TABLE OF CONTENTS 15 October 1997 Volume 127 Issue 8 Part 2 ( )	Previous Issue  |  Next Issue

Preface

Barry P. Katz

Introduction

Siu L. Hui

Assessing Quality Using Administrative Data

Lisa I. Iezzoni

A Framework for Capturing Clinical Data Sets from Computerized Sources

Clement J. McDonald, J. Marc Overhage, Paul Dexter, Blaine Y. Takesue, and Diane M. Dwyer

Health Care Information and the Protection of Personal Privacy: Ethical and Legal Considerations

Lawrence Gostin

Linking Medicare and National Survey Data

Lee A. Lillard and Melissa M. Farmer

Database Standardization, Linkage, and the Protection of Privacy

Emmanuel N. Lazaridis

When To Base Clinical Policies on Observational Versus Randomized Trial Data

John Hornberger and Elizabeth Wrone

The Stroke Prevention Policy Model: Linking Evidence and Clinical Decisions

David B. Matchar, Gregory P. Samsa, J. Rosser Matthews, Marek Ancukiewicz, Giovanni Parmigiani, Vic Hasselblad, Phillip A. Wolf, Ralph B. D'Agostino, and Joseph Lipscomb

Policy and Program Analysis Using Administrative Databases

Wayne A. Ray

Linking Automated Databases for Research in Managed Care Settings

Joe V. Selby

Database Research: Is Happiness a Humongous Database?

David M. Smith

Measuring and Reporting Managed Care Performance: Lessons Learned and New Initiatives

Randall K. Spoeri and Ralph Ullman

Process-Based Measures of Quality: The Need for Detailed Clinical Data in Large Health Care Databases

R. Heather Palmer

Feasibility and Utility of Adding Disease-Specific Outcome Measures to Administrative Databases To Improve Disease Management

Matthew H. Liang and Nancy Shadick

Generic Health Measurement: Past Accomplishments and a Measurement Paradigm for the 21st Century

Colleen A. McHorney

Measuring Plans and Measuring Health

David R. Nerenz

Methods for Comparison of Cost Data

Xiao-Hua Zhou, Catherine A. Melfi, and Siu L. Hui

Estimating Causal Effects from Large Data Sets Using Propensity Scores

Donald B. Rubin

Improving the Statistical Approach to Health Care Provider Profiling

Cindy L. Christiansen and Carl N. Morris

Biostatistics To Improve the Power of Large Databases

Barry P. Katz

Databases in the Next Millennium

Frank Davidoff