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Annual Index, Volume 31 access, 347, 409; 573; 641; 739 Following Admissi Arthro acute myocardial infarction (AMI), 739 plasty,” 39 administrative data, 659 clinical practice guidelit lopment, 453 affective psychoses, 387 cluster care, 489, 509 Agency for Health Care Policy and Research colonic neoplasms, trea 5 AHCPR), 1; 655 Community Clinical O1 Program AIDS/HIV, 469 CCOP) hospital, ambulatory care, 409; conditions sensitive to, competition, nursing hon oa Comprehensive Omnibus Budget Reconcilia- appropriateness. See practice guidelines tion Act of 1985 (COBRA t] Conrad, Douglas, Thoma izer, Charles BanaszakJa-neH, oJalcqulel,in e S. Zinn, and Maynard, Theodore K rin, Daniel Vincent Mor. “The Impact of Market Lessler, Austin Ross, N Soderstrom, and Organizational Characteristics on Sean Sullivan, Jeffrey xander, and Nursing Care Facility Service Innovation: Karen Travis. “Managing ¢ ire, Incentives, A Resource Dependency Perspective,” 97 and Information: An Exp oratory Look Bauer, Ellen Jones. “Transitions from Home to Inside the ‘Black Box Hospital Nursing Home in a Capitated Long-Term Efficiency,” 235 Care Program: The Role of Individual coronary artery by pass gt CABG surgery, Support Systems,” 309 659 bed supply, in neonatal intensive care, 593 cost-effectiveness, 489; research, 153 Bradley, CathyJ ., and Gary A. Zarkin. Crystal, Stephen, and Usha Sambamoorthi. “Inpatient Stays for Patients Diagnosed “Functional Impairment Trajectories with Severe Psychiatric Disorders and among Persons with HIV Disease: A Substance Abuse,” 387 Hierarchical Linear M \pproach,” Brooks, Geoffrey R., and V. Grace Jones. 469 “Hospital Mergers and Market Overlap,” Cunningham, Peter J., and Mar« P. Freiman. 701 “Determinants of An ry Mental Health Services Use School-Age Canadian health care system, 517 Children and Adoles¢ 109 cardiac procedures, 739; ambulatory follow- up, 573 care: coordination and management, 235; data envelopment analysis (DI \), 21 specialty, in nursing facilities, 97 Davis, Karen. (AHSR Pre itial Address, carotid endarterectomy, 141 June 1996) “Uninsur« n Era of case mix, 755; severity of, 5, 39, 49 Managed Care,” 641 child and adolescent mental health, 409 DeFriese, Gordon H. (Edit ‘Non- chronic disease, 283, 469, 489 Profit Conversions: A (¢ lenge and Clark, Robin E., Susan K. Ricketts, and an Opportunity for Health Services GregoryJ .M cHugo. “Measuring Hospital Research with a Clear ‘Publi Benefit,’ ” Use Without Claims: A Comparison of 513; (Editorial) “Requ r Reveille for Patient and Provider Reports,” 153 Health Services Rese Editorial) Cleves, Mario A., and William E. Golden. “A View from Here,” “Assessment of HCFA’s 1992 Medicare dental care, 773 Hospital Information Report of Mortality disease prevention, 261 127 128 HSR: Health Services Research 32:1 (April 1997) distance to care, 573 Hartley, David, Ira Moscovice, and Jon downsizing in health services research, | Christianson. “Mobile Technology in Rural Hospitals: The Case of the CT elderly: frail and disabled, 489, 509; rural, Scanner,” 213 261; veterans, 739 HCFA demonstration program for rural ethnic diversity, 551 elderly health promotion, 261 evaluation, prenatal care, 609 health measurement, 551 exit, loyalty, voice, neglect (ELVN), 171. See health policy, 533; comparative, 517 physicians, work satisfaction health promotion, 261, 609 Health Services Research: vision statement, fees, for dental care, 773 mission statement, key values, 655 Feldman, Penny H., Eric Latimer, and Harriet health status: functional, 283; of the homeless, Davidson. “Medicaid-Funded Home 533; 551, 609 Care for the Frail Elderly and Disabled: Herman, Allen A., Heinz W. Berendes, Kai F. Evaluating the Cost Savings and Outcomes Yu, Leslie C. Cooper, Mary D. Overpeck, of a Service Delivery Reform,” 489 George Rhoads, Joan P. Maxwell, Barbara forecasting, 283 A. Kinney, Patricia A. Koslowe, and Franks, Peter, Marthe R. Gold, and Carolyn Deborah L. Coates. “The Evaluation of M. Clancy. “Use of Care and Subsequent the Effectiveness of a Community-Based Mortality: The Importance of Gender,” Enriched Model Prenatal Intervention 347 Project in the District of Columbia,” 609 functional status: and AIDS, 469; last year of hierarchical linear models, 469 life, 49; and total hip replacement, 623, hip: arthroplasty, 39; fracture, 365; total and risk adjustment, 283 replacement, 623 Holmes, Julia Shaw. “The Effects of gender, 347; and AIDS, 469 Ownership and Ownership Change Glied, Sherry A., and Sangeeth Gnanasekaran. on Nursing Home Industry Costs,” 327 “Hospital Financing and Neonatal home care: delivery reform, 489 Intensive Care,” 593 homeless, 533 Goldfarb, Marsha G., GloriaJ . Bazzoli, and Hornbrook, Mark C. (Commentary). Rosanna M. Coffey. “Trauma Systems and “Improving Care and Constraining Costs: the Costs of Trauma Care,” 71 Evaluating New York City’s Cluster Care Greenberg, Leonard, and James M. Cultice. Demonstration,” 509 “Forecasting the Need for Physicians in Hornbrook, Mark C., and MichaelJ . the United States: The Health Resources Goodman. “Chronic Disease, Functional and Services Administration’s Physician Health Status, and Demographics: A Requirements Model,” 723 Multi-Dimensional Approach to Risk group development process, 452 Adjustment,” 283 hospitals: charges and costs for trauma Hannan, Edward L., MichaelJ . Racz, James service, 71; closures, 679; competition, G.J ollis, and Eric D. Peterson. “Using 679; decline, 171; differentiation, 679; Medicare Claims Data to Assess Provider efficiency, 21, 235, 365; financing, 593; Quality for CABG Surgery: Does It Work market definition, 701; market position, Well Enough?” 659 679; market structure and overlap, 701; Hart, L. Gary, Sharon A. Dobie, Laura-Mae mergers, horizontal, 701; output, 21; Baldwin, MichaelJ . Pirani, Meredith production, 21; rural, 213, 679; terminal Fordyce, and Roger A. Rosenblatt. “Rural stage use, 49 and Urban Differences in Physician Resource Use for Low-Risk Obstetrics,” injury severity score, 71 429 inpatient stay, 387 Index 129 insurance, status of newborns, 593 “Practice Setting and P ian Influences on Judgments of C. ncer Treatment Kassebaum-Kennedy Bill, 641 by Community Phy 5 Katz, Barry P., Deborah A. Freund, David medical: decision making ffectiveness, A. Heck, Robert S. Dittus, John E. 517; technology, 2 Paul, James Wright, Peter Coyte, Medicare: data, 659; 7 lospital Informa- Eleanor Holleman, and Gillian Hawker. tion Project, 39; and ns, 739 “Demographic Variation in the Rate mental health services, 4 of Knee Replacement: A Multi-Year Mitchell, Janet B., Dav sallard, Jack P. Analysis,” 125 Whisnant, Carol | ring, David B. Kleinman, Lawrence C., Howard Freeman, Matchar, and Greg Samsa. Judy Perlman, and Lillian Gelberg. “Using Physician Cla Identify “Homing in on the Homeless: Assessing Postoperative Com] s of Carotid the Physical Health of Homeless Adults Endarterectomy,” in Los Angeles County Using an Original mobile technology, 21 Method to Obtain Physical Examination morbidities, 283 Data in a Survey,” 533 mortality: and gende1 HCFA data, 39; knee replacement, 125 physician impact, dicting, 659; Krakauer, Henry, Itzhak Jacoby, Michael rates, 191, 347 Millman, and Joanne E. Lukomnik. multilevel modeling, 4¢ “Physician Impact on Hospital Admission myocardial infarction (M1 and on Mortality Rates in the Medicare Population,” 191 need for care, 551 neonatal intensive care Lachman, Ran, and Shlomo Noy. “Reactions non-profit conversions r-profit status, 513 of Salaried Physicians to Hospital Decline,” nursing home, 309; capital costs, 328; costs, 171 328; facilities, 97; rship change, 328; last year of life, 49 ownership type, 328 f use, 309 Lave, Judith R., Diane G. Ives, Neal D. Traven, and Lewis H. Kuller. “Evaluation obstetrical care, interver ind referral, of a Health Promotion Demonstration 609; rural, 429 Program for the Rural Elderly,” 261 Osmond, Dennis H., Kar Vranizan, Dean length of stay, 49; and severity measures, Schillinger, Anita I rt, and Andrew 365; for substance abuse and psychiatric B. Bindman. “Measu: ng the Need for disorders, 387 Medical Care in ar cally Diverse long-term care, 309 Population,” 551 low birth weight, 593, 609 outcomes research, 125 outpatient care, 573 MacWilliam, Cynthia H., Marianne Ulcickas Yood, James J. Verner, Bruce D. McCarthy, payment incentives, 235 and Richard E. Ward, “Patient-Related performance measurem Risk Factors That Predict Poor Outcome Phibbs, Ciaran S., Ralph W Swindle, and after Total Hip Replacement,” 623 Barbara Recine. “Does ( se Mix Matter Magnussen, Jon. “Efficiency Measurement for Substance Abus¢ tment? A and the Operationalization of Hospital Comparison of Observed und Case Production,” 21 Mix—Adjusted Readmis yn Rates for managed care, 235; and the uninsured, 641 Inpatient Substance Abus« lreatment in managed competition, 283 the Department of Veter uns Affairs,” 755 McFall, Stephanie L., Richard B. Warnecke, physicians: community, 5 mand for, 723; Arnold D. Kaluzny, and Leslie Ford. influences on treatmen plans, 5; quality, 130 ASR: Health Services Research 32:1 (April 1997) 659; resource use, rural versus urban, 429; Shortell, Stephen M. (Editorial) “Shaping the salaried, 171; specialty requirements, 723; Future,” 655 supply patterns, 191; work force planning, Shwartz, Michael, Lisa I. Iezzoni, Arlene S. 723; work satisfaction, 171 Ash, and Yevgenia D. Mackiernan. “Do Piette, John D., and Rudolf H. Moos. “The Severity Measures Explain Differences in Influence of Distance on Ambulatory Care Length of Hospital Stay? The Case of Hip Use, Death, and Readmission Following a Fracture,” 365 Myocardial Infarction,” 573 Stearns, Sally C., Mary Grace Kovar, Kevin postoperative complications, 141, 623 Hayes, and Gary G. Koch. “Risk Indicators practice characteristics, 5; guidelines, 453; for Hospitalization during the Last Year of variation, 125, 429 Life,” 49 pre-existing conditions, 641 substance abuse: comorbidity, 387; hospital- prenatal care: community-based intervention, izations, 153; treatment for, 755 609; and the uninsured, 641 Succi, Melissa J., Shoou-Yih D. Lee, and program evaluation methods, 533 Jeffrey A. Alexander. “Effects of Market provider reports, 153 Position and Competition on Rural psychiatric hospitalizations, 153 Hospital Closures,” 679 survey methods, 533 quality of care, 141; assessment, 659; dental, 773; post-operative complications, 141 Tanenbaum, SandraJ . “ ‘Medical Effective- ness’ in Canadian and U.S. Health Policy: race and ethnicity, 551 The Comparative Politics of Inferential readmission, 755 Ambiguity,” 517 research dissemination, 517 terminal care, 49 resources: dependency on, nursing home, 97; trauma services, 71 use of, 235 retirement health benefits, 641 underserved: homeless, 533; uninsured, 641 risk: adjustment, 283; patient-related factors utilization of medical services, ethnicity and, of, 623 551 rural hospitals, 679; and mobile technology, 213 validity of hospitalization reports, 153 very low birth weight, 609 satisfaction, professional job, 171 Veterans Affairs, Department of, 739, 755 schizophrenia, 387 vision statement, mission statement, key scope of services, 235 values of Health Services Research, 655 screening, 261 self-reports, 153 Whitney, Coralyn W., Peter Milgrom, Douglas service innovation, in nursing home facilities, Conrad, Louis Fiset, and David O’Hara. 97; in home care, 489 “The Relationship Between Price of severity and length of stay, 365 Services, Quality of Care, and Patient shared-aide services, 489 Time Costs for General Dental Practice,” Shekelle, Paul G., and David L. Schriger. 773 “Evaluating the Use of the Appropriateness Wright, Steven M., Jennifer Daley, Elliott S. Method in the Agency for Health Care Fisher, and George E. Thibault. “Where Policy and Research Clinical Practice Do Elderly Veterans Obtain Care for Guideline Development Process,” 453 Acute Myocardial Infarction: Department of Veterans Affairs or Medicare?” 739