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| H S GordonSummaryAffiliation: Baylor College of Medicine Country: USA Publications
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Patient participation in medical consultations: why some patients are more involved than othersRichard L Street
Department of Communication, Texas A and M University, College Station 77843 4234, and Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Texas, USA
Med Care 43:960-9. 2005..Because more active patient participation contributes to improved health outcomes and quality of care, it is important to understand factors affecting the way patients communicate with healthcare providers...- The relationship of gender and in-hospital death: increased risk of death in menH S Gordon
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Houston Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, TX 77030, USA
Med Care 37:318-24. 1999..The prognostic importance of gender in hospitalized patients has been poorly studied. The current study compared in-hospital death rates between men and women after adjusting for severity of illness... - Using severity-adjusted mortality to compare performance in a Veterans Affairs hospital and in private-sector hospitalsH S Gordon
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, USA
Am J Med Qual 15:207-11. 2000..Although not directly generalizable to other VA hospitals, our findings nonetheless suggest that the quality of VA and private-sector care may be similar with respect to one important and widely used measure... - Racial differences in trust and lung cancer patients' perceptions of physician communicationHoward S Gordon
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Clin Oncol 24:904-9. 2006..We examined whether racial differences in patient trust are associated with physician-patient communication about lung cancer treatment... - Process of care in Hispanic, black, and white VA beneficiariesHoward S Gordon
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Section of General Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, TX, USA
Med Care 40:824-33. 2002..To examine whether process of hospital care differs among Hispanic, black, and white VA beneficiaries... - Physician-patient communication following invasive procedures: an analysis of post-angiogram consultationsHoward S Gordon
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Houston, TX, USA
Soc Sci Med 61:1015-25. 2005.... - Race and patient refusal of invasive cardiac proceduresHoward S Gordon
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Gen Intern Med 19:962-6. 2004..To determine whether patients' decisions are an important determinant of nonuse of invasive cardiac procedures and whether decisions vary by race... - Mortality after noncardiac surgery: prediction from administrative versus clinical dataHoward S Gordon
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, the Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Med Care 43:159-67. 2005..Hospital profiles are increasingly constructed using risk-adjusted clinical data abstracted from patient records... - Preoperative risk factors for 30-day mortality after elective surgery for vascular disease in Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals: is race important?T C Collins
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Houston VA Medical Center, and Section of Health Services Research, Baylor College of Medicine, TX 77030, USA
J Vasc Surg 34:634-40. 2001..This study determined risk factors for mortality after surgery for vascular disease and determined whether race is an important risk factor... - Mortality after cardiac bypass surgery: prediction from administrative versus clinical dataJane M Geraci
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Houston Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and the Section of Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Med Care 43:149-58. 2005.... - Racial and ethnic disparities in the use of health services: bias, preferences, or poor communication?Carol M Ashton
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex, USA
J Gen Intern Med 18:146-52. 2003..We evaluate the evidence that poor communication is a cause of disparities and propose some remedies drawn from the communication sciences... - Effect of definition of mortality on hospital profilesMichael L Johnson
Houston VA Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Texas 77030, USA
Med Care 40:7-16. 2002..Hospitals are ranked based on risk-adjusted measures of postoperative mortality, but definitions differ about which deaths following surgery should be included... - Utility of detailed preoperative cardiac testing and incidence of post-thoracotomy myocardial infarctionDawn E Jaroszewski
Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Hospital, Houston, Tex 77030, USA
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 135:648-55. 2008..Recent literature has questioned the efficacy of routine detailed preoperative cardiac ischemia testing and preoperative cardiac intervention before noncardiac surgical procedures... - Variation by race in factors contributing to heart failure hospitalizationsHardeep Singh
Medical Care Line, VA Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
J Card Fail 11:23-9. 2005..These findings may partly account for better long-term survival after hospitalization in black patients compared with white patients... - Companion participation in cancer consultationsRichard L Street
Department of Communication, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX 77843 4234, USA
Psychooncology 17:244-51. 2008..This investigation compared the communication of unaccompanied patients, accompanied patients, and companions during lung cancer consultations. Factors affecting the active participation of companions were analyzed... - Racial differences in doctors' information-giving and patients' participationHoward S Gordon
Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Cancer 107:1313-20. 2006..Whether doctor-patient communication differs by race was investigated in patients with pulmonary nodules or lung cancer... - The clinical context and patient participation in post-diagnostic consultationsRichard L Street
Department of Communication, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX 77843-4234, USA
Patient Educ Couns 64:217-24. 2006..PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: Clinicians and administrators should assess clinical practices that restrict patient involvement in ways that could affect quality of decision-making... - 'A little bitty spot and I'm a big man': patients' perspectives on refusing diagnosis or treatment for lung cancerBarbara F Sharf
Department of Communication, Texas A and M University, ms 4234, College Station, Texas 77843 4234, USA
Psychooncology 14:636-46. 2005..Implications for clinical communication include increasing trust while delivering bad news, understanding the source of resistance to recommendations, and discussing palliative care... - Missed opportunities for interval empathy in lung cancer communicationDiane S Morse
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA Diane_mors
Arch Intern Med 168:1853-8. 2008..Empathy is important in patient-physician communication and is associated with improved patient satisfaction and adherence to physicians' recommendations... - Factors influencing perceptions of breast cancer genetic counseling among women in an urban health care systemMarvella E Ford
Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Epidemiology, Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, 135 Cannon Street, Suite 303, P O Box 250835, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
J Genet Couns 16:735-53. 2007..The results could be used to help develop interventions to improve informed decision-making regarding breast cancer genetic counseling...