Multimethod evaluation of health policy change: An application to medicaid managed care in a rural state

Health Services Research

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1325-1347

  Waitzkin, Howard ^a   Schillaci, Michael ^b   Willging, Cathleen E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EVALUATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Access; Ethnography; Medicaid managed care; Multimethod research; Safety net

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; ETHNOGRAPHY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INTERVIEW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MANAGED CARE; MEDICAID; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RURAL AREA; UNITED STATES;

HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; MEDICAID; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; NEW MEXICO; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; STATE HEALTH PLANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 47649091289     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2008.00842.x     Document Type: Article

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