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Trends and characteristics of culture-confirmed Staphylococcus aureus infections in a large U.S. integrated health care organizationG Thomas Ray
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Northern California Region, Oakland, California, USA
J Clin Microbiol 50:1950-7. 2012..aureus isolates that were MRSA, the proportion decreased between 2006 and 2009. Hospital onset S. aureus infections are disproportionately MRSA, as are those among African-Americans...- Values for preventing influenza-related morbidity and vaccine adverse events in childrenLisa A Prosser
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 133 Brookline Ave, 6th Floor, Boston, MA, USA
Health Qual Life Outcomes 3:18. 2005.... - Hospital-level rates of fluoroquinolone use and the risk of hospital-acquired infection with ciprofloxacin-nonsusceptible Pseudomonas aeruginosaG Thomas Ray
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, California, USA
Clin Infect Dis 41:441-9. 2005..aeruginosa isolates from hospital-acquired infections (hereafter, "hospital-acquired isolates") would be nonsusceptible to ciprofloxacin... - Relationship between use of psychiatric services and five-year alcohol and drug treatment outcomesG Thomas Ray
Division of Research of Kaiser Permanente Northern California, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Psychiatr Serv 56:164-71. 2005..It was anticipated that receipt of psychiatric services would predict long-term abstinence... - Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children: excess costs before and after initial diagnosis and treatment cost differences by ethnicityG Thomas Ray
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Northern California Region, Oakland, Calif 94612, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 160:1063-9. 2006..To estimate the excess costs for children in the years surrounding initial diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and to estimate differences in treatment costs by ethnicity... - The excess medical cost and health problems of family members of persons diagnosed with alcohol or drug problemsG Thomas Ray
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Med Care 45:116-22. 2007..Having a family member with substance use problems affects family functioning, which may lead to increased medical problems and increased health care utilization and costs in the other family members... - Mothers of children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: health conditions and medical care utilization in periods before and after birth of the childG Thomas Ray
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Northern California Region, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Med Care 47:105-14. 2009..Analyzing health conditions and medical utilization of mothers of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can shed light on biologic, environmental, and psychosocial factors relating to ADHD... - Family members of people with alcohol or drug dependence: health problems and medical cost compared to family members of people with diabetes and asthmaG Thomas Ray
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Addiction 104:203-14. 2009..To compare the medical costs and prevalence of health conditions of family members of people with an alcohol or drug dependence (AODD) diagnosis to family members of people with diabetes and asthma... - Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine: economic issues of the introduction of a new childhood vaccineG Thomas Ray
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA 94612 2304, USA
Expert Rev Vaccines 1:65-74. 2002..Some of the scientific and funding issues relating to its use in both the industrialized and developing world are also discussed... - Cost-effectiveness of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine: an update after 7 years of use in the United StatesG Thomas Ray
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program Northern California Region, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Vaccine 27:6483-94. 2009..After incorporating indirect effects on IPD, cost per life-year saved was $10,400. The presence of modest additional indirect effects against hospitalized pneumonia and otitis media in children may have resulted in overall cost savings... - Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine: review of cost-effectiveness studies in Australia, North America and EuropeG Thomas Ray
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Expert Rev Pharmacoecon Outcomes Res 8:373-93. 2008.... - Cost-effectiveness of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine: evidence from the first 5 years of use in the United States incorporating herd effectsG Thomas Ray
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program Northern California Region, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 25:494-501. 2006..Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) has been in routine use in the United States for 5 years. Prior U.S. cost-effectiveness analyses have not taken into account the effect of the vaccine on nonvaccinated persons... - Hazardous drinkers and drug users in HMO primary care: prevalence, medical conditions, and costsJennifer R Mertens
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 29:989-98. 2005..However, little is known about the larger population of "hazardous" drinkers (those whose consumption increases their "risk of physical and psychological harm") and drug users... - A comparison of health care utilization and costs of children with and without autism spectrum disorders in a large group-model health planLisa A Croen
Division of Research, Kaiser Foundation Research Institute, Kaiser Permanente, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Pediatrics 118:e1203-11. 2006..Our purpose for this study was to compare health care utilization and costs of children with and without autism spectrum disorders in the same health plan... - Cost-sharing for emergency care and unfavorable clinical events: findings from the safety and financial ramifications of ED copayments studyJohn Hsu
Kaiser Permanente-Division of Research, 2000 Broadway, 3rd Floor, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Health Serv Res 41:1801-20. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: Relatively modest levels of patient cost-sharing for ED care decreased ED visit rates without increasing the rate of unfavorable clinical events... - Observed costs and health care use of children in a randomized controlled trial of pneumococcal conjugate vaccineG Thomas Ray
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, CA 94611, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 21:361-5. 2002..Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine for infants has recently been found to be effective for prevention of meningitis, bacteremia, pneumonia and otitis media, but it is more costly than previously introduced vaccines... - Readmission among chemical dependency patients in private, outpatient treatment: patterns, correlates and role in long-term outcomeJennifer R Mertens
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, 2000 Broadway, 3rd Floor, Oakland, California 94612 2304, USA
J Stud Alcohol 66:842-7. 2005..We examine readmission patterns and the role of readmission in 5-year outcome in chemical dependency patients in a private, integrated health plan... - Comparing the medical expenses of adults with Medicaid and commercial insurance in a health maintenance organizationG Thomas Ray
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Northern California Region, Oakland, California, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 14:420-35. 2003..The costs of Medicaid-insured adults were substantially higher than those of commercially insured adults; these differences were likely due to higher rates of pregnancy and to worse health status among the Medicaid cohort... - Effect of influenza vaccination on hospitalizations in persons aged 50 years and olderRoger Baxter
Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Vaccine 28:7267-72. 2010..To estimate influenza vaccine effectiveness (VE) in preventing hospitalizations in persons over 50 years of age... - Case-control study of antibiotic use and subsequent Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea in hospitalized patientsRoger Baxter
Permanente Medical Group, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 29:44-50. 2008..To determine which antibiotics increase or decrease the risk of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD)... - Trends in prescribed opioid therapy for non-cancer pain for individuals with prior substance use disordersConstance M Weisner
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Pain 145:287-93. 2009.... - Age and gender trends in long-term opioid analgesic use for noncancer painCynthia I Campbell
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Am J Public Health 100:2541-7. 2010..We describe age and gender trends in long-term use of prescribed opioids for chronic noncancer pain in 2 large health plans... - Limb fractures in elderly men as indicators of subsequent fracture riskBruce Ettinger
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, Calif 94611, USA
Arch Intern Med 163:2741-7. 2003..Whether limb fracture in elderly men predicts future fracture is unknown... - Services integration and cost-effectivenessMichael E Hilton
Division of Clinical and Prevention Research, NIAAA, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 7003, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 27:271-80. 2003..This symposium presents some recent studies in this area. The small but growing body of studies in this area has great potential to inform public policy debates... - Progress in pediatric asthma surveillance II: geospatial patterns of asthma in Alameda County, CaliforniaEric M Roberts
California Department of Health Services, Environmental Health Investigations Branch, Richmond, CA 94804, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 3:A92. 2006..Proceedings of group evaluations suggested that the material aided in the translation of data describing spatial variations in health event risk to address specific community experiences and concerns... - Short-term alcohol and drug treatment outcomes predict long-term outcomeConstance Weisner
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0984, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 71:281-94. 2003..We examined the relationship of 6-month treatment outcomes to abstinence 5 years post-treatment, and whether the predictors of abstinence at 5 years were different for those who were, and were not, abstinent at 6 months... - Preferences and willingness to pay for health states prevented by pneumococcal conjugate vaccineLisa A Prosser
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Pediatrics 113:283-90. 2004..To measure parents' and other adults' values for preventing disease associated with pneumococcal infection and to evaluate how including these values changes the economic appraisal of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine... - Progress in pediatric asthma surveillance I: the application of health care use data in Alameda County, CaliforniaEric M Roberts
California Department of Health Services, Environmental Health Investigations Branch, Richmond, CA 94804, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 3:A91. 2006..In light of these findings, these data have the potential to expand the local health surveillance capacity of communities... - Early discontinuation of treatment for osteoporosisAnna N A Tosteson
Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hannover, New Hampshire 03756, USA
Am J Med 115:209-16. 2003..To identify factors associated with early treatment discontinuation of three agents commonly prescribed for women with low bone density... - Community and patient values for preventing herpes zosterTracy A Lieu
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Pharmacoeconomics 26:235-49. 2008.... - Pediatricians' views on financial barriers and values for pneumococcal vaccine for childrenTracy A Lieu
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School, 133 Brookline Avenue, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Ambul Pediatr 2:358-66. 2002..To 1) describe barriers to pneumococcal conjugate vaccine adoption and 2) estimate the value of the vaccine based on pediatricians' responses to willingness-to-pay questions...