Studies from University of Cambridge Have Provided New Data on Medicare and Medicaid (Advice to Quit Smoking and Ratings of Health Care among…

Studies from University of Cambridge Have Provided New Data on Medicare and Medicaid (Advice to Quit Smoking and Ratings of Health Care among Medicare Beneficiaries Aged 65)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- Investigators publish new report on Medicare and Medicaid. According to news reporting out of Cambridge, United Kingdom, by VerticalNews editors, research stated, "To examine the relationship between physician advice to quit smoking and patient care experiences. The 2012 Medicare Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (MCAHPS) surveys."

Financial support for this research came from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Cambridge, "Fixed-effects linear regression models were used to analyze cross-sectional survey data, which included a nationally representative sample of 26,432 smokers aged 65+. Eleven of 12 patient experience measures were significantly more positive among smokers who were always advised to quit smoking than those advised to quit less frequently. There was an attenuated but still significant and positive association of advice to quit smoking with both physician rating and physician communication, after controlling for other measures of care experiences."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "Physician-provided cessation advice was associated with more positive patient assessments of their physicians."

For more information on this research see: Advice to Quit Smoking and Ratings of Health Care among Medicare Beneficiaries Aged 65. Health Services Research, 2016;52(1):207-219. Health Services Research can be contacted at: Blackwell Publishing Inc, 350 Main St, Malden, MA 02148, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - www.wiley.com/; Health Services Research - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1475-6773)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting E. Winpenny, MRC Epidemiology Unit and the Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK. Additional authors for this research include M.N. Elliott, A. Haas, A.M. Haviland, N. Orr, W.G. Shadel, S. Ma, M.W. Friedberg and P.D Cleary.

Publisher contact information for the journal Health Services Research is: Blackwell Publishing Inc, 350 Main St, Malden, MA 02148, USA.

Keywords for this news article include: Europe, Cambridge, Health Policy, United Kingdom, Medicare and Medicaid.

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