Center for the Assessment of Pharmaceutical Practices (CAPP), Department of Health Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts (Drs Kazis and Selim and Ms Qian); Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research (CHQOER), A Health Services Research and Development Center for Excellence, VA Medical Center, Bedford, Massachusetts (Drs Kazis and Selim and Ms Qian); Section of General Internal Medicine and Emergency Services, Boston VA Health Care System, West Roxbury, and Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Selim); The Health Institute, New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Rogers); and ScHARR, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Dr Brazier).
Correspondence: Lewis E. Kazis, ScD, Center for the Assessment of Pharmaceutical Practices (CAPP), Department of Health Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany St, T3W, Boston, MA 02118 ([email protected]).
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The principal author and coauthors do not have any conflict of interest to declare, with the exception of partial support for the project provided by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, which administers the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey (HOS) for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This study was supported by a contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, US Department of Health and Human Services (HHSM-500-2004-00015I-0001). Partial support for the project was also provided by the Center for Health Quality Outcomes and Economic Research (CHQOER), A Center for Excellence under the VA Health Services Research and Development Service, Veterans Health Administration and The Department of Health Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health.
The authors wish to thank Samuel C. Haffer and Sonya Bowen who were in many ways responsible for the success of the Health Outcomes Survey. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not represent the views of the sponsors of this project including the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the Department of Veteran Affairs.
