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pro vyhledávání: '"Consumer Information in a Changing Health Care System"'
Autor:
Sangl, Judith A., Wolf, Linda F.
Publikováno v:
Health Care Financing Review
This overview discusses articles published in this issue of the Health Care Financing Review, entitled "Consumer Information in a Changing Health Care System." The overview describes several trends promoting more active consumer participation in heal
Publikováno v:
Health Care Financing Review
Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) data from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) provide reliable information about cancer incidence. However, because SEER data are geographically limited and have a 2-year time lag, we evaluated whethe
Autor:
McCormack, Lauren A., Garfinkel, Steven A., Schnaier, Jenny A., Lee, A. James, Sangl, Judith A.
Publikováno v:
Health Care Financing Review
The availability of informational materials to aid consumer health care purchasing decisions is increasing. Organizations developing and disseminating materials include public- and private-sector employers, providers, purchasing cooperatives, State a
Publikováno v:
Health Care Financing Review
The premise that competition will improve health care assumes that consumers will choose plans that best fit their needs and resources. However, many consumers are frustrated with currently available plan comparison information. We describe results f
Publikováno v:
Health Care Financing Review
This study assesses how consumers view condition-specific performance measures and builds on an earlier study to test an approach for communicating quality information. The study uses three separate designs: a small experiment, a cross-sectional anal
Autor:
Sainfort, François, Booske, Bridget C.
Publikováno v:
Health Care Financing Review
Considerable efforts are underway in the public and private sectors to increase the amount of information available to consumers when making health plan choices. The objective of this study was to examine the role of information in consumer health pl
Publikováno v:
Health Care Financing Review
Medicare beneficiaries face myriad rules, conditions, and exceptions under the Medicare program. As a result, State Information, Counseling, and Assistance (ICA) programs were established or enhanced with Federal funding as part of the Omnibus Budget
Autor:
Eppig, Franklin J., Poisal, John A.
Publikováno v:
Health Care Financing Review
The Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) is a powerful tool for analyzing enrollees' access to medical care (Adler, 1994). Based on a stratified random sample, we can derive information about the health care use, expenditure, and financing of M
Autor:
Levit, Katharine R., Lazenby, Helen C., Braden, Bradley R., Cowan, Cathy A., McDonnell, Patricia A., Sivarajan, Lekha, Stiller, Jean M., Won, Darleen K., Donham, Carolyn S., Long, Anna M., Stewart, Madie W.
Publikováno v:
Health Care Financing Review
This article presents data on health care spending for the United States, covering expenditures for various types of medical services and products and their sources of funding from 1960 to 1995. In 1995, $988.5 billion was spent to purchase health ca
Publikováno v:
Health Care Financing Review
This regular feature of the journal includes a discussion of recent trends in health care spending, employment, and prices. The statistics presented in this article are valuable in their own right and for understanding the relationship between the he