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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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Doctor shopping by overweight and obese patients is associated with increased healthcare utilization

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 […]

Productivity and patient satisfaction in primary care — conflicting or compatible goals?

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 […]

Spreading a medical home redesign: effects on emergency department use and hospital admissions

Ann Fam Med 11 Suppl 1:S19-S26. Group Health Physicians, Seattle, WA, USA PURPOSE: The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is being rapidly deployed in many settings […]

Association between metformin therapy and mortality after breast cancer: a population-based study

Diabetes Care 36:3018-3026. Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada OBJECTIVE: Metformin has been associated with a reduction in breast cancer risk […]

Glycemic control associated with secure patient-provider messaging within a shared electronic medical record: a longitudinal analysis

Diabetes Care 36:2726-2733. University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA; Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Group Health Research Institute, […]

Preeclampsia as a risk factor for diabetes: a population-based cohort study

PLoS Med 10:e1001425. Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: Women with preeclampsia (PEC) and gestational hypertension (GH) exhibit insulin resistance during […]

Evaluating early repeat emergency department use in patients with atrial fibrillation: a population-based analysis

Am Heart J 165:939-948. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: Emergency department (ED) use by patients with atrial fibrillation is high and […]

Glucagonlike peptide 1-based therapies and risk of hospitalization for acute pancreatitis in type 2 diabetes mellitus: a population-based matched case-control study

JAMA Intern Med 173:534-539. Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA IMPORTANCE: Acute pancreatitis has significant morbidity […]

High use of health services in patients with suboptimal asthma drug regimens: a population-based assessment in British Columbia, Canada

Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 22:744-751. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada; […]

Measuring medical productivity to gauge the value of Medicare

Minn Med 96:46-48. Department of Finance, Medical Industry Leadership Institute, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. Having a measure of productivity […]

Patient poverty and workload in primary care: study of prescription drug benefit recipients in community health centres

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 […]

The effect of medical malpractice liability on rate of referrals received by specialist physicians

Health Econ Policy Law 8:453-475. Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA; Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA; University of Michigan, School of […]

Factors associated with 90-day death after emergency department discharge for atrial fibrillation

Ann Emerg Med 61:539-548.e1. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada STUDY OBJECTIVE: More than 10% of patients treated in the emergency department (ED) […]

How does complementary private prescription drug insurance coverage affect seniors’ use of publicly funded medications?

Health Policy 110:147-155. School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: Like in many other high-income jurisdictions, the public drug […]

Are cervical and breast cancer screening programmes equitable? The case of women with intellectual and developmental disabilities

J Intellect Disabil Res 57:478-488. School of Nursing Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK BACKGROUND: Effective cancer screening must be available for all eligible […]

Influence of body mass index on the choice of therapy for depression and follow-up care

Obesity 21:e303-e313. Group Health Research Institute, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA, USA OBJECTIVE: Overweight and obese patients commonly suffer from depression and choice of depression […]

A hospital system’s wellness program linked to health plan enrollment cut hospitalizations but not overall costs

Health Aff 32:477-485. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA Many policy makers believe that health status would be improved and health care spending reduced if […]

Depression and use of health care services in patients with advanced cancer

Can Fam Physician 59:e168-e174. University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada OBJECTIVE: To examine whether depression in patients with advanced cancer is associated with increased rates […]

Evaluation of the implementation of advanced nursing competencies in the Basque health care system

J Nurs Ed Pract 3:23-29. Basque Institute for Healthcare Innovation, Sondika, Bizkaia, Spain In 2011 advanced competences in nursing were defined and pilot tested in […]

Primary care doctors’ opinion on a risk adjustment system: Adjusted Clinical Groups

Rev Peru Med Exp Salud Publica 30:345-347. Published in Spanish. Directorate of Planning, Badalona Serveis Assistencials SA, Badalona, Spain No abstract

Inclusion of persons with mental illness in patient-centred medical homes: cross-sectional findings from Ontario, Canada

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 […]

A new simple primary care morbidity score predicted mortality and better explains between practice variations than the Charlson index

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 […]

More data in health care will enable predictive modeling advances

Manag Care 22:39-41. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA No abstract PMID: 23451538

What, if anything, does amenable mortality tell us about regional health system performance?

Healthc Policy 8:79-90. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada OBJECTIVES: Amenable mortality is proposed as a health system performance measure, and has been used […]

Patients with atrial fibrillation and an alternative primary diagnosis in the emergency department: a description of their characteristics and outcomes

Acad Emerg Med 20:193-199. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada OBJECTIVES: Atrial fibrillation is common in the emergency department (ED). Mortality rates at […]

Adverse events in elderly users of antipsychotic pharmacotherapy in the province of Manitoba: a retrospective cohort study

J Clin Psychopharmacol 33:24-30. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. BACKGROUND: Antipsychotic medications have been widely used in elderly patients for treatment of a variety […]

The use of long-acting beta2- agonists as monotherapy in children and adults

J Popul Ther Clin Pharmacol 20:e1. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada BACKGROUND: In asthma, it is recommended […]

Risk-adjusted resource allocation: using Taiwan’s National Health Insurance as an example

Asia Pac J Public Health 27:NP958-971. Department of Health Policy & Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. OBJECTIVES: To […]

Comorbidity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in family practice: a cross sectional study

BMC Fam Pract 14:11. Multiprofessional Education Unit for Family and Community Care (South-east), Madrid, Spain BACKGROUND: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is frequent and often […]

Predictors of short-term postoperative survival after elective colectomy in colon cancer patients >/= 80 years of age

Ann Surg Oncol 20:1427-1435. Department of Surgery, UW Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA BACKGROUND: Individuals ≥ 80 years of age […]

Pilot projects carried out in Lithuania and Latvia: quality indicators for high quality PHC performance

ImPrim Report #3. Karlskrona, Sweden: ImPrim. Klaipeda University, Klaipeda, Lithuania Quality improvement of primary health care is the topic requiring attention from all stakeholders  throughout […]

Cholecystostomy: a bridge to hospital discharge but not delayed cholecystectomy

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 […]

A population-based analysis of the clinical course of 10,304 patients with acute cholecystitis, discharged without cholecystectomy

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 […]

Complications following total joint arthroplasty in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto (doctoral dissertation). University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: Total joint arthroplasty (TJA) is indicated in persons with end-stage […]

The association between metformin therapy and mortality following breast cancer: a population-based study

Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto (masters thesis). University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada Metformin has been associated with a reduction in breast cancer incidence, […]

The trend of prevalence of multimorbidity and needs of out-patient health care services in rural and urban areas in Klaipeda region

Health Sci 23:173-178. Published in Lithuanian. The aim of the study: to evaluate multimorbidity dynamics, and needs of out-patient health care services in rural and […]

Coût de l’ordonnance des médecins généralistes: une analyse sur les données de l’EPPM

Economie Publique :239-269. Published in French. Ministère des Affaires sociales et de la Santé, Paris, France Cet article examine de manière critique la possibilité de  […]

Diabetes, gender and neighbourhood ethnicity: inequalities in healthcare resource utilization

Canadian Journal of Diabetes 33:281. Provincial Health Services Authority, Vancouver, BC, Canada AIMS: Lower utilization of medical resources by immigrants are often observed in self-reported […]

Multimorbidity, polypharmacy, referrals, and adverse drug events: are we doing things well?

Br J Gen Pract 62:e821. Aragón Health Sciences Institute (IACS), Miguel Servet University Hospital, University of Zaragoza, Spain BACKGROUND: The consequences of multimorbidity include polypharmacy […]

The validity of claims-based risk estimation in underinsured populations

Am J Manag Care 18:e468-e476. Institute for Health and Disability Policy Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS OBJECTIVES: To demonstrate a threat to validity in […]

Early dropout from psychotherapy for depression with group- and network-model therapists

Adm Policy Ment Health 39:440-447. Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA Administrative data were used to examine early dropout among 16,451 health plan members […]

Comparative ability of comorbidity classification methods for administrative data to predict outcomes in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Ann Epidemiol 22:881-887. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada PURPOSE: Administrative healthcare databases are used for health services research, comparative effectiveness studies, and […]

Monitoring the prevalence of chronic conditions: which data should we use?

BMC Health Serv Res 12:365. Osakidetza, Basque Health Service, C/ Alava n° 45, Vitoria-Gazteiz, Spain BACKGROUND: Chronic diseases are an increasing threat to people’s health […]

Healthcare expenditure in the last year of life: the experience of South African medical schemes

Cape Town, South Africa: Actuarial Society of South Africa. School of Management Studies, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa The aim of this paper […]

Comparing measures of multimorbidity to predict outcomes in primary care: a cross sectional study

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 […]

Is patient satisfaction in primary care dependent on structural and organizational characteristics among providers? Findings based on data from the national patient survey in Sweden

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 […]

Effect of risk adjustment method on comparisons of health care utilization between complementary and alternative medicine users and nonusers

J Altern Complement Med 19:250-256. Saint Luke’s Health System, Boise, ID, USA OBJECTIVES: Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) providers are becoming more integrated into the […]

Impact of rheumatoid arthritis on recognition of hypertension in a medically homed population

Arthritis Rheum 64:S712-S713. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: Numerous studies report increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) events and others describe increased arterial stiffness in […]

Identifying frail older people using predictive modeling

Am J Manag Care 18:e392-e397. Department of Geriatric Medicine, Maccabi Healthcare Services, Tel Aviv, Israel OBJECTIVES: To determine whether a designation of frailty using the […]

How are Manitoba’s children doing?

Winnipeg, MB, Canada: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Winnipeg, MB, Canada The health and development of Manitoba’s children were examined […]

High mortality and low access to care following incident acute myocardial infarction in individuals with schizophrenia

Schizophr Res 142:52-57. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada OBJECTIVES: The primary objective of this study was to compare mortality following incident […]

Work limitations and their relationship to morbidity burden among academic health center employees with diabetes

Workplace Health Saf 60:425-434. Department of Acute and Chronic Care, John Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD, USA The objective of this study was […]

Evaluating patient adherence to antidepressant therapy among uninsured working adults diagnosed with major depression: results of the Texas Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment study

Adm Policy Ment Health 39:374-382. Addiction Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA This study examined antidepressant adherence and persistence among uninsured […]

Using the Johns Hopkins’ Aggregated Diagnosis Groups (ADGs) to predict 1-year mortality in population-based cohorts of patients with diabetes in Ontario, Canada

Diabet Med 29:1134-1141. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, University of Toronto, ON, Canada AIMS: There are limited validated methods to ascertain comorbidities for risk adjustment […]

A method for estimating cost savings for population health management programs

Health Serv Res 48:582-602. Research and Development, Johns Hopkins HealthCare LLC, Glen Burnie, MD, USA OBJECTIVE: To develop a quasi-experimental method for estimating Population Health […]

The contributions of First Nations ethnicity, income, and delays in surgery on mortality post-fracture: a population-based analysis

Osteoporos Int 24:1247-1256. Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada We examined the independent contributions of First Nations ethnicity and lower income to […]

Assessment of pharmacological strategies for management of major depressive disorder and their costs after an inadequate response to first-line antidepressant treatment in primary care

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 […]

A population-based study of healthcare resource utilization by metastatic gastric cancer patients in Ontario

Kingston, ON, Canada: Queens University (masters theseis). Queens University, Kingston, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: Gastric cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the world. Non-curative, […]

Morbidity profiles at three primary care clinics in Perlis, Malaysia

Med J Malaysia 67:363-368. Ministry of Health, Kangar Health Clinic, Jalan Kolam, Kangar, Perlis, Malaysia Allocation of funding within the Ministry of Health of Malaysia […]

Postoperative health-care utilization in Crohn’s disease: the impact of specialist care

Am J Gastroenterol 107:1522-1529. Mount Sinai Hospital Centre for Inflammatory Bowel Disease, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canad OBJECTIVES: Crohn’s disease (CD) patients frequently require […]

Licit prescription drug use in a Swedish population according to age, gender and socioeconomic status after adjusting for level of multi-morbidity

BMC Public Health 12:575. Blekinge Centre of Competence, Karlskrona, Sweden BACKGROUND: There is a great variability in licit prescription drug use in the population and […]

Costs and associated factors with optimal and suboptimal responses to the treatment of major depressive disorder

Aten Primaria 44:667-675. Published in Spanish. Dirección de Planificación, Badalona Serveis Assistencials, Barcelona, Spain OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the compliance, persistence and costs of the treatment […]

Primary care utilization and mental health diagnoses among adult patients requiring interpreters: a retrospective cohort study

J Gen Intern Med 28:386-391. Office of Women’s Health, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA BACKGROUND: Patients requiring interpreters may utilize the health care system differently […]

Predictors of 1-year change in patient activation in older adults with diabetes mellitus and heart disease

J Am Geriatr Soc 60:1316-1321. Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA OBJECTIVES: To identify patterns and predictors of 1-year change in patient activation in […]

Health reform, health insurance, and mental health care

Am J Psychiatry 169:675-677. Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Washington, DC; Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, […]

Risk adjustment in health insurance exchanges for individuals with mental illness

Am J Psychiatry 169:704-709. Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA OBJECTIVE: In 2014, an estimated […]

Direct health-care costs attributed to hip fractures among seniors: a matched cohort study

Osteoporos Int 24:659-669. Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada SUMMARY: Using a matched cohort design, we estimated the mean direct […]

Adaptive capacity of the Adjusted Clinical Groups Case-Mix System to the cost of primary healthcare in Catalonia (Spain): a observational study

BMJ Open 2:2012-000941. Directorate of Planning, Badalona Serveis Assistencials SA, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain OBJECTIVES: To describe the adaptive capacity of the Adjusted Clinical Groups (ACG) […]

Physical activity and influenza-coded outpatient visits, a population-based cohort study

PLoS One 7:e39518. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: Although the benefits of physical activity in preventing chronic medical conditions are well […]

Population based study of long-term rates of surgery for urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer

J Urol 188:502-506. Division of Urology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada PURPOSE: Urinary incontinence can be a significant complication of […]

Patient sharing among physicians and costs of care: a network analytic approach to care coordination using claims data

J Gen Intern Med 28:459-465. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA BACKGROUND: Improving care coordination is a national priority and a key […]

Developing decision trees to classify patients suited for similar interventions by combining clinical judgments with Leeds Risk Stratification Tool

London, UK: London School of Economics and Political Science. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK The objectives of the project are to […]

Pressupostos e proposta de modelo para a remuneração do trabalho do médico cirurgião nas operadoras de planos de saúde

São Paulo, Brazil: Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (doctoral dissertation). Published in Portuguese. Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Escola de Administração […]

Comparing the costs and use of services for military care in military and civilian facilities

Orlando, FL, USA: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting. NORC at the University of Chicago, Bethesda, MD, USA RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The objective is to compare the cost […]

Comparing the costs and use of services in TRICARE Prime with employer sponsored insurance

Orlando, FL, USA: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting. NORC at the University of Chicago, Bethesda, MD, USA RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The objectives are: to compare the cost […]

Primärvården som koordinator för de mest sjuka äldre – implikationer för mål och indikatorer

In: Karlsson AK, Winberg H, ed. På väg mot en värdefull styrning. LHC Report: #1, 2012. Stockholm, Sweden: Stiftelsen Leading Health Care:150-172. Published in Swedish. […]

Triumph of hope over experience: learning from interventions to reduce avoidable hospital admissions identified through an Academic Health and Social Care Network

BMC Health Serv Res 12:153. Department of Health Care Management and Policy, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK BACKGROUND: Internationally health services are facing increasing demands […]

Development and validation of a model for predicting inpatient hospitalization

Med Care 50:131-139. Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA BACKGROUND: Hospitalizations […]

A risk stratification model for adult patients with obstructive sleep apnea: development and evaluation

Toronto, ON, Canada: Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada STUDY HYPOTHESES: We hypothesize that the apnea-hypopneas index (AHI), […]

CYDL Project One summary report: experiences of Albertan youth 2008/2009

Child and Youth Data Laboratory. Edmonton, AB, Canada: Centre for Child, Family and Community Research. Site also has videos of presentations of report data. Centre […]

Analysis of Medicaid payments for American Indians and Alaska Natives

Baltimore, MD, USA: CMS Tribal Affairs Group.. CMS Tribal Affairs Group, Baltimore, MD, USA The Indian Health Service (IHS) is a discretionary federal program that […]

Building a predictive model for 30-day inpatient readmission using PROC PHREG

Presented at NESUG 2012. Baltimore, MD, USA: North East SAS User Group. Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins […]

The association between parental depression and children’s health care utilization and expenditures: exploring the dimensions of parental gender and timing of depressive symptoms

Baltimore, MD, USA: Johns Hopkins University (doctoral dissertation). Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Methods: The study used multiple […]

Empirical studies in the economics of health insurance, health, and fertility

Princeton, NJ, USA: Princeton University (doctoral dissertation) Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA This thesis is a collection of essays in the economics of health insurance, […]

Does a large-scale organizational transformation toward patient-centered access change the utilization and costs of care for patients with diabetes?

Med Care Res Rev 69:519-539. Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA The authors examined whether Group Health’s […]

The relationship between financial incentives and quality of diabetes care in Ontario, Canada

Diabetes Care 35:1038-1046. Centre for Research on Inner City Health, Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, […]

Healthcare utilization in patients with Parkinson’s disease: a population-based analysis

Parkinsonism Relat Disord 18:930-935. Movement Disorder Clinic, 200 Woodlawn Street, Winnipeg, MB, Canada PURPOSE: To investigate factors associated with healthcare utilization and prescription drug use […]

Quantifying morbidity burdens and medical utilization of children with intellectual disabilities in Taiwan: A nationwide study using the ACG case-mix adjustment system

Res Dev Disabil 33:1270-1278. Department of Medical Affairs and Planning, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC The purpose of this study was to […]

Measuring data reliability for preventive services in electronic medical records

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 […]

Des indicateurs de qualité à l’intention des professionnels et des gestionnaires des services de première ligne

Institut national d’excellence en santé et en services sociaux (INESSS). Rapport rédigé par Marie-Dominique Beaulieu, Marie‐Pascale Pomey, Brigitte Côté, Claudio Del Grande, Monia Ghorbel, Phuong […]

Clinical outcomes after bariatric surgery: a five-year matched cohort analysis in seven US states

Obes Surg 22:749-763. Center for Health Care Research and Policy, MetroHealth Medical Center/Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA BACKGROUND: Bariatric surgery is the most […]

Patient race/ethnicity and shared medical record use among diabetes patients

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 […]

Two-year trends in cancer screening among low socioeconomic status women in an HMO-based high-deductible health plan

J Gen Intern Med 27:1112-9. Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA BACKGROUND: Cancer screening is often fully covered under high-deductible health […]

Medical care costs associated with traumatic brain injury over the full spectrum of disease: a controlled population-based study

J Neurotrauma 29:2038-2049. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA Data on traumatic brain injury (TBI) economic outcomes are limited. We used Rochester Epidemiology Project (REP) resources […]

The association between usual health care utilization and stage at diagnosis in laryngeal cancer

Kingston, ON, Canada: Queen’s University (masters thesis). Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: A significant number of laryngeal cancer patients are diagnosed with advanced-stage disease. […]

Primary care physicians’ experiences with case finding for practice-based care management

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 […]

The epidemiology and outcomes of critical illness in Manitoba

Winnipeg, MB, Canada: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Winnipeg, MB, Canada This report was conducted at the Manitoba Centre for […]

Nonparticipation in a population-based trial to increase colorectal cancer screening

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 […]

Tracking family medicine graduates. Where do they go, what services do they provide and whom do they see?

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 […]

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