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| Robert O MorganSummaryAffiliation: Baylor College of Medicine Country: USA Publications
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Do secondary conditions explain the relationship between depression and health care cost in women with physical disabilities?Robert O Morgan
Division of Management, Policy, and Community Health, University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 89:1880-6. 2008..To examine the influence of depression on health care utilization and costs among women with disabilities and to determine whether the severity of other secondary health conditions affects this association...- Does poorer familiarity with Medicare translate into worse access to health care?Robert O Morgan
Division of Management, Policy, and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 56:2053-60. 2008..To examine the relationship between a global measure of Medicare program familiarity and a broad set of measures of actual and perceived healthcare access... - VHA pharmacy use in veterans with Medicare drug coverageRobert O Morgan
Division of Management, Policy, and Community Health, University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX, USA
Am J Manag Care 15:e1-8. 2009..To determine how Medicare benefits affect veterans' use of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) pharmacy services... - Causes of aggressive behavior in patients with dementiaMark E Kunik
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Health Services Research and Development Services, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 71:1145-52. 2010..To examine factors predicting development of aggression... 
Is a prostate cancer screening anxiety measure invariant across two different samples of age-appropriate men?Suzanne K Linder
Department of General Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 12:52. 2012..abstract:..- The association of Medicare drug coverage with use of evidence-based medications in the Veterans Health AdministrationMichael L Johnson
College of Pharmacy, Department of Clinical Sciences and Administration, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
Ann Pharmacother 43:1565-75. 2009..Veterans with Medicare managed-care plans have access to pharmacy benefits outside the Veterans Health Administration (VA), but how this coverage affects use of medications for specific disease conditions within the VA is unclear... - Irritability and social isolation in dementia patients with and without depressionDenis Shub
VA HSR and D Houston Center of Excellence, Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 24:229-34. 2011..82 ± 1.96 vs 1.15 ± 1.76, respectively). Conclusions: Depressed persons with dementia are significantly more likely to experience irritability and social isolation than those who are not depressed... - Predictors of retention in HIV care among a national cohort of US veteransThomas P Giordano
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
HIV Clin Trials 10:299-305. 2009..We determined the predictors of poor retention in HIV care among a group of US veterans and examined whether poor retention was confounded by other predictors of survival... 
Risk factors for dementia in patients over 65 with diabetesNiraj M Parikh
College of Pharmacy, University of Houston, TX, USA
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 26:749-57. 2011..This study identified factors in patients with diabetes associated with risk of developing dementia...- Consequences of aggressive behavior in patients with dementiaMark E Kunik
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 22:40-7. 2010..Of 215 patients, 88 became aggressive, associated with significantly increased use of psychotropic medication (p< or =0.04), injuries (p< or =0.0001), and nursing-home placement (p< or =0.004)... - Retention in care: a challenge to survival with HIV infectionThomas P Giordano
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Clin Infect Dis 44:1493-9. 2007..Patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection need lifelong medical care, but many do not remain in care. The effect of poor retention in care on survival is not known, and we sought to quantify that relationship... - Using a Spanish surname match to improve identification of Hispanic women in Medicare administrative dataIris I Wei
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center (152, 2002 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Health Serv Res 41:1469-81. 2006..We recommend the addition of a proxy race code in the Medicare data using the Spanish surname match to improve the accuracy of racial/ethnic representation... - Quality of relationships as a predictor of psychosocial functioning in patients with dementiaValdesha Ball
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Health Services Research and Development Service, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 23:109-14. 2010..Improvement in mutuality over 4-month periods was associated with increased social stimulation, decreased caregiver burden, and decreased aggression over time... - Antihypertensive drug use and the risk of dementia in patients with diabetes mellitusMichael L Johnson
Department of Clinical Sciences and Administration, Division of Pharmacy Administration and Public Health, University of Houston, College of Pharmacy, TX, USA
Alzheimers Dement 8:437-44. 2012..Diabetes and hypertension are independent risk factors for dementia, and hypertension may increase this risk in patients with diabetes. It is unclear whether antihypertensive drugs are associated with risk of dementia in these patients... - Is there a race-based disparity in the survival of veterans with HIV?Thomas P Giordano
Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:613-7. 2006..Disparities in survival for black patients with HIV in the United States have been reported. The VA is an equal access health care system... - Medicare beneficiary knowledge: measurement implications from a qualitative studyCayla R Teal
Baylor College of Medicine and the Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, USA
Health Care Financ Rev 27:13-23. 2006..Assessment of beneficiary knowledge may be fundamentally impacted by absence of basic familiarity with Medicare Programs terminology... - Improving identification of Hispanic males in Medicare: use of surname matchingRobert O Morgan
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Houston Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Med Care 42:810-6. 2004..This article reports on 2 studies assessing the effectiveness of a Hispanic surname match for improving the accuracy of race/ethnicity codes for elderly males in the Medicare data sets... - Documentation, assessment, and treatment of aggression in patients with newly diagnosed dementiaMark E Kunik
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, TX 77030, USA
Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 21:115-21. 2007.... - Use of surveillance for hepatocellular carcinoma among patients with cirrhosis in the United StatesJessica A Davila
Section of Health Services Research, Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Houston VA Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Hepatology 52:132-41. 2010..CONCLUSION: Less than 20% of patients with cirrhosis who developed HCC received regular surveillance. Gastroenterologists/hepatologists or physicians with an academic affiliation are more likely to perform surveillance... - Measurement in Veterans Affairs Health Services Research: veterans as a special populationRobert O Morgan
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Holocombe Blvd, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Health Serv Res 40:1573-83. 2005..It is our hope that they stimulate a broad discussion of the measurement challenges posed by conducting "state-of-the-art" health services research... - Documentation of antipsychotic use and indications for newly diagnosed, nonaggressive dementia patientsNikhil Dhawan
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Health Services Research, Houston, TX, USA
Prim Care Companion J Clin Psychiatry 10:97-102. 2008..The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of antipsychotic use among nonaggressive patients with newly diagnosed dementia and to examine indications for antipsychotic use... - Low-intensity exercise and reduction of the risk for falls among at-risk eldersRobert O Morgan
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, VA Medical Center, Texas 77030, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 59:1062-7. 2004..This study evaluated the effect of an easily implemented, low-intensity exercise program on the incidence of falls and the time to first fall among a clinically defined population of elderly men and women... - A controlled trial of active versus passive learning strategies in a large group settingPaul Haidet
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies and the Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 9:15-27. 2004..To compare the effects of active and didactic teaching strategies on learning- and process-oriented outcomes... - Prevalence of dementia among Veterans Affairs medical care system usersLaura L Krishnan
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Health Services Research and Development Service, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 2002 Holcombe, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 20:245-53. 2005..The data on prevalence by VISN may identify regional variation in either the types of dementia present or the diagnostic criteria used. The dementia diagnosis is clearly associated with substantial service use... - Proxies and other external raters: methodological considerationsA Lynn Snow
Houston Center for Quality Care and Utilization Studies, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Health Serv Res 40:1676-93. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: Externally rated data have an important place in health services research, but use of such data requires careful consideration of the nature of the data and how it will be analyzed and interpreted... - Strategic opportunities in the oversight of the U.S. hospital accreditation systemMaurice L Moffett
Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 152, Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Baylor College of Medicine, 2002 Holcombe Boulevard, TX 77030, USA
Health Policy 75:109-15. 2005.... - Hepatitis C infection and the increasing incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma: a population-based studyJessica A Davila
Section of Health Services Research, Houston Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Gastroenterology 127:1372-80. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: There has been a significant recent increase in HCV- and HBV-related HCC. Increasing rates of HCV-related HCC can explain a substantial proportion of the reported increase in HCC incidence during recent years... - Validity of a low literacy version of the Decisional Conflict ScaleSuzanne K Linder
Department of General Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Patient Educ Couns 85:521-4. 2011..To evaluate the psychometric properties of the 4-factor low literacy Decisional Conflict Scale (DCS-LL) with men eligible for prostate cancer screening (PCS)... - A self-assessment tool was reliable in identifying hazards in the homes of eldersRobert O Morgan
The Houston Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center VAMC, Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, TX 77030, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 58:1252-9. 2005..A reliable instrument for self-assessment of home falls hazards would facilitate screening for falls risk. This study examined the reliability of self-assessment of home falls hazards by elderly women... - Racial and ethnic differences in the treatment of seriously ill patients: a comparison of African-American, Caucasian and Hispanic veteransUrsula K Braun
Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center, Section of Health Services Research, Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 100:1041-51. 2008..No national data exist regarding racial/ethnic differences in the use of interventions for patients at the end of life... - Physical performance effects of low-intensity exercise among clinically defined high-risk eldersCarolee A Devito
Miami Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center VAMC, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 33125, USA
Gerontology 49:146-54. 2003..Further, studies that have specifically targeted deconditioned elderly individuals, rather than individuals drawn from the general community, either showed limited or no improvements in gait and balance... - Differential increases in average isokinetic power by specific muscle groups of older women due to variations in training and testingJoseph F Signorile
Departments of Exercise and Sport Sciences, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33137, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 57:M683-90. 2002..However, because both upper and lower leg speed and power influence gait and balance, it is important to determine the training speeds that selectively improve these variables in older persons...
Research Grants
- Medicare + Choice a nd Minority ElderlyRobert Morgan; Fiscal Year: 2004..abstract_text> ..