Kathleen A Calore
Biographic Data
| ID | 1181392 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen A Calore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen A |
| FAMILY NAME | Calore |
| SIGNATURE | CALORE K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Validity of Diagnostic and Drug Data in Standardized Nursing Home Resident Assessments
OBJECTIVES: The Health Care Financing Administration requires that patients admitted to certified nursing homes be assessed with the Minimum Data Set, a data collection instrument containing more than 300 demographic, diagnostic, clinical, and treatment variables. Long-term care databases potentially may be used to assess the outcomes of specific treatments as well as drug effectiveness. The authors sought to ascertain reliability and validity of…
Authors?? Response
1Center for Health Economics Research Needham, Massachusetts 2Boston University Medical Center, Evans Memorial, Department of Clinical Research and Medicine, Health Care Research Unit Boston, Massachusetts
Disease Staging and PMCs
Since the adoption of Medicare's Prospective Payment System (PPS), critics have raised concerns about the degree of variation in cost per case due to variability in severity of illness within DRGs. Using hospital (Part A) costs for all Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized in Michigan during 1982, this paper applies multivariate techniques to test the ability of two state-of-the-art case-mix measures to either replace or act as a severity modifier …
Sources of Hospital Cost Variation by Urban-Rural Location
Under current law, Medicare's Prospective Payment System (PPS) recognizes a 25% differential in standardized average costs per admission between rural and urban areas. Using Medicare Part A and B claims data from four states across the country, this paper employs descriptive and multivariate techniques to explain the underlying sources of cost variation. DRG mix and within-DRG severity differences were found to contribute only 10–15% to the overa…
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Disease Staging and PMCs
Since the adoption of Medicare's Prospective Payment System (PPS), critics have raised concerns about the degree of variation in cost per case due to variability in severity of illness within DRGs. Using hospital (Part A) costs for all Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized in Michigan during 1982, this paper applies multivariate techniques to test the ability of two state-of-the-art case-mix measures to either replace or act as a severity modifier …
Sources of Hospital Cost Variation by Urban-Rural Location
Under current law, Medicare's Prospective Payment System (PPS) recognizes a 25% differential in standardized average costs per admission between rural and urban areas. Using Medicare Part A and B claims data from four states across the country, this paper employs descriptive and multivariate techniques to explain the underlying sources of cost variation. DRG mix and within-DRG severity differences were found to contribute only 10–15% to the overa…
Authors?? Response
1Center for Health Economics Research Needham, Massachusetts 2Boston University Medical Center, Evans Memorial, Department of Clinical Research and Medicine, Health Care Research Unit Boston, Massachusetts
Validity of Diagnostic and Drug Data in Standardized Nursing Home Resident Assessments
OBJECTIVES: The Health Care Financing Administration requires that patients admitted to certified nursing homes be assessed with the Minimum Data Set, a data collection instrument containing more than 300 demographic, diagnostic, clinical, and treatment variables. Long-term care databases potentially may be used to assess the outcomes of specific treatments as well as drug effectiveness. The authors sought to ascertain reliability and validity of…
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