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Mental comorbidity and quality of diabetes care under Medicaid: a 50-state analysisBenjamin G Druss
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Med Care 50:428-33. 2012..With the anticipated expansion of Medicaid under health reform, it is particularly important to develop national estimates of the magnitude and correlates of quality deficits related to mental comorbidity among Medicaid enrollees...
Budget impact and sustainability of medical care management for persons with serious mental illnessesBenjamin G Druss
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Psychiatry 168:1171-8. 2011..The authors assessed the 2-year outcomes, costs, and financial sustainability of a medical care management intervention for community mental health settings...- Collaborative planning approach to inform the implementation of a healthcare manager intervention for Hispanics with serious mental illness: a study protocolLeopoldo J Cabassa
New York State Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, USA
Implement Sci 6:80. 2011.... 
Trends in care by nonphysician clinicians in the United StatesBenjamin G Druss
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
N Engl J Med 348:130-7. 2003....- Listening to generic Prozac: winners, losers, and sidelinersBenjamin G Druss
Mental Health, Emory University in Atlanta, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 23:210-6. 2004..The major loser was Eli Lilly, the manufacturer of Prozac. Consumers and makers of other antidepressants largely remained on the sidelines, with surprisingly little short-term impact evident from Prozac's patent expiration... - The volume-quality relationship of mental health care: does practice make perfect?Benjamin G Druss
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Rd, NE, Rm 606, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Psychiatry 161:2282-6. 2004..The authors examined whether an analogous association exists between the volume of mental health delivery and the quality of mental health care... - Medicine-based evidence in mental healthBenjamin G Druss
Emory University School of Medicine, 1518 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Psychiatr Serv 56:543. 2005 - Tracking publication outcomes of National Institutes of Health grantsBenjamin G Druss
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Med 118:658-63. 2005..This study examines when and how grants funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) lead to publications... - Growth and decentralization of the medical literature: implications for evidence-based medicineBenjamin G Druss
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
J Med Libr Assoc 93:499-501. 2005 - Impairment in role functioning in mental and chronic medical disorders in the United States: results from the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationB G Druss
Department of Health Policy and Management, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Mol Psychiatry 14:728-37. 2009..Efforts to reduce disability will need to address the disproportionate burden and distinct patterns of deficits of mental disorders and the potentially synergistic impact of comorbid mental and chronic medical disorders... - Improving general medical care for persons with mental and addictive disorders: systematic reviewBenjamin G Druss
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta GA 30322, USA
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 28:145-53. 2006..To conduct a systematic review of studies of interventions designed to improve general medical care in persons with mental and addictive disorders... - Major depression, depression treatment and quality of primary medical careBenjamin G Druss
Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 30:20-5. 2008..This study investigated the association between diagnosis of major depression, treatment for major depression and receipt of appropriate primary medical care... - Understanding mental health treatment in persons without mental diagnoses: results from the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationBenjamin G Druss
Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:1196-203. 2007..Concerns have been raised that this pattern might represent evidence of misallocation of treatment resources... - Trends in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services at the Nation's Community Health Centers: 1998-2003Benjamin G Druss
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Am J Public Health 96:1779-84. 2006..We examined trends in delivery of mental health and substance abuse services at the nation's community health centers... - Use of psychotropic medications before and after Sept. 11, 2001Benjamin G Druss
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, USA
Am J Psychiatry 161:1377-83. 2004..This study examined patterns of psychotropic medication use after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks... - A randomized trial of medical care management for community mental health settings: the Primary Care Access, Referral, and Evaluation (PCARE) studyBenjamin G Druss
Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Rd, NE, Rm 606, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Psychiatry 167:151-9. 2010..The authors tested a population-based medical care management intervention designed to improve primary medical care in community mental health settings... - Medical services for clients in community mental health centers: results from a national surveyBenjamin G Druss
Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, 1518 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Psychiatr Serv 59:917-20. 2008..This study provides national data on community mental health centers' (CMHCs') capacity to screen for and address their clients' general medical conditions... - Understanding excess mortality in persons with mental illness: 17-year follow up of a nationally representative US surveyBenjamin G Druss
Rollins School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Med Care 49:599-604. 2011.... - Health care reform and care at the behavioral health--primary care interfaceBenjamin G Druss
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Psychiatr Serv 61:1087-92. 2010.... - Swept away: use of general medical and mental health services among veterans displaced by Hurricane KatrinaBenjamin G Druss
Atlanta VA Medical Center, VA Health System, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Psychiatry 164:154-6. 2007..This study examined national patterns of outpatient service use by veterans from regions affected by Hurricane Katrina... - Should visit length be used as a quality indicator in primary care?Benjamin Druss
Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Lancet 361:1148. 2003 - The Health and Recovery Peer (HARP) Program: a peer-led intervention to improve medical self-management for persons with serious mental illnessBenjamin G Druss
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30316, United States
Schizophr Res 118:264-70. 2010..Persons with serious mental illnesses (SMI) have elevated rates of comorbid medical conditions, but may also face challenges in effectively managing those conditions... - Introduction to the special section on the President's New Freedom Commission reportBenjamin G Druss
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Psychiatr Serv 54:1465-6. 2003 - A survey of mental health leaders one year after the President's New Freedom Commission reportSilke A von Esenwein
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road N E, Room 646, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Psychiatr Serv 56:605-7. 2005..Findings on successes and challenges in implementing the recommendations suggest areas for ongoing efforts to transform mental health care... - Cigarette smoking and overweight/obesity among individuals with serious mental illnesses: a preventive perspectiveMichael T Compton
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, 30303 GA, USA
Harv Rev Psychiatry 14:212-22. 2006..The literature on the prevalence, etiology, prevention, and treatment of these two risk factors, in the context of serious mental illnesses, are reviewed following a preventive approach... - Improving medical care for persons with serious mental illness: challenges and solutionsBenjamin G Druss
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 68:40-4. 2007.... - The relationship between ex ante mortality risk and end-of-life medical costsDavid H Howard
Department of Health Policy and Management, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Appl Health Econ Health Policy 5:37-44. 2006..While the magnitude of spending on end-of-life care is striking, it is difficult to determine if expenditures are wasteful or simply reflect the inherent uncertainty facing physicians... - Rising mental health costs: what are we getting for our money?Benjamin G Druss
Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 25:614-22. 2006..These parallels suggest the importance of learning from and working with the broader health care system in improving the returns on U.S. mental health spending... - Patient-level predictors and clinical correlates of duration of untreated psychosis among hospitalized first-episode patientsMichael T Compton
Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 49 Jesse Hill Jr Drive, SE, Room 333, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 72:225-32. 2011..This study examined patient-level predictors of DUP and clinical correlates of both DUP and duration of untreated illness (DUI), both of which have been implicated as prognostic indicators... - Health services determinants of the duration of untreated psychosis among African-American first-episode patientsMichael T Compton
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
Psychiatr Serv 60:1489-94. 2009.... - Medical utilization among wellness consumersViji Diane Kannan
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Med Care Res Rev 67:722-36. 2010.... - Race-ethnicity as a predictor of attitudes toward mental health treatment seekingRuth S Shim
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA
Psychiatr Serv 60:1336-41. 2009..Attitudes and beliefs about mental health treatment were examined to determine whether they contribute to these disparities... - Quality of diabetes care for underserved patients with and without mental illness: site of care mattersJacqueline Lynn Green
Internal Medicine Residency Program, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30323, USA
Psychiatr Serv 61:1204-10. 2010..This study assessed whether practice setting (outpatient primary care or emergency care) influenced whether patients with mental illness received the same quality of diabetes preventive care as patients without mental illness... - Racial/ethnic differences in mental health service use among adolescents with major depressionJanet R Cummings
Rollins School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 50:160-70. 2011..This study examined differences in mental health service use in non-Hispanic white, black, Hispanic, and Asian adolescents who experienced an episode of major depression... - Integrating wellness, recovery, and self-management for mental health consumersEvelina W Sterling
Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Rd NE, Room 660, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Community Ment Health J 46:130-8. 2010..Developing approaches combining elements of each construct may hold promise for improving the overall health and well-being of persons with serious mental disorders... - A review of HEDIS measures and performance for mental disordersBenjamin G Druss
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Manag Care 13:48-51. 2004..A critical step toward improving performance is to understand where care is provided and then to identify clinicians who are responsible for ensuring that care is delivered appropriately... - Challenges and solutions to integrating mental and physical health careBenjamin G Druss
Department of Health Policy Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 68:e09. 2007.... - A descriptive study of pathways to care among hospitalized urban African American first-episode schizophrenia-spectrum patientsMichael T Compton
Dept. of Psychiatry, Emory University School of Medicine, Grady Memorial Hospital, Box 26238, 80 Jesse Hill Jr. Drive, S.E, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 41:566-73. 2006..Such investigations may provide insights into service enhancements that can promote early detection and intervention, thus improving illness outcomes... - Do we know need when we see it?Benjamin G Druss
Psychiatr Serv 58:295. 2007 - Barriers to primary medical care among patients at a community mental health centerCarolyn Levinson Miller
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, West Haven, Connecticut 06516, USA
Psychiatr Serv 54:1158-60. 2003..The findings suggest the need for community mental health centers to better assess and address barriers to primary medical care... - Using qualitative methods to distill the active ingredients of a multifaceted interventionCarolyn Levinson Miller
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, 950 Campbell Avenue 182, West Haven, CT 06516, USA
Psychiatr Serv 54:568-71. 2003..Qualitative methods can be a useful means of "unpacking" multifaceted mental health services interventions. These methods may make it possible to refine and disseminate these models more widely... - Quality of preventive medical care for patients with mental disordersBenjamin G Druss
Department of Veterans Affairs Northeast Program Evaluation Center, West Haven, Connecticut, USA
Med Care 40:129-36. 2002..This study compares quality of preventive services between persons with and without mental/substance use disorders for a national sample of medical outpatients... - Process of care and outcome after acute myocardial infarction for patients with mental illness in the VA health care system: are there disparities?Laura A Petersen
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, Houston VA Medical Center, TX 77030, USA
Health Serv Res 38:41-63. 2003..To compare process of care and outcome after acute myocardial infarction, for patients with and without mental illness, cared for in the Veterans Health Administration (VA) health care system... - Mental disorders and quality of diabetes care in the veterans health administrationMayur M Desai
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Am J Psychiatry 159:1584-90. 2002..The population of persons with mental disorders is potentially vulnerable to poor quality of medical care. This study examined the relationship between mental disorders and quality of diabetes care in a national sample of veterans... - Receipt of nutrition and exercise counseling among medical outpatients with psychiatric and substance use disordersMayur M Desai
Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Conn 06516, USA
J Gen Intern Med 17:556-60. 2002..This study examines the relationship between mental disorders and the likelihood of receiving recommended nutrition and exercise counseling... - The most expensive medical conditions in AmericaBenjamin G Druss
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 21:105-11. 2002..We use the findings to discuss the role for cost-of-illness and burden-of-disease estimates in setting priorities... - Mental health care quality under managed care in the United States: a view from the Health Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS)Benjamin G Druss
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Am J Psychiatry 159:860-2. 2002..This study examined the rates and correlates of mental health care performance measures in the Health Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS)... - Association of utilization management and treatment plan modifications among practicing U.S. psychiatristsDevra C Mintz
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33101, USA
Am J Psychiatry 161:1103-9. 2004..When compared to evidence-based treatment recommendations, these changes seem likely to result in less than optimal care... - Health beliefs and depression in a group of elderly high utilizers of medical servicesCarolyn M Levinson
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, West Haven, CT 06516, USA
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 27:97-9. 2005..The results of this study suggest that the association between depressive symptoms and medical service use may be more closely related to how patients view their medical illnesses than with how they perceive their need for health care... - Mental health parity, access, and quality of careBenjamin G Druss
Med Care 44:497-8. 2006 - Mental disorders and quality of care among postacute myocardial infarction outpatientsMayur M Desai
Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center and Northeast Program Evaluation Center, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven 06516, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 190:51-3. 2002 - Transforming mental health care at the interface with general medicine: report for the presidents commissionJurgen Unutzer
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington Medical Center, Box 356560, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Psychiatr Serv 57:37-47. 2006.... - A new front in the tobacco warsBenjamin G Druss
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 27:319-20. 2005 - Relationship of total health care charges to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor utilization patterns including the length of antidepressant therapy--results from a managed care administrative claims databaseMichael T Eaddy
Applied Health Outcomes, 3488 East Lake Rd, Suite 201, Palm Harbor, FL 34685, USA
J Manag Care Pharm 11:145-50. 2005..The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between SSRI utilization patterns and the use of health care services in the managed care environment... - An orphan comes of ageBenjamin G Druss
Psychiatr Serv 59:833. 2008 - EBM and quality improvement researchBenjamin G Druss
Psychiatr Serv 58:1255. 2007 - Retractions in the research literature: misconduct or mistakes?Sara B Nath
Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA
Med J Aust 185:152-4. 2006..DATA SOURCE AND STUDY SELECTION: All retractions of English language publications indexed in MEDLINE between 1982 and 2002 were extracted... - The mental health/primary care interface in the United States: history, structure, and contextBenjamin G Druss
Yale University School of Medicine, West Haven, CT 06516, USA
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 24:197-202. 2002..An historical and system-level perspective can provide a crucial step towards improving care on the mental health/primary care interface... - Patients' early discontinuation of antidepressant prescriptionsElizabeth Lewis
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, USA
Psychiatr Serv 55:494. 2004 - Effects of Food and Drug Administration warnings on antidepressant use in a national sampleMark Olfson
New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1051 Riverside Dr, New York, NY 10032, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 65:94-101. 2008....
Research Grants
- DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS IN PRIMARY CARE AND WORK SETTINGSBenjamin Druss; Fiscal Year: 2003..This project will compare the impact of depression and three chronic medical illnesses on health costs, absenteeism and job performance ratings both cross-sectionally and over time. ..
- Mending the Public Safety Net: Improving Linkages Between CHCs and CMHCsBenjamin Druss; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- Adapting a Medical Self-Management Program for a Community Mental Health CenterBenjamin Druss; Fiscal Year: 2007..If successful, it may provide a sustainable, scalable model for improving health behaviors in a highly vulnerable population. ..
- Improving primary care in patients with mental disordersBenjamin Druss; Fiscal Year: 2007..The results will provide data on the feasibility, outcomes, and costs of medical case management for patients with serious mental illnesses. ..
- Improving primary care in patients with mental disordersBenjamin Druss; Fiscal Year: 2006..The results will provide data on the feasibility, outcomes, and costs of medical case management for patients with serious mental illnesses. ..
- Improving Primary Care of Patients with Mental DisordersBenjamin G Druss; Fiscal Year: 2010..When this study is completed, it will provide a model for a medical home for persons with severe mental illness that is clinically robust, and organizationally and financially sustainable. ..