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From the Editor

The Woeful Neglect Of Health Care Workforce Issues John K. Iglehart [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Care Workforce

Fighting Hand To Hand Over Physician Workforce Policy Kevin Grumbach [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Dreaming The American Dream: Once More Around On Physician Workforce Policy Uwe E. Reinhardt [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Effects Of Current And Future Information Technologies On The Health Care Workforce Daniel R. Masys [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Arching The Flood: How To Bridge The Gap Between Nursing Schools And Hospitals Debbie Ward and Bobbie Berkowitz [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Minimum Nurse-To-Patient Ratios In Acute Care Hospitals In California Janet M. Coffman, Jean Ann Seago, and Joanne Spetz [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Growing Challenge Of Providing Oral Health Care Services To All Americans Elizabeth Mertz and Edward O’Neil [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Who Cares For Older Adults? Workforce Implications Of An Aging Society Christine Tassone Kovner, Mathy Mezey, and Charlene Harrington [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Case For Diversity In The Health Care Workforce Jordan J. Cohen, Barbara A. Gabriel, and Charles Terrell [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

General Competencies And Accreditation In Graduate Medical Education Paul Batalden, David Leach, Susan Swing, Hubert Dreyfus, and Stuart Dreyfus [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Commentary

Time-Capsule Thinking: The Health Care Workforce, Past And Future Fitzhugh Mullan [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Strengthening Hospital Nursing Peter I. Buerhaus, Jack Needleman, Soeren Mattke, and Maureen Stewart [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Can Nurse Practitioners And Physicians Beat Parochialism Into Plowshares? Robert L. Phillips, Jr., Doreen C. Harper, Mary Wakefield, Larry A. Green, and George E. Fryer, Jr. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

MARKETWATCH: Job-Based Health Benefits In 2002: Some Important Trends Jon Gabel, Larry Levitt, Erin Holve, Jeremy Pickreign, Heidi Whitmore, Kelley Dhont, Samantha Hawkins, and Diane Rowland [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Physician Credentialing In A Consumer-Centric World Derek van Amerongen [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Nursing Shortage Redux: Turning The Corner On An Enduring Problem Julie Sochalski [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Trends In The Physician Workforce, 1980–2000 Edward S. Salsberg and Gaetano J. Forte [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Trends In The Supply Of Physician Assistants And Nurse Practitioners In The United States Roderick S. Hooker and Linda E. Berlin [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Challenges To The Pharmacist Profession From Escalating Pharmaceutical Demand Judith A. Cooksey, Katherine K. Knapp, Surrey M. Walton, and James M. Cultice [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

FROM THE FIELD: Nursing Workforce Retention: Challenging A Bullying Culture Stella Stevens [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

FROM THE FIELD: Obstacles To Employers’ Pursuit Of Health Care Quality J. Lee Hargraves and Sally Trude [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

FROM THE FIELD: Quality Improvement By Providers: Market Developments Hinder Progress Kelly J. Devers [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

FROM THE FIELD: Back To The Drawing Board: New Directions In Health Plans’ Care Management Strategies Suzanne Felt-Lisk and Glen P. Mays [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

Dolores Daniel J. Derksen [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

The Benefits Divide: Health Care Purchasing In Retail Versus Other Sectors James Maxwell, Peter Temin, and Saminaz Zaman [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Will Volume-Based Referral Strategies Reduce Costs Or Just Save Lives? John D. Birkmeyer, Jonathan S. Skinner, and David E. Wennberg [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Employing Persons With Serious Mental Illness David Mechanic, Scott Bilder, and Donna D. McAlpine [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Access To Postacute Nursing Home Care Before And After The BBA Joseph Angelelli, David Gifford, Orna Intrator, Pedro Gozalo, Linda Laliberte, and Vincent Mor [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

ESSAY: Health Research Philanthropy In A Time Of Plenty: A Strategic Agenda Jessie Gruman and Denis Prager [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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

UpDate

SPECIAL REPORT: Monitoring Local Safety-Net Providers: Do They Have Adequate Capacity? Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Megan McHugh, and Embry Howell [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

SPECIAL REPORT: Promising Practices: How Leading Safety-Net Plans Are Managing The Care Of Medicaid Clients Michael S. Sparer, Lawrence D. Brown, Michael K. Gusmano, Catherine Rowe, and Bradford H. Gray [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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

Book Reviews

Physicians Versus The Government Robert Cunningham [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Toll Of Chronic Illness Shamiram R. Feinglass [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

National Health Insurance Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Putting Money Into Effective Treatments A. Mark Fendrick [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Investment Costs And Benefits Bernard S. Bloom [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Economics And Priority Setting Bernie J. O’Brien [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Quality Chasm Factors Donald M. Berwick [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Will And Capacity To Improve Quality Cary Sennett [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Hope For Enhanced Efficiency L. Gregory Pawlson and Joseph P. Newhouse [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

HMO Performance: The Debate Goes On Kip Sullivan, Robert H. Miller, and Harold S. Luft [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Protecting Ambulatory Surgery Patients Richard T. Moore [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Report Card Bias David Dranove and Mark Chassin [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Pharmacogenetic Challenges Sharon Fontaine Terry and John Robertson [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Interstate Highway System For Medical Records David St.Clair [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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