… purposes, an orientation toward family and community is included as well (Starfield 1998). …
and the method of scoring them are described in Starfield 1998.) The first important finding is …

… in which the diseases appear is of particular interest in the study of etiological association
(b). … Starfield B. Threads and yarns: weaving the tapestry of comorbidity. Ann Fam Med. …

Patients are increasingly seen by an array of providers in a wide variety of organisations and
places, raising concerns about fragmentation of care. Policy reports and charters worldwide …

… a nationally random sample of 1 217 103 Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries aged 65
and older living in the United States and enrolled in both Medicare Part A and Medicare Part B …

… My wonderful mother, Eva Starfield, took on the role of reactor and unofficial editor of my
book … Starfield B. Health services research: A working model. N Engl J Med 1973; 289:132-6…

… a country's overall burden of disease (Starfield 1996). Some authors have suggested that …
Finally, the scale used in this study differs from that of Starfield in that scores for each of the …

Focuses on the significant features of primary care in medicine. Definition of primary care;
Roles and functions of primary care and their measurement; Proportion of practitioners …

INFORMATION CONCERNING THE DEFICIENCIES OF US MEDI-cal care has been
accumulating. The fact that more than 40 million people have no health insurance is well known. …

… The ranks for each of the countries in each group represent the average rank for the countries
in the group; †, the actual values for the individual countries are provided in Appendix B. **…

This article describes a case-mix measure for application in ambulatory populations. The
method is based primarily on categorization of diagnoses according to their likelihood of …