The Article-of-the-Year Award recognizes the best scientific work that the fields of health services research and health policy have produced and published during the previous calendar year. The award-winning article provides new insights into the delivery of health care and advances knowledge of the field.

AcademyHealth is grateful to the following journals for providing links to their award winning articles: Health Services Research, Journal of the American Medical Association and The New England Journal of Medicine.

2008

Ming Tai-Seale, Ph.D., received this award for her lead authorship of two articles: “Time Allocation in Primary Care Office Visits,” which appeared in the October 2007 issue of Health Services Research and was co-authored by Thomas G. McGuire and Weiman Zhang, and “Two-Minute Mental Health Care for Elderly Patients: Inside Primary Care Visits,” which appeared in the December 2007 issue of Journal of the American Geriatric Society and was co-authored by Thomas McGuire, Christopher Colenda, David Rosen, and Mary Ann Cook. Dr. Tai-Seale is an associate professor of health economics at Texas A&M Health Science Center.

2007

John Hsu, M.D., M.B.A., M.S.C.E., received this award for his lead authorship on “Unintended Consequences of Caps on Medicare Drug Benefits,” which appeared in the June 1, 2006 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. This article was co-authored by Mary Price, M.A., Jie Huang, Ph.D., Richard Brand, Ph.D., Vicki Fung, B.A., Rita Hui, Pharm.D., Bruce Fireman, M.A., Joseph P. Newhouse, Ph.D., and Joseph V. Selby, M.D., M.P.H. Dr. Hsu is a physician scientist at the Kaiser Division of Research, a fellow at the Kaiser Institute for Health Policy, and a faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco.

2006

Richard L. Kravitz, M.D., MSPH received this award for his lead authorship on “Influence of Patients' Requests for Direct-to-Consumer Advertised Antidepressants,” which appeared in the April 27, 2005 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The coauthors are Ronald M. Epstein, M.D., Mitchell D. Feldman, M.D., M.Phil., Carol E. Franz, Ph.D., Rahman Azari, Ph.D., Michael S. Wilkes, M.D., Ph.D., Ladson Hinton, M.D., and Peter Franks, M.D.

2006 Article-of-the-Year Award Nominees

2005

Anthony T. Lo Sasso, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, is recognized for his lead authorship on “The Effect of the State Children's Health Insurance Program on Health Insurance Coverage.” This article, co-authored by Thomas Buchmueller, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, appeared in the September 2004 issue of the Journal of Health Economics.

2004

Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Ph.D., received this award for her lead authorship on the article “The Quality of Health Care Delivered to Adults in the United States,” which appeared in the June 26, 2003, New England Journal of Medicine. This article is coauthored by Steven M. Asch, M.D., M.P.H., John Adams, Ph.D., Joan Kessey, Jennifer Hicks, M.P.H., Ph.D., Alison DeCristofaro, M.P.H., and Eve A. Kerr. M.D., M.P.H.

2003

Linda H. Aiken, Ph.D., R.N., Sean P. Clarke, Ph.D., R.N., Douglas M. Stone, Ph.D., Julie Sochalski, Ph.D., R.N., Jeffrey H. Silber, M.D., Ph.D. "Hospital Nurse Staffing and Patient Mortality, Nurse Burnout, and Job Dissatisfaction." Journal of the American Medical Association, October 23/30, 2002.

2002

Darrell J. Gaskin, Ph.D., Research Assistant/Professor, Georgetown University Medical Center. "Are Urban Safety-Net Hospitals Losing Low-Risk Medicaid Maternity Patients?" Health Services Research, Vol. 36, No. 1, April 2001, Part I:25-51.

2001

Cary P. Gross, Claudia A. Steiner, Eric B. Bass, Neil R. Powe. “Relation Between Prepublication Release of Clinical Trial Results and the Practice of Carotid Endarterectomy.” Journal of the American Medical Association. Vol. 284, No. 22, December 13, 2000: 2886-2893.

John Kralewski, Euguene C. Rich, Roger Feldman, Bryan E. Dowd, Terrace Bernhardt, Christopher Johnson, William Gold. “The Effects of Medical Group Practice and Physician Payment Methods on Costs of Care.” Health Services Research, Vol. 35, No. 2, August 2000: 591-613.

2000

Mark Schlesinger, Benjamin Druss, and Tracey Thomas
"No Exit? The Effect of Health Status on Dissatisfaction and Disenrollment from Health Plans," Health Services Research. Vol. 34, No. 2, June 1999: 547-576.

A series of three articles from the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study (HCSUS):

• Martin Shapiro, Sally C. Morton, Damiel F. McCaffrey, J. Walton Senterfitt, John A. Fleishman, Judith F. Perlman, Leslie A. Athey, Joan W. Keesey, Dana P. Goldman, Sandra H. Berry and Samuel A. Bozzette. "Variations in the Care of HIV-Infected Adults in the United States: Results From the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study," Journal of the American Medical Association. Vol. 281, No. 24, June 23-30, 1999: 2305-2315.
• Martin F. Shapiro, Marc L. Berk, Sandra H. Berry, Carol-Ann Emmons, Leslie A. Athey, David C. Hsia, Arleen A. Leibowitz, Carl A. Maida, Marvin Marcus, Judith F. Perlman, Claudia L Schur, Mark A. Schuster, J. Walton Senterfitt and Samuel Bozzette. "National Probability Samples in Studies of Low- Prevalence Diseases. Part I: Perspectives and Lessons from the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study," Health Services Research. Vol. 34, No. 5 part 1, December 1999: 951-965.
• Martin R. Frankel, Martin F. Shapiro, Naihua Duan, Sally C. Morton, Sandra H. Berry, Julie A. Brown, M. Audrey Burnam, Susan E. Cohn, Dana P. Goldman, Daniel F. McCaffrey, Stephen M. Smith, Patricia A. St. Clair, James F. Tebow and Samuel A. Bozzette. "National Probability Samples in Studies of Low-Prevalence Diseases. Part II: Designing and Implementing the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study Sample," Health Services Research. Vol. 34, No. 5 Part I, December 1999: 969-992.

1999

David Dranove and William D. White "Medicaid-Dependent Hospitals and Their Patients: How Have They Fared?," Health Services Research, Vol. 33, No. 2, Part I, June 1998: 163-185.

Pamela F. Short and Vicki A. Freedman. "Single Women and the Dynamics of Medicaid," Health Services Research, Vol. 33, No. 5, Part I, December 1998: 1309-1336.

1998

Thomas H. Rice, Ph.D. "Can Markets Give Us the Health System We Want?" Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 22, No. 2.

1997

Lawrence C. Kleinman, Howard Freeman, Judy Perlman and Lillian Gelberg, "Homing in on the Homeless: Assessing the Physical Health of Homeless Adults in Los Angeles County Using an Original Method to Obtain Physical Examination Data in a Survey," Health Services Research, December 1996, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 533-549.

1996

Andrew B. Bindman, Kevin Grumbach, Dennis Osmond, Miriam Komaromy, Karen Vranizan, Nicole Lurie, John Billings and Anita L. Stewart, "Preventable Hospitalizations and Access to Health Care," Journal of the American Medical Association, July 26, 1995, Vol. 274, No. 4, pp. 305-311.

1995

Katherine L. Kahn, Marjorie L. Pearson, Ellen R. Harrison, Katherine A. Desmond, William H. Rogers, Lisa V. Rubenstein, Robert H. Brook and Emmett B. Keeler, "Health Care for Black and Poor Hospitalized Medicare Patients," Journal of the American Medical Association, April 20, 1994, Vol. 271, No. 15, pp. 1169-1174.

1994

Roger D. Feldman, Bryan Dowd and Gregory Gifford, "The Effect of HMOs on Premiums in Employment-based Health Plans," Health Services Research, February 1993, Vol. 27, No. 6, pp. 779-811.

1993

Sheldon Greenfield, Eugene C. Nelson, Michael Zubkoff, Willard Manning, William Rogers, Richard L. Kravitz, Adam Keller, Alvin R. Tarlo and John E. Ware, Jr., "Variations in Resource Utilization Among Medical Specialties and Systems of Care," Journal of the American Medical Association, March 25, 1992, Vol. 267, No. 12, pp. 1624-1630.

Richard L. Kravitz, Sheldon Greenfield, William Rogers, Willard G. Manning, Jr., Michael Zubkoff, Eugene C. Nelson, Alvin R. Tarlov and John E. Ware, Jr., "Differences in the Mix of Patients Among Medical Specialties and Systems of Care," Journal of the American Medical Association, March 25, 1992, Vol. 267, No. 12, pp. 1617-1623.

1992

Stephen B. Soumerai, Dennis G. Ross-Degnan, Jerry Avorn, Thomas J. McLaughlin and Igor Choodnovskiy, "Effects of Medicaid Drug-Payment Limits on Admission to Hospitals and Nursing Homes," The New England Journal of Medicine, October 10, 1991, Vol. 323, No. ?. pp. 1072-1077.

1991

Paula Diehr, Kevin Cain, Frederick Connell and Ernest Volinn, "What is Too Much Variation? The Null Hypothesis in a Small-Area Analysis," Health Services Research, February 1990, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 741-771.

1990

Alan L. Hillman, Mark V. Pauly and Joseph J. Kerstein, "How Do Financial Incentives Affect Physicians’ Clinical Decisions and the Financial Performance of Health Maintenance Organizations," The New England Journal of Medicine, July 13, 1989, Vol. 321, No. 2, pp. 86-92.

Willard G. Manning, Emmett B. Keeler, Joseph P. Newhouse, Elizabeth M. Sloss and Jeffrey Wasserman, "The Taxes of Sin," Journal of the American Medical Association, March 17, 1989, Vol. 261, No. 11, pp. 1064-1069.

1989

Emmett B. Keeler, Grace M. Carter and Sally Trude, "Insurance Aspects of DRG Outlier Payments," The Journal of Health Economics, 1988, Vol. 7, pp. 193-214.

Trilogy of Articles:

• Michael J. Barry, Albert G. Mulley, Jr., Floyd J. Fowler and John E. Wennberg, "Watchful Waiting vs. Immediate Transurethral Resection for Symptomatic Prostatism," Journal of the American Medical Association, May 27, 1988, Vol. 259, No. 20, pp. 3010-3017.
• Floyd J. Fowler, John E. Wennberg, Robert P. Timothy, Michael J. Barry, Albert G. Mulley, Jr. and Daniel Hanley, "Symptom Status and Quality of Life Following Prostatectomy," Journal of the American Medical Association, May 17, 1988, Vol. 259, No. 20, pp. 3018-3022.
• John E. Wennberg, Albert G. Mulley, Jr., Daniel Hanley, Robert P. Timothy, Floyd J. Fowler, Noralou P. Roos, Michael J. Barry, Klim McPherson, E. Robert Greenberg, David Soule, Thomas Bubolz, Elliott Fisher and David Malenka, "An Assessment of Prostatectomy for Benign Urinary Tract Obstruction Geographic Variations and the Evaluation of Medical Care Outcomes," Journal of the American Medical Association, May 27, 1988, Vol. 259, No. 20, pp. 3027-3030.

1988

Harold S. Luft, Sandra B. Hunt and Susan C. Maerki, "The Vol.-Outcome Relationship: Practice-Makes-Perfect or Selective-Referral Patterns?," Health Services Research, 1987, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 157-182.