OBJECTIVE: To determine the associations between managed care, physician job satisfaction,
and the quality of primary care, and to determine whether physician job satisfaction is …

Background: We examined whether physician compensation, financial incentives, and care
management tools were associated with primary physician job and referral satisfaction. Our …

Methods| Thisstudyfollowedtherelevantportionsofthe STROBE reportingguideline. PerCommonRule,
institutionalreviewboard approval was not sought because the study did not involve …

Epidemiological studies have attributed area-specific changes in infectious disease
prevalence to human migration. There is a paucity of research investigating the postmigration …

The study described here investigates the replicability of gender-specific risk profiles for
gonorrhea based on an Alaskan sample compared to a US national sample of drug users at risk …

Worldwide substance abuse consequences are a major problem challenging health planners
and providers. To mediate these problems effectively, further information on the variability …

Introduction American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) individuals in the USA experience
higher rates of mental illness and preventable death than the general population. Published …

Although Alaska has one of the highest rates of alcohol consumption in the US, there are
very few reports of other drug use in Alaska This five-year NIDA-funded study sampled out-of-…

This study developed separate models predicting risk for gonorrhea infection among female
and male drug users in Anchorage Alaska. Data were collected with the Risk Behavior …

Background Managed care efforts to regulate access to specialists and reduce costs may
lower quality of care. Few studies have examined whether managed care is associated with …