How Do You Know What Aunt Martha Looks Like?
October 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Non-verbal clues provide different but important information for doctors and patients during routine checkups.
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Quality and Cost Analysis of Nurse Staffing, Discharge Preparation, and Postdischarge Utilization
April 21, 2011 | Journal Article
Investments in nursing care hours reduce hospital readmissions by better preparing patients for discharge.
Exposure to Cannabis in Popular Music and Cannabis Use Among Adolescents
March 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A study to determine whether exposure to references to cannabis in popular music is associated with cannabis use in urban adolescents found an independent association between exposure and early use.
The Shortage of On-Call Surgical Specialist Coverage
December 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Patient care suffers when emergency department directors have difficulty in obtaining on-call coverage by specialists.
How Does Medicaid-Managed Care Impact Reporting of Medicaid Status?
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Detailed analysis of state and national data demonstrates that enrollment in Medicaid-Managed Care does not contribute to the Medicaid Undercount, despite conflicting results from previous studies.
Are Lower Response Rates Hazardous to Your Health Survey?
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Surveying more people rather than blindly pursing response rates may be a smarter tactic for researchers.
Emergency Department Information System Adoption in the United States
May 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Emergency physician Adam Landman—a former corporate consultant with a background in information systems—is eager to re-enter the digital age. He is tired of writing scripts, thumbing through paper records and trying to decipher his colleagues’ handw ...
Using HMOs to Serve the Medicaid Population
April 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines the penetration and impact of Medicaid HMOs in markets across the United States. The percentage of Medicaid patients enrolled in an HMO has increased enormously in the past 20 years, but little is known about whether this change has resulted in lower costs or higher quality of care.
Toward Standardized, Comparable Public Health Systems Data
October 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article presents a taxonomy of tasks, knowledge and resources that can be used as a common standard to document the work of local health departments. A standardized system is necessary to compare and evaluate the work of health departments on a national scale.
Implications of the Growing Use of Wireless Telephones for Health Care Opinion Polls
October 1, 2009 | Journal Article
If a public opinion survey had included only landline telephone users, it would have underestimated support for health care coverage reforms by 1.7 to 3.3 percent, according to this study analyzing wireless versus landline respondents to the 2007 New Jersey Health Care Opinion Poll.