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    Volume 52, Issue 3
    895-1248
    June 2017
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  • Pages: 895-902
  • First Published: 22 May 2017

Fifty Years of HSR: Informing Policy and Practice

A Half-Century of Change

Lisa Simpson M.B., B.Ch., M.P.H., 
  • Pages: 903-907
  • First Published: 22 May 2017

Five Decades of HSR—By Words and Figures

Harold S. Luft Ph.D., 
  • Pages: 908-918
  • First Published: 22 May 2017

Fifty Years of the Journal HSR: Informing Policy and Practice

Jacqueline Zinn Ph.D.,  Patrick S. Romano M.D.,  Gordon DeFriese Ph.D.,  Stephen M. Shortell Ph.D.,  Harold S. Luft Ph.D.,  Ann B. Flood Ph.D., 
  • Pages: 919-932
  • First Published: 22 May 2017

Quality and Outcomes

Hospital Quality Reporting in the United States: Does Report Card Design and Incorporation of Patient Narrative Comments Affect Hospital Choice?

Martin Emmert Ph.D.,  Mark Schlesinger Ph.D., 
  • Pages: 933-958
  • First Published: 20 June 2016

Fighting MRSA Infections in Hospital Care: How Organizational Factors Matter

Torsten Oliver Salge Ph.D.,  Antonio Vera Ph.D.,  David Antons Ph.D.,  Jeannie P. Cimiotti Ph.D., 
  • Pages: 959-983
  • First Published: 22 June 2016

Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition and Clinical Performance in U.S. Community Health Centers

Leiyu Shi Dr.P.H., M.B.A., M.P.A.,  De-Chih Lee Ph.D.,  Michelle Chung M.C.S.E. B.I., M.C.I.T.P., M.C.P.D.,  Hailun Liang Dr.P.H.,  Diana Lock M.S.S.W.,  Alek Sripipatana Ph.D., M.P.H., 
  • Pages: 984-1004
  • First Published: 20 June 2016

Association between Nurse Staffing and In-Hospital Bone Fractures: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Kojiro Morita R.N., M.P.H.,  Hiroki Matsui M.P.H.,  Kiyohide Fushimi M.D., Ph.D.,  Hideo Yasunaga M.D., Ph.D., 
  • Pages: 1005-1023
  • First Published: 24 July 2016

Duration to Admission and Hospital Transfers Affect Facility Rankings from the Postacute 30-Day Rehospitalization Quality Measure

James E. Graham Ph.D., D.C.,  Janet Prvu Bettger Sc.D.,  Steve R. Fisher Ph.D., P.T.,  Amol M. Karmarkar Ph.D., M.P.H.,  Amit Kumar P.T., Ph.D., M.P.H.,  Kenneth J. Ottenbacher Ph.D., O.T.R., 
  • Pages: 1024-1039
  • First Published: 28 June 2016

Differences in Hospital Readmission Risk across All Payer Groups in South Carolina

Hrishikesh Chakraborty Ph.D.,  Robert Neal Axon M.D., M.S.C.R.,  Jordan Brittingham M.S.P.H.,  Genevieve Ray Lyons M.S.P.H.,  Laura Cole R.N., M.S.N.,  Christine B. Turley M.D., 
  • Pages: 1040-1060
  • First Published: 28 September 2016

Creating Unidimensional Global Measures of Physician Practice Quality Based on Health Insurance Claims Data

Grant R. Martsolf Ph.D., M.P.H., R.N.,  Adam C. Carle Ph.D.,  Dennis P. Scanlon Ph.D., 
  • Pages: 1061-1078
  • First Published: 24 July 2016

Impact of State Reporting Laws on Central Line–Associated Bloodstream Infection Rates in U.S. Adult Intensive Care Units

Hangsheng Liu Ph.D.,  Carolyn T. A. Herzig Ph.D., M.S.,  Andrew W. Dick Ph.D.,  E. Yoko Furuya M.D., M.S.,  Elaine Larson Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.,  Julie Reagan Ph.D., J.D., M.P.H.,  Monika Pogorzelska-Maziarz Ph.D., M.P.H.,  Patricia W. Stone Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., 
  • Pages: 1079-1098
  • First Published: 24 July 2016

Insurance and Payment Reform

A Longitudinal Investigation of Willingness to Pay for Health Insurance in Germany

Jens-Oliver Bock Ph.D.,  André Hajek Ph.D.,  Hermann Brenner M.D., M.P.H.,  Kai-Uwe Saum Ph.D.,  Herbert Matschinger Ph.D.,  Walter Emil Haefeli M.D.,  Ben Schöttker Ph.D.,  Renate Quinzler Ph.D.,  Dirk Heider Ph.D.,  Hans-Helmut König M.D., M.P.H., 
  • Pages: 1099-1117
  • First Published: 20 June 2016

Impact of Massachusetts Health Reform on Enrollment Length and Health Care Utilization in the Unsubsidized Individual Market

Laura F. Garabedian M.P.H., Ph.D.,  Dennis Ross-Degnan Sc.D.,  Stephen B. Soumerai Sc.D.,  Niteesh K. Choudhry M.D., Ph.D.,  Jeffrey S. Brown Ph.D., 
  • Pages: 1118-1137
  • First Published: 25 July 2016

Impact of a Pay-for-Performance Program on Care for Black Patients with Hypertension: Important Answers in the Era of the Affordable Care Act

Laura A. Petersen M.D., M.P.H.,  Kate Simpson Ramos M.P.H.,  Kenneth Pietz Ph.D.,  LeChauncy D. Woodard M.D., M.P.H., 
  • Pages: 1138-1155
  • First Published: 22 June 2016

Access and Utilization

Medicaid Disenrollment and Disparities in Access to Care: Evidence from Tennessee

Wafa W. Tarazi Ph.D.,  Tiffany L. Green Ph.D.,  Lindsay M. Sabik Ph.D., 
  • Pages: 1156-1167
  • First Published: 03 June 2016

The Dynamics of Hospital Use among Older People Evidence for Europe Using SHARE Data

Nicolas Sirven Ph.D.,  Thomas Rapp Ph.D., 
  • Pages: 1168-1184
  • First Published: 20 June 2016

How Low-Income Subsidy Recipients Respond to Medicare Part D Cost Sharing

Bruce Stuart Ph.D.,  Franklin B. Hendrick Ph.D.,  Jing Xu M.A.,  J. Samantha Dougherty Ph.D., 
  • Pages: 1185-1206
  • First Published: 20 June 2016

Methods Corner

A Practical Guide to Using the Positive Deviance Method in Health Services Research

Adam J. Rose M.D., M.Sc., F.A.C.P.,  Megan B. McCullough Ph.D., 
  • Pages: 1207-1222
  • First Published: 28 June 2016

Research Briefs

Community Characteristics and Qualified Health Plan Selection during the First Open Enrollment Period

Michel Boudreaux Ph.D.,  Lynn A. Blewett Ph.D.,  Brett Fried M.S.,  Katherine Hempstead Ph.D.,  Pinar Karaca-Mandic Ph.D., 
  • Pages: 1223-1238
  • First Published: 28 June 2016

Redaction of Substance Abuse Claims in Medicare Research Files Affects Spending Outcomes for Nearly One in Five Beneficiaries with Serious Mental Illness

Pamela Roberto M.P.P.,  Nicole Brandt Pharm.D.,  Eberechukwu Onukwugha Ph.D., M.S.,  Bruce Stuart Ph.D., 
  • Pages: 1239-1248
  • First Published: 24 July 2016