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Racial/ethnic variation in asthma status and management practices among children in managed medicaidTracy A Lieu
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Pediatrics 109:857-65. 2002....
Study protocol: the Adherence and Intensification of Medications (AIM) study--a cluster randomized controlled effectiveness studyMichele Heisler
Veterans Affairs Center for Clinical Management Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System 2215 Fuller Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA
Trials 11:95. 2010..Successful medication management requires an effective partnership between providers who initiate and increase doses of effective medications and patients who adhere to the regimen...- Treatment intensification and risk factor control: toward more clinically relevant quality measuresJoseph V Selby
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Med Care 47:395-402. 2009..Intensification of pharmacotherapy in persons with poorly controlled chronic conditions has been proposed as a clinically meaningful process measure of quality... 
Meaningful variation in performance: what does variation in quality tell us about improving quality?Joseph V Selby
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Med Care 48:133-9. 2010..However, the absolute amount of variation, expressed in clinically meaningful units, is less frequently reported. Moreover, changes in variance components have not been studied as quality improves...- Trends in time to confirmation and recognition of new-onset hypertension, 2002-2006Joe V Selby
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, Calif 94612, USA
Hypertension 56:605-11. 2010..Variability in office-based blood pressure readings suggests that further improvements in recognition and treatment may be achieved with more specific automated approaches to identifying hypertension... - Understanding the gap between good processes of diabetes care and poor intermediate outcomes: Translating Research into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD)Joe V Selby
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Northern California, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Med Care 45:1144-53. 2007..Performance of diabetes clinical care processes has improved recently, but control of hemoglobin A1c (A1c) and other vascular disease risk factors has improved more slowly... - Care-seeking behavior in response to emergency department copaymentsMary Reed
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Med Care 43:810-6. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: When faced with an ED copayment, patients in the health system most commonly shifted toward seeking care from other available alternatives, and rarely avoid medical care altogether... - Unintended consequences of caps on Medicare drug benefitsJohn Hsu
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, Calif 94612, USA
N Engl J Med 354:2349-59. 2006..Little information exists about the consequences of limits on prescription-drug benefits for Medicare beneficiaries... - Meaningful variation in performance: a systematic literature reviewVicki Fung
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, CA, USA
Med Care 48:140-8. 2010..Recommendations for directing quality improvement initiatives at particular levels (eg, patients, physicians, provider groups) have been made on the basis of empirical components of variance analyses of performance... - 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... - Early experiences with e-health services (1999-2002): promise, reality, and implicationsVicki Fung
Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Division of Research, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Med Care 44:491-6. 2006..Subjects with greater clinical need and better ties to the health system were more likely to use both types of e-health services... - Cost-sharing: patient knowledge and effects on seeking emergency department careJohn Hsu
Division of Research, Kaiser Foundation Research Institute, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Med Care 42:290-6. 2004..The use of cost-sharing to control healthcare expenditures is increasing, but there is scant information about patients' knowledge of cost-sharing or its influence on behavior... - Study of Women, Infant Feeding, and Type 2 diabetes mellitus after GDM pregnancy (SWIFT), a prospective cohort study: methodology and designErica P Gunderson
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612 2304, USA
BMC Public Health 11:952. 2011..This report describes the design and methods implemented for this study to obtain the clinical, biochemical, anthropometric, and behavioral measurements during the recruitment and follow-up phases... - Current use of unopposed estrogen and estrogen plus progestin and the risk of acute myocardial infarction among women with diabetes: the Northern California Kaiser Permanente Diabetes Registry, 1995-1998Assiamira Ferrara
Division of Research at Northern California Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, Calif 94612, USA
Circulation 107:43-8. 2003..We examined associations of current HRT, estrogen dosage, and time since HRT initiation with risk of acute MI in diabetic women... - High rates of co-occurrence of hypertension, elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and diabetes mellitus in a large managed care populationJoe V Selby
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Northern California, Oakland, Calif 94612, USA
Am J Manag Care 10:163-70. 2004..CONCLUSION: HT, DL, and DM co-occur in most affected individuals. To avoid fragmentation of care, disease management strategies should aim to manage these conditions within the same programs... - Sex disparities in control and treatment of modifiable cardiovascular disease risk factors among patients with diabetes: Translating Research Into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD) StudyAssiamira Ferrara
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program of Northern California, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Diabetes Care 31:69-74. 2008..Cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality has decreased in men but not in women with diabetes. We investigated whether sex differences in control and treatment of CVD risk factors might underlie this disparity... - Hypoglycemic episodes and risk of dementia in older patients with type 2 diabetes mellitusRachel A Whitmer
Kaiser Permanente, Division of Research, Section of Etiology and Prevention, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
JAMA 301:1565-72. 2009..Although acute hypoglycemia may be associated with cognitive impairment in children with type 1 diabetes, no studies to date have evaluated whether hypoglycemia is a risk factor for dementia in older patients with type 2 diabetes... - Validation of an algorithm for categorizing the severity of hospital emergency department visitsDustin W Ballard
Emergency Department, Kaiser Permanente San Rafael, San Rafael, CA 94903, USA
Med Care 48:58-63. 2010..The New York University Emergency Department (NYU ED) visit severity algorithm attempts to classify visits to the ED based on diagnosis, but it has not been formally validated... - Laboratory monitoring of drugs at initiation of therapy in ambulatory careMarsha A Raebel
Kaiser Permanente of Colorado Clinical Research Unit, Denver, CO 80237 8066, USA
J Gen Intern Med 20:1120-6. 2005..The objective of this study was to describe laboratory monitoring among ambulatory patients dispensed medications for which laboratory testing is recommended at therapy initiation... - Correlates of depression among people with diabetes: The Translating Research Into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD) studyBeth Waitzfelder
Pacific Health Research Institute, Honolulu, HI, United States
Prim Care Diabetes 4:215-22. 2010..Specific aims were to measure the association of depression with: (1) patient characteristics; (2) outcomes; and (3) diabetes-related quality of care... - The effectiveness of diabetes care management in managed careJulie A Schmittdiel
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Northern California, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Am J Manag Care 15:295-301. 2009.... - System-based participatory research in health care: an approach for sustainable translational research and quality improvementJulie A Schmittdiel
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Northern California, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Ann Fam Med 8:256-9. 2010.... - Longitudinal study of new and prevalent use of self-monitoring of blood glucoseAndrew J Karter
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Diabetes Care 29:1757-63. 2006..We sought to assess longitudinal association between self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) and glycemic control in diabetic patients from an integrated health plan (Kaiser Permanente Northern California)... - Missed opportunities in cardiovascular disease prevention?: low rates of hypertension recognition for women at medicine and obstetrics-gynecology clinicsJulie Schmittdiel
Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Division of Research, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Hypertension 57:717-22. 2011.... - Effect of cost-sharing changes on self-monitoring of blood glucoseAndrew J Karter
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Am J Manag Care 13:408-16. 2007..To study the effect of cost-sharing policy changes on utilization of test strips for self-monitoring of blood glucose... - Comparative effectiveness of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors versus beta-blockers as second-line therapy for hypertensionDavid J Magid
Institute for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, University of Colorado, 10065 E Harvard Ave, Denver, CO 80231, USA
Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes 3:453-8. 2010..However, no trial has assessed the comparative effectiveness of 2nd-line therapy in patients whose BP was not controlled with a thiazide diuretic... - Glycemic response to newly initiated diabetes therapiesAndrew J Karter
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Am J Manag Care 13:598-606. 2007..The glycemic response to antihyperglycemic therapies for type 2 diabetes has been thoroughly evaluated in randomized controlled trials, but inadequately studied in real-world settings... - Social disparities in dental insurance and annual dental visits among medically insured patients with diabetes: the Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE) SurveyHoward H Moffet
Kaiser Permanente, Division of Research, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 7:A57. 2010..People with diabetes are at increased risk of periodontal disease and tooth loss. Healthy People 2010 set a goal that 71% or more of people with diabetes should have an annual dental exam... - Why don't diabetes patients achieve recommended risk factor targets? Poor adherence versus lack of treatment intensificationJulie A Schmittdiel
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, CA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:588-94. 2008..Despite the availability of effective hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and hyperglycemia therapies, target levels of systolic blood pressure (SBP), LDL-cholesterol (LDL-c), and hemoglobin A1c control are often not achieved... - Prevalence of osteonecrosis of the jaw in patients with oral bisphosphonate exposureJoan C Lo
Research Scientist, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
J Oral Maxillofac Surg 68:243-53. 2010..The present study examined the prevalence of ONJ in patients receiving chronic oral bisphosphonate therapy... - New prescription medication gaps: a comprehensive measure of adherence to new prescriptionsAndrew J Karter
Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Health Serv Res 44:1640-61. 2009..Describe a novel approach to comprehensively summarize medication adherence... - Complications of screening flexible sigmoidoscopyTheodore R Levin
Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Gastroenterology 123:1786-92. 2002..We aimed to determine the incidence of gastrointestinal complications and acute myocardial infarction (MI) after screening FS... - Use of antibiotics is not associated with decreased risk of myocardial infarction among patients with diabetesAndrew John Karter
Kaiser Permanente, Division of Research, Northern California Region, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Diabetes Care 26:2100-6. 2003..To study the relationship between exposure to antibiotic treatment and risk of subsequent myocardial infarction (MI) in patients with diabetes... - Missed appointments and poor glycemic control: an opportunity to identify high-risk diabetic patientsAndrew J Karter
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Med Care 42:110-5. 2004..We evaluated the relationship between missed appointments and glycemic control (glycosylated hemoglobin or HbA1c) in a large, managed care population of diabetic patients... - Ethnic disparities in diabetic complications in an insured populationAndrew J Karter
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
JAMA 287:2519-27. 2002..Disparate access to quality health care is a common explanation for ethnic disparities in diabetic complication rates in the US population. Examining an ethnically diverse population with uniform health care coverage may be useful... - Anticoagulation therapy for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation: how well do randomized trials translate into clinical practice?Alan S Go
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
JAMA 290:2685-92. 2003..Warfarin has been shown to be highly efficacious for preventing thromboembolism in atrial fibrillation in randomized trials, but its effectiveness and safety in clinical practice is less clear... - Epidemiology and adverse cardiovascular risk profile of diagnosed polycystic ovary syndromeJoan C Lo
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, 2000 Broadway Street, 2nd Floor, Oakland, CA 94612 2304, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 91:1357-63. 2006..Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is associated with menstrual and reproductive abnormalities, insulin resistance, and obesity... - Factor V Leiden and risk of ischemic stroke in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation: the AnTicoagulation and Risk Factors in Atrial Fibrillation (ATRIA) StudyAlan S Go
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
J Thromb Thrombolysis 15:41-6. 2003..Since atrial and venous pressures are similar, genetic variants that promote venous thromboembolism may increase the risk of atrial thrombi and subsequent stroke in atrial fibrillation... - Effect of primary health care orientation on chronic care managementJulie A Schmittdiel
Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, Oakland, Calif 94612, USA
Ann Fam Med 4:117-23. 2006..This study examined the relationship between primary care orientation and the implementation of the CCM in physician organizations... - Achieving good glycemic control: initiation of new antihyperglycemic therapies in patients with type 2 diabetes from the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Diabetes RegistryAndrew J Karter
The Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Am J Manag Care 11:262-70. 2005..To compare the effectiveness of antihyperglycemic therapies in type 2 diabetic patients with poor glycemic control (baseline glycosylated hemoglobin [HbA1C] > 8%)... - Determining the value of disease management programsJoe V Selby
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Saf 29:491-9. 2003..A conference sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and held in October 2002 explored new approaches to measuring and reporting the value of DM for diabetes mellitus... - Patient race/ethnicity and patient-physician race/ethnicity concordance in the management of cardiovascular disease risk factors for patients with diabetesAna H Traylor
Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, California, and the Care Management Institute, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, California, USA
Diabetes Care 33:520-5. 2010..Further research should investigate other potential drivers of disparities in CVD care... - Lactation intensity and postpartum maternal glucose tolerance and insulin resistance in women with recent GDM: the SWIFT cohortErica P Gunderson
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, USA
Diabetes Care 35:50-6. 2012.... - Coping with prescription drug cost sharing: knowledge, adherence, and financial burdenMary Reed
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Health Serv Res 43:785-97. 2008..Assess patient knowledge of and response to drug cost sharing... - Pregnancy weight gain and risk of neonatal complications: macrosomia, hypoglycemia, and hyperbilirubinemiaMonique M Hedderson
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program of Northern California, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Obstet Gynecol 108:1153-61. 2006..To examine whether pregnancy weight gains outside the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommendations and rates of maternal weight gain are associated with neonatal complications... - Predicted quality-adjusted life years as a composite measure of the clinical value of diabetes risk factor controlJulie Schmittdiel
Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Med Care 45:315-21. 2007..These quality indicators often are examined separately and weighted equally in performance measurement, potentially discarding important information... - Prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus detected by the national diabetes data group or the carpenter and coustan plasma glucose thresholdsAssiamira Ferrara
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, California 94611, USA
Diabetes Care 25:1625-30. 2002..Our aim is to estimate the magnitude of change in prevalence of GDM using the Carpenter and Coustan thresholds as compared with the NDDG thresholds by age and ethnicity... - Twins of mistaken zygosity (TOMZ): evidence for genetic contributions to dietary patterns and physiologic traitsErica P Gunderson
Kaiser Permanente, Division of Research, California 94612, United States of America
Twin Res Hum Genet 9:540-9. 2006..Twins of mistaken zygosity (TOMZ) provides a useful approach to robust determination of heritability... - Choice of a primary care physician and its relationship to adherence among patients with diabetesEdward Krupat
School of Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston 02115, USA
Am J Manag Care 8:777-84. 2002.... - Effect of intensity of oral anticoagulation on stroke severity and mortality in atrial fibrillationElaine M Hylek
General Medicine Division, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston 02114, USA
N Engl J Med 349:1019-26. 2003..0 or greater reduces not only the frequency of ischemic stroke but also its severity and the risk of death from stroke. Our findings provide further evidence against the use of lower INR target levels in patients with atrial fibrillation... - Ethnic and racial differences in diabetes care: The Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis StudyDenise E Bonds
Section on General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
Diabetes Care 26:1040-6. 2003..Complications could be prevented with appropriate medical care. We compared five processes of care and three outcomes of care among African Americans, Hispanics, and non-Hispanic whites... - A cohort study of the incidence of serious acute liver injury in diabetic patients treated with hypoglycemic agentsK Arnold Chan
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass, USA
Arch Intern Med 163:728-34. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: Acute liver failure or injury not clearly attributable to other known causes occurred on the order of 1 per 10,000 person-years among diabetic patients treated with oral hypoglycemic drugs or insulin... - Therapy modifications in response to poorly controlled hypertension, dyslipidemia, and diabetes mellitusNicolas Rodondi
University Outpatient Clinic and University Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Public Health, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Ann Intern Med 144:475-84. 2006..Evaluating whether physicians respond appropriately to poor risk factor control in patients may better reflect quality of care than measuring proportions of patients whose conditions are controlled... - Insulin sensitivity, insulinemia, and coronary artery disease: the Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis StudyMarian Rewers
Barbara Davis Center, University of Colorado HSC, Denver, Colorado 80262, USA
Diabetes Care 27:781-7. 2004.... - The association between quality of care and the intensity of diabetes disease management programsCarol M Mangione
Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095 1736, USA
Ann Intern Med 145:107-16. 2006..Although disease management programs are widely implemented, little is known about their effectiveness... - The impact of allergy and pulmonary specialist care on emergency asthma utilization in a large managed care organizationSara Erickson
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Fransisco, 350 Parnassus Avenue, Ste 609, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA
Health Serv Res 40:1443-65. 2005..In the context of comprehensive prepaid health care, the benefit of specialist care was modest... - Lifetime socioeconomic position and twins' health: an analysis of 308 pairs of United States women twinsNancy Krieger
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
PLoS Med 2:e162. 2005..This comparison permitted us to ascertain the additional impact of adult experiences on adult health in a population matched on early life experiences... - The incidence of colorectal cancer following a negative screening sigmoidoscopy: implications for screening intervalV Paul Doria-Rose
Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Gastroenterology 127:714-22. 2004..We estimated the annual incidence of distal and proximal CRC in the first 5 years following a negative sigmoidoscopy examination to gauge the potential benefit of rescreening in <5 years... - Use of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers in high-risk clinical and ethnic groups with diabetesAllison B Rosen
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Gen Intern Med 19:669-75. 2004..Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB) slow the progression of diabetic nephropathy, yet little is known about their use among patients at high risk for progression to ESRD... - Use of thiazolidinediones and risk of heart failure in people with type 2 diabetes: a retrospective cohort study: response to Delea et alAndrew J Karter
Diabetes Care 27:850-1; author reply 852-3. 2004 - Improving the management of chronic diseaseJoe V Selby
N Engl J Med 356:2422-4; author reply 2422-4. 2007 - Short-term impact of cancer prevention and screening activities on quality of lifeJennifer Cullen
Department of Oncology, Georgetown University, 2233 Wisconsin Ave NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC, USA
J Clin Oncol 22:943-52. 2004..The objective of this article is to systematically review existing research on short-term effects of prevention, genetic counseling and testing, and screening activities on quality of life... - Lowering diabetes costsJoe V Selby
Health Aff (Millwood) 23:278; author reply 278-9. 2004