Appropriateness of acute medical care for the elderly: an analysis of the literature

Does Free Care Improve Adults' Health?

1983 • 673 citations

Variations in the Use of Medical and Surgical Services by the Medicare Population

1986 • 659 citations

Does Inappropriate Use Explain Geographic Variations in the Use of Health Care Services?

1987 • 635 citations

Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society.

1988 • 581 citations

Patterns of Care Related to Age of Breast Cancer Patients

1987 • 547 citations

Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1984.

1985 • 531 citations

The Appropriateness of Carotid Endarterectomy

1988 • 501 citations

The Usefulness of Preoperative Laboratory Screening

1985 • 487 citations

Payment Restrictions for Prescription Drugs under Medicaid

1987 • 415 citations

The Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol

1981 • 406 citations

Physician ratings of appropriate indications for six medical and surgical procedures.

1986 • 392 citations

Termination from Medi-Cal — Does It Affect Health?

1984 • 318 citations

A study of antipsychotic drug use in nursing homes: epidemiologic evidence suggesting misuse.

1980 • 296 citations

Inappropriate Use of Hospitals in a Randomized Trial of Health Insurance Plans

1986 • 291 citations

COMPARISON OF HEALTH OUTCOMES AT A HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANISATION WITH THOSE OF FEE-FOR-SERVICE CARE

1986 • 289 citations

Symptom Checklist Syndromes in the General Population

1983 • 251 citations

The Painful Prescription: Rationing Hospital Care, by Henry J. Aaron and William B. Schwartz

1984 • 230 citations

The Appropriateness of Performing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

1988 • 229 citations

Rationing of intensive care unit services. An everyday occurrence

1986 • 213 citations

Use of Antimicrobial Drugs in General Hospitals

1979 • 205 citations

The Painful Prescription: Rationing Hospital Care

1985 • 191 citations

PRESCRIPTION OF CONTRAINDICATED AND INTERACTING DRUGS IN ELDERLY PATIENTS ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL

1984 • 183 citations

Health care technology and the inevitability of resource allocation and rationing decisions. Part I.

1983 • 168 citations

Rationing of Intensive Care Unit Services

1986 • 157 citations

Cost Effectiveness of Vaccination Against Pneumococcal Pneumonia: An Update

1986 • 151 citations

Living longer in the United States: demographic changes and health needs of the elderly.

1983 • 150 citations

Complications of Permanent Transvenous Pacing

1985 • 139 citations

Reduction of Incorrect Antibiotic Dosing Through a Structured Educational Order Form

1988 • 119 citations

How Coronary Angiography Is Used

1987 • 113 citations

Incidence of Unwarranted Implantation of Permanent Cardiac Pacemakers in a Large Medical Population

1988 • 103 citations

Drug utilization studies: a tool for determining the effectiveness of drug use.

1983 • 101 citations

Living Longer in the United States: Demographic Changes and Health Needs of the Elderly

1983 • 99 citations

Health Care Technology and the Inevitability of Resource Allocation and Rationing Decisions

1983 • 77 citations

The Effect of Concurrent Feedback in Reducing Inappropriate Hospital Utilization

1982 • 74 citations

Adequacy of Antitetanus Prophylaxis in Six Hospital Emergency Rooms

1983 • 70 citations

Rates of Total Hip Arthroplasty

1982 • 64 citations

Health Care Technology and the Inevitability of Resource Allocation and Rationing Decisions

1983 • 63 citations

A Comparative Analysis of Appropriateness of Hospital Use

1984 • 57 citations

Factors Affecting the Use of Influenza Vaccine in the Institutionalized Elderly

1985 • 54 citations

Management of Patients on Psychotropic Drugs in Primary Care Clinics

1988 • 53 citations

Drug Use and Expenditures in 1982

1985 • 51 citations

Use of the Hospital in a Randomized Trial of Prepaid Care

1988 • 47 citations

Use of carotid endarterectomy in five California Veterans Administration medical centers.

1986 • 46 citations

Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society

1988 • 36 citations

Quality of Ambulatory Care of the Elderly

1984 • 26 citations

Use of Carotid Endarterectomy in Five California Veterans Administration Medical Centers

1986 • 26 citations

How Coronary Angiography Is Used

1987 • 25 citations

An evaluation primer

1978 • 24 citations

Tetanus immunization of adult members of an HMO.

1984 • 22 citations

Projections of health care spending to 1990.

1986 • 21 citations

Appropriateness of Long-Term Cimetidine Prescribing

1984 • 19 citations

Drug Prescribing and Use among Elderly People in Spain

1983 • 17 citations

Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Surgery

1984 • 13 citations

Utilization of antibiotics: Analysis of appropriateness of use

1982 • 13 citations

Auditing antibiotic use in a teaching hospital: focus on cefoxitin.

1983 • 13 citations

Antidepressant drugs in the elderly: Are the indications as long term as the treatment?

1988 • 11 citations

Physicians measure up. A study of 13 surgical procedures

1981 • 6 citations

Modifying Physician Prescribing Patterns of H2 Receptor Antagonists in an Ambulatory Setting

1988 • 5 citations

The impact of a cybernetic control system on inappropriate admissions.

1984 • 4 citations

Physicians Measure Up

1981 • 4 citations

An Assessment of Prescribing Using Drug Utilization Review Criteria

1982 • 3 citations