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Hypertensive patients' race, health beliefs, process of care, and medication adherenceNancy R Kressin
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Bedford VA Medical Center, Bedford, MA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:768-74. 2007....- Identifying the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: implications of results from recall and recognition questionsRalph V Katz
Department of Epidemiology, NYU College of Dentistry, 250 Park Ave South, NY, NY 10012, USA
BMC Public Health 9:468. 2009..This analysis assessed whether Blacks, Whites and Puerto-Rican (PR) Hispanics differed in their ability to identify the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (TSS) via open-ended questions following lead-in recognition and recall questions... 
Comparing the impact of oral disease in two populations of older adults: application of the geriatric oral health assessment indexN R Kressin
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research, VAMC, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
J Public Health Dent 57:224-32. 1997....- Functional status outcomes among white and African-American cardiac patients in an equal access systemNancy R Kressin
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Bedford VA Medical Center, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Am Heart J 153:418-25. 2007..We explored whether racial differences in functional outcomes occur in settings where differences in access and treatment are minimized... - Increased preventive practices lead to greater tooth retentionN R Kressin
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, VAMC, 200 Springs Road, Building 70 152, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
J Dent Res 82:223-7. 2003..Adherence to ADA recommendations for preventive care leads to better oral health, and consistently practicing preventive behaviors over the long term confers greater benefits than doing so over the short term... - Racial/Ethnic disparities in health care: lessons from medicine for dentistryNancy R Kressin
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, 200 Springs Road 152, Bedford, Massachusetts 01730, USA
J Dent Educ 69:998-1002. 2005..An overview of the possible causal factors is presented, along with suggestions for future research... - Agreement between administrative data and patients' self-reports of race/ethnicityNancy R Kressin
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research a Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development National Center of Excellence, Bedford VA Medical Center, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Am J Public Health 93:1734-9. 2003..We examined agreement of administrative data with self-reported race/ethnicity and identified correlates of agreement... - Racial differences in cardiac catheterization as a function of patients' beliefsNancy R Kressin
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Bedford Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Am J Public Health 94:2091-7. 2004..We examined racial differences in cardiac catheterization rates and reviewed whether patients' beliefs or other variables were associated with observed disparities... - Racial variations in dental procedures: the case of root canal therapy versus tooth extractionNancy R Kressin
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bedford, Massachusetts 01730, USA
Med Care 41:1256-61. 2003..Racial disparities have been widely documented in medical care, but variations in dental care have not been well examined... - Racial differences in health-related beliefs, attitudes, and experiences of VA cardiac patients: scale development and applicationNancy R Kressin
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research a VA Health Services Research and Development National Center of Excellence, Bedford VA Medical Center, Massachusetts 01730, USA
Med Care 40:I72-85. 2002.... - Career and time management strategies for clinical and health services researchersNancy R Kressin
Department of Veterans Affairs, Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Bedford VA 200 Springs. Rd. Bldg 70 (152, Bedford, MA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:1475-8. 2007 - A new brief measure of oral quality of lifeNancy R Kressin
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, 200 Springs Road, Building 70 152, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 5:A43. 2008..We developed a brief measure of the impact of oral conditions on individual functioning and well-being, known as oral quality of life... - Understanding contributors to racial disparities in blood pressure controlNancy R Kressin
Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes 3:173-80. 2010.... - Negative affectivity and health-related quality of lifeN R Kressin
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, VAMC Bedford, Massachusetts 01730, USA
Med Care 38:858-67. 2000..We examined the relationship between a dimension of personality called negative affectivity (NA; a general disposition to experience negative mood states) and HRQOL, controlling for age and common chronic physical and mental diseases... - Pediatric clinicians can help reduce rates of early childhood caries: effects of a practice based interventionNancy R Kressin
Northeast Center for Research to Evaluate and Eliminate Dental Disparities, Boston, MA, USA
Med Care 47:1121-8. 2009..Early childhood caries (ECC) is a serious and preventable disease which pediatric clinicians can help address by counseling to reduce risk... - Self-reported willingness to have cancer screening and the effects of sociodemographic factorsNancy R Kressin
Section of General Internal Medicine, Health Core Disparities Research Program, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 102:219-27. 2010..The relative effects of race/ethnicity and other sociodemographic factors, compared to those of attitudes and beliefs on willingness to have cancer screening, are not well understood... - Perceptions of race/ethnicity-based discrimination: a review of measures and evaluation of their usefulness for the health care settingNancy R Kressin
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research a VA Health Services Research and Development National Center for Excellence, Bedford VA Medical Center, Bedford, MA, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 19:697-730. 2008..To assess discrimination in health care, reliable, valid, and comprehensive measures of racism/discrimination are needed... - Is negative affectivity associated with oral quality of life?N R Kressin
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, VAMC, 200 Springs Rd, Building 70, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 29:412-23. 2001..In this study we examined the association of NA with OQOL... - Is depressive symptomatology associated with worse oral functioning and well-being among older adults?Nancy R Kressin
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, VAMC, 200 Springs Road, Building 70 152, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
J Public Health Dent 62:5-12. 2002..The objective of this study was to examine the association between depressive symptomatology and oral quality of life... - Self-reported and clinical oral health in users of VA health careJ A Jones
The Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, Massachusetts 01730, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 56:M55-62. 2001..This article describes the oral health of users of Veterans Administration (VA) health care using both clinical and self-report measures, and models relationships between these measures and self-perceived oral health... - Oral health of ambulatory care patientsU Boehmer
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Mil Med 166:171-8. 2001..CONCLUSION: Compared with national studies, VA patients appear to have worse oral health. The importance of sociodemographic factors and dental utilization that has been found in other studies applies to veterans' oral health as well... - Exploring racial and sociodemographic trends in physician behavior, physician trust and their association with blood pressure controlMustafa M Rawaf
Boston University School of Medicine, MA, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 99:1248-54. 2007..Future research should focus on uncovering causal relationships, allowing physicians to work towards ending the established healthcare disparities... - Comparing the health status of male and female veterans who use VA health care: results from the VA Women's Health ProjectK Skinner
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research, Health Services Research and Development Field Program, Bedford VAMC, MA 01730, USA
Women Health 29:17-33. 1999..This paper describes the characteristics and health status of women veterans who use VA ambulatory services... - Racial differences in the use of invasive cardiovascular procedures: review of the literature and prescription for future researchN R Kressin
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 200 Springs Road, Building 70 (152, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Ann Intern Med 135:352-66. 2001..Future studies should comprehensively and simultaneously examine the full range of patient, physician, and health care system variables related to racial differences in the provision of invasive cardiac procedures... - Need for dental care in older veterans: assessment of patient-based measuresJudith A Jones
VA Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, Massachusetts 01730, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 50:163-8. 2002..The D-E-N-T-A-L may also be useful as a self-screening measure and community education device to encourage older persons to seek regular dental care... - Microbial risk markers for childhood caries in pediatricians' officesE Kanasi
Department of Molecular Genetics, The Forsyth Institute, 140 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Dent Res 89:378-83. 2010..05) significantly associated with caries by the 'false discovery' rate. Analysis of the data suggests that selected Lactobacillus species, in addition to mutans streptococci, are risk markers for early childhood caries... - Heart murmurs: are older male dental patients aware of their existence?C W Randall
Department of Health Policy and Health Services Research, Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine, USA
J Am Dent Assoc 132:171-6; quiz 224. 2001..However, it is not known how many patients are aware that they have such conditions and understand such recommendations... - The accuracy of clinician perceptions of "usual" blood pressure controlAdam J Rose
Center for Health Quality Outcomes and Economic Research, Bedford VA Medical Center, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:180-3. 2008..The term "clinical inertia" is used to describe the failure to manage a chronic condition aggressively enough to bring it under control. The underlying mechanisms for clinical inertia remain poorly understood... - Understanding uncontrolled hypertension: is it the patient or the provider?Adam J Rose
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research, Bedford VA Medical Center, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) 9:937-43. 2007..70 mm Hg; P<.05). While patient adherence to therapy plays a role, vigorous clinical management by the clinician is a more important contributor to BP control... - Use of patient self-report oral health outcome measures in assessment of dental treatment outcomesWanda G Wright
Department of Health Policy and Health Services Research, Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
J Public Health Dent 69:95-103. 2009..To assess the sensitivity of a newly developed brief measure of oral health-related quality of life (OQOL)... - Prevalence of early childhood caries among very young urban Boston children compared with US childrenMartha E Nunn
Boston University School of Dental Medicine, Department of Health Policy and Health Services Research, 715 Albany, 560, Boston, MA 02118, USA
J Public Health Dent 69:156-62. 2009.... - Comparing methods of measuring treatment intensification in hypertension careAdam J Rose
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research, Bedford VA Medical Center, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes 2:385-91. 2009..However, we do not know the ideal way to measure TI for research and quality improvement efforts. We compared the ability of different TI measures to predict blood pressure (BP) control... - Comparison of patient-based oral health outcome measuresJudith A Jones
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research CHQOER, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Qual Life Res 13:975-85. 2004..This project examined psychometric characteristics of four measures of oral-specific health-related quality of life... - Intensifying therapy for hypertension despite suboptimal adherenceAdam J Rose
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research, Boston University School of Medicine, 200 Springs Road, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Hypertension 54:524-9. 2009..A randomized trial could further examine optimal management of patients with suboptimal adherence... - Tooth retention as an indicator of quality dental care: development of a risk adjustment modelJudith A Jones
VA Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital Bedford, and Department of General Dentistry, Boston University School of Dental Medicine, Massachusetts, USA
Med Care 41:937-49. 2003..Thus, receipt of a root canal (vs. a tooth extraction) is a useful indicator of the quality of dental care. However, use of this quality measure without adjusting for the severity of oral disease could lead to spurious conclusions... - How do providers assess antihypertensive medication adherence in medical encounters?Barbara G Bokhour
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:577-83. 2006..Poor adherence to antihypertensives has been shown to be a significant factor in poor blood pressure (BP) control. Providers' communication with patients about their medication-taking behavior may be central to improving adherence... - Tooth loss and dentures: patients' perspectivesJudith A Jones
The Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Int Dent J 53:327-34. 2003..The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of tooth loss and denture wearing on their day-to-day lives from the patient perspective... - Self-reported vs administrative race/ethnicity data and study resultsUlrike Boehmer
The authors are with the Department of Health Services, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Mass 01730, USA
Am J Public Health 92:1471-2. 2002 - Oral conditions and quality of lifeJudith A Jones
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, Mass 02118, USA
J Ambul Care Manage 29:167-81. 2006..Oral health, as measured by the GOHAI, contributes in an important way to the functional well-being of users of VA healthcare... - Racial disparities in participation in biomedical researchN R Kressin
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, VAMC Bedford, MA 01730, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 92:62-9. 2000.... - Use of smoking cessation interventions and aspirin for secondary prevention: are there racial disparities?Eunice H Ambriz
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence 152, Houston Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 2002 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Am J Med Qual 19:166-71. 2004..05). Our findings highlight the need for improvement in use of smoking cessation interventions and aspirin among all patients with CAD and indicate an area where future quality improvement efforts may be warranted... - Separate but not equal: the consequences of segregated health careNancy R Kressin
Circulation 112:2582-4. 2005 - Participation in biomedical research studies and cancer screenings: perceptions of risks to minorities compared with whitesRalph V Katz
Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, New York University College of Dentistry, NY 10012, USA
Cancer Control 15:344-51. 2008..This analysis was conducted to determine whether there is a difference among blacks, Hispanics, and whites in their perception of risks associated with participating in either a biomedical study or a cancer screening... - Is lipid-lowering therapy underused by African Americans at high risk of coronary heart disease within the VA health care system?LeChauncy D Woodard
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, USA
Am J Public Health 94:2112-7. 2004..We examined whether racial differences exist in cholesterol monitoring, use of lipid-lowering agents, and achievement of guideline-recommended low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels for secondary prevention of coronary heart disease... - Racial differences in prevalence of coronary obstructions among men with positive nuclear imaging studiesJeff Whittle
Primary Care Division, Clement J Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53295, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 47:2034-41. 2006..The purpose of this research was to compare coronary obstruction between clinically similar African Americans (AA) and white persons undergoing coronary angiography... - Racial differences in how patients perceive physician communication regarding cardiac testingTracie C Collins
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Houston VA Medical Center, Texas, USA
Med Care 40:I27-34. 2002..Mistrust may be a source of some of the documented racial variation in health care utilization... - Contribution of the Veterans Health Administration in understanding racial disparities in access and utilization of health care: a spirit of inquiryEugene Z Oddone
Med Care 40:I3-13. 2002 - Awareness of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the US presidential apology and their influence on minority participation in biomedical researchRalph V Katz
Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, NYU College of Dentistry, 345 E 24th St, MC 9416, New York, NY 10010, USA
Am J Public Health 98:1137-42. 2008..We compared the influence of awareness of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the presidential apology for that study on the willingness of Blacks, non-Hispanic Whites, and Hispanics to participate in biomedical research... - Willingness of minorities to participate in biomedical studies: confirmatory findings from a follow-up study using the Tuskegee Legacy Project QuestionnaireRalph V Katz
Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, NYU College of Dentistry, New York University, New York, NY, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 99:1052-60. 2007.... - Dental treatment improves self-rated oral health in homeless veterans--a brief communicationGretchen Gibson
Fayetteville VA Medical Center, Fayetteville, AR 72703, USA
J Public Health Dent 68:111-5. 2008..The aim of this study was to assess homeless veterans' perception of their oral health and the impact that oral disease and treatment have on self-assessed quality of life... - The Tuskegee Legacy Project: history, preliminary scientific findings, and unanticipated societal benefitsRalph V Katz
Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, New York University College of Dentistry, 345 East 24th Street, New York, NY 10010, USA
Dent Clin North Am 47:1-19. 2003..well beyond the scope of important, but mere, scientific outcomes--all within the concept and appropriate functions of a scientific NIH-funded research center... - Willingness to participate in cancer screenings: blacks vs whites vs Puerto Rican HispanicsRalph V Katz
Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, New York University College of Dentistry, NY 10012, USA
Cancer Control 15:334-43. 2008..This study presents the self-reported willingness by blacks, Puerto Rican Hispanics, and non-Hispanic whites to participate in cancer screenings in differing cancer screening situations... - Chronic kidney disease is associated with angiographic coronary artery diseaseMichel Chonchol
Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colo 80262, USA
Am J Nephrol 28:354-60. 2008..Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have a dramatically increased risk for cardiovascular mortality. Few prior studies have examined the independent association of CKD with coronary anatomy... - The Tuskegee Legacy Project: willingness of minorities to participate in biomedical researchRalph V Katz
Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, New York University College of Dentistry, New York, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 17:698-715. 2006..8 times as likely as Whites to have a higher fear of participation in biomedical research on the GPFF Scale... - Cancer screening participation: comparative willingness of San Juan Puerto Ricans versus New York City Puerto RicansCristina Claudio
Community Dentistry Section, School of Dentistry, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, PR
J Natl Med Assoc 99:542-9. 2007....
Research Grants
- Hypertension Control & Therapy AdherenceNancy Kressin; Fiscal Year: 2007..Evaluate the relative efficacy of the patient-centered counseling intervention compared to patient-centered counseling augmented by cultural competency training on clinicians' communication patterns. ..