BMC Public Health 14:161. Primary Health Care Research Centre, Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: As people diagnosed with HIV and receiving combination antiretroviral […]

Am J Manag Care 20:eSP16-24. Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA OBJECTIVES: Medical imaging, which is expensive, is frequently repeated for the same […]

Stroke 46:108-113. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: […]

J Ambul Care Manage 26:229-242. Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Bedford VAMC, Bedford, MA, USA Although case-mix adjustment is critical for provider […]

Am J Hypertens University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA; Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System , Pittsburgh, PA, USA; University […]

Am J Manag Care 21:378-386. Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA OBJECTIVES: The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model of primary care is being […]

Alzheimers Dement 11:906-916. UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, School of Population and Public Health, Vancouver, BC, Canada BACKGROUND: Evidence indicates that early […]

Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique 62:305-314. Hôpital Jean-Verdier, Bondy, France; Université Paris, Paris Cité, Bobigny, France BACKGROUND: Multimorbidity is a consequence of both epidemiological and demographic […]

J Ambul Care Manage 21:29-52. School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA This article describes the risk-adjusted payment methodology employed by the […]

Inquiry 45:340-352. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA State high-risk insurance pools serve people denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions. With benefit plans modeled on […]

BMC Health Serv Res 10:126./p> Institute of Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan BACKGROUND: Medication claims are commonly used to […]

Aten Primaria 17:76-82. Published in Spanish. Unitat d’Investigació Centre, Institut Català de la Salut, CESCA, Barcelona, Spain No abstract PMID: 8742149

Gastroenterology 138:896-904. Section of Gastroenterology, Division of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada BACKGROUNDS and AIMS: Recent studies have shown an association between […]

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 157:219-220. Institute for Health Policy, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston, MA, USA THE VERY TITLE of the article by Forrest et […]

Health Policy 104:186-192. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada OBJECTIVE: Several innovative primary care models have recently been introduced […]

Ann Fam Med 7:104-111. National Primary Care Research and Development Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK PURPOSE: Increasing use of specialist services in the United […]

Data Strateg Benchmarks 2:25-28. “But my patients are sicker!” Health Source/CIGNA put a stop to this physician complaint by switching to quarterly physician profiles that […]

J Health Care Poor Underserved 14:420-435. Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Northern California Region, Oakland, CA, USA The objective of this study […]

Inquiry 35:223-239. Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA This study used 1992 and 1993 data from private employers to compare […]

Ambulatory Care Groups. Aten Primaria 22:128. Published in Spanish. Osakidetza Servicio Vasco de Salud, Bizkaia, Spain No abstract Comment on:[A retrospective evaluation of the behaviour […]

J Gen Intern Med 19:944-951. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA OBJECTIVE: To determine efficient ways of promoting advance directives among […]

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 […]

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 […]

J Ambul Care Manage 22:41-52. 3M Health Information Systems, Wallingford, CT, USA The Episode Classification System is intended to perform two tasks. First, it will […]

J Am Board Fam Pract 18:449-452. Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of patient characteristics and […]

J Gen Intern Med 23:536-542. Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA OBJECTIVE: Improving […]

Healthc Q 12:32-44. Hollander Analytical Services Ltd., Victoria, BC, Canada This article presents a major new finding in regard to the value for money of […]

Popul Health Manag 13:309-317. HealthMedia, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, USA The objective of this study was to determine the economic impact of the Hawaii Medical […]

Prim Care Diabetes 5:25-31. Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA AIMS: Examine potential associations between inclusion […]

Am J Manag Care 17:e410-8. Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA OBJECTIVES: To determine the […]

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 […]

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) […]

Health Aff 32:1942-1948. University of Wisconsin–Madison, WI, USA; University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, Pittsburgh, PA, USA One approach to the patient-centered medical home, particularly […]

Int J Equity Health 12:69. Center of Comparative Effectiveness Research, National Center of Excellence for Clinical Trial and Research, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei City, […]

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 […]

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; […]

Am J Manag Care 7:389-398. MEDTAP International, Bethesda, MD, USA OBJECTIVE: To examine the relation between blood pressure (BP) control and utilization and cost of […]

Ann Epidemiol 24:532-537. St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada PURPOSE: We […]

Rev Esp Salud Publica 88:251-260. Published in Spanish. Centro de Salud de Astrabudua,.Osakidetza (Servicio Vasco de Salud), Erandio. Bizkaia, Spain; Instituto Vasco de Innovación Sanitaria. […]

J Fam Pract 49:12-17. Department of Family Medicine, University of Rochester, New York, NY, USA No abstract Comment in: Interspeciality differences in medical resource utilization. […]

A historical cohort study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 190:218-225. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada; […]

Can Urol Assoc J 8:E805. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada INTRODUCTION: We assessed the urologic care patterns of traumatic spinal cord injury […]

J Orthop Trauma 29:182-188. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada OBJECTIVE: To define the rates and risk […]