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1988

Competition and Quality

Diagnosis and Treatment of Coronary Disease: Comparison of Doctors' Attitudes in the USA and the UK

Early Effect of Medicare's Prospective Payment System on the Use of Medical Intensive Care Services in Three Community Hospitals

The Epidemiology of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Five US Communities

Historical Trends in Quality Assurance for Mental Health

Interpreting Hospital Mortality Data: How Can We Proceed?

Measuring Differences Between Teaching and Nonteaching Hospitals

Participation of Volunteer Faculty Members in Education Research Projects

The Prevalence of Specific Psychiatric Disorders Among Homeless Individuals in the Inner City of Los Angeles

Psychiatric Disorder and Limitations in Physical Functioning in a Sample of the Los Angeles General Population

Quality Assessment and Technology Assessment: Critical Linkages

The Quality of Care Received By Older Patients in 15 University-Based Ambulatory Practices

Sexual Assault and Mental Disorders in a Community Population

Sexual Assault History and Use of Health and Mental Health Services

Teenagers Willing to Consider Single Parenthood: Who Is at Greatest Risk?

The Use and Misuse of Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

1987

Advances in Health Assessment: Organization of the Conference and of This Monograph

Allocating Health Care Resources: How Can We Ensure Access to Essential Care?

Assessing the Effects of Bulk Power Rate Regulation: Results from a Market Experiment

Assessment of Function in Routine Clinical Practice: Description of the COOP Chart Method and Preliminary Findings

The Association Between Hypertension Treatment, Control, and Functional Status

Assuring the Quality of Health Care for Older Persons

Case-mix Measurement and Assessing Quality of Hospital Care

Commentary: Assessment of Psychological Morbidity in Primary Care

Educating Physicians and Treating Patients in the Ambulatory Setting: Where Are We Going and How Will We Know When We Arrive?

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

General Health Status Measures and Outcome Measurement: A Commentary on Measuring Functional Status

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

Measuring Overall Health: An Evaluation of Three Important Approaches

Monitoring Quality of Care in the Medicare Program: Two Proposed Systems

Partisan and Incumbency Effects of 1970s Congressional Redistricting

The Prevalence of Childhood Sexual Assault: The Los Angeles Epidemiologic Catchment Area Project

Preventive Care: Do We Practice What We Preach?

Problem Behavior Theory and Adolescent Alcohol Use

Providing Primary General Medical Care in University Hospitals: Efficiency and Cost

Six-month Prevalence of Specific Psychiatric Disorders Among Mexican Americans and Non-Hispanic Whites in Los Angeles

Use of Outpatient Mental Health Services Over Time in a Health Maintenance Organization and Fee-for-Service Plans

Who Joins a PPO?

1986

Changing Physician Payment for Medicare Patients: Projected Effects on the Quality of Care

Comparison of Health Outcomes at Health Maintenance Organization with Those of Fee-for-Service Care

Dental Insurance and the Oral Health of Preschool Children

Does Breastfeeding Really Save Lives, or Are Apparent Benefits Due to Biases?

An Economic Model of Teenage Pregnancy Decision-Making

The Efficacy of Ambulatory Cardiac Catheterization in the Hospital and Free-Standing Setting

Evaluation of Ambulatory Care Training By Graduates of Internal Medicine Residencies

Evaluation of the Effects on the Quality of Care of Selected Alternatives for Paying Physicians Under the Medicare Program

The Functional Status Questionnaire: Reliability and Validity When Used in Primary Care

Hyporeninemic Hypoaldosteronism in a Patient with Cirrhosis and Ascites

Inappropriate Use of Hospitals in a Randomized Trial of Health Insurance Plans

In Pursuit of the Abnormal Serum Alkaline Phosphatase: A Clinical Dilemma

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