Discriminating quality of hospital care in the US. May 1, 2008 Normand S-LT, Wolf RE, McNeil BJ Sharon-Lise Normand Barbara J. McNeil Medical Decision Making http://mdm.sagepub.com/content/28/3/308.abstract
Access to care and use of preventive services by Hispanics: state-based variations from 1991 to 2004. May 1, 2008 Kang-Kim M, Betancourt JR, Ayanian JZ, et al. Alan M. Zaslavsky Medical Care http://journals.lww.com/lww-medicalcare/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2008&issue=05000&article=00009&type=abstract
The Collective Dynamics of Smoking in a Large Social Network May 1, 2008 N.A. Christakis and J.H. Fowler New England Journal of Medicine http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2822344/
Statistical methodology for classifying units on the basis of multiple related measures. April 30, 2008 Teixeira-Pinto A and Normand S-L T Sharon-Lise Normand Statistics in Medicine http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2278020/
A comparison of methods for combining quality and efficiency performance measures: profiling the value of hospital care following acute myocardial infarction. April 30, 2008 Timbie JW, Normand S-LT Sharon-Lise Normand Statistics in Medicine http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=A%20comparison%20of%20methods%20for%20combining%20quality%20and%20efficiency%20performance%20measures%3A%20profiling%20the%20value%20of%20hospital%20care%20following%20acute%20myocardial%20infarction.
Assessment of the scientific soundness of clinical performance measures: A field test of the National Committee for Quality Assurance’s colorectal cancer screening measure. April 28, 2008 Schneider EC, Nadel MR, Zaslavsky AM, et al. Alan M. Zaslavsky Archives of Internal Medicine http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=414181
Medicare Beneficiaries’ Knowledge of Part D Program Prescription Drug Benefits and Responses to Drug Costs April 23, 2008 John Hsu, Vicki Fung, Mary Price, et al. John Hsu Joseph P. Newhouse Journal of the American Medical Association http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=181814
The comparison of “risk-adjusted” hospital outcomes April 15, 2008 Shahian DM and Normand S-LT Sharon-Lise Normand Circulation http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/117/15/1955.long
Restructuring in Response to Case Mix Reimbursement in Nursing Homes: A Contingency Approach April 1, 2008 Zinn J, Feng Z, Mor V, et al. David C. Grabowski Health Care Management Review http://journals.lww.com/hcmrjournal/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2008&issue=04000&article=00004&type=abstract
The descriptive epidemiology of commonly occurring mental disorders in the United States. April 1, 2008 Kessler RC and Wang PS Ronald C. Kessler Annual Review of Public Health http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.publhealth.29.020907.090847?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3Dpubmed&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&journalCode=publhealth