One of the federal government’s key indicators of economic distress – one that shows that rural counties are disproportionately suffering economically – is disguising persistent, intergenerational ...

Could a new approach to defining persistent poverty actually hurt rural communities? A rural American small town with a two-lane paved road and a church steeple. One of the federal government’s key ...

HEDIS-defined persistent asthma is generally consistent with survey-defined persistent asthma over a 3-year period. Administrative data were used to identify patients meeting the Healthcare ...

Despite the clinical limitations of administrative datato define persistent asthma, such data are available tomost health plans and are potentially useful from a qualityof care perspective.

The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) has received many inquiries from the press regarding the definition of persistent vegetative state in light of the Terri Schiavo case. In 1995 the AAN published ...