Publications

Paying for quality: providers' incentives for quality improvement

March 1, 2004

Rosenthal MB, Fernandopulle R, Song HR, et al.

Bruce E. Landon

Health Affairs

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/23/2/127.long

Nursing Homes with Persistent High and Low Quality

March 1, 2004

Grabowski DC and Castle NG

David C. Grabowski

Medical Care Research and Review

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15035858

Measuring Quality of Life at the End of Life: Validation of the QUAL-E

March 1, 2004

K. E. Steinhauser, E. C. Clipp, H. B. Bosworth, et al.

Palliative and Supportive Care

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Measuring%20Quality%20of%20Life%20at%20the%20End%20of%20Life%3A%20Validation%20of%20the%20QUAL-E

Stereotactic and sonographic large-core biopsy of nonpalpable breast lesions: Results of the Radiologic Diagnostic Oncology Group V study

March 1, 2004

Fajardo LL, Pisano ED, Caudry DJ, et al.

Barbara J. McNeil

Academic Radiology

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Stereotactic%20and%20sonographic%20large-core%20biopsy%20of%20nonpalpable%20breast%20lesions%3A%20Results%20of%20the%20Radiologic%20Diagnostic%20Oncology%20Group%20V%20study.

Physicians' beliefs about racial differences in referral for renal transplantation

February 1, 2004

Ayanian JZ, Cleary PD, Keogh JH, et al.

Arnold Epstein

American Journal of Kidney Disease

http://www.ajkd.org/article/S0272-6386(03)01379-9/abstract

Nursing home staffing and quality under the nursing home reform act

February 1, 2004

Zhang X, Grabowski DC

David C. Grabowski

Gerontologist

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14978317

Evaluating the planned substitution of the Minimum Data Set - Post Acute Care for use in the rehabilitation hospital prospective payment system

February 1, 2004

Buchanan JL, Andres PL, Haley SM, et al.

Alan M. Zaslavsky

Medical Care

http://journals.lww.com/lww-medicalcare/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2004&issue=02000&article=00009&type=abstract

The costs of decedents in the Medicare program: implications for payments to Medicare Choice plans

February 1, 2004

Buntin MB, Garber AM, McClellan M, et al.

Alan M. Garber Joseph P. Newhouse

Health Services Research

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1360997/

Daily smoking and the subsequent onset of psychiatric disorders

February 1, 2004

Breslau N, Novak SP and Kessler RC

Ronald C. Kessler

Psychological Medicine

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14982138

Trends in the aggressiveness of cancer care near the end of life

January 15, 2004

Earle CC, Neville BA, Landrum MB, et al.

Mary Beth Landrum

Journal of Clinical Oncology

http://jco.ascopubs.org/content/22/2/315.long