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Articles in April, 2006 issue of Health Services Research

• Correction to "benefit-cost in the California treatment outcome project: does substance abuse treatment 'pay for itself'?"
  by Susan L. Ettner
• Prescription drug expenditures and population demographics
  by Steven G. Morgan
• Predicting nursing facility residents' quality of life using external indicators
  by Howard B. Degenholtz
• Disparities in primary care for vulnerable children: The influence of multiple risk factors
  by Gregory D. Stevens
• Quality improvement implementation and hospital performance on quality indicators
  by Bryan J. Weiner
• Religious involvement and the use of mental health care
  by Katherine M. Harris
• Patient turnover and nursing staff adequacy
  by Lynn Y. Unruh
• Variation in hospital length of stay: do physicians adapt their length of stay decisions to what is usual in the hospital where they work?
  by Judith D. de Jong
• Should episode-based economic profiles be risk adjusted to account for differences in patients' health risks?
  by J. William Thomas
• How did welfare reform affect the health insurance coverage of women and children?
  by John Cawley
• Increasing the global exchange of evidence-based research
  by Mary A. Pittman
• Failure of ICD-9-CM codes to identify patients with comorbid chronic kidney disease in diabetes
  by Elizabeth F.O. Kern
• Health insurance and health at age 65: implications for medical care spending on new Medicare beneficiaries
  by Jack Hadley
• The effect of rural hospital closures on community economic health
  by George M. Holmes
• Do physicians always flee from HMOs? New results using dynamic panel estimation methods
  by Timothy T. Brown
• Disparities in the reporting and treatment of health conditions in children: an analysis of the medical expenditure panel survey
  by James P. Guevara
• Application of regression-discontinuity analysis in pharmaceutical health services research
  by Ilene H. Zuckerman
• Academy health web casts
• Commentary—sophisticated methods but implausible results: how much does health insurance improve health?
  by Richard Kronick
• AHRQs National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports: resources for health services researchers
  by Carolyn M. Clancy
• Commentary—response to Richard Kronick
  by Jack Hadley