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13. Factors important in the purchase of partnership long-term care insurance.
OBJECTIVE: To understand the factors important in the purchase of long-term care insurance through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Partnership for Long-Term Care. DATA SOURCES: Information on the Partnership programs, telephone surveys, data on Partnership purchasers, and random sample frames. STUDY DESIGN: Logistic regression analysis is used to examine
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14. Health care under AHCCCS: an examination of Arizona's alternative to Medicaid.
In late 1982, as an alternative to Medicaid, Arizona implemented a prepaid, competitively bid medical care program--the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS). Before its introduction, the poor had been cared for primarily by a network of county-supported centers. Impact of the AHCCCS initiative was examined by surveying comparable samples of p
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15. Which physicians limit their Medicaid participation, and why.
OBJECTIVE. This study identifies factors differentiating Medicaid participating physicians who accept all Medicaid patients from those limiting their Medicaid participation. DATA SOURCES. Data come from periodic telephone surveys of random samples of physicians conducted by the American Medical Association (AMA). STUDY DESIGN. Surveys conducted in 1990-1993
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16. Access to medical care for documented and undocumented Latinos in a southern California county.
To determine local access to medical care among Latinos, we conducted telephone interviews with residents of Orange County, California. The survey replicated on a local level the national access surveys sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. We compared access among Latino citizens of the United States (including permanent legal residents), undocum
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17. Uninsured and unstably insured: the importance of continuous insurance coverage.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the importance of continuous health insurance for access to care by comparing the access and cost experiences of insured adults with a recent time uninsured to the experiences of currently uninsured adults and experiences of adults with no time uninsured within a reference time period (continuously insured). DATA SOURCES: Adults ages 18
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18. Accelerated surgical stay programs. A mechanism to reduce health care costs.
OBJECTIVE: To increase cost-efficiency while maintaining the standard of medical care, an accelerated surgical stay program for patients having breast surgery was instituted. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA: In the past 20 years, annual health care costs have soared and now comprise 12.2% of the United States gross national product. The annual inflation rate of almo
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19. A case-control study of lung cancer in a cohort of workers potentially exposed to slag wool fibres.
A cohort of 4841 men were identified as having worked for more than a year at nine slag wool plants. Some of these men were potentially exposed to man made vitreous fibres (MMVF). The vital status of the entire cohort was ascertained to the end of 1989. Of the 504 deaths that occurred between 1970 and 1989, 61 were attributed to lung cancer (cases). Individu
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20. A survey of infections in United Kingdom laboratories, 1994-1995.
AIMS: To identify the number and type of infections occurring in United Kingdom clinical laboratories during 1994 and 1995, following similar surveys covering 1970 to 1989. METHODS: A retrospective questionnaire survey was undertaken of 397 responding UK clinical laboratories covering 1994 and 1995. A follow up telephone survey was undertaken with each of th
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21. The effect of managed care on the incomes of primary care and specialty physicians.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the effects of managed care growth on the incomes of primary care and specialist physicians. DATA SOURCES: Data on physician income and managed care penetration from the American Medical Association, Socioeconomic Monitoring System (SMS) Surveys for 1985 and 1993. We use secondary data from the Area Resource File and U.S. Census publi
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22. Policy-Relevant Research: When Does It Matter?
Summary: Evidence-based medicine is most meaningful to policy makers when research questions are clearly informed by strategic health policy questions. In Washington State workers’ compensation, key structural characteristics allow for the conduct of effective policy-relevant research. These include clear authority and a stable funding stream, a formal rel
The American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics.
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23. Differences in the structure of CAHPS measures among the medicare fee-for-service, medicare managed care, and privately insured populations.
OBJECTIVE: To confirm in a new population, the Medicare fee-for-service population, the factor structure previously found in two Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPS) field-test surveys with Medicare HMO and adult privately insured populations. DATA SOURCES: Primary data were collected in the fall of 1998. Survey responses from the Medicare Fee-f
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24. The effects of disseminating performance data to health plans: results of qualitative research with the Medicare Managed Care plans.
OBJECTIVE: To assess the information needs and responses of managed care plans to the Medicare Managed Care Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (MMC-CAHPS). DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING: One hundred sixty-five representatives of Medicare managed care plans participated in focus groups or interviews in the spring of 1998, 1999, and 2000. STUDY DESIGN: In