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Cost utility of public clinics to increase pneumococcal vaccines in the elderlyD B Mukamel
University of Rochester Medical Center, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
Am J Prev Med 21:29-34. 2001....- The impact of quality report cards on choice of physicians, hospitals, and HMOs: a midcourse evaluationD B Mukamel
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Improv 27:20-7. 2001..Publicly disseminated quality report cards are designed to inform consumers' choice of providers and health plans, thus counteracting incentives to provide low-quality care and improving the functioning of health care markets... - Quality report cards and nursing home qualityDana B Mukamel
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Gerontologist 43:58-66. 2003..This study examined the potential role that publicly disseminated quality report cards can play in improving quality of care in nursing homes... 
Racial differences in access to high-quality cardiac surgeonsD B Mukamel
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, NY 14642, USA
Am J Public Health 90:1774-7. 2000..Racial differences in access to cardiac artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery are well documented. This study extends the literature by examining racial differences in access to high-quality cardiac surgeons...- Development of a risk-adjusted urinary incontinence outcome measure of quality for nursing homesDana B Mukamel
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, New York 14642, USA
Med Care 41:467-78. 2003..Quality of nursing home care is of ongoing concern. The availability of uniform, patient-level information-the Minimum Data Set (MDS)-offers the opportunity to assess quality based on risk-adjusted health outcomes... - Evaluation of New York State's Child Health Plus: children who have asthmaP G Szilagyi
Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
Pediatrics 105:719-27. 2000..Little is known about the impact of providing health insurance to uninsured children who have asthma or other chronic diseases... - Evaluating Child Health Plus in upstate New York: how much does providing health insurance to uninsured children increase health care costs?J Zwanziger
Department of, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
Pediatrics 105:728-32. 2000..In this article, we identified the additional expenditures associated with the provision of health insurance to previously uninsured children... - Evaluation of a state health insurance program for low-income children: implications for state child health insurance programsP G Szilagyi
Departments of Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
Pediatrics 105:363-71. 2000..In 1991, New York State implemented Child Health Plus (CHPlus), a health insurance program that became a model for SCHIP:.. - Evaluation of New York State's Child Health Plus: methodsP G Szilagyi
Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
Pediatrics 105:697-705. 2000..A study was designed to measure the association between CHPlus and access to care, utilization of services, and quality of care... - Evolution of a children's health insurance program: lessons from New York State's Child Health PlusS Trafton
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
Pediatrics 105:692-6. 2000..New York's program provides useful data for successful implementation of SCHIP... - Quality of care information makes a difference: an analysis of market share and price changes after publication of the New York State Cardiac Surgery Mortality ReportsD B Mukamel
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, NY, USA
Med Care 36:945-54. 1998..The authors test the hypotheses that hospitals and surgeons with better outcomes reported in the NYS Cardiac Surgery Reports experience a relative increase in their market share and prices... - HMO penetration, competition, and risk-adjusted hospital mortalityD B Mukamel
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, NY 14642, USA
Health Serv Res 36:1019-35. 2001..These findings may be explained by a positive effect on local practice styles or a preferential selection by HMOs for areas with better hospital care... - The effect of accurate patient screening on the cost-effectiveness of case management programsD B Mukamel
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, NY 14642, USA
Gerontologist 37:777-84. 1997..The article demonstrates that even screening tools with only 20-30% positive predictive value could turn a case management program into a cost-effective program... - The influence of risk adjustment methods on conclusions about quality of care in nursing homes based on outcome measuresD B Mukamel
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester, New York 14642, USA
Gerontologist 38:695-703. 1998..This has implications for state quality oversight, providers' reputations and patients' choice... - Evaluation of children's health insurance: from New York State's CHild Health Plus to SCHIPP G Szilagyi
Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
Pediatrics 105:687-91. 2000.... - Racial differences in the use of epidural analgesia for laborLaurent G Glance
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
Anesthesiology 106:19-25; discussion 6-8. 2007..There is strong evidence that pain is undertreated in black and Hispanic patients. The association between race and ethnicity and the use of epidural analgesia for labor is not well described... - Use of a matching algorithm to evaluate hospital coronary artery bypass grafting performance as an alternative to conventional risk adjustmentLaurent G Glance
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, USA
Med Care 45:292-9. 2007..Although public reporting of hospital and physician performance is a cornerstone of the effort to improve health care quality, the optimal approach to risk adjustment is unknown... - Estimating the potential impact of regionalizing health care delivery based on volume standards versus risk-adjusted mortality rateLaurent G Glance
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 604, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 19:195-202. 2007..To examine whether basing regionalization on risk-adjusted mortality would lead to better population outcomes than basing regionalization on procedure volume... - Informal caregivers and the risk of nursing home admission among individuals enrolled in the program of all-inclusive care for the elderlySusan M Friedman
Department of Medicine, University of Rochester, Highland Hospital, Box 58, 1000 South Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620, USA
Gerontologist 46:456-63. 2006..We sought to determine whether participants in the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) with an informal caregiver have a higher or lower risk of nursing home admission than those without caregivers... - Accuracy of hospital report cards based on administrative dataLaurent G Glance
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Rochester School of Medicine, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 601, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Health Serv Res 41:1413-37. 2006..However, the CPAA modifier will need to be further validated before date stamped administrative data can be used as the basis for health quality report cards... - Are patients with coexisting mental disorders more likely to receive CABG surgery from low-quality cardiac surgeons? The experience in New York StateYue Li
Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, 461 Grider Street, Buffalo, NY 14215, USA
Med Care 45:587-93. 2007..Presence of a mental disorder has been shown to be associated with reduced access to medical and surgical services. Little is known, however, about the relationship between mental disorders and the quality of medical/surgical care received... - Changes in racial disparities in access to coronary artery bypass grafting surgery between the late 1990s and early 2000sDana B Mukamel
Center for Health Policy Research, University of California Irvine, 111 Academy Suite, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Med Care 45:664-71. 2007..Minorities, African American patients in particular, have lower utilization rates for coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) and, compared with white patients, they receive care from surgeons with worse records of performance... - Effect of complications on mortality after coronary artery bypass grafting surgery: evidence from New York StateLaurent G Glance
University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY, USA
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 134:53-8. 2007..Complications are associated with increased risk of death. The objective of this study is to quantify the increased odds of dying from complications after isolated coronary artery bypass grafting surgery... - Nursing homes' response to the nursing home compare report cardDana B Mukamel
Department of Medicine, Center for Health Policy Research, University of California, Irvine, 111 Academy, Suite 220, Irvine, CA 92697 5800, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 62:S218-25. 2007..The objective of this study was to examine the initial reactions of nursing homes to publication of the report card and to evaluate the impact of the report card on quality-improvement activities... - Program characteristics and enrollees' outcomes in the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)Dana B Mukamel
University of California at Irvine, Center for Health Policy Research, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Milbank Q 85:499-531. 2007..Several program characteristics were associated with better functional outcomes. Fewer were associated with long-term self-assessed health, and only one with mortality. These findings offer strategies that may lead to better care... - Interpreting market share changes as evidence for effectiveness of quality report cardsDana B Mukamel
Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Center for Health Policy Research, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-5800, USA
Med Care 45:1227-32. 2007 - Impact of date stamping on patient safety measurement in patients undergoing CABG: experience with the AHRQ Patient Safety IndicatorsLaurent G Glance
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 8:176. 2008..The objective of this study is to examine whether the AHRQ PSIs accurately measure hospital complication rates, using the data with present-on-admission (POA) codes to distinguish between complications and pre-existing conditions.. - Variations in service use in the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE): is more better?Helena Temkin-Greener
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 63:731-8. 2008..We examine variation in the risk-adjusted utilization of acute, rehabilitative, and supportive services in PACE, and assess whether use of these services is associated with risk-adjusted functional outcomes... - Does risk adjustment of the CMS quality measures for nursing homes matter?Dana B Mukamel
University of California Irvine, Center for Health Policy Research, Irvine, California 92697 5800, USA
Med Care 46:532-41. 2008..The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) publish a report card for nursing homes with 19 clinical quality measures (QMs). These measures include minimal risk adjustment... - Strategic orientation and nursing home response to public reporting of quality measures: an application of the miles and snow typologyJacqueline S Zinn
Department of Risk, Insurance and Healthcare Management, Temple University, 413 Ritter Annex, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Health Serv Res 43:598-615. 2008.... - Publication of quality report cards and trends in reported quality measures in nursing homesDana B Mukamel
Center for Health Policy Research, 111 Academy, University of California, Suite 220, Irvine, CA 92697 5800, USA
Health Serv Res 43:1244-62. 2008.... 
Impact of the present-on-admission indicator on hospital quality measurement: experience with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Inpatient Quality IndicatorsLaurent G Glance
University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, New York, USA
Med Care 46:112-9. 2008..The extent to which the lack of a POA indicator biases quality assessment based on the AHRQ mortality measures is unknown...- Are high-quality cardiac surgeons less likely to operate on high-risk patients compared to low-quality surgeons? Evidence from New York StateLaurent G Glance
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, PO Box 604, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Health Serv Res 43:300-12. 2008..It is unknown whether high-risk cardiac surgical patients have less access to high-quality surgeons compared with lower-risk patients... - Gender differences in healthcare-seeking behavior for urinary incontinence and the impact of socioeconomic status: a study of the Medicare managed care populationYue Li
Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, 462 Grider Street, New York, NY 14215, USA
Med Care 45:1116-22. 2007..Despite the gender difference in etiology, prevalence and management of urinary incontinence (UI) among community-living older adults, little is known about the effect of gender on their healthcare-seeking behaviors... - Referrals to high-quality cardiac surgeons: patients' race and characteristics of their physiciansDana B Mukamel
Center for Health Policy Research, University of California, 111 Academy Suite 220, Irvine, CA 92697-5800, USA
Health Serv Res 41:1276-95. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: Several different pathways lead blacks to cardiac surgeons of lower quality. Further research is needed to understand the causes and inform policies designed to minimize disparities in access to high-quality providers... - Predicting place of death in the program of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE): participant versus program characteristicsHelena Temkin-Greener
Community Coalition for Long Term Care, Inc, Rochester, New York 14604, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 50:125-35. 2002..The PACE end-of-life practice style could potentially be applied to other populations and may have important public policy implications... - Social support and risk-adjusted mortality in a frail older populationHelena Temkin-Greener
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Med Care 42:779-88. 2004..The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that social support is an important predictor of mortality in a frail older population receiving formal long-term care services... - Variations in risk-adjusted outcomes in a managed acute/long-term care program for frail elderly individualsDana B Mukamel
University of California, Department of Medicine, Irvine, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 16:293-301. 2004..To develop and investigate the properties of three performance measures based on risk-adjusted health outcomes for a frail, elderly, community-dwelling population enrolled in a managed, acute, and long-term care program... - The growing pains of integrated health care for the elderly: lessons from the expansion of PACEDiane L Gross
University of Rochester, USA
Milbank Q 82:257-82. 2004..This experience offers important lessons for providing integrated health care to the frail elderly... - Team performance and risk-adjusted health outcomes in the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)Dana B Mukamel
University of California, Irvine, 111 Academy Way, Suite 220, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Gerontologist 46:227-37. 2006..The purpose of this study was to examine the association between the team's overall performance and the risk-adjusted health outcomes of program enrollees... - Is the hospital volume-mortality relationship in coronary artery bypass surgery the same for low-risk versus high-risk patients?Laurent G Glance
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Rochester Medical Center, School of Medicine and Dentistry, New York, Rochester 14642, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 76:1155-62. 2003..The objective of this study was to determine whether the volume-outcome association for CABG surgery is modified by patient risk... - Quality of cardiac surgeons and managed care contracting practicesDana B Mukamel
University of Rochester Medical Center, NY 14642, USA
Health Serv Res 37:1129-44. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: In some, but not all cases, MCOs are seeking higher-quality providers. Further research is required to understand regional variability and the effect of market structure on the quality profile of MCOs... - Health care services utilization at the end of life in a managed care program integrating acute and long-term careDana B Mukamel
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Med Care 40:1136-48. 2002..The period preceding death is often characterized by increased utilization of medical resources. There is an ongoing debate on the reasons for and the appropriateness of increased utilization at the end of life... - Use of resident-origin data to define nursing home market boundariesJack Zwanziger
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, NY 14642, USA
Inquiry 39:56-66. 2002..This shows that nursing home markets tend to be more concentrated than those that result from assuming countywide markets. These results suggest that studies of nursing home markets should not use counties as markets... - Hospital competition, resource allocation and quality of careDana B Mukamel
University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 2:10. 2002.... - Nursing home costs and quality of care outcomesLanis L Hicks
School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, USA
Nurs Econ 22:178-92, 175. 2004..While each individual quality measure makes only small contributions to costs, when considered across the facility, quality could have a substantial financial impact on the operations of the home... - Characteristics predicting nursing home admission in the program of all-inclusive care for elderly peopleSusan M Friedman
Department of Medicine, University of Rochester, NY, USA
Gerontologist 45:157-66. 2005..This study determined overall risk and predictors of long-term nursing home admission within the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)... - Purchasing or providing nursing home care: can quality of care data provide guidanceDan R Berlowitz
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research, Bedford Veterans Affairs Hospital, 200 Springs Road, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 53:603-8. 2005.... - Quality report cards, selection of cardiac surgeons, and racial disparities: a study of the publication of the New York State Cardiac Surgery ReportsDana B Mukamel
Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Center for Health Policy Research, University of California, Irvine, 111 Academy Way, Suite 220, Irvine, CA 92697 5800, USA
Inquiry 41:435-46. 2004..Furthermore, selection of surgeons for black patients is as sensitive to the published information as is the selection for white patients... - Nursing home spending patterns in the 1990s: the role of nursing home competition and excess demandDana B Mukamel
Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Health Serv Res 40:1040-55. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: Nursing home expenditures are sensitive to competition and excess demand conditions. Policies that influence competition in nursing home markets are therefore likely to have an impact on expenditures as well... - The relation between surgeon volume and outcome following off-pump vs on-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgeryLaurent G Glance
University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY, USA
Chest 128:829-37. 2005.... - Disenrollment from an acute/long-term managed care program (PACE)Helena Temkin-Greener
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
Med Care 44:31-8. 2006..To our knowledge, this is a first study to examine patterns and predictors of disenrollment from PACE... - Does date stamping ICD-9-CM codes increase the value of clinical information in administrative data?Laurent G Glance
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Health Serv Res 41:231-51. 2006..The use of data fields that indicates whether each secondary diagnosis was present at the time of hospital admission may lead to the more accurate identification of preexisting conditions... - Impact of changing the statistical methodology on hospital and surgeon ranking: the case of the New York State cardiac surgery report cardLaurent G Glance
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
Med Care 44:311-9. 2006..Risk adjustment is central to the generation of health outcome report cards. It is unclear, however, whether risk adjustment should be based on standard logistic regression, fixed-effects or random-effects modeling... - Impact of patient volume on the mortality rate of adult intensive care unit patientsLaurent G Glance
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, USA
Crit Care Med 34:1925-34. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: There is evidence that high ICU patient volumes are associated with lower mortality rates in high-risk critically ill adults... - Do trends in the reporting of quality measures on the nursing home compare web site differ by nursing home characteristics?Jacqueline Zinn
Department of Risk, Insurance and Healthcare Management, Fox School of Business and Management, Temple University, Philadelphia PA 19122, USA
Gerontologist 45:720-30. 2005.... - Trends in geographic disparities in allocation of health care resources in the USTuvia Horev
Department of Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
Health Policy 68:223-32. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: Rates per capita might not be sufficient in determining availability of resources. Further research is needed to determine implications for health outcomes...