PAULA K DIEHR

Biographic Data

ID5535684
NAMEPAULA K DIEHR
GIVEN NAMESPAULA K
FAMILY NAMEDIEHR
SIGNATUREDIEHR P K
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX0

  • Chiropractic Use by Urban and Rural Residents With Insurance Coverage

    Open AccessBonnie K Lind, Paula Diehr et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Rural Health2009

    Purpose: To describe the use of chiropractic care by urban and rural residents in Washington state with musculoskeletal diagnoses, all of whom have insurance coverage for this care. The analyses investigate whether restricting the analyses to insured individuals attenuates previously reported differences in the prevalence of chiropractic use between urban and rural residents as well as whether differences in provider availability or patient cost‐…

  • Maternal Work and Birth Outcome Disparities

    Open AccessJanice F Bell, Frederick J Zimmerman et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2007

  • The Effect of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Claims on Risk Adjustment

    Bonnie K Lind, Chad Abrams et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2006References: 28

    OBJECTIVE: We sought to assess how the inclusion of claims from complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) providers affects measures of morbidity burden and expectations of health care resource use for insured patients. METHODS: Claims data from Washington State were used to create 2 versions of a case-mix index. One version included claims from all provider types; the second version omitted claims from CAM providers who are covered under comm…

  • Increased Access to Medical Care: The Impact on Health

    Paula Diehr, PAULA K DIEHR et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1979

    Many federally financed programs have been launched to improve the access of the poor to medical care, under the assumption that this will improve their health. The effectiveness of these programs, however, has generally been measured by increased utilization rather than by improved health. The few studies which have considered health status have shown small or negative effects. Here, data are presented from a project which provided fully prepaid…

  • Rates of Surgical Care in Prepaid Group Practices and the Independent Setting What Are the Reasons for the Differences

    James P Logerfo, ROBERT A EFIRD et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1979

    The Seattle Prepaid Health Care Evaluation Project is a comparative study designed to assess the care received by persons enrolled in either a large prepaid group practice (PGP) or in a prepaid, independent practice setting in which physicians are reimbursed on a fee-for-service basis (IPP). As part of the study we assessed the patterns of surgical care for hysterectomy, cholecystectomy, appendectomy, and tonsillectomy/adenoidectomy. Overall, the…

  • Tonsillectomies, Adenoidectomies, Audits: Have Surgical Indications Been Met

    James P Logerfo, Irene M Dynes et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1978

    In the Seattle Prepaid Health Care Project, we studied medical records and claims information for all 97 children undergoing tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy in an independent practice plan from February 1971, through January 1975. Overall only 32 per cent of the procedures met commonly promulgated indications of surgery. Of 77 persons having one of these procedures performed because of recurrent pharyngeal or ear infections, 86 per cent did no…