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| Amy E WallaceSummaryAffiliation: Dartmouth Medical School Country: USA Publications
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The influence of provider sex on neurologists' annual incomesWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group REAP, United States
Clin Neurol Neurosurg 109:38-44. 2007..We sought to determine the influence of provider sex on neurologists' annual incomes after controlling for work effort, provider characteristics, and practice characteristics...
Women, alcohol, and the military: cultural changes and reductions in later alcohol problems among female veteransAmy E Wallace
Veterans Administration Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 18:1347-53. 2009..In the 1980s, the military conformed to all U.S. states' 21-year minimum legal drinking age (MLDA), and established prevention and intervention policies for abusive drinking...- Tobacco cessation counseling across the agesAmy E Wallace
Outcomes Group REAP, White River Junction, Vermont, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:1425-8. 2006..To examine recent rates of tobacco cessation counseling and whether patient age or sex was associated with providers' adherence to tobacco cessation guidelines... - A longitudinal analysis of rural and urban veterans' health-related quality of lifeAmy E Wallace
Veterans Administration Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA
J Rural Health 26:156-63. 2010..Cross-sectional studies have identified rural-urban disparities in veterans' health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) scores... - Racial, socioeconomic, and rural-urban disparities in obesity-related bariatric surgeryAmy E Wallace
Veterans Rural Health Resource Center Eastern Region, VAMC 11Q, WRJ, VT 05009, USA
Obes Surg 20:1354-60. 2010..We examined the likelihood of bariatric surgery among morbidly obese patients across rural/urban locales, racial/ethnic groups, insurance categories, socioeconomic, and comorbidity levels... - Do older rural and urban veterans experience different rates of unplanned readmission to VA and non-VA hospitals?William B Weeks
Field Office, VA National Center for Patient Safety, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
J Rural Health 25:62-9. 2009..Unplanned readmission within 30 days of discharge is an indicator of hospital quality... - Rural-urban differences in primary care physicians' practice patterns, characteristics, and incomesWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program, White River Junction VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
J Rural Health 24:161-70. 2008..Low salaries and difficult work conditions are perceived as a major barrier to the recruitment of primary care physicians to rural settings... - Impact of rural residence on survival of male veterans affairs patients after age 65Todd A MacKenzie
Veterans Rural Health Resource Center Eastern Region, White River Junction VA Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont, USA Todd MacKenzie Dartmouth edu
J Rural Health 26:318-24. 2010..The objective of our study was to compare survival between rural and urban VA users... - Rural-urban disparities in health-related quality of life within disease categories of VeteransWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program, White River Junction, VT, USA
J Rural Health 22:204-11. 2006..Compared to their urban counterparts, rural veterans have been found to have lower health-related quality of life... 
Rural veterans and access to high-quality care for high-risk surgeriesAlan N West
VA Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
Health Serv Res 43:1737-51. 2008....- Rural and urban disparities in health-related quality of life among veterans with psychiatric disordersAmy E Wallace
Department of Psychiatry, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA amy e wal
Psychiatr Serv 57:851-6. 2006..The authors studied whether rural and urban disparities in health-related quality of life, demonstrated previously among veterans, persist among veterans with common psychiatric disorders... - Gender differences in the annual income of psychiatristsWilliam B Weeks
Department of Veterans Affairs Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program, Veterans Affairs Medical Center 11Q, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
Psychiatr Serv 58:515-20. 2007..This study examined whether a gender income gap among psychiatrists persisted in the 1990s... - Unintended consequences of regionalizing specialized VA addiction servicesAmy E Wallace
Administration Medical Center, Department of Veterans Affairs VA Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Awards Program, 215 North Hartland Rd, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
Psychiatr Serv 58:668-74. 2007..By using New York State as an example, this study examined whether regionalization disproportionately affected rural versus urban veterans' use of VA and non-VA inpatient addiction services... - Gender differences in ophthalmologists' annual incomesWilliam B Weeks
Veterans Affairs Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA
Ophthalmology 114:1696-701. 2007..To understand the association between provider gender and ophthalmologists' annual incomes... - When VA patients have non-VA hospitalizations, who pays for what services, and what are the research implications? A New York case studyAlan N West
VA Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program, White River Junction VA Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA
Med Care 46:872-7. 2008.... - A cross-sectional, multi-year examination of rural and urban Veterans Administration users: 2002-2006Amy E Wallace
VAMC Office of Rural Health, Veterans Rural Health Resource Center Eastern Region, 215 N Main Street, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
Mil Med 175:252-8. 2010..Anticipating and meeting the needs of rural VA users will require accurate identification of those who lack access to services and therefore defining "rural" appropriately... - Research on rural veterans: an analysis of the literatureWilliam B Weeks
Veterans Rural Health Initiative, White River Junction VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT, USA
J Rural Health 24:337-44. 2008..The Veterans Health Administration (VA) provides comprehensive health care services to veterans across the United States. Recently, the VA established an Office of Rural Health to address the health care needs of rural veterans... - Differences in the annual incomes of emergency physicians related to genderWilliam B Weeks
Veterans Administration Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program, White River Junction, VT, USA
Acad Emerg Med 14:434-40. 2007..To examine the association between physician gender and income for emergency physicians (EPs) after correcting for factors likely to influence income... - The impact of the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel Enhancement Act of 2004 on VA physicians' salaries and retentionWilliam B Weeks
White River Junction VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT, USA
J Health Care Finance 35:13-23. 2009.... - Gender differences in dermatologists' annual incomesWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program REAP, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA
Cutis 80:325-32. 2007..Researchers should further explore the relationship between the gender and incomes of physicians to determine what additional factors might cause the differences that we found... - Absence of race- or gender-specific income disparities among full-time white and Asian general internists working for the Veterans AdministrationWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group REAP, White River Junction VAMC, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA
Gend Med 7:64-70. 2010..Gender-based, but not race-based, income disparities exist among general internists who practice medicine in the private sector... - Race and gender differences in pediatricians' annual incomesWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group REAP, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
Ambul Pediatr 7:196-200. 2007..To determine the association between race, gender, and pediatricians' annual incomes after controlling for work effort, provider characteristics, and practice characteristics... - Gender differences in anesthesiologists' annual incomesWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program, Veterans Administration Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont, USA
Anesthesiology 106:806-11. 2007.... - Does the VA offer good health care value?William B Weeks
White River Junction VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT, USA
J Health Care Finance 35:1-12. 2009..We sought to determine whether the VA provides health care at a low cost... - Comparing the characteristics, utilization, efficiency, and outcomes of VA and non-VA inpatient care provided to VA enrollees: a case study in New YorkWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program, White River Junction VA Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA
Med Care 46:863-71. 2008..To compare the characteristics, utilization, and outcomes of Veterans Health Administration (VA) and non-VA inpatient care provided to VA enrollees in New York... - Reducing avoidable deaths among veterans: directing private-sector surgical care to high-performance hospitalsWilliam B Weeks
Veterans Administration VA Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program, VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
Am J Public Health 97:2186-92. 2007..We quantified older (65 years and older) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) patients' use of the private sector to obtain 14 surgical procedures and assessed the potential impact of directing that care to high-performance hospitals... - Characteristics of rural and urban cadaveric organ transplant donors and recipientsWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program, VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
J Rural Health 22:264-8. 2006..Health disparities have been found when comparing rural and urban populations. Purpose: To compare characteristics of rural and urban cadaveric transplant donors and recipients... - Substance abuse intensive outpatient treatment: does program graduation matter?Amy E Wallace
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 27:27-30. 2004..Further research is needed to discern optimal treatment length-that which maximizes both length of stay and completion rates, while optimizing use of limited treatment resources... - The more things change: revisiting a comparison of educational costs and incomes of physicians and other professionalsWilliam B Weeks
Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Acad Med 77:312-9. 2002.... - Time and money: a retrospective evaluation of the inputs, outputs, efficiency, and incomes of physiciansWilliam B Weeks
Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA
Arch Intern Med 163:944-8. 2003..We sought to determine whether physicians are working longer hours and whether their incomes are declining... - Readability of British and American medical prose at the start of the 21st centuryWilliam B Weeks
Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA
BMJ 325:1451-2. 2002 - Long-term financial implications of specialty training for physiciansWilliam B Weeks
Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Am J Med 113:393-9. 2002..Given the recent changes in physician reimbursement and managed care penetration, we examined the financial returns that might be anticipated when considering different medical careers... - Changes in authorship patterns in prestigious US medical journalsWilliam B Weeks
Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA
Soc Sci Med 59:1949-54. 2004..The growth in the number of authors on bylines and the proportion of group-authored manuscripts is likely to reflect the increasing complexity of medical research... - Is a management degree worth the investment for physicians? A survey of members of the American College of Physician ExecutivesWilliam B Weeks
Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
J Med Pract Manage 23:232-7. 2008..These findings have implications for early and mid-career physicians and physician recruiters... - Practical and policy implications of using different rural-urban classification systems: a case study of inpatient service utilization among Veterans Administration usersEthan M Berke
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, HB 7251, 35 Centerra Parkway, Room 206, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA
J Rural Health 25:259-66. 2009..Several classification systems exist for defining rural areas, which may lead to different interpretations of rural health services data... - Return on educational investment in geriatrics trainingWilliam B Weeks
Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:1940-5. 2004..Financial returns and the incentives they create should be carefully considered in meeting the anticipated geriatrics workforce needs of the nation... - Gender differences in diagnostic radiologists' annual incomesWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group REAP, Dartmouth Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, VAMC (11Q, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA
Acad Radiol 13:1266-73. 2006..Researchers should further explore the relationship between physician gender and incomes to determine what factors might cause the differences that we found... - Race and gender differences in general internists' annual incomesWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program, White River Junction VAMC, White River Junction, VT 05009, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:1167-71. 2006..Specialty, work effort, and female gender have been shown to be associated with physicians' annual incomes; however, racial differences in physician incomes have not been examined... - Women's primary care providers and breast cancer screening: who's following the guidelines?Amy E Wallace
VA Outcomes Group REAP, VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT 05009 0001, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 194:744-8. 2006..However, the providers who are responsible for women's preventive health care differ in breast cancer screening guideline adherence. We compared screening practices across provider specialty and training degree types... - A cumulative meta-analysis of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in pediatric depression: did unpublished studies influence the efficacy/safety debate?Amy E Wallace
Veterans Health Administration, White River Junction, Vermont 05009, USA
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 16:37-58. 2006.... - How do race and sex affect the earnings of primary care physicians?William B Weeks
Veterans Affairs VA Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Awards Program REAP in White River Junction, Vermont, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 28:557-66. 2009..Our findings suggest that addressing the underlying causes of sex-based income differences should be a priority for health professional organizations, particularly as more women enter the physician workforce... - Differences in income between male and female primary care physiciansAmy E Wallace
Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, USA
J Am Med Womens Assoc 57:180-4. 2002.... - Medicare payment changes and physicians' incomesWilliam B Weeks
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA
J Health Care Finance 29:18-26. 2002..Should academic incomes remain uncompetitive with private sector incomes, it may be increasingly difficult to persuade physicians to enter academic careers... - The influence of physician race and gender on obstetrician-gynecologists' annual incomesWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group REAP, VA National Quality Scholars Fellowship Program, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth, VT, USA
Obstet Gynecol 108:603-11. 2006..These findings warrant further exploration to ensure that income differences among physicians are not unjustly driven by race or gender... - Association of race and gender with general surgeons' annual incomesWilliam B Weeks
VA Outcomes Group Research Enhancement Award Program, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA
J Am Coll Surg 203:558-67. 2006..These findings warrant additional exploration to ensure that income differences among physicians are not unjustly determined by race or gender... - Financial returns on specialty training for surgeonsWilliam B Weeks
Departments of Psychiatry, Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA
Surgery 132:795-802. 2002..Financial returns and the incentives they create should be carefully considered as part of health care reform... - Relations between brain pathology and temporal lobe epilepsyXia Zhang
Neuropsychiatry Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 5E4
J Neurosci 22:6052-61. 2002.... - The costs of making practice more cost-effectiveWilliam B Weeks
JAMA 287:1648; author reply 1649-50. 2002 - The U.S. military as a natural experiment: changes in drinking age, military environment, and later alcohol treatment episodes among veteransAmy E Wallace
Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
Mil Med 173:619-25. 2008..80 and 0.60 those of civilians. The military's concerted efforts to enforce the 21-year minimum legal drinking age were associated with greater reductions in later alcohol treatment episodes among veterans compared with civilians...