Health Affairs July/August Issue Highlights Quality of Care
Highlights from the July/August issue of Health Affairs appear below:
- Abstracts: "Health Policy for Low-Income People: States' Responses to New Challenges"; "Facing Reality in Preparing for Biological Warfare: A Conversation with George Poste"; and "How Low Can You Go? The Impact of Reduced Benefits and Increased Cost Sharing."
- Quality of Care: "Why Is There a Quality Chasm?" "Preventing Errors in the Outpatient Setting: A Tale of Three States"; "Achieving and Sustaining Improved Quality: Lessons from New York State and Cardiac Surgery"; "Improving Quality Through Public Disclosure of Performance Information"; and "HMO Plan Performance Update: An Analysis of the Literature, 1997-2001."
- Health Care Costs: "Paying for National Health Insurance -- And Not Getting It"; "Does U.S. Tax-Financed Health Spending Really Incur Waste?" "Right Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription"; "Are Americans Closer Than We Think to National Health Insurance?" "The Most Expensive Medical Conditions in America"; and "Health Care Spending During 1991-1998: A Fifty-State Review."
- Health Tracking: "Patients in Conflict with Managed Care: A Profile of Appeals in Two HMOs"; "Transmission of Financial Incentives to Physicians by Intermediary Organizations in California"; "National Trends in Use of Medications in Office-Based Practice, 1985-1999"; "The Effect of Physician-Owned Surgicenters on Hospital Outpatient Surgery"; and "Challenged to Care: Informal Caregivers in a Changing Health System."
- Datawatch: "Health Insurance Expansions for Working Families: A Comparison of Targeting Strategies"; "Tracking Medicaid Managed Care in Rural Communities: A Fifty-State Follow-Up"; and "Public Support for Policies That Would Help People with Chronic Conditions."
- Grantwatch: "Foundation Approaches to U.S.-Mexico Border and Binational Health Funding."
- Update: "Integration and its Discontents: Substance Abuse Treatment in the Oregon Health Plan."
