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From the Editor

Foreign Lessons: Is There Value Added? John K. Iglehart [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Cross-National Comparisons

Cross-National Comparisons [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Public Versus The World Health Organization On Health System Performance Robert J. Blendon, Minah Kim, and John M. Benson [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: People’s Experience Versus People’s Expectations Christopher J.L. Murray, Kei Kawabata, and Nicole Valentine [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Technological Change Around The World: Evidence From Heart Attack Care Technological Change in Health Care (TECH) Research Network [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Nurses’ Reports On Hospital Care In Five Countries Linda H. Aiken, Sean P. Clarke, Douglas M. Sloane, Julie A. Sochalski, Reinhard Busse, Heather Clarke, Phyllis Giovannetti, Jennifer Hunt, Anne Marie Rafferty, and Judith Shamian [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Quality Of Care

Bridging The Quality Gap [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Quality Of Care For Coronary Heart Disease In Two Countries John Z. Ayanian and Thomas J. Quinn [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Improving Quality, Minimizing Error: Making It Happen Elise C. Becher and Mark R. Chassin [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Keeping Quality On The Policy Agenda Elizabeth A. McGlynn and Robert H. Brook [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Prescription Drugs

Controlling Drug Cost Growth [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Pharmaceutical Cost Control In Canada: Does It Work? Devidas Menon [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

A Cost-Effectiveness Approach To Drug Subsidy And Pricing In Australia Donald J. Birkett, Andrew S. Mitchell, and Peter McManus [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Primary Care

Delivering Primary Care [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Primary Care In Canada: So Much Innovation, So Little Change Brian Hutchison, Julia Abelson, and John Lavis [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Primary Care Groups In The United Kingdom: Quality And Accountability Andrew B. Bindman, Jonathan P. Weiner, and Azeem Majeed [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Interview

An Activist Health Minister In A Conservative Government John K. Iglehart [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

MARKETWATCH: Promoting Private Health Insurance In Australia Sharon Wilcox [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: For-Profit And Not-For-Profit Health Plans Participating In Medicaid Bruce E. Landon and Arnold M. Epstein [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Beyond Managed Long-Term Care: Paying For Home Care Based On Risk Of Adverse Outcomes William Weissert, Michael Chernew, and Richard Hirth [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Corporate Health Care Purchasing Among Fortune 500 Firms James Maxwell, Peter Temin, and Corey Watts [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Medicare Home Health Before And After The BBA Nelda McCall, Harriet L. Komisar, Andrew Petersons, and Stanley Moore [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

FROM THE FIELD: Is The Informed-Choice Policy Approach Appropriate For Medicare Beneficiaries? Judith H. Hibbard, Paul Slovic, Ellen Peters, Melissa L. Finucane, and Martin Tusler [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

FROM THE FIELD: Providing Care At The End Of Life: Do Medicare Rules Impede Good Care? Haiden A. Huskamp, Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, Virginia Wang, and Joseph P. Newhouse [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

La Promotora Darryl M. Williams [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Comparing Health System Performance In OECD Countries Gerard Anderson and Peter Sotir Hussey [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Physicians’ Views On Quality Of Care: A Five-Country Comparison Robert J. Blendon, Cathy Schoen, Karen Donelan, Robin Osborn, Catherine M. DesRoches, Kimberly Scoles, Karen Davis, Katherine Binns, and Kinga Zapert [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Patients’ Experiences With Hospital Care In Five Countries Angela Coulter and Paul D. Cleary [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Risk Sharing Between Competing Health Plans And Sponsors Erik M. van Barneveld, René C.J.A. van Vliet, and Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Racial/Ethnic Disparities In Nursing Janet M. Coffman, Emily Rosenoff, and Kevin Grumbach [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

ESSAY: Faith In Action: Building Capacity For Interfaith Volunteer Caregiving Paul Jellinek [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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

UpDate

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

Book Reviews

Public Health And Personal Liberties: Striking A Balance John L. Akula [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Organ Transplantation: Thorny Ethical Issues Richard S. Luskin [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Second-Choice Health Reform Not Good Enough Philip Pollner and Nancy Wooten [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Tax Credits For Both Job-Based And Individual Coverage David B. Kendall, Jeff Lemieux, S. Robert Levine, Ronald F. Pollack, and Charles N. Kahn, III [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Reflecting On Donabedian’s Legacy Robert W. Hungate [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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