Marc N Elliott

..There is interest in reducing survey administration costs and sample size requirements by sampling these 2 groups together for health plan comparisons. Plan managers may also be interested in understanding variability within plans...

..We assessed the rates and correlates of seeking mental health services among a probability sample of Cambodian refugees who needed such services...

..g., housing, health care). For women in relationships, there may be a further need to address issues of partner substance use...

..The goal of this study was to assess the independent influence of breadth and repetition of sexual discussion on adolescents' perceptions of their relationship and communication with their parents...

..To examine timing of parent-child discussions about sexual topics relative to child-reported sexual behavior...

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..To compare health care experiences of Medicare beneficiaries with and without symptoms of depression and investigate the role of patient confidence in shaping these experiences...

..Among those with a probable diagnosis, a similar pattern was found. Findings suggest that structural, not culturally based, barriers are the most critical obstacles to care in this U.S. Cambodian refugee community...

..Prior studies have had mixed results and may not adequately control for prepledge differences between pledgers and nonpledgers...

..To examine whether disparities in health care experiences of Medicare beneficiaries differ between managed care (Medicare Advantage [MA]) and traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare...

..Results suggest the need for HIV-prevention interventions to address the problems of partner substance use and relationship abuse...

..Findings provide further evidence that interventions should address a multifaceted context of HIV risk for impoverished women...

..Modifying coping strategies may ameliorate some of the negative impact of trauma and potentially enhance mental health service use among at-risk women...

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..Results suggested that punitive DUI policies might curb a variety of drinking behaviors whereas harm reduction DUI policies (e.g., court treatment programs) might have been established in response to higher drinking rates...

..To examine how relationship commitment among impoverished women is associated with their frequency of unprotected sex...

..Adjust for subgroup differences in extreme response tendency (ERT) in ratings of health care, which otherwise obscure disparities in patient experience...

..To evaluate the need for survey mode adjustments to hospital care evaluations by discharged inpatients and develop the appropriate adjustments...

..These findings, and others suggesting that the different types of violence are distinct and severe, may call for more comprehensive screening and intervention efforts to enhance the safety of impoverished women...

..Patients are hospitalized for disparate conditions and procedures. Patient experiences with care may depend on hospitalization type (HT)...

..These techniques can be used simultaneously to substantially increase effective sample sizes (ESSs). For example, (1) and (2) in combination can be used to multiply the nominal sample size of AI/AN or Chinese by 8 and the ESS by 4...

..Whereas earlier study of the prevalence and correlates of disordered gambling has relied on convenience sampling, this investigation used a subset of a sample representative of the largest Cambodian refugee community in the US...

..Areas meriting attention include: tailoring reports to specific audiences, assessing literacy, planning dissemination, educating vendors, and evaluating products and programs...

..Research is needed to guide health policy and practices aimed at eliminating this health disparity...

..We present empirical examples using the NHIS data...

..Seasonal influenza and pneumococcal immunization rates are substantially lower for older Hispanics than for non-Hispanic whites...

..These improvements were fairly uniform across hospitals. The largest increases were in measures related to staff responsiveness and the discharge information that patients received...

..High-risk sexual activity was more prevalent in states permitting longer sales hours (7% greater odds for each additional hour). Restrictive alcohol sales policies may reduce drinking and transmission risk in HIV-positive individuals...

..As HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) data accumulate, reports that drill down to hospital performance for patient subtypes (especially by health status) may be valuable...

..Illustrate an accessible method of bridging data from earlier surveys to the CAHPS Hospital Survey to support hospitals' internal quality improvement efforts...

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..To examine the simultaneous associations of parent and coder assessments of communication events with parent satisfaction...

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..However, empirical data examining the relationships between exposure to sex on TV and adolescent sexual behaviors are rare and inadequate for addressing the issue of causal effects...

..Assess proxy respondent effects on health care evaluations by Medicare beneficiaries...

..This suggests that mode of administration should be standardized or carefully adjusted for. Alternatively, further item development may minimize the sensitivity of items to mode of data collection...

..Results emphasize the need to better understand the regulatory influence of relationships on health behavior and the conditions under which social control is most likely to have health-promoting effects...

..Little is known about the long-term mental health of trauma-exposed refugees years after permanent resettlement in host countries...

..These findings suggest a need for enhancing dissemination of the information as well as further education to encourage informed choices...

..We examine unit (whole survey) and item nonresponse for this survey to explore issues regarding surveying seniors about their health care...

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..Moreover, each was independently useful in predicting beneficiaries' global ratings of their plan. This instrument can be an important tool for helping beneficiaries to choose a plan that best meets their needs...

..While collecting additional data is costly, innovative analytic approaches may improve the accuracy and utility of existing data. We developed an application of the Kalman filter in order to make more efficient use of extant data...

..Findings also highlight opportunities to reduce women's risk of experiencing violence through enhancing women's social support and mental health...

..In contrast to Steinberg and Monahan's claim, there is substantial evidence of an association between sexual media exposure and adolescent sexual initiation...

..To incorporate mortality risk, a potentially important factor to consider when deciding whether to initiate therapy for ocular hypertensives, into estimates of 5-year glaucoma risk...

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..To our knowledge, no previous work has empirically examined associations between exposure to television sexual content and adolescent pregnancy...

..This study investigates associations between self-reports of having a job and substance use and delinquent behaviors in a sample of U.S. 5th graders...

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..Little is known about why such a large proportion of teenagers express disappointment about the timing of their initial experience with sex...

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..In 2004, California's Paid Family Leave Insurance Program (PFLI) became the first state program to provide paid leave to care for an ill family member...

..Findings suggest that elucidating the distinct social influence processes that operate for conscientiousness and neuroticism may further understanding of how these traits are related to health behaviors and status...

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..Clinicians and policymakers should consider how the healthcare system and other community organizations might provide a coordinated community-wide response for individuals needing information and counseling following terrorist events...

..Bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis is a poorly understood condition that can cause serious disability. We provide the first population based symptom prevalence estimate to our knowledge among United States adult females...

..Possible explanations for these age-related differences are discussed...

..With such a rule, simple randomization will produce samples that are at least 95% as efficient as a fully balanced sample of equal size at least 95% of the time...

..Television is often decried as a negative influence on the sexual attitudes and behavior of America's adolescents. However, television occasionally includes messages about the risks of having sex that may have a positive effect on youth...

..In addition, the system appears applicable to both generalist and specialist practices. More experience with the system is necessary to appraise TORP's ability to predict important clinical outcomes...

..To evaluate whether providing physicians and older patients with personalized reports of drinking risks and benefits and patient education reduces alcohol-related risks and problems...

..Individual physician report cards should contain ample information in both domains to be most useful to patients...

..Forced sexual intercourse is becoming more salient for adolescent women nationwide, but little is known about sexual revictimization and its mediators among adolescents in middle and high school...

..The purpose of this work was to determine the rates and predictors of custody status for children of HIV-infected parents...

..Widespread overuse and inappropriate use of antibiotics are a major public health concern. Little is known about racial/ethnic differences in parents seeking antibiotics for their children's upper respiratory illnesses...

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..CONCLUSIONS: Case-mix adjustment has a small impact on hospital ratings, but can lead to important reductions in the bias in comparisons between hospitals...

..Previous Consumer Assessments Of Healthcare Providers And Systems (CAHPS) studies have shown that Hispanics report care that is similar to or less positive than for non-Hispanic whites, yet have more positive ratings of care...

..Whether acculturation affects parent-adolescent communication is unknown...

..001). The authors perform an innovative sensitivity test to demonstrate the persistence of the finding after correcting for the bias attributable to underrepresentation of those who have not yet self-identified as gay in such samples...

..It also reduced decision quality for less educated intermediaries. Designers and sponsors of consumer-oriented materials should recognize that more information is not always better...

..To evaluate a worksite based parenting programme-Talking Parents, Healthy Teens-designed to help parents learn to address sexual health with their adolescent children...

..In primary, acute-care visits, patients frequently present with more than 1 concern. Various visit factors prevent additional concerns from being articulated and addressed...

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..To examine the relationships among physician-parent communication practices, physicians' perceptions of parental expectations for antibiotic treatment, and inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for viral upper respiratory tract infections...

..To examine the relation between parent expectations for antibiotics, parent communication behaviors, and physicians' perceptions of parent expectations for antibiotics...

..Future interventions aimed at decreasing inappropriate antibiotic prescribing should consider "harnessing" the Hawthorne effect through performance feedback to participating physicians...

..We examined leave-taking among full-time-employed parents of children with special health care needs...

..To determine the rates and predictors of child awareness of parental human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) status and the effect of that knowledge on children...

..The purpose of this work was to determine the rates and predictors of guardianship planning and preferred guardians among HIV-infected parents...

..There is a high degree of professional consensus that children diagnosed with pharyngitis should only receive antibiotics if they have a positive test for group A streptococcus (GAS)...

..However, few data on sexual practices or perceived STD risk among lesbians are available to guide development of interventions aimed at reducing the risk...

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..To develop and test the validity of a quality-of-care performance measure that examines antibiotic prescribing rates in children diagnosed as having upper respiratory infection (URI) or bronchitis...

..Findings show significant variations in the quality of nursing care and support the continued development of nursing quality assessment and improvement initiatives directed at reducing the gap between nursing theory and practice...