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From the Editor

The Slow Pace Of Change John K. Iglehart [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Quality Of Care

PROLOGUE: Quality Of Care [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Why Is There A Quality Chasm? Joseph P. Newhouse [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Preventing Errors In The Outpatient Setting: A Tale Of Three States Elizabeth M. Lapetina and Elizabeth M. Armstrong [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Achieving And Sustaining Improved Quality: Lessons From New York State And Cardiac Surgery Mark R. Chassin [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Improving Quality Through Public Disclosure Of Performance Information David Lansky [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

HMO Plan Performance Update: An Analysis Of The Literature, 1997–2001 Robert H. Miller and Harold S. Luft [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Care Costs

PROLOGUE: Health Care Costs [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Paying For National Health Insurance—And Not Getting It Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Does U.S. Tax-Financed Health Spending Really Incur Waste? Uwe E. Reinhardt [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Right Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription Stuart M. Butler [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Are Americans Closer Than We Think To National Health Insurance? Jonathan Oberlander [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Most Expensive Medical Conditions In America Benjamin G. Druss, Steven C. Marcus, Mark Olfson, and Harold Alan Pincus [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Care Spending During 1991–1998: A Fifty-State Review Anne Martin, Lekha Whittle, Katharine Levit, Greg Won, and Lindy Hinman [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Business Of Health

PROLOGUE: The Business Of Health [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Integrated Delivery Networks: A Detour On The Road To Integrated Health Care? Lawton R. Burns and Mark V. Pauly [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

A Longitudinal Perspective On Health Plan–Provider Risk Contracting Robert Hurley, Joy Grossman, Timothy Lake, and Lawrence Casalino [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Technology & Medicine

PROLOGUE: Technology And Medicine [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Pharmacogenetic Challenges For The Health Care System John A. Robertson, Baruch Brody, Allen Buchanan, Jeffrey Kahn, and Elizabeth McPherson [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Between Strangers: The Practice Of Medicine Online Tracy E. Miller and Arthur R. Derse [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Computerized Physician Order Entry Systems In Hospitals: Mandates And Incentives David F. Doolan and David W. Bates [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

MARKETWATCH: Patients In Conflict With Managed Care: A Profile Of Appeals In Two HMOs Carole Roan Gresenz, David M. Studdert, Nancy Campbell, and Deborah R. Hensler [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Transmission Of Financial Incentives To Physicians By Intermediary Organizations In California Meredith B. Rosenthal, Richard G. Frank, Joan L. Buchanan, and Arnold M. Epstein [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: National Trends In Use Of Medications In Office-Based Practice, 1985–1999 Catharine W. Burt [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: The Effect Of Physician-Owned Surgicenters On Hospital Outpatient Surgery William J. Lynk and Carina S. Longley [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

FROM THE FIELD: Challenged To Care: Informal Caregivers In A Changing Health System Karen Donelan, Craig A. Hill, Catherine Hoffman, Kimberly Scoles, Penny Hollander Feldman, Carol Levine, and David Gould [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

The Rest Is Silence Michael Rowe [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Life But No Limb: The Aftermath Of Medical Error Carol Levine [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Curtain W. Richard Boyte [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Health Insurance Expansions For Working Families: A Comparison Of Targeting Strategies Danielle H. Ferry, Bowen Garrett, Sherry Glied, Emily K. Greenman, and Len M. Nichols [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Tracking Medicaid Managed Care In Rural Communities: A Fifty-State Follow-Up Pam Silberman, Stephanie Poley, Kerry James, and Rebecca Slifkin [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Public Support For Policies That Would Help People With Chronic Conditions Mae Thamer, Wenke Hwang, and Gerard F. Anderson [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

SPECIAL REPORT: Foundation Approaches To U.S.-Mexico Border And Binational Health Funding Margaret A. Laws [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Grants & Grant Outcomes [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

UpDate

STATE REPORT: Integration And Its Discontents: Substance Abuse Treatment In The Oregon Health Plan Katherine E. Laws, Roy M. Gabriel, and Bentson H. McFarland [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Publications & Reports [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

Voting With Our Forks Margo Denke [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Recommendations On Quality Edward M. Spencer and Ann E. Mills [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Quality Chasm Christine K. Cassel [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

A Plug For Quality Initiatives Paul F. Griner [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Concern About Drug Reps Alexander C. Tsai [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Drug Reps Are Marketers, Period Robert Williams [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Influence At A Higher Level Chandak Ghosh, Paul Jung, and Bert Spilker [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Acting On Health Promotion Barry Kisloff [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Researchers From Mars, Policymakers From Venus Penny Hollander Feldman, Pamela Nadash, and Michal Gursen [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health And Wealth Vicente Navarro and Angus Deaton [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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