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Pharmaceutical companies' role in state vaccination policymaking: the case of human papillomavirus vaccinationMichelle M Mello
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Public Health 102:893-8. 2012....
Do Medicare HMOs still reduce health services use after controlling for selection bias?Michelle M Mello
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston 02115, USA
Health Econ 11:323-40. 2002..Medicare HMOs do not, however, appear to reduce the use of physician services...- Effects of a malpractice crisis on specialist supply and patient access to careMichelle M Mello
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Ann Surg 242:621-8. 2005..To investigate specialist physicians' practice decisions in response to liability concerns and their perceptions of the impact of the malpractice environment on patient access to care... - Legal concerns and the influenza vaccine shortageMichelle M Mello
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
JAMA 294:1817-20. 2005 - Decision making and satisfaction with care in the pediatric intensive care unit: findings from a controlled clinical trialMichelle M Mello
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Pediatr Crit Care Med 5:40-7. 2004..To facilitate critical decision making and improve satisfaction with care among families of patients in a pediatric intensive care unit... - Effects of a professional liability crisis on residents' practice decisionsMichelle M Mello
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Obstet Gynecol 105:1287-95. 2005..It was hypothesized that liability concerns would negatively affect Pennsylvania residents' propensity to practice in the state following residency... - Medical malpractice as an epidemiological problemMichelle M Mello
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, 667 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Soc Sci Med 59:39-46. 2004..These findings suggest that the strength of the business case for patient safety depends on the perspective from which one views the data... - Caring for patients in a malpractice crisis: physician satisfaction and quality of careMichelle M Mello
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 23:42-53. 2004..First, perceptions influence behavior with respect to practice environment and clinical decision making. Second, perceptions influence the physician-patient relationship and the interpersonal quality of care... - Academic medical centers' standards for clinical-trial agreements with industryMichelle M Mello
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
N Engl J Med 352:2202-10. 2005..We studied institutional standards regarding contractual provisions that restrict investigators' control over trials... - The role of law in public health: the case of family planning in the PhilippinesMichelle Marie Mello
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Soc Sci Med 63:384-96. 2006.... - Researchers' views of the acceptability of restrictive provisions in clinical trial agreements with industry sponsorsMichelle M Mello
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Account Res 12:163-91. 2005..Medical school faculty could benefit from additional guidance about what their institution views as acceptable parameters for industry-sponsored clinical trial agreements... - "Health courts" and accountability for patient safetyMichelle M Mello
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Milbank Q 84:459-92. 2006.... - Administrative compensation for medical injuries: lessons from three foreign systemsMichelle M Mello
Harvard School of Public Health, USA
Issue Brief (Commonw Fund) 14:1-18. 2011..American policymakers may find many of the elements of these countries' systems to be transferable to demonstration projects in the U.S... - Direct-to-consumer advertising and shared liability for pharmaceutical manufacturersMichelle M Mello
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
JAMA 289:477-81. 2003 - National costs of the medical liability systemMichelle M Mello
Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, and Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 29:1569-77. 2010..Overall annual medical liability system costs, including defensive medicine, are estimated to be $55.6 billion in 2008 dollars, or 2.4 percent of total health care spending... - Wellness programs and lifestyle discrimination--the legal limitsMichelle M Mello
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
N Engl J Med 359:192-9. 2008 - The interplay of public health law and industry self-regulation: the case of sugar-sweetened beverage sales in schoolsMichelle M Mello
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 98:595-604. 2008.... - Changes in physician supply and scope of practice during a malpractice crisis: evidence from PennsylvaniaMichelle M Mello
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 26:w425-35. 2007..We discuss methodological issues that could explain the disparate findings regarding physician supply effects in studies using administrative data sets and survey data... - The experience of a community representative on an ethics consult teamMichelle Mello
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
J Clin Ethics 15:296-301. 2004 - Hospitals' behavior in a tort crisis: observations from PennsylvaniaMichelle M Mello
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 22:225-33. 2003..It concludes by connecting these trends to larger medical malpractice policy issues... - Beyond negligence: avoidability and medical injury compensationAllen B Kachalia
Department of Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, PB 6 Administration, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Soc Sci Med 66:387-402. 2008..Importantly, all three nations are harnessing their systems' power to improve patient safety, and the avoidability standard appears to be well suited for this task... - The future of surgery: today's residents speakElizabeth Breen
Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Curr Surg 62:543-6. 2005..The impact of these changes on the culture of surgery and attitudes about future practice patterns among current surgical residents is unknown... - Confidentiality laws and secrecy in medical research: improving public access to data on drug safetyAaron S Kesselheim
Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 26:483-91. 2007..We suggest regulatory and legislative policy changes regarding how the FDA handles confidential information that can improve understanding of the risks of prescription drugs... - Financial conflicts of interest in physicians' relationships with the pharmaceutical industry--self-regulation in the shadow of federal prosecutionDavid M Studdert
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA
N Engl J Med 351:1891-900. 2004 - The new medical malpractice crisisMichelle M Mello
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA
N Engl J Med 348:2281-4. 2003 - Understanding biased selection in Medicare HMOsMichelle M Mello
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Health Serv Res 38:961-92. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: Our results support further risk adjustment of the adjusted average per capita cost (AAPCC) payment formula... - Medical monitoring for pharmaceutical injuries: tort law for the public's health?David M Studdert
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
JAMA 289:889-94. 2003..Medical monitoring arms the courts with a new mechanism for addressing harms proactively rather than reactively, which could yield new victories for public health... - Defensive medicine among high-risk specialist physicians in a volatile malpractice environmentDavid M Studdert
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
JAMA 293:2609-17. 2005..How often physicians alter their clinical behavior because of the threat of malpractice liability, termed defensive medicine, and the consequences of those changes, are central questions in the ongoing medical malpractice reform debate... - Advance care planning in patients undergoing hematopoietic cell transplantationSteven Joffe
Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 13:65-73. 2007..Even though ACP was more prevalent among this sample than in the general population, its use still could be enhanced, given the high risks of decisional incapacity and death that HCT patients face... - Conflict in the care of patients with prolonged stay in the ICU: types, sources, and predictorsDavid M Studdert
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Intensive Care Med 29:1489-97. 2003..To determine types, sources, and predictors of conflicts among patients with prolonged stay in the ICU... - Claims, errors, and compensation payments in medical malpractice litigationDavid M Studdert
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
N Engl J Med 354:2024-33. 2006..In the current debate over tort reform, critics of the medical malpractice system charge that frivolous litigation--claims that lack evidence of injury, substandard care, or both--is common and costly... - Nature of conflict in the care of pediatric intensive care patients with prolonged stayDavid M Studdert
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Pediatrics 112:553-8. 2003..To determine the frequency, types, sources, and predictors of conflict surrounding the care of pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) patients with prolonged stay... - Disclosure of medical injury to patients: an improbable risk management strategyDavid M Studdert
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 26:215-26. 2007..A policy question more pressing than whether moving toward routine disclosure will expand litigation is the question of how large such an expansion might be... - Are damages caps regressive? A study of malpractice jury verdicts in CaliforniaDavid M Studdert
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 23:54-67. 2004..Use of sliding scales of damages instead of or in conjunction with caps would mitigate their adverse impacts on fairness... - Medical malpracticeDavid M Studdert
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA
N Engl J Med 350:283-92. 2004 - Managing malpractice crisesMichelle M Mello
Harvard School of Public Health, USA
J Law Med Ethics 33:414-5. 2005 - Obesity--the new frontier of public health lawMichelle M Mello
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA
N Engl J Med 354:2601-10. 2006 - Policing Medicaid and Medicare managed care: the role of courts and administrative agenciesMichelle M Mello
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
J Health Polit Policy Law 27:465-94. 2002.... - Fostering rational regulation of patient safetyMichelle M Mello
Harvard School of Public Health, USA
J Health Polit Policy Law 30:375-426. 2005.... - Compact versus contract--industry sponsors' obligations to their research subjectsMichelle M Mello
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA
N Engl J Med 356:2737-43. 2007 - Work hours reform: perceptions and desires of contemporary surgical residentsEdward E Whang
Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
J Am Coll Surg 197:624-30. 2003..The impact of such changes should be carefully monitored as the ACGME requirements are implemented... - Patient safety and medical malpractice: a case studyTroyen A Brennan
Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Ann Intern Med 139:267-73. 2003..They propose targeted reforms that could improve the functioning of the system and create incentives to improve safety and quality... - The Leapfrog standards: ready to jump from marketplace to courtroom?Michelle M Mello
Harvard School of Public Health, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 22:46-59. 2003..This undesirable potential outcome compounds the importance of selecting these standards with the utmost care... - Rationalizing vaccine injury compensationMichelle M Mello
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Bioethics 22:32-42. 2008.... - Due process in investigations of research misconductMichelle M Mello
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston 02115, USA
N Engl J Med 349:1280-6. 2003 - Surgical residents' perceptions of the effects of the ACGME duty hour requirements 1 year after implementationJennifer L Irani
Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Surgery 138:246-53. 2005..However, they report an improved quality of life, and most residents do support the requirements overall... - Obesity--personal choice or public health issue?Michelle M Mello
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab 4:2-3. 2008 - The McLawsuit: the fast-food industry and legal accountability for obesityMichelle M Mello
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 22:207-16. 2003..In this paper we consider the reasonableness of the claims against fast-food companies and discuss several social effects that the litigation may have irrespective of its outcome in court... - Implementing resident work hour limitations: lessons from the New York State experienceEdward E Whang
Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Ann Surg 237:449-55. 2003..As surgical residency programs develop strategies for complying with ACGME requirements, these negative consequences must be addressed... - The pharmaceutical industry versus Medicaid--limits on state initiatives to control prescription-drug costsMichelle M Mello
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA
N Engl J Med 350:608-13. 2004 - The rise of litigation in human subjects researchMichelle M Mello
Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Ann Intern Med 139:40-5. 2003....
Research Grants
- Industry-Sponsored Research Contracts:An Empirical StudyMichelle Mello; Fiscal Year: 2002..The data will be analyzed descriptively and with chi-squared tests and regression analysis. ..
- Industry-Sponsored Research Contracts:..Phase IIMichelle Mello; Fiscal Year: 2004..abstract_text> ..