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| M A ArmstrongSummaryAffiliation: Kaiser Permanente Country: USA Publications
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Using drink size to talk about drinking during pregnancy: a randomized clinical trial of Early Start PlusMary Anne Armstrong
Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Soc Work Health Care 48:90-103. 2009..No differences between ES and ESP were statistically significant. ESP provides clinicians with an innovative assessment tool that creates open dialogue about drinking during pregnancy...
Utilization of health services among patients referred to an alcohol treatment programM A Armstrong
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, California 94611 5714, USA
Subst Use Misuse 36:1781-93. 2001..Amount of treatment received had little effect on utilization. These results suggest that alcoholism treatment contributes to a reduction in higher cost health services utilization...- Alcohol consumption and utilization of health services in a health maintenance organizationM A Armstrong
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, CA 94611, USA
Med Care 36:1599-605. 1998..This study examined the relation between alcohol use and utilization of health services during a 3-year period in a sample of 4,264 adult respondents to a member health survey in a health maintenance organization... - Rehospitalization in the first two weeks after discharge from the neonatal intensive care unitG J Escobar
Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Division of Research, Oakland, CA 94611, USA
Pediatrics 104:e2. 1999..Most studies on this subject report aggregate data over periods ranging from 1 to 3 years postdischarge. Little is known about events that are temporally close to NICU discharge... - Rehospitalisation after birth hospitalisation: patterns among infants of all gestationsG J Escobar
Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Division of Research, Perinatal Research Unit, 2000 Broadway, 2nd Floor, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Arch Dis Child 90:125-31. 2005..To analyse rehospitalisation of newborns of all gestations... 
Substance abuse treatment linked with prenatal visits improves perinatal outcomes: a new standardN C Goler
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Permanente Medical Group, Northern California Region, Vallejo, CA 94590 2406, USA
J Perinatol 28:597-603. 2008..To evaluate the impact of Early Start, an obstetric clinic-based prenatal substance abuse treatment program, on perinatal outcomes...- Unstudied infants: outcomes of moderately premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unitG J Escobar
Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Division of Research, Perinatal Research Unit, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 91:F238-44. 2006..Newborns of 30-34 weeks gestation comprise 3.9% of all live births in the United States and 32% of all premature infants. They have been studied much less than very low birthweight infants... - Risk of pulmonary embolism and/or deep venous thrombosis in Asian-AmericansA L Klatsky
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, California 94611, USA
Am J Cardiol 85:1334-7. 2000..Possible explanations include the absence of hazardous mutations or unspecified PE/DVT protective traits in Asians... - Early Start: an obstetric clinic-based, perinatal substance abuse intervention programM A Armstrong
Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Division of Research, Oakland, California, USA
Qual Manag Health Care 9:6-15. 2001..We also highlight two important program characteristics: the partnership with a perinatal health services research unit and the degree to which the program could be "exported" to other managed care settings... - Neonatal sepsis workups in infants >/=2000 grams at birth: A population-based studyG J Escobar
Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Division of Research, Perinatal Research Unit, Oakland, California 94611, USA
Pediatrics 106:256-63. 2000..Few data are available on the outcome of neonatal sepsis evaluations in an era when intrapartum antibiotic therapy is common... - Intrauterine contraception: evaluation of clinician practice patterns in Kaiser Permanente Northern CaliforniaDebbie Postlethwaite
Kaiser Permanente Women s Health Research Institute, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Contraception 75:177-84. 2007.... - Wine, liquor, beer, and mortalityArthur L Klatsky
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Oakland, CA 94611, USA
Am J Epidemiol 158:585-95. 2003.... - Rehospitalization for neonatal dehydration: a nested case-control studyGabriel J Escobar
Division of Research, Perinatal Research Unit, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, CA 94611, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 156:155-61. 2002..To determine the incidence of neonatal dehydration leading to rehospitalization, whether clinical and health services data could predict its occurrence, and the outcome of dehydrated infants... - Changes in rates of hysterectomy and uterine conserving procedures for treatment of uterine leiomyomaGavin F Jacobson
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 196:601.e1-5; discussion 601.e5-6. 2007..The purpose of this study was to investigate treatment of uterine leiomyoma by hysterectomy and uterine conserving procedures (UCPs)... - Hysterectomy rates for benign indicationsGavin F Jacobson
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, USA
Obstet Gynecol 107:1278-83. 2006..To investigate the annual rates, types, and indications for hysterectomies performed for benign disease in Kaiser Permanente Northern California from 1994 to 2003... - Predictors of hysterectomy after uterine artery embolization for leiomyomaKatherine Gabriel Cox
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 196:588.e1-6. 2007..This study was undertaken to describe long-term outcomes after uterine artery embolization for leiomyoma... - Documentation of contraception and pregnancy when prescribing potentially teratogenic medications for reproductive-age womenEleanor Bimla Schwarz
Center for Research on Health Care, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Ann Intern Med 147:370-6. 2007..Certain medications are identified by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as class D or X because they increase the risk for birth defects if used during pregnancy... - Using chart reviews to assess postpartum substance abuse. A pilot studyLorraine T Midanik
School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley, 120 Haviland Hall 7400, Berkeley, CA 94720 7400, USA
Soc Work Health Care 38:25-35. 2004..These findings underscore the need to interview women to obtain postpartum substance use information and suggest that providers may not adequately address this issue... - Alcohol drinking and risk of hemorrhagic strokeArthur L Klatsky
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Oakland, Calif 94611, USA
Neuroepidemiology 21:115-22. 2002..Beverage choice (wine, beer, and liquor) was not independently related. We conclude that only heavy drinking is weakly related to increased HS risk and that light drinking need not be proscribed with respect to HS risk... - Risk of hemorrhagic stroke in Asian American ethnic groupsArthur L Klatsky
Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, CA 94611, USA
Neuroepidemiology 25:26-31. 2005..6 (1.1-2.3, p = 0.01), due substantially to increased risks of SAH in Japanese people and ICH in Filipinos. These data mandate emphasis upon preventive measures in these groups... - Perinatal substance abuse intervention in obstetric clinics decreases adverse neonatal outcomesMary Anne Armstrong
Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Division of Research, Perinatal Research Unit, Oakland, CA 94611, USA
J Perinatol 23:3-9. 2003..The babies of SAT women did as well as control infants on rates of assisted ventilation, low birth weight, and preterm delivery. They had lower rates of these three neonatal outcomes than infants of either SA or S women... - Alcohol and in-patient utilization: what is the shape of the relationship?Mary Anne Armstrong
Addiction 100:30; author reply 30-2. 2005
Research Grants
- HOW MUCH DOES SHE REALLY DRINK? AN HMO INTERVENTIONMary Armstrong; Fiscal Year: 2003..abstract_text> ..
- Validation of a Prenatal Alcohol and Drug Screening ToolMary Armstrong; Fiscal Year: 2007..Through this study, physicians and other prenatal care providers will be able to identify substance abusing pregnant women so as to refer them into appropriate services, ultimately improving pregnancy and child outcome. ..