Quality and Outcomes

Mortality of Department of Veterans Affairs Patients Undergoing Coronary Revascularization in Private Sector Hospitals 
Mary S. Vaughan-Sarrazin, Bonnie Wakefield, and Gary E. Rosenthal

The Influence of Staffing Characteristics on Quality of Care in Nursing Homes 
Nicholas G. Castle and John Engberg

A Systematic Review of Measures of End-of-Life Care and Its Outcomes
Richard A. Mularski, Sydney M. Dy, Lisa R. Shugarman, Anne M. Wilkinson, Joanne Lynn, Paul G. Shekelle, Sally C. Morton, Virginia C. Sun, Ronda G. Hughes, Lara K. Hilton, Margaret Maglione, Shannon L. Rhodes, Cony Rolon, and Karl A. Lorenz

Physician and Patient Behavior

Time Allocation in Primary Care Office Visits 
Ming Tai-Seale, Thomas G. McGuire, and Weimin Zhang

Factors Associated with the Income Distribution of Full-Time Physicians: A Quantile Regression Approach 
Ya-Chen Tina Shih and Thomas R. Konrad

The Effect of Three-Tier Formulary Adoption on Medication Continuation and Spending among Elderly Retirees
Haiden A. Huskamp, Patricia A. Deverka, Mary Beth Landrum, Robert S. Epstein, and Kimberly A. McGuigan

Costs and Effectiveness

Cost-Effectiveness of Diabetes Case Management for Low-Income Populations 
Todd P. Gilmer, Stéphane Roze, William J. Valentine, Katrina Emy-Albrecht, Joshua A. Ray, David Cobden, Lars Nicklasson, Athena Philis-Tsimikas, and Andrew J. Palmer

Public Savings from the Prevention of Unintended Pregnancy: A Cost Analysis of Family Planning Services in California 
Gorette Amaral, Diana Greene Foster, M. Antonia Biggs, Carolyn Bradner Jasik, Signy Judd, and Claire D. Brindis

Patient Safety

Medicaid Markets and Pediatric Patient Safety in Hospitals 
Richard B. Smith, Robyn Cheung, Pamela Owens, R. Mark Wilson, and Lisa Simpson

Workforce Perceptions of Hospital Safety Culture: Development and Validation of the Patient Safety Climate in Healthcare Organizations Survey 
Sara Singer, Mark Meterko, Laurence Baker, David Gaba, Alyson Falwell and Amy Rosen

Methods

Missing in Action: Care by Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners in National Health Surveys 
Perri A. Morgan, Justine Strand, Truls Østbye, and Mark A. Albanese

Are the Current Population Survey Uninsurance Estimates Too High? An Examination of the Imputation Process 
Michael Davern, Holly Rodin, Lynn A. Blewett, and Kathleen Thiede Call

Evaluation of Three Algorithms to Identify Incident Breast Cancer in Medicare Claims Data 
Heather T. Gold and Huong T. Do