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| Alvin I MushlinSummaryAffiliation: Cornell University Country: USA Publications
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The importance of diabetes mellitus in the global epidemic of cardiovascular disease: the case of the State of QatarAlvin I Mushlin
Department of Public Health, Weill Cornell Medical Center, 402 East 67th Street, New York, NY 10065, USA
Trans Am Clin Climatol Assoc 123:193-207; discussion 207-8. 2012..The OR was even higher for Qatari natives. Understanding the reasons for this increase, including genetic differences, lifestyle, and medical management issues, is critical for the design and prioritization of effective interventions...- Comparative effectiveness research: a cornerstone of healthcare reform?Alvin I Mushlin
Department of Public Health, Weill Cornell Medical Center, 402 East 67th Street, New York, NY 10065, USA
Trans Am Clin Climatol Assoc 121:141-54; discussion 154-5. 2010..We also argue that the requirement for data from CER will create long-term disincentives for "me-too" drugs and devices and, therefore, become a catalyst for effective innovation... 
The value of diagnostic information to patients with chest pain suggestive of coronary artery diseaseAlvin I Mushlin
Department of Public Health, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
Med Decis Making 25:149-57. 2005..Decision analyses and clinical guidelines do not routinely consider this, in part because methods are not well developed for measuring the value of testing to patients...
Development and validation of a patient self-assessment score for diabetes riskHeejung Bang
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and FOJP Service Corporation, New York, NY 10065, USA
Ann Intern Med 151:775-83. 2009..National guidelines disagree on who should be screened for undiagnosed diabetes. No existing diabetes risk score is highly generalizable or widely followed...- Relation of different measures of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol to risk of coronary artery disease and death in a meta-regression analysis of large-scale trials of statin therapyJorge R Kizer
Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
Am J Cardiol 105:1289-96. 2010.... - Accuracy of screening for inhalational anthrax after a bioterrorist attackNathaniel Hupert
Weill Medical College of Cornell University and New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York 10021, USA
Ann Intern Med 139:337-45. 2003..In the aftermath of a large-scale anthrax attack, mass screening to identify early inhalational anthrax may improve both the management of individual cases and the efficiency of health resource utilization... - A cost-benefit analysis of external hip protectors in the nursing home settingLisa A Honkanen
Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Joan and Sanford Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York 10021, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 53:190-7. 2005..To estimate potential cost savings generated by a program of hip protectors in the nursing home from a Medicare perspective... - Glucose testing and insufficient follow-up of abnormal results: a cohort studyLisa M Kern
Department of Public Health, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 6:87. 2006..Our objectives were to measure the rate, the predictors and the results of glucose testing in primary care, including rates of follow-up for abnormal values... - Quality-of-life tradeoffs for hepatitis C treatment: do patients and providers agree?Bruce R Schackman
Department of Public Health, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
Med Decis Making 28:233-42. 2008..Subjects completed rating scale and standard gamble evaluations of current health and hypothetical descriptions of HCV symptoms and treatment side effects on a scale from 0 (death or worse than death) to 1 (best possible health)... - Explaining insurance-related and racial disparities in the surgical management of patients with acute appendicitisFredric M Pieracci
Department of Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 411 East 69th St, No KB 220, New York, NY 10021, USA
Am J Surg 194:57-62. 2007..We hypothesized that these disparities are caused by presenting hospitals' use of LA... - Discordance in TKA expectations between patients and surgeonsHassan M K Ghomrawi
Department of Public Health, Weill Cornell Medical College, 402 East 67th Street, New York, NY 10065, USA
Clin Orthop Relat Res 471:175-80. 2013..Aligning patient and surgeon expectations preoperatively may lead to better postoperative medical and rehabilitation compliance and therefore improve outcomes and increase satisfaction... - Patterns and intensity of medical therapy in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary interventionWilliam B Borden
Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, 1305 York Ave, Eighth Floor, New York, NY 10021, USA
JAMA 305:1882-9. 2011..It is unknown to what degree OMT is applied before PCI in routine practice or whether its use increased after the COURAGE trial... - Benchmarking lung cancer mortality rates in current and former smokersPeter B Bach
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Ave, Box 221, New York, NY 10021, USA
Chest 126:1742-9. 2004..The model is intended for use in analyzing a population of subjects who are undergoing lung cancer screening or receiving lung cancer chemoprevention, to determine whether the intervention has altered lung cancer mortality... - Diagnostic accuracy of patients in performing skin self-examination and the impact of photographySusan A Oliveria
Dermatology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA
Arch Dermatol 140:57-62. 2004..To determine the sensitivity and specificity of skin self-examination (SSE) to detect new and changing moles with and without the aid of baseline digital photographs in patients with dysplastic nevi... - Influence of surgical subspecialty training on in-hospital mortality for gastrectomy and colectomy patientsMark A Callahan
Department of Public Health, Weill Medical College of Cornell University and New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY 10021, USA
Ann Surg 238:629-36; discussion 636-9. 2003..This study examined the relationship of surgeon subspecialty training and interests to in-hospital mortality while controlling for both hospital and surgeon volume... - Comparison of CT perfusion and digital subtraction angiography in the evaluation of delayed cerebral ischemiaRonan P Killeen
Department of Radiology, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, NY 10065, USA
Acad Radiol 18:1094-100. 2011..The purpose is to compare computed tomography perfusion (CTP) and digital subtraction angiography (DSA) for determining DCI in A-SAH... - Can hip protector use cost-effectively prevent fractures in community-dwelling geriatric populations?Lisa A Honkanen
Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:1658-65. 2006..To estimate the cost-effectiveness from a societal perspective of a hip protector (HP) program over the remaining lifetime of individuals initially living at home... - Total hip and total knee arthroplasties: trends and disparities revisitedHeejung Bang
Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA
Am J Orthop (Belle Mead NJ) 39:E95-102. 2010..Our study also revealed that racial disparities were not confined to the elderly or to low-income populations. This may mean that there is an unmet need for these medical procedures among racial minorities... - Modeling the public health response to bioterrorism: using discrete event simulation to design antibiotic distribution centersNathaniel Hupert
Departments of Public Health and Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, USA
Med Decis Making 22:S17-25. 2002..Live exercises to validate the assumptions and outcomes presented here may improve preparedness to respond to bioterrorism... - The cost effectiveness of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: results from the Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial (MADIT)-IIJack Zwanziger
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 47:2310-8. 2006..We sought to evaluate the cost implications of the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD), using utilization, cost, and survival data from the Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial (MADIT)-II... - The cost-effectiveness of low-dose CT screening for lung cancer: preliminary results of baseline screeningJuan P Wisnivesky
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Chest 124:614-21. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: A baseline low-dose CT scan for lung cancer screening is potentially highly cost-effective and compares favorably to the cost-effectiveness ratios of other screening programs... - Quality report cards, selection of cardiac surgeons, and racial disparities: a study of the publication of the New York State Cardiac Surgery ReportsDana B Mukamel
Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Center for Health Policy Research, University of California, Irvine, 111 Academy Way, Suite 220, Irvine, CA 92697 5800, USA
Inquiry 41:435-46. 2004..Furthermore, selection of surgeons for black patients is as sensitive to the published information as is the selection for white patients... - Response to commentary by Dr. Oliver and colleagues on hip protectorsLisa A Honkanen
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:1159-60. 2006 - Changes in racial disparities in access to coronary artery bypass grafting surgery between the late 1990s and early 2000sDana B Mukamel
Center for Health Policy Research, University of California Irvine, 111 Academy Suite, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Med Care 45:664-71. 2007..Minorities, African American patients in particular, have lower utilization rates for coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) and, compared with white patients, they receive care from surgeons with worse records of performance... - Referrals to high-quality cardiac surgeons: patients' race and characteristics of their physiciansDana B Mukamel
Center for Health Policy Research, University of California, 111 Academy Suite 220, Irvine, CA 92697-5800, USA
Health Serv Res 41:1276-95. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: Several different pathways lead blacks to cardiac surgeons of lower quality. Further research is needed to understand the causes and inform policies designed to minimize disparities in access to high-quality providers... - Building a transcontinental affiliation: a new model for academic health centersH Dirk Sostman
The Methodist Hospital, 6565 Fannin Street, Dunn Tower, Executive Office, Suite D200, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Acad Med 80:1046-53. 2005..Since many consider that AHCs are in economic and cultural crisis, successful development of such possibilities could have importance beyond the collective interests of these three institutions... - Quality of cardiac surgeons and managed care contracting practicesDana B Mukamel
University of Rochester Medical Center, NY 14642, USA
Health Serv Res 37:1129-44. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: In some, but not all cases, MCOs are seeking higher-quality providers. Further research is required to understand regional variability and the effect of market structure on the quality profile of MCOs...