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| Danny McCormickSummaryAffiliation: Harvard University Country: USA Publications
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Prevalence and quality of warfarin use for patients with atrial fibrillation in the long-term care settingD McCormick
Department of Medicine, Cambridge Hospital, 1493 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Arch Intern Med 161:2458-63. 2001..Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines recommend the use of warfarin sodium for stroke prevention in most patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) who do not have risk factors for hemorrhagic complications, irrespective of age...
U.S. physicians' views on financing options to expand health insurance coverage: a national surveyDanny McCormick
Department of Medicine, Cambridge Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
J Gen Intern Med 24:526-31. 2009..Physician opinion can influence the prospects for health care reform, yet there are few recent data on physician views on reform proposals or access to medical care in the United States...- Relationship between low quality-of-care scores and HMOs' subsequent public disclosure of quality-of-care scoresDanny McCormick
Department of Medicine, Cambridge Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 1493 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
JAMA 288:1484-90. 2002..But, because disclosure is voluntary, some HMOs could subvert these objectives by refusing to release unfavorable data... - Single-payer national health insurance. Physicians' viewsDanny McCormick
Department of Medicine, Cambridge Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Arch Intern Med 164:300-4. 2004..One proposed solution is a single-payer health care financing system with universal coverage. Yet, physicians' views of such a system have not been well studied... - The health and health care of US prisoners: results of a nationwide surveyAndrew P Wilper
Departmentof Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, USA
Am J Public Health 99:666-72. 2009..We analyzed the prevalence of chronic illnesses, including mental illness, and access to health care among US inmates... 
Hypertension, diabetes, and elevated cholesterol among insured and uninsured U.S. adultsAndrew P Wilper
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 28:w1151-9. 2009..Undiagnosed and uncontrolled chronic illness, which is common among insured people, is even more frequent among the uninsured...- Lack of health coverage among US veterans from 1987 to 2004David U Himmelstein
Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Mass 02139, USA
Am J Public Health 97:2199-203. 2007..We sought to determine how many veterans were uninsured, trends in veterans' coverage, and whether uninsured veterans lacked access to medical care... - Health insurance and mortality in US adultsAndrew P Wilper
Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA
Am J Public Health 99:2289-95. 2009..A 1993 study found a 25% higher risk of death among uninsured compared with privately insured adults. We analyzed the relationship between uninsurance and death with more recent data... - Characteristics of recipients of free prescription drug samples: a nationally representative analysisSarah L Cutrona
Department of Medicine, Cambridge Hospital, 1493 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Am J Public Health 98:284-9. 2008..Free prescription drug samples are used widely in the United States. We sought to examine characteristics of free drug sample recipients nationwide... - A national study of chronic disease prevalence and access to care in uninsured U.S. adultsAndrew P Wilper
Cambridge Health Alliance Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
Ann Intern Med 149:170-6. 2008..No recent national studies have assessed chronic illness prevalence or access to care among persons without insurance in the United States... - Life and health insurance industry investments in fast foodArun V Mohan
Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Am J Public Health 100:1029-30. 2010..Insurers own $1.88 billion of stock in the 5 leading fast food companies. We argue that insurers ought to be held to a higher standard of corporate responsibility, and we offer potential solutions... - Access to care after Massachusetts' health care reform: a safety net hospital patient surveyDanny McCormick
Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, 1493 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
J Gen Intern Med 27:1548-54. 2012..Massachusetts' health care reform substantially decreased the percentage of uninsured residents. However, less is known about how reform affected access to care, especially according to insurance type... - Waits to see an emergency department physician: U.S. trends and predictors, 1997-2004Andrew P Wilper
Harvard Medical School affiliated with the Cambridge Health Alliance, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 27:w84-95. 2008..2 percent per year. Blacks, Hispanics, women, and patients seen in urban EDs waited longer than other patients did... - U.S. medical students' knowledge about the military draft, the Geneva Conventions, and military medical ethicsJ Wesley Boyd
Int J Health Serv 37:643-50. 2007..9 percent could not state when they would be required to disobey an unethical order... - Massachusetts reform and disparities in inpatient care utilizationAmresh D Hanchate
VA Boston Healthcare System, USA
Med Care 50:569-77. 2012..Yet, little is known about the reform's impact on actual health care utilization among poor and minority populations, particularly for receipt of inpatient surgical procedures that are commonly initiated by outpatient physician referral... - Reasons why patients remain uninsured after Massachusetts' health care reform: a survey of patients at a safety-net hospitalRachel Nardin
Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, 1493 Cambridge St Macht 420, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
J Gen Intern Med 27:250-6. 2012..Following the 2006 Massachusetts health care reform, an estimated 316,492 residents remain uninsured. However, there have been no published studies that examine why Massachusetts residents remain uninsured four years into health reform... - Do minorities in the United States receive fewer mental health services than whites?Karen E Lasser
Department of Medicine, Cambridge Hospital, MA 02139, USA
Int J Health Serv 32:567-78. 2002..6 vs. 85.1; P < .0001 for both comparisons) and drug therapy (38.3 and 29.1 vs. 71.8; P < .0001 for both comparisons). These results indicate that minorities receive about half as much outpatient mental health care as whites... - News media coverage of medication research: reporting pharmaceutical company funding and use of generic medication namesMichael Hochman
Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, and Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
JAMA 300:1544-50. 2008..Little is known about how frequently news articles report when medication research has received funding from pharmaceutical companies or how frequently news articles use generic vs brand medication names... - Characteristics of published comparative effectiveness studies of medicationsMichael Hochman
Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
JAMA 303:951-8. 2010..Policy makers and physician organizations have recently called for more comparative effectiveness (CE) research, yet little is known about existing CE studies... - America's neglected veterans: 1.7 million who served have no health coverageSteffie Woolhandler
Harvard Medical School, USA
Int J Health Serv 35:313-23. 2005..Thus millions of U.S. veterans and their family members are uninsured and face grave difficulties in gaining access to even the most basic medical care...