Medicaid expenditures per recipient have increased substantially in the past decade, even after controlling for medical care price inflation. In response to this Medicaid expenditure growth, various policies to encourage Medicaid enrollment in cost-effective health maintenance organizations (HMOs) are being considered, including guaranteed Medicaid eligibility for Medicaid eligibles enrolled in...

In Wisconsin, level-of-care assessments are used to set Medicaid reimbursement and determine nursing home eligibility. This study examined three methods of assessing level of care: 1) the Wisconsin quality assurance project (QAP) method, based on observations of patients, patient records, and staff interviews; 2) the Wisconsin standard (STD) method, based primarily on a clinical record review; ...

This paper presents evidence about the impact on school enrollment of a program in Ecuador that gives cash transfers to the 40 percent poorest families. The evaluation design consists of a randomized experiment for families around the first quintile of the poverty index and of a regression discontinuity design for families around the second quintile of this index, which is the program’s eligibi...

We draw on variations in the reach of capital punishment statutes between 1977 and 2004 to identify the deterrent effects associated with capital eligibility. Focusing on the most prevalent eligibility expansion, we estimate that the adoption of a child murder factor is associated with an approximately 20% reduction in the child murder rate. Eligibility expansions may enhance deterrence by (i) ...

OBJECTIVE To determine if pregnant, literate women and female community health volunteers (FCHVs) in Nepal can accurately determine a woman's eligibility for medical abortion (MA) using a toolkit, compared to comprehensive abortion care (CAC) trained providers. STUDY DESIGN We conducted a prospective diagnostic accuracy study in which women presenting for first trimester abortion, and FCHVs, ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to compare the eligibility of men and women with infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) for on-label endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) as part of the clinician-Food & Drug Administration (FDA) collaborative effort, the Characterization of Human Aortic Anatomy Project (CHAP). METHODS Computed tomography (CT) scans with 3D reconstruction from a s...

The completion of clinical trial depends on sufficient participant enrollment, which is often difficult due to the restrictiveness of eligibility criteria, and effort required to verify patient eligibility. The objective of this research is to support the design of eligibility criteria, enable the reuse of well-structured criteria and to provide meaningful suggestions of relaxing them based on ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of biases from selection of patients with extreme characteristics in recent uncontrolled therapeutic studies in rheumatology. METHODS We hand searched 4 major rheumatology journals for uncontrolled trials published in 1997 or 1998 that measured therapeutic efficacy by comparing one or more variables at followup vs at baseline. We evaluated the susceptibility...

Clinical trial eligibility criteria define fine-grained characteristics of research volunteers for various disease trials and hence are a promising data source for disease profiling. This paper explores the feasibility of using disease-specific common eligibility features (CEFs) for representing diseases and understanding their relatedness. We extracted disease-specific CEFs from eligibility cr...