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J Intellect Disabil Res 57:226-239. Dual Diagnosis Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: Hospitalisations for ambulatory care-sensitive (ACS) conditions are […]
JAMA Intern Med 173:1175-1185. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada; Child Health Evaluative […]
J Rheumatol 40:1736-1741. University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB; McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada OBJECTIVE: The quality of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis […]
Open Med 7:e9-e20. Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: In Ontario, Canada, the patient-centred medical home is a […]
Ann Surg 259:10-15. Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center; Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael’s Hospital; and ‡Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, […]
J Am Med Dir Assoc. Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada; Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, ON, […]
J Clin Psychiatry 75:e552-e558. Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada OBJECTIVE: Venlafaxine is a commonly prescribed antidepressant, but whether its noradrenergic effects impart increased […]
J Dev Behav Pediatr 35:282-291. Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA OBJECTIVE: To compare the health problems, preventive care utilization, and […]
BMC Public Health 14:769. Basque Institute for Healthcare Innovation, Barakaldo, Spain BACKGROUND: The aim of the study was to estimate the prevalence of depression in […]
Int J Epidemiol 43:1438-1449. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Winnipeg, MB, Canada The PATHS Data Resource is a unique database comprising data that follow individuals […]
BMC Health Serv Res 15:207. Basque Institute for Healthcare Innovation, Barakaldo, Spain; Osakidetza, Basque Health Service, Erandio, Spain; University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain BACKGROUND: Hypoglycaemia […]
BMJ Open 5:e007360. Osakidetza Basque Health Service, Erandio, Bizkaia, Spain; University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain OBJECTIVES: To explain the variability in the frequency of potentially […]
Ann Neurol 79:32-41. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronot, ON, Canada; Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the […]
Nurs Econ 33:271-280. University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX, USA; Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Bryan, TX, USA Patients with Type 2 Diabetes […]
J Clin Epidemiol 68:1301-1311. Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada; University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Ottawa, ON, Canada; Ottawa […]
CMAJ Open 3:E208-E216. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Ontario Institute for Cancer Research/Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, […]
An Sist Sanit Navar 36:429-339, Published in Spanish. Centro de Salud Astrabudua, Erandio, Spain BACKGROUND: The public telecare service in the Basque Autonomous Community (betiON) […]
Am J Manag Care 15:41-48. Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA OBJECTIVE: To contrast the advantages and limitations of using medication, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Arch Fam Med 8:149-155. Johns Hopkins Center for Hospital Finance and Management, Baltimore, MD, USA. In today’s rapidly changing medical marketplace, managed care plans are […]
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, […]
Med Decis Making 23:397-405. The MEDSTAT Group, Inc., Washington, DC, USA BACKGROUND: Although the problem of adverse selection into more generous health insurance plans has […]
Health Serv Res 30:751-770. Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, Baltimore, MD, USA STUDY QUESTIONS: What is the […]
J Clin Oncol 26:5227-5232. CancerCare Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada PURPOSE: Although tamoxifen has been shown to increase bone mineral density in clinical trials, it is […]
Med Care 50:434-440. Center for Vulnerable Populations, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA BACKGROUND: Previous studies have documented racial/ethnic differences in patients’ use of […]
Aten Primaria 44:145-152. Published in Spanish. Centre d’Atenció Integral Dos de Maig, Consorci Sanitari Integral, Barcelona, Spain; Dirección de Planificación y Desarrollo Organizativo, Badalona Serveis […]
J Ambul Care Manage 16:33-49. Many key decision makers are looking to AESs solely for purposes of payment. This approach is unfortunate because many systems […]
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, […]
Health Serv Res 47:1561-1579. Group Health Research Institute and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA OBJECTIVE: To estimate the impact of deductibles on the initiation […]
Med Care 39:551-561. MDS Associates, Wheaton, MD, USA BACKGROUND: Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) serve as regular sources of preventive and primary care for low-income […]
J Healthc Inf Manag 14:31-57. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA With the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 mandating that the Health Care Financing […]
Ambul Pediatr 1:217-224. Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA OBJECTIVE: Several capitation payment […]
Aten Primaria 37:439-445. Published in Spanish. Dirección de Planificación, Badalona Servicios Asistenciales S.A. Badalona, Barcelona, España OBJECTIVE: To evaluate retrospectively the application of adjusted clinical […]
Care Manag J 9:42-50. Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente, Portland, OR, USA CareOregon, an Oregon-based not-for-profit Medicaid health plan, successfully piloted a “CareSupport” model […]
Med Care 42:1056-1065. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15586832. Department of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. BACKGROUND: The unabated rise in medication costs particularly affects older persons with […]
BMC Public Health 11:432. Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain BACKGROUND: There is evidence suggesting that the […]
J Periodontol 82:1650-1656. Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA BACKGROUND: Our objectives were to describe the prevalence of periodontal care (a marker of periodontitis) […]
Med Care 44:1078-1084. Department of Nursing, Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA OBJECTIVE: We sought to assess how the inclusion of claims from complementary and […]
Ann Gen Psychiatry 11:22. AstraZeneca Medical Department, Madrid, Spain BACKGROUND: The aim of the study was to determine the most common treatment strategies and their […]
Manag Care 22:39-41. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA No abstract PMID: 23451538
Health Econ Policy Law 8:317-333. Lund University School of Economics and Management, Lund, Sweden In parallel to market-like reforms in Swedish primary care, the gathering […]
J Natl Cancer Inst 105:1123-1131. Division of Urology, Department of Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: Metformin is commonly […]
Mayo Clin Proc 88:963-969. Division of Primary Care Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the participants in the […]
BMJ 337:a238. Department of Statistical Science, University College London, London, UK OBJECTIVE: To examine whether patient level morbidity based measure of clinical case mix explains […]
BMC Public Health 14:329. Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden BACKGROUND: It has been reported […]
Popul Health Manag Univita , Natick, MA, USA This study explores whether personal care services for functionally dependent or cognitively impaired individuals paid for by […]
Rev Med Chil 142:153-160. Published in Spanish. Departamento de Desarrollo Estratégico, Ministerio de Salud. Santiago de Chile BACKGROUND: There is increasing interest in the study […]
BMC Womens Health 14:145. University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain; Aragon Health Sciences Institute, Zaragoza, Spain BACKGROUND: Sex and gender can interact to contribute to differences […]
Can J Public Health 105:e362. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Winnipeg, MB, Canada OBJECTIVES: Breastfeeding is associated with improved health. Surveillance data show that breastfeeding […]
Gac Sanit 29:10-14. Published in Spanish. Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, España; Dirección General de Planificación y Aseguramiento, Zaragoza, España; Grupo de Investigación en Servicios Sanitarios […]
Med Care 53:317-323. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA BACKGROUND: With the goal of improving clinical efficiency and effectiveness, programs to enhance care coordination are […]
Pediatrics 100:947-953. Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL, USA BACKGROUND: In 1990, the Florida Legislature established the Florida Healthy Kids Corporation to implement […]
Liver Int. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Ontario Institute for Cancer […]
Popul Health Manag. Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, USA; University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, MN, USA; Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota , Minneapolis, […]
A Canadian perspective. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 15:67. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada; University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; University Health […]
BMC Health Serv Res 13:421. Institut Universitari d’investigació en Atenció Primària Jordi Gol, Barcelona, Spain BACKGROUND: Adjusted clinical groups (ACG®) have been widely used to […]
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 […]
Health Serv Res 36:793-811. UCLA Department of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA OBJECTIVE: To compare the performance of various risk adjustment models in behavioral health […]
Osteoporos Int 17:1358-1368. Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada INTRODUCTION: Efforts to develop global methods for absolute fracture risk prediction are currently […]
J Fam Pract 48:264-271. Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners HealthCare System, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA BACKGROUND: The objective of our study […]
Health Soc Care Community 17:304-311. Växjö University, School of Social Sciences, Växjö, Sweden People aged 60 or more are the most frequent users of healthcare […]
J Ambul Care Manage 19:90-97. ISYS Group, Des Moines, IA, USA Increasing demands for provider profiling have led to the growth of health information services […]
BMC Health Serv Res 8:153. Department of Medical Affairs and Planning, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC BACKGROUND: The Adjusted Clinical Group (ACG) […]
Health Care Financ Rev 30:61-74. Center for Health Policy and Research, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Shrewsbury, MA, USA Medicaid agencies are beginning to turn […]
HMO Pract 6:13-19. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA This paper describes a new ambulatory case-mix system developed at The Johns Hopkins University and known […]
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 89:1903-1906. Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Bedford VA Hospital, Bedford, MA, USA OBJECTIVES: To examine the impact of […]
Qual Manag Health Care 14:31-44. 3M Health Information Systems, Wallingford, CT, USA Pay for performance cannot consist of a one-size-fits-all approach. Variation in quality and […]
Aten Primaria 38:275-282. Published in Spanish. Badalona Serveis Assistencials, Badalona (Barcelona), España OBJECTIVE: To measure efficiency in the use of resources for the care lists […]
J Behav Health Serv Res 30:63-77. UCLA Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine & Health Services Research, Los Angeles, CA, USA The adequacy […]
J Trauma Acute Care Surg 74:175-179; discussion 179-80. Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: Current data on the clinical […]
JAMA 284:2077-2083. Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA CONTEXT: The US primary care safety net is […]
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 72:615-620. Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA OBJECTIVE: To determine whether psychiatric illness is a risk factor for […]
Dis Manag 9:45-55. UMHS Medical Management Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Reports by the Institute of Medicine and the Health Care Financing […]
Health Serv Res 43:755-772. Healthcare Management and Statistical Consulting, 4303 Stanford Street, Chevy Chase, MD, USA OBJECTIVE: To assess the ability of regression tree boosting […]
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 […]
Int J Equity Health 10:12. Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada BACKGROUND: This study aimed to measure […]
Selection bias explains apparent differential mortality between dialysis modalities. J Am Soc Nephrol 22:1534-1542. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada The relative risk of death […]
BMC Health Serv Res 12:116. Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: Improvements in the quality of health care […]
Med Clin (Barc) 138:179-180. Published in Spanish. Dirección de Planificación, Badalona Serveis Assistencials, Barcelona, Spain Launched in 1943, Medicina Clínica is a fortnightly journal aimed […]
Fam Pract 30:172-178. Academic Unit of Primary Care, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK BACKGROUND: An increasing proportion of people […]
Health Policy 111:157-165. Lund University School of Economics and Management, Lund, Sweden Following recent reforms in Swedish primary care, providers are accountable to both citizens […]
J Clin Oncol 31:3069-3075. Princess Margaret Hospital, University Health, Toronto, ON, Canada PURPOSE: To evaluate the association between cumulative duration of metformin use after prostate […]
Br J Gen Pract 63:534-542. Department of Primary Care and Public Health (DPCPH), Imperial College London, London, UK BACKGROUND: More accurate and recent estimates of […]
JAAPA 27:45-49. Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC; Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System and University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, Pittsburgh, PA; University of […]
Health Care Financ Rev 17:23-42. Project HOPE Center for Health Affairs, Bethesda, MD, USA Variations in elderly Medicare beneficiaries’ health service use are examined using […]
BMC Health Serv Res 7:A8. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA; Imperial College London, UK Aim: The goal of this project […]
BMC Health Serv Res 14:363. McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: Health system planners aim to pursue the three goals of Triple Aim: 1) reduce […]
Med Care 39:86-99. Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada BACKGROUND: While the adjusted clinical group (ACG) system […]
Med Care 52:157-163. Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA BACKGROUND: Health care quality is frequently described with measures representing […]
Med Care 39:692-704. Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Bedford VAMC, MA, USA BACKGROUND: Diagnosis-based case-mix measures are increasingly used for provider profiling, […]
JAMA Intern Med Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Importance: Both the overuse of unnecessary medical procedures and poor continuity of care are thought to […]
JAMA Pediatr 170:148-154. Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA IMPORTANCE: Little is known about the effect of pediatric accountable care organizations (ACOs) […]
Int J Palliat Nurs 21:349-356. McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: Little is known about residents of long-term care (LTC) facilities who die of cancer. […]
J Subst Abuse Treat 57:30-35. University of Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada; St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; St. […]
J Am Med Inform Assoc 22:435-442. Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA BACKGROUND: Hospital readmissions are common, costly, and offer opportunities for utilization […]
Pediatr Pulmonol 47:211-219. British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada Given the difficulties in diagnosing, or even defining, asthma in children, claims of a pediatric […]
Med Care 37:238-248. Astrabudúa Health Center, Osakidetza/Basque Health Service, Bizkaia, Spain BACKGROUND: Ambulatory Care Groups (ACGs), a US case mix system that uses the patient […]
Int J Qual Health Care 8:231-241. Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Most studies of ambulatory care quality are based on chart […]
Bone 40:1595-1601. Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Diabetes is associated with increased fracture rates but the effect size, time course and […]
