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Assesses the effectiveness of the Nurse Training Act of 1964 as a means of attracting girls into the nursing field in the United States. Shortage of nurses; Establishment of student loan funds in cooperating public and private non-profit schools of nursing; Salary of nurses. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

Occupational attrition estimation methods for determining personnel separation through marriage, death, retirement and transfer applied to engineering and nursing

Empirical tests of the physician fee-screen inflation hypothesis are applied to insurance claims data for three Blue Shield plans for 1973 to 1978. A framework for physician pricing behavior is developed, which includes a two-period model of inflationary pricing based on fee-screen updating, and some alternatives, including a myopic (single-period) price formulation model. Each of these models is shown to be a testable parameter subset of the general estimation equation. The results generally conform with the fee-screen inflation hypothesis, suggesting that the current Medicare and Blue Shield UCR physician reimbursement systems encourage excessive price increases.

This article examines the impact of reimbursement on admissions by nursing homes. Low rates of payment for Medicaid patients suggest that nursing homes should prefer non-Medicaid patients. Such preferences are observable in daily admissions data from some of a sample of 18 Southern California facilities. Facilities with observable preferences tend to have strong incentives to prefer non-Medicaid patients. The statistical method used to observe preferences may have applications to studies of discrimination in other settings.