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| C L BryceSummaryAffiliation: University of Pittsburgh Country: USA Publications
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Quality of death: assessing the importance placed on end-of-life treatment in the intensive-care unitCindy L Bryce
Department of Medicine, Modeling of Acute Illness CRISMA Laboratory, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Med Care 42:423-31. 2004..This issue is particularly problematic in the intensive-care unit (ICU) where death is frequent, care is difficult, and costs are high...- Sociodemographic differences in early access to liver transplantation servicesC L Bryce
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Am J Transplant 9:2092-101. 2009..For early management and treatment decisions of patients with ESLD to be better understood, more comprehensive data concerning referral and listing practices are needed... - Health status versus utilities of patients with end-stage liver diseaseCindy L Bryce
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Qual Life Res 13:773-82. 2004..For formal economic evaluations such as cost effectiveness analyses, only direct measures of utility can be used to quantify health states... - Exploring challenges and potentials of personal health records in diabetes self-management: implementation and initial assessmentRachel Hess
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Telemed J E Health 13:509-17. 2007..Patients are responsive to technology. Future work should focus on diabetes-related outcomes assessment and intensifying interventions... - Pregnancy and birth history influence women's experience of menopauseRachel Hess
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Menopause 15:435-41. 2008..We hypothesize that nulliparous women will have more dissatisfaction with childbearing choices and more negative attitudes toward menopause but will experience fewer menopausal symptoms... - Differences in access to liver transplantation: disease severity, waiting time, and transplantation center volumeJawad Ahmad
Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System and University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Ann Intern Med 146:707-13. 2007..Allocation based on MELD scores should ensure that sicker patients receive transplants first regardless of transplantation center volume... - Value versus user fees: perspectives of patients before and after using a web-based portal for management of diabetesCindy L Bryce
Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Telemed J E Health 14:1035-43. 2008..This opposition stems from concerns about fairness and from the recognition that health systems may experience cost savings if patients manage their diabetes successfully... - Perception of "healthy" body weight by patients with diabetesKathleen McTigue
Center for Research on Health Care, University of Pittsburgh, 230 McKee Place, Suite 600, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Diabetes Care 29:695-7. 2006 - Association of lifestyle and relationship factors with sexual functioning of women during midlifeRachel Hess
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 230 McKee Place, Suite 600, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
J Sex Med 6:1358-68. 2009..As women progress through menopause, they experience changes in sexual functioning that are multifactorial, likely encompassing biological, psychological, and social domains... - Using the internet to translate an evidence-based lifestyle intervention into practiceKathleen M McTigue
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Telemed J E Health 15:851-8. 2009..44 mm Hg; SD 9.27). An Internet-based lifestyle intervention may overcome significant barriers to preventive counseling and facilitate the incorporation of evidence-based lifestyle interventions into primary care... - Survival after liver transplantation in the United States: a disease-specific analysis of the UNOS databaseMark S Roberts
Section of Decision Sciences and Clinical Systems Modeling, Division of General Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Center for Research on Health Care, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Liver Transpl 10:886-97. 2004..However, a significant portion of the difference in survival between diseases arises from differences in clinical characteristics at the time of transplantation... - Interest in the use of computerized patient portals: role of the provider-patient relationshipSusan L Zickmund
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, 151C U, University Drive C, Pittsburgh, PA 15240, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:20-6. 2008..However, little is known about what influences patients' desires to use this technology... - The supply and use of selected medical technologiesC L Bryce
University of Pittsburgh, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 17:213-24. 1998..Moreover, as providers compete for network selection, many continue to expand their service capabilities. These findings emphasize the importance of ongoing assessment of the appropriate application, supply, and use of medical services... - A clinically based discrete-event simulation of end-stage liver disease and the organ allocation processSteven M Shechter
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Med Decis Making 25:199-209. 2005..CONCLUSION: The authors created a discrete-event simulation model that represents the biology of end-stage liver disease and the health care organization of transplantation in the United States... - Do incentives matter? Providing benefits to families of organ donorsC L Bryce
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Am J Transplant 5:2999-3008. 2005..While benefits appear to be favored, their true impact can only be assessed through pilot programs... - Impact of hepatitis C virus infection and other comorbidities on survival in patients on dialysisA A Butt
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Viral Hepat 14:688-96. 2007..The risk was highest at the time of HCV diagnosis and stabilized over time. Clinical trials of HCV screening and treatment to reduce mortality in this population are warranted... - Majority of patients with hepatitis C express physical, mental, and social difficulties with antiviral treatmentSusan L Zickmund
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 18:381-8. 2006..However, treatment is long and is associated with significant side-effects. We investigated difficulties with this treatment as it is an important factor in patient adherence... - Posttraumatic stress and complicated grief in family members of patients in the intensive care unitWendy G Anderson
Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine and Palliative Care Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143 0903, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:1871-6. 2008..Family members of patients in intensive care units (ICUs) are at risk for mental health morbidity both during and after a patient's ICU stay... - Using simulation to isolate physician variation in intensive care unit admission decision making for critically ill elders with end-stage cancer: a pilot feasibility studyAmber E Barnato
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Crit Care Med 36:3156-63. 2008..To determine the feasibility of high-fidelity simulation for studying variation in intensive care unit admission decision making for critically ill elders with end-stage cancer... - Cost-effectiveness analysis of efforts to reduce risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease in southwestern Pennsylvania, 2005-2007Kenneth J Smith
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 7:A109. 2010..We assessed the cost-effectiveness of a community-based, modified Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) designed to reduce risk factors for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease... - Burnout among early career clinical investigatorsBrian A Primack
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA, USA
Clin Transl Sci 3:186-8. 2010..Clin Trans Sci 2010; Volume 3: 186-188... - Incorporating biological natural history in simulation models: empirical estimates of the progression of end-stage liver diseaseOguzhan Alagoz
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Med Decis Making 25:620-32. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: Cubic splines can be used to generate quantitative natural histories for individual patients with ESLD and may be useful for developing clinically robust microsimulation models of other diseases...
Research Grants
- END-STAGE LIVER DISEASE/PREVALENCE & TREATMENT VARIATIONCindy Bryce; Fiscal Year: 2004..This project will collect new information on patients with ESLD and combine it with existing data resources made available through The Optimal Timing of Liver Transplantation Project (AHCPR, R01 HS09694-02). ..
- Assessing Individual Preferences for End-of-Life CareCindy Bryce; Fiscal Year: 2006..Finally, exploring interactions among domains will help researchers better understand how improving (or otherwise changing) 1 domain will impact patients' EOL experiences. ..
- A Conference Grant to Support the 29th Annual Meeting of SMDMCindy Bryce; Fiscal Year: 2007....