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Does surgical setting or wait-time incentive improve return to work following knee surgery among injured workers?

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Evaluation of the Maryland Multi-Payor Patient Centered Medical Home Program

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Hold it – my patients are sicker! The importance of case mix adjustment to practitioner profiles in British Columbia

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Paying for primary care: the factors associated with physician self-selection into payment models

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Chapter 4: Effects of multimorbidity on healthcare resource use

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Lakartidningen: Published in Swedish. Health Department, Area Monitoring and Analysis , VästraGotaland, Sweden We describe a method, which uses already existent administrative data to identify […]

Understanding geographic variation in health care costs in British Columbia

Vancouver, BC, Canada: University of British Columbia (doctoral dissertation). University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Amidst concerns about escalating health spending, examining variation in […]

Strategies for assessing health plan performance on chronic diseases: selecting performance indicators and applying health-based risk adjustment

Hamilton, NJ, USA: Center for Health Care Strategies. University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA As Medicaid managed […]

Burden of illness in defined populations

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Risk assessment of military populations to predict health care cost and utilization

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Application of patient safety indicators in Manitoba: a first look.

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Analysis of practice variation due to payment methods across health insurance schemes

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Risk adjustment in a European primary care context: assessing the properties of Adjusted Clinical Groups (ACG) for predictive modeling, for special populations and using ATC pharmacy codes

Baltimore, MD, USA: Johns Hopkins University (doctoral dissertation). Risk adjustment has become an essential tool in modern health services research and management. Specifically, it can […]

Comprehensive care coordination for chronically ill adults

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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. […]

Adverse selection and inertia in health insurance markets: when nudging hurts

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Physician-level variation in practice patterns in the VA healthcare system

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Clinical analytics and data management for the DNP

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Using case finding and risk stratification: a key service component for personalised care and support planning

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Population profiling in Slough CCG

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Editorial: Managing costs with software. Advance for Health Information Executives

Advance Newsmagazines, King of Prussia, PA, USA More than two years ago when Dave Ford took over as CEO at CareOregon in Portland, Ore., the […]

Validation and uses of the ACG-DX predictive modeling and risk adjustment tool in an Israeli HMO

Clin Med Res 8:51-52. Maccabi Healthcare Services, Tel Aviv, Israel BACKGROUND: With an ever increasing population of HMO members with chronic disease and continuing economic […]

The additional cost of chronic disease in Manitoba

Winnipeg, MB, Canada: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Many Manitobans have a chronic disease—indeed […]

A comparative analysis of methods of health risk assessment: final report

Cambridge, MA, USA: Harvard University School of Public Health. Harvard University School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA, USA A key component of many recent proposals […]

Implementing risk assessment and risk adjustment for people with disabilities in state programs: six case studies

Washington, DC, USA: NRH Center for Health and Disability Research. NRH Center for Health & Disability Research, Washington, DC, USA As a group, people with […]

A comparative analysis of claims-based tools for health risk assessment

Schaumburg, IL, USA: Society of Actuaries. Japanese translation published by Tokyo Gakugei University. Society of Actuaries, Schaumburg, IL, USA This Society of Actuaries research project […]

Capitation payment systems – risk factor estimation

Academia Economic Papers 28:231-261. Published in Chinese. PURPOSE: To explore risk factors that can explain individual medical expenditure. SAMPLE: Subjects included in “1996 NHI Satisfaction […]

Managing the gap: evaluating the impact of Medicaid managed care on service use and disparities in health care access

Baltimore, MD, USA: University of Maryland (doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA The National Institutes of Health (NIH) define a health disparity as […]

Identifying patients with high pharmacy consumption by using the Adjusted Clinical Groups in a primary care setting

European Neuropsychopharmacology 19:S340-S341. Badalona Serveis Assistencials SA, Directorate ofPlanning, Badalona. Barcelona, Spain BACKGROUND: Prescription drug costs are rapidly increasing in most countries. The pharmaceutical expenditure […]

Plataforma de proces de dades d’atencio primaria

Barcelona, Spain: Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (masters thesis). Published in Catalan. Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain No abstract

Measuring the casemix of physician practices in primary-care reform models in Ontario, Canada

BMC Health Serv Res 11:A22. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada INTRODUCTION: A number of different blended-payment models for primary- care delivery have […]

Patients with chronic illness in the patient-centered medical home: costs, use, quality and morbidity-based variation

Seattle, WA, USA: University of Washington (doctoral dissertation). University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Originally described in 1967 as a central source of a medical […]

Evaluation of the full service family practice incentive program and the practice support program: synthesis report for work completed to June 2013

Victoria, BC, Canada: Hollander Analytical Services Ltd. This report constitutes a synthesis of findings from the evaluation of the Full Service Family Practice Incentive Program […]

Kan casemix-systemer anvendes i den danske primaersektor?

Odense, Denmark: Syddansk Universitet. Published in Danish. Syddansk University, Odense, Denmark Dette arbejdspapir er udarbejdet af Forskningsenheden for Almen Praksis (FEA) og Center for Sundhedsøkonomisk […]

Copayment level and drug switching: findings for type 2 diabetes

Am J Pharm Benefits 2:412-420. University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA OBJECTIVE: To assess the relationship between copayment level and drug switching among […]

Does increased medication use among seniors increase risk of hospitalization and emergency department visits?

Working Paper 150004. Toronto, ON, Canada: Canadian Centre for Health Economics. Canadian Centre for Health Economics, Toronto, ON, Canada Objective: to examine the extent of […]

Diagnosis and disruption: understanding guideline-consistent dementia care and patterns of transition experienced by individuals with dementia

Vancouver, BC, Canada: University of British Columbia (doctoral dissertation). University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Introduction: Early detection and management, as outlined in dementia […]

CareOregon: transforming the role of a Medicaid health plan from payer to partner

New York, NY, USA: Commonwealth Fund. Commonwealth Fund, New York, NY, USA CareOregon, a Portland, Oregon-based nonprofit Medicaid health plan, developed two innovative programs to […]

The knowledge of morbidity in primary care as an aid in the planning and management of the services

Semergen doi:10.1016/j.semerg.2009.12.003. Published in Spanish. Servicio Canario de la Salud, Santa Cruzde Tenerife, Spain The analysis of the morbidity and management of its knowledge is […]

Allocating funds for healthcare in Manitoba regional health authorities: a first step – population-based funding

Winnipeg, MB, Canada: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Dept. of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, […]

Managed care holds down costs, doesn’t hurt quality

Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 3:A13. No abstract

Risk adjustment lexicon

Reporting Framework Subcommittee of the Steering Committee of the Minnesota ACG Users Group. Revised by Chad Abrams, Terry Bernhardt, Steven Foldes, Jason Wiley, May 17, […]

Quality of care for Medicaid and privately insured children in a commercial insurance plan

Richmond, VA, USA: Virginia Commonwealth University (doctoral dissertation). Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA The central thesis of this study is that exposure to the […]

Risk adjustment in competitive health plan markets

In: Culyer AJ, Newhouse JP, ed. Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 1. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier Science B. V.:755-845. Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Boston University, Boston, […]

Equity in health, health care services use and health care financing in British Columbia, 1992 and 2002

Vancouver, BC, Canada: University of British Columbia (doctoral dissertation). University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada The objectives of this thesis are to identify equity […]

Work limitations and their relationship with morbidity burden in employed persons with diabetes

Baltimore, MD, USA: Johns Hopkins University (doctoral dissertation). Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA BACKGROUND. Work limitations are functional limitations within the work context resulting […]

The application of Johns Hopkins Adjusted Clinical Group Case-mix System in AFMS

In: Cato W, Roberts WC, ed. Proceedings of the 2011 AFMS Medical Research Symposium, Volume 4. Healthcare Informatics Track. August 2-4, 2011, National Harbor, MD, […]

Morbi-mortality and use of recourses after acute coronary syndrome in a Spanish population

Revista Clinica Espanola 211:560-571. Directorate of Planning, Badalona Serveis Assistencials SA, Badalona, Spain Morbi-mortality and use of recourses after acute coronary syndrome in a Spanish […]

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, […]

Association between use of a specialized diagnostic assessment unit and the diagnostic interval in Ontario breast cancer patients

Kingston, ON, Canada: Queen’s University (masters thesis). Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: The amount of time that it takes to get a breast cancer […]

Comorbidity and healthcare expenditure in women with osteoporosis living in the Basque Country (Spain)

J Osteoporosis Basque Institute for Healthcare Innovation, Barakaldo, Spain BACKGROUND: The aim of the study was to estimate the prevalence of depression in the population […]

Relationship between pain and quality of life – findings from the Swedish National Study on Aging and Care – Blekinge study

Scand J Pain 5:270-275. Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden; Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The influence of pain […]

MEDS-AD Waiver (MTM) Program final report

Prepared for Florida Medicaid. Tallahassee, FL, USA: College of Medicine, Florida State University. Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA This report summarizes the final findings […]

Change in functional outcomes during inpatient rehabilitation for patients with hypoxic-ischemic brain injury

Arch Phys Med Rehabil 96:e18. Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada Objective(s): To investigate determinants of change in functional outcomes during inpatient rehabilitation (IR) among […]

Performance of an ambulatory case-mix measurement in primary care in Spain: Ambulatory Care Groups (ACGs)

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ACG use in Veterans Administration in Taiwan: final report

Taipei, Taiwan: Veterans General Hospital Taipei. Published in Chinese. Department of Medical Affairs and Planning, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC The goal […]

Sex differences in health status, health care use and quality of care: a population-based analysis for Manitoba’s regional health authorities

Winnipeg, MB, Canada: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, […]

A comparison of alternative approaches to risk measurement

Final report, grant number 93-G07, Physician Payment Review Commission. Minneapolis, MN, USA: Park Nicollet Medical Foundation. Park Nicollet Medical Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, USA Under health […]

ACGs: ambulatory care groupings for case-mix categorization

Final report for grant #HS05505, National Center for Health Care Research/Health Care Technology Assessment. Baltimore, MD, USA: Johns Hopkins University. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, […]

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 […]

A study of population needs-based funding applied to health care and physician services in British Colulmbia

Vancouver, BC, Canada: University of British Columbia (masters thesis). University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada The BC Ministry of Health has developed a Population […]

Evaluation of the Medicaid Value Program: health supports for consumers with chronic conditions

Hamilton, NJ, USA: Center for Health Care Strategies. Center for Health Care Strategies, Hamilton, NJ, USA The Center for Health Care Strategies’ (CHCS) Medicaid Value […]

Chapter 5: Antihypertensive adherence and drug class among Asian Pacific Americans

In: Bateman WB – Abesamis-Mendoza J – Ho-Asjoe H – ed. Praeger handbook of Asian-American health: taking notice and taking action. Santa Barbara CA USA: […]

Adherence with lipid-lowering, antihypertensive, and diabetes medications

Am J Pharm Benefits 3:165-171. Hawaii Medical Service Association, Honolulu, HI, USA OBJECTIVES: To investigate the combinations of medications patients were taking, the study examined […]

Adaptation of the categories Johns-Hopkins ACG Case-Mix System in primary healthcare: a longitudinal, retrospective claim database study

WebmedCentral ECONOMICS OF MEDICINE 2:WMC001657. Directorate of Planning, Badalona Serveis Assistencials SA, Badalona, Spain BACKGROUND: To determine the adaptation capacitating of categories case-mix adjustment (Adjusted […]

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 […]

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