BACKGROUND The Program for All-inclusive Care of the Elderly (PACE) has been hailed as successful but of limited appeal. This study contrasts the effects on hospital utilization of PACE and a more liberal variant, the Wisconsin Partnership Program (WPP). METHODS Hospital and emergency room (ER) utilization data from two sites that used both PACE and WPP to serve elderly clients were compared....

Background Comorbid mental disorders in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) are common and associated with adverse somatic outcomes. However, data on utilization rates of mental health care and treatment efficiency are scarce and inconsistent, which we tried to remedy with the present preliminary study on Northern German CAD patients. Method A total of 514 German CAD patients, as diag...

PURPOSE The Veterans Affairs or VA health care system is in the process of significantly expanding home health care (HHC) nationwide. We describe VA HHC use in 2003 for all VA HHC users from 2002; we examine whether VA utilization across a broad spectrum of services differed for a sample of VA HHC users and their propensity-score-matched controls. We also consider crossover between the VA and M...

purpose the aim of this study was to investigate the relation between anthropometric variables and total race time including split times in 184 recreational male ironman triathletes. methods body mass, body height, body mass index, lengths and circumferences of imbs, thicknesses of skin-folds, sum of skin-fold thicknesses, and percent body fat were related to total race time including split tim...

BACKGROUND Because the association between atrial fibrillation (AF) and race has only been rigorously compared in population-based studies that dichotomized participants as white or black, it is unclear whether white race confers elevated AF risk or black race affords AF protection. METHODS AND RESULTS The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project was used to identify patients receiving hospita...

abstract Parallel programs are frequently non-deterministic, meaning they can give diierent results when provided the same input. These diierent results arise because variations in the timing of the multiple threads cause the threads to access shared resources in diierent orders. The phenomena that cause the non-deterministic behavior have been (and continue to be) variously referred to as acce...