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Reliability and validity of Thai versions of the MOS-HIV and SF-12 quality of life questionnaires in people living with HIV/AIDSSuwat Chariyalertsak
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Health Qual Life Outcomes 9:15. 2011..Reliability was estimated using Cronbach's alpha, while evidence for validity was tested using known-groups comparison based on CD4 group, symptom distress score, bed days and days of reduced activity in the past three months...- Impact of chronic Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) on health-related quality of life: a conceptual model starting with the patient perspectiveSusan D Mathias
Health Outcomes Solutions, P, O, Box 2343 Winter Park, Florida 32790, USA
Health Qual Life Outcomes 6:13. 2008..The aim of this research is to develop a conceptual model to describe the impact of ITP and its treatment on patients' health-related quality of life (HRQoL)... - Fatness and fitness: how do they influence health-related quality of life in type 2 diabetes mellitus?Wendy L Bennett
Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Health Qual Life Outcomes 6:110. 2008..We examined whether adiposity and fitness explain the decrease in health-related quality of life (HRQOL) associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus... - Evaluating the reliability, validity and minimally important difference of the Taiwanese version of the diabetes quality of life (DQOL) measurementI Chan Huang
Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Health Qual Life Outcomes 6:87. 2008..We tested psychometric properties of a Diabetes Quality of Life (DQOL) in Chinese language for diabetes patients in Taiwan and estimated its minimally important differences (MIDs)... - Validity and responsiveness of the euroqol as a measure of health-related quality of life in people enrolled in an AIDS clinical trialA W Wu
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205 2690, USA
Qual Life Res 11:273-82. 2002..We examined the reliability and validity of the EuroQol (EQ-SD) and MOS-HIV and their responsiveness to HIV-related clinical events... - Estimates of future physical functioning by seriously ill hospitalized patients, their families, and their physiciansAlbert W Wu
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 50:230-7. 2002.... - ICU incident reporting systemsAlbert W Wu
Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Crit Care 17:86-94. 2002..A demonstration and evaluation of the system is underway, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Re-search and Quality... - Disclosing medical errors to patients: it's not what you say, it's what they hearAlbert W Wu
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Room 653, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Gen Intern Med 24:1012-7. 2009..There is consensus that patients should be told if they are injured by medical care. However, there is little information on how they react to different methods of disclosure... - Creating a crosswalk to estimate AIDS Clinical Trials Group quality of life scores in a nationally representative sample of persons in care for HIV in the United StatesAlbert W Wu
Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 1901, USA
HIV Clin Trials 6:147-57. 2005..Optimizing health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is an increasingly important goal in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Interpretation of HRQOL scores in clinical trials is enhanced by comparative data... - Quality of care and outcomes of adults with asthma treated by specialists and generalists in managed careA W Wu
Health Services Research and Development Center, The Johns Hopkins University, 624 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205 1901, USA
Arch Intern Med 161:2554-60. 2001..We examined the relationship of physician specialty to treatment and outcomes of patients with asthma in managed care plans... - Adding the patient perspective to comparative effectiveness researchAlbert W Wu
Health Policyand Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 29:1863-71. 2010..Strategies and incentives to link patient-reported outcomes to data from conventional sources--including clinical research, electronic health records, and administrative data--will accelerate the development of useful evidence... - Changes in quality of life during hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis treatment: generic and disease specific measuresAlbert W Wu
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Am Soc Nephrol 15:743-53. 2004..In advising patients about modality choices, trade-offs should be discussed and individual preferences for specific aspects of HRQOL should be elicited... - Adherence to antiretroviral therapy: where are we, and where do we go from here?Albert W Wu
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 31:S95-7. 2002 - Application of random effects models and other methods to the analysis of multidimensional quality of life data in an AIDS clinical trialA W Wu
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Med Care 37:249-58. 1999..Current analytic methods applied to multidimensional health-related quality of life (HRQOL) data do not borrow strength across analyses and do not produce summary estimates of effect... - Measuring validity of self-reported symptoms among people with HIVA W Wu
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205 1901, USA
AIDS Care 16:876-81. 2004..However, the differences among the three methods were not statistically significant. We conclude that no single method is superior to the others... - A randomized trial of the impact of a programmable medication reminder device on quality of life in patients with AIDSAlbert W Wu
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 20:773-81. 2006..These differences persisted after controlling for demographics, baseline CD4, and adherence. DMAS was associated with improved adherence but decreased QOL... - Effectiveness and efficiency of root cause analysis in medicineAlbert W Wu
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
JAMA 299:685-7. 2008 - Predicting functional status outcomes in hospitalized patients aged 80 years and olderA W Wu
Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 48:S6-15. 2000..To develop a model estimating the probability of a patient aged 80 years or older having functional limitations 2 months and 12 months after being hospitalized... - Concordance of cancer patients' function, symptoms, and supportive care needsClaire F Snyder
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 624 N Broadway, Room 657, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Qual Life Res 18:991-8. 2009..Although patients' function, symptoms, and supportive care needs are obviously related, a better understanding of these relationships could improve patient management... - A system factors analysis of airway events from the Intensive Care Unit Safety Reporting System (ICUSRS)Dale M Needham
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, and Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Crit Care Med 32:2227-33. 2004..Prevention efforts should focus on critically ill infants and patients with complex medical conditions. Managers should ensure appropriate ICU staffing to limit the impact of airway events when they occur... - Critical pathway effectiveness: assessing the impact of patient, hospital care, and pathway characteristics using qualitative comparative analysisSydney M Dy
Maryland Community Hospice, Room 609, 624N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Health Serv Res 40:499-516. 2005..Because pathway utilization was not a strong predictor of pathway effectiveness, the mechanism by which critical pathways may reduce length of stay is unclear... - A system factors analysis of "line, tube, and drain" incidents in the intensive care unitDale M Needham
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Crit Care Med 33:1701-7. 2005..Focusing on these contributing factors and clinician knowledge and skills is important for reducing and preventing these hazardous events... - Medication utilization and annual health care costs in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus before and after bariatric surgeryMartin A Makary
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Arch Surg 145:726-31. 2010..To examine the relationship of bariatric surgery with the use of diabetes medications and with total health care costs in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus... - Is risk-adjustor selection more important than statistical approach for provider profiling? Asthma as an exampleI-Chan Huang
Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205-1901, USA
Med Decis Making 25:20-34. 2005..Stakeholders employing provider profiling should pay careful attention to the selection of both variables and statistical approach used in risk-adjustment... - Needs assessments can identify scores on HRQOL questionnaires that represent problems for patients: an illustration with the Supportive Care Needs Survey and the QLQ-C30Claire F Snyder
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 624 N Broadway, Room 657, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Qual Life Res 19:837-45. 2010..We explored using needs assessments to identify HRQOL scores associated with patient-reported unmet needs... - Toward learning from patient safety reporting systemsPeter J Pronovost
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Quality and Safety Research Group, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
J Crit Care 21:305-15. 2006..To evaluate the frequency and type of factors involved in incidents reported to a patient safety reporting system and answer specific questions to enhance the value of PSRS data to improve patient safety... - A framework for assessing quality indicators for cancer care at the end of lifeHsien Seow
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 38:903-12. 2009..By using this conceptual framework, indicator developers, researchers, and policymakers can refine and implement indicator sets to effectively evaluate and improve care at the end of life... - Symptoms, supportive care needs, and function in cancer patients: how are they related?Claire F Snyder
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Qual Life Res 17:665-77. 2008..To explore the associations among symptoms, supportive care needs, and function... - Are physician estimates of asthma severity less accurate in black than in white patients?Sande O Okelo
Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, 200 N Wolfe Street, Suite 3025, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:976-81. 2007..Appropriate care requires accurate physician estimates of severity. It is unknown if accuracy of physician estimates differs between black and white patients, and how this relates to asthma care disparities... - Relation between level or change of hemoglobin and generic and disease-specific quality of life measures in hemodialysisLaura C Plantinga
Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Qual Life Res 16:755-65. 2007..We sought to examine the relation between meeting or exceeding the current minimum guideline for hemoglobin (11 g/dl) in dialysis patients and generic and disease-specific QOL scores at 1 year... - Relationship of physician estimate of underlying asthma severity to asthma outcomesGregory B Diette
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 93:546-52. 2004..Implementation of national guidelines for the treatment of asthma requires physician estimates of patients' underlying asthma severity. Asthma severity is commonly assigned based on respiratory symptoms... - Emotional quality-of-life and outcomes in adolescents with asthmaSande O Okelo
Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Pediatr 145:523-9. 2004..Adolescents with high morbidity from asthma exhibit poorer QOL. Therefore, the evaluation of asthma-specific emotional QOL should be included in the assessment of adolescents with asthma... - Gaps in asthma care of the oldest adultsLinda L Wolfenden
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 50:877-83. 2002..Overuse of and potentially toxic combinations of inhaled and oral sympathomimetics should probably be avoided. Older asthmatics may also benefit from increased specialty referral, PFM use, allergy testing, and asthma teaching... - Reducing health care hazards: lessons from the commercial aviation safety teamPeter J Pronovost
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 28:w479-89. 2009..We propose a similar partnership in the health care community to coordinate national efforts and move patient safety and quality forward... - A programmable prompting device improves adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected subjects with memory impairmentAdriana S A Andrade
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Clin Infect Dis 41:875-82. 2005..Virological and immunological responses were not related to DMAS use in memory-impaired subjects.Conclusion. The DMAS prompting device improved adherence for memory-impaired subjects but not for memory-intact subjects... - The Asthma Therapy Assessment Questionnaire (ATAQ) for children and adolescentsElizabeth A Skinner
Departments of Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Dis Manag 7:305-13. 2004..Other ATAQ components showed similar associations. ATAQ appears to have satisfactory measurement properties and is ready for use to identify patients who might benefit from further disease management efforts or medical attention... - A multicenter study of internal medicine residents' perceptions of training, competence, and performance in outpatient HIV careKarran A Phillips
National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 24:159-64. 2010..Current residency training in HIV care remains largely inpatient-based and residents frequently rate HIV outpatient training as inadequate... - Asking the right questions: investigating needs assessments and health-related quality-of-life questionnaires for use in oncology clinical practiceClaire F Snyder
Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 624 N Broadway, 6th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Support Care Cancer 15:1075-85. 2007..We investigated the item content from two health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) questionnaires and two needs assessments for this purpose... - Predicting patient-reported asthma outcomes for adults in managed careRobin A Yurk
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Manag Care 10:321-8. 2004..Risk models based on patient-reported data could be used to target individuals for intervention... - Chronic medical illness, depression, and use of acute medical services among Medicare beneficiariesSeth Himelhoch
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Med Care 42:512-21. 2004.... - Congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease predict poor surgical outcomes in older adults undergoing elective diverticulitis surgeryAmy J Sheer
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
Dis Colon Rectum 54:1430-7. 2011..Diverticulitis is a common medical condition that disproportionately affects older adults. The ideal management of recurrent diverticulitis, including the role of prophylactic colectomy, remains uncertain... - The relationship between a dementia diagnosis, chronic illness, medicare expenditures, and hospital useJulie P W Bynum
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, School of Medicine Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:187-94. 2004..To determine whether dementia increases medical expenditures, the probability of hospitalization, and potentially preventable hospitalization, controlling for variables including age and comorbidity... - Creating the web-based intensive care unit safety reporting systemChristine G Holzmueller
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Meyer 291, Baltimore, MD 21287-7294, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 12:130-9. 2005..Qualitative and quantitative data are reported back to the ICU site study teams and frontline staff through monthly reports, case discussions, and a quarterly newsletter... - The impact of anemia on energy and physical functioning in individuals with AIDSRichard D Semba
Department of Ophthalmology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:2229-36. 2005..To our knowledge, the relationship between changes in hemoglobin level and energy and physical functioning in the anemic and "normal" ranges of hemoglobin among individuals with AIDS has not been well characterized... - Developing quality indicators for cancer end-of-life care: proceedings from a national symposiumHsien Seow
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Cancer 115:3820-9. 2009..Measuring the quality of end-of-life cancer care is essential to understanding how best to improve patient outcomes and care... - Can patient-reported outcome measures identify cancer patients' most bothersome issues?Claire F Snyder
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Clin Oncol 29:1216-20. 2011..We evaluated whether PROs can identify patients' most bothersome quality-of-life issues and compared approaches for interpreting PRO scores... - ReCASTing the RCA: an improved model for performing root cause analysesJulius Cuong Pham
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Med Qual 25:186-91. 2010..Teams that evaluate intervention effectiveness are independent of those that implement the intervention. This framework seeks to improve the RCA process and provide further insights into advancing patient safety... - Application of a propensity score approach for risk adjustment in profiling multiple physician groups on asthma careI-Chan Huang
Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205-1901, USA
Health Serv Res 40:253-78. 2005..Propensity score-based risk adjustment should be considered in studies examining quality comparisons... - Impact of bariatric surgery on health care utilization and costs among patients with diabetesSara N Bleich
Department of Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Med Care 50:58-65. 2012..The effect of bariatric surgery on health care utilization and costs among individuals with type 2 diabetes remains unclear... - Do the SF-36 and WHOQOL-BREF measure the same constructs? Evidence from the Taiwan population*I-Chan Huang
Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205-1901, USA
Qual Life Res 15:15-24. 2006..Clinicians and researchers should carefully define their research questions related to patient-reported outcomes before selecting which instrument to use... - Comorbid illnesses and health care utilization among Medicare beneficiaries with lung cancerSydney M Dy
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Crit Rev Oncol Hematol 59:218-25. 2006..Accounting for these two comorbid illnesses is important in evaluating health care utilization in this population... - Variations of physician group profiling indicators for asthma careI-Chan Huang
Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205-1901, USA
Am J Manag Care 11:38-44. 2005..80) for most profiling results. CONCLUSIONS: The selected indicators for profiling asthma care at the physician group level were generally reliable. Sampling a sufficient number of cases is key to achieving useful results from profiling... - Older patients with diverticulitis have low recurrence rates and rarely need surgeryAnne O Lidor
Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Surgery 150:146-53. 2011..In a cohort of older patients with newly diagnosed diverticulitis, we aimed to describe diverticulitis recurrence and need for an operation based on patient age and site of initial care... - Noncardiac comorbidity increases preventable hospitalizations and mortality among Medicare beneficiaries with chronic heart failureJoel B Braunstein
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 42:1226-33. 2003..We studied the impact of noncardiac comorbidity on potentially preventable hospitalizations and mortality in elderly patients with chronic heart failure (CHF)... - Reduced incidence of gestational diabetes with bariatric surgeryAnne E Burke
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Am Coll Surg 211:169-75. 2010..Our objective was to determine the association of bariatric surgery with the incidence of GDM and related complications... - Prompt reduction in use of medications for comorbid conditions after bariatric surgeryJodi B Segal
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1830 E Monument St Room 8047, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Obes Surg 19:1646-56. 2009..We explored this by assessing the change in use of medications to treat diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia in the year following surgery... - Issues in the design of Internet-based systems for collecting patient-reported outcomesJames B Jones
Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, 624 North Broadway, 6th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21205 1901, USA
Qual Life Res 16:1407-17. 2007.... - Psychological distress and physical pain appear to have no short-term adverse impact on plasma HIV-1 RNA levels in patients on successful HAARTRichard E Nettles
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 08543, USA
HIV Clin Trials 6:262-71. 2005.... - Why is it that internists do not follow guidelines for preventing intravascular catheter infections?Lewis Rubinson
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 26:525-33. 2005..This study sought to identify and characterize the obstacles to and potential opportunities for improving adherence... - Parent perspectives of health related quality of life for adolescents with bladder exstrophy-epispadias as measured by the child health questionnaire-parent form 50Jennifer L Dodson
Department of Urology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Marburg144, 600 North Wolfe St, Baltimore, Maryland 21287 2101, USA
J Urol 184:1656-61. 2010..We studied parent reported health related quality of life for adolescents with bladder exstrophy-epispadias using the Child Health Questionnaire-Parent Form 50... - Effect of micronutrients and iron supplementation on hemoglobin, iron status, and plasma hepatitis C and HIV RNA levels in female injection drug users: a controlled clinical trialRichard D Semba
Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 45:298-303. 2007..Iron deficiency is common among female injection drug users, but it is unclear whether iron supplementation can reduce anemia and improve iron status without increasing plasma hepatitis C virus (HCV) or HIV RNA levels... - The role of informatics in promoting patient-centered careClaire F Snyder
Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Cancer J 17:211-8. 2011..Perhaps the greatest challenge for both patients and providers is identifying information that is high quality and that enhances (and does not impede) their interactions... - Quality of life in a clinical trial of highly active antiretroviral therapy alone or with intravenous or subcutaneous interleukin-2 administrationBarbara K Martin
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 40:428-33. 2005..To assess the impact of subcutaneous and intravenous interleukin-2 (IL-2) on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in adults with HIV-1 receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART)... - Health-related quality of life predicts survival, cytomegalovirus disease, and study retention in clinical trial participants with advanced HIV diseaseDenise L Jacobson
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, 624 North Broadway, Room 633, Baltimore, MD 21205-2690, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 56:874-9. 2003..The results show the clinical importance of HRQOL and may facilitate interpretation by clinicians... - Relevant content for a patient-reported outcomes questionnaire for use in oncology clinical practice: Putting doctors and patients on the same pageClaire F Snyder
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 624 N Broadway, Room 657, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Qual Life Res 19:1045-55. 2010..To investigate relevant patient-reported outcome (PRO) domains for oncology clinical practice... - Using propensity scores subclassification to estimate effects of longitudinal treatments: an example using a new diabetes medicationJodi B Segal
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Med Care 45:S149-57. 2007..When using observational data to compare the effectiveness of medications, it is essential to account parsimoniously for patients' longitudinal characteristics that lead to changes in treatments over time... - Asthma in older patients: factors associated with hospitalizationGregory B Diette
Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Room 301, 1830 E Monument St, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Arch Intern Med 162:1123-32. 2002..Although older adults (> or =65 years) with asthma have higher rates of hospitalization and death from asthma than younger adults, the reasons for this are not known... - Are critical pathways effective for reducing postoperative length of stay?Sydney Morss Dy
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Med Care 41:637-48. 2003..Many hospitals use critical pathways to attempt to reduce postoperative length of stay (PLOS) for diverse conditions and procedures... - The effect of cytomegalovirus retinitis on the quality of life of patients with AIDS in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapyJohn H Kempen
Department of Ophthalmology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Ophthalmology 110:987-95. 2003..Newly diagnosed CMV retinitis also is associated with lower general health-related QOL in most domains and with lower health utility... - Preventable hospitalization among elderly Medicare beneficiaries with type 2 diabetesMarlene R Niefeld
Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Diabetes Care 26:1344-9. 2003..To examine the impact of comorbid conditions on preventable hospitalizations among Medicare beneficiaries aged > or =65 years with type 2 diabetes... - PatientViewpoint: a website for patient-reported outcomes assessmentClaire F Snyder
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Qual Life Res 18:793-800. 2009..To develop a prototype website to collect patient-reported outcomes in outpatient clinical oncology and link the data with the electronic medical record (EMR)... - Applications of the Medical Outcomes Study health-related quality of life measures in HIV/AIDSA W Wu
Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Qual Life Res 6:531-54. 1997..However, summary scales that encompass all of the subscales reduce this issue. Selection among MOS measures should be dictated by specific questions, the balance of available time and resources, and practical concerns... - Measuring health related quality of life among women living with HIVK A McDonnell
School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Qual Life Res 9:931-40. 2000..Examination of HRQOL in women with HIV can aid in the comparison of how women and men are affected by HIV and can help health care professionals identify needed services and include possible interventions to promote quality of life... - Comparison of quality of care by specialist and generalist physicians as usual source of asthma care for childrenG B Diette
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Pediatrics 108:432-7. 2001..To determine whether care for children was more consistent with national asthma guidelines when a specialist rather than a generalist was the usual source of asthma care... - Evidence for reliability, validity and usefulness of the Medical Outcomes Study HIV Health Survey (MOS-HIV)A W Wu
Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Qual Life Res 6:481-93. 1997..The interpretation of scores is facilitated by an explanation in terms meaningful to the intended audience. Research is needed to compare the MOS-HIV to other strategies for HRQoL assessment in early HIV disease... - Incorporating quality of life measures in HIV clinical trialsMaria K Lin
Department of International Health, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
HIV Clin Trials 3:202-18. 2002..CONCLUSION: When used appropriately, HRQL measures can indicate the impact of HIV treatment on patient functioning and well-being and can help to inform clinicians about treatment effects... - Quality of life in tuberculosis: patient and provider perspectivesNadia N Hansel
Department of Medicine, School of Medicine Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Qual Life Res 13:639-52. 2004..Despite available curative therapy, TB and its treatment still have significant short and long-term consequences on patients' QOL... - Treatment patterns among adult patients with asthma: factors associated with overuse of inhaled beta-agonists and underuse of inhaled corticosteroidsG B Diette
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Arch Intern Med 159:2697-704. 1999..Overuse of inhaled beta-agonists and underuse of inhaled corticosteroids by patients with asthma may have adverse consequences. This study was performed to identify factors associated with misuse of these types of asthma medication... - Adherence to antiretroviral therapy: an update of current conceptsGregory M Lucas
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 1830 E Monument Street, Room 421, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Curr HIV/AIDS Rep 1:172-80. 2004..Owing to the great benefits of CART even the small to modest gains in adherence that are achievable with adherence programs may prove to be cost effective... - Health related quality of life in adolescents with abnormal bladder function: an assessment using the Child Health and Illness Profile-Adolescent EditionJennifer L Dodson
Department of Urology, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland 21287 2101, USA
J Urol 180:1846-51; discussion 1851. 2008..A reliable patient based method is needed to assess the impact of these conditions in children and the interventions used to treat them... - Acute decompensation after removing a central line: practical approaches to increasing safety in the intensive care unitPeter J Pronovost
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, USA
Ann Intern Med 140:1025-33. 2004..Such complex systems require careful planning, excellent teamwork and communication, and designed redundancies to recheck for proper care processes. This paper provides a practical framework for improving patient safety... - Consistency of care with national guidelines for children with asthma in managed careG B Diette
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Pediatr 138:59-64. 2001..A comprehensive approach to improving care may be necessary to address multiple aspects of care where opportunities exist... - Reliability, validity, and responsiveness of general and disease-specific quality of life measures in a clinical trial for cytomegalovirus retinitisB K Martin
Department of Epidemiology, School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 54:376-86. 2001..Over time, scale scores were associated with Karnofsky scores and clinical measures of CMV retinitis and vision. General and CMV retinitis-specific quality of life measures appear reliable, valid, and responsive... - Race and sex differences in consistency of care with national asthma guidelines in managed care organizationsJ A Krishnan
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 5501 Hopkins Bayview Cir, Room 4B 74, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
Arch Intern Med 161:1660-8. 2001..In the United States, morbidity from asthma disproportionately affects African Americans and women. Although inadequate care contributes to overall asthma morbidity, less is known about differences in asthma care by race and sex... - Developing a health-related quality-of-life measure for end-stage renal disease: The CHOICE Health Experience QuestionnaireA W Wu
Departments of Health Policy and Management and Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205-2223, USA
Am J Kidney Dis 37:11-21. 2001.... - Nocturnal asthma in children affects school attendance, school performance, and parents' work attendanceG B Diette
Room 301, 1830 E Monument St, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 154:923-8. 2000..To date, however, there have been few studies of the impact of nocturnal awakening from asthma on children with the disease, including problems with daytime functioning... - Measuring quality of life among HIV-infected women using a culturally adapted questionnaire in Rakai district, UgandaT C Mast
Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, MD, Baltimore, USA
AIDS Care 16:81-94. 2004.... - Quality of life outcomes of saquinavir, zalcitabine and combination saquinavir plus zalcitabine therapy for adults with advanced HIV infection with CD4 counts between 50 and 300 cells/mm3D A Revicki
MEDTAP International Inc, Bethesda, MD, USA
Antivir Ther 4:35-44. 1999..This double-blind study evaluated zalcitabine or saquinavir monotherapy and combination saquinavir plus zalcitabine therapy on HROL of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected adults... - Quality of life among women living with HIV: the importance violence, social support, and self care behaviorsA C Gielen
Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Soc Sci Med 52:315-22. 2001..That such potentially modifiable factors as social support and self care behaviors are strongly associated with health-related quality of life suggests a new opportunity to improve the lives of women living with HIV... - Ethical and practical aspects of disclosing adverse events in the emergency departmentSamantha L Stokes
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Emerg Med Clin North Am 24:703-14. 2006..This article discusses the importance of disclosure in emergency medicine; the ethical basis for, and barriers to, disclosure; and the key elements of the disclosure process... - Pediatric safety incidents from an intensive care reporting systemJulia Lynn Skapik
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Patient Saf 5:95-101. 2009..This study examined the demographic factors, types of events, contributing system factors, and harm associated with incidents that occur in pediatric intensive care units... - Quality of life in tuberculosis: a review of the English language literatureBetty Chang
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Qual Life Res 13:1633-42. 2004..Tuberculosis (TB) studies have concentrated on clinical outcomes; few studies have examined the impact of TB on patients' quality of life (QOL)... - Planning and implementing a systems-based patient safety curriculum in medical educationDavid A Thompson
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
Am J Med Qual 23:271-8. 2008..The findings indicate that this is an effective curriculum development strategy and that systems-based patient safety was effective in changing perceptions of patient harm and the provider's role in patient safety... - Building safety into ICU carePeter Pronovost
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Crit Care 17:78-85. 2002..Then we discuss evidence linking ICU organizational characteristics with patient safety, focusing on how safer systems in ICUs can directly improve patient care... - The Surgical Recovery IndexM A Talamini
Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Surg Endosc 18:596-600. 2004..We then tested the ability of the SRI to discriminate between patients undergoing laparoscopic (L) operations and patients undergoing open (O) operations... - Why don't physicians follow clinical practice guidelines? A framework for improvementM D Cabana
Department of Pediatrics, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
JAMA 282:1458-65. 1999..Despite wide promulgation, clinical practice guidelines have had limited effect on changing physician behavior. Little is known about the process and factors involved in changing physician practices in response to guidelines... - How reliable is peer review of scientific abstracts? Looking back at the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of General Internal MedicineH R Rubin
Division of Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
J Gen Intern Med 8:255-8. 1993..Future meeting organizers may wish to rank abstracts using global ratings, and to experiment with structured review criteria and other ways to improve raters' agreement... - Severity of lipodystrophy is associated with decreased health-related quality of lifeGiovanni Guaraldi
Department of Medicine and Medical Specialties, Infectious Diseases Clinic, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
AIDS Patient Care STDS 22:577-85. 2008..HRQOL was strongly correlated with LD severity when a patient-based score was used. For an overall assessment of the impact of LD on HIV-infected people, both patient-based and physician-based measures are required... - Depression and drug use impact health status among marginally housed HIV-infected individualsElise D Riley
University of California, San Francisco General Hospital, Epidemiology and Prevention Interventions Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, San Francisco, California 94110, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 17:401-6. 2003..It appeared that depression and drug-related variables were associated with multiple dimensions of health status in this population. Interventions to treat depression and addiction may improve the health status of HIV-infected HMH... - Evaluation of two methods for quality improvement in intensive care: facilitated incident monitoring and retrospective medical chart reviewUrsula Beckmann
Division of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Management, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Crit Care Med 31:1006-11. 2003..This study suggests that incident monitoring may be more useful for identifying quality problems, and it could be supplemented by selective audits and focused MCR to detect problems not reported well by FIM... - Morphologic alterations in HIV-infected people with lipodystrophy are associated with good adherence to HAARTGiovanni Guaraldi
Department of Medical and Surgery Specialities, Infectious Diseases Clinic, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia School of Medicine, Italy
HIV Clin Trials 4:99-106. 2003..To evaluate the association between adherence to drugs and morphologic alterations (MOA) in a cohort of HIV-infected patients on HAART...
Research Grants
- A Website for Outpatient Quality of Life AssessmentAlbert Wu; Fiscal Year: 2006..The overall impact will be to enhance the comprehensiveness of data available for clinical research. ..