Publications by authors named "Wade M Bannister"
Introduction: Solid organ transplantation has been an area of great interest to commercial payers ever since it moved into mainstream medical care beginning in the 1980s. Over the years a system of evaluating transplant program performance based on volume and one year graft and patient survival has developed. While this system has served its purpose, there is an increasing realization from payers that a need exists for a more sophisticated way to evaluate quality and cost-effectiveness of these complex procedures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: There is controversy surrounding the risk of manipulation, which is often used by chiropractors, with respect to its association with vertebrobasilar artery system (VBA) stroke. The objective of this study was to compare the associations between chiropractic care and VBA stroke with recent primary care physician (PCP) care and VBA stroke.
Methods: The study design was a case-control study of commercially insured and Medicare Advantage (MA) health plan members in the U.
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- The research analyzed how well the propensity score method compares responses from proxy-completed surveys to self-completed ones in the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey from 1998-2000.
- Using this method, they matched responses based on individual characteristics and found it reduced differences between the two types of responses.
- However, some noticeable disparities remained in certain demographic data, activities of daily living, chronic conditions, and depression screening despite the adjustments.