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  • Case management model or case manager type? That is the question
    Long, Michael J. (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002-06)
    Case management models have been categorized many different ways, but classification into two generic models is proposed here: an interrogative model that relies on intense oversight with expected cost reduction and a ...
  • The three keys to quality customer service: opening the doors to exceptional performance
    Myers, Pennie; Nance, Don W. (Clinical Laboratory Management Association, 2002-07)
    Excellence in customer service requires three things. The first is a commitment to a set of principles. These principles reflect beliefs and assumptions that people are valuable and deserve to be treated with dignity and ...
  • Prospects for single payer coverage after Harry and Louise
    Swan, James H.; Goldsteen, Raymond L.; Goldsteen, Karen; Clemeña, Wendy (Routledge, 2003)
    This paper considers evidence of indirect influences of the Harry and Louise media campaign on public support of single payer health coverage in a conservative state.
  • Medicaid case-mix nursing home reimbursement in three states
    Swan, James H.; Pickard, Ruth B. (Routledge, 2003)
    Case-mix nursing facility payment raises issues of access, quality, equity, and cost. Case-mix should better match payment to costs, improve access, and provide incentives to increased staffing and quality of care; but it ...
  • Marital status and health care expenditures among the elderly in a managed care organization
    Cabrera-Alonso, Juliana; Long, Michael J.; Bangalore, Vinay G; Lescoe-Long, Mary A. (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003-07)
    The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of marital status in and health care expenditures among the elderly in a managed care organization. The study population consisted of 277 functionally impaired ...
  • Dental hygienists as providers in long-term care facilities
    Pickard, Ruth B.; Ablah, Carol R. (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2005-01)
    The authors surveyed all practicing dental hygienists (n = 870, response rate = 69%) in Kansas about providing preventive dental care to elderly residents of long-term care (LTC) facilities. Maximum likelihood estimates ...
  • Does age influence the intensity of care in a managed care organization?
    Long, Michael J.; Lescoe-Long, Mary A. (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005-04)
    The primary objective of this study was to determine whether an inverse relationship between age and the intensity of care prevailed in an elderly, functionally impaired population enrolled in a managed care organization. ...
  • Using self-assessed health to predict patient outcomes after total knee replacement
    Long, Michael J.; McQueen, David A.; Bangalore, Vinay G; Schurman, John R. (Lippincott Williams & Wilkin, 2005-05)
    Self-assessed health status has been shown to be a powerful predictor of mortality, service use, and total cost of medical care treatment. We investigated the potential for self-assessed health to further serve as a predictor ...
  • Capturing the full measure of patient outcome improvement using a self-assessed health adjustment
    Long, Michael J.; McQueen, David A.; Lescoe-Long, Mary A.; Schurman, John R. (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2005-10)
    Self-assessed health (SAH) status is a very simple four-, or five-category self-reported measure of health status that has been shown to be a powerful predictor of mortality, service use and total cost of medical care ...
  • Evaluation of a diversity intervention funded by Title VII
    Muma, Richard D.; Pries, Patricia (Physician Assistant Education Association, 2010)
    Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate an intervention intended to make an impact in heightening the cultural training of health care-focused high school and physician assistant (PA) students, increasing the ...
  • Attitudes of US physician assistants toward persons with HIV/AIDS
    Talley, Anja K.; Ritzdorf, Kyrie; Muma, Richard D. (Haymarket Media, 2010-12)
    Background: Early in the HIV/AIDS epidemic, a large number of health care workers had negative attitudes toward persons infected with HIV, but a more positive shift has occurred in these attitudes over the past decade. ...
  • Perceptions of U.S. physicians regarding the entry-level doctoral degree in physician assistant education
    Muma, Richard D.; Smith, Barbara S.; Anderson, Nickele; Richardson, Micah; Selzer, Erica; White, Rebecca (Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions, 2011)
    Minimal research has been done to determine the appropriateness of entry-level doctoral physician assistant (PA) education. Previously, only PAs, PA faculty, and a small number of PA program medical directors had been ...

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