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  • An exploratory study of an intranet dashboard in a multi-state healthcare system

    Creator:
    Wolpin, Seth E.
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    Introduction: Management of complex systems is facilitated through effective information systems that provide real-time data to decision makers. For example, instrument panels in airplanes ensure that pilots have well-designed feedback concerning the status of mission-critical variables. Problem: While pilots have dashboards for feedback and communication, healthcare executives may be unaware...
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    concerning the status of mission-critical variables. Problem: While pilots have dashboards for feedback and

  • Integrated health systems and the impact on rural hospitals and communities

    Creator:
    King, Mark T.
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    PURPOSE Rural hospitals began to make significant changes in the 1990s by becoming integrated with larger health systems. The literature has correlated several key measures that determine the success of integrated health systems. These measures were quality, financial strength, community benefit, physician outcomes, and service changes. The purpose of this...
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    /or (3) a health insurance product or products; and/or (4) a long-term care provider. At least two of

  • Experiences and Correlates of Healthcare Discrimination Among Saudis in the United States

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    Sinky, Tassnym Hussein
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    Healthcare discrimination is associated with various health-related attitudes, behaviors, intentions, and outcomes including provider avoidance, underutilization or increased use of healthcare services, use of alternative means of healthcare, delays in medical care, less satisfaction with care, poor health behaviors, and poorer health outcomes. Since 2001, Muslims and Arabs in the...
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    , delaying caring until returning to Saudi Arabia, and the number of emergency room and eye care visits

  • Oregon Coordinated Care Organizations: Impacts on Health and Health Care Utilization of Infants Enrolled in Medicaid

    Creator:
    Bui, Linh N.
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    In August 2012, Oregon began enrolling Medicaid beneficiaries in coordinated care organizations (CCOs), a unique mandatory-enrollment accountable care organization (ACO) model with payment methods strongly tied to preventive care; care coordination; and integration of physical, mental and dental health care through patient-centered medical homes. This dissertation, consisting of two studies,...
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    Coordinated Care Organizations: Impacts on Health and Health Care Utilization of Infants Enrolled in Medicaid

  • The impact of Oregon’s Coordinated Care Organizations on Prenatal Care Access and Quality : A Difference-in-Differences Analysis

    Creator:
    Muoto, Ifeoma O.
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    Background: Prenatal care (PNC) is an important preventive health service that can influence the health of the four million women who give birth annually in the United States, and the health their infants. Despite efforts to increase women’s access to PNC services, significant disparities in PNC utilization and maternal/child health...
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    reported improvements in timely access to care and decreased utilization of emergency department and

  • Medicare managed care : market penetration and the resulting health outcomes

    Creator:
    Howard, Steven W.
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    Managed care plans purport to improve the health of their members with chronic diseases. How has the growing adoption of Medicare Advantage (MA), the managed care program for Medicare beneficiaries, affected the progression of chronic disease? The literature is rich with articles focusing on managed care organizations' impacts on quality...
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    managed care organizations’ impacts on quality of care, access, patient satisfaction, and costs

  • Out-of-pocket health care expenditures and household food insecurity among families with children

    Creator:
    Patton-Lopez, Megan M.
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    Since the late 1990s accelerated growth in health care spending coupled with a cost shift of health insurance from employers to employees has created an increased financial burden for many families. Past research suggests that financial burden due to out-of-pocket (OOP) health care costs limits access to health care and...
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    in Public Health on June 14, 2012. Title: Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenditures and Household

  • Assessing equity in health system finance and health care utilization : the case of Chile, and a model to measure health care access

    Creator:
    Núñez Mondaca, Alicia Lorena
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    Chile has experienced great success in terms of economic growth in the last decades. This growing economy brings changes in the Chilean health care system. Its health care system was primarily funded by state sources until 1981, when a major reform was introduced that established new rules for the health...
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    practitioner services, specialty care and emergency care. An assessment of horizontal equity was also

  • Medicaid prenatal care : testing the effectiveness of a prenatal intervention model

    Creator:
    Buffa, Jan L.
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    The study evaluates the effectiveness of a pregnancy intervention model (PIM) developed to improve first trimester prenatal care utilization in a population of 2,694 low-income Medicaid women. Engagement in prenatal care is critical before prenatal care can occur. Early initiation of prenatal care is important for low income pregnant women...
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    utilization in a population of 2,694 low-income Medicaid women. Engagement in prenatal care is critical

  • Disparities in Health Outcomes and Health Care Access : A Quantitative Intersectional Approach

    Creator:
    Alvarado, Carla S.
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    Health disparity scholars and researchers call to expand the conceptualization of health disparities research beyond the predominant and long-standing race-based analyses. The call requests the inclusion of frameworks and theories that reflect the complex, multi-level and multifactorial social processes that yield health disparities. Intersectionality is a theoretical framework that is...
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    diagnoses (objective measures of health), and health care access as measured by insurance coverage and