Journal Articles

bstracts of peer-reviewed journal articles authored by HSC staff members and outside researchers are provided on the web site. To obtain a full copy of the article, please contact the corresponding journal. An e-mail link to the related journal is at the bottom of each abstract for your convenience.

Title	Date	Document Info
Primary Care: Current Problems and Proposed Solutions	May 2010	Health Affairs
The Growing Financial Burden of Health Care: National and State Trends, 2001-2006	March 25, 2010	Health Affairs
Unchecked Provider Clout in California Foreshadows Challenges to Health Reform	Feb. 25, 2010	Health Affairs
Medicare Fees and Volume of Physicians' Services	Winter 2009/10	Inquiry
Are Electronic Medical Records Helpful for Care Coordination? Experiences of Physician Practices	Dec. 29, 2009	Journal of General Internal Medicine
Getting to the Real Issues in Health Care Reform	Nov. 12, 2009	New England Journal of Medicine
Is Health Spending Excessive? If So, What Can We Do About It?	September/October 2009	Health Affairs
Medicare Governance and Provider Payment Policy	September/October 2009	Health Affairs
Does Telemonitoring of Patients—The eICU—Improve Intensive Care?	Aug. 20, 2009	Health Affairs
Rapidity and Modality of Imaging for Acute Low Back Pain in Elderly Patients	May 25, 2009	Archives of Internal Medicine
Beyond Parity: Primary Care Physicians' Perspectives on Access to Mental Health Care	April 14, 2009	Health Affairs
Information Gap: Can Health Insurer Personal Health Records Meet Patients' and Physicians' Needs?	March/April 2009	Health Affairs
Primary Care Physicians' Links to Other Physicians Through Medicare Patients: The Scope of Care Coordination	Feb. 17, 2009	Annals of Internal Medicine
Consumer-Directed Health Care: Promise and Performance	Jan. 27, 2009	Health Affairs
Patient Experience with Coordination of Care: The Benefit of Continuity and Primary Care Physician as Referral Source	Jan. 6, 2009	Journal of General Internal Medicine
High Medical Cost Burdens, Patient Trust and Perceived Quality of Care	Jan. 5, 2009	Journal of General Internal Medicine
Do Reimbursement Delays Discourage Medicaid Participation by Physicians?	Nov. 18, 2008	Health Affairs
The Transition from Managed Care to Consumerism: A Community-Level Status Report	September/October 2008	Health Affairs
Hospital-Physician Relations: Two Tracks and the Decline of the Voluntary Medical Staff Model	September/October 2008	Health Affairs
Hospitalists and Care Transitions: The Divorce of Inpatient and Outpatient Care	September/October 2008	Health Affairs
Caught in the Competitive Crossfire: Safety-Net Providers Balance Margin and Mission in a Profit-Driven Health Care Market	Aug. 12, 2008	Health Affairs
Paying Hospitals on the Basis of Nursing Intensity	May 2008	Policy, Politics and Nursing Practice
Employment-Based Health Benefits Under Univeral Coverage	May/June 2008	Health Affairs
Do Primary Care Physicians Treating Minority Patients Report Problems Delivering High-Quality Care?	April 22, 2008	Health Affairs
Effects of Changes in Incomes and Practice Circumstances on Physicians' Decisions to Treat Charity and Medicaid Patients	March 2008	The Milbank Quarterly
Financial Burden of Health Care, 2001-2004	January/February 2008	Health Affairs
Don't Break Out the Champagne: Continued Slowing of Health Care Spending Growth Unlikely to Last	January/February 2008	Health Affairs
Why Do Hispanics Have So Little Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance?	Fall 2007	Inquiry
Convergence and Dissonance: Evolution in Private-Sector Approaches to Disease Management and Care Coordination	November/December 2007	Health Affairs
Unhealthy Trends: The Future of Physician Services	November/December 2007	Health Affairs
The Health Care Safety Net: What is It, What Good Does It Do, and Will It Still be There When We Need It?	Fall 2007	Harvard Health Policy Review
Differences Between Symptom-Specific and General Survey Questions of Unmet Need in Measuring Insurance and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Access to Care	September 2007	Medical Care
Redesigning Care Delivery in Response to a High-Performance Network: The Virginia Mason Medical Center	July 10, 2007	Health Affairs
Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations for COPD and Pneumonia	June 2007	Medical Care
Physician Consideration of Patients' Out-of-Pocket Costs in Making Common Clinical Decisions	April 9, 2007	Archives of Internal Medicine
Physicians' Experience Using Commercial E-Prescribing Systems	April 3, 2007	Health Affairs
Predictors of the Growing Influence of Clinical Practice Guidelines	March 27, 2007	Journal of General Internal Medicine
Revising Medicare's Physician Fee Schedule—Much Activity, Little Change	March 22, 2007	New England Journal of Medicine
Care Patterns in Medicare and Their Implications for Pay for Performance	March 15, 2007	New England Journal of Medicine
Insurance Premiums and Insurance Coverage of Near-Poor Children	Winter 2006/2007	Inquiry