Oklahoma’s Medicaid managed care 1115 waiver program, SoonerCare, has been through many changes in the last 15 years, including the end of fully capitated managed care in 2003 and expansion statewide of the SoonerCare Choice enhanced primary care case management program. Mathematica’s...

Policies promoting widespread adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) are premised on the hope that they can improve the coordination of care. Yet little is known about whether and how physician practices use current EMRs to facilitate coordination.

Practice-based research networks (PBRNs) have a long history of conducting research in community clinical settings, demonstrating a possible approach to executing multiple research projects over time in broad and varied settings. PBRNs also are uniquely structured and increasingly involved in...

There is emerging consensus that enhanced inter-professional teamwork is necessary for the effective and efficient delivery of primary care, but there is less practical information specific to primary care available to guide practices on how to better work as teams.

This study evaluates the effect of Measles Catchup Campaigns on child mortality in Africa.

This paper examines how user interest in health services research is shaped by the following factors: the current health care policy environment, the organizations and institutional mechanisms available to advance the movement of health services research into policy and practice, and emerging...

This article highlights the policy challenges that confront geriatrics research, education, and clinical programs following the "great recession." The authors describe relevant new federal and state initiatives and note how academic geriatrics and general internal medicine can join forces with...

In 2009, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publicly reported hospital-level risk-standardized 30-day mortality and readmission rates after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and heart failure (HF). The authors calculated 30-day mortality and readmission rates for all Medicare...