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Articles in August, 2005 issue of Health Services Research

• Nursing home spending patterns in the 1990s: the role of nursing home competition and excess demand
  by Dana B. Mukamel
• The quality of the quality indicator of pain derived from the minimum data set
  by Ning Wu
• AcademyHealth update
• Dynamic effects among patients' treatment needs, beliefs, and utilization: a prospective study of adolescents in drug treatment
  by Terry L. Schell
• Institutional variability in a minimal risk, population-based study: recognizing policy barriers to health services research
  by Craig D. Newgard
• An educational intervention to enhance nurse leaders' perceptions of patient safety culture
  by Liane Ginsburg
• New York's statistical model accurately predicts mortality risk for veterans who obtain private sector CABG
  by William B. Weeks
• Increasing health insurance costs and the decline in insurance coverage
  by Michael Chernew
• Predicting mortality and healthcare utilization with a single question
  by Karen B. DeSalvo
• Assessing the implementation of the chronic care model in quality improvement collaboratives
  by Marjorie L. Pearson
• The persistent challenge of avoidable hospitalizations
  by Carolyn M. Clancy
• The effects of price competition and reduced subsidies for uncompensated care on hospital mortality
  by Kevin G.M. Volpp
• Neighborhood effects on posthospitalization mortality: a population-based cohort study of the elderly in Chicago
  by Ming Wen
• A matter of classes: stratifying health care populations to produce better estimates of inpatient costs
  by David B. Rein
• Physician visits, hospitalizations, and socioeconomic status: ambulatory care sensitive conditions in a Canadian setting
  by Leslie L. Roos
• The impact of an innovative reform to the South Carolina Dental Medicaid system
  by Paul J. Nietert
• Patients' preferences for technical versus interpersonal quality when selecting a primary care physician
  by Constance H. Fung
• The effect of expanded mental health benefits on treatment initiation and specialist utilization
  by Richard C. Lindrooth
• More may be better: evidence of a negative relationship between physician supply and hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions
  by James N. Laditka