis […]
BMC Public Health 9:202. Directorate of Planning, Badalona Serveis Assistencials SA, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain BACKGROUND: The main objective of this study is to measure the […]
Aten Primaria 41:453-459. Published in Spanish. Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud, Zaragoza, España OBJECTIVE: To identify pharmacy cost outlier patients in Primary Care, […]
In: Bateman WB – Abesamis-Mendoza J – Ho-Asjoe H – ed. Praeger handbook of Asian-American health: taking notice and taking action. Santa Barbara CA USA: […]
J Rural Health 25:253-258. Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA PURPOSE: To describe the use of chiropractic care by urban and […]
BMC Public Health 9:157. Data on morbidity in Sweden are based on numbers of diagnoses, classified by the WHO system, the International Statistical Classification of […]
CMAJ 180:E72-E81. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: Primary care reform in Ontario, Canada, included the initiation of a blended capitation model […]