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Current and future directions in Medi-Cal chronic disease care management: a view from the topL Elizabeth Goldman
University of California Department of Medicine, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Am J Manag Care 13:263-8. 2007..To determine the extent to which Medicaid managed care (MMC) organizations are engaged in chronic disease care management (CDCM), tailor CDCM for diverse populations, or plan to expand CDCM...
Comparisons of health plan quality: does the sampling strategy affect the results?L Elizabeth Goldman
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Med Care 46:752-7. 2008..Health plan evaluations typically focus on beneficiaries continuously enrolled throughout a calendar year...- Quality of care in hospitals with a high percent of Medicaid patientsL Elizabeth Goldman
Departments of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94110, USA
Med Care 45:579-83. 2007..Certain hospitals play a central role in ensuring Medicaid-insured patients' access to care. Their quality of care is critical to evaluate... - Public reporting and pay-for-performance: safety-net hospital executives' concerns and policy suggestionsL Elizabeth Goldman
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Inquiry 44:137-45. 2007.... - Accuracy of diagnostic mammography at facilities serving vulnerable womenL Elizabeth Goldman
Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Med Care 49:67-75. 2011..Whether accuracy of diagnostic mammography at facilities serving vulnerable women differs from other facilities is unknown... 
Facility characteristics do not explain higher false-positive rates in diagnostic mammography at facilities serving vulnerable womenL Elizabeth Goldman
Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Med Care 50:210-6. 2012..Facilities serving vulnerable women have higher false-positive rates for diagnostic mammography than facilities serving nonvulnerable women. False positives lead to anxiety, unnecessary biopsies, and higher costs...- An assessment of the quality of mammography care at facilities treating medically vulnerable populationsL Elizabeth Goldman
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
Med Care 46:701-8. 2008..Whether mammography facilities that treat vulnerable women demonstrate lower quality of care than other facilities is unknown... - Federally qualified health centers and private practice performance on ambulatory care measuresL Elizabeth Goldman
Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 94110, USA
Am J Prev Med 43:142-9. 2012..The 2010 Affordable Care Act relies on Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and FQHC look-alikes (look-alikes) to provide care for newly insured patients, but ties increased funding to demonstrated quality and efficiency... - Do opiates affect the clinical evaluation of patients with acute abdominal pain?Sumant R Ranji
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0131, USA
JAMA 296:1764-74. 2006..Clinicians have traditionally withheld opiate analgesia from patients with acute abdominal pain until after evaluation by a surgeon, out of concern that analgesia may alter the physical findings and interfere with diagnosis... - Accuracy of Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) in Administrative DataL Elizabeth Goldman
1University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Med Care Res Rev 70:98-112. 2013..The accuracy of DNR was more problematic for patients who died, suggesting that hospital-reported DNR is problematic for capturing patient preferences for resuscitation that can be used for risk-adjusted outcomes assessments... - Timeliness of abnormal screening and diagnostic mammography follow-up at facilities serving vulnerable womenL Elizabeth Goldman
Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Med Care 51:307-14. 2013..Whether timeliness of follow-up after abnormal mammography differs at facilities serving vulnerable populations, such as women with limited education or income, in rural areas, and racial/ethnic minorities is unknown... - United States rural hospital quality in the Hospital Compare database-accounting for hospital characteristicsL Elizabeth Goldman
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Health Policy 87:112-27. 2008..We compared the quality of rural hospitals participating in a public reporting initiative to that of their urban counterparts using Hospital Compare, a new national database containing process measures... - The accuracy of present-on-admission reporting in administrative dataL Elizabeth Goldman
Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Health Serv Res 46:1946-62. 2011..To test the accuracy of reporting present-on-admission (POA) and to assess whether POA reporting accuracy differs by hospital characteristics... - Comparison of change in quality of care between safety-net and non-safety-net hospitalsRachel M Werner
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
JAMA 299:2180-7. 2008..As such, some have expressed concern that these incentives have the potential to worsen existing disparities among hospitals...