P A Fishman

..To assess the impact on health care cost and quality among seniors of a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) pilot at Group Health Cooperative, an integrated health care system in Washington State...

..To estimate the impact of deductibles on the initiation and continuation of psychotherapy for depression...

..However, BP control for individuals, as defined by an SBP <140 mm Hg and DBP 90 mm Hg, differed by almost 25%. Known variability of BP and clinic procedures for measuring and recording BP may account for these differences...

..However, no studies have determined whether health care costs for abused women return to baseline levels at some point after their abuse ceases...

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..To assess the impact of comorbid attention deficit disorder (ADD) on the direct medical costs of treating adults with depression in a mixed-model health maintenance organization...

..This paper reviews why traditional HMOs are ideal places to conduct public health research and analyzes how recent market trends may threaten this role for managed care...

..We replicated the postquit cost spike among former smokers found by other research and showed that this spike dissipated within the first year postquit. Smoking cessation did not result in sustained cost increases among former smokers...

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..To estimate the cost-effectiveness of three strategies to increase breast cancer screening with mammography (reminder postcard, reminder telephone call, and motivational telephone call)...

..Each model's power to forecast health care resource use is assessed...

..This study compared prevalent health utilization and costs for persons with and without metabolic syndrome and investigated the independent associations of the various factors that make up metabolic syndrome...

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..To describe how insured adults with metabolic syndrome respond to various options for insurance coverage and financial incentives for weight management...

..The breadth and depth of intimate partner violence (IPV) experienced by men have not been fully documented...

..To obtain quality-of-life (QOL) valuations associated with mammography screening and breast cancer treatment that are suitable for use in cost-effectiveness analyses...

..Treating hypertension decreases mortality and disability from cardiovascular disease, but most hypertension remains inadequately controlled...

..Multisite administrative data provide unique opportunities to conduct population-based clinical and economic research...

..Physical and sexual childhood abuse is associated with poor health across the lifespan. However, the association between these types of abuse and actual health care use and costs over the long run has not been documented...

..This large gap continues despite the facts that more than 90% of adults with hypertension have health insurance, and hypertension is the leading cause of visits to the doctor. New approaches are needed to improve hypertension care...

..Researchers should consider factors such as drug benefit status when conducting studies using pharmacy data. More studies are needed in different populations and delivery systems, as well as over varied types of drug benefits...

..Using the health plan as a working frame of reference, we explore conceptual issues related to estimating effectiveness at the level of the family for use in CEA...

..We sought to evaluate the effects of hormone therapy (HT) on false-positive (FP) recall for additional breast evaluation and costs...

..We examine the ability of various publicly available risk models to identify high-cost individuals and enrollee groups using multi-HMO administrative data...

..Any net increase in costs among former smokers relative to continuing smokers appears compensated for within two years post-quit and is maintained for at least six years after cessation...

..The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is an ideal environment in which to test the efficacy of a pharmacy-based approach...

..This study estimated adherence to repeat (two successive on-time screenings) and regular screening (three or more successive screenings) and evaluated the impact of varying operational definitions and evaluation periods...

..We describe the prevalence, types, duration, frequency, and severity of intimate partner violence ("partner violence") in older women...

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..Pediatric risk assessment research has also not explored opportunities to use all information available in managed care information systems. ..

..The results of our study will help guide researchers and policy makers in planning and implementing brief interventions for a wide range of health behaviors. ..