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The health profile of incarcerated male youthsC B Forrest
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Pediatrics 105:286-91. 2000..To identify the health needs of adolescent males incarcerated in a juvenile justice facility and to compare their health profiles with those of male adolescents in the community...- Family physicians' referral decisions: results from the ASPN referral studyChristopher B Forrest
Health Services Research and Development Center, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Fam Pract 51:215-22. 2002..To examine family physicians' referral decisions, which we conceptualized as having 2 phases: whether to refer followed by to whom to refer... - Comparison of specialty referral rates in the United Kingdom and the United States: retrospective cohort analysisChristopher B Forrest
Health Services Research and Development Center, Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
BMJ 325:370-1. 2002 - Primary care physician specialty referral decision making: patient, physician, and health care system determinantsChristopher B Forrest
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Med Decis Making 26:76-85. 2006..To examine the effects of patient, physician, and health care system characteristics on primary care physicians' (PCPs') specialty referral decision making... - Outcomes research in pediatric settings: recent trends and future directionsChristopher B Forrest
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Pediatrics 111:171-8. 2003..Pediatric outcomes research examines the effects of health care delivered in everyday medical settings on the health of children and adolescents. It is an area of inquiry in its nascent stages of development... - Managing the metric vs managing the patient: the physician's view of pay for performanceChristopher B Forrest
Department of Health Policy and Managemen, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Room 689, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Manag Care 12:83-5. 2006 - Managed health plan effects on the specialty referral process: results from the Ambulatory Sentinel Practice Network referral studyChristopher B Forrest
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Med Care 41:242-53. 2003..This study examines the influence of gatekeeping arrangements and capitated primary care physician (PCP) payment on the specialty referral process in primary care settings... - Referral of children to specialists in the United States and the United kingdomChristopher B Forrest
Department of Health Policy and Management, Health Services Research and Development Center, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 157:279-85. 2003..To compare the rates and patterns of children's specialty referrals in the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK)... - Primary care in the United States: primary care gatekeeping and referrals: effective filter or failed experiment?Christopher B Forrest
Health Services Research and Development Center, Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
BMJ 326:692-5. 2003 - Childhood origins of adult health: a basis for life-course health policyChristopher B Forrest
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 23:155-64. 2004..Finally, it requires health policies to foster positive long-term outcomes focused on the individual, family, and community... - Outcomes research on children, adolescents, and their families: directions for future inquiryChristopher B Forrest
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Med Care 42:III19-23. 2004.... - Predictors of children's healthcare use: the value of child versus parental perspectives on healthcare needsChristopher B Forrest
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Med Care 42:232-8. 2004..The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between healthcare use and children's healthcare needs as assessed from the perspectives of children themselves, parents, and healthcare practitioners... - Managed care, primary care, and the patient-practitioner relationshipChristopher B Forrest
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Gen Intern Med 17:270-7. 2002.... - Coordination of specialty referrals and physician satisfaction with referral careC B Forrest
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 154:499-506. 2000..To describe how physicians coordinate patient care for specialty referrals and to examine the effects of these activities on referring physicians' satisfaction with the specialty care their patients receive and referral completion... - Primary care safety-net delivery sites in the United States: A comparison of community health centers, hospital outpatient departments, and physicians' officesC B Forrest
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Room 689, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
JAMA 284:2077-83. 2000..The US primary care safety net is composed of a loose network of community health centers, hospital outpatient departments, and physicians' offices. National data on how the mix of patients and services differ across sites are needed... - The pediatric primary-specialty care interface: how pediatricians refer children and adolescents to specialty careC B Forrest
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 153:705-14. 1999..To describe how pediatricians refer patients to specialists, including frequency of referral decisions, reasons for referral, and types of referrals... - Gatekeeping and referral of children and adolescents to specialty careC B Forrest
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Pediatrics 104:28-34. 1999..In this study we examined how gatekeeping arrangements influence referrals to specialty care for children and adolescents in private and Medicaid insurance plans... - Self-referral in point-of-service health plansC B Forrest
Health Services Research and Development Center, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Room 689, Baltimore, MD 21205USA
JAMA 285:2223-31. 2001..Few data are available from formal evaluations of this new type of plan... - Prevalence of health problems and primary care physicians' specialty referral decisionsC B Forrest
Health Services Research and Development Center, Department of Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Fam Pract 50:427-32. 2001..The researchers tested the hypothesis that the frequency with which patients present to primary care physicians with certain types of health problems is inversely related to the chances of specialty referral during an office visit... - Reliability and validity of the adolescent health profile-typesA W Riley
Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Med Care 36:1237-48. 1998..The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the preliminary reliability and validity of a set 13 profiles of adolescent health that describe distinct patterns of health and health service requirements on four domains of health... - A taxonomy of adolescent health: development of the adolescent health profile-typesA W Riley
Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Med Care 36:1228-36. 1998..The intent was to be able to assign individuals to mutually exclusive and exhaustive groups that characterize the important aspects of their health and need for health services... - Consumer experiences and provider perceptions of the quality of primary care: implications for managed careB Starfield
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Fam Pract 46:216-26. 1998..The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which consumer and provider reports of primary care differ according to particular characteristics of the primary care setting... - Entry into primary care and continuity: the effects of accessC B Forrest
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Public Health 88:1330-6. 1998..This study examined the relationship between access and use of primary care physicians as sources of first contact and continuity with the medical system... - Child health services research. Challenges and opportunitiesC B Forrest
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
JAMA 277:1787-93. 1997.... - Parental preferences for primary and specialty care collaboration in the management of teenagers with congenital heart diseaseM R Miller
Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Pediatrics 106:264-9. 2000..We examined parental preferences for locus of service delivery for their teenager's congenital heart disease (CHD) and the influence of disease severity, sociodemographic factors, and insurance on these preferences... - Does community-governed nonprofit primary care improve access to services? Cross-sectional survey of practice characteristicsPeter Crampton
Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, New Zealand
Int J Health Serv 35:465-78. 2005..The findings support the shift to nonprofit community governance occurring in New Zealand and elsewhere... - Adjusting for case mix and social class in examining variation in home visits between practicesCaoimhe O Sullivan
Public Health Policy Unit, School of Public Policy, University College London, UK
Fam Pract 21:355-63. 2004..The purpose of this study was to investigate whether adjusting for clinical case mix and social class explains more of the variation in home visits between general practices than adjusting for age and sex alone... - Health center trends, 1994-2001: what do they portend for the federal growth initiative?Ann S O'Malley
Center for Studying Health System Change, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 24:465-72. 2005..There were no disparities in visit-based preventive services delivery by race/ethnicity or insurance status. Continued growth under the initiative is likely to help reduce health disparities and improve care for the underserved... - Assessment of children's health-related quality of life in the United States with a multidimensional indexAlan E Simon
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Pediatrics 121:e118-26. 2008.... - Perceived health status and use of healthcare services among children and adolescentsSilvina Berra
Catalan Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Research CAHTA, Barcelona, Spain
Eur J Public Health 16:405-14. 2006.... - Immunization disparities in older Americans: determinants and future research needsAnn S O'Malley
Center for Studying Health System Change, Washington, DC 20024 2512, USA
Am J Prev Med 31:150-8. 2006..This study sought to assess the contribution that patient, physician, health system, and area-level characteristics make to these racial disparities in immunization... - Predictors of voluntary disenrollment from Medicare managed careJudy H Ng
National Committee for Quality Assurance, Washington, District of Columbia 20036, USA
Med Care 45:513-20. 2007..However, total selection bias depends not only on who enrolls, but also on who disenrolls. Few studies examine selectivity in disenrollment; it is unclear how those who leave plans differ from those who remain... - Specialty referral completion among primary care patients: results from the ASPN Referral StudyChristopher B Forrest
Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Ann Fam Med 5:361-7. 2007..This study describes referral completion from the perspectives of patients and primary care physicians and identifies predictors of adherence to the referral recommendation... - Self-perceived health, functioning and well-being of very low birth weight infants at age 20 yearsMaureen Hack
Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
J Pediatr 151:635-41, 641.e1-2. 2007..To examine the self-perceived health of very low birth weight (VLBW; <1.5 kg) infants during young adulthood... - The Child Report Form of the CHIP-Child Edition: reliability and validityAnne W Riley
Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Med Care 42:221-31. 2004..There is increasing recognition of the importance of obtaining children's reports of their health, but significant challenges must be overcome to do so in a systematic, population-based manner... - The Parent Report Form of the CHIP-Child Edition: reliability and validityAnne W Riley
Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Med Care 42:210-20. 2004.... - Beyond the examination room: primary care performance and the patient-physician relationship for low-income womenAnn S O'Malley
Georgetown University Medical Center, Cancer Control Program, Lombardi Cancer Center, Washington, DC, USA
J Gen Intern Med 17:66-74. 2002..To assess whether primary care performance of low-income women's primary care delivery sites is associated with the strength of their relationships with their physicians... - Specialty referrals made during telephone conversations with parents: a study from the pediatric research in office settings networkGordon B Glade
Pediatric Research in Office Settings PROS, Center for Child Health Research, American Academy of Pediatrics, Elk Grove Village, IL, USA
Ambul Pediatr 2:93-8. 2002.... - Comparing apples with apples in clinical populations: applications of the adjusted Clinical Group System in British ColumbiaRobert J Reid
Department of Healthcare and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
Healthc Manage Forum 15:11-6. 2002..The article describes how adjusted clinical groups are being applied to adjust capitation payments for physician groups in British Columbia's Primary Care Demonstration Project and profiles of physician practice activity... - The mismatch between urban women's preferences for and experiences with primary careChristopher B Forrest
Georgetown University Medical Center, Division of Cancer Prevention, Lombardi Cancer Center, Washington, DC, USA
Womens Health Issues 12:191-203. 2002..Differences in primary care attainment are not solely a matter of personal preferences; rather, they appear to be more strongly related to barriers to obtaining care... - Variability in physician referral decisionsBarbara Starfield
School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
J Am Board Fam Pract 15:473-80. 2002..The impact of this variability on costs and outcome could be considerable and deserves more intensive study... - Vulnerability and the patient-practitioner relationship: the roles of gatekeeping and primary care performanceLeiyu Shi
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Public Health 93:138-44. 2003.... - Which enrollees bypass their gatekeepers in a point-of-service plan?Barbara L Braun
Health Research Center, Park Nicollet Institute, St Louis Park, Minnesota 55416, USA
Med Care 41:836-41. 2003..The main objective of this study was to contrast patients who self-referred with those referred by their primary care physician... - Adherence of low-income women to cancer screening recommendationsAnn S O'Malley
Department of Oncology, Georgetown University Medical Center, 2233 Wisconsin Ave NW, Suite 440, Washington, D C 20007, USA
J Gen Intern Med 17:144-54. 2002..African-American and low-income women have lower rates of cancer screening and higher rates of late-stage disease than do their counterparts... - Comorbidity: implications for the importance of primary care in 'case' managementBarbara Starfield
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Ann Fam Med 1:8-14. 2003..Although comorbidity is very common in the population, little is known about the types of health service that are used by people with comorbid conditions... - Primary care attributes and care for depression among low-income African American womenAnn S O'Malley
Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
Am J Public Health 93:1328-34. 2003..We examined the association between attributes of primary care providers and care for depression, from a patients' perspective, among a sample of predominantly low-income African American women... - Counting child health care professionals: will the United States ever have a coherent workforce policy for children's health care?Christopher B Forrest
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 158:13-4. 2004 - Perceptions of physician shortagesBarbara Starfield
JAMA 291:1696; author reply 1696. 2004 - Appendicitis-pediatric surgeons versus general surgeonsScott A Shipman
Pediatrics 109:988-9. 2002 - Diagnostic scope of and exposure to primary care physicians in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States: cross sectional analysis of results from three national surveysAndrew B Bindman
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, 1001 Potrero Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
BMJ 334:1261. 2007..To compare mix of patients, scope of practice, and duration of visit in primary care physicians in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States... - Correlates of behavioral care management strategies used by primary care pediatric providersJames P Guevara
Division of General Pediatrics, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Ambul Pediatr 7:160-6. 2007..To identify correlates of behavioral management strategies and to test whether children with more severe behavioral problems have care transferred to mental health specialists... - Modernizing pediatric primary care to better manage children's behavioral healthJames P Guevara
Curr Opin Pediatr 18:639-40. 2006 - Adoption of liquid-based cervical cancer screening tests by family physicians and gynecologistsKaren M Rappaport
Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Genetics and Public Policy Studies, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Health Serv Res 39:927-47. 2004..Commercial marketing campaigns appear to contribute to the more rapid rate of diffusion of technology among specialists compared with generalists... - Strengthening primary care to bolster the health care safety netChristopher B Forrest
JAMA 295:1062-4. 2006 - Childhood behavioral functioning and general pediatricsChristopher B Forrest
Curr Opin Pediatr 15:621-3. 2003 - Healthcare insurance for all children: a necessary first step towards improving the health of the nationChristopher B Forrest
Curr Opin Pediatr 17:751-2. 2005 - Disparities despite coverage: gaps in colorectal cancer screening among Medicare beneficiariesAnn S O'Malley
Cancer Control Program, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:2129-35. 2005..Despite its effectiveness in reducing mortality, colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates are low, especially among low-income and minority groups; however, physician recommendation can increase screening rates...