The August issue of Health Services Research (HSR) features articles on quality and outcomes, outpatient care, public programs, cost of illness and research methods. This month's free article is "The Path to Equitable Health Care," by Romana Hasnain-Wynia, Ph.D., and Anne Beal, M.D., M.P.H. The journal is also seeking papers for the AHRQ-supported Mixed Methods in Healthcare Delivery Systems issue until October 15, 2012. To date, no leading health services journal has devoted an entire issue to this topic and with this special issue, AHRQ and HSR aim to encourage researchers to apply these methods to delivery systems research and further develop the available methodologies for mixed methods research. The papers will illustrate how mixed methods can be used to advance research on care delivery, delivery systems and the implementation of delivery system change. Papers are particularly encouraged that use mixed methods to illuminate the implementation and effects of recent changes in payment, reporting and design of care delivery. Submission guidelines are available on the HSR website. The following AcademyHealth members had their work featured in the August issue of HSR: Editorial “The Path to Equitable Health Care” Romana Hasnain-Wynia and Anne C. Beal Quality, Performance and Outcomes “The Effect of Phase 2 of the Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration on Incentive Payments to Hospitals Caring for Disadvantaged Patients” Andrew M. Ryan, Jan Blustein, Tim Doran, and Lawrence P. Casalino “A Configurational Approach to the Relationship between High-Performance Work Practices and Frontline Health Care Worker Outcomes" Emmeline Chuang, Janette Dill, and Jennifer Craft Morgan “Gender Differences in Patients' Perceptions of Inpatient Care” Marc N. Elliott and Laura A. Giordano Outpatient Care “The Effectiveness of Implementing an Electronic Health Record on Diabetes Care and Outcomes” Neil S. Fleming Public Programs “Did Copayment Changes Reduce Health Service Utilization among CHIP Enrollees? Evidence from Alabama” Justin Blackburn, Meredith L. Kilgore, David J. Becker, Cathy Caldwell and Nir Menachemi "Medicaid, Hospital Financial Stress, and the Incidence of Adverse Medical Events for Children" Gerry Fairbrother and Lisa Simpson “The Relationship between Formal and Informal Care among Adult Medicaid Personal Care Services Recipients” Thomas R. Miller Cost of Illness “A Longitudinal Analysis of the Lifetime Cost of Dementia” Kun Zhang, Pei-Jung Lin, and Adam Atherly Methods “What Is the Best Way to Estimate Hospital Quality Outcomes? A Simulation Approach” Andrew Ryan, James Burgess, and Justin Dimick “Deployment of a Mixed-Mode Data Collection Strategy Does Not Reduce Nonresponse Bias in a General Population Health Survey” Timothy J. Beebe, Donna D. McAlpine, and Michael E. Davern HSR is an official journal of AcademyHealth.