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The validity of race and ethnicity in enrollment data for Medicare beneficiariesAlan M Zaslavsky
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Health Serv Res 47:1300-21. 2012..To assess the validity of race/ethnicity in Medicare databases for studies of racial/ethnic disparities...- Predictors of health-related quality of life in patients with colorectal cancerKathleen J Yost
Center on Outcomes, Research and Education, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Evanston, IL 60201, USA
Health Qual Life Outcomes 6:66. 2008..The objectives of this study were to identify predictors of HRQL in patients with colorectal cancer and interpret the clinical importance of the results... 
Using hierarchical models to attribute sources of variation in consumer assessments of health careAlan M Zaslavsky
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Stat Med 26:1885-900. 2007..Each of the two analyses can be regarded as a simplification for particular objectives of a larger underlying model. Further methodological development is needed to better characterize variation in quality...- Dimensions of consumer-assessed quality of Medicare managed-care health plansA M Zaslavsky
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Med Care 38:162-74. 2000..We sought a more parsimonious description of the reports that can be used in analyses of the distribution and correlates of consumer-assessed quality... - Dimensions of plan performance for sick and healthy members on the Consumer Assessments of Health Plans Study 2.0 surveyAlan M Zaslavsky
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Med Care 40:951-64. 2002..The quality of health plan care may differ for members in good and poor health... - Statistical issues in reporting quality data: small samples and casemix variationA M Zaslavsky
Department of Health Care Policcy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 5899, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 13:481-8. 2001..To present two key statistical issues that arise in analysis and reporting of quality data... - Impact of sociodemographic case mix on the HEDIS measures of health plan qualityA M Zaslavsky
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Med Care 38:981-92. 2000..The widely used Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measures may be affected by differences among plans in sociodemographic characteristics of members... - Testing for statistical discrimination by race/ethnicity in panel data for depression treatment in primary careThomas G McGuire
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Health Serv Res 43:531-51. 2008..To test for discrimination by race/ethnicity arising from clinical uncertainty in treatment for depression, also known as "statistical discrimination.".. - Profiling providers on use of adjuvant chemotherapy by combining cancer registry and medical record dataHui Zheng
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, and Division of Epidemiology and Outcomes Research, Partners AIDS Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02115, USA
Med Care 44:1-7. 2006..Using additional information from a physician survey and applying rigorous statistical models, better inferences can be drawn about provider quality... - Comparing methods of racial and ethnic disparities measurement across different settings of mental health careBenjamin Lê Cook
Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research, Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, 120 Beacon St, 4th Floor, Somerville, MA 02143, USA
Health Serv Res 45:825-47. 2010..The ability to track improvement against racial/ethnic disparities in mental health care is hindered by the varying methods and disparity definitions used in previous research... - Trends in the quality of care and racial disparities in Medicare managed careAmal N Trivedi
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA
N Engl J Med 353:692-700. 2005..Future research should examine factors that contributed to the narrowing of racial disparities on some measures and focus on interventions to eliminate persistent disparities in the quality of care... - National quality monitoring of Medicare health plans: the relationship between enrollees' reports and the quality of clinical careE C Schneider
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Med Care 39:1313-25. 2001..The clinical quality of health plans varies. The associations between different measures of health plan quality are incompletely understood... - Case-mix adjustment of the CAHPS Hospital SurveyAlan M Zaslavsky
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115-5899, USA
Health Serv Res 40:2162-81. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: Case-mix adjustment has a small impact on hospital ratings, but can lead to important reductions in the bias in comparisons between hospitals... - Use of health services by previously uninsured Medicare beneficiariesJ Michael McWilliams
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
N Engl J Med 357:143-53. 2007..Previously uninsured adults who enroll in the Medicare program at the age of 65 years may have greater morbidity, requiring more intensive and costlier care over subsequent years, than they would if they had been previously insured... - Implementing the Institute of Medicine definition of disparities: an application to mental health careThomas G McGuire
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Health Serv Res 41:1979-2005. 2006..With such a definition, disparities can be estimated by adjusting for group differences in models for expenditures and access to mental health services... - Childhood adversities and adult psychiatric disorders in the national comorbidity survey replication II: associations with persistence of DSM-IV disordersKatie A McLaughlin
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 67:124-32. 2010..This distinction is important for conceptual and practical purposes... - Childhood adversities and adult psychiatric disorders in the national comorbidity survey replication I: associations with first onset of DSM-IV disordersJennifer Greif Green
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 67:113-23. 2010..Because CAs are highly clustered, this approach results in overestimating the importance of individual CAs. Multivariate CA studies have been based on insufficiently complex models... - Health plan characteristics and consumers' assessments of qualityB E Landon
Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 20:274-86. 2001..Health plans accredited by the National Committee for Quality Assurance did not receive higher scores... - Racial disparity in influenza vaccination: does managed care narrow the gap between African Americans and whites?E C Schneider
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Fourth Floor, Boston, MA 02115, USA
JAMA 286:1455-60. 2001..Substantial racial disparities exist in use of some health services. Whether managed care could reduce racial disparities in the use of preventive services is not known... - Exploratory factor analyses of the CAHPS Hospital Pilot Survey responses across and within medical, surgical, and obstetric servicesAlan M Zaslavsky
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115-5899, USA
Health Serv Res 40:2078-95. 2005..When studying individual-level variability, a more differentiated structure is probably more appropriate... - Unmet health needs of uninsured adults in the United StatesJ Z Ayanian
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
JAMA 284:2061-9. 2000..In 1998, 33 million US adults aged 18 to 64 years lacked health insurance. Determining the unmet health needs of this population may aid efforts to improve access to care... - Patient characteristics and hospital quality for colorectal cancer surgeryWei Zhang
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 19:11-20. 2007.... - Impact of Medicare coverage on basic clinical services for previously uninsured adultsJ Michael McWilliams
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
JAMA 290:757-64. 2003..An affordable option through which near-elderly uninsured adults could purchase Medicare coverage might have similar effects... - The financial implications of availability and quality of a usual source of care for children with special health care needsChia Ling Liu
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Kresge Building 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Matern Child Health J 12:243-59. 2008.... - Health of previously uninsured adults after acquiring Medicare coverageJ Michael McWilliams
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
JAMA 298:2886-94. 2007..However, the health benefits of providing insurance coverage for uninsured adults have not been clearly demonstrated... - Using survey measures to assess risk selection among Medicare managed care plansAlan M Zaslavsky
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Inquiry 39:138-51. 2002..Hence, improved risk adjustment for chronic conditions may be warranted. Moreover, survey measures have the potential to measure the prevalence of such conditions reliably and consistently across plans... - Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: concordance of the adolescent version of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview Version 3.0 (CIDI) with the K-SADS in the US National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent (NCS-A) supplementJennifer Greif Green
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 19:34-49. 2010..78]. Implications for assessing ADHD using the CIDI and the effect of different informants on measurement are discussed... - Plan, geographical, and temporal variation of consumer assessments of ambulatory health careAlan M Zaslavsky
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115-5899, USA
Health Serv Res 39:1467-85. 2004.... - Language proficiency and the enrollment of Medicaid-eligible children in publicly funded health insurance programsEmily Feinberg
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Matern Child Health J 6:5-18. 2002..The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of language proficiency on enrollment in a state-sponsored child health insurance program... - Associations between structural capabilities of primary care practices and performance on selected quality measuresMark W Friedberg
Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Ann Intern Med 151:456-63. 2009..Whether practices with these capabilities have higher performance on measures of primary care quality is unknown... - Health risks, chronic diseases, and access to care among US Pacific IslandersAsaf Bitton
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 5899, USA
J Gen Intern Med 25:435-40. 2010..Because Pacific Islanders and Asian Americans have often been aggregated in federal health surveys, we assessed whether they differ substantially in important health measures... - Age-related differences in preventive care among adults with diabetesStephen D Persell
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Med 116:630-4. 2004 - Education and race-ethnicity differences in the lifetime risk of alcohol dependenceS E Gilman
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 62:224-30. 2008..This study attempts to clarify the nature and extent of social inequalities in alcohol dependence by investigating the effects of SES and race-ethnicity on the development of alcohol dependence following first alcohol use... - The effects of latent variables in the development of comorbidity among common mental disordersRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Depress Anxiety 28:29-39. 2011.... - National comorbidity survey replication adolescent supplement (NCS-A): II. Overview and designRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 48:380-5. 2009..To present an overview of the design and field procedures of the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A)... - Patient and physician reminders to promote colorectal cancer screening: a randomized controlled trialThomas D Sequist
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:364-71. 2009..Screening reduces colorectal cancer mortality, but effective screening tests remain underused. Systematic reminders to patients and physicians could increase screening rates.. 
Clinician- and organization-level factors in the adoption of evidence-based care for depression in primary careRachel M Henke
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Care Manage Rev 33:289-99. 2008..We explore organizational and clinician factors affecting patient receipt of guideline-concordant services...- Randomized trial of $20 versus $50 incentives to increase physician survey response ratesNancy L Keating
Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Med Care 46:878-81. 2008..Recent experiences of survey researchers suggest that physicians are becoming less willing to complete surveys... - Individual and societal effects of mental disorders on earnings in the United States: results from the national comorbidity survey replicationRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Psychiatry 165:703-11. 2008..The purpose of this report was to update previous estimates of the association between mental disorders and earnings. Current estimates for 2002 are based on data from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R)... - Assessment of the scientific soundness of clinical performance measures: a field test of the National Committee for Quality Assurance's colorectal cancer screening measureEric C Schneider
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, and Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 677 Huntington Ave, Room 406, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Arch Intern Med 168:876-82. 2008..This study evaluated quality measures by describing a field test of the colorectal cancer screening measure included in the Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set of the National Committee for Quality Assurance... - Physician reminders to promote surveillance colonoscopy for colorectal adenomas: a randomized controlled trialJohn Z Ayanian
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:762-7. 2008..Most colorectal cancers develop from adenomatous polyps. National guidelines recommend surveillance colonoscopy within 5 years after such polyps are removed... - Screening for serious mental illness in the general populationRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Suite 215, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 60:184-9. 2003..Public Law 102-321 established a block grant for adults with "serious mental illness" (SMI) and required the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to develop a method to estimate the prevalence of SMI... - Reducing bias in parameter estimates from stepwise regression in proportional hazards regression with right-censored dataChang Heok Soh
Genentech, Inc, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
Lifetime Data Anal 14:65-85. 2008..The proposed method is illustrated with data sets in primary biliary cirrhosis and in multiple myeloma from the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group... - Use of adjuvant chemotherapy and radiation therapy for colorectal cancer in a population-based cohortJohn Z Ayanian
Division of General Medicine and Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Clin Oncol 21:1293-300. 2003..This population-based study was designed to assess use of these treatments in clinical practice... - National comorbidity survey replication adolescent supplement (NCS-A): III. Concordance of DSM-IV/CIDI diagnoses with clinical reassessmentsRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 48:386-99. 2009..0 in the U.S. National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A)... - Differences in control of cardiovascular disease and diabetes by race, ethnicity, and education: U.S. trends from 1999 to 2006 and effects of medicare coverageJ Michael McWilliams
Harvard Medical School, Department of Health Care Policy, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Ann Intern Med 150:505-15. 2009..Efforts to improve the care of cardiovascular disease and diabetes or expand insurance coverage for adults with these conditions may reduce differences in clinical outcomes... - Development of lifetime comorbidity in the World Health Organization world mental health surveysRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 68:90-100. 2011..Although numerous studies have examined the role of latent variables in the structure of comorbidity among mental disorders, none has examined their role in the development of comorbidity... - Flexible epidemiological model for estimates and short-term projections in generalised HIV/AIDS epidemicsDaniel R Hogan
Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard School of Public Health, 718 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Sex Transm Infect 86:ii84-92. 2010..Our objective was to develop modifications to the current model that improve fit to recently observed prevalence trends across countries... - Patients' experiences with care for lung cancer and colorectal cancer: findings from the Cancer Care Outcomes Research and Surveillance ConsortiumJohn Z Ayanian
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Clin Oncol 28:4154-61. 2010..To assess patients' experiences with cancer care, ratings of their quality of care, and correlates of these assessments... - The relationship between patients' perception of care and measures of hospital quality and safetyThomas Isaac
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Health Serv Res 45:1024-40. 2010..We used data from the Hospital Quality Alliance to assess technical performance in medical and surgical processes of care and calculated Patient Safety Indicators to measure medical and surgical complication rates... - Screening for serious mental illness in the general population with the K6 screening scale: results from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) survey initiativeRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 19:4-22. 2010..83; range 0.76-0.89; inter-quartile range 0.81-0.85). Based on this result, optimal scaling rules are presented for use by investigators working with the K6 scale in the countries studied... - Racial disparities in the quality of care for enrollees in medicare managed careEric C Schneider
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
JAMA 287:1288-94. 2002..Substantial racial disparities in the use of some health services exist; however, much less is known about racial disparities in the quality of care... - Patterns and predictors of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder persistence into adulthood: results from the national comorbidity survey replicationRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Biol Psychiatry 57:1442-51. 2005..Despite growing interest in adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), little is known about predictors of persistence of childhood cases into adulthood... - Medicare spending for previously uninsured adultsJ Michael McWilliams
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Ann Intern Med 151:757-66. 2009..Medicare spending after age 65 years may be higher for previously uninsured adults if suboptimal care before this age leads to irreversible complications, persistently elevated clinical risks, or delay of costly elective procedures... - Attributing sources of variation in patients' experiences of ambulatory careHector P Rodriguez
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095 1772, USA
Med Care 47:835-41. 2009..The extent to which performance variation is attributable to physicians versus other system-level units, however, remains unclear... - Design and field procedures in the US National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A)Ronald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 18:69-83. 2009..Taken together, these results show that the NCS-A is an efficient sample of the target population with good representativeness on a range of socio-demographic and geographic variables... - Discussions with physicians about hospice among patients with metastatic lung cancerHaiden A Huskamp
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:954-62. 2009..Many terminally ill patients enroll in hospice only in the final days before death or not at all. Discussing hospice with a health care provider could increase awareness of hospice and possibly result in earlier use... - Quality of diabetes care among cancer survivors with diabetesNancy L Keating
Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Med Care 45:869-75. 2007..Among patients with chronic medical conditions, unrelated conditions are often undertreated... - Prevalence and treatment of mental disorders, 1990 to 2003Ronald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
N Engl J Med 352:2515-23. 2005..Although the 1990s saw enormous change in the mental health care system in the United States, little is known about changes in the prevalence or rate of treatment of mental disorders... - Quality of care in for-profit and not-for-profit health plans enrolling Medicare beneficiariesEric C Schneider
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
Am J Med 118:1392-400. 2005..For-profit health plans now enroll the majority of Medicare beneficiaries who select managed care. Prior research has produced conflicting results about whether for-profit health plans provide lower quality of care... - Cardiac procedure use following acute myocardial infarction among American IndiansThomas D Sequist
Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Am Heart J 151:909-14. 2006..We compared rates of cardiac catheterization, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), and coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery between AI and whites with AMI... - Evaluating the planned substitution of the minimum data set-post acute care for use in the rehabilitation hospital prospective payment systemJoan L Buchanan
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Med Care 42:155-63. 2004..FIM trade mark is a trademark of the Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation, a division of UB Foundation Activites, Inc... - The prevalence and correlates of adult ADHD in the United States: results from the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Psychiatry 163:716-23. 2006..Despite growing interest in adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), little is known about its prevalence or correlates... - Variations in hospice use among cancer patientsNancy L Keating
Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 98:1053-9. 2006.... - Undiagnosed hypertension and hypercholesterolemia among uninsured and insured adults in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyJohn Z Ayanian
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 93:2051-4. 2003 - Health insurance coverage and mortality among the near-elderlyJ Michael McWilliams
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 23:223-33. 2004..Expanding coverage to the near-elderly uninsured may greatly improve health outcomes for these groups... - Comparison of performance of traditional Medicare vs Medicare managed careBruce E Landon
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
JAMA 291:1744-52. 2004..Since 2000, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been collecting information on beneficiaries' experiences with health care for Medicare managed care (MMC) and traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare... - How patients' sociodemographic characteristics affect comparisons of competing health plans in California on HEDIS quality measuresAlan M Zaslavsky
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston 02115, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 17:67-74. 2005.... - Psychometric properties of a group-level Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPS) instrumentLoel S Solomon
Health Policy, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02150, USA
Med Care 43:53-60. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: The G-CAHPS instrument provides an assessment of selected aspects of care that are important to consumers and could be a useful complement to the plan-level CAHPS instrument... - Sample and design considerations in post-disaster mental health needs assessment tracking surveysRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 17:S6-S20. 2008.... - Combining information from cancer registry and medical records data to improve analyses of adjuvant cancer therapiesYulei He
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Biometrics 65:946-52. 2009..The proposed methodology is applied to the data from the Quality of Cancer Care project, in which stage II or III colorectal cancer patients were eligible to receive adjuvant chemotherapy and radiation therapy... - Use of high-cost operative procedures by Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in for-profit and not-for-profit health plansEric C Schneider
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
N Engl J Med 350:143-50. 2004..Until recently, data to address this question have been limited... - Multiple imputation in a large-scale complex survey: a practical guideY He
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Stat Methods Med Res 19:653-70. 2010..We present the implementation process in detail as an example for practitioners and discuss some of the challenging issues which need further research... - Physicians' reports of focused expertise in clinical practiceN L Keating
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Gen Intern Med 15:417-20. 2000..Learning how focused expertise affects processes and outcomes of care will contribute to decisions about physician training and staffing of medical groups... - Using telephone interviews to reduce nonresponse bias to mail surveys of health plan membersFloyd Jackson Fowler
Center for Survey Research, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, USA
Med Care 40:190-200. 2002..Nonresponse to phone surveys is less directly related to survey content. Telephone interviews with mail nonrespondents not only increase response rates but also can produce less biased samples than mail-only protocols... - Prevalence, severity, and unmet need for treatment of mental disorders in the World Health Organization World Mental Health SurveysKoen Demyttenaere
JAMA 291:2581-90. 2004..Structural barriers exist to this reallocation. Careful consideration needs to be given to the value of treating some mild cases, especially those at risk for progressing to more serious disorders... - A multistate Markov chain model for longitudinal, categorical quality-of-life data subject to non-ignorable missingnessBernard F Cole
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Section of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Dartmouth College Medical School, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
Stat Med 24:2317-34. 2005..We apply the techniques to data from a breast cancer clinical trial in which QOL assessments were made longitudinally, and in which missing data frequently arose... - Integrating research on racial and ethnic disparities in health care over place and timeAlan M Zaslavsky
Med Care 43:303-7. 2005 - Adjusting Pediatric Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPS) Scores to Ensure Fair Comparison of Health Plan PerformancesMinah Kim
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Med Care 43:44-52. 2005..Users should consider estimating separate models for Medicaid and commercially insured respondents. Such models should adjust for child health status, parent age, and parent education... - Factors affecting response rates to the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study surveyAlan M Zaslavsky
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Med Care 40:485-99. 2002..Further efforts to explore the determinants of response rates are warranted... - Understanding cancer patients' experience and outcomes: development and pilot study of the Cancer Care Outcomes Research and Surveillance patient surveyJennifer L Malin
Division of General Internal Medicine Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Support Care Cancer 14:837-48. 2006..The keystone to this effort is the baseline patient survey administered approximately 4 months after diagnosis... - Patients' perceptions of quality of care for colorectal cancer by race, ethnicity, and languageJohn Z Ayanian
Division of General Medicine and Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Clin Oncol 23:6576-86. 2005..To identify opportunities for improving care, we evaluated patients' perceptions of the quality of their cancer care by race, ethnicity, and language... - Relation of hospital volume to colostomy rates and survival for patients with rectal cancerDavid C Hodgson
Department of Radiation Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Natl Cancer Inst 95:708-16. 2003..Identifying processes of care that contribute to these differences may improve patients' outcomes in all hospitals... - An assessment tool translation studyJoan L Buchanan
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Health Care Financ Rev 24:45-60. 2003..This article describes the translation efforts and some of the problems that led policymakers to abandon the effort... - Relationship between quality of care and racial disparities in Medicare health plansAmal N Trivedi
Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
JAMA 296:1998-2004. 2006..Therefore, plan-specific performance reports of racial disparities on outcome measures would provide useful information not currently conveyed by standard HEDIS reports... - Completeness of information on adjuvant therapies for colorectal cancer in population-based cancer registriesRosemary D Cress
California Cancer Registry, Sacramento, California 95815, USA
Med Care 41:1006-12. 2003..Population-based cancer registries represent a potentially valuable tool to evaluate treatment; however, information on the completeness of registry treatment data is sparse... - Access to care and use of preventive services by Hispanics: state-based variations from 1991 to 2004Minah Kang-Kim
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
Med Care 46:507-15. 2008..State-level disparities in access to physicians and preventive services between Hispanics and whites may have changed over time... - Combining health plan performance indicators into simpler composite measuresAlan M Zaslavsky
Health Care Financ Rev 23:101-15. 2002..These summaries are substantively interpretable, internally consistent, and describe the majority of variation among units in the performance scores analyzed... - Relation of surgeon and hospital volume to processes and outcomes of colorectal cancer surgerySelwyn O Rogers
Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Ann Surg 244:1003-11. 2006..Further study of processes that led to these differences may improve the quality of colorectal cancer care... - Variation in patient-reported quality among health care organizationsLoel S Solomon
Health Care Financ Rev 23:85-100. 2002..There was significant variation among RSOs, groups and sites, with practice sites explaining the greatest share of variation for most measures... - A national study of the relationship of care site HIV specialization to early adoption of highly active antiretroviral therapyIra B Wilson
Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Med Care 43:12-20. 2005..CONCLUSION: In 1996 there were wide variations in rates of HAART use by site of care. Low-volume sites that do not specialize in HIV care should take measures to ensure that HIV expertise is available to their patients... - Continuity of health insurance coverage for children with special health care needsChia Ling Liu
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Matern Child Health J 9:363-75. 2005..To assess the continuity of health insurance coverage and its associated factors for children with special health care needs (CSHCN)... - Methods used to streamline the CAHPS Hospital SurveySan Keller
American Institutes for Research (AIR, Chapel Hill, NC 27510, USA
Health Serv Res 40:2057-77. 2005.... - Consumer assessments of care for children and adults in health plans: how do they compare?Chunliu Zhan
Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
Med Care 40:145-54. 2002..This study examined how adult and child assessments differed in ranking health plans and explored whether the differences justified the additional cost and respondent burden in administering both surveys... - Estimation of mortality rates for disease simulation models using Bayesian evidence synthesisPamela M McMahon
Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Med Decis Making 26:497-511. 2006..This approach is suggested when modeling a disease that causes a large proportion of all-cause mortality, particularly when mortality from the disease of interest and other-cause mortality are both affected by the same risk factor...
Research Grants
- Psychometric Analyses of the CIDI-AAlan Zaslavsky; Fiscal Year: 2007..g., Area Resources File, CPS, etc.). ..