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| Darrell J GaskinSummaryAffiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Country: USA Publications
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Residential segregation and the availability of primary care physiciansDarrell J Gaskin
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Health Serv Res 47:2353-76. 2012..To examine the association between residential segregation and geographic access to primary care physicians (PCPs) in metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs)...
The economic costs of pain in the United StatesDarrell J Gaskin
Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, and Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Pain 13:715-24. 2012..Because of its economic toll on society, the nation should invest in research, education, and training to advocate the successful treatment, management, and prevention of pain...- Residential segregation and disparities in health care services utilizationDarrell J Gaskin
Department of Health Policy and Management, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Med Care Res Rev 69:158-75. 2012..Therefore, efforts to improve access to health care services and to eliminate health care disparities for African Americans and Hispanics should not only focus on individual-level factors but also include community-level factors... 
Exploring racial and ethnic disparities in prescription drug spending and use among Medicare beneficiariesDarrell J Gaskin
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 4:96-111. 2006..Little is known about why minority Medicare beneficiaries spend less on and use fewer prescription drugs than white Medicare beneficiaries...- Health status and access to care for children with special health care needsDarrell J Gaskin
Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg, School of Public Health, 624 North Broadway, Room 441, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Ment Health Policy Econ 8:29-35. 2005..About 11-14% of children with special health care needs (CSHCN) have unmet needs during a given year. Little is known about the determinants of unmet health care needs for CSHCN... - An exploration of relative health stock in advanced cancer patientsDarrell J Gaskin
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Med Decis Making 24:614-24. 2004..Specifically, they estimated the effect of relative health stock on advanced cancer patients' decisions to participate in phase I clinical trials... - Do minority patients use lower quality hospitals?Darrell J Gaskin
Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Suite 441, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Inquiry 48:209-20. 2011..Analysts and policymakers should be cautious when making generalizations about the overall service quality of hospitals that treat minority patients... - Do diabetic patients living in racially segregated neighborhoods experience different access and quality of care?Kitty S Chan
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Med Care 50:692-9. 2012..Place of residence, particularly residential segregation, has been implicated in health and health care disparities. However, prior studies have not focused on care for diabetes, a prevalent condition for minority populations... - Perceived discrimination and adherence to medical care in a racially integrated communitySarah Stark Casagrande
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:389-95. 2007..Past research indicates that access to health care and utilization of services varies by sociodemographic characteristics, but little is known about racial differences in health care utilization within racially integrated communities... - Socioeconomic disparities for hearing-impaired children in the United StatesEmily F Boss
Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
Laryngoscope 121:860-6. 2011..This study aims to evaluate disparities in socioeconomic status and healthcare utilization in hearing-impaired children using a nationally representative sample... - Examining racial and ethnic disparities in site of usual source of careDarrell J Gaskin
Morgan Hopkins Center of Health Disparities Solutions, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 99:22-30. 2007..Therefore, in addition to focusing on provider-patient relationships, perhaps future research and policymakers should focus on system-level factors to explain and increase minority use of care in private physicians' offices... - Level of evidence of the value of care in federally qualified health centers for policy makingKevin Frick
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Prog Community Health Partnersh 1:75-82. 2007..Not all cost-effectiveness studies employ formal peer-reviewed methodologies. A review of the literature on CHCs' cost effectiveness is necessary to assess whether a higher level of evidence is needed to guide future policy... - The determinants of HMOs' contracting with hospitals for bypass surgeryDarrell J Gaskin
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Health Serv Res 37:963-84. 2002..However, are HMOs compromising quality to lower costs? To address this and other questions we identify factors that influence HMOs' selective contracting for coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG)... - The correlation between patient characteristics and expectations of benefit from Phase I clinical trialsKevin P Weinfurt
Center for Clinical and Genetic Economics, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27715, USA
Cancer 98:166-75. 2003..The authors examined a range of patient characteristics to determine which factors were associated with greater expectations of benefit from Phase I trials... - Do children receiving Supplemental Security Income who are enrolled in Medicaid fare better under a fee-for-service or comprehensive capitation model?Jean M Mitchell
Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia 20007, USA
Pediatrics 114:196-204. 2004..Little research has examined how children with SHCN who qualify for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) fare under managed care versus the fee-for-service (FFS) system... - Factors affecting plan choice and unmet need among supplemental security income eligible children with disabilitiesJean M Mitchell
Georgetown Public Policy Institute, 3520 Prospect St. NW, Room 423, Washington, DC 20007, USA
Health Serv Res 40:1379-99. 2005.... - Plan choice and changes in access to care over time for SSI-eligible children with disabilitiesPamela N Roberto
US Government Accountability Office, USA
Inquiry 42:145-59. 2005..Possible explanations for the deterioration in access associated with FFS include the lack of case management services, lower reimbursement relative to the partially capitated managed care plan, and provider availability... - Health supervision visits among SSI-eligible children in the D.C. Medicaid program: a comparison of enrollees in fee-for-service and partially capitated managed careJean M Mitchell
Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
Inquiry 45:198-214. 2008..Moreover, we find that selection due to unobservable characteristics does not significantly bias the estimated program effects... - Partially capitated managed care versus FFS for special needs childrenCynthia R Schuster
THE RAND CORPORATION, USA
Health Care Financ Rev 28:109-23. 2007..We attribute much of these disparities in use of therapeutic services at school to the availability of case management and coordination that is an integral component of the partially capitated MCP... - Caregivers' ratings of access: do children with special health care needs fare better under fee-for-service or partially capitated managed care?Jean M Mitchell
Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Washington, DC, USA
Med Care 45:146-53. 2007.... - Hospitals' care of uninsured patients during the 1990s: the relation of teaching status and managed care to changes in market share and market concentrationJoel S Weissman
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital and Partners Healthcare System, Boston 02114, USA
Inquiry 40:84-93. 2003..all patients) was greater in areas with high managed care levels than in areas with low managed care levels (p < .01). These results have implications for the design of payment policies for indigent care...