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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Am J Prev Med 42:390-397. Group Health Permanente, University of Washington Medical School, Seattle, WA, USA BACKGROUND: Many trials have tested different strategies to increase […]

Osteoporos Int 23:2381-2386. Division of General Internal Medicine, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, QC, Canada Institutionalization after hip fracture occurs in at least 30% of […]

Annu Rev Public Health 20:125-144. Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Important questions about health care are often addressed by studying health […]

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 […]

PLoS One 7:e32141. Multiprofessional Education Unit for Family and Community Care (Southwest), Madrid, Spain INTRODUCTION: Healthcare management is oriented toward single diseases, yet multimorbidity is […]

JAMA 279:853-858. Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA CONTEXT: Growth of at-risk managed care contracts between health plans and medical groups […]

Eff Clin Pract 1:66-72. Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente, Northwest Division, Portland, OR, USA. Health care information technology is changing rapidly and dramatically. A […]

J Am Geriatr Soc 54:330-334. Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA […]

Am J Manag Care 18:e155-161. Department of General Practice and Health Services Research, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. OBJECTIVES: The identification of patients most likely […]

J Trauma Acute Care Surg 74:26-30; discussion 30-1. Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael’s Hospital; and Institute for Clinical Evaluative Science, Toronto, ON, Canada […]

JAMA 285:2223-2231. Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA CONTEXT: Most health maintenance organizations offer […]

Health Aff 21:89-102. Health Systems Management Faculty, School of Public Affairs, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, USA. This paper presents the first empirical analysis of […]

Health Serv Manage Res 20:134-139. Department of Family Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA Open-access or advanced-access scheduling, which opens the clinic calendar to patients […]

Aten Primaria 40:603-610. Published in Spanish. Dirección de Planificación. Badalona Serveis Assistencials, S.A. Badalona. Barcelona, Spain OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the co-morbidity, health care use, economical […]

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 […]

Pediatrics 108:906-912. Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston, MA, USA OBJECTIVE: To estimate generalist, pediatric subspecialist, and any subspecialist […]

Med Care 49:257-266. Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada BACKGROUND: Administrative databases are increasingly being used to study the incident dialysis population […]

BMC Fam Pract 13:26. Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: There are continued concerns over an adequate supply […]

J Eval Clin Pract 18:1170-1179. Badalona Serveis Assistencials, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain OBJECTIVE: To compare the cost of adding either pregabalin or gabapentin to the management […]

J Clin Epidemiol 66:436-444. Population Health Research Centre, Division of Population Health Sciences and Education, St George’s University of London, London, UK OBJECTIVES: Adjustment for […]

Obesity 21:1328-1334. Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. OBJECTIVE: Negative interactions with healthcare providers […]

Can Fam Physician 59:384-390. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre, Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada Erratum in: Can Fam Physician. 2013 Jun;59(6):612. OBJECTIVE: To […]

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 […]