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Are the Experiences of Those New to Medicare Good from the Start? 2023
Income-related Disparities in Medicare Advantage Behavioral Health Care Quality 2023
Rural Disparities in the Quality of Clinical Care Are Notable and Larger for Males 2023
Association of Medicare Advantage Premiums With Measures of Quality and Patient Experience 2022
Patient Experience for Hispanic Older Adults Varies by Language Preference 2022
Poor Self-rated Mental Health and Medicare Beneficiaries' Routine Care-Seeking 2022
Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Health Care in Medicare Advantage: April 2021 2021
Distinguishing High-Performing Health Systems Using a Composite of Publicly Reported Measures of Ambulatory Care 2020
Educational Attainment and Perceived Need for Urgent Care 2020
Gender Differences in Patient Experience Across Medicare Advantage Plans 2020
Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Health Care in Medicare Advantage: April 2020 2020
Shifting From Passive Quality Reporting to Active Nudging to Influence Consumer Choice of Health Plan 2020
Imputation of Race/Ethnicity to Enable Measurement of HEDIS Performance by Race/Ethnicity 2019
Indirect Estimation of Race/Ethnicity for Survey Respondents Who Do Not Report Race/Ethnicity 2019
Understanding U.S. Health Systems: Using Mixed Methods to Unpack Organizational Complexity 2019
Care Experiences Among Medicare Beneficiaries With and Without a Personal Physician 2018
Speaking Up and Walking Out: Are Vulnerable Patients Less Likely to Disagree With or Change Doctors? 2018
The Impact of State Medical Malpractice Reform on Individual-Level Health Care Expenditures 2017
What Matters Most to Whom: Racial, Ethnic, and Language Differences in the Health Care Experiences Most Important to Patients 2017
Advice to Quit Smoking and Ratings of Health Care Among Medicare Beneficiaries Aged 65+ 2016
Do "Consumer-Directed" Health Plans Bend the Cost Curve Over Time? 2016
Clinician Advice to Quit Smoking Among Seniors 2015
Comparing the Health Care Experiences of Medicare Beneficiaries with and Without Depressive Symptoms in Medicare Managed Care Versus Fee-for-Service 2015
Do Experiences with Medicare Managed Care Vary According to the Proportion of Same-Race/Ethnicity/language Individuals Enrolled in One's Contract? 2015
Do Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Quality and Patient Experience Within Medicare Plans Generalize Across Measures and Racial/Ethnic Groups? 2015
Living Alone and Patient Care Experiences: The Role of Gender in a National Sample of Medicare Beneficiaries 2015
Does the Racial/Ethnic Composition of Medicare Advantage Plans Reflect Their Areas of Operation? 2014
How Much Do Additional Mailings and Telephone Calls Contribute to Response Rates in a Survey of Medicare Beneficiaries? 2014
A Retrospective Evaluation of the Perfecting Patient Care University Training Program for Health Care Organizations 2014
Care Experiences of Managed Care Medicare Enrollees Near the End of Life 2013
Does Naming the Focal Plan in a CAHPS Survey of Health Care Quality Affect Response Rates and Beneficiary Evaluations? 2013
Experiences of Care Among Medicare Beneficiaries with ESRD: Medicare Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Survey Results 2013
Price Shopping in Consumer-Directed Health Plans 2013
Racial/ethnic Differences in Medicare Experiences and Immunization: The Role of Disease Burden 2013
Reporting CAHPS and HEDIS Data by Race/Ethnicity for Medicare Beneficiaries 2013
Are There Differences in the Medicare Experiences of Beneficiaries in Puerto Rico Compared with Those in the U.S. Mainland? 2012
Are There Unusually Effective Occupational Safety and Health Inspectors and Inspection Practices? 2012
An Evaluation of the California Injury and Illness Prevention Program 2012
Growth of Consumer-Directed Health Plans to One-Half of All Employer-Sponsored Insurance Could Save $57 Billion Annually 2012
How Event Reporting by US Hospitals Has Changed from 2005 to 2009 2012
Measuring Success for Health Care Quality Improvement Interventions 2012
Motives for Smoking in Movies Affect Future Smoking Risk in Middle School Students: An Experimental Investigation 2012
Multiple Patient Safety Events Within a Single Hospitalization: A National Profile in US Hospitals 2012
A New Estimate of the Impact of OSHA Inspections on Manufacturing Injury Rates, 1998-2005 2012
Racial/ethnic Disparities in Medicare Part D Experiences 2012
Skin in the Game: How Consumer-Directed Plans Affect the Cost and Use of Health Care 2012
The Effects of Consumer-Directed Health Plans on Episodes of Health Care 2011
Healthcare Spending and Preventive Care in High-Deductible and Consumer-Directed Health Plans 2011
High-Deductible Health Plans Cut Spending but Also Reduce Preventive Care 2011
How Do Consumer-Directed Health Plans Affect Vulnerable Populations? 2011
How Do the Experiences of Medicare Beneficiary Subgroups Differ Between Managed Care and Original Medicare? 2011
Immunization Disparities By Hispanic Ethnicity and Language Preference 2011
Understanding Nonresponse to the 2007 Medicare CAHPS Survey 2011
Understanding Variations in Medicare Consumer Assessment of Health Care Providers and Systems Scores: California as an Example 2011
Adverse Event Reporting Practices by U.S. Hospitals: Survey Results from 2005 and 2009 2010
Does Improved Patient Safety Reduce Malpractice Litigation? 2010
Is Better Patient Safety Associated with Less Malpractice Activity? Evidence from California 2010
The Pennsylvania Certified Safety Committee Program: An Evaluation of Participation and Effects on Work Injury Rates 2010
Smoking Motives in Movies Are Important for Understanding Adolescent Smoking: A Preliminary Investigation 2010
Adjusting for Subgroup Differences in Extreme Response Tendency in Ratings of Health Care: Impact on Disparity Estimates 2009
Assessing Patient Safety Practices and Outcomes in the U.S. Health Care System 2009
Assessment of Contributions to Patient Safety Knowledge by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality-Funded Patient Safety Projects 2009
Canary Measures Among the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators 2009
Composite Estimates from Incomplete and Complete Frames for Minimum-Mse Estimation in a Rare Population: An Application Fo Families with Young Children 2009
Patient Activation Status as a Predictor of Patient Experience Among Medicare Beneficiaries 2009
The Relationship Between Protective Factors and Outcomes for Children Investigated for Maltreatment 2009
Safety Outcomes in the United States: Trends and Challenges in Measurement 2009
Victimization from Mental and Physical Bullying and Substance Use in Early Adolescence 2009
Adverse-event-reporting Practices by US Hospitals: Results of a National Survey 2008
Assessment of the AHRQ Patient Safety Initiative: Final Report -- Evaluation Report IV 2008
Issues and Performance in the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation System 2008
Measuring the Performance of Telephone-Based Disease Surveillance Systems in Local Health Departments 2008
The Pennsylvania Certified Safety Committee Program: An Evaluation of Participation and Effects on Work Injury Rates 2008
Prioritizing Patient Safety Outcomes Measures: Results of an Expert Consensus Process 2008
What Kinds of Injuries Do OSHA Inspections Prevent? 2008
Workers' Compensation in Pennsylvania: How is the System Performing? How Should It Be Reformed? 2008
Assessing the Diffusion of Safe Practices in the U.S. Health Care System: Interim Report to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2007
Assessment of the AHRQ Patient Safety Initiative: Focus on Implementation and Dissemination Evaluation Report III (2004-2005) 2007
Consumer-Directed Health Care: Early Evidence Shows Lower Costs, Mixed Effects on Quality of Care 2007
A Description and Analysis of Evolving Data Resources on Small Business 2007
Improving and Enhancing Telephone-based Disease Surveillance Systems in Local Health Departments 2007
Use of a Web-Based Convenience Sample to Supplement a Probability Sample 2007
Are Small Businesses Riskier Than Larger Ones? 2006
Consumer-directed Health Care: Early Evidence About Effects on Cost and Quality 2006
Small Businesses and Workplace Fatality Risk: An Exploratory Analysis 2006
"Consumer-directed" Health Plans: Implications for Health Care Quality and Cost 2005

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