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... Strategy and Organizational Performance Relationships in the Acute Care Hospital Industry: 1980–1982 . Doctoral dissertation. University of Pittsburgh. Langwell , K. M. , and S. F. Moore. 1982 . A Synthesis of Research on Competition in the Financing and Delivery of Health Services. Washington, DC...

...Mark Miller Using four acute care equations (inpatient, physician, outpatient, and clinic) from a larger model of Medicaid, this research examines the “contents” of policy outcomes. This closer examination of outcomes brings to light the interactions between redistributive programs and services...

...Genevieve M. Kenney This study examines the determinants of home health use after hospitalization for acute illness for eleven diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) in 1985, drawing on data from four primary sources: Medicare hospital bills, Medicare home health bills, the Medicare and Medicaid Automated...

...David Falcone; Robert Broyles Race continues to impede access to health services, for acute as well as long-term care. Whites, for example, use disproportionately more days of nursing home care than do nonwhites, not simply because they are more likely to be private payers and, therefore...

...David G. Stevenson Publicizing quality information has been used as a quality improvement strategy in the acute care sector for more than a decade. Despite research showing mixed results of these efforts, publicly reporting quality measures is currently being pursued as a quality improvement...

... such factors as distrust in government, federalism, and a bias toward acute care. This article considers these assumptions by comparing public health in the United States, England, and France. It finds that one common variable is the bias toward acute care. That the United States has such a bias...

...: that effective authority in acute-care hospitals rests in an amorphous power relationship among the hospital's several occupational groups, in which physicians clearly have the upper hand. After a brief introduction to this Danish hospital, the article develops a detailed portrait of its informal power structure...

...Robert E. Schlenker Nursing home care is growing in importance as the population ages and as Medicare's prospective payment system encourages earlier discharges from acute care settings to nursing homes. Nursing home reimbursement policy is primarily a Medicaid issue, since Medicaid pays for about...

... in this fashion, and statutory health insurance should be added now. All or most groups would be required to join. Financing would come from social security payroll taxes, supplemented by government subsidies. Basic acute care services would be equally available to all. The existing insurance companies would...

... percent) long-term reduction in acute care spending per capita, but not with a significant reduction in total per capita spending. There is no evidence of a surge in acquisition of facilities or in costs following removal of CON regulations. Mature CON programs also result in a slight (2 percent...

...Edward Alan Miller; Lisa Kalimon Beauregard Abstract The need to bolster Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS) became more evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. This recognition stemmed from the challenges of keeping people safe in nursing homes and the acute workforce shortages...

... prevention to produce large health improvements. The article tracks the genealogy of lifestyle prevention as policy idea across three generations of U.S. and Danish public health reports and finds a systematic interpretation of lifestyle prevention as being more successful and promising than acute medical...

...Evelyn Shapiro; Noralou P. Roos This article examines the use of acute beds by the elderly in Manitoba over the five-year period, 1972-1976. The analysis reveals that transfers of long-stay (greater than 90 day) elderly to long-term care facilities took longer in 1976 than in 1972 despite major...

... II when a decision was made to link VA hospitals to medical schools. This linkage in large measure has been responsible for the program's focus on acute care. The VA professional staff prefers an even greater interaction of the program with medical education. Others suggest its termination...

... on abortion politics, policy, and law. The need for such a robust literature is especially acute following the US Supreme Court's June 2022 overturning of the constitutional right to abortion. The ontological and epistemological implications for the siloization of abortion research extend beyond...

...Gregory O. Ginn; Charles B. Moseley This study examined the effect of state community benefit laws and guidelines on the community health orientation and the provision of hospital-based health promotion services in hospitals. The sample included all not-for-profit and investor-owned acute-care...

... programs will face when moving beyond the acute phase of COVID-19. The final section explores near-, middle-, and long-term policy options to mitigate federalism's harmful side effects. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Affordable Care Act federalism Medicaid health reform...

...Robert M. Saywell, Jr.; Terrell W. Zollinger; David K. W. Chu; Charlotte A. MacBeth; Mark E. Sechrist For this study, a sample of 1,689 patients classified as “charity” and “bad debt” cases in 1986 were identified from 27 general acute care hospitals and one tertiary hospital in Indiana. Half...

... government made a commitment to provide consultant-level specialists in geriatric medicine to deal with the chronic as well as the acute illnesses of elderly patients. Barker also discusses how geriatric units developed in acute care hospitals and the important role such units have played...