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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/jtm3jb/global_mobile) has announced the addition of the "Global Mobile Enterprise Application Development Platform Market 2014-2018" report to their offering.
The Global Mobile Enterprise Application Development Platform market will grow at a CAGR of 25.29 percent over the period 2013-2018.
The report, the Global Mobile Enterprise Application Development Platform Market 2014-2018, has been prepared based on an in-depth market analysis with inputs from industry experts. The report covers the Americas and the EMEA and APAC regions; it also covers the Global Mobile Enterprise Application Development Platform market landscape and its growth prospects in the coming years. The report also includes a discussion of the key vendors operating in this market.
One of the upcoming trends in this market is the emergence of cloud-based mobile applications. The emergence of cloud-based mobile enterprise application development platforms has enabled organizations to increase their efficiency and reduce the cost of deploying valuable IT infrastructure.
According to the report, one of the major drivers in the market is the high adoption of mobile devices. Mobile devices are not seen as a luxury anymore; they are seen as a business requirement. It is important for employees to have access to the company's secure information during their travel to many business meetings, and hence it becomes mandatory for organizations to provide access to secure data on smartphones.
Further, the report states that the diversity of the mobile landscape is one of the main challenges that the market faces. A mobile enterprise application development platform has to work in synchronization with many devices, OSs, and firmware, with each running different applications for different processes. Enterprises might even face difficulties in interacting with other departments such as back-office systems and networks.
Key Vendors
- Adobe Systems Inc.
- Antenna Software
- IBM Corp.
- Kony Inc.
- Microstrategy Inc.
- Salesforce.com Inc.
Other Prominent Vendors
- Appcelerator Inc.
- ClickSoftware
- Microsoft Corp.
- Motorola Solutions Inc.
- Sencha Inc.
- Verivo Software Inc.
For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/jtm3jb/global_mobile
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"I'll tell you why they vote for me: Because there is unemployment, crime; because too many foreigners live in France and make us feel like strangers in our own house. People are scared for themselves and for their children."
Thus spake Jean-Marie Le Pen in 1988, and 14 years later the song remains the same. The leader of France's National Front party has, over the course of four successive presidential elections, stood for exactly the same things, with no attempt to moderate his views or soften his tone. Over the same time, the breadth of his political appeal has also remained the same: between 15 percent and 20% of the electorate.
Yesterday was no different: Exit polls have him at between 17% and 18% in the first round of the French presidential system. The only thing that has changed is that the Socialist candidate, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, polled even less, making Le Pen the run-off candidate against incumbent President Jacques Chirac.
This will no doubt cause shock waves throughout Europe and beyond. Attention will be drawn, first, to Le Pen's anti-Semitism: He called the Holocaust "a detail of history"; reportedly spoke of Hitler as "Uncle Dolphie"; and shared a dais with former Nazis. Le Pen is also avowedly anti-Arab, anti-gay, and anti-Europe.
But this comes neither as a surprise nor, indeed, as an especially damning reflection on the French public. Le Pen's figures remain pretty much unchanged. In previous elections, more than half of those who voted for Le Pen admitted to having no desire to see him as president. He remains a protest candidate, not a serious contender. And he will be trounced by Chirac in next month's final round of voting.
What is surprising is the remarkably poor showing of Jospin, who until recently seemed to enjoy a slim but persistent lead over Chirac, and whose Socialist Party dominates the French Assembly. His swift fall from grace leaves the field to two right-of-center candidates, and raises serious questions about the long-term political viability of the French Left.
Part of the problem for the Socialists lay in Jospin's technocratic mien and a streak of Calvinist severity that left many French voters cold. The larger problem was his inability, while leading the government, to contend either with France's decade-long economic stagnation or the skyrocketing incidence of crime. Until the French Socialists are able to remold themselves in the style of Tony Blair's "New Labor" or Gerhard Schroeder's "Neue Mitte" (new middle), it's likely they will continue to suffer reverses.
At the same time, questions confront the Gaullist Right. Chirac has been hounded by allegations of corruption during his tenure as mayor of Paris - allegations substantially founded in fact. Though he will walk easily toward re-election, the French Right of Chirac is as ideologically moribund as its opponents on the Left, peddling largely the same economic and social nostrums. It, too, is vulnerable.
Two years ago, in Austria, Joerg Haider's Freedom Party succeeded in coming to power less on the strength of its own platform than on the weaknesses of the two dominant parties. In Belgium, the separatist Vlaams Blok threatens much the same, as does the Northern League in Italy.
Jean-Marie Le Pen is no threat to the European body politic. But someday, from the stagnant pool of European politics, something much fouler might emerge.
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Iran Says South Pars Output to Rise Over 2 YearsSource: Reuters 5/2/2010, Location: Asia
Gas production at Iran's giant offshore natural gas field South Pars will rise to 175 million cubic metres per day within the next two years, an energy official was quoted as saying.
Iran has the second biggest gas reserves in the world after Russia, but sanctions over its nuclear energy programme and other factors have slowed its development as a major exporter. It is unable to access the technology it needs to build LNG facilities.
"By the end of Iranian year 1391 (in the next two years) South Pars gas production capacity will increase to 175 million cubic meter per day," Ali Vakili, managing director of the Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC), told the semi-official Mehr news agency."
Vakili did not say how much of an increase this represents. Production at the field rose by nearly 30 percent during the 2009-10 year, Iran's state Press TV reported last month, to around 59 billion cubic metres of processed gas for the full year, or around 162 million cubic metres per day.
"For developing South Pars we reached the conclusion that we should not wait for foreign companies because at the moment the capability to develop through domestic companies exists," Vakili said.
Vakili said on April 26 that Royal Dutch Shell and Repsol had one week to decide on their involvement in the natural gas field.
Iran says both Anglo-Dutch Shell and Spain's Repsol have procrastinated on finalising their involvement in the field, the world's largest reservoir of gas. It has set similar deadlines in the past as a way of pressuring foreign investors.
The offshore South Pars field contains about half of the estimated 28 trillion cubic metres of the country's gas reserves.
South Pars is on the Iranian side of the world's largest known gas reservoir not associated with oil production. Qatar holds the southern section of the field, where it is known as the North Field. Qatar has developed its side of the field to become the world's largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG).
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It's a no , a terrible no.
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When former WEC bantamweight champion Miguel Torres returned to fighting this past April after five months off, he experienced perhaps the biggest setback in his career to date when he was knocked out by Michael McDonald at UFC 145 and then subsequently released by the promotion.
"Going back to November, it was a big blow," said Torres. "I went through a lot to get back into the UFC, got back in and lost the fight. I didn't follow the game plan and went out there and got caught with a punch and I got (released) again.
"The biggest thing for me to get back on track is to get stable."
Finding stability could come down to finding a longterm home, like the one Torres had in the UFC and WEC. Should Torres' new home in the World Series of Fighting live up to expectations, he may just have the platform he needs to get back on track and find success again.
"It's an exciting feeling to start in a new league and kind of have a homecoming fighting on the NBC Sports Network (where the WEC was broadcasted on during the channel's Versus branding) and fight on a card with guys like Andrei Arlovski," said Torres.
While it's a new home, don't expect Torres to go about doing things differently than before.
"I've been doing this for the past 13 years, so for me it's business as usual," he said. "I'm going to go out and fight the same way, whether it's the UFC or my back yard.
"I always dedicate myself 100-percent to my craft and my opponent is going to see the best Miguel Torres that he can possibly see."
Torres' first fight for the WSoF on Nov. 3 in Las Vegas comes against Marlon Moraes, a fighter Torres has some familiarity with.
"I've trained with him in Florida, so I know what to expect out of him," said Torres of Moraes. "I know what he's good at, I know what I'm good at, and the most important thing is to go out there and fight my fight.
"I know I have to keep my distance, and when I do come in, I have to come in hard. I've got to close the distance, get him in the clinch and take him down to the ground. I know that middle-range is going to be his. But I know what I'm good at, and I know what I can do to give him a hard time."
Torres told MMAWeekly.com that, at this stage in his career, thinking about anything other than what's in front of him isn't important, staying in the moment is.
"Just win," said Torres of his goals. "All I'm worried about is winning my fights.
"I don't care who it is, who's in front of me, or what their name is. I'm not worried about that. The only thing I'm worried about is going out there and taking my opponents out."
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Battlefront Hardline takes the fight to the streets of LA, and you can play it right nowPocket-lint
Electronic Arts had few genuine surprises to pull out of the hat during its E3 2014 press conference, but the final reveal where Battlefront Hardline was unveiled along with the immediate launch of the PS4 beta phase, stole the show.
Battlefront Hardline has completely rejigged the franchise, pulling the action away from traditional solidering and war battles to the streets of Los Angeles - the location for the game's reveal. A battle still rages, but this time it is between the LA Police and well-armed criminals. And based on the gameplay shown during the company's briefing, it's loud, spectacular and different.
The full game will be released on 24 October in the UK for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 and PC, but PS4 owners can already play the game as it is available to sign up to now for those who already own Battlefield 4. Go to the Battlefield 4 tiles in the menu and beta signup screen will appear.
Attendees of EA's media event also got the chance to give the multiplayer mode a spin as a huge bank of PS4's were opened to use at the end of the showcase.
PC owners will also soon be able to play the public beta, but must register to do so at battlefield.com.
Pocket-lint will be giving you our initial impressions on Battlefront Hardline in the coming days as we attend E3 this week.
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Only one minor criticism I would like to point out: I felt Garcia was constantly chasing Hunter's coat-tails, that is to say, he always had his 'lightbulb' moment seconds or minutes after Hunter had worked something out...which gave his slower realisations an almost comedic feel....kind of like in Laurel and Hardy where the former is constantly left scratching his head.....this makes Garcia look a little dumb.....he should occasionally have been made to be the one who brainstormed his way through a problem without the aid of Hunter.
To conclude, I CANNOT wait for the next stage of the story with this dynamic duo:-)
Once again Robert Hunter, Criminal psychologist extraordinaire and his assistant, - who by he way has gained a some intelligence and serious cop strategies, unlike in the first book - go on the trail of yet another serial killer whose gruesome murders get evermore gruesome.
Once again my main niggle is that we tend to get 'lectured' as Hunter explains everything he knows about criminal profiling and psychology. And this time round Hunter has a new boss - a Captain Blake- a woman who has apparently taken over from Garcia the honours of being the dumbest one on the entire team. How ever did she get to be captain?
My other niggle was the chapter endings full of cliched remarks such as:- 'What he saw sent shivers down his spine'. "You're kidding me."…."No way"…."No sh*t"….and so on for most of the chapters. It was obviously meant to keep the reader turning the pages, but it became tedious and gave the whole thing a slightly amateurish feel. This is okay for some chapter endings but not almost all of them.
Nevertheless I did enjoy it, but overall I thought his first book was a better read. And so it gets four stars from me, but only just.
This is Carter at his best - a turn-page books and two nights spent reading. Genius stems from a very scabrous set of homicides. Probably, the first book I have read where I was unable to guess the murderer. This time, evil is enthralling and almost sexy - aside the dynamic of murder, the book deals with charme. Everyone is beautiful, Aesthetics is a guideline, even the assassin, along the book has sensual features.
In many ways, Chris Carter is writing a biography. There is a shift between the acquired abilities of Rober Hunter (Chris Carter's background), and the ever-working self-learner Robert Vasquez.
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I highly recommend this book to anyone is fascinated by criminal behavior's fictions, excellent style of writing, and a very peculiar outstanding quality to create a plot that is not available in all Forensic Psychiatry literature. MY BEST reading in 2011. Thanks, Chris!
ridiculous plot, obvious characters, OTT 'killings', too many coincidences to carry the reader on. I cannot understand the 200+ raving about it reviews. I can only think the readers haven't read any decent crime books recently.
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Mr Carter needs a decent editor - may I suggest he changes publishers and finds one?
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Mitt Romney's relationship with the Tea Party, despite his embrace of their positions on a range of issues, is famously awkward. Yesterday's Unity Rally 2012 was no exception.
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LOL! I know what you mean. Seems like some of these mm's have unlimited sharesto unload. It does look like most shares are being sold so I don't think there's a lot of shorting going on at this level. Good consolidation going on right now. The shorts know it and they better beprepared to cover their butts. Over 4 Million shares shorted as of 4-11 with maybe amillion covered yesterday morning. But I imagine some more shorties piled on yesterday afternoon. Looking for that SHORT SQUEEZE first of next week. jmoc
You may be right, but at this price with all the news....you would have to be crazy to short it now, the downside is so limited.
there may be limited down side but that also applies to the up-side as well. supg got the drug approved and the stock went down on the news. i dumped all 25k shares in the pre market. you can hang in if you want but something tells me that this 5 area is what the street thinks this dog is worth. the vast majority of small cap bios that get fda full approval on a drug see their stock move higher... not lower.
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I heartily support Wednesday Journal's endorsement of Jackie Moore for the District 200 school board. I have known Jackie for several years and have found her to be an intelligent and thoughtful person with a deep compassion for children and their success. As a developmental psychologist, she has worked to develop programs for families of high-risk children. She believes in high expectations for all children and providing academic supports so that all children can succeed.
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Joseph LaCombe Stables homebred Deputy Glitters worked five furlongs in 1:01.46 at Belmont Park in preparation for the May 6 Kentucky Derby presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I).With exercise rider Simon Harris aboard the 3-year-old son of Deputy Commander went to the track shortly after the maintenance break. His time for the work was 11th best of 18 horses working the distance over the fast track.Trainer Tom Albertrani said the colt worked "well" and is on schedule to ship to Kentucky at about noon Thursday. Upon his arrival, Deputy Glitters will be housed in Barn 17 at Churchill Downs.The winner of two of seven career starts, Deputy Glitters won the Tampa Bay Derby (gr. III) and ran second in the Sam F. Davis Stakes, both at Tampa Bay Downs.Along with Sacred Light's workout at Hollywood Park, the exercise regimen for Deputy Glitters was the only work of the day for any of the 22 horses now pointing toward the Derby, for which only 20 will be allowed to start.Most of the Derby horses already at Churchill Downs went to the track Wednesday morning, either jogging or galloping on a brisk, windy morning.The activity level at Churchill will increase later this week, with Cause to Believe and Seaside Retreat scheduled to breeze Thursday.Although subject to change, none of the Derby contenders are scheduled to work Friday.Saturday works are scheduled for Lawyer Ron, Sinister Minister, Sweetnorthernsaint, Sharp Humor, and Steppenwolfer.Sunday also promises to be a busy day for Derby horses, with workouts planned for Bluegrass Cat, Keyed Entry, Jazil, Flashy Bull.Brother Derek, the likely Derby favorite on the basis of his Santa Anita Derby (gr. I) win, is now probable for a Monday workout.
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Utilization and expenditures of veterans obtaining primary care in community clinics and VA medical centers: an observational cohort study
To compare VA inpatient and outpatient utilization and expenditures of veterans seeking primary care in community-based outpatient clinics (CBOCs) and VA medical centers (VAMCs) in fiscal years 2000 (FY00) and 2001.
The sample included 25,092 patients who obtained primary care exclusively from 108 CBOCs in FY00, 26,936 patients who obtained primary care exclusively from 72 affiliated VAMCs in FY00, and 11,450 "crossover" patients who obtained primary care in CBOCs and VAMCs in FY00. VA utilization and expenditure data were drawn from the VA's system-wide cost accounting system. Veteran demographic characteristics and a 1999 Diagnostic Cost Group risk score were obtained from VA administrative files. Outpatient utilization (primary care, specialty care, mental health, pharmacy, radiology and laboratory) and inpatient utilization were estimated using count data models and expenditures were estimated using one-part or two-part models. The second part of two-part models was estimated using generalized linear regressions.
CBOC patients had a slightly more primary care visits per year than VAMC patients (p < 0.0001), but lower primary care costs (-$71, p < 0.0001). CBOC patients had lower odds of one or more specialty, mental health, ancillary visits and hospital stays per year, and fewer numbers of visits and stays if they had any and lower specialty, mental health, ancillary and inpatient expenditures (all, p < 0.0001). As a result, CBOC patients had lower total outpatient and overall expenditures than VAMC patients (p < 0.0001).
CBOCs provided veterans improved access to primary care and other services, but expenditures were contained because CBOC patients who sought health care had fewer visits and hospital stays than comparable VAMC patients. These results suggest a more complex pattern of health care utilization and expenditures by CBOC patients than has been found in prior studies. This study also illustrates that CBOCs continue to be a critical primary care and mental health access point for veterans.
The VA health care system serves 4.5 million veterans and has been establishing increasing numbers of Community-Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) since 1995 to increase access to primary care for veterans
The VA made a major commitment to establishing CBOCs, which led to an evaluation of whether CBOC patients and veterans obtaining primary care at VA medical centers (VAMC) had comparable satisfaction, quality of care, utilization and expenditures. Satisfaction and quality of care were found to be comparable between CBOC and VAMC patients
In this paper, we extend the prior utilization and expenditure analyses of CBOC and VAMC patients in five ways. First, we examined total (indirect+direct) VA costs for CBOC, VAMC and crossover patients. The VA's cost accounting system has been more rigorously implemented and checked for data quality to enable inclusion of indirect costs that were excluded in the prior analyses. Second, we used a much larger sample of CBOCs (108 vs. 18), VAMCs (72 vs. 14) and veterans to strengthen the generalizability of our results. Third, we included data from fiscal years (FY) 2000 and 2001 to update the comparison. Fourth, we explicitly track "crossover" patients who obtained primary care at CBOCs and VAMCs in FY00 to assess whether this discontinuity in primary care is associated with different utilization and expenditures. In the prior study, these patients were lumped into the CBOC cohort and accounted for 12% of that group.
Fifth, we explicitly controlled for distance to directly examine how this factor affects health care use, to isolate the effects of CBOC provider practice patterns and organizational structure. The purpose of this analysis was to compare VA utilization and expenditures of veterans receiving primary care at CBOCs and VAMCs in FY00 and FY01. As the VA continues to rely upon CBOCs as a primary care delivery system that will improve access to care, it remains an open question as to whether CBOCs are actually fulfilling the stated goal of improving primary care access and containing costs.
To generate the sample for this study, we had to determine which CBOCs (and VAMCs to which they were affiliated) to include, and then which veterans from these facilities to sample. CBOCs were included based on the following criteria: 1) CBOCs had to have congressional approval, 2) the CBOC had to be open by 10/1/98 to ensure that cost data was tracked for three years to ensure stable estimates, 3) the clinic must have enrolled 200+ veterans in FY99 for sufficient power, 4) cost data had to be trackable separately from the affiliated VAMC. There were 744 CBOCs and other outpatient clinics in operation in FY00. Only 315 of these clinics were CBOCs that required Congressional approval, which was the original process for designating CBOCs. Another 429 outpatient clinics that have been retrospectively labeled CBOCs but did not require Congressional approval were excluded to ensure parity between the CBOCs examined in the prior study and this study. Of these 315 CBOCs, 180 were excluded because they did not meet the inclusion criteria of being in operation before 10/1/98, leaving 135 CBOCs. Twenty-two of the 135 CBOCs were excluded because they cared for fewer than 200 veterans in FY99. The 113 CBOCs with sufficient sample size was reduced by five because they couldn't be found in VA administrative databases (n = 3) or were closed in FY01 (n = 2), resulting in 108 CBOCs that ml the inclusion criteria mentioned above. These 108 CBOCs were affiliated with 72 VAMCs because several VAMCs had established multiple CBOCs. Seventy-six of these 108 CBOCs were VA-staffed CBOCs, and the remaining 32 were Contract CBOCs.
Veterans in this study were classified into one of three mutually exclusive groups based upon where the veteran obtained primary care in FY00: VAMC patients, CBOC patients or crossover patients. VAMC patients were defined as veterans who had no primary care visits to a CBOC and at least one primary care visit to a VAMC primary care clinic, including general internal medicine, geriatrics, women's health, or primary care. This definition of primary care stop codes was consistent with the primary care codes defined in previous studies
A random sample of 250 patients was drawn from each CBOC and VAMC primary care population to obtain sufficient power for all analyses and frequency weights were computed for use in regression analysis. For CBOCs with 200–250 enrolled veterans, all veterans were drawn for the study sample and frequency weights for regression analysis equalled 1.0. All crossover patients receiving primary care in the CBOCs and affiliated VAMCs in our sample were included and were assigned frequency weights of 1.0. Patients were then excluded if they didn't survive until the end of FY01 (n = 6,754), or had missing (n = 74) or excessive (e.g., >200 miles) travel distance from their home to the closest VAMC (n = 4,688), which resulted in 23,894 patients in 108 CBOCs, 26,176 patients from the 72 affiliated VAMCs, and 11,074 crossover patients.
The five datasets used in this study were drawn from administrative files that are maintained at the VA's central data repository, the Austin Automation Center. The first two datasets – the FY00 Outpatient Care File (OPC) and FY00 Patient Treatment File (PTF) – contained demographic information, county of residence, and utilization data that were used to identify the study sample and control for covariates related to health care utilization and expenditures. The outpatient and inpatient utilization files report the location of care (CBOC or VAMC), clinic stop codes that were used to identify the type of care, clinic visit date or admission and discharge dates, and diagnosis and procedure codes.
The second two datasets – the FY00 and FY01 Decision Support System (DSS) Outpatient and Inpatient National Extracts – contained similar utilization and diagnostic data as OPC and PTF, but also have direct, indirect and total expenditures for each VA outpatient visit and inpatient hospitalization. Expenditures were inflation-adjusted using the Medical Component of the Current Price Index. We also obtained 1999 Diagnostic Cost Groups (DCG) risk scores that are routinely generated for all veterans receiving care in a given year to adjust for differential risk between patient groups, because DCG was predictive of utilization and expenditures in the prior CBOC studies
The dependent variables for our analysis included outpatient and inpatient utilization and expenditure variables. Outpatient utilization and expenditures were partitioned into different types of care by clinic stop codes (e.g., primary care, mental health, specialty, pharmacy, radiology, laboratory, other) and summarized into total outpatient visits and expenditures. In the VA, lab space is physically separated from provider clinics, so veterans have to go to VA laboratories to have one or more tests done in a single lab "visit". Radiology and pharmacy "visits" work in the same way.
Inpatient utilization was defined as the number of hospitalizations, and inpatient expenditures were defined as the sum of expenditures across all hospitalizations in the same year. Demographic information used as independent variables regression analysis included age, gender, race, marital status, means test-based eligibility for free care, service-related disability, and 1999 DCG risk score. We also adjusted for distance between veteran's zipcode and the veteran's usual source of care (e.g., VAMC or CBOC) to control for access issues related to VAMC and CBOC travel costs. Differential distance, defined as (Distance between VAMC county and home county of residence) – (Distance between CBOC county and home county of residence), was used in primary care analyses, but distance between VAMC county and home county of residence was used to analyze all other outcomes.
To assess whether CBOCs influence the probability of care and/or the level of care, we estimate three measures of VA resource use – 1) odds of service use, 2) number of outpatient visits or inpatient hospitalizations, and 3) expenditures incurred. Ninety percent of veterans had primary care and outpatient pharmacy visits and 95% of veterans had one or more outpatient visits of all kinds, so the odds of use were not estimated for these two outcomes. Bivariate comparisons of odds of service were assessed via analysis of variance methods and bivariate comparisons of utilization and costs were assessed by the Cuzick extension of the nonparametric Wilcoxon rank-sum test for three or more groups
In multivariate analysis, one-part models and two-part models of utilization and costs were run. One-part models were run for outcomes that had few observations with zero use (e.g., primary care, total outpatient, and overall care). Two-part models are used to estimate the odds of use and the level of use separately for those that use health care
Expenditure models for overall care, outpatient care, primary care and outpatient pharmacy were estimated using one-part generalized linear models (GLMs) with a normal distribution and log link function to restore log-normality. GLMs have been shown to fit expenditures with significant heteroskedasticity better than ordinary least squares
Since veterans were not randomly assigned to groups, we used propensity score matching with quintiles to improve the balance in the observed characteristics of veterans seen in CBOCs and VAMCs
Patient characteristics
CBOC patients are younger and more likely to be married than VAMC and crossover patients (Table
Table 1
Demographic Characteristics of CBOC, VAMC and Crossover Patients
60.4 (14.3)
64.0 (13.0)
60.0 (14.2)
Male (%)
Married (%)
Not Married (%)
Unknown Marital (%)
Caucasian (%)
Non-Caucasian (%)
Unknown Race (%)
Service Connection (%)
15.9 (28.0)
11.5 (23.6)
21.6 (30.9)
DCG score, 1999
0.61 (1.00)
0.34 (0.64)
0.62 (0.98)
Means test status (%)
No means test required
Above means test
Below means test
Not applicable
Differential Distance
5.7 (33.0)
44.5 (35.6)
34.8 (37.1)
Home to VAMC Distance
27.5 (31.0)
60.7 (37.7)
51.8 (39.0)
Sample Size
Unadjusted utilization and cost
The odds of primary care, pharmacy and total outpatient use were significantly different between CBOC, VAMC and crossover patients, but the differences were not large (Table
Table 2
Unadjusted Utilization and Expenditures of CBOC, VAMC and Crossover Patients in 2000–2001
Primary Care
3.3 (2.8)
3.6 (3.1)
5.0 (3.9)
$381 (438)
$509 (626)
$649 (720)
Specialty Care
2.1 (4.0)
4.9 (8.0)
4.9 (6.5)
413 (1706)
1013 (3568)
1077 (4098)
Mental Health
0.8 (4.9)
2.8 (14)
2.6 (12)
102 (665)
342 (1733)
302 (1363)
684 (2009)
936 (2367)
1062 (2083)
0.6 (1.2)
1.3 (1.9)
1.4 (2.0)
111 (717)
251 (524)
287 (556)
2.2 (2.9)
3.5 (4.6)
3.7 (4.3)
119 (332)
208 (410)
238 (3473)
Total Outpatient
23 (22)
36 (38)
40 (34)
2092 (3692)
3921 (6294)
4258 (7235)
0.1 (0.4)
0.2 (0.8)
0.2 (0.8)
656 (5120)
1867 (9306)
1964 (9042)
2748 (6936)
5788 (12351)
6222 (12701)
Sample Size
All outcomes are significantly different at a p-value < 0.0001;
Numbers in parentheses refer to Standard Deviations;
All analyses were adjusted for sampling weights.
Unadjusted VA outpatient expenditures followed the patterns of outpatient utilization (Table
Adjusted utilization and cost
Odds ratios and predicted visit and cost differences adjusted for age, gender, race, marital status, service connection, distance, means-test status, and DCG risk are listed in Table
Table 3
Adjusted Utilization and Expenditures of CBOC, VAMC and Crossover Patients in 2000–2001
Primary Carea
0.10 (0.03)***
1.34 (0.04)***
-71 (5)***
130 (6)***
Specialty Careb
0.46 (0.01)***
1.10 (0.03)
-1.42 (0.07)***
-0.10 (0.08)
-339 (33)***
60 (47)
Mental Healthb
0.78 (0.02)***
1.14 (0.03)***
-1.85 (0.35)***
-0.60 (0.35).
-282 (43)***
-78 (47).
-81 (20)***
103 (17)***
0.41 (0.01)***
1.05 (0.02)*
-0.39 (0.02)***
0.03 (0.03)
-58 (14)***
34 (8)***
0.45 (0.01)***
0.90 (0.03)***
-0.41 (0.04)***
0.31 (0.04)***
-34 (4)***
29 (16).
Total Outpatienta
-923 (39)***
364 (52)***
0.48 (0.02)***
1.08 (0.03)
-0.12 (0.04)***
0.01 (0.03)
-109 (577)
81 (497)
-1551 (70)***
491 (91)***
Sample Size
Reference Group is VAMC patients; ***P-value < 0.0001, **P-value < 0.001, *P-value < 0.01;
Utilization and expenditure regressions control for age, age-squared, female gender, age and gender interaction, marital status, race, veteran percent service connection, distance, DCG risk score, copay status and time (2000);
All analyses were adjusted for sampling weights;
a – one-part models of utilization and costs estimated on the entire sample and odds of use was not estimated
b – two-part models of utilization and costs estimated on veterans with use > 0 and odds of use estimated on entire sample
Crossover patients who obtained primary care in CBOCs and VAMCs in FY00 had 1.3 more primary care visits and higher primary care expenditures than VAMC patients in both years (p < 0.0001). They also had greater odds of mental health and radiology visits, but lower odds of laboratory visits. Crossover patients with use had more outpatient pharmacy visits and expenditures ($103, p < 0.0001) than VAMC patients. Total outpatient expenditures and overall expenditures were significantly higher for crossover patients ($364 and $491, respectively).
Distance was a significant determinant of primary care utilization and expenditures, as well as radiology, laboratory and outpatient pharmacy utilization (p < 0.0001, not reported). Greater travel distance to a VAMC was associated with higher odds of being hospitalized (p < 0.01), but did not affect the level of inpatient expenditures once a veteran was hospitalized. This result is inconsistent with an earlier study that found that distance is positively associated with inpatient utilization
CBOCs have been an integral part of the VA's continuing transition into a primary care-focused health care system. These outpatient clinics were established to improve veteran access to primary care and contain total health care expenditures, and they appear to be providing primary care access without a commensurate increase in primary care expenditures. Overall expenditures of CBOC patients were $1,588 lower than for VAMC patients because of lower use of inpatient, specialty, mental health and outpatient ancillary care services provided at VAMCs for those veterans who received one or more services, despite the fact that the odds of using these services was higher for CBOC patients. These utilization and expenditure differences held even when relative distance, demographic characteristics and patient risk were controlled
The results from this study differ from earlier studies that used smaller samples in 1998. CBOC-VAMC visit differences were smaller in this study than in an earlier study
This study had several limitations that must be acknowledged. First, veterans were not randomized to VA treatment site, so it is possible that CBOCs experienced favorable selection and unmeasured covariates (e.g., disease severity, propensity to seek primary care) related to CBOC status and resource use could have biased the effect of CBOC on utilization and expenditures
As the current veteran population ages and develops more chronic conditions and veterans from the Iraq Theater enter the VA system, it will be useful to examine whether relatively healthier veterans will continue to choose CBOC care or if the health profile of CBOC and VAMC patients become more similar. If the health profile of patients becomes more similar over time and the care of CBOC patients becomes more complex, CBOC-VAMC cost differences observed in this study may change. CBOCs will be challenged to maintain their current performance, because CBOCs may have created strong patient-provider relationships that patients valued enough to seek CBOC care in situations where specialty care would have been appropriate. CBOC patients do not have onsite access to the broad range of specialty and mental health clinics available on VAMC campuses. CBOC providers may also have differed from VAMC providers in conformity with evidence-based medicine
CBOCs provided veterans improved access to primary care and other services, but expenditures were contained because CBOC patients who sought health care had fewer visits and hospital stays than comparable VAMC patients. These results suggest a more complex pattern of health care utilization and expenditures by CBOC patients than has been found in prior studies, but also illustrates that CBOCs continue to be a critical primary care and mental health access point for veterans.
It will be important to track CBOC performance into the future as the program matures and CBOCs add services, such as the recently mandated mental health capacity. Future investigations should examine what types of CBOC patients return to VAMCs for all of their health care needs, how CBOC and VAMC primary care clinic staffing, practice styles, management and decision technology differ, what factors are associated with CBOCs being primary care centers of excellence, and how the new Medicare prescription drug benefit affects elderly veterans' use of CBOCs and VAMC primary care clinics. CBOCs are currently in operation throughout the VA health care system and appear to be serving the VA and veterans as intended.
Competing interests
All of the authors are employees of and receive salary from the Health Services Research and Development service of the Veterans Health Administration, which administers CBOC and VAMC services to veterans. Otherwise, we have no financial or non-financial competing interests.
Authors' contributions
MLM, CFL, MC and JCF conceived of the study, wrote both grant applications, designed the analyses, interpreted the results, and drafted and revised the manuscript. YFL and MP cleaned and linked all of the data files, and conducted all of the statistical analyses. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
This research was supported by an Investigator Initiated Research Award (IIR 20-005-3) from the Department of Veterans Affairs, Health Services Research and Development. Helpful comments from two reviewers and research assistance from Song Wang are gratefully acknowledged. Dr. Maciejewski is presently at the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care at the Durham VA Medical Center. Drs. Liu, Li, Perkins and Chapko are presently at the Northwest Center for Outcomes Research in Older Adults at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System. Dr. Fortney is presently at the Center for Mental Health and Outcomes Research at the Little Rock VA. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of Veterans Affairs, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Washington, or the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
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