This article uses data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine the extent to which three key factors -- financial well-being, living arrangements, and marital history -- account for this relationship.
The authors present a summary of the recently developed SUPPORT model (Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment) for estimating survival time of seriously ill adult inpatients and illustrate the possible clinical use of such a model.
A limited amount of readily available clinical information can provide a foundation for long-term survival estimates that are as accurate as physicians' estimates.
Concerns about the cost and quality of health care have resulted in a national effort to determine the health outcomes of medical and surgical services.
This report presents an approach for selecting medical conditions for measuring technical quality of care, based on the expected impact of improved quality of care.
Various potential measures of quality of care are being used to differentiate hospitals. In 1986, on the basis of diagnostic and demographic data, the Health Care Financing Administration identified hospitals in which the actual death rate differed ...
Reviews biomedical mechanisms connecting maternal age, parity, and birth spacing with infant mortality and assesses their likely importance in developing countries.
Infant mortality rates appear to depend more on the priorities of developing countries than on pure economic development. As additional factors are studied, efforts should be made to increase women’s education and improve public health conditions.
The quiescent interest in understanding the variations in the quality of hospital care has been revitalized recently with the government's release of hospital-specific mortality data.
Using hospital discharge abstract data for fiscal year 1984 for all acute-care hospitals treating Medicare patients, the authors measured four mortality rates: inpatient deaths, deaths within 30 days of discharge, and deaths within two fixed periods...
