Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
Search Results for
surgery
Update search
Filter
- Title
- Authors
- Author Affiliations
- Full Text
- Abstract
- Keywords
- DOI
- ISBN
- eISBN
- ISSN
- EISSN
- Issue
- Volume
- References
Filter
- Title
- Authors
- Author Affiliations
- Full Text
- Abstract
- Keywords
- DOI
- ISBN
- eISBN
- ISSN
- EISSN
- Issue
- Volume
- References
Filter
- Title
- Authors
- Author Affiliations
- Full Text
- Abstract
- Keywords
- DOI
- ISBN
- eISBN
- ISSN
- EISSN
- Issue
- Volume
- References
Filter
- Title
- Authors
- Author Affiliations
- Full Text
- Abstract
- Keywords
- DOI
- ISBN
- eISBN
- ISSN
- EISSN
- Issue
- Volume
- References
Filter
- Title
- Authors
- Author Affiliations
- Full Text
- Abstract
- Keywords
- DOI
- ISBN
- eISBN
- ISSN
- EISSN
- Issue
- Volume
- References
Filter
- Title
- Authors
- Author Affiliations
- Full Text
- Abstract
- Keywords
- DOI
- ISBN
- eISBN
- ISSN
- EISSN
- Issue
- Volume
- References
NARROW
Format
Subjects
Journal
Article Type
Date
Availability
1-20 of 638 Search Results for
surgery
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Sort by
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2019) 44 (2): 303–313.
Published: 01 April 2019
...David Barton Smith Abstract Unnecessary surgery has been a focus of health policy concern for decades. Such events are supposed to be prevented by the (a) self-policing of hospital medical staffs, (b) oversight of state medical boards, (c) third-party restrictions on payment, and (d) threat...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1997) 22 (1): 245–248.
Published: 01 February 1997
...Mary G. Winkler Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Kathy Davis. Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery. New York: Routledge, 1995. 211 pp. $16.95 paper. Books...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1987) 12 (3): 409–426.
Published: 01 June 1987
... expected based on statistical norms is difficult and should be viewed as no more than a first step in evaluating quality and price performance. Actual data on 37 hospitals that provide coronary artery bypass graft surgery in a metropolitan region are used to illustrate some major prospects, problems...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (1): 227–232.
Published: 01 February 2015
... is covered in both programs (e.g., surgery that has been authorized but not yet performed; ongoing prescription medications for chronic illness; or some but not all therapy or counseling sessions have been completed); and (4) the loss of coverage for a service that is not a covered benefit in the new program...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2016) 41 (5): 1033–1045.
Published: 01 October 2016
... measures may be quite rudimentary, such as mortality rates, or highly contestable: survival or function after prostate surgery? When cost is an element of value-based purchasing, it is the cost to the value-based payer and not to other payers or patients’ families. The greatest value of value-based...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2016) 41 (3): 463–472.
Published: 01 June 2016
... surgery are associated with weight loss but may not be ideal solutions for the majority of obese individuals. Certain comprehensive school-based interventions to change children's diets and promote physical activity have proved cost-effective. There is no magic bullet that will solve the problem...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1996) 21 (2): 219–241.
Published: 01 April 1996
... 73 percent; p = .42), discharged a patient with nonspecific chest pain (80 percent versus 80 percent; p = .88), and delayed surgery in a patient with nonspecific changes on a electrocardiograph (58 percent versus 68 percent; p = .18). Attitudes about malpractice also did not differ with varying...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1992) 17 (4): 783–812.
Published: 01 August 1992
...Marc A. Cohen; Tamara Barnea In recent years, dissatisfaction with aspects of the Israeli health care system has grown. Labor conflict and unrest, long waits for elective surgery, increases in out-of-pocket payments for health care, and declining government investment have given rise to a new...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1990) 15 (3): 543–570.
Published: 01 June 1990
... operations. This article reviews the literature on SSOPs. It considers whether SSOPs are effective mechanisms for reducing health care costs, how SSOPs affect outcomes, how physician errors affect the value of SSOPs, and what noncon-firmation rates and rates of surgery indicate about the appropriateness...
Image
Published: 01 June 2020
Figure 2 Implantable cardioverter defibrillator procedures per 100,000 in Florida. Source : Florida State Ambulatory Surgery and Inpatient Databases.
More
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2009) 34 (5): 777–827.
Published: 01 October 2009
... Indicators Overview. Rockville, MD: AHRQ. www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/ (accessed May 24, 2009). Bazzoli, G. J., A. Gerland, and J. May. 2006 . Construction Activity in U.S. Hospitals. Health Affairs 25 : 783 -791. Birkmeyer, J. D. 2000a . High-Risk Surgery: Follow the Crowd. Journal...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1988) 13 (4): 683–704.
Published: 01 August 1988
...
to the delivery of services (whether conducted before, during, or after treatment)
or by the services covered (e.g., surgery, inpatient, or outpatient care). This paper
examines hospital preadmission, concurrent, and retrospective review programs
as well as second-opinion surgery approaches...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2000) 25 (5): 992–994.
Published: 01 October 2000
... subjects
are drawn almost entirely from the pool of women involved in a “world-
wide breast implant settlement” sets us up to hear the downside of breast
implant surgery, to say the least. Throughout her book, Zimmerman is
critical of Kathy Davis’s rather amazingly upbeat study of women assum-
ing...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1978) 3 (3): 345–360.
Published: 01 June 1978
... of a commission examining all surgical
manpower stated: “Looked at within the framework of various spe-
cialties, it appears that neurosurgery has the largest fraction of persons
carrying out an operative load that is less than ideal, with General Surgery
a close second. ” In fact, in a detailed study...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1986) 11 (2): 271–284.
Published: 01 April 1986
...
and by paying more attention to the needs of a hypothetical “reasonable reader.”
Baby Jane Doe was born in Uniondale, N.Y., on 11 October 1983 with mul-
tiple defects, including spina bifida and microcephaly. Surgery was required to
keep the child alive, and she would always be significantly...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2009) 34 (4): 649–670.
Published: 01 August 2009
... to Shorten Waiting Time for Cataract Surgery. Health Affairs 16 ( 5 ): 181 -190. Anderson, G. F., B. K. Frogner, R. A. Johns, and U. E. Reinhardt. 2006 . Health Care Spending and Use of Information Technology in OECD Countries. Health Affairs 25 : 819 -831. Barr, N. 1992 . Economic Theory...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (6): 1157–1177.
Published: 01 December 2015
... of 2,400 practicing Oregon physicians from licensing data. We oversampled specialties where physicians are at higher risk of medical malpractice liability (including emergency medicine, general surgery, neurological surgery, orthopedic surgery, radiology, obstetrics, or gynecology). All statistics...
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1987) 12 (4): 741–809.
Published: 01 August 1987
... in Bibliography
American Journal of Public Health
Annals of Internal Medicine
Annals of Surgery
Archives of Internal Medicine
British Medical Journal
Business and Health
Canadian Journal...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1986) 11 (2): 285–294.
Published: 01 April 1986
.... In the
case of an otherwise healthy child, we would think it an abuse to deny simple
surgery for an intestinal obstruction. Should such refusals be tolerated for children
with mental or other physical handicaps?
Since the limits to tolerance of individual decisions are not clear, society has...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1991) 16 (2): 335–362.
Published: 01 April 1991
..., volume may
increase if a greater number of services are provided to facilitate earlier dis-
charges or if a greater volume of physician services are provided when entire
procedures, for example, surgery, are shifted out of the hospital. Thus, the
full effect of PPS on Medicare expenditures...
1