Volume 81 Number 2, 2003

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• Editor's Introduction: In This Issue

• Strengthening Research to Improve the Practice and Management of Long-Term Care
  Penny Hollander Feldman and Robert L. Kane
  (Featured article -- click here for full text)

• How Can Research Organizations More Effectively Transfer Research Knowledge to Decision Makers?
  John N. Lavis, Dave Robertson, Jennifer M. Woodside, Christopher B. McLeod, Julia Abelson, and the Knowledge Transfer Study Group

• Racial and Ethnic Differences in Public and Private Medical Care Expenditures among Aged Medicare Beneficiaries
  José J. Escarce and Kanika Kapur

• Reforming Medicare Payment: Early Effects of the 1997 Balanced Budget Act on Postacute Care
  Nelda McCall, Jodi Korb, Andrew W. Petersons, and Stanley Moore

• Convergence or Divergence? Reforming Primary Care in Norway and Britain
  Olaug S. Lian

• Alternative Models of Hospital-Physician Affiliation as the United States Moves Away from Tight Managed Care
  Lawrence Casalino and James C. Robinson

• Notes on Contributors