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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 30-Day risk-standardized mortality and readmission rates after ischemic stroke in critical access hospitals. 
  • 30-day mortality and readmission after hemorrhagic stroke among Medicare beneficiaries in Joint Commission primary stroke center-certified and noncertified hospitals. 
  • A Positive Association Between Hospice Profit Margin And The Rate At Which Patients Are Discharged Before Death. 
  • A cautious path forward on accountable care organizations. 
  • A comparison of the Charlson comorbidity index derived from medical record data and administrative billing data. 
  • A comparison of the case-control and case-crossover designs for estimating medical costs of nonfatal fall-related injuries among older Americans. 
  • A decade of change in abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in the United States: Have we improved outcomes equally between men and women? 
  • A decision exercise to engage cancer patients and families in deliberation about Medicare coverage for advanced cancer care. 
  • A letter from America. 
  • A method for adjusting capitation payments to managed care plans using multivariate patterns of health and functioning: the experience of Social/Health Maintenance Organizations. 
  • A multidimensional approach to case mix for home health services. 
  • A multivariate analysis of factors associated with depression: evaluating the role of health literacy as a potential contributor. 
  • A multivariate approach for classifying hospitals and computing blended payment rates. 
  • A new era for cardiovascular imaging? Implications of the revoked national coverage decision for CT angiography on future imaging reimbursement. 
  • A practical plan for medical direction of nursing homes. 
  • A response to representatives from the social HMOs regarding program evaluation. 
  • A taxonomy for disease management: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Disease Management Taxonomy Writing Group. 
  • A theoretically based Behavioral Nutrition Intervention for Community Elders at high risk: the B-NICE randomized controlled clinical trial. 
  • Access to health care services for the disabled elderly. 
  • Access to health care services for the disabled elderly. 
  • Accountable care organizations and evidence-based payment reform. 
  • Adherence and persistence in the use of warfarin after hospital discharge among patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation. 
  • Admission rates and costs associated with emergency presentation of urolithiasis: analysis of the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample 2006-2009. 
  • Admission, discharge, or change in B-type natriuretic peptide and long-term outcomes: data from Organized Program to Initiate Lifesaving Treatment in Hospitalized Patients with Heart Failure (OPTIMIZE-HF) linked to Medicare claims. 
  • Advance care planning in Medicare: an early look at the impact of new reimbursement on billing and clinical practice. 
  • Advanced imaging and hospice use in end-of-life cancer care. 
  • Adverse events after pars plana vitrectomy among medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Age patterns of incidence of geriatric disease in the U.S. elderly population: Medicare-based analysis. 
  • An analysis of the heterogeneity of U.S. nursing home patients. 
  • An economic analysis of an aggressive diagnostic strategy with single photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging and early exercise stress testing in emergency department patients who present with chest pain but nondiagnostic electrocardiograms: results from a randomized trial. 
  • An examination of Alzheimer's disease case definitions using Medicare claims and survey data. 
  • Anti-VEGF treatment patterns for neovascular age-related macular degeneration among medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Applying the resource-based relative value scale to the Emory angioplasty versus surgery trial. 
  • Appropriate baseline laboratory testing following ACEI or ARB initiation by Medicare FFS beneficiaries. 
  • Are PRO discharge screens associated with postdischarge adverse outcomes? 
  • Are Small Reimbursement Changes Enough to Change Cancer Care? Reimbursement Variation in Prostate Cancer Treatment. 
  • Are for-profit hospital conversions harmful to patients and to Medicare? 
  • Are preferences for equity over efficiency in health care allocation "all or nothing"? 
  • Are we targeting the right metric for heart failure? Comparison of hospital 30-day readmission rates and total episode of care inpatient days. 
  • Aspirin in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction in elderly Medicare beneficiaries. Patterns of use and outcomes. 
  • Assessing Colorectal Cancer Screening Adherence of Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries Age 76 to 95 Years. 
  • Assessment of Home-Time After Acute Ischemic Stroke in Medicare Beneficiaries. 
  • Assessment of left ventricular function in older Medicare beneficiaries with newly diagnosed heart failure. 
  • Assessment of pictographs developed through a participatory design process using an online survey tool. 
  • Association Between Comorbidities and Outcomes in Heart Failure Patients With and Without an Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator for Primary Prevention. 
  • Association Between Use of the 21-Gene Recurrence Score Assay and Receipt of Chemotherapy Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Early-Stage Breast Cancer, 2005-2009. 
  • Association between endoscopic vs open vein-graft harvesting and mortality, wound complications, and cardiovascular events in patients undergoing CABG surgery. 
  • Association between physician characteristics and the use of 21-gene recurrence score genomic testing among Medicare beneficiaries with early-stage breast cancer, 2008-2011. 
  • Association between prophylactic implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and survival in patients with left ventricular ejection fraction between 30% and 35%. 
  • Association of Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Program Participation and Clinical Outcomes for Medicare Beneficiaries With Ischemic Stroke. 
  • Association of Nondisease-Specific Problems with Mortality, Long-Term Care, and Functional Impairment among Older Adults Who Require Skilled Nursing Care after Dialysis Initiation. 
  • Association of Practice-Level Hospital Use With End-of-Life Outcomes, Readmission, and Weekend Hospitalization Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Cancer. 
  • Association of Reduced eGFR and Albuminuria with Serious Fall Injuries among Older Adults. 
  • Association of early physician follow-up and 30-day readmission after non-ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction among older patients. 
  • Association of insurance status with inpatient treatment for coronary artery disease: findings from the Get With the Guidelines program. 
  • Association of vitamin D deficiency and age-related macular degeneration in medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Associations between aldosterone antagonist therapy and risks of mortality and readmission among patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction. 
  • Associations between atrial fibrillation and early outcomes of patients with heart failure and reduced or preserved ejection fraction. 
  • Associations between published quality ratings of skilled nursing facilities and outcomes of medicare beneficiaries with heart failure. 
  • Associations between use of the hospitalist model and quality of care and outcomes of older patients hospitalized for heart failure. 
  • Associations between worsening renal function and 30-day outcomes among Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized with heart failure. 
  • Associations of cancer and other chronic medical conditions with SF-6D preference-based scores in Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Associations of patient demographic characteristics and regional physician density with early physician follow-up among medicare beneficiaries hospitalized with heart failure. 
  • Atrial fibrillation among Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized with sepsis: incidence and risk factors. 
  • Beta-binomial regression and bimodal utilization. 
  • Blood Pressure, Antihypertensive Polypharmacy, Frailty, and Risk for Serious Fall Injuries Among Older Treated Adults With Hypertension. 
  • Bundle Up for Value-Based Heart Failure Care. 
  • Cancer treatment cost in the United States: has the burden shifted over time? 
  • Cancer, comorbidities, and health-related quality of life of older adults. 
  • Capitalizing on prescribing pattern variation to compare medications for type 2 diabetes. 
  • Cardiac biomarker measurement after elective percutaneous coronary interventions in older patients: insights from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Cardiovascular comorbidities and survival of lung cancer patients: Medicare data based analysis. 
  • Cardiovascular research in the elderly: challenges, opportunities, and impact. 
  • Cardiovascular risk profile earlier in life and Medicare costs in the last year of life. 
  • Care Transitions After Acute Myocardial Infarction for Transferred-In Versus Direct-Arrival Patients. 
  • Care recipient agreeableness is associated with caregiver subjective physical health status. 
  • Case mix controlled service use and expenditures in the social/health maintenance organization demonstration. 
  • Catastrophic acute and long-term care costs: risks faced by disabled elderly persons. 
  • Causal effects of time-dependent treatments in older patients with non-small cell lung cancer. 
  • Causes of the change in the rates of mortality and severe complications of diabetes mellitus: 1992-2012. 
  • Centers for medicare and medicaid services medicare data and stroke research: goldmine or landmine? 
  • Certificate of Need (CON) for cardiac care: controversy over the contributions of CON. 
  • Cervical Myelopathy Doubles the Rate of Dislocation and Fracture After Total Hip Arthroplasty. 
  • Challenges in comparing risk-adjusted bypass surgery mortality results: results from the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project. 
  • Challenges in merging Medicaid and Medicare databases to obtain healthcare costs for dual-eligible beneficiaries: using diabetes as an example. 
  • Change in chronic disability from 1982 to 2004/2005 as measured by long-term changes in function and health in the U.S. elderly population. 
  • Changes in functional status among persons over age sixty-five undergoing total knee arthroplasty. 
  • Changes in health service use and mortality among U.S. elderly in 1980-1986. 
  • Changes in initial treatment for prostate cancer among Medicare beneficiaries, 1999-2007. 
  • Changes in mortality after myocardial revascularization in the elderly. The national Medicare experience. 
  • Changes in the use and costs of diagnostic imaging among Medicare beneficiaries with cancer, 1999-2006. 
  • Characterization of Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonist Therapy Initiation in High-Risk Patients With Heart Failure. 
  • Characterizing hospice discharge patterns in a nationally representative sample of the elderly, 1993-2000. 
  • Charges for outpatient rehabilitation: growth and differences in provider types. 
  • Chemoradiotherapy before and after surgery for locally advanced esophageal cancer: a SEER-Medicare analysis. 
  • Chronic disability trends in elderly United States populations: 1982-1994. 
  • Cigarette smoking and health-related quality of life in Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Clinical Effectiveness of Statin Therapy After Ischemic Stroke: Primary Results From the Statin Therapeutic Area of the Patient-Centered Research Into Outcomes Stroke Patients Prefer and Effectiveness Research (PROSPER) Study. 
  • Clinical correlates of the initial and long-term cost of coronary bypass surgery and coronary angioplasty. 
  • Clinical effectiveness of coronary stents in elderly persons: results from 262,700 Medicare patients in the American College of Cardiology-National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Clinical effectiveness of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators among medicare beneficiaries with heart failure. 
  • Combined use of warfarin and oral P2Y12 inhibitors in patients with atrial fibrillation and acute coronary syndrome. 
  • Comparative Effectiveness of CRT-D Versus Defibrillator Alone in HF Patients With Moderate-to-Severe Chronic Kidney Disease. 
  • Comparative Effectiveness of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Among Patients With Heart Failure and Atrial Fibrillation: Findings From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry's Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Registry. 
  • Comparative cardiovascular safety of dementia medications: a cross-national study. 
  • Comparative effectiveness of drug-eluting stents on long-term outcomes in elderly patients treated for in-stent restenosis: a report from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Comparing mortality and time until death for medicare HMO and FFS beneficiaries. 
  • Comparing the use of diagnostic imaging and receipt of carotid endarterectomy in elderly black and white stroke patients. 
  • Comparison of 30-day mortality models for profiling hospital performance in acute ischemic stroke with vs without adjustment for stroke severity. 
  • Comparison of Postoperative Complications Following Metal-on-Metal Total Hip Arthroplasty With Other Hip Bearings in Medicare Population. 
  • Comparison of breast cancer risk in women with and without systemic lupus erythematosus in a Medicare population. 
  • Comparison of cardiac surgery volumes and mortality rates between the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and Medicare databases from 1993 through 2001. 
  • Complications Are Not Increased With Acetabular Revision of Metal-on-metal Total Hip Arthroplasty. 
  • Computer-Navigated Total Knee Arthroplasty Utilization. 
  • Concerns for the reliability and validity of the National Stroke Project Stroke Severity Scale. 
  • Contraindications to anticoagulation therapy and eligibility for novel anticoagulants in older patients with atrial fibrillation. 
  • Controlling risk in capitation payment. Multivariate definitions of risk groups. 
  • Cost analysis of periprocedural imaging in patients undergoing catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation. 
  • Cost effectiveness analysis of hemiarthroplasty and total shoulder arthroplasty. 
  • Cost efficiency of anticoagulation with warfarin to prevent stroke in medicare beneficiaries with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation. 
  • Cost of Bleeding-related Episodes in Adult Patients With Primary Immune Thrombocytopenia: A Population-based Retrospective Cohort Study of Administrative Claims Data for Commercial Payers in the United States. 
  • Cost offsets to medicare attributable to receipt of hip, knee, and shoulder arthroplasty. 
  • Cost, utilization, and policy of provision of assistive technology devices to veterans poststroke by Medicare and VA. 
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis of continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices as destination therapy. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of revascularization strategies: the ASCERT study. 
  • Cost-sharing requirements and access to mental health care among medicare enrollees with schizophrenia. 
  • Costs Associated With Access Site and Same-Day Discharge Among Medicare Beneficiaries Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: An Evaluation of the Current Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Care Pathways in the United States. 
  • Costs and outcomes of hip fracture and stroke, 1984 to 1994. 
  • Costs for heart failure with normal vs reduced ejection fraction. 
  • Costs of inpatient care among Medicare beneficiaries with heart failure, 2001 to 2004. 
  • Costs of the metabolic syndrome in elderly individuals: findings from the Cardiovascular Health Study. 
  • Costs, effectiveness, and workload impact of management strategies for women with an adnexal mass. 
  • Coverage with evidence development for Medicare beneficiaries: challenges and next steps. 
  • Criterion validity of Medicare chemotherapy claims in Cancer and Leukemia Group B breast and lung cancer trial participants. 
  • Current Evidence Does Not Support Medicare's 3-Day Rule in Primary Total Joint Arthroplasty. 
  • Dabigatran Compared With Rivaroxaban vs Warfarin. 
  • De novo congestive heart failure after kidney transplantation: a common condition with poor prognostic implications. 
  • Death service ratio: a measure of hospice utilization and cost impact. 
  • Defining care provided for breast cancer based on medical record review or Medicare claims: information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Patterns of Care Study. 
  • Dementia and Medicare at life's end. 
  • Design and rationale of a retrospective clinical effectiveness study of aldosterone antagonist therapy in patients with heart failure. 
  • Development and validation of a risk model for in-hospital worsening heart failure from the Acute Decompensated Heart Failure National Registry (ADHERE). 
  • Development of a clinical registry-based 30-day readmission measure for coronary artery bypass grafting surgery. 
  • Differences in Hospital Readmission Risk across All Payer Groups in South Carolina. 
  • Differences in Short- and Long-Term Outcomes Among Older Patients With ST-Elevation Versus Non-ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction With Angiographically Proven Coronary Artery Disease. 
  • Differences in health care use and outcomes by the timing of in-hospital worsening heart failure. 
  • Digoxin initiation is associated with lower risk of all-cause readmission after hospitalisation for heart failure. 
  • Direct medical costs and resource use for treating central and branch retinal vein occlusion in commercially insured working-age and Medicare populations. 
  • Disability and health care costs in the Medicare population. 
  • Discharge to a skilled nursing facility and subsequent clinical outcomes among older patients hospitalized for heart failure. 
  • Distance as a barrier to using a fitness-program benefit for managed Medicare enrollees. 
  • Do Veterans Health Administration Enrollees Generalize to Other Populations? 
  • Do heart failure disease management programs make financial sense under a bundled payment system? 
  • Docetaxel chemotherapy in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: cost of care in Medicare and commercial populations. 
  • Does Medicaid pay more to a program of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) than for fee-for-service long-term care? 
  • Does economic theory justify changing policy that works? 
  • Does removing certificate-of-need regulations lead to a surge in health care spending? 
  • Does the ownership of the admitting hospital make a difference? Outcomes and process of care of Medicare beneficiaries admitted with acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Dual Diagnosis and Total Hip Arthroplasty. 
  • Duration to Admission and Hospital Transfers Affect Facility Rankings from the Postacute 30-Day Rehospitalization Quality Measure. 
  • Early and Long-term Outcomes of Older Adults after Acute Care Encounters for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation. 
  • Early experiences with accountable care in Medicaid: special challenges, big opportunities. 
  • Early intravenous heart failure therapy and outcomes among older patients hospitalized for acute decompensated heart failure: findings from the Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Registry Emergency Module (ADHERE-EM). 
  • Early supportive medication use and end-of-life care among Medicare beneficiaries with advanced breast cancer. 
  • Economic analysis of the Assessment of the Safety and Efficacy of a New Thrombolytic Regimen (ASSENT-3) study: costs of reperfusion strategies in acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Economic effects of beta-blocker therapy in patients with heart failure. 
  • Economic evaluation of access to musculoskeletal care: the case of waiting for total knee arthroplasty. 
  • Economic evaluation of breast cancer treatment: considering the value of patient choice. 
  • Economic implications of the prophylactic use of intraaortic balloon counterpulsation in the setting of acute myocardial infarction. The Randomized IABP Study Group. Intraaortic Balloon Pump. 
  • Effect of Alzheimer disease on the cost of treating other diseases. 
  • Effect of Prior Anti-VEGF Injections on the Risk of Retained Lens Fragments and Endophthalmitis after Cataract Surgery in the Elderly. 
  • Effect of cuts in Medicare reimbursement on process and outcome of care for acute myocardial infarction patients. 
  • Effect of diabetes mellitus on giant cell arteritis. 
  • Effect of hospital use of oral nutritional supplementation on length of stay, hospital cost, and 30-day readmissions among Medicare patients with COPD. 
  • Effect of insurance and racial disparities on outcomes in traumatic brain injury. 
  • Effect of physician perspective on allocation of Medicare resources for patients with advanced cancer. 
  • Effect of race and ethnicity on outcomes with drug-eluting and bare metal stents: results in 423 965 patients in the linked National Cardiovascular Data Registry and centers for Medicare & Medicaid services payer databases. 
  • Effectiveness and Safety of Aldosterone Antagonist Therapy Use Among Older Patients With Reduced Ejection Fraction After Acute Myocardial Infarction. 
  • Effects of Acute-Postacute Continuity on Community Discharge and 30-Day Rehospitalization Following Inpatient Rehabilitation. 
  • Effects of admission to a teaching hospital on the cost and quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Effects of diagnosed dementia on Medicare and Medicaid program costs. 
  • Emergency room and inpatient use after cardiac pacemaker implantation. 
  • Enhancing case ascertainment of Parkinson's disease using Medicare claims data in a population-based cohort: the Cardiovascular Health Study. 
  • Essentials of prescribing in the era of the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act. 
  • Estimates of state-level health-care expenditures associated with disability. 
  • Estimating potential for savings for low risk endometrial cancer using the Endometrial Cancer Alternative Payment Model (ECAP): A companion paper to the Society of Gynecologic Oncology Report on the Endometrial Cancer Alternative Payment Model. 
  • Estimating the Societal Benefits of THA After Accounting for Work Status and Productivity: A Markov Model Approach. 
  • Estimation and validation of a multiattribute model of Alzheimer disease progression. 
  • Evaluating long-term care demonstrations in real time with study design and plan performance interactions. 
  • Evidence-based therapies and mortality in patients hospitalized in December with acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Exploring variation in care: alternative conceptual models. 
  • External validity of the cardiovascular health study: a comparison with the Medicare population. 
  • Factors that influence the presence of a hospice in a rural community. 
  • Failure of Medicare health maintenance organizations to control the cost of colon resections in elderly patients. 
  • Falling into the doughnut hole: drug spending among beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease under Medicare Part D plans. 
  • Few Disparities in Baseline Laboratory Testing After the Diuretic or Digoxin Initiation by Medicare Fee-For-Service Beneficiaries. 
  • Field methods in medical record abstraction: assessing the properties of comparative effectiveness estimates. 
  • Financial Toxicity of Cancer Care: It's Time to Intervene. 
  • Follow-up of patients with new cardiovascular implantable electronic devices: are experts' recommendations implemented in routine clinical practice? 
  • Follow-up of patients with new cardiovascular implantable electronic devices: is adherence to the experts' recommendations associated with improved outcomes? 
  • Forecasting the nursing home population. 
  • Fracture Reduction Affects Medicare Economics (FRAME): impact of increased osteoporosis diagnosis and treatment. 
  • Frailty predicts some but not all adverse outcomes in older adults discharged from the emergency department. 
  • Frequency and predictors of adverse health outcomes in older Medicare beneficiaries discharged from the emergency department. 
  • Frequency of Disparities in Laboratory Testing After Statin Initiation in Subjects ≥65 Years. 
  • Gaps in receipt of regular eye examinations among medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with diabetes or chronic eye diseases. 
  • Gender trends in the repair of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms and outcomes. 
  • Generalizability and longitudinal outcomes of a national heart failure clinical registry: Comparison of Acute Decompensated Heart Failure National Registry (ADHERE) and non-ADHERE Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Generalizability of trial results to elderly Medicare patients with advanced solid tumors (Alliance 70802). 
  • Geographic variation in carotid revascularization among Medicare beneficiaries, 2003-2006. 
  • Geographic variation in one-year recurrent ischemic stroke rates for elderly Medicare beneficiaries in the USA. 
  • Geographic variation in the use of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation among Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Geriatric home health care. Conceptual and demographic considerations. 
  • Get With The Guidelines program participation, process of care, and outcome for Medicare patients hospitalized with heart failure. 
  • Glaucoma, Alzheimer disease and other dementia: a longitudinal analysis. 
  • Gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist overuse: urologists' response to reimbursement and characteristics associated with persistent overuse. 
  • Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor use and medical costs after initial adjuvant chemotherapy in older patients with early-stage breast cancer. 
  • Has Public Reporting of Hospital Readmission Rates Affected Patient Outcomes?: Analysis of Medicare Claims Data. 
  • Health Care Tax Inversions--Robbing Both Peter and Paul. 
  • Health care use and costs associated with use of a health club membership benefit in older adults with diabetes. 
  • Health insurance and mammography: would a Medicare buy-in take us to universal screening? 
  • Health plan enrollment and mortality in the Medicare program. 
  • Health-related quality of life and health service use among older adults with osteoarthritis. 
  • Healthcare cost differences with participation in a community-based group physical activity benefit for medicare managed care health plan members. 
  • Hearing and vision care for older adults: sensing a need to update Medicare policy. 
  • High mortality risks after major lower extremity amputation in Medicare patients with peripheral artery disease. 
  • Home health and skilled nursing facility use: 1982-90. 
  • Home health care and patterns of subsequent VA and medicare health care utilization for veterans. 
  • Hospital ownership and cost and quality of care: is there a dime's worth of difference? 
  • Hospital readmission among older adults who return home with unmet need for ADL disability. 
  • Hospital readmissions in decompensated cirrhotics: Factors pointing toward a prevention strategy. 
  • Hospital readmissions reduction program. 
  • Hospital-Based Palliative Care with Medicare Claims: Evidence From Colorado. 
  • Hospital-level variation in mortality and rehospitalization for medicare beneficiaries with acute ischemic stroke. 
  • Hospitalization in the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE): rates, concomitants, and predictors. 
  • How Do Previous Solid Organ Transplant Recipients Fare After Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty? 
  • How much do persons with Alzheimer's disease cost Medicare? 
  • How state-funded home care programs respond to changes in Medicare home health care: resource allocation decisions on the front line. 
  • Identification of dementia: agreement among national survey data, medicare claims, and death certificates. 
  • Identifying Patterns of Multimorbidity in Older Americans: Application of Latent Class Analysis. 
  • Identifying high-quality hospitals: consult the ratings or flip a coin? 
  • Impact of Increasing Age on Outcomes of Spinal Fusion in Adult Idiopathic Scoliosis. 
  • Impact of Insurance Provider on Overall Costs in Failed Back Surgery Syndrome: A Cost Study of 122,827 Patients. 
  • Impact of Insurance Status on Outcomes and Use of Rehabilitation Services in Acute Ischemic Stroke: Findings From Get With The Guidelines-Stroke. 
  • Impact of Medicare coverage on disparities in access to simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplantation. 
  • Impact of Postdischarge Follow-Up Care on Medicare Expenditures: Does Rural Make a Difference? 
  • Impact of a managed-Medicare physical activity benefit on health care utilization and costs in older adults with diabetes. 
  • Impact of cancer on health-related quality of life of older Americans. 
  • Impact of case type, length of stay, institution type, and comorbidities on Medicare diagnosis-related group reimbursement for adult spinal deformity surgery. 
  • Impact of cost valuation on cost-effectiveness in adult spine deformity surgery. 
  • Impact of early discharge after coronary artery bypass graft surgery on rates of hospital readmission and death. The Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) Patient Outcomes Research Team (PORT) Investigators. 
  • Impact of immortal person-time and time scale in comparative effectiveness research for medical devices: a case for implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. 
  • Impact of insurance type on survivor-focused and general preventive health care utilization in adult survivors of childhood cancer: the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS). 
  • Impact of managed care on the treatment, costs, and outcomes of fee-for-service Medicare patients with acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Use Among Medicare Patients With Low Ejection Fraction After Acute Myocardial Infarction. 
  • Implementing MACRA: Implications for Physicians and for Physician Leadership. 
  • Improving Congestive Heart Failure Care with a Clinical Decision Unit. 
  • Improving aneurysm-related outcomes: nationwide benefits of endovascular repair. 
  • In-hospital worsening heart failure and associations with mortality, readmission, and healthcare utilization. 
  • Incidence and prevalence of atrial fibrillation and associated mortality among Medicare beneficiaries, 1993-2007. 
  • Incidence of nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy: increased risk among diabetic patients. 
  • Incidence of perioperative medical complications and mortality among elderly patients undergoing surgery for spinal deformity: analysis of 3519 patients. 
  • Increasing rates of cardiac device infections among Medicare beneficiaries: 1990-1999. 
  • Incremental value of clinical data beyond claims data in predicting 30-day outcomes after heart failure hospitalization. 
  • Individual, Area, and Provider Characteristics Associated With Care Received for Stages I to III Breast Cancer in a Multistate Region of Appalachia. 
  • Informal care and Medicare expenditures: testing for heterogeneous treatment effects. 
  • Initial Trends in the Use of the 21-Gene Recurrence Score Assay for Patients With Breast Cancer in the Medicare Population, 2005-2009. 
  • Inpatient Rehabilitation Outcomes in a National Sample of Medicare Beneficiaries With Hip Fracture. 
  • Insurance coverage and care of patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Insurance status and outcome after intracerebral hemorrhage: findings from Get With The Guidelines-stroke. 
  • Insurance status and race affect treatment and outcome of traumatic brain injury. 
  • Insurance status is associated with acuity of presentation and outcomes for thoracic aortic operations. 
  • Insurance status predicts acuity of thoracic aortic operations. 
  • Intensity-modulated radiation therapy, proton therapy, or conformal radiation therapy and morbidity and disease control in localized prostate cancer. 
  • Introducing Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Therapies for AMD Did Not Raise Risk of Myocardial Infarction, Stroke, and Death. 
  • Investigation of Racial Disparities in Early Supportive Medication Use and End-of-Life Care Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Stage IV Breast Cancer. 
  • Is Metal-On-Metal Total Hip Arthroplasty Associated With Neurotoxicity? 
  • Is Risk-Standardized In-Hospital Stroke Mortality an Adequate Proxy for Risk-Standardized 30-Day Stroke Mortality Data? Findings From Get With The Guidelines-Stroke. 
  • Is a home-care network necessary to access the Medicare hospice benefit? 
  • Is it my cancer or am i just getting older?: Impact of cancer on age-related health conditions of older cancer survivors. 
  • Is the APOE epsilon4 genotype associated with higher hospital costs among elderly patients? 
  • Is there empirical evidence for "Defensive Medicine"? A reassessment. 
  • Ischemia-driven revascularization: demonstrating and delivering a mature procedure in a mature way. 
  • Keratoconus in the Medicare population. 
  • Left ventricular ejection fraction test rates for Medicare beneficiaries with heart failure. 
  • Life transitions and health insurance coverage of the near elderly. 
  • Linkage of Laboratory Results to Medicare Fee-for-Service Claims. 
  • Linking dementia research to policy: an example using fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's dementia and mild cognitive impairment. 
  • Linking inpatient clinical registry data to Medicare claims data using indirect identifiers. 
  • Linking the National Cardiovascular Data Registry CathPCI Registry with Medicare claims data: validation of a longitudinal cohort of elderly patients undergoing cardiac catheterization. 
  • Long-Term Clinical Outcomes of Silzone Era St. Jude Medical Mechanical Heart Valves. 
  • Long-Term Outcomes Among Elderly Survivors of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. 
  • Long-term clinical and economic analysis of the Endeavor drug-eluting stent versus the Driver bare-metal stent: 4-year results from the ENDEAVOR II trial (Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of the Medtronic AVE ABT-578 Eluting Driver Coronary Stent in De Novo Native Coronary Artery Lesions). 
  • Long-term clinical and economic analysis of the Endeavor zotarolimus-eluting stent versus the cypher sirolimus-eluting stent: 3-year results from the ENDEAVOR III trial (Randomized Controlled Trial of the Medtronic Endeavor Drug [ABT-578] Eluting Coronary Stent System Versus the Cypher Sirolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent System in De Novo Native Coronary Artery Lesions). 
  • Long-term costs and resource use in elderly participants with congestive heart failure in the Cardiovascular Health Study. 
  • Long-term economic outcomes associated with intensive versus moderate lipid-lowering therapy in coronary artery disease: results from the Treating to New Targets (TNT) Trial. 
  • Long-term outcomes and costs of ventricular assist devices among Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Long-term outcomes of analogue insulin compared with NPH for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. 
  • Long-term outcomes of medicare beneficiaries with worsening renal function during hospitalization for heart failure. 
  • Long-term safety and effectiveness of mechanical versus biologic aortic valve prostheses in older patients: results from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery National Database. 
  • Longer term effects of total knee arthroplasty from a national longitudinal study. 
  • Longitudinal Follow-up of Lung Cancer Resection From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database in Patients 65 Years and Older. 
  • Longitudinal incidence of adverse outcomes of age-related macular degeneration. 
  • Longitudinal prevalence of major eye diseases. 
  • Longitudinal rates of annual eye examinations of persons with diabetes and chronic eye diseases. 
  • Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol level and statin use among Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes mellitus. 
  • MDS coordinator relationships and nursing home care processes. 
  • Management of newly treated diabetes in Medicare beneficiaries with and without heart failure. 
  • Management of patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation: report of a NAMDRC consensus conference. 
  • Marked increase in Alzheimer's disease identified in medicare claims records between 1991 and 1999. 
  • Measuring clinically significant chemotherapy-related toxicities using Medicare claims from Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) trial participants. 
  • Measuring disease-free survival and cancer relapse using Medicare claims from CALGB breast cancer trial participants (companion to 9344). 
  • Measuring hospital mortality rates: are 30-day data enough? Ischemic Heart Disease Patient Outcomes Research Team. 
  • Medical cost trajectories and onsets of cancer and noncancer diseases in US elderly population. 
  • Medicare HMO penetration and mortality outcomes of ischemic stroke. 
  • Medicare and cost-effectiveness analysis. 
  • Medicare as insurance innovator: the case of hospice. 
  • Medicare beneficiaries and free prescription drug samples: a national survey. 
  • Medicare claims indicators of healthcare utilization differences after hospitalization for ischemic stroke: Race, gender, and caregiving effects. 
  • Medicare cost effects of recent U.S. disability trends in the elderly: future implications. 
  • Medicare costs and surgeon supply in hospital service areas. 
  • Medicare data transparency may confuse consumers comparing hospitals for total joint arthroplasty. 
  • Medicare managed care enrollment by disability-eligible and age-eligible veterans. 
  • Medicare pricing mechanisms for physician services: an overview of alternative approaches. 
  • Medicare utilization, screening, and costs among participants in the Southeastern Diabetes Initiative: A population-based evaluation. 
  • Medicare's 3-Day Rule: Time for a Rethink. 
  • Medication Nonadherence After Lung Transplantation in Adult Recipients. 
  • Metaanalysis and review of heart failure disease management randomized controlled clinical trials. 
  • Microsurgery costs and outcome. 
  • Midlife Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Incident Cancer, and Survival After Cancer in Men: The Cooper Center Longitudinal Study. 
  • Minding the gap between efforts to reduce readmissions and disparities. 
  • Modeling the Potential Economic Impact of the Medicare Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Episode-Based Payment Model. 
  • Monitoring visual status: why patients do or do not comply with practice guidelines. 
  • Morbidity risks among older adults with pre-existing age-related diseases. 
  • More Value From Payment Reform in Health Care and Biomedical Innovation. 
  • Mortality of patients after radical prostatectomy: analysis of recent Medicare claims. 
  • Motor and Cognitive Functional Status Are Associated with 30-day Unplanned Rehospitalization Following Post-Acute Care in Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries. 
  • Moving Beyond the Walls of the Clinic: Opportunities and Challenges to the Future of Telehealth in Heart Failure. 
  • Ménière's Disease: A CHEER Database Study of Local and Regional Patient Encounter and Procedure Patterns. 
  • National outcomes of cataract extraction. Retinal detachment and endophthalmitis after outpatient cataract surgery. Cataract Patient Outcomes Research Team. 
  • National patterns in intensity and frequency of outpatient care for apparent treatment-resistant hypertension. 
  • National trends in the repair of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms. 
  • Need for eye care among older adults with diabetes mellitus in fee-for-service and managed Medicare. 
  • Nonfinancial incentives for quality: a policy statement from the American Heart Association. 
  • Nonoperative care to manage the sacroiliac joint. 
  • Normal coronary rates for elective angiography in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System: insights from the VA CART program (veterans affairs clinical assessment reporting and tracking). 
  • Outcomes According to Cardiac Catheterization Referral and Clopidogrel Use Among Medicare Patients With Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Discharged Without In-hospital Revascularization. 
  • Outcomes Associated With Extraction Versus Capping and Abandoning Pacing and Defibrillator Leads. 
  • Outcomes associated with warfarin use in older patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation and a cardiovascular implantable electronic device: findings from the ADHERE registry linked to Medicare claims. 
  • Outcomes in heart failure patients after major noncardiac surgery. 
  • Outcomes in patients with heart failure with preserved, borderline, and reduced ejection fraction in the Medicare population. 
  • Outcomes of Medicare beneficiaries undergoing catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation. 
  • Outcomes of percutaneous and paddle lead implantation for spinal cord stimulation: a comparative analysis of complications, reoperation rates, and health-care costs. 
  • Palliative care and the search for value in health reform. 
  • Patient satisfaction and use of Veterans Affairs versus non-Veterans Affairs healthcare services by veterans. 
  • Patterns and predictors of stress testing modality after percutaneous coronary stenting: data from the NCDR(®). 
  • Patterns of care for clinically distinct segments of high cost Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Patterns of care in older patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: a surveillance, epidemiology, and end results-medicare analysis. 
  • Patterns of stress testing and diagnostic catheterization after coronary stenting in 250 350 medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Pay-for-performance: toxic to quality? Insights from behavioral economics. 
  • Payment source, quality of care, and outcomes in patients hospitalized with heart failure. 
  • Penetration, Completeness, and Representativeness of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database. 
  • Performance-based outcomes of inpatient rehabilitation facilities treating hip fracture patients in the United States. 
  • Peripheral arterial testing before lower extremity amputation among Medicare beneficiaries, 2000 to 2010. 
  • Periprocedural imaging and outcomes after catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation. 
  • Permanent pacemaker use among patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction: Findings from the Acute Decompensated Heart Failure National Registry (ADHERE) National Registry. 
  • Personality facets and all-cause mortality among Medicare patients aged 66 to 102 years: a follow-on study of Weiss and Costa (2005). 
  • Pharmacoeconomic analysis of sertraline treatment of depression in patients with unstable angina or a recent myocardial infarction. 
  • Physician Networks and Ambulatory Care-sensitive Admissions. 
  • Physician allocation of Medicare resources for patients with advanced cancer. 
  • Physician and Patient and Caregiver Health Attitudes and Their Effect on Medicare Resource Allocation for Patients With Advanced Cancer. 
  • Physician assistants and nurse practitioners perform effective roles on teams caring for Medicare patients with diabetes. 
  • Polypharmacy management in Medicare managed care: changes in prescribing by primary care physicians resulting from a program promoting medication reviews. 
  • Poor Nutrition Status and Lumbar Spine Fusion Surgery in the Elderly: Readmissions, Complications, and Mortality. 
  • Population models for the health effects of ionizing radiation. 
  • Post-myocardial infarction smoking cessation counseling: associations with immediate and late mortality in older Medicare patients. 
  • Postdischarge international normalized ratio testing and long-term clinical outcomes of patients with heart failure receiving warfarin: findings from the ADHERE registry linked to Medicare claims. 
  • Postendarterectomy mortality in octogenarians and nonagenarians in the USA from 1993 to 1999. 
  • Potential unintended financial consequences of pay-for-performance on the quality of care for minority patients. 
  • Practice-Level Variation in Outpatient Cardiac Care and Association With Outcomes. 
  • Pre-diagnosis health-related quality of life, surgery, and survival in women with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer: A SEER-MHOS study. 
  • Predicting costs among medicare beneficiaries with heart failure. 
  • Predicting long-term mortality in older patients after non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: the CRUSADE long-term mortality model and risk score. 
  • Prediction of Long-Term Survival After Lung Cancer Surgery for Elderly Patients in The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database. 
  • Predictors of costs of caring for elderly patients discharged with heart failure. 
  • Preoperative Patient Profile in Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty: Predictive of Increased Medicare Payments in a Bundled Payment Model. 
  • Preoperative pain level and patient expectation predict hospital length of stay after total hip arthroplasty. 
  • Prescriber Continuity and Disease Control of Older Adults. 
  • Prevalence and costs of major depression among elderly claimants with diabetes. 
  • Prevalence and outcomes of same-day discharge after elective percutaneous coronary intervention among older patients. 
  • Prevalence and patterns of potentially avoidable hospitalizations in the US long-term care setting. 
  • Prevalence estimates and outcomes of mental health conditions in those hospitalized owing to dental conditions. 
  • Prevalence estimates and outcomes of mental health conditions in those hospitalized owing to dental conditions. 
  • Preventable readmissions within 30 days of ischemic stroke among Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Primary health care in an academic medical center. 
  • Primary prevention implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in older racial and ethnic minority patients. 
  • Prior and current costs in capitated health plans: the effects of health status at enrollment. 
  • Propensity score weighting with multilevel data. 
  • Prospective payment and psychiatric discharges from general hospitals with and without psychiatric units. 
  • Provider and patient drivers of ototopical antibiotic prescription variability. 
  • Providing services in nursing homes. A physician's legal obligations. 
  • Proxy response patterns among the aged: effects on estimates of health status and medical care utilization from the 1982-1984 long-term care surveys. 
  • Psychiatric disorders increase complication rate after primary total knee arthroplasty. 
  • QRS duration, bundle-branch block morphology, and outcomes among older patients with heart failure receiving cardiac resynchronization therapy. 
  • Quality of Care and Ischemic Stroke Risk After Hospitalization for Transient Ischemic Attack: Findings From Get With The Guidelines-Stroke. 
  • Quality of medical care and excess mortality in older patients with mental disorders. 
  • Race and residence: intercounty variation in black-white differences in hospice use. 
  • Race/Ethnic Differences in Outcomes Among Hospitalized Medicare Patients With Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction. 
  • Racial and ethnic differences in outcomes in older patients with acute ischemic stroke. 
  • Racial and ethnic disparities in medication use among older adults. 
  • Racial differences in glaucoma care: the longitudinal pattern of care. 
  • Racial differences in hospice use and patterns of care after enrollment in hospice among Medicare beneficiaries with heart failure. 
  • Racial differences in survival post cerebral infarction among the elderly. 
  • Racial differences in the utilization of inpatient rehabilitation services among elderly stroke patients. 
  • Racial disparities in cancer care in the Veterans Affairs health care system and the role of site of care. 
  • Racial variation in treatment for transient ischemic attacks: impact of participation by neurologists. 
  • Rates of and factors associated with infection in 200 909 Medicare implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implants: results from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Rates of glaucoma medication utilization among older adults with suspected glaucoma, 1992 to 2002. 
  • Rates of glaucoma medication utilization among persons with primary open-angle glaucoma, 1992 to 2002. 
  • Rates, amounts, and determinants of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring claim reimbursements among Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Real world effectiveness of primary implantable cardioverter defibrillators implanted during hospital admissions for exacerbation of heart failure or other acute co-morbidities: cohort study of older patients with heart failure. 
  • Reassessment of Cardiac Function and Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Use Among Medicare Patients With Low Ejection Fraction After Myocardial Infarction. 
  • Recent changes in service use patterns of disabled Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Recommendation to develop strategies to increase the number of ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction patients with timely access to primary percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Recovery and survival from aging-associated diseases. 
  • Rectangularization of the survival curve: implications of an ill-posed question. 
  • Redistribution of health care costs after the adoption of positron emission tomography among medicare beneficiaries with non-small-cell lung cancer, 1998-2005. 
  • Reducing bias in cancer research: application of propensity score matching. 
  • Reforming payments to healthcare providers: the key to slowing healthcare cost growth while improving quality? 
  • Regional Variation in 30-Day Ischemic Stroke Outcomes for Medicare Beneficiaries Treated in Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Hospitals. 
  • Registries and randomized trials in assessing the effects of bevacizumab in colorectal cancer: is there a common theme? 
  • Rehabilitation after hip fracture--equal opportunity for all? 
  • Relation of body mass index in young adulthood and middle age to Medicare expenditures in older age. 
  • Relation of dyspnea severity on admission for acute heart failure with outcomes and costs. 
  • Relationship between cardiac rehabilitation and long-term risks of death and myocardial infarction among elderly Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Relationship between early physician follow-up and 30-day readmission among Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized for heart failure. 
  • Relationship between patient satisfaction with inpatient care and hospital readmission within 30 days. 
  • Relationship between physician and hospital coronary angioplasty volume and outcome in elderly patients. 
  • Relationship of fruit and vegetable consumption in middle-aged men to medicare expenditures in older age: the Chicago Western Electric Study. 
  • Relationships between emerging measures of heart failure processes of care and clinical outcomes. 
  • Reliance on Veterans Affairs outpatient care by Medicare-eligible veterans. 
  • Religiosity and mental health in southern, community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Renal Dysfunction Is Associated With Poststroke Discharge Disposition and In-Hospital Mortality: Findings From Get With The Guidelines-Stroke. 
  • Repeat coronary revascularization after coronary artery bypass surgery in older adults: the Society of Thoracic Surgeons' national experience, 1991-2007. 
  • Reply: Era of Change in Sites of Service for Peripheral Vascular Intervention Requires New Ways to Look at Costs. 
  • Representativeness of Medicare Participants in the Jackson Heart Study for African American Medicare Beneficiaries. 
  • Representativeness of a national heart failure quality-of-care registry: comparison of OPTIMIZE-HF and non-OPTIMIZE-HF Medicare patients. 
  • Representativeness of the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Registry: comparison of patient and hospital characteristics among Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized with ischemic stroke. 
  • Resource Use in the Last Year of Life Among Patients Who Died With Versus of Prostate Cancer. 
  • Resource use in the last 6 months of life among medicare beneficiaries with heart failure, 2000-2007. 
  • Response to letter regarding article, "Rates of and factors associated with infection in 200 909 Medicare implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implants: results from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry". 
  • Restarting the cycle: incidence and predictors of first acute care use after nursing home discharge. 
  • Resting heart rate in middle age and diabetes development in older age. 
  • Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness: A National Informatics-Enabled Registry for Quality Improvement. 
  • Risk adjustment for Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. 
  • Risk factors for 30-day reoperation and 3-month readmission: analysis from the Quality and Outcomes Database lumbar spine registry. 
  • Risk factors for hip fracture in skilled nursing facilities: who should be evaluated? 
  • Risk of glaucoma among patients with benign essential blepharospasm. 
  • Risks of mortality, myocardial infarction, bleeding, and stroke associated with therapies for age-related macular degeneration. 
  • Rural Medicare Beneficiaries Have Fewer Follow-up Visits and Greater Emergency Department Use Postdischarge. 
  • Rural-Urban Differences in the Effect of Follow-Up Care on Postdischarge Outcomes. 
  • Safety and clinical effectiveness of drug-eluting stents for saphenous vein graft intervention in older individuals: Results from the medicare-linked National Cardiovascular Data Registry(®) CathPCI Registry(®) (2005-2009). 
  • Safety and effectiveness of antithrombotic strategies in older adult patients with atrial fibrillation and non-ST elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Safety and efficacy of drug-eluting stents in older patients with chronic kidney disease: a report from the linked CathPCI Registry-CMS claims database. 
  • Same-day discharge and risks of mortality and readmission after elective ICD placement for primary prevention. 
  • Screening adults for pre-diabetes and diabetes may be cost-saving. 
  • Selection experiences in Medicare HMOs: pre-enrollment expenditures. 
  • Self-Care and Mobility Following Postacute Rehabilitation for Older Adults With Hip Fracture: A Multilevel Analysis. 
  • Sex differences in the use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators for primary and secondary prevention of sudden cardiac death. 
  • Shifting Medicare patients out of the hospital. 
  • Shifting toward defined contributions--predicting the effects. 
  • Shifts in surgical revascularization and valve procedures among Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Short and Long-Term Postoperative Complications Following Total Joint Arthroplasty in Patients With Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Hepatitis B, or Hepatitis C. 
  • Short- and long-term outcomes of coronary stenting in women versus men: results from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services cohort. 
  • Short- and long-term rehospitalization and mortality for heart failure in 4 racial/ethnic populations. 
  • Short-Term Risk of Serious Fall Injuries in Older Adults Initiating and Intensifying Treatment With Antihypertensive Medication. 
  • Should We Think Twice About Psychiatric Disease in Total Hip Arthroplasty? 
  • Should an academic radiation oncologist be allowed to "opt out" of Medicare? 
  • Significant Morbidity and Mortality Among Hospitalized End-Stage Liver Disease Patients in Medicare. 
  • Significant variation in P2Y12 inhibitor use after peripheral vascular intervention in Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Simultaneous vs staged bilateral total knee arthroplasty among Medicare beneficiaries, 2000-2009. 
  • Social/health maintenance organization and fee-for-service health outcomes over time. 
  • Socioeconomic status and outcome following acute myocardial infarction in elderly patients. 
  • Stage migration, selection bias, and survival associated with the adoption of positron emission tomography among medicare beneficiaries with non-small-cell lung cancer, 1998-2003. 
  • Strategic Patient Discharge: the Case of Long-Term Care Hospitals. 
  • Structural/organizational characteristics of health services partly explain racial variation in timeliness of radiation therapy among elderly breast cancer patients. 
  • Study of Cardiovascular Health Outcomes in the Era of Claims Data: The Cardiovascular Health Study. 
  • Survival differences among native-born and foreign-born older adults in the United States. 
  • Systematic review: reliability of compendia methods for off-label oncology indications. 
  • TRENDS IN THE CARE AND OUTCOMES OF MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES, 2002-2011. 
  • Tailoring your heart failure project for success in rural areas. 
  • Temporal Trends and Variation in Early Scheduled Follow-Up After a Hospitalization for Heart Failure: Findings from Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure. 
  • Temporal trends and geographic variation of lower-extremity amputation in patients with peripheral artery disease: results from U.S. Medicare 2000-2008. 
  • Ten-year incidence of age-related macular degeneration according to diabetic retinopathy classification among medicare beneficiaries. 
  • The American Society of Breast Surgeons and Quality Payment Programs: Ranking, Defining, and Benchmarking More Than 1 Million Patient Quality Measure Encounters. 
  • The Association of Transfer Rate From Hospitals Without Revascularization Capabilities and Mortality Risk for Older Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients. 
  • The Effect of Clinical Care Location on Clinical Outcomes After Peripheral Vascular Intervention in Medicare Beneficiaries. 
  • The Impact of Lumbar Spine Disease and Deformity on Total Hip Arthroplasty Outcomes. 
  • The Stroke Prevention Patient Outcomes Research Team. Goals and methods. 
  • The accuracy of Medicare claims as an epidemiological tool: the case of dementia revisited. 
  • The accuracy of medicare claims data in identifying Alzheimer's disease. 
  • The association between guideline-based treatment instructions at the point of discharge and lower 1-year mortality in Medicare patients after acute myocardial infarction: the American College of Cardiology's Guidelines Applied in Practice (GAP) initiative in Michigan. 
  • The association between institutional primary angioplasty procedure volume and outcome in elderly Americans. 
  • The association of discharge destination with 30-day rehospitalization rates among older adults receiving lumbar spinal fusion surgery. 
  • The association of left ventricular ejection fraction with clinical outcomes after myocardial infarction: Findings from the Acute Coronary Treatment and Intervention Outcomes Network (ACTION) Registry-Get With the Guidelines (GWTG) Medicare-linked database. 
  • The challenge of health care delivery to the elderly patient with cardiovascular disease. Demographic, epidemiologic, fiscal, and health policy implications. 
  • The clinical pathologist: physician, not administrator. 
  • The complexity of chronic disease at later ages: practical implications for prospective payment and data collection. 
  • The continuity and quality of primary care. 
  • The cost implications of an early versus delayed invasive strategy in Acute Coronary Syndromes: the TIMACS study. 
  • The differential effect of compensation structures on the likelihood that firms accept new patients by insurance type. 
  • The economic burden of anemia in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. 
  • The economic burden of chronic cardiovascular disease for major insurers. 
  • The economic burden of major adult visual disorders in the United States. 
  • The effect of dementia on outcomes and process of care for Medicare beneficiaries admitted with acute myocardial infarction. 
  • The effects of New York's bypass surgery provider profiling on access to care and patient outcomes in the elderly. 
  • The effects of health changes on projections of health service needs for the elderly population of the United States. 
  • The effects of technological advances on outcomes for elderly persons with exudative age-related macular degeneration. 
  • The effects of total knee arthroplasty on physical functioning in the older population. 
  • The evolution of volunteerism and professional staff within hospice care in North Carolina. 
  • The impact of clinical vs administrative claims coding on hospital risk-adjusted outcomes. 
  • The insurance effect on prescription drug expenditures among the elderly: findings from the 1997 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. 
  • The need for multiple measures of hospital quality: results from the Get with the Guidelines-Heart Failure Registry of the American Heart Association. 
  • The relation between patients' outcomes and the volume of cardioverter-defibrillator implantation procedures performed by physicians treating Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • The relation between the volume of coronary angioplasty procedures at hospitals treating Medicare beneficiaries and short-term mortality. 
  • The risk paradox: use of elective cholecystectomy in older patients is independent of their risk of developing complications. 
  • The role of reperfusion therapy in paced patients with acute myocardial infarction. 
  • The state and consequences of dermatology drug prices in the United States. 
  • The structure of critical care transfer networks. 
  • The use of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring among Medicare beneficiaries in 2007-2010. 
  • Therapy Caps and Variation in Cost of Outpatient Occupational Therapy by Provider, Insurance Status, and Geographic Region. 
  • There is a mismatch between the medicare benefit package and the preferences of patients with cancer and their caregivers. 
  • Three-year outcomes associated with embolic protection in saphenous vein graft intervention: results in 49 325 senior patients in the Medicare-linked National Cardiovascular Data Registry CathPCI Registry. 
  • Time trends of incidence of age-associated diseases in the US elderly population: Medicare-based analysis. 
  • Top 10 Tips for Using Advance Care Planning Codes in Palliative Medicine and Beyond. 
  • Tracking Patients in Community-Based Palliative Care through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Healthcare Innovation Project. 
  • Translating clinical trials into practice. 
  • Treatment patterns for prostate cancer: comparison of Medicare claims data to medical record review. 
  • Treatment, Outcomes, and Adherence to Medication Regimens Among Dual Medicare-Medicaid-Eligible Adults With Myocardial Infarction. 
  • Trends in 30-Day Readmission Rates for Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure: Findings From the Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Registry. 
  • Trends in Bare-Metal Stent Use in the United States in Patients Aged ≥65 Years (from the CathPCI Registry). 
  • Trends in anemia care in older patients approaching end-stage renal disease in the United States (1995-2010). 
  • Trends in cost of major eye diseases to Medicare, 1991 to 2000. 
  • Trends in one-year recurrent ischemic stroke among the elderly in the USA: 1994-2002. 
  • Trends in pathological vertebral fractures in the United States: 1993 to 2004. 
  • Trends in settings for peripheral vascular intervention and the effect of changes in the outpatient prospective payment system. 
  • Trends in survival and recovery from stroke: evidence from the National Long-Term Care Survey/Medicare data. 
  • Trends in the incidence of atrial fibrillation in older patients initiating dialysis in the United States. 
  • Trends in the use and outcomes of ventricular assist devices among medicare beneficiaries, 2006 through 2011. 
  • Trends in the use of total ankle replacement and ankle arthrodesis in the United States Medicare population. 
  • Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty and total knee arthroplasty among Medicare beneficiaries, 2000 to 2009. 
  • Use and cost of hospitalization of patients with AD by stage and living arrangement: CERAD XXI. 
  • Use of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators Among Medicare Patients--Reply. 
  • Use of guideline-recommended therapies for heart failure in the Medicare population. 
  • Use of health care claims data to study patients with ophthalmologic conditions. 
  • Use of outpatient care in VA and Medicare among disability-eligible and age-eligible veteran patients. 
  • Use of outpatient care in Veterans Health Administration and Medicare among veterans receiving primary care in community-based and hospital outpatient clinics. 
  • Use of stress testing and diagnostic catheterization after coronary stenting: association of site-level patterns with patient characteristics and outcomes in 247,052 Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Using Medicare administrative data to conduct postmarketing surveillance of follow-on biologics: issues and opportunities. 
  • Using physician claims to identify postoperative complications of carotid endarterectomy. 
  • Using the past to predict the future: latent class analysis of patterns of health service use of older adults in the emergency department. 
  • Utilization of acute care among patients with ESRD discharged home from skilled nursing facilities. 
  • Validation of the JEN frailty index in the National Long-Term Care Survey community population: identifying functionally impaired older adults from claims data. 
  • Validation study of medicare claims to identify older US adults with CKD using the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study. 
  • Validity of deterministic record linkage using multiple indirect personal identifiers: linking a large registry to claims data. 
  • Variation in Inpatient Rehabilitation Utilization After Hospitalization for Burn Injury in the United States. 
  • Variation in Specialty Outpatient Care Patterns in the Medicare Population. 
  • Variations in cataract extraction rates in Medicare prepaid and fee-for-service settings. 
  • Variations in use of PET among Medicare beneficiaries with non-small cell lung cancer, 1998-2007. 
  • What age trajectories of cumulative deficits and medical costs tell us about individual aging and mortality risk: Findings from the NLTCS-Medicare data. 
  • What is the economic value of digoxin therapy in congestive heart failure patients? Results from the DIG trial. 
  • What length of hospice use maximizes reduction in medical expenditures near death in the US Medicare program? 
  • What we know is not enough. 
  • What's Harder: Seeing a Doctor or Reducing Readmissions? 
  • What's new in transplantation. 
  • Wide variation in payments for Medicare beneficiary oncology services suggests room for practice-level improvement. 
  • Will Obesity Treatment Reimbursement Benefit Those at Highest Risk? 
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  • Alexander, John Hunter Peel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Brennan, J. Matthew, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Li, Fan, Associate Professor of Statistical Science, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Milano, Carmelo Alessio, Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
  • Moody, James, Professor in the Department of Sociology, Social Science Research Institute
  • Muhlbaier, Lawrence H., Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
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  • Patz Jr., Edward F., James and Alice Chen Professor of Radiology, Pathology