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Specialty and full-service hospitals: a comparative cost analysisKathleen Carey
VA Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research and Boston University School of Public Health, 200 Springs Road, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Health Serv Res 43:1869-87. 2008..To compare the costs of physician-owned cardiac, orthopedic, and surgical single specialty hospitals with those of full-service hospital competitors...
Excess costs attributable to postoperative complicationsKathleen Carey
VA Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research
Med Care Res Rev 68:490-503. 2011..quot; The results obtained suggest that quality improvement efforts aimed at reducing postoperative complications can contribute significantly to lowering of hospital costs...- Hospital competition and financial performance: the effects of ambulatory surgery centersKathleen Carey
VA Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Boston University School of Public Health, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Health Econ 20:571-81. 2011..The results of fixed effects models suggested that ASCs are meaningful competitors to general hospitals. We found downward pressure on revenues, costs, and profits in general hospitals associated with ASC presence... - Controlling for quality in the hospital cost functionKathleen Carey
VA Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Boston University School of Public Health, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Health Care Manag Sci 14:125-34. 2011..The marginal cost of an adverse event is estimated to be $22,413. The results contribute to a growing business case for inpatient safety in hospital services... - Use of VA and Medicare services by dually eligible veterans with psychiatric problemsKathleen Carey
VA Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research and, Boston University School of Public Health, 200 Springs Road, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Health Serv Res 43:1164-83. 2008.... - Specialization and physician-ownership in the US hospital industry: beyond the moratoriumKathleen Carey
VA Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Bedford, MA 01742, USA
Health Econ Policy Law 2:409-18. 2007..And caution will be required not to compromise the capacity of community general hospitals to service more complex patients and to maintain the social safety net... - Contract management in USA hospitals: service duplication and access within local marketsKathleen Carey
VA Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Health Serv Manage Res 21:161-7. 2008..Contract management does not appear to offer any particular advantages in improving access to hospital services... - Measuring the cost of hospital adverse patient safety eventsKathleen Carey
VA Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Health Econ 20:1417-30. 2011..DSS costing appeared to better characterize the high cost patients... 
Single specialty hospitals and service competitionKathleen Carey
VA Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, 200 Springs Road, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Inquiry 46:162-71. 2009..Entry of specialty hospitals is also associated with significantly higher growth in high-technology diagnostic imaging services in the general hospitals in those markets...- Hospital cost efficiency and system membershipKathleen Carey
Management Science Group, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Inquiry 40:25-38. 2003..Policymakers should be mindful of potential efficiency gains from hospital consolidations and be aware that common ownership alone may be too general a rubric for evaluating those gains usefully... - Trends in contract management: the hidden evolution in hospital organizationKathleen Carey
Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 23:192-9. 2004..Since contract-managed hospitals tend to be located in rural areas, this raises concerns regarding access to care. On the other hand, contract management may allow distressed hospitals to survive... - The effect of network arrangements on hospital pricing behaviorJames F Burgess
Department of Health Services, Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany Street, Talbot 3 West, Boston, MA 02118, USA
J Health Econ 24:391-405. 2005..However, this result appears to be generated primarily by system-owned hospitals that form networks to provide particular services jointly... - The association between serious psychological distress and emergency department utilization among young adults in the USAMin ting Lin
Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 47:939-47. 2012..We also studied the additive effects of SPD, cigarette smoking, and alcohol consumption on the ED presentation... - Perinatal factors affecting expression of obsessive compulsive disorder in children and adolescentsDaniel A Geller
Clinical and Research Program in Pediatric Psychopharmacology, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02318, USA
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 18:373-9. 2008..To examine whether adverse perinatal experiences of children are associated with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in youth... - Moral conflict, religiosity, and neuroticism in an outpatient sampleJerome Kroll
Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 192:682-8. 2004..Because patients are concerned about the moral aspects of their character and behavior, this area deserves further research and consideration...