Onyebuchi A Arah

Summary

Affiliation: Academic Medical Center
Country: The Netherlands

Publications

  1. ncbi Mortality in Dutch hospitals: trends in time, place and cause of death after admission for myocardial infarction and stroke. An observational study
    Laurentius C J Slobbe
    Department of Public Health and Healthcare, National Institute for Public Health and Environment, Antonie van Leeuwenhoeklaan 9, PO Box 1, 3721 MA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
    BMC Health Serv Res 8:52. 2008
  2. ncbi Too poor to leave, too rich to stay: developmental and global health correlates of physician migration to the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United kingdom
    Onyebuchi A Arah
    Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Am J Public Health 98:148-54. 2008
  3. ncbi The metrics and correlates of physician migration from Africa
    Onyebuchi A Arah
    Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    BMC Public Health 7:83. 2007
  4. ncbi Bias formulas for external adjustment and sensitivity analysis of unmeasured confounders
    Onyebuchi A Arah
    Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Ann Epidemiol 18:637-46. 2008
  5. ncbi A conceptual framework for the OECD Health Care Quality Indicators Project
    Onyebuchi A Arah
    Department of Social Medicine, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Int J Qual Health Care 18:5-13. 2006
  6. ncbi How safe is the safety paradigm?
    O A Arah
    Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Qual Saf Health Care 13:226-32. 2004
  7. ncbi Health system outcomes and determinants amenable to public health in industrialized countries: a pooled, cross-sectional time series analysis
    Onyebuchi A Arah
    Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    BMC Public Health 5:81. 2005
  8. ncbi Correlates of health and healthcare performance: applying the Canadian Health Indicators Framework at the provincial-territorial level
    O A Arah
    Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    BMC Health Serv Res 5:76. 2005
  9. ncbi On the relationship between individual and population health
    Onyebuchi A Arah
    Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Med Health Care Philos 12:235-44. 2009
  10. ncbi Comparing health system performance assessment and management approaches in the Netherlands and Ontario, Canada
    Ali R Tawfik-Shukor
    Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    BMC Health Serv Res 7:25. 2007

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Publications30

  1. ncbi Mortality in Dutch hospitals: trends in time, place and cause of death after admission for myocardial infarction and stroke. An observational study
    Laurentius C J Slobbe
    Department of Public Health and Healthcare, National Institute for Public Health and Environment, Antonie van Leeuwenhoeklaan 9, PO Box 1, 3721 MA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
    BMC Health Serv Res 8:52. 2008
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  2. ncbi Too poor to leave, too rich to stay: developmental and global health correlates of physician migration to the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United kingdom
    Onyebuchi A Arah
    Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Am J Public Health 98:148-54. 2008
    ..We analyzed the relationship between physician migration from developing source countries to more developed host countries (brain drain) and the developmental and global health profiles of source countries...
  3. ncbi The metrics and correlates of physician migration from Africa
    Onyebuchi A Arah
    Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    BMC Public Health 7:83. 2007
    ..This study examined the influence of choice of migration metrics on the rankings of African countries that suffered the most physician migration, and investigated the correlates of physician migration...
  4. ncbi Bias formulas for external adjustment and sensitivity analysis of unmeasured confounders
    Onyebuchi A Arah
    Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Ann Epidemiol 18:637-46. 2008
    ..The authors review and derive a set of parallel simple formulas for bias factors in the risk difference, risk ratio, and odds ratio from studies with an unmeasured polytomous confounder and a dichotomous exposure and outcome...
  5. ncbi A conceptual framework for the OECD Health Care Quality Indicators Project
    Onyebuchi A Arah
    Department of Social Medicine, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Int J Qual Health Care 18:5-13. 2006
    ..This article proposes an HCQI framework that focuses on the quality of health care, maintains a broader perspective on health and its other determinants, and recognizes the key aims of health policy...
  6. ncbi How safe is the safety paradigm?
    O A Arah
    Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Qual Saf Health Care 13:226-32. 2004
    ..It is necessary to embed health system safety (as well as patient safety) in the societal culture, structures, and policies which promote effective, user centred, high performance care while allowing for healthy innovation...
  7. ncbi Health system outcomes and determinants amenable to public health in industrialized countries: a pooled, cross-sectional time series analysis
    Onyebuchi A Arah
    Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    BMC Public Health 5:81. 2005
    ..These amenable factors included addictive and nutritional lifestyle, air quality, public health spending, healthcare coverage, and immunizations...
  8. ncbi Correlates of health and healthcare performance: applying the Canadian Health Indicators Framework at the provincial-territorial level
    O A Arah
    Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    BMC Health Serv Res 5:76. 2005
    ....
  9. ncbi On the relationship between individual and population health
    Onyebuchi A Arah
    Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Med Health Care Philos 12:235-44. 2009
    ..We cannot discuss the "what" and "how much" of individual and population health until we know the cumulative trajectories of both, using appropriate causal language...
  10. ncbi Comparing health system performance assessment and management approaches in the Netherlands and Ontario, Canada
    Ali R Tawfik-Shukor
    Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    BMC Health Serv Res 7:25. 2007
    ..To support this cross-national learning, a study was undertaken to compare health system performance approaches in The Netherlands with Ontario, Canada...
  11. ncbi A multifaceted look at time of admission and its impact on case-fatality among a cohort of ischaemic stroke patients
    Uzor C Ogbu
    Department of Public Health, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 82:8-13. 2011
    ..We examined, using a single condition and increasingly refined definitions of time of admission, the effect of off-hours admissions on 7-day stroke case-fatality...
  12. ncbi Good clinical teachers likely to be specialist role models: results from a multicenter cross-sectional survey
    Kiki M J M H Lombarts
    Department of Quality and Process Innovation, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    PLoS ONE 5:e15202. 2010
    ..We developed the System for Evaluation of Teaching Qualities (SETQ) to generate individualized feedback on previously defined teaching qualities and role model status for faculty in (non) academic hospitals...
  13. ncbi Learning from policy failure and failing to learn from policy
    Karien Stronks
    Eur J Public Health 16:343-4. 2006
  14. ncbi Developing a national performance indicator framework for the Dutch health system
    A H A ten Asbroek
    Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Int J Qual Health Care 16:i65-71. 2004
    ..To report on the first phase of the development of a national performance indicator framework for the Dutch health system...
  15. ncbi Hospital stroke volume and case-fatality revisited
    Uzor C Ogbu
    Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Med Care 48:149-56. 2010
    ..We re-examined this association in a large nationwide study, paying attention to the influence of volume categorizations...
  16. ncbi Conceptual frameworks for health systems performance: a quest for effectiveness, quality, and improvement
    O A Arah
    Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Int J Qual Health Care 15:377-98. 2003
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  17. ncbi The teacher, the physician and the person: how faculty's teaching performance influences their role modelling
    Benjamin C M Boerebach
    Department of Quality Management and Process Innovation, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    PLoS ONE 7:e32089. 2012
    ..The aim of this study was to explore how and to which extent clinical faculty's teaching performance influences residents' evaluations of faculty's different role modelling statuses, especially across different specialties...
  18. ncbi Is there a business case for quality in The Netherlands? A critical analysis of the recent reforms of the health care system
    Thomas Custers
    Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22660, 1100 DD Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Health Policy 82:226-39. 2007
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  19. ncbi Variations between world regions in individual health: a multilevel analysis of the role of socio-economic factors
    Margot I Witvliet
    1 Department of Public Health, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Eur J Public Health 22:284-9. 2012
    ..Living in a particular region might affect health. We aimed to assess variations between regions in individual health. The role of socio-economic factors in the associations was also investigated...
  20. ncbi Factors influencing residents' evaluations of clinical faculty member teaching qualities and role model status
    Onyebuchi A Arah
    Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles UCLA, CA, USA
    Med Educ 46:381-9. 2012
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  21. ncbi [Using the SETQ system to evaluate and improve teaching qualities of clinical teachers]
    M J M H Kiki Lombarts
    Academisch Medisch Centrum, Afd Kwaliteit en Proces Innovatie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd 154:A1222. 2010
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  22. ncbi Psychometric properties of the Dutch version of the Hospital-level Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Survey instrument
    Onyebuchi A Arah
    Department of Social Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Health Serv Res 41:284-301. 2006
    ..However, more research will be needed to support its equivalence to the United States version, and its use for between-hospital comparisons...
  23. ncbi Physician migration and the Millennium Development Goals for maternal health: the untold story
    Onyebuchi A Arah
    Med J Aust 186:659-60. 2007
  24. ncbi The health-worker migration crisis
    Onyebuchi A Arah
    Lancet 368:28. 2006
  25. ncbi Made in the USA: the import of American Consumer Assessment of Health Plan Surveys (CAHPS) into the Dutch social insurance system
    Diana M J Delnoij
    NIVEL Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, PO Box 1568, 3500 BN Utrecht, The Netherlands
    Eur J Public Health 16:652-9. 2006
    ..To that end, Consumer Assessment of Health Plan Surveys (CAHPS) instruments have recently been adopted by a large Dutch health plan...
  26. ncbi The metrics of the physician brain drain
    Uzor C Ogbu
    N Engl J Med 354:528-30; author reply 528-30. 2006
  27. ncbi Public disclosure of health plan quality of care
    Onyebuchi A Arah
    JAMA 289:846-7; author reply 847. 2003
  28. ncbi Catastrophic failures of public health
    Onyebuchi A Arah
    Lancet 363:1551-2. 2004
  29. ncbi Doctor performance assessment in daily practise: does it help doctors or not? A systematic review
    Karlijn Overeem
    Centre for Quality of Care Research, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    Med Educ 41:1039-49. 2007
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  30. ncbi Time to do the right things right: Nigerian health care
    Onyebuchi A Arah
    Lancet 360:1608-9. 2002