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A Graphical Method for Assessing Risk Factor Threshold Values Using the Generalized Additive Model: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis - 2012

Can Quality-Adjusted Life-Years and Subgroups Help Us Decide Whether to Treat Late-Arriving Stroke Patients with Tissue Plasminogen Activator? - 2012

A Controlled Trial of an Intervention to Improve Urinary and Fecal Incontinence and Constipation - 2010

A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of a Proposed National Falls Prevention Program - 2010

General Cardiovascular Risk Profile Identifies Advanced Coronary Artery Calcium and Is Improved By Family History: The Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis - 2010

The Impact of Functional Status on Life Expectancy in Older Persons - 2010

Overview of the COMPARE Microsimulation Model - 2009

Waste in the U.S. Health Care System: A Conceptual Framework - 2008

Prevention of Unintentional Weight Loss in Nursing Home Residents: A Controlled Trial of Feeding Assistance - 2008

Modeling the Health and Medical Care Spending of the Future Elderly - 2008

Attrition in the RAND Health Insurance Experiment: A Response to Nyman - 2008

Medicare HMO Impact on Utilization at the End of Life - 2008

Relation of Familial Patterns of Coronary Heart Disease, Stroke, and Diabetes to Subclinical Atherosclerosis: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis - 2008

Estimating the Global Health Impact of Improved Diagnostic Tools for the Developing World - 2007

RAND Review: Vol. 31, No. 2, Summer 2007 - 2007

The Effects of Multi-Hospital Systems on Hospital Prices - 2007

Can a Chronic Care Model Collaborative Reduce Heart Disease Risk in Patients with Diabetes? - 2007

Elderly Patients' Preferences and Experiences with Providers in Managing Their Drug Costs - 2007

Identifying Widely Covered Drugs and Drug Coverage Variation Among Medicare Part D Formularies - 2007

Predicting Outcomes of Primary Care Patients with Major Depression: Development of a Depression Prognosis Index - 2007

The Health Insurance Experiment: A Classic RAND Study Speaks to the Current Health Care Reform Debate - 2006

Determining the Priority Global Health Needs and Quantifying the Health Benefits Resulting From the Introduction of New Diagnostics in the Developing World - 2006

A Technical Supplement: Reducing the Global Burden of Tuberculosis: The Contribution of Improved Diagnostics - 2006

Effects of Medicare's Prospective Payment System on the Quality of Hospital Care - 2006

Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology - 2006

Developing and Interpreting Models to Improve Diagnostics in Developing Countries - 2006

Implementation and Maintenance of Quality Improvement for Treating Depression in Primary Care - 2006

Is Cataract Surgery Cost-Effective Among Older Patients with a Low Predicted Probability for Improvement in Reported Visual Functioning - 2006

Reducing the Global Burden of Tuberculosis: The Contribution of Improved Diagnostics - 2006

Will Smallpox Vaccinations Save Lives? - 2005

Future Health and Medical Care Spending of the Elderly: Implications for Medicare - 2005

The Lifetime Burden of Chronic Disease Among the Elderly - 2005

A Meta-Analysis of Interventions to Improve Chronic Illness Care: Technical Appendix - 2005

Does the Collaborative Model Improve Care for Chronic Heart Failure? - 2005

A Meta-Analysis of Interventions to Improve Care for Chronic Illnesses - 2005

Costs and Effects of Participation in Collaboratives to Improve Chronic Illness Care: Technical Appendix - 2005

Assessing the Implementation of the Chronic Care Model in Quality Improvement Collaboratives: Methods Appendix - 2005

Measuring the Effectiveness of a Collaborative for Quality Improvement in Pediatric Asthma Care: Does Implementing the Chronic Care Model Improve Processes and Outcomes of Care? Technical Appendix - 2005

Assessing the Implementation of the Chronic Care Model in Quality Improvement Collaboratives - 2005

Evaluation of a Quality Improvement Collaborative in Asthma Care: Does it Improve Processes and Outcomes of Care? - 2005

Evaluation of a Quality Improvement Collaborative in Asthma Care: Does It Improve Processes and Outcomes of Care? - 2005

How Do Ethnicity and Primary Language Spoken at Home Affect Management Practices and Outcomes in Children and Adolescents with Asthma? - 2005

Measuring the Effectiveness of a Collaborative for Quality Improvement in Pediatric Asthma Care: Does Implementing the Chronic Care Model Improve Processes and Outcomes of Care? - 2005

A Telephone Survey to Measure Communication, Education, Self-Management, and Health Status for Patients with Heart Failure: The Improving Chronic Illness Care Evaluation (ICICE) - 2005

The Effect of HMOs on the Inpatient Utilization of Medicare Beneficiaries: Technical Appendix - 2004

Möglichkeit oder Utopie?
(Possibility or Utopia?): Wahlfreiheit im Gesundheitswesen Eine Literaturübersicht (Consumer Choice in Health Care: A Literature Review) - 2004

Possibility or Utopia? Consumer Choice in Health Care: A Literature Review - 2004

An Analysis of Unobserved Selection in a Inpatient Diagnostic Cost Group Model - 2004

Cognitive Decline in High-Functioning Older Persons Is Associated with an Increased Risk of Hospitalization - 2004

Cost-lowering Strategies Used By Medicare Beneficiaries Who Exceed Drug Benefit Caps and Have a Gap in Drug Coverage - 2004

Cross-Validation Performance of Mortality Prediction Models - 2004

Differences in Quality of Care for Hospitalized Elderly Men and Women - 2004

The Effect of HMOs on the Inpatient Utilization of Medicare Beneficiaries - 2004

The Effect of Self-Reported and Performance-Based Functional Impairment on Future Hospital Costs of Community-Dwelling Older Persons - 2004

An Evaluation of Collaborative Interventions to Improve Chronic Illness Care: Framework and Study Design - 2004

Hospital Characteristics and Quality of Care - 2004

Refining the Categorization of Physical Functional Status: The Added Value of Combining Self-Reported and Performance-Based Measures. - 2004

Assessing the Implementation of the Chronic Care Model in Quality Improvement Collaboratives: Does Baseline System Support for Chronic Care Matter? - 2003

Development and Validation of a Grading System for the Quality of Cost-Effectiveness Studies - 2003

Identification of Risk for High Hospital Use: Cost Comparisons of Four Strategies and Performance Across Subgroups - 2003

Impact of an Annual Dollar Limit or Cap on Prescription Drug Benefits for Medicare Patients - 2003

Medicare Calibration of the Clinically Detailed Risk Information System for Cost - 2003

A Model for a Smallpox-Vaccination Policy - 2003

Postpartum Length of Stay and Newborn Health: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis - 2003

Development of a Method to Identify Seniors at High Risk for High Hospital Utilization - 2002

Do Patient Consent Procedures Affect Participation Rates in Health Services Research? - 2002

The Value of Remaining Lifetime Is Close to Estimated Values of Life - 2001

A Clinically Detailed Risk Information System for Cost - 2000

Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of a Church-Based Intervention to Promote Mammography Screening -

Extending Health Care Insurance to Specific Populations: Profile of RAND Work - 2000

Infant Mortality and Early Postpartum Discharge - 2000

Lack of Progress in Labor as a Reason for Cesarean - 2000

Should Patients in Quality-Improvement Activities Have the Same Protections as Participants in Research Studies? - 2000

Simulating the Impact of Medical Savings Accounts on Small Business - 2000

The Changing Effects of Competition on Non-Profit and For-Profit Hospital Pricing Behavior - 1999

Cost-effectiveness of Outpatient Geriatric Assessment with an Intervention to Increase Adherence - 1999

Market Power and Hospital Pricing: Are Nonprofits Different? - 1999

Relationship Between Age and Patients' Current Health State Preferences - 1999

Medicare MSA Issues and Options - 1998

A Model of the Impact of Reimbursement Schemes on Health Plan Choice - 1998

Adjusting cesarean delivery rates for case mix - 1997

Correlates of Hypoalbuminemia in Community-Dwelling Older Persons - 1997

Long-term care residents' preferences for health states on the quality of well-being scale - 1997

Can medical savings accounts for the nonelderly reduce health care costs? - 1996

Postdischarge Geriatric Assessment of Hospitalized Frail Elderly Patients - 1996

The Validity of a Nursing Assessment and Monitoring of Signs and Symptoms Scale in ICU and Non-Icu Patients - 1996

Benefits and costs of screening and treatment for early breast cancer : development of a basic benefit package - 1995

The Cost Effectiveness of Preoperative Autologous Blood Donations - 1995

A Model of Demand for Effective Care - 1995

Reductions in Cost and Cesarean Rate By Routine Use of External Cephalic Version: A Decision Analysis - 1995

Cost Effectiveness Principles and Controversies - 1994

Economic incentives in the choice between vaginal delivery and cesarean section - 1994

Effect of Epidural Analgesia for Labor on the Cesarean Delivery Rate - 1994

Health care for black and poor hospitalized Medicare patients - 1994

Assessing the Performance of Mortality Prediction Models: Final Report for HCFA Severity Project - 1993

Analysis of Quality of Care for Patients Who are Black and Poor in Rural and Urban Settings - 1993

Quality of Care for Hospitalized Depressed Elderly Patients Before and After Implementation of the Medicare Prospective Payment System - 1993

Simulating health expenditures under alternative insurance plans - 1993

Assessing Quality of Care for Hospitalized Medicare Patients with Hip Fracture Using Coded Diagnoses from the Medicare Provider Analysis and Review Files - 1992

Choosing Quality-of-Care Measures Based on the Expected Impact of Improved Quality of Care for the Major Causes of Mortality and Morbidity - 1992

Effects of air pollution on health outcomes - 1992

Effects of Cost Sharing on Use of Medical Services and Health - 1992

The Effects of the DRG-Based Prospective Payment System on Quality of Care for Hospitalized Medicare Patients: Final Report - 1992

HMO Vs Fee-for-Service Care of Older Persons with Acute Myocardial Infarction - 1992

New Deales: Other Approximation of Life Expectancy - 1992

Causes and Effects of Expensive Hospitalizations - 1991

The Effects of the DRG-Based Prospective Payment System on Quality of Care for Hospitalized Medicare Patients: Executive Summary - 1991

Explaining Variations in Hospital Death Rates: Randomness, Severity of Illness, Quality of Care - 1991

Changes in Sickness at Admission Following the Introduction of the Prospective Payment System - 1990

Comparing Outcomes of Care Before and After Implementation of the DRG-based Prospective Payment System - 1990

The Effects of the DRG-based Prospective Payment System on Quality of Care for Hospitalized Medicare Patients: An Introduction to the Series - 1990

Explaining Variations in Hospital Death Rates: Randomness, Severity of Illness, Quality of Care - 1990

Explaining Variations in Hospital Death Rates: Randomness, Severity of Illness, Quality of Care - 1990

Measuring Quality of Care with Explicit Process Criteria Before and After Implementation of the DRG-based Prospective Payment System - 1990

Patterns of Outpatient Mental Health Care Over Time: Some Implications for Estimates of Demand and for Benefit Design - 1990

Quality of Ambulatory Care: Epidemiology and Comparison By Insurance Status and Income - 1990

Quality of Care Before and After Implementation of the DRG-based Prospective Payment System: A Summary of Effects - 1990

Short-Term Health Effects of Air Pollution: A Case Study - 1990

A Summary of the Effects of DRG-Based Prospective Payment System on Quality of Care for Hospitalized Medicare Patients - 1990

Adjusting Capitation Rates Using Objective Health Measures and Prior Utilization - 1989

Effects of Mental Health Insurance: Evidence from the Health Insurance Experiment - 1989

The External Costs of a Sedentary Life-Style - 1989

How Free Care Improved Vision in the Health Insurance Experiment - 1989

Mandating Health Insurance Benefits for Employees: Effects on Health Care Use and Employers' Costs - 1989

The Taxes of Sin: Do Smokers and Drinkers Pay Their Way? - 1989

The Demand for Episodes of Medical Treatment in the Health Insurance Experiment - 1988

Health Insurance and the Demand for Medical Care: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment - 1988

Insurance Aspects of DRG Outlier Payments - 1988

Interpreting Hospital Mortality Data: How Can We Proceed? - 1988

Effect of a Health Maintenance Organization on Physiologic Health: Results from a Randomized Trial - 1987

Effect of a Health Maintenance Organization on Physiologic Health: Results from a Randomized Trial - 1987

Effects of Cost Sharing on Physiological Health, Health Practices, and Worry - 1987

Health Insurance and the Demand for Medical Care: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment - 1987

Health Outcomes for Adults in Prepaid and Fee-for-Service Systems of Care: Results from the Health Insurance Experiment - 1987

Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 1, Overview of Chronic Disease in a General Adult Population - 1986

The Demand for Episodes of Mental Health Services - 1986

The Effect of Cost Sharing on the Use of Medical Services By Children: Interim Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial - 1985

The Effect of Cost Sharing on the Use of Medical Services by Children: Interim Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial - 1985

The Episodes-of-Illness Processing System - 1985

How Free Care Reduced Hypertension in the Health Insurance Experiment - 1985

How Free Care Reduced Hypertension of Participants in the RAND Health Insurance Experiment - 1985

The Effect of Coinsurance on the Health of Adults: Results from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment - 1984

How Cost Sharing Reduced Medical Spending of Participants in the Health Insurance Experiment - 1983

The Demand for Episodes of Medical Treatment: Interim Results from the Health Insurance Experiment - 1982

Discounting of Nonmonetary Effects - 1982

Some Interim Results from a Controlled Trial of Cost Sharing in Health Insurance - 1982

Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 11, Hypercholesterolemia - 1981

Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 13, Hay Fever - 1981

Geriatrics in the United States: Manpower Projections and Training Considerations - 1980

The value of screening trials - 1978

Algorithms for Health Planners: Vol. 1, An Overview - 1977

Algorithms for Health Planners: Vol. 6, Hypertension - 1977

Algorithms for Health Planners: Vol. 3, Breast Cancer Mortality - 1977

Algorithms for Health Planners: Vol. 2, Infant Mortality - 1977

Algorithms for Health Planners: Vol. 4, Heart Attack Mortality - 1977

An Empirical Study of the Differences Between Family and Individual Deductibles in Health Insurance - 1977

U.S. Grain Reserves Policy: Objectives, Costs, and Distribution of Benefits - 1977

The Demand for Supplementary Health Insurance, Or Do Deductibles Matter? - 1976

A Materials Quiz. - 1976

Policy Analysis for Federal Biomedical Research - 1976

The Value of a Diagnostic Test. - 1976

The Choice between Family and Individual Deductibles in Health Insurance - 1975

Effects of Pooled Samples. - 1975

Deductibles and the Demand for Medical Services: The Theory of the Consumer Facing a Variable Price Schedule Under Uncertainty - 1974

A New Method for Ergodic Analysis. - 1974

A Note on Optimal Insurance. - 1974

Analysis of the Educational Personnel System: IV. Teacher Turnover - 1973

A Classification of Large American Urban Areas. - 1973

A Note on the Effectiveness of Teacher Experience. - 1973

Horizon in a Simple Model of Economic Growth. - 1972

Simultaneous Estimation of Teacher Mobility and Reading Scores - 1972

Bridge as a Game. - 1971

Models of Disease Costs and Their Use in Medical Research Resource Allocations. - 1970

A Normative Model of Medical Research Resource Allocation - 1970

A Twisted Turnpike. - 1970

A Twisted Turnpike Theorem. - 1970

Another Type of Risk Aversion. - 1969

Projective Metrics and Economic Growth Models. - 1969

Proper Raising Points in a Generalization of Backgammon - 1969

A Theorem on Contraction Mapping. - 1969

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