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Estimates of the cost and length of stay changes that can be attributed to one-week increases in gestational age for premature infantsCiaran S Phibbs
Health Economics Resource Center, Center for Health Care Evaluation, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA 94025, USA
Early Hum Dev 82:85-95. 2006..The purpose is to provide population-based data that can be used to assess the potential savings of interventions that delay premature delivery...- The effect of geriatrics evaluation and management on nursing home use and health care costs: results from a randomized trialCiaran S Phibbs
Health Economics Resource Center, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, and Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
Med Care 44:91-5. 2006..The Geriatric Evaluation and Management study was developed to assess the impact of a comprehensive geriatric assessment service on the care of the elderly... - Level and volume of neonatal intensive care and mortality in very-low-birth-weight infantsCiaran S Phibbs
Health Economics Resource Center and the Center for Health Care Evaluation, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
N Engl J Med 356:2165-75. 2007..We examined differences in neonatal mortality among infants with very low birth weight (below 1500 g) among NICUs with various levels of care and different volumes of very-low-birth-weight infants... - Commentary: Does patient volume matter for low-risk deliveries?Ciaran S Phibbs
Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, USA
Int J Epidemiol 31:1069-70. 2002 - Gender disparities in Veterans Health Administration care: importance of accounting for veteran statusSusan M Frayne
Center for Health Care Evaluation, 795 Willow Road 152 MPD, Menlo Park CA 94025, USA
Med Care 46:549-53. 2008..Historically, such appraisals have often relied on secondary databases, with little attention to methodological implications of the fact that VHA provides care to some nonveteran patients... - Readmission for neonatal jaundice in California, 1991-2000: trends and implicationsAnthony E Burgos
Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Pediatrics 121:e864-9. 2008..We sought to describe population-based trends, potential risk factors, and hospital costs of readmission for jaundice for term and late preterm infants... - Gender and use of care: planning for tomorrow's Veterans Health AdministrationSusan M Frayne
Center for Health Care Evaluation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 16:1188-99. 2007..With more women entering the system, a systematic assessment of their healthcare use and costs of care is needed. We examined how utilization and costs of VHA care differ in women veterans compared with men veterans... - Costs of newborn care in California: a population-based studySusan K Schmitt
Health Economics Resource Center, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, USA
Pediatrics 117:154-60. 2006..Maternal costs are similar in magnitude to newborn costs, but they are much less skewed than for infants. Preventing premature deliveries could yield very large cost savings, in addition to saving lives... - Mental illness and warfarin use in atrial fibrillationGraham A Walker
Center for Health Care Evaluation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA 94025, USA
Am J Manag Care 17:617-24. 2011.... - Effect of opening midlevel neonatal intensive care units on the location of low birth weight births in CaliforniaCorinna A Haberland
Stanford University School of Medicine, Center for Health Policy Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, 117 Encina Commons, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Pediatrics 118:e1667-79. 2006..Causes for this are unknown. We sought to explore the impact of diffusion of specialty or midlevel NICUs on the types of hospitals in which low birth weight newborns are born... - New women veterans in the VHA: a longitudinal profileSarah A Friedman
Center for Health Care Evaluation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California 94025, USA
Womens Health Issues 21:S103-11. 2011..We sought to describe sociodemographic characteristics, utilization, and retention of new and returning women VHA patients over a 7-year period... - Regionalization and mortality in neonatal intensive careScott T Holmstrom
Health Economics Resource Center, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, CA 94025, USA
Pediatr Clin North Am 56:617-30, Table of Contents. 2009..It recognizes some of the obstacles to regionalization of these services and presents ways to surmount them... - Managed care, technology adoption, and health care: the adoption of neonatal intensive careLaurence C Baker
Stanford University, USA
Rand J Econ 33:524-48. 2002.... - Differences in neonatal mortality among whites and Asian American subgroups: evidence from CaliforniaLaurence C Baker
Department of Health Research, and Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 161:69-76. 2007..To obtain information about health outcomes in neonates in 9 subgroups of the Asian population in the United States... - Matching prosthetics order records in VA National Prosthetics Patient Database to healthcare utilization databasesMark W Smith
Health Economics Resource Center, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, 795 Willow Rd 152 MPD, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
J Rehabil Res Dev 47:725-37. 2010..Health services researchers should use both the NPPD and utilization databases to develop a full understanding of prosthetics use by individual patients... - Within-year variation in hospital utilization and its implications for hospital costsLaurence C Bakera
Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University, HRP Redwood Building, Rm 253, Stanford, CA 94305 5405, USA
J Health Econ 23:191-211. 2004..We examine the impact of variation on hospital costs, showing that increases in variance are associated with increases in hospital expenditures, but that the effects are qualitatively modest... - The influence of distance on utilization of outpatient mental health aftercare following inpatient substance abuse treatmentSusan K Schmitt
Center for Health Care Evaluation and Health Economics Resource Center, Veterans Affairs, Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Addict Behav 28:1183-92. 2003..Aftercare services must be geographically accessible to ensure satisfactory utilization... - Prevalence and costs of chronic conditions in the VA health care systemWei Yu
VA HSR and D Health Economics Resource Center, Center for Health Policy, Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University, USA
Med Care Res Rev 60:146S-167S. 2003..2 million) of VA health care users had 3 or more of the 29 chronic conditions. These individuals accounted for 73 percent of the total cost. Overall, VA health care users have more chronic diseases than the general population... - Mortality in low birth weight infants according to level of neonatal care at hospital of birthJavier Cifuentes
Department of Pediatrics, , Santiago, Chile
Pediatrics 109:745-51. 2002..Greater efforts should be made to deliver infants with expected BW of <2000 g at hospitals with regional NICUs... - Estimating the costs of VA ambulatory careCiaran S Phibbs
VA HSR and D Health Economics Resource Center, VA Cooperative Studies Program, Department of Health Research and Policy, Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University, USA
Med Care Res Rev 60:54S-73S. 2003..They are potentially useful for any system that does not generate billing data, when CPT codes are simpler to collect than billing data, or when there is a need to standardize cost estimates across data sources...
Research Grants
- REGIONALIZATION, MARKET FORCES, AND NEONATAL MORTALITYCiaran Phibbs; Fiscal Year: 2003..abstract_text> ..