The following articles will be featured in volume 43:2 (April 2008)
Public Premiums and Benefit Design
The Effect of Premium Changes on SCHIP Enrollment Duration
Jill Boylston Herndon, W. Bruce Vogel, Richard L. Bucciarelli et al.
Impact of Multitiered Copayments on the Use and Cost of Prescription Drugs among Medicare Beneficiaries
Boyd H. Gilman and John Kautter
Drug Use Patterns in Severely Mentally Ill Medicare Beneficiaries: Impact of Discontinuities in Drug Coverage
Linda Simoni-Wastila, Ilene H. Zuckerman,Thomas Shaffer et al.
How Effective Are Copayments in Reducing Expenditures for Low-Income Adult Medicaid Beneficiaries? Experience from the Oregon Health Plan
Neal T. Wallace, K. John McConnell, Charles A. Gallia et al.
Disparities
Testing for Statistical Discrimination by Race/Ethnicity in Panel Data for Depression Treatment in Primary Care
Thomas G. McGuire, John Z. Ayanian, Daniel E. Ford et al.
Language and Regional Differences in Evaluations of Medicare Managed Care by Hispanics
Robert Weech-Maldonado, Marie N. Fongwa, Peter Gutierrez et al.
Guidelines and Quality
Physician Characteristics and the Reported Effect of Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines
Christine E. Sammer, Kristine Lykens, and Karan P. Singh
Impact of Medicaid Reimbursement on Mental Health Quality Indicators
Nicole M. Bellows and Helen A. Halpin
Strategic Orientation and Nursing Home Response to Public Reporting of Quality Measures: An Application of the Miles and Snow Typology
Jacqueline S. Zinn, William D. Spector, David L. Weimer et al.
Program Structure and Counselor–Client Contact in Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment
Danica K. Knight, Kirk M. Broome, D. Dwayne Simpson et al.
Hospital Use and Costs
Cost of Hospital Care for Older Adults with Heart Failure: Medical,Pharmaceutical, and Nursing Costs
Marita G. Titler, Gwenneth A. Jensen, Joanne McCloskey Dochterman et al.
Parental Mental and Pain-Related Health and Pediatric Ambulatory Care Sensitive Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations
Joseph E. Logan, Anne W. Riley, and Lawrence E. Barker
Risks and Causes of Hospitalizations among Physicians in Taiwan
Chi-Miao Lin, Chiang-Hsing Yang, Fung-Chang Sung et al.
Mental Health and the Life Span
Depression and Retirement in Late Middle-Aged U.S. Workers
Jalpa A. Doshi, Liyi Cen, and Daniel Polsky
Dementia and Medicare at Life’s End
Vicki L. Lamb, Frank A. Sloan, and Anil S. Nathan
Methods
Identifying Persons with Treated Asthma Using Administrative Data via Latent Class Modelling
Robert J. Prosser, Bruce C. Carleton, and M. Anne Smith
Regression Tree Boosting to Adjust Health Care Cost Predictions for Diagnostic Mix
John W. Robinson
Development of a Measure of Physician Engagement in Addressing Racial and Ethnic Health Care Disparities
G. Caleb Alexander, Shang Lin, Maliha A. Sayla et al.
Research Brief
Coping with Prescription Drug Cost Sharing: Knowledge, Adherence, and Financial Burden
Mary Reed, Richard Brand, Joseph P. Newhouse et al.
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