Journal ArticleUrologic oncology · February 2024
PurposeTo quantify patient reported treatment burden while receiving intravesical therapy for bladder cancer and to survey patient perspectives on in-home intravesical therapy.Materials and methodsWe conducted a cross-sectional survey of ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Risk and Uncertainty · January 1, 2024
This article reviews economic studies based on data from high income countries published from 2007 to early 2024 to address three questions: (1) How accurate are subjective beliefs, mainly measured by subjective probabilities, compared to their objective c ...
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Journal ArticleMedical care research and review : MCRR · August 2023
This study asks: Does the empirical evidence support the conclusion that for-profit (FP) hospitals are more productive or efficient than private not-for-profit (NFP) hospitals or non-federal public (PUB) hospitals? Alternative theories of NFP behavior are ...
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Journal ArticleJ Dent Res · July 2023
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a recognized risk factor for dementia, and increasing evidence shows that tooth loss is associated with cognitive impairment and dementia. However, the effect of the co-occurrence of DM and edentulism on cognitive decline is under ...
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Chapter · December 13, 2022
This paper reports the first effort to use data to evaluate how new information, acquired through exogenous health shocks, affects people's longevity expectations. We find that smokers react differently to health shocks than do those who quit smoking or ne ...
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Chapter · December 13, 2022
This study tests the reliability of the most important subjective risk assessment a person can make: an expectation about personal longevity. Using four waves of the Health and Retirement Survey we tested whether longevity expectations match actual mortali ...
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Chapter · December 13, 2022
This study describes government interventions during the 1900s and their effects on cigarette consumption within a rational addiction framework. With annual data for the 20th century, impacts of specific antismoking information events disappear. U.S. per c ...
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Journal ArticleInt Dent J · August 2022
INTRODUCTION: The aim of this research was to assess the association between inflammation and oral health and diabetes, as well as the mediating role of oral hygiene practice in this association. METHODS: Data were from the 2009-2010 National Health and Nu ...
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Journal ArticleMedical care research and review : MCRR · April 2021
Although the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion reduced uninsurance, less is known about its impact on mortality, especially in the context of the opioid epidemic. We conducted a difference-in-differences study comparing trends in mortality between e ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ Glob Health · April 2021
China has made profound progress in advancing universal health coverage (UHC) over the past two decades. New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) was initiated in 2003 to provide health insurance coverage to rural population. Its benefit packages and cost-sha ...
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Journal ArticleILR Review · March 1, 2021
The 2003 Medicare Modernization Act introduced income-related premiums on Medicare coverage for professional services (Part B) for the first time. Beginning in 2007, higher-income households were required to pay higher premiums for Part B coverage, which r ...
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Journal ArticleThe Milbank quarterly · March 2021
Policy Points In two respects, quality of care tends to be higher at major teaching hospitals: process of care and long-term survival of cancer patients following initial diagnosis. There is also evidence that short-term (30-day) mortality is lower on aver ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of general internal medicine · January 2021
BackgroundThe 2016 presidential election and the controversial policy agenda of its victor have raised concerns about how the election may have impacted mental health.ObjectiveAssess how mental health changed from before to after the Nove ...
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Journal ArticleCurr Alzheimer Res · 2021
OBJECTIVE: Both diabetes mellitus (DM) and poor oral health are common chronic conditions and risk factors of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia among older adults. This study assessed the effects of DM and complete tooth loss (TL) on cognitive funct ...
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Journal ArticleEuropean urology oncology · August 2020
BackgroundBladder cancer care is costly, including cost to Medicare, but the medical cost associated with bladder cancer patients relative to identical persons without bladder cancer is unknown.ObjectiveTo determine incremental bladder ca ...
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Journal ArticleAnnals of epidemiology · July 2020
PurposeThe aim of the study was to evaluate the relative contributions of incidence, stage-specific relative survival, and stage ascertainment to changes in bladder cancer (BC) prevalence and incidence-based mortality.MethodsPartitioning ...
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Journal ArticleChild abuse & neglect · March 2020
BackgroundParental criminal justice system (CJS) involvement is a marker for child protective services (CPS) involvement.ObjectiveTo document how parental criminal case processing affects children's CPS involvement.Participants and se ...
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Journal ArticleUrologic oncology · February 2020
BackgroundBladder cancer (BC) is highly prevalent and costly. This study documented cost and use of services for BC care and for other (non-BC) care received over a 15-year follow-up period by a cohort of Medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with BC i ...
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Journal ArticleMath Biosci · May 2019
A new model for disease prevalence based on the analytical solutions of McKendric-von Foerster's partial differential equations is developed. Derivation of the model and methods to cross check obtained results are explicitly demonstrated. Obtained equation ...
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Journal ArticleUrologic oncology · February 2024
PurposeTo quantify patient reported treatment burden while receiving intravesical therapy for bladder cancer and to survey patient perspectives on in-home intravesical therapy.Materials and methodsWe conducted a cross-sectional survey of ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Risk and Uncertainty · January 1, 2024
This article reviews economic studies based on data from high income countries published from 2007 to early 2024 to address three questions: (1) How accurate are subjective beliefs, mainly measured by subjective probabilities, compared to their objective c ...
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Journal ArticleMedical care research and review : MCRR · August 2023
This study asks: Does the empirical evidence support the conclusion that for-profit (FP) hospitals are more productive or efficient than private not-for-profit (NFP) hospitals or non-federal public (PUB) hospitals? Alternative theories of NFP behavior are ...
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Journal ArticleJ Dent Res · July 2023
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a recognized risk factor for dementia, and increasing evidence shows that tooth loss is associated with cognitive impairment and dementia. However, the effect of the co-occurrence of DM and edentulism on cognitive decline is under ...
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Chapter · December 13, 2022
This paper reports the first effort to use data to evaluate how new information, acquired through exogenous health shocks, affects people's longevity expectations. We find that smokers react differently to health shocks than do those who quit smoking or ne ...
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Chapter · December 13, 2022
This study tests the reliability of the most important subjective risk assessment a person can make: an expectation about personal longevity. Using four waves of the Health and Retirement Survey we tested whether longevity expectations match actual mortali ...
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Chapter · December 13, 2022
This study describes government interventions during the 1900s and their effects on cigarette consumption within a rational addiction framework. With annual data for the 20th century, impacts of specific antismoking information events disappear. U.S. per c ...
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Journal ArticleInt Dent J · August 2022
INTRODUCTION: The aim of this research was to assess the association between inflammation and oral health and diabetes, as well as the mediating role of oral hygiene practice in this association. METHODS: Data were from the 2009-2010 National Health and Nu ...
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Journal ArticleMedical care research and review : MCRR · April 2021
Although the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion reduced uninsurance, less is known about its impact on mortality, especially in the context of the opioid epidemic. We conducted a difference-in-differences study comparing trends in mortality between e ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ Glob Health · April 2021
China has made profound progress in advancing universal health coverage (UHC) over the past two decades. New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) was initiated in 2003 to provide health insurance coverage to rural population. Its benefit packages and cost-sha ...
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Journal ArticleILR Review · March 1, 2021
The 2003 Medicare Modernization Act introduced income-related premiums on Medicare coverage for professional services (Part B) for the first time. Beginning in 2007, higher-income households were required to pay higher premiums for Part B coverage, which r ...
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Journal ArticleThe Milbank quarterly · March 2021
Policy Points In two respects, quality of care tends to be higher at major teaching hospitals: process of care and long-term survival of cancer patients following initial diagnosis. There is also evidence that short-term (30-day) mortality is lower on aver ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of general internal medicine · January 2021
BackgroundThe 2016 presidential election and the controversial policy agenda of its victor have raised concerns about how the election may have impacted mental health.ObjectiveAssess how mental health changed from before to after the Nove ...
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Journal ArticleCurr Alzheimer Res · 2021
OBJECTIVE: Both diabetes mellitus (DM) and poor oral health are common chronic conditions and risk factors of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia among older adults. This study assessed the effects of DM and complete tooth loss (TL) on cognitive funct ...
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Journal ArticleEuropean urology oncology · August 2020
BackgroundBladder cancer care is costly, including cost to Medicare, but the medical cost associated with bladder cancer patients relative to identical persons without bladder cancer is unknown.ObjectiveTo determine incremental bladder ca ...
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Journal ArticleAnnals of epidemiology · July 2020
PurposeThe aim of the study was to evaluate the relative contributions of incidence, stage-specific relative survival, and stage ascertainment to changes in bladder cancer (BC) prevalence and incidence-based mortality.MethodsPartitioning ...
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Journal ArticleChild abuse & neglect · March 2020
BackgroundParental criminal justice system (CJS) involvement is a marker for child protective services (CPS) involvement.ObjectiveTo document how parental criminal case processing affects children's CPS involvement.Participants and se ...
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Journal ArticleUrologic oncology · February 2020
BackgroundBladder cancer (BC) is highly prevalent and costly. This study documented cost and use of services for BC care and for other (non-BC) care received over a 15-year follow-up period by a cohort of Medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with BC i ...
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Journal ArticleMath Biosci · May 2019
A new model for disease prevalence based on the analytical solutions of McKendric-von Foerster's partial differential equations is developed. Derivation of the model and methods to cross check obtained results are explicitly demonstrated. Obtained equation ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of risk and uncertainty · October 2018
This study uses a dynamic discrete choice model to examine the degree of present bias and naivete about present bias in individuals' health care decisions. Clinical guidelines exist for several common chronic diseases. Although the empirical evidence for s ...
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Journal ArticleJ Diabetes Complications · April 2018
AIMS: To identify how efforts to control the diabetes epidemic and the resulting changes in diabetes mellitus, type II (T2D) incidence and survival have affected the time-trend of T2D prevalence. METHODS: A newly developed method of trend decomposition was ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of aging and health · April 2018
ObjectiveThe objective of this study is to investigate relationships between adherence to recommended screening and medication use and severe macrovascular complications and all-cause mortality among persons aged above 68 years with diabetes melli ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Hypertens · January 12, 2018
BACKGROUND: This study identifies the effect of intensive drug therapy (IDT) in individuals age 65+ with diabetes (type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D)) and hypertension on all-cause death, congestive heart failure (CHF), hospitalization for myocardial infarctio ...
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Journal ArticleSubstance use & misuse · December 2017
BackgroundAlcohol-impaired driving causes a substantial proportion of motor vehicle accidents. Depression is a prevalent psychiatric disorder among drinker-drivers. Few previous studies have investigated the relationship between major depression a ...
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Journal ArticleCriminal Justice and Behavior · October 1, 2017
This study examines how decisions made by the criminal justice system in child maltreatment cases affect defendants’ future probability of committing a child maltreatment offense, another offense, or having a child involved in child protective services (CP ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican journal of public health · September 2017
ObjectivesTo explore associations between in utero exposure to the 1918 influenza pandemic and hospitalization rates in old age (≥ 70 years) in the United States.MethodsWe identified individuals exposed (mild and deadly waves) and unexpos ...
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Journal ArticleChina Economic Review · July 1, 2017
China has the world's largest number of older persons and is undergoing rapid demographic and economic transitions. Using longitudinal data from seven waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) spanning 1991–2009, this study examines trends by b ...
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Journal ArticleWorld Neurosurg · May 2017
BACKGROUND: There are no data on cost of neurosurgery in low-income and middle-income countries. The objective of this study was to estimate the cost of neurosurgical procedures in a low-resource setting to better inform resource allocation and health sect ...
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Journal ArticleTheor Popul Biol · April 2017
In this study, we present a new theory of partitioning of disease prevalence and incidence-based mortality and demonstrate how this theory practically works for analyses of Medicare data. In the theory, the prevalence of a disease and incidence-based morta ...
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Journal ArticleAlcoholism, clinical and experimental research · February 2017
BackgroundDriving while impaired (DWI) is a threat to public health. Codified legal sanctions are a widely implemented strategy to reduce DWI. However, it is unclear that sanctioning affects individual risk perceptions so as to deter alcohol-impai ...
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Journal ArticleAccident analysis and prevention · October 3, 2016
Using North Carolina administrative data, this study examined recidivism following participation in specialty hybrid drug and driving while intoxicated (DWI) court programs. Three court program participation levels were considered-being referred to, enroll ...
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Journal ArticleOphthalmology · October 2016
PurposeTo assess the effect of availability of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) therapy on mortality and hospitalizations for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and stroke over a 5-year follow-up period in United States Medicare benef ...
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Journal ArticleSouthern economic journal · October 2016
This study assesses why some individuals are re-arrested for driving while intoxicated (DWI). Using longitudinal data from North Carolina containing information on arrests and arrest outcomes, we test hypotheses that individuals prosecuted and convicted of ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of child and family studies · August 2016
This paper examined (1) the association between parents who are convicted of a substance-related offense and their children's probability of being arrested as a young adult and (2) whether or not parental participation in an adult drug treatment court prog ...
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Journal ArticleOphthalmic epidemiology · June 2016
PurposeTo document recent trends in visual function among the United States population aged 70+ years and investigate how the trends can be explained by inter-temporal changes in: (1) population sociodemographic characteristics, and chronic diseas ...
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Journal ArticleOphthalmology · February 2016
PurposeTo investigate the effect of prior intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) injections on surgical and postoperative complication rates associated with cataract surgery in a nationally representative longitudinal sample o ...
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Journal ArticleSubstance use & misuse · January 2016
BackgroundIn light of evidence showing reduced criminal recidivism and cost savings, adult drug treatment courts have grown in popularity. However, the potential spillover benefits to family members are understudied.ObjectivesTo examine: ...
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Journal ArticleChildren and Youth Services Review · 2016
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The purpose of the current study was to examine what case characteristics increased the likelihood of a child maltreatment case being prosecuted, and upon prosecution, of being convicted.
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Chapter · January 1, 2016
We present a longitudinal form of the Grade of Membership (GoM) model for time-varying covariates, provide a self-contained description of its estimation, and illustrate its application with a substantively meaningful analysis of the progression of dementi ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of diabetes and its complications · November 2015
AimsAnalyze relationships between adherence to guidelines for diabetes care - regular screening; physical activity; and medication - and diabetes complications and mortality.MethodsOutcomes were onset of congestive heart failure (CHF), st ...
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Journal ArticleHealth services research · October 2015
ObjectiveTo examine disability trends among U.S. near-elderly and elderly persons and explain observed trends.Data source1996-2010 waves of the Health and Retirement Study.Study designWe first examined trends in Activities of Dai ...
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Journal ArticleThe American journal of orthopsychiatry · September 2015
This study examined the intergenerational effects of parental conviction of a substance-related charge on children's academic performance and, conditional on a conviction, whether completion of an adult drug treatment court (DTC) program was associated wit ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of neuro-ophthalmology : the official journal of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society · June 2015
BackgroundTo determine if Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) is protective against giant cell arteritis (GCA) and to estimate the incidence of GCA diagnosis from Medicare claims.MethodsMedicare 5% claims files from 1991 to 2011 were used to id ...
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Journal ArticleInternational journal of health economics and management · June 2015
Why people engage in illegal activities is not well understood. Using data collected for this research from eight cities in four states, this study investigates alternative explanations as to why people drive while intoxicated (DWI). We find that preferenc ...
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Journal ArticleSouthern medical journal · January 2015
ObjectivesThis study examined relations between elevated body mass index (BMI) and time to diagnosis with type 2 diabetes mellitus and its complications among older adults in the United States.MethodsData came from the Medicare Current Be ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health economics · January 2015
This study analyzes effects of changes in risk perceptions of smoking's health harms on actual and attempted quits and quitting intentions of male smokers in China. Our survey of 5000+ male smokers was conducted two years after their neighbor's lung cancer ...
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Journal ArticleOphthalmology · December 2014
ObjectiveTo examine a wide range of factors associated with regular eye examination receipt among elderly individuals diagnosed with glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, or diabetes mellitus (DM).DesignRetrospective analysis of Med ...
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Journal ArticleHealth affairs (Project Hope) · November 2014
Under the Affordable Care Act, preventive care measures, including vaccinations and screenings, recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and the US Preventive Services Task Force must be covered in full by insurance. These recommenda ...
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Journal ArticleChild abuse & neglect · October 2014
Parental substance use is a risk factor for child maltreatment. Family drug treatment courts (FDTCs) have emerged in the United States as a policy option to treat the underlying condition and promote family preservation. This study examines the effectivene ...
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Journal ArticleSubstance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · September 2014
BackgroundEmpirical evidence has suggested that drug treatment courts (DTCs) reduce re-arrest rates. However, DTC program completion rates are low and little is known about the effectiveness of lower levels of program participation.Objectives< ...
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Journal ArticleArthritis care & research · August 2014
ObjectiveTo estimate trends in numbers of and Medicare payments for hip, knee, and shoulder arthroplasties for beneficiaries with osteoarthritis (OA) and potential savings to Medicare from arthroplasty during followup.MethodsThe analysis ...
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Journal ArticleSubstance use & misuse · May 2014
Using a survey of drinkers (N = 1,634), we evaluated alternative explanations of heavy and binge drinking, driving under the influence (DUI), DUI arrests, speeding citations, and chargeable accidents. Explanations included socializing, short-term decision- ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health economics · May 2014
This study investigates whether drinker-drivers attributes are associated with imperfect rationality or irrationality. Using data from eight U.S. cities, we determine whether drinker-drivers differ from other drinkers in cognitive ability, ignorance of dri ...
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Journal ArticleJAMA ophthalmology · April 2014
IMPORTANCE Exudative age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) is the major cause of blindness among US elderly. Developing effective therapies for this disease has been difficult. OBJECTIVES To assess the effects of introducing new therapies for treating ex ...
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Journal ArticleWilliam and Mary law review · April 2014
Much empirical analysis has documented racial disparities at the beginning and end stages of a criminal case. However, our understanding about the perpetuation of - and even corrections for - differential outcomes as the process unfolds remains less than c ...
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Journal ArticleArthritis · January 2014
Productivity improvements that occur as technologies become widely used are not well documented. This study measured secular trends over 1998-2010 in productivity of hip and knee procedures gauged in terms of changes in physical function and pain after ver ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of behavioral health · January 2014
BackgroundAlcohol dependence/abuse and depression are positively related. Prior studies focused on relationships between drinking and driving and alcohol dependence/abuse, drinking and driving and problem drinking, or drinking and driving and depr ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2014
Why five decades since smoking's harms were first widely publicized do 20% of US adults smoke? Theoretical frameworks to explain smoking come in three forms: rational, imperfectly rational, and irrational addiction. A reason rational people smoke and other ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of aging and health · September 2013
ObjectiveThis study used data for 1996-2010 from a U.S. longitudinal sample of elderly individuals from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) merged with Medicare claims data to assess changes in several dimensions of physical functioning and gene ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of risk and uncertainty · August 2013
We test whether heavy or binge drinkers are overly optimistic about probabilities of adverse consequences from these activities or are relatively accurate about these probabilities. Using data from a survey in eight cities, we evaluate the relationship bet ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of safety research · June 2013
IntroductionThis study investigated whether subjective beliefs about the consequences of driving while intoxicated (DWI) differ by race/gender.MethodBeliefs affect driving behaviors and views of police/judicial fairness. The researchers c ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican journal of ophthalmology · April 2013
PurposeTo determine patterns of diffusion of diagnostic tests and therapeutic interventions in the United States through 2010 for patients with newly diagnosed exudative macular degeneration (AMD).DesignRetrospective longitudinal cohort a ...
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Journal ArticleAccident; analysis and prevention · April 2013
PurposeThe purpose of this study is to classify DWI courts on the basis of the mix of difficult cases participating in the court (casemix severity) and the amount of involvement between the court and participant (service intensity). Using our clas ...
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Journal ArticleThe American journal of cardiology · February 2013
Although studies have demonstrated health benefits, there is limited evidence on utilization and cost changes associated with cardiac pacemaker implantation from national community samples. The aim of this study was to quantify changes in emergency room (E ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Risk and Uncertainty · February 1, 2013
This study presents an empirical analysis of domestic violence case resolution in North Carolina for the years 2004 to 2010. The key hypothesis is that penalties at the level set for domestic violence crimes reduce recidivism (re-arrest on domestic violenc ...
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Journal ArticleEvaluation review · February 2013
ObjectiveThis study assessed the effects of unified family and drug treatment courts (DTCs) on the resolution of cases involving foster care children and the resulting effects on school performance.MethodThe first analytic step was to ass ...
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Book · December 1, 2012
Medicare, the world's single largest health insurance program, covers more than 47 million Americans. Although it is a national program, it adjusts payments to hospitals and health care practitioners according to the geographic location in which they provi ...
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Journal ArticleOphthalmic Epidemiol · October 2012
PURPOSE: To evaluate the risk of developing Alzheimer disease (AD) or other dementia in patients diagnosed with open-angle glaucoma (OAG) in a nationally representative longitudinal sample of elderly persons. METHODS: This retrospective cohort study (Janua ...
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Chapter · September 18, 2012
This article discusses preventive vaccines, focusing on features that differentiate these vaccines from other biopharmaceuticals. The external costs of infectious diseases imply external benefits from effective vaccines, and this has motivated public manda ...
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Journal ArticleHealth Aff (Millwood) · June 2012
Much research has focused on the possible overuse of health care services within Medicare, but there is also substantial evidence of underuse. In recent years, Congress has added a "welcome to Medicare" physician visit and a number of preventive services w ...
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Book · May 23, 2012
Medicare is the largest health insurer in the United States, providing coverage for 39 million people aged 65 and older and 8 million people with disabilities, and reaching more than an estimated $500 billion in payments in 2010. Although Medicare is a nat ...
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Book · April 2012
Health Economics combines economic concepts with empirical evidence to enhance students’ economic understanding of how health care institutions and markets function. It views the subject in both microeconomic and macroeconomic terms, moving from the indivi ...
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Book · March 2012
This book introduces students to the growing research field of health economics. Rather than offer details about health systems around the world without providing a theoretical context, Health Economics combines economic concepts with empirical evidence to ...
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Journal ArticleOphthalmic Plast Reconstr Surg · 2012
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine whether changes in Medicare reimbursement for punctal plug insertion were associated with a decrease in the incidence of insertion and dry eye diagnosis. METHODS: Incident cases of dry eye syndrome (DES) ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Ophthalmol · December 2011
PURPOSE: To assess changes in Medicare payments for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) since introduction of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) therapies. DESIGN: Retrospective, longitudinal cohort study. METHODS: Using the Medi ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican journal of public health · November 2011
ObjectivesWe assessed the relation of alcohol consumption in young adulthood to problem alcohol consumption 10 years later and to educational attainment and labor market outcomes at midlife. We considered whether these relations differ between Bla ...
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Journal ArticleOphthalmology · September 2011
PurposeTo determine rates and risk factors associated with severe postoperative complications after cataract surgery and whether they have been changing over the past decade.DesignRetrospective longitudinal cohort study.Participants
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Journal ArticleAm J Ophthalmol · August 2011
PURPOSE: To determine longitudinal rates of ocular complications after anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) treatment for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in a nationally representative longitudinal sample. DESIGN: Retrospective ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of epidemiology and community health · July 2011
BackgroundHeavy drinking in early adulthood among Blacks, but not Whites, has been found to be associated with more deleterious health outcomes, lower labor market success and lower educational attainment at mid-life. This study analysed psychosoc ...
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Journal ArticleOphthalmology · May 2011
ObjectivePrevious studies have identified a higher prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) among patient cohorts with nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION). We sought to determine the development of incident NAION among a group of n ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of studies on alcohol and drugs · May 2011
ObjectiveThis study assessed to what extent drinking patterns of young adults persist into midlife and whether frequent heavy episodic drinking as a young adult is associated with educational attainment, labor market, and health outcomes at midlif ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Risk and Uncertainty · April 1, 2011
Conventional wisdom maintains that youths take risks because they underestimate probabilities of harm. Presumably if they knew the true probabilities, they would behave differently. We used the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to assess whether d ...
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Journal ArticleInternational journal of health care finance and economics · March 2011
Although the education-health relationship is well documented, pathways through which education influences health are not well understood. This study uses data from a 2003-2004 cross sectional supplemental survey of respondents to the longitudinal Health a ...
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Journal ArticleHealth services research · December 2010
ObjectiveTo determine effectiveness of receipt of care from podiatrist and lower extremity clinician specialists (LEC specialists) on diabetes mellitus (DM)-related lower extremity amputation.Data sourcesMedicare 5 percent sample claims, ...
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Journal ArticleInternational journal of health care finance and economics · December 2010
A person's decision to drink alcohol is potentially influenced by both price and availability of alcohol in the local area. This study uses longitudinal data from 1985 to 2001 to empirically assess the impact of distance from place of residence to bars on ...
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Journal ArticleOphthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery · November 2010
PurposeDebate exists whether intraocular pressure fluctuation is a risk factor for glaucoma. Patients with benign essential blepharospasm (BEB) experience intermittent, ultra-short-term intraocular pressure elevations from frequent blinking and sp ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Ophthalmol · September 2010
PURPOSE: To determine longitudinal rates of second retinal detachment operation and postoperative adverse outcomes after retinal detachment surgery in a nationally representative sample of older Americans. DESIGN: Retrospective, longitudinal cohort analysi ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of studies on alcohol and drugs · March 2010
ObjectiveThis study examined changes in drinking behavior after age 50 and baseline personal characteristics and subsequent life events associated with different alcohol-consumption trajectories during a 14-year follow-up period.MethodDat ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican journal of public health · February 2010
ObjectivesWe sought to assess whether the disparity in mortality rates between Black and White men decreased from the beginning to the end of the 20th century.MethodsWe used Cox proportional hazard models for mortality to estimate differe ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican journal of public health · December 2009
ObjectivesWe assessed the relationship between alcohol consumption in young adulthood (ages 18-30 years) and occupational success 15 years later among Blacks and Whites.MethodsWe analyzed data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in ...
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Journal ArticleArchives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) · December 2009
ObjectivesTo assess the complication rates of pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) among older Americans and to determine whether rates of adverse events and additional operations have changed during the past decade.MethodsClaims data were reviewe ...
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Journal ArticleOphthalmology · August 2009
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether persons in a community setting diagnosed with diabetes who received recommended patterns of care experience improved vision outcomes over a 3-year time period. DESIGN: Retrospective, longitudinal, cohort analysis. PARTICIPAN ...
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Journal ArticleMedical care · July 2009
BackgroundThis study assessed changes in physical functional status following receipt of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) for patients diagnosed with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee in a national sample of persons aged 65+ in the United States relati ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health economics · March 2009
Proponents of tort reform applied to medical malpractice argue for change partly on the premise that the threat of lawsuits has made medical care more costly. Using U.S. longitudinal data from the National Long-Term Care Survey merged with Medicare claims ...
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Journal ArticleArch Ophthalmol · March 2009
OBJECTIVE: To describe the visual, functional, and general health complication rates associated with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in a nationally representative longitudinal sample of elderly persons. METHODS: This is a longitudinal retrospective ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Law and Economics · February 1, 2009
One reason why individuals consume harmful addictive goods is that the "full" price of such goods is low. Using data on adults specifically collected for this study, we examine the internal cost of one such good by estimating the value that smokers and non ...
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Journal ArticleArch Ophthalmol · December 2008
OBJECTIVE: To examine trends in resource use and the effect of incident diabetic macular edema (DME) on 1- and 3-year total direct medical costs in elderly patients. METHODS: We used a nationally representative 5% sample of Medicare beneficiaries from 2000 ...
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Journal ArticleArch Ophthalmol · November 2008
OBJECTIVES: To determine if diabetic eye disease has changed over time among older Americans and to explore possibilities for observed change. METHODS: We performed a longitudinal analysis of nationally representative Medicare data, the Medicare 5% sample, ...
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Journal ArticleAddiction (Abingdon, England) · November 2008
AimsTo describe: (i) three alternative conceptual frameworks used by economists to study addictive behaviors: rational, imperfectly rational and irrational addiction; (ii) empirical economic evidence on each framework and specific channels to expl ...
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Journal ArticleArthritis Rheum · October 2008
OBJECTIVE: Clinical research provides convincing evidence that total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is safe and improves joint-specific outcomes. However, higher-level functioning associated with self care and independent living has not been studied. Furthermore, ...
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Journal ArticleOphthalmology · July 2008
PURPOSE: To determine longitudinal rates of postoperative adverse outcomes after incisional glaucoma surgery in a nationally representative longitudinal sample. DESIGN: Retrospective, longitudinal cohort analysis. PARTICIPANTS: Medicare beneficiaries >or=6 ...
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Book · July 2008
A vast body of empirical evidence has accumulated demonstrating that incentives affect health care choices made by both consumers and suppliers of health care services. Decisions in health care are affected by many types of incentives, such as the rate of ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society · June 2008
ObjectivesTo estimate the effects of total hip arthroplasty (THA) on three levels of physical functioning in a representative national sample of older adults.DesignSurvey.SettingParticipants were interviewed in their homes.Pa ...
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Journal ArticleHealth Serv Res · April 2008
OBJECTIVE: To determine the effect of a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease or related dementias (ADRD), and the timing of first ADRD diagnosis, on Medicare expenditures at end of life. DATA SOURCES: Monthly Medicare payment data for the 5 years before death ...
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Journal ArticleValue in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research · March 2008
ObjectivesTo investigate the impact of adopting pharmaceutical innovations on the growth of pharmaceutical expenditures, focusing specifically on Taiwan's experience.MethodsWe first provide a descriptive analysis of cost impacts of introd ...
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Journal ArticleArchives of Ophthalmology · February 2008
OBJECTIVES: To estimate the prevalence of major eye diseases and low vision or blindness in a national sample of male US Union Army veterans from 1890 to 1910 and to compare these prevalence rates with contemporary rates for the same diseases and visual st ...
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Journal ArticleIssues in Science and Technology · January 1, 2008
Health care service providers in the US need to implementing a proper a medical malpractice system that focuses on compensating patients for medical errors and finding ways to prevent these errors from occurring. The service providers need to eliminate mis ...
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Journal ArticleArchives of internal medicine · January 2008
BackgroundThe prevalence of diabetes mellitus is growing worldwide. Consequently, there has been increased emphasis on primary and secondary prevention of diabetes. To our knowledge, whether there have been actual improvements in outcomes in the l ...
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Journal ArticleInquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing · December 2007
This study examines the impacts of physician-diagnosed Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) on Medicare and Medicaid program costs in 1994 and 1999. An innovative method is employed to estimate program payments over the life cycle starting at a ...
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Journal ArticleFoundations and Trends in Microeconomics · December 1, 2007
The fundamental question addressed by this paper is whether or not and the extent to which imposing tort liability on potential injurers improves the public's health. Conceptually, imposing the threat of litigation on potential injurers gives them an incen ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Risk and Uncertainty · October 1, 2007
Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, we assess the accuracy of subjective beliefs about mortality and objectively estimated probabilities for individuals in the same sample. Overall, subjective beliefs and objective probabilities are very close ...
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Journal ArticleMedical care research and review : MCRR · October 2007
Physician dissatisfaction often drives public policy, and is associated with lower quality of care and disruption of treatment relationships. Physicians expressed strong dissatisfaction with managed care, leading to enactment of patient protection laws. By ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health economics · September 2007
This study examines the relationship between time discounting, other sources of time preference, and choices about smoking. Using a survey fielded for our analysis, we elicit rates of time discount from choices in financial and health domains. We also exam ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of studies on alcohol and drugs · September 2007
ObjectiveResearch with college populations suggests that elevated levels of heavy drinking do not generally persist into later adulthood for most individuals. The aims of this study were to determine whether this pattern applies to the population ...
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Journal ArticleSoc Sci Med · April 2007
Using a comprehensive database constructed from the pension files of US Civil War veterans, we explore characteristics and occurrence of type 2 diabetes among older black and white males, living circa 1900. We find that rates of diagnosed diabetes were muc ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Economic Review · February 1, 2007
This study investigates whether models of forward-looking behavior explain the observed patterns of heavy drinking and smoking of men in late middle age in the Health and Retirement Study better than myopic models. We develop and estimate a sequence of nes ...
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Book · January 26, 2007
This book identifies feasible, affordable steps for LMCs and their international partners to begin to reduce the cancer burden for current and future generations. ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2007
Context The pharmaceutical industry serves a dual role in modern society. On one hand, it is a growing industry, and its output makes a direct contribution to gross domestic product (GDP). On the other, prescription drugs, this industry's major output, are ...
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Book · January 1, 2007
The pharmaceutical industry worldwide is a rapidly burgeoning industry contributing to growth of gross domestic product and employment. Technological change in this field has been very rapid, with many new products being introduced. For this reason in part ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2007
Introduction This final chapter summarizes key findings and conclusions of the previous chapters and explores their policy implications. More specifically, we discuss eight policy issues that arise as governments seek to promote pharmaceutical innovation i ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2007
Introduction and Overview Judged in terms of the relationship of benefit to cost, vaccines are among the most socially valuable public health investments (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] 1999; Stratton, Durch, and Lawrence 2000). In s ...
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Book · 2007
The fundamental question addressed by this paper is whether or not and the extent to which imposing tort liability on potential injurers improves the public's health. Conceptually, imposing the threat of litigation on potential injurers gives them an incen ...
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Journal ArticleEconomics Letters · January 1, 2007
We investigate the relationship between wealth, smoking, and individual propensities to plan. Planning propensity affects wealth but not smoking, suggesting that planning is not an all-purpose skill. Financial planning may draw on different abilities than ...
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Journal ArticleArchives of Internal Medicine · 2007
BACKGROUND: The natural history of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) in the elderly has not been previously described in a national longitudinal sample. METHODS: This national longitudinal analysis (January 1, 1991, to December 31, 2004) examines mortality and ...
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Journal ArticleArch Ophthalmol · September 2006
OBJECTIVE: To determine the cumulative probability of cataract surgery and factors accounting for such surgery. METHODS: Respondents to the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old survey, a national longitudinal panel, were interviewed in 1998, 2000 ...
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Book · September 2006
What does a pack of cigarettes cost a smoker, the smoker's family, and society? This longitudinal study on the private and social costs of smoking calculates that the cost of smoking to a 24-year-old woman smoker is $86,000 over a lifetime; for a 24-year-o ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Industrial Organization · July 1, 2006
One reason that cigarette consumption is highly regulated is because of the paternalistic view that smokers would not make rational choices even if fully informed about the risks. A deficiency of this view is that in the presence of preference heterogeneit ...
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Journal ArticleStroke · May 2006
Background and purposeStroke is associated with increased risk of dementia. There has been a decline in mortality from stroke among persons 65 and over in recent decades in the US. It is not clear, however, how this process has affected incidence ...
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Journal ArticleOphthalmology · February 2006
PURPOSE: There is a paucity of population-based data on the epidemiology of uveitis in the elderly. In the past 40 years, only 2 U.S. population-based studies have examined the epidemiology of uveitis. The conclusions of these studies on the burden of uvei ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2006
Insurance issues rarely dominate the front page in public discussions of medical malpractice. Sharply rising premiums and nonavailability of coverage1 have been the main precipitating factors in each medical crisis that has occurred in the United States in ...
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Journal ArticleArch Ophthalmol · December 2005
OBJECTIVE: To examine if racial differences exist in longitudinal care patterns for Medicare beneficiaries with glaucoma. METHODS: We analyzed national longitudinal Medicare claims data from January 1, 1991, through December 31, 1999 in 21 644 Medicare ben ...
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Journal ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982) · December 2005
Using the first five waves of the US Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative survey of middle-aged persons in the USA conducted between 1992 and 2000, we assessed the association between alcohol consumption and separation and divorce (comb ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Geriatr Soc · November 2005
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether regular eye examinations are associated with a greater or lesser rate of loss of ability to read newsprint, onset of blindness or low vision, or onset of limitations in instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) and ac ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Ophthalmol · October 2005
PURPOSE: To study effects of changes in self-reported vision on functional status, cognition, depressive symptoms, and living arrangements. DESIGN: Longitudinal analysis of household survey data. METHODS: A total of 6234 sample persons observed in the stud ...
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Journal ArticleJ Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci · September 2005
This study examined racial or ethnic differences in cognitive function, cross-sectionally and longitudinally, using survey data from the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old. A version of the Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICS), proxy ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health politics, policy and law · August 2005
To determine which factors influence states' allocation decisions for the tobacco Master Settlement Agreement and the four individual settlements' annual payments, including the decision to securitize, we analyzed the effects of voter characteristics, poli ...
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Journal ArticleHealth services research · June 2005
ObjectiveTo assess effects of patient protection laws implemented by the vast majority of states during the 1990s on the public's satisfaction and trust relating to health care, and on key utilization measures.Data sources/study settingMe ...
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Journal ArticleHealth affairs (Project Hope) · January 2005
This study assesses six states' allocation decisions for funds from tobacco settlement agreements, using information from newspaper articles and other public sources. State allocation decisions were diverse; substantial shares were allocated to areas other ...
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Journal ArticleTobacco control · December 2004
ObjectiveTo assess effects of the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) and the four individual state settlements on tobacco company decisions and performance.Design10-K reports filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, firm and d ...
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Journal ArticleHealth economics · October 2004
In the last few years, the price of cigarettes has increased considerably in the USA. In addition, a number of states have also imposed smoking bans. These increases in the cost and barriers to smoking have created a natural experiment to study relationshi ...
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Journal ArticleHealth Serv Res · October 2004
OBJECTIVE: To determine factors affecting compliance with guidelines for annual eye examinations for persons diagnosed with diabetes mellitus (DM) or age-related macular degeneration (ARMD). DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING: Nationally representative, longitudin ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of policy analysis and management : [the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management] · August 2004
In 1998, 46 states and the four major tobacco companies signed the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA), which stipulated that the tobacco companies pay states $206 billion over 25 years and take steps to reduce youth smoking. The remaining states settled sep ...
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Journal ArticleJ Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci · July 2004
BACKGROUND: Epidemiologic evidence suggests that African Americans have higher rates of Alzheimer's disease (AD) than do whites. Examining longitudinal trends in the number of persons who are identified as having AD in administrative databases may provide ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Review of Law and Economics · March 1, 2004
This study used data from a national sample of bar owners or managers and employees at these establishments to look at the following issues. To what extent does the imposition of liability affect employees' incentive to take care? Do various liability rule ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Geriatr Soc · February 2004
OBJECTIVES: To determine differences in mortality after admission for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and in use of noninvasive and invasive treatments for AMI between patients with and without dementia. DESIGN: Retrospective chart review. SETTING: Coope ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Risk and Uncertainty · January 1, 2004
Despite their conceptual importance, the effects of time preference, expected longevity, uncertainty, and risk aversion on behavior have not been analyzed empirically. We use data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to assess the role of risk and ti ...
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Journal ArticleRev Diabet Stud · 2004
OBJECTIVES: To study the discrepancy between actual and recommended rates of use among several measures of screening for complications of diabetes in a national longitudinal sample, the correlations among measures of adherence, and whether or not higher ra ...
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Journal ArticleThe Milbank quarterly · January 2004
This article estimates the effects of heavy alcohol consumption on Social Security Old-Age and Survivor Insurance (OASI) contributions and benefits. The analysis accounts for differential earnings and mortality experiences of individuals with different alc ...
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Journal ArticleMed Care · October 2003
BACKGROUND: Concerns have been expressed about quality of for-profit hospitals and their use of expensive technologies. OBJECTIVE: To determine differences in mortality after admission for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and in the use of low- and high-t ...
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Journal ArticleOphthalmology · October 2003
OBJECTIVE: To assess the rate of annual eye examinations over time among older Americans with diabetes and chronic eye diseases. DESIGN: Longitudinal analysis of Medicare claims data. PARTICIPANTS: Random sample of Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years or o ...
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Journal ArticleArch Ophthalmol · October 2003
OBJECTIVE: To estimate incidence rates of the 3 major chronic eye diseases--diabetic retinopathy (DR), glaucoma, and age-related macular degeneration (ARMD)--by using longitudinal claims data from Medicare. METHODS: Longitudinal cases were ascertained by u ...
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Journal ArticleArch Ophthalmol · September 2003
OBJECTIVE: To describe the prevalence across time of 3 chronic eye diseases among a representative cohort of elderly subjects. STUDY DESIGN: Longitudinal observation of Medicare claims. Population A random sample of Medicare beneficiaries 65 years and olde ...
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Journal ArticleHealth care management review · April 2003
This study looks into the "black box" of hospital ownership conversion in a "natural experiment." We posed two competing theories about how conversion might influence management practices. Results support complexity theory and not threat-rigidity theory. A ...
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Journal ArticleHealth care management review · April 2003
This article presents information on the rates of return obtained by purchasers of U.S. hospitals since the mid 1980s. The key hypothesis tested in this study was whether for-profit acquirers are able to purchase hospitals at below-market prices. We test t ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Economics and Statistics · February 1, 2003
This study investigates whether higher input use per stay in the hospital (treatment intensity) and longer length of stay improve outcomes of care. We allow for endogeneity of intensity and length of stay by estimating a quasi-maximum-likelihood discrete f ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Public Health · February 2003
OBJECTIVES: This study examined whether use of equipment (technological assistance) to cope with disability was associated with use of fewer hours of help from another person (personal assistance). METHODS: In a cross-sectional study of 2368 community dwel ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Risk and Uncertainty · December 1, 2002
This analysis uses three valuation approaches - risk-risk tradeoff, paired risk-dollar comparison, and utility function estimation - to estimate the nonpecuniary cost associated with disability in late life. In addition, we obtain an estimate of the value ...
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Journal ArticleEconomics Letters · October 1, 2002
This study describes government interventions during the 1900s and their effects on cigarette consumption within a rational addiction framework. With annual data for the 20th century, impacts of specific antismoking information events disappear. U.S. per c ...
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Journal ArticleSouth Med J · August 2002
BACKGROUND: TennCare expanded Medicaid coverage, substituting managed care for fee-for-service reimbursement in Tennessee. METHODS: To study effects of TennCare on utilization of obstetric care (office visits, prenatal tests, care at labor/delivery), we us ...
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Journal ArticleAlzheimer disease and associated disorders · July 2002
The authors' objective is to determine the effect of diagnosed Alzheimer disease (AD) on cost to Medicare of treating other diseases. Using the 1994 National Long-Term Care Survey merged with Medicare claims and death data, the authors assessed the relativ ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Public Health · June 2002
OBJECTIVES: This study determined the life extension obtained from stopping smoking at various ages. METHODS: We estimated the relation between smoking and mortality among 877,243 respondents to the Cancer Prevention Study II. These estimates were applied ...
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Journal ArticleAddiction (Abingdon, England) · March 2002
AimsThis study examined the association of problem drinking history and alcohol consumption with the onset of several health conditions and death over a 6-year follow-up period.SettingWe analyzed two waves of longitudinal data on men over ...
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Journal ArticleRAND Journal of Economics · 2002
We examine how changes in hospital ownership to and from for-profit status affect quality and Medicare payments per hospital stay. We hypothesize that hospitals converting to for-profit ownership boost postacquisition profitability by reducing dimensions o ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health politics, policy and law · December 2001
A comparative study was conducted in two neighboring states, Tennessee and North Carolina, to determine whether Medicaid managed care (implemented in Tennessee as TennCare) affected prenatal care, care patterns at labor-delivery, and birth outcomes. A pre- ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Economics and Statistics · November 1, 2001
This paper reports the first effort to use data to evaluate how new information, acquired through exogenous health shocks, affects people's longevity expectations. We find that smokers react differently to health shocks than do those who quit smoking or ne ...
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Journal ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · September 2001
ObjectivesOur primary objectives were (a) to determine the relative impact of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), disability, and common comorbid health conditions on the cost of caring for community-dwelling elderly person and (b) t ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of studies on alcohol · July 2001
ObjectiveFour waves of the Health and Retirement Study were used to examine changes in alcohol consumption co-occurring and following stress associated with major health, family and employment events.MethodThe final sample consisted of 7, ...
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Journal ArticleAnesth Analg · February 2001
Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) are unpleasant experiences. However, there is no drug that is completely effective in preventing PONV. Whereas cost effectiveness analyses rely on specific health outcomes (e.g., years of life saved), cost-benefit a ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Legal Studies · January 1, 2001
Managed care organizations (MCOs), as insurance entities, should be liable under contract for inappropriate denial of coverage, whereas treatment errors should be conventional malpractice claims against physicians. Most MCOs are loose networks of independe ...
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Journal ArticleThe Milbank quarterly · January 2001
Data from four waves of the Health and Retirement Study are used to analyze the effects of alcohol use on disability, mortality, and income transfers from public programs. Cross-sectional analysis reveals a complex relationship, with a history of problem d ...
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Chapter · December 1, 2000
The for-profit hospital is in the minority numerically in all developed countries. Although the for-profits' market share has been quite stable for decades, for-profit chains have grown in share and influence in the United States. By contrast, for-profit c ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society · June 2000
BackgroundMedicare claims are increasingly being used to identify persons with chronic diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) for the purpose of determining the cost to Medicare of caring for such persons. Past work has been limited by the use ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of studies on alcohol · May 2000
ObjectiveThis article examines the effects of tort liability, criminal law, administrative regulation, price and availability of alcohol, and personal and state characteristics on the decisions to engage in heavy episodic drinking and to drink and ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican heart journal · April 2000
BackgroundTennCare, beginning in January 1994, channeled all Medicaid-eligible patients into managed care while expanding Medicaid coverage to large numbers of previously uninsured patients. We assessed the impact of TennCare on (1) coronary revas ...
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Journal ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982) · January 2000
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of hospital credentialing standards on surgical outcomes for selected procedures. The study used hospital credentialing practices from a 1996 survey of North Carolina community hospitals, with surgical o ...
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Journal ArticleVanderbilt Law Review · January 1, 2000
TennCare is a Medicaid demonstration project that allows Tennessee to require all Medicaid beneficiaries to secure medical care through a mandatory managed care system. Enrolles contract with private managed care organizations ("MCOs"), which are responsib ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Law and Economics · January 1, 2000
Are state laws, regulatory practices, and allocation of public resources for enforcement reflected in perceptions by bar owners/managers that they will be cited or sued if they fail to exercise care? Among policies, which ones have the greatest impact on r ...
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Journal ArticleSouthern medical journal · November 1999
BackgroundTennCare is a significant state health reform effort, channeling all Medicaid recipients into managed care. We examined physician attitudes about TennCare.MethodsIn 1997, we surveyed a stratified random sample of Tennessee physi ...
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Journal ArticleThe American journal of managed care · June 1999
ObjectiveTo measure the level of satisfaction with care by Medicaid-eligible patients before and after implementation of a mandatory managed care plan known as TennCare.Study designWe used multivariate logit analysis of survey data to cal ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican journal of public health · June 1999
ObjectivesThis study quantified changes in Medicare payments and outcomes for hip fracture and stroke from 1984 to 1994.MethodsWe studied National Long Term Care Survey respondents who were hospitalized for hip fracture (n = 887) or strok ...
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Journal ArticleThe New England journal of medicine · January 1999
Background and methodsWe studied the effects of admission to a teaching hospital on the cost and quality of care for patients covered by Medicare (age, 65 years old or older). We used data from the National Long Term Care Survey and merged them wi ...
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Journal ArticleMult Scler · October 1998
Comprehensive data on the costs of multiple sclerosis is sparse. We conducted a survey of 606 persons with MS who were members of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to obtain data on their cost of personal health services, other services, equipment, a ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican journal of obstetrics and gynecology · September 1998
ObjectivesThe objectives were to determine level of satisfaction among obstetricians with the no-fault insurance programs in Florida and Virginia and to study any reported practice patterns attributable to implementation of no-fault compensation.< ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health politics, policy and law · June 1998
This study assesses the impact of certificate-of-need (CON) regulation for hospitals on various measures of health spending per capita, hospital supply, diffusion of technology, and hospital industry organization. Using a time series cross-sectional method ...
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Journal ArticleObstetrics and gynecology · March 1998
ObjectiveTo determine whether Florida's implementation of a no-fault system for birth-related neurologic injuries reduced lawsuits and total spending associated with such injuries, and whether no-fault was more efficient than tort in distributing ...
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Journal ArticleMedical care · February 1998
ObjectivesThis study addresses three issues. (1) What are demographic wealth, employment, and health characteristics of near-elderly persons losing or acquiring health insurance coverage? Specifically, (2) what are the effects of life transitions, ...
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Journal ArticleInquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing · January 1998
States have tried a number of strategies to reduce the growing number of uninsured people. These include Medicaid expansions and various insurance reforms, such as low-cost plans, subsidized insurance products, risk pooling, open enrollment and continuity ...
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Journal ArticleClin Perform Qual Health Care · 1998
OBJECTIVE: Hospital credentialing standards for laparoscopic cholecystectomy were established to improve surgical outcomes, but standards vary by hospital. We hypothesized that more stringent credentialing would result in better outcomes. DESIGN: Univariat ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of policy analysis and management : [the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management] · January 1998
The private nonprofit hospital is the dominant organizational form in the U.S. hospital industry. Various reasons have been advanced for its high market share. As hospitals undergo massive changes due in large part to changes in payment practices, there ...
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Journal ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982) · August 1997
The key hypothesis of the study was that hospital pharmacies under the pressure of managed care would be more likely to adopt process innovations to assure less costly and more cost-effective provision of care. We conducted a survey of 103 hospitals and an ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Geriatr Soc · July 1997
OBJECTIVE: To examine the burden of Parkinson's Disease (PD) on society, family, and the individual. SETTING: In-home interviews in Central North Carolina. DESIGN: A cross-sectional, descriptive study. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 109 people with PD. MEASURES: ...
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Journal ArticleEconomic Inquiry · January 1, 1997
This study develops and tests a model of supply of children's time to disabled elderly parents, using data from the National Long-Term Care Survey. The model, which assumes strategic behavior among relatives, offers predictions about effects of changes in ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Risk and Uncertainty · January 1, 1997
Adverse selection, moral hazard, and crowding out by public insurance have all been proposed as theoretical reasons for why the market for private long-term care insurance has been slow to evolve in the U.S. Using national samples of the elderly and near e ...
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Book · March 27, 1996
The volume also discusses work-related injuries, violence toward and abuse of nursing staffs, and stress among nursing personnel--and examines whether these problems are related to staffing levels. ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Economics and Statistics · January 1, 1996
We examine the effects of public subsidies on the living arrangements of the disabled elderly who choose among living independently, living in an intergenerational household, and entering a nursing home. After quantifying effects of state policies on each ...
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Journal ArticleInquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing · December 1995
Continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) often require substantial financial investment from residents, prompting concern about potential losses to residents in the event of a CCRC's bankruptcy. State governments have responded to this concern with v ...
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Journal ArticleMedical care · July 1995
Most major health reform proposals include reform of medical malpractice. A major objective of the current medical malpractice system is to improve quality of care. The authors examine the effect of variations in the threat of medical malpractice, measured ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health politics, policy and law · January 1995
Continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) combine housing and long-term care (LTC) services, including personal and nursing home care. The amount of LTC that is prepaid varies by type of CCRC, with one-third offering extensive (fully prepaid) contract ...
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Journal ArticleLaw & Society Review · 1995
The authors used two data sets based on interviews with families who suffered an adverse birth outcome in Florida—either a stillbirth, an infant death, or a permanent birth-related injury—to assess the decision to file a medical malpractice claim. ...
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Journal ArticleJAMA · November 1994
ObjectiveTo determine the relationship between prior malpractice claims experience and the quality of clinical obstetric care.DesignHistorical cohort study of obstetricians, classified by their prior malpractice claims experience, with bl ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of studies on alcohol · July 1994
Alcohol use has been linked to several causes of death. This study provides an empirical analysis of the effects of various public policies on mortality rates by state and year for the years 1982-88. Causes of death analyzed are: alcohol primary cause; tra ...
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Journal ArticleMedical care · October 1993
Many hospitals have introduced formularies to reduce hospital pharmacy expense, among other reasons. This study provides empirical evidence of the influence of hospital formulary restrictions on pharmacy charges, all other hospital charges, and on length o ...
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Journal ArticleBirth (Berkeley, Calif.) · September 1993
It is not currently known whether sufficiently precise data on a previous pregnancy, labor and delivery, and early infancy can be obtained retrospectively. We conducted a telephone survey in 1991 of women who delivered babies between 1984 and 1986 at two t ...
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Journal ArticleJAMA · June 1993
... One is struck by the high level of organ procurement charges in spite of the characterization of organ procurement as altruistic. Although the median organ procurement charges in 1988, documented by Evans, ranged from nearly $16,000 to nearly $21,000 ( ...
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Journal ArticleThe Milbank quarterly · January 1993
The 1989 Long Term Care Survey was used to assess the extent to which entry of disabled elderly into nursing homes depletes personal wealth ("spenddown"); the effect of state eligibility rules on this process, on incentives to shield assets for Medicaid el ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health economics · October 1992
In sum, although fixed dollar subsidies have the great virtue of ferreting out cross subsidies, society may not be satisfied with the results. The scenario described by Marquis is only one of many. People seem to want lifetime insurance offering low premiu ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the American Medical Association · 1992
Objective. - To identify self-reported reasons that prompt families to file malpractice claims following perinatal injuries. Design. - Families were interviewed by telephone using a questionnaire that contained structured and open-ended questions. Particip ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of American health policy · 1991
Conventional wisdom regarding medical practice disputes is not supported by facts, and proposals to limit the size of awards or the size of attorneys' fees do not appear likely to curb the incidence of lawsuits. A 1989-90 survey of 187 Florida families who ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health economics · November 1990
This study examines alternative classification approaches for setting medical malpractice insurance premiums. Insurers generally form risk classification categories on factors other than the physician's own loss experience. Our analysis of such classificat ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Risk and Uncertainty · September 1, 1990
Insurers in our model reinsure to lower the risk of bankruptcy. In the conceptual part of the study, we show that given bankruptcy cost, reinsurance may be demanded even if the insurer is risk-neutral. The model allows us to assess how the insurer's surplu ...
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Journal ArticleInquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing · January 1990
We use state-level data on physician malpractice premiums, claims, and awards, provided by insurance companies for the years 1974 to 1986, to evaluate the effectiveness of the various tort reforms that have been legislated during the 1970s and 1980s. In ad ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the American Medical Association · 1989
This study uses a large malpractice database from Florida to assess the concentration of losses among physicians, predictability of claims experience, characteristics of physicians with favorable vs unfavorable experience, and effects of claims experience ...
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Journal ArticleMedical care · September 1988
Medicare's Prospective Payment System (PPS) created incentives to reduce the application of technology to hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries. Using data from 501 hospitals from 1980 and 1983-85, this study assesses changes in use of intensive care units a ...
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Journal ArticleHealth services research · August 1988
This article compares the financial performance of hospitals by ownership type and of five publicly traded hospital companies with other industries, using such indicators as profit margins, return on equity (ROE) and total capitalization, and debt-to-equit ...
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Journal ArticleMedical care · July 1988
This study analyzed the early effects of the Medicare Prospective Payment System (PPS) on the likelihood of hospital's discharging Medicare beneficiaries to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), intermediate care facilities (ICFs), and home health agencies. I ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican journal of public health · May 1988
We assessed impacts of the Medicare Prospective Payment System (PPS) during its first two years of operation (1984-85) on 467 hospitals using data from the Commission on Professional and Hospital Activities and from the American Hospital Association. Medic ...
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Journal ArticleThe New England journal of medicine · April 1988
Most observers think that by the year 2000 there will be a considerable surplus of physicians in the United States. In this paper we present a new framework for estimating the future balance between supply and demand with respect to physicians' services. O ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health economics · March 1988
This paper provides estimates of the cost of equity and debt capital to for-profit and non-profit hospitals in the U.S. for the years 1972-83. The cost of equity is estimated using, alternatively, the Capital Asset Pricing Model and Arbitrage Pricing Theor ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health politics, policy and law · January 1988
Ten years ago we developed a model of demand inducement in the physician services market and explored the properties of that model. We found that predictions concerning physicians' prices, workloads, and income were ambiguous and in many cases were consist ...
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Journal ArticleThe Milbank quarterly · January 1988
In 1983 federal efforts to contain hospital costs were coalesced under the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS)--a "self-interest" approach to administered prices. Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) and the tougher peer review organizations (PROs) serve ...
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Journal ArticleSurgery · April 1986
Several public and private groups have set minimum procedure-specific volume standards. Such standards reflect concerns about hospital quality and cost. In-hospital mortality rates are often taken as one measure of quality. To learn about variations in in- ...
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Journal ArticlePediatrics · April 1986
Increasing health care costs have directed public attention to changing rates of hospital care. We examined changes in hospitalization and surgical rates for children during the decade from 1972 to 1981. Total hospitalizations for children younger than 15 ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health economics · March 1986
The study presents an empirical analysis of the diffusion patterns of five surgical procedures. Roles of payer mix, regulatory policies, physician diffusion, competition among hospitals, and various hospital characteristics such as size and the spread of t ...
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Journal ArticlePublic Finance Review · January 1, 1986
Until recently, there have been no attempts to measure the influence of the income tax system on fringe benefits. A model is specified that links the tax system to fringe benefits. In addition, other determinants of the demand for and supply of fringe bene ...
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Journal ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982) · January 1986
This study evaluates the importance of several potential determinants of observed decreases in hospital stays for patients undergoing each of 11 surgical procedures using a panel of 521 hospitals covering 1971-1981. Observed decreases in stays for these pa ...
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Journal ArticleHealth care management review · January 1986
After this year, Medicare will no longer reimburse capital-related expenses. Instead, a new approach may be implemented. Should the new capital payment scheme be prospective? Should Medicare continue to recognize return on equity? What will be the relation ...
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Journal ArticleJAMA · July 1985
A competitive marketplace potentially creates new pressures for teaching hospitals. To assess possible trends in teaching hospitals' caseload, we studied surgical utilization in 1972 and 1981 using two national data sets. The percentage of total patients h ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health politics, policy and law · January 1985
Almost all states enacted legislation in response to the rapid rise in malpractice insurance premiums which occurred during the mid-1970s. After describing the types of statutory changes enacted, this study evaluates the influence of these changes on level ...
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Journal ArticleEconomic inquiry · January 1985
This study compares the performance of three ownership forms of hospitals: for profit, private nonprofit, and public, further classified according to whether or not the hospital is run by a hospital chain. Data come from a 1979 national survey of U.S. hosp ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Ambulatory Care Management · 1984
The current way the vast majority of physicians are reimbursed is far from perfect. Even though no ideal system will ever be devised, it is possible to do much better. The UCR system has long outlived its usefulness, if, infact, it was ever useful. Payment ...
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Journal ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982) · January 1984
Data from two national telephone surveys of office-based primary care physicians are used to examine changes in patterns of care delivery between 1975 and 1979 in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas. Aspects of care delivery considered include physician ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health politics, policy and law · January 1984
This study uses hospital data from the 1979 American Hospital Association Reimbursement Survey in a multivariate framework to assess the impact of discounts and third-party reimbursement on hospital costs and profitability. Three central issues are address ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health economics · December 1983
This study investigates the effects of tax, regulatory, and reimbursement policies and other factors exogenous to the health insurance market on the relative price (to commercial insurers) paid by Blue Cross plans for hospital care, their administrative ex ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health economics · March 1983
This study estimates effects of undergraduate and graduate medical education on hospital costs, using a national sample of 367 U.S. community hospitals observed in 1974 and 1977. Data on other cost determinants, such as casemix, allow us to isolate the inf ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the American Medical Association · 1983
During the 1970s, expenditures for physicians' services rose by $12.7 billion (in 1979 dollars), but only about one fifth of this amount could be attributed to an increase in number of physicians relative to population. Other factors, chiefly demographic c ...
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Journal ArticleInquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing · January 1983
This study examined the role of hospital teaching affiliation, third-party payer mix, physician compensation, and case mix on the utilization of inpatient services. Using multivariate analysis with five different utilization measures, we found that: 1) the ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health politics, policy and law · January 1983
Recent cases such as National Gerimedical Hospital and Gerontology Center v. Blue Cross of Kansas City have found that certificate-of-need (CON) legislation did not intend to remove antitrust considerations. This note discusses the exemptions from antitrus ...
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Journal ArticleHealth Affairs · January 1, 1983
Interest in the comparative economic performance of for-profit hospitals and not-for-profit hospitals has intensified in recent years as these institutions have increasingly come to compete for patients, patient care services, and, in some cases, even for ...
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Journal ArticleHealth care financing review · June 1982
Between 1970 and 1980, the percentage of hospitals with one or more collective bargaining contracts increased from 15.7 percent to 27.4 percent. A substantial amount of variation exists in the extent of unionism on the basis of hospital ownership, bed size ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health economics · May 1982
This article investigates the impact of unions on the wages of hospital workers. Our OLS findings agree with previous OLS studies--unions increase registered nurses' (RNs) wages by five percent and by about eight to ten percent for other hospital workers. ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of human resources · January 1982
According to conventional wisdom, the growth of health insurance is partly responsible for the rise in physicians' fees; however, to date, convincing empirical evidence is lacking. A standard model of physician fee determination yields unambiguous predicti ...
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Journal ArticleHealth services research · January 1980
This study presents descriptive information on several dimensions of the internal organization of hospitals, with particular emphasis on medical staff, using data from two unique national surveys. Three alternative theories of hospital behavior by economis ...
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Journal ArticlePolicy Sciences · December 1, 1978
Waiting times for physician appointments have been used in past studies as a measure of access to, or excess demand pressure on, local ambulatory care systems. This paper offers an alternative view-that short appointment delays are one of several types of ...
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Journal Article · January 1, 1978
This study analyzes sources of growth in hospital costs and inputs from 1970-1975 using a data base of 1,228 nonfederal short-term hospitals. Factors affecting hospital labor market setting at various levels of aggregation are also discussed. The effects o ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of human resources · January 1978
Various health insurance programs, including Blue Shield, have developed arrangements whereby the physician agrees to accept the insurer's reimbursement as payment in full. Incentives facing the physician to accept an arrangement of this type are reviewed ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of human resources · January 1978
Medicaid requires that physicians who accept Medicaid reimbursement for treating a patient agree to accept its payment as payment in full. Policy instruments under Medicaid's control are both levels of reimbursement and various administrative burdens impos ...
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Journal ArticleMedical care · April 1977
This paper focuses on one aspect of access to physicians' services, the time patients spend obtaining physicians' service. Patient time is divided into travel and waiting time components. Communities in which the patient's total time commitment tend to be ...
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Regression results from a 30-year panel of the state-level data indicate that changes in alcohol-excise taxes cause a reduction in drinking and lower all-cause mortality in the short run. But those results do not fully capture the long-term mortality effec ...
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