Issue Brief
Overview
Issue Brief is a scientific journal, published since 1996 in English. The journal's country of origin is United States and its primary focus area is health services.
Details
Details
Abbr.
Issue Brief Cent Stud Health Syst Change
Start
1996
End
2012
Frequency
Monthly
Country
United States
Language
English
Specialty
Health Services
Recent Articles
1.
Yee T, Christianson J, Ginsburg P
Issue Brief Cent Stud Health Syst Change
. 2012 Jul;
(138):1-4.
PMID: 22812029
Over the past decade, large employers increasingly have bypassed traditional health insurance for their workers, opting instead to assume the financial risk of enrollees' medical care through self-insurance. Because self-insurance...
2.
Christanson J, Tu H, Samuel D
Issue Brief Cent Stud Health Syst Change
. 2011 Nov;
(137):1-5.
PMID: 22034676
Rising costs and the lingering fallout from the great recession are altering the calculus of employer approaches to offering health benefits, according to findings from the Center for Studying Health...
3.
OMalley A, Bond A, Berenson R
Issue Brief Cent Stud Health Syst Change
. 2011 Aug;
(136):1-4.
PMID: 21853632
In a quest to gain market share, hospital employment of physicians has accelerated in recent years to shore up referral bases and capture admissions, according to the Center for Studying...
4.
Felland L, Grossman J, Tu H
Issue Brief Cent Stud Health Syst Change
. 2011 May;
(135):1-8.
PMID: 21614861
Lingering fallout--loss of jobs and employer coverage--from the great recession slowed demand for health care services but did little to slow aggressive competition by dominant hospital systems for well-insured patients,...
5.
Boukus E, Grossman J, OMalley A
Issue Brief Cent Stud Health Syst Change
. 2010 Oct;
(134):1-5.
PMID: 20939158
Some experts view e-mail between physicians and patients as a potential tool to improve physician-patient communication and, ultimately, patient care. Despite indications that many patients want to e-mail their physicians,...
6.
Grossman J
Issue Brief Cent Stud Health Syst Change
. 2010 Jul;
(133):1-5.
PMID: 20653118
Physician practice adoption of electronic prescribing has not guaranteed that individual physicians will routinely use the technology, particularly the more advanced features the federal government is promoting with financial incentives,...
7.
Cassil A
Issue Brief Cent Stud Health Syst Change
. 2010 Jun;
(132):1-4.
PMID: 20572327
Wellness and prevention strategies are fast becoming a standard feature of employer-based health benefits in hopes of countering rapidly rising health care costs that drive higher insurance premiums. At the...
8.
OMalley A, Cohen G, Grossman J
Issue Brief Cent Stud Health Syst Change
. 2010 May;
(131):1--4.
PMID: 20499485
Commercial electronic medical records (EMRs) both help and hinder physician interpersonal communication--real-time, face-to-face or phone conversations--with patients and other clinicians, according to a new Center for Studying Health System Change...
9.
D Reschovsky J, Boukus E
Issue Brief Cent Stud Health Syst Change
. 2010 Mar;
(130):1-6.
PMID: 20201157
While nearly half of U. S. physicians identify language or cultural communication barriers as obstacles to providing high-quality care, physician adoption of practices to overcome such barriers is modest and...
10.
Carrier E, Reschovsky J
Issue Brief Cent Stud Health Syst Change
. 2010 Mar;
(129):1-4.
PMID: 20198754
Use of care management tools--such as group visits or patient registries--varies widely among primary care physicians whose practices care for patients with four common chronic conditions--asthma, diabetes, congestive heart failure...