Background Although the 1990s saw enormous change in the mental health care system in
the United States, little is known about changes in the prevalence or rate of treatment of …

General population data from the National Comorbidity Survey are presented on co‐occurring
DSM‐III‐R addictive and mental disorders. Co‐occurrence is highly prevalent in the …

Background. To examine relationships between recent DSM-III-R psychiatric disorders and
work impairment in major occupational groups in the US labour force.Method. Data are from …

ContextThe adoption of pay-for-performance mechanisms for quality improvement is
growing rapidly. Although there is intense interest in and optimism about pay-for-performance …

During the 1980s the share of prescriptions sold by retail pharmacies that was accounted
for by generic products roughly doubled. The price response to generic entry of brand‐name …

Analyzing data on 2,225 men and 2,401 women from the National Comorbidity Survey, the
authors examine the impact of psychiatric disorders on employment and, among those …

Background Spending on prescription drugs is the fastest growing component of the health
care budget. There is public concern about the possibility that direct-to-consumer advertising …

OBJECTIVE: The authors present nationally representative descriptive data on 12-month use
of outpatient services for psychiatric problems. They focused on the relationship between …

We analyzed data from two national surveys to estimate the short-term work disability associated
with thirty-day major depression. Depressed workers were found to have between 1.5 …

Despite more than a decade of benchmarking and public reporting of quality problems in
the health care sector, changes in medical practice have been slow to materialize. To …