ContextCare of patients with depression in managed primary care settings often fails to
meet guideline standards, but the long-term impact of quality improvement (QI) programs for …

Background. Ethnic minority patients are less likely than white patients to receive guideline-concordant
care for depression. It is uncertain whether racial and ethnic differences exist in …

Purpose: The relative effectiveness of the diverse approaches used to promote preventive
care activities, such as cancer screening and adult immunization, is unknown. Despite many …

A comprehensive functional assessment requires thorough and careful inquiry, which is
difficult to accomplish in most busy clinical practices. This paper examines the reliability and …

OBJECTIVE: To determine patient and provider characteristics associated with increased
risk of nondetection of mental health problems by primary care physicians. DESIGN: Cross-…

BACKGROUND Compared to those with depression alone, depressed patients with
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) experience more severe psychiatric symptomatology and …

Objective. —To compare quality of care measured by explicit criteria, implicit review, and
sickness-adjusted outcomes at different types of hospitals. Design. —Further analysis of data …

purpose: To assess the value of functional status questions in predicting mortality, we
conducted a 4-year prospective longitudinal follow-up study of functionally impaired community-…

Since the introduction of the prospective payment system (PPS), anecdotal evidence has
accumulated that patients are leaving the hospital "quicker and sicker." We developed valid …

Objective. —To analyze whether elderly patients who are black or from poor neighborhoods
receive worse hospital care than other patients, taking account of hospital effects and using …