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Accounting Fundamentals for Health Care ManagementAccounting Fundamentals for Health Care Management is ideal for an introductory course in financial accounting in both undergraduate and graduate programs. With a focus on basic accounting in health care management, this essential book contains the …
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Universal Health Insurance in France: How Sustainable? Essays on the French Health Care SystemRodwin, V.G. and colleagues …
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Gateway to Opportunity? Disparities in Neighborhood Conditions Among Low-Income Housing Tax Credit ResidentsIngrid Gould Ellen, Keren Horn, and Yiwen Kuai …
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A review of pharmacological interactions between HIV or hepatitis C virus medications and opioid agonist therapy: implications and management for clinical practiceGlobal access to opioid agonist therapy and HIV/hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment is expanding but when used concurrently, problematic pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic interactions may occur. Articles published from 1966 to 2012 in Medline were …
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Monitoring the pulse of hospital activity: Electronic health record utilization as a measure of care intensityBackground : Hospital care on weekends has been associated with reduced quality and poor clinical outcomes, suggesting that decreases in overall intensity of care may have important clinical effects. We describe a new measure of hospital intensity of care …
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Using the Delphi and Snow Card Techniques to Build Consensus Among Diverse Community and Academic StakeholdersBackground : The New York University– New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (NYU-HHC) Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) used a community-based participatory research (CBPR) and consensus-building approach among its community …
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Electronic Health Record Use, Intensity of Hospital Care, and Patient OutcomesObjective : Previous studies have suggested that weekend hospital care is inferior to weekday care and that this difference may be related to diminished care intensity. The purpose of this study was to determine whether a metric for measuring intensity of …
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How Patients Understand the Term “Nonmedical Use” of Prescription Drugs: Insights from Cognitive InterviewsBackground : With rising rates of prescription drug abuse and associated overdose deaths, there is great interest in having accurate and efficient screening tools that identify nonmedical use of prescription drugs in health care settings. The authors …
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Population Health and the Academic Medical Center: The Time Is RightOptimizing the health of populations, whether defined as persons receiving care from a health care delivery system or more broadly as persons in a region, is emerging as a core focus in the era of health care reform. To achieve this goal requires an …
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Test–retest reliability of a self-administered Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) in primary care patientsThe time required to conduct drug and alcohol screening has been a major barrier to its implementation in mainstream healthcare settings. Because patient self-administered tools are potentially more efficient, we translated the Alcohol, Smoking and …
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Changing the research landscape: the New York City Clinical Data Research NetworkThe New York City Clinical Data Research Network (NYC-CDRN), funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), brings together 22 organizations including seven independent health systems to enable patient-centered clinical research, …
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Association of weekend continuity of care with hospital length of stayObjective : The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association of physician continuity of care with length of stay, likelihood of weekend discharge, in-hospital mortality and 30-day readmission. Design : A cohort study of hospitalized medical …
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Syndemic Vulnerability, Sexual and Injection Risk Behaviors, and HIV Continuum of Care Outcomes in HIV-Positive Injection Drug UsersLimited investigations have been conducted on syndemics and HIV continuum of care outcomes. Using baseline data from a multi-site, randomized controlled study of HIV-positive injection drug users (n = 1,052), we examined whether psychosocial factors …
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Portfolio Choices of Parents and Their Children as Young Adults: Asset Accumulation among African-American FamiliesNo abstract available. …
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Promises Kept: Enforcement and the Role of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations in an EconomyRotating savings and credit associations (roscas) are a popular form of informal finance in developing countries. This paper examines the rosca's ability to enforce its terms of membership and the implications that this has for their existence in an …
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Strategies to Increase the Retirement Savings of African American HouseholdsChiteji, N. and L. Walker …
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Poverty and Migration in the Digital Age: Experimental Evidence on Mobile Banking in BangladeshRapid urbanization is reshaping economies and intensifying spatial inequalities. In Bangladesh, we experimentally introduced mobile banking to very poor rural households and family members who had migrated to the city, testing whether mobile technology …
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Migration, Externalities, and the Diffusion of COVID-19 in South AsiaThe initial spread of COVID-19 halted economic activity as countries around the world restricted the mobility of their citizens. As a result, many migrant workers returned home, spreading the virus across borders. We investigate the relationship between …
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Can Small Incentives Have Large Effects? The Impact of Taxes versus Bonuses on Disposable Bag UseThis paper examines a simple element of financial incentive design – whether the incentive takes the form of a fee for bad behavior or a reward for good behavior – to determine if the framing of the incentive influences the policy's effectiveness. I …
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Coping with Adversity: Regional Economic Resilience and Public PolicyMetropolitan economies sometimes experience economic adversity, with resulting serious impacts on the area's residents and institutions. The causes, nature, and length of these regional economic problems vary. The question we address in this book is why …
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Audience Building and Financial Health in the Nonprofit Performing Arts: Current Literature and Unanswered QuestionsIn Classical Music: Contemporary Perspectives and Challenges . Edited by Michael Beckerman and Paul Boghossian. …
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Points for Place: Can State Governments Shape Siting Patterns of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Developments?There is considerable controversy about the allocation of Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC). Some charge that credits are disproportionately allocated to developments in poor, minority neighborhoods without additional investments and thereby …