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Loss of health insurance and the risk for a decline in self-reported health and physical functioningDavid W Baker
Center for Health Care Research and Policy, Case Western Reserve University at MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio 44109 1998, USA
Med Care 40:1126-31. 2002..Millions of Americans are intermittently uninsured. The health consequences of this are not known...- Development of a brief test to measure functional health literacyD W Baker
Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44109 1998, USA
Patient Educ Couns 38:33-42. 1999..The S-TOFHLA is a practical measure of functional health literacy with good reliability and validity that can be used by health educators to identify individuals who require special assistance to achieve learning goals... - Health literacy and performance on the Mini-Mental State ExaminationD W Baker
Center for Health Care Research and Policy and the Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University at MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44109 1998, USA
Aging Ment Health 6:22-9. 2002..Adjusting' MMSE scores for an individual's functional health literacy may be inappropriate because it may mask true differences in cognitive functioning... - Lack of health insurance and decline in overall health in late middle ageD W Baker
MetroHealth Medical Center, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44109 1998, USA
N Engl J Med 345:1106-12. 2001..The number of adults in their 50s and 60s in the United States who do not have health insurance is increasing. This group may be particularly vulnerable to the ill effects of being uninsured... - The association between age and health literacy among elderly personsD W Baker
Center for Health Care Research and Policy, Case Western Reserve University at MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 55:S368-74. 2000..To examine why older age groups have worse functional health literacy... - Health insurance and access to care for symptomatic conditionsD W Baker
Department of Medicine, MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Arch Intern Med 160:1269-74. 2000..The uninsured receive less medical care than the insured. However, it is not known whether the uninsured are less likely to seek medical care for highly "serious" or "morbid" symptoms... - Interpreter use and satisfaction with interpersonal aspects of care for Spanish-speaking patientsD W Baker
Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 44109 1998, USA
Med Care 36:1461-70. 1998..Many patients have limited English proficiency and require an interpreter. The authors evaluated the effect of current interpreting practices on Spanish-speaking patients' satisfaction with the patient-provider relationship... 
Health literacy and the risk of hospital admissionD W Baker
Department of Medicine and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44109-1998, USA
J Gen Intern Med 13:791-8. 1998..15; 95% CI 1.45, 6.85). CONCLUSIONS: In this study population, patients with inadequate functional health literacy had an increased risk of hospital admission...- Antihypertensive medication use in Hispanic adults: a comparison with black adults and white adultsJ J Sudano
Center for Health Care Research and Policy, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Med Care 39:575-87. 2001.... - Ambulatory health care use by patients in a public hospital emergency departmentK J Rask
Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory University Center for Clinical Evaluation Sciences, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
J Gen Intern Med 13:614-20. 1998.... - Effect of language barriers on follow-up appointments after an emergency department visitJ Sarver
Case-Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
J Gen Intern Med 15:256-64. 2000..However, patients who experienced language barriers were equally likely to comply with follow-up appointments... - The effect of pneumonia on mortality among patients hospitalized for acute strokeI L Katzan
Center for Health Care Research and Policy, Case Western Reserve University at MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 44109 1998, USA
Neurology 60:620-5. 2003..To determine the effect of pneumonia on 30-day mortality in patients hospitalized for acute stroke... - Racial differences in the utilization of oral anticoagulant therapy in heart failure: a study of elderly hospitalized patientsS A Ibrahim
Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Health Care Research, Department of Medicine, Louis Stokes Department of VA Medical Center, University Hospitals of Cleveland, and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, OH 44106-6033, USA
J Gen Intern Med 15:134-7. 2000..45-0.67), respectively. African-Americans with heart failure were much less likely than whites to receive oral anticoagulant therapy, even after adjusting for other variables associated with anticoagulant use... - A telephone survey to measure communication, education, self-management, and health status for patients with heart failure: the Improving Chronic Illness Care Evaluation (ICICE)David W Baker
Division of General Internal Medicine and Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
J Card Fail 11:36-42. 2005..This tool should be useful for measuring quality of care for large patient populations and determining the effectiveness of quality improvement activities... - Differences in leisure-time, household, and work-related physical activity by race, ethnicity, and educationXiaoxing Z He
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
J Gen Intern Med 20:259-66. 2005..Racial and ethnic minority groups have lower levels of leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) than whites, but it is unclear how much of this is explained by differences in socioeconomic status and health... - Explaining US racial/ethnic disparities in health declines and mortality in late middle age: the roles of socioeconomic status, health behaviors, and health insuranceJoseph J Sudano
Center for Health Care Research and Policy, Case Western Reserve University at The MetroHealth System, Rammelkamp 236, 2500 MetroHealth Drive, Cleveland, OH 44109 1998, USA
Soc Sci Med 62:909-22. 2006.... - Health literacy and functional health status among older adultsMichael S Wolf
Institute for Healthcare Studies and Division of General Internal Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 676 N St Clair St, Suite 200, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:1946-52. 2005..We evaluated the association between health literacy, self-reported physical and mental health functioning, and health-related activity limitations among new Medicare managed care enrollees... - Health insurance coverage during the years preceding medicare eligibilityDavid W Baker
Division of General Internal Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:770-6. 2005..Because most estimates of the uninsured are cross-sectional, the true number of individuals whose health is at risk from being uninsured is unclear... - A system for rapidly and accurately collecting patients' race and ethnicityDavid W Baker
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 676 N St Clair St, Suite 200, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
Am J Public Health 96:532-7. 2006..We assessed the feasibility of collecting race/ethnicity data from patients using their own preferred racial/ethnic terms... - Health insurance coverage and the risk of decline in overall health and death among the near elderly, 1992-2002David W Baker
Department of Medicine and the Division of General Internal Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
Med Care 44:277-82. 2006..Although individuals' health insurance coverage changes frequently, previous analyses have not accounted for changes in insurance coverage over time... - The effect of private insurance on the health of older, working age adults: evidence from the health and retirement studyAvi Dor
Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Peter B. Lewis Building, 11119 Bellflower Rd, Cleveland, OH 44128-7235, USA
Health Serv Res 41:759-87. 2006..Preliminary results provide no justification for targeting certain subgroups with susceptibility to certain chronic conditions rather than broad policy interventions... - Changes in health for the uninsured after reaching age-eligibility for MedicareDavid W Baker
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:1144-9. 2006..Uninsured adults in late middle age are more likely to have a health decline than individuals with private insurance... - Differences in self-reported health among Asians, Latinos, and non-Hispanic whites: the role of language and nativityNamratha R Kandula
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
Ann Epidemiol 17:191-8. 2007..SROH may not be comparable across cultural groups. We assessed if differences in SROH between non-Hispanic whites (NHW), Latinos, and Asians were explained primarily by differences in socioeconomic status (SES) or language and nativity... 
Increased blood pressure in the emergency department: pain, anxiety, or undiagnosed hypertension?Paula Tanabe
Department of Emergency Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago IL, USA
Ann Emerg Med 51:221-9. 2008....- Variability in emergency physician decision making about prescribing opioid analgesicsJoshua H Tamayo-Sarver
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
Ann Emerg Med 43:483-93. 2004..Moreover, the same clinical information, such as a patient requesting a strong analgesic, changes the likelihood of prescribing opioids in opposite directions for different physicians... - Racial and ethnic disparities in emergency department analgesic prescriptionJoshua H Tamayo-Sarver
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Am J Public Health 93:2067-73. 2003..We examined racial and ethnic disparities in analgesic prescription among a national sample of emergency department patients... - Usual source of care and nonurgent emergency department useJoshua H Sarver
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Cleveland, OH, USA
Acad Emerg Med 9:916-23. 2002..To examine whether dissatisfaction with one's usual source of care (USC) and perceived access difficulties to one's USC were associated with nonurgent emergency department (ED) use... - Intermittent lack of health insurance coverage and use of preventive servicesJoseph J Sudano
Center for Health Care Research and Policy, Case Western Reserve University at the MetroHealth Systeme, Cleveland, Ohio 44109, USA
Am J Public Health 93:130-7. 2003..This study examined the association between intermittent lack of health insurance coverage and use of preventive health services... - Differences in education, knowledge, self-management activities, and health outcomes for patients with heart failure cared for under the chronic disease model: the improving chronic illness care evaluationDavid W Baker
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
J Card Fail 11:405-13. 2005..CONCLUSION: Participation in a QI collaborative for HF was associated with better communication, education, and knowledge, and lower health care use. Collaboratives may be a useful method for disseminating quality improvement strategies... - The effect of race/ethnicity and desirable social characteristics on physicians' decisions to prescribe opioid analgesicsJoshua H Tamayo-Sarver
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
Acad Emerg Med 10:1239-48. 2003.... - Health literacy and preventive health care use among Medicare enrollees in a managed care organizationTracy L Scott
Emory Center on Health Outcomes and Quality, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Med Care 40:395-404. 2002..Many older adults in Medicare managed care programs have low health literacy, and this may affect use of preventive services... - Declining payments for emergency department care, 1996-1998Alexander C Tsai
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue WG 57, Cleveland, OH 44106 4945, USA
Ann Emerg Med 41:299-308. 2003..We describe recent trends in payments from different payer classes and assess their relative importance to the financial solvency of emergency departments... - Functional health literacy and the risk of hospital admission among Medicare managed care enrolleesDavid W Baker
Center for Health Care Research and Policy, Case Western Reserve University at MetroHealth Medical Center, USA
Am J Public Health 92:1278-83. 2002..This study analyzed whether inadequate functional health literacy is an independent risk factor for hospital admission... - Automated review of electronic health records to assess quality of care for outpatients with heart failureDavid W Baker
Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Ann Intern Med 146:270-7. 2007..Electronic health records (EHRs) may be used to assess quality of care... - Obtaining data on patient race, ethnicity, and primary language in health care organizations: current challenges and proposed solutionsRomana Hasnain-Wynia
Health Research and Educational Trust/AHA, One North Franklin, 30th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606, USA
Health Serv Res 41:1501-18. 2006.... - Investigating Hispanic/Latino perceptions about colorectal cancer screening: a community-based approach to effective message designKenzie A Cameron
Center for Communication and Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA
Patient Educ Couns 68:145-52. 2007..We assessed knowledge, attitudes, and behavior regarding CRC screening to inform the development of messages that promote screening among Hispanic/Latino patients... - Health literacy and mortality among elderly personsDavid W Baker
Division of General Internal Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 676 N St Clair St, Suite 200, Chicago, IL 60611 2927, USA
Arch Intern Med 167:1503-9. 2007..We sought to determine whether low health literacy levels independently predict overall and cause-specific mortality... - Baseline health, socioeconomic status, and 10-year mortality among older middle-aged Americans: findings from the Health and Retirement Study, 1992 2002Joe Feinglass
Division of General Internal Medicine, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, 676 St Clair No 200, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 62:S209-17. 2007..This study analyzed whether socioeconomic status in older middle age continues to be associated with 10-year survival after data are controlled for baseline health status... - Physician-patient communication about colorectal cancer screeningMichael S Wolf
Division of General Internal Medicine, Center for Communication and Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:1493-9. 2007..Despite the documented benefits of colorectal cancer screening, patient participation rates remain low. Physician recommendation has been identified as a significant predictor of screening completion... - Patients' shame and attitudes toward discussing the results of literacy screeningMichael S Wolf
Health Literacy and Learning Program, Division of General Internal Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
J Health Commun 12:721-32. 2007..Patients with limited literacy were more likely to report feelings of shame as a result of disclosure (p < 0.05). Health care providers must recognize the potential shame patients might experience as a result of literacy screening... - Attitudes toward health care providers, collecting information about patients' race, ethnicity, and languageDavid W Baker
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Institute for Healthcare Studies, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 676 N St Clair Street, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
Med Care 45:1034-42. 2007..Experts recommend that health care providers (HCPs) collect patients' race/ethnicity and language, but we know little about public attitudes towards this... - Health literacy, cognitive abilities, and mortality among elderly personsDavid W Baker
Division of General Internal Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Evanston, IL, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:723-6. 2008..Low health literacy and low cognitive abilities both predict mortality, but no study has jointly examined these relationships... - The meaning and the measure of health literacyDavid W Baker
Division of General Internal Medicine and the Institute for Healthcare Studies, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:878-83. 2006 - Low literacy impairs comprehension of prescription drug warning labelsTerry C Davis
Department of Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA 71104, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:847-51. 2006..Adverse events resulting from medication error are a serious concern. Patients' literacy and their ability to understand medication information are increasingly seen as a safety issue... - Health literacy and use of outpatient physician services by Medicare managed care enrolleesDavid W Baker
Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Suite 200, 676 N Clair Street, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
J Gen Intern Med 19:215-20. 2004..To determine whether inadequate functional health literacy adversely affects use of physician outpatient services... - Health literacy and knowledge of chronic diseaseJulie A Gazmararian
Department of Health Policy and Management, Emory Center on Health Outcomes and Quality, Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University, 6th Floor, 1518 Clifton Road, NE, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Patient Educ Couns 51:267-75. 2003..There are many opportunities to improve patients' knowledge of their chronic disease(s), and efforts need to consider their health literacy skills... - Changes in weight among a nationally representative cohort of adults aged 51 to 61, 1992 to 2000Xiaoxing Z He
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Am J Prev Med 27:8-15. 2004..Public health messages should target diverse populations. The current levels of physical activity attained by this population do not appear to protect against weight gain... - Body mass index, physical activity, and the risk of decline in overall health and physical functioning in late middle ageXiaoxing Z He
Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
Am J Public Health 94:1567-73. 2004..We examined the relation between body mass index, exercise, overall health, and physical functioning... - Changes in the use of do-not-resuscitate orders after implementation of the Patient Self-Determination ActDavid W Baker
Center for Health Care Research and Policy and Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University at MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
J Gen Intern Med 18:343-9. 2003..To determine changes in the use of do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders and mortality rates following a DNR order after the Patient Self-determination Act (PSDA) was implemented in December 1991... - The effect of publicly reporting hospital performance on market share and risk-adjusted mortality at high-mortality hospitalsDavid W Baker
Center for Health Care Research and Policy, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Med Care 41:729-40. 2003..It is unclear whether publicly reporting hospitals' risk-adjusted mortality affects market share and mortality at outlier hospitals... - Mortality trends for 23,505 Medicare patients hospitalized with heart failure in Northeast Ohio, 1991 to 1997David W Baker
Center for Health Care Research and Policy, Case Western Reserve University at MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Am Heart J 146:258-64. 2003..This study analyzed mortality trends from 1991 to 1997 for 23,505 Medicare patients hospitalized with a first admission for HF at 29 Northeast Ohio hospitals... - Patients' attitudes toward health care providers collecting information about their race and ethnicityDavid W Baker
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill 60611, USA
J Gen Intern Med 20:895-900. 2005..Experts recommend that health care providers (HCPs) collect patients' race/ethnicity, but HCPs worry that this may alienate patients... - The effect of external feedback on the management of medicare inpatients with congestive heart failureRisa P Hayes
Kerr L White Institute for Health Services Research, Decatur, GA, USA
Am J Med Qual 17:225-35. 2002..01). Evaluation of the effects of external feedback on practice behavior requires sufficient time for organizational and individual clinician change to occur. Physician liaisons may play a role in facilitating this change... - Mortality trends during a program that publicly reported hospital performanceDavid W Baker
Center for Health Care Research and Policy, Case Western Reserve University at MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Med Care 40:879-90. 2002..It is unclear whether publicly reporting hospitals' risk-adjusted mortality leads to improvements in outcomes... - Trends in postdischarge mortality and readmissions: has length of stay declined too far?David W Baker
Center for Health Care Research and Policy, and Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University at MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, USA
Arch Intern Med 164:538-44. 2004..Length of hospital stay continues to decline, but the effect on postdischarge outcomes is unclear... - Effect of a hospitalist-care coordinator team on a nonteaching hospitalist serviceKevin J O'Leary
Division of General Internal Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
J Hosp Med 3:103-9. 2008..Although many hospitalists work with clinical coordinators, few studies have evaluated their impact...