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Chronic Pain and the Use of Health Services

Survey of Anesthesiology, 1993
The range and extent of health consulting by people who have chronic pain attending a specialist clinic was assessed. Forty-two subjects attending Auckland Hospital pain clinic completed a questionnaire about their use of conventional and complementary health services for their pain in the previous 12 months.
F R, James, R G, Large
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The Use of Volume Standards in Health Services

Quality Management in Health Care, 2001
The ways in which volume standards are implemented by health services organizations are not clear. Therefore, the authors sought to evaluate the extent of use of volume standards, the purposes for which such standards were developed, and the sources of the standards in a sample of health services organizations.
J R, Wheeler, K L, Reiter, S, Mead, J H, Burkhardt, G R, Bushee, J H, Sunshine   +5 more
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The Use of Health Services by Older Adults

Journal of Gerontology, 1991
Using baseline data on the 5,151 respondents surveyed as part of the panel design of the Longitudinal Study on Aging (LSOA), this article estimates, cross-sectionally, the relationships hypothesized in the behavioral model of health services utilization.
F D, Wolinsky, R J, Johnson
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SUBSTANCE USE HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

Substance Use & Misuse, 2001
This report provides an introduction to substance use health services research based upon the conceptual model of Andersen and Aday and demonstrates how the subsequent papers provide important insights into issues raised in this conceptual model. These issues include access and barriers to health care, needs for care, health care utilization, outcomes ...
B M, Booth, M, Staton, C, Leukefeld
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Distance and the Use of Mental Health Services

The Milbank Quarterly, 1986
The inverse relationship between distance from mental health services and their use has been noted over many decades and on several continents. Although many factors--diagnostic, socioeconomic, and nosocomial--may modify this correlation, its persistence is remarkable.
G W, Shannon, R L, Bashshur, J E, Lovett
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The Cornell Service Index as a Measure of Health Service Use

Psychiatric Services, 2005
This article describes the development, administration, and reliability of the Cornell Services Index (CSI), a new instrument that measures health service use. The CSI was developed to create a standardized measure of the quantity and characteristics (for example, site and provider) of services used by adults.
Jo Anne, Sirey, Barnett S, Meyers, Jeanne A, Teresi, Martha L, Bruce, Mildred, Ramirez, Patrick J, Raue, Deborah A, Perlick, Douglas, Holmes   +7 more
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Mental Health of the Elderly: Use of Health and Mental Health Services

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1985
The utilization of services by older patients with mental morbidity is examined in this paper. The population is drawn from a large, multi‐site study, the Epidemiological Catchment Area studies, and reports on the findings from the Baltimore, Maryland, site, The Eastern Baltimore Mental Health Survey.
P S, German, S, Shapiro, E A, Skinner
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Caregiver Health Literacy and the Use of Child Health Services

Pediatrics, 2007
OBJECTIVES. Eighty million US adults have low health literacy, a risk factor for increased health care use among adults. The purpose of this work was to assess the association between caregiver health literacy and the use and cost of child health services.METHODS.
Lee M, Sanders, Valerie T, Thompson, James D, Wilkinson   +2 more
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Maternal Health and Child Asthma Health Services Use

Clinical Nursing Research, 2009
The primary purpose of this pilot study was to examine the influence of maternal health status on health services use in children with the diagnosis of asthma. A secondary purpose was to assess both preventive and illness-related child health services use patterns. Fifty-two asthmatic children and 43 mothers met the inclusion criteria.
Katherine Laux, Kaiser, Teresa L, Barry, Andrea, Mason   +2 more
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Comparing Unsheltered and Sheltered Homeless: Demographics, Health Services Use and Predictors of Health Services Use

Community Mental Health Journal, 2019
Secondary data obtained through the 2015 point-in-time homelessness count and an administrative health care utilization database was used to identify differences in demographic characteristics, health service use, and predictors of health service use among people experiencing unsheltered and sheltered homelessness.
James C. Petrovich, Joel J. Hunt, Carol S. North, David E. Pollio, Erin Roark Murphy   +4 more
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