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Are minority children the last to benefit from a new technology? Technology diffusion and inhaled corticosteriods for asthmaTimothy G Ferris
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Partners HealthCare System, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Med Care 44:81-6. 2006..Racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care have been well documented, but few studies have addressed how disparities may change over time...- Switching to gatekeeping: changes in expenditures and utilization for childrenT G Ferris
Institute for Health Policy, Division of General Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Pediatrics 108:283-90. 2001..Little empirical research describes the impact of switching into a gatekeeping plan on health care expenditures and utilization for children... - Investment, innovation, and disparities: a complex relationshipTimothy G Ferris
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) . 2005..Human suffering reinforces the need to redouble our efforts to patch up coverage holes during good times and keep coverage from unraveling during lean times... 
Electronic results management in pediatric ambulatory care: qualitative assessmentTimothy G Ferris
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Pediatrics 123:S85-91. 2009..Electronic results management may improve the reliability and efficiency of test results management, but few studies have investigated this topic in pediatrics...
Insurance and quality of care for adults with acute asthmaTimothy G Ferris
Institute for Health Policy, Division of General Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Partners HealthCare System and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02114, USA
J Gen Intern Med 17:905-13. 2002..We sought to determine whether type of patient insurance is related to quality of care and subsequent outcomes for patients who arrive in the emergency department (ED) for acute asthma...- Effects of removing gatekeeping on specialist utilization by children in a health maintenance organizationTimothy G Ferris
Insititute for Health Policy, Division of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital Partners Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 156:574-9. 2002..The "gatekeeping" model of access to specialty care has been an essential managed care tool, intended to control costs of care and promote coordination between generalists and specialists... - Effect of electronic prescribing with formulary decision support on medication use and costMichael A Fischer
Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02120, USA
Arch Intern Med 168:2433-9. 2008..In April 2004, 2 large Massachusetts insurers began providing an e-prescribing system with FDS to community-based practices... - Prevalence of basic information technology use by U.S. physiciansRichard W Grant
General Medicine Division, The Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:1150-5. 2006..Information technology (IT) has been advocated as an important means to improve the practice of clinical medicine... - Safety in the academic medical center: transforming challenges into ingredients for improvementDavid Blumenthal
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital and Partners Health System, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Acad Med 81:817-22. 2006.... - How common are electronic health records in the United States? A summary of the evidenceAshish K Jha
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 25:w496-507. 2006..Large gaps in knowledge, including information about EHR use among safety-net providers, pose critical challenges for the development of policies aimed at speeding adoption... - Physician specialty societies and the development of physician performance measuresTimothy G Ferris
Mass General Physicians Organization, Boston, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 26:1712-9. 2007..Key barriers included member reluctance, lack of resources for development, and problems with data collection; facilitators included strong leadership and the perception of increasing pressure for accountability... - Professionalism in medicine: results of a national survey of physiciansEric G Campbell
Massachusetts General Hospital, Institute for Health Policy, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Ann Intern Med 147:795-802. 2007..Although there have been efforts to define and promote professionalism, few data are available on physician attitudes toward and conformance with professional norms... - Uptake of electronic prescribing in community-based practicesMichael A Fischer
Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02120, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:358-63. 2008..In April 2004, 2 large insurers in Massachusetts began a program to fund e-prescribing systems for targeted clinicians and practices. We studied the adoption and uptake of e-prescribing by the targeted prescribers... - Electronic health records in ambulatory care--a national survey of physiciansCatherine M DesRoches
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114, USA
N Engl J Med 359:50-60. 2008..This study assessed physicians' adoption of outpatient electronic health records, their satisfaction with such systems, the perceived effect of the systems on the quality of care, and the perceived barriers to adoption... - Pharmacy-and diagnosis-based risk adjustment for children with MedicaidKaren Kuhlthau
Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Med Care 43:1155-9. 2005..Risk adjustment is useful for adjusting health care payments based on patients' health status... - Comparing a diagnosis list with a survey method to identify children with chronic conditions in an urban health centerKaren A Kuhlthau
Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, 50 Staniford St, Suite 901, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Ambul Pediatr 2:58-62. 2002..To compare a diagnosis list to the Questionnaire for Identifying Children with Chronic Conditions (QuICCC) to assess their relative usefulness as measures for identifying children with chronic conditions... - Generalist and subspecialist care for children with chronic conditionsJames M Perrin
Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston 02114, USA
Ambul Pediatr 2:462-9. 2002..To determine, among Medicaid-enrolled children with chronic conditions, associations of indicators of morbidity and expenditures with different patterns of generalist, subspecialist, and pediatric subspecialist use... - Are hospital characteristics associated with parental views of pediatric inpatient care quality?John Patrick T Co
MGH Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Pediatrics 111:308-14. 2003.... - Correlates of use of specialty careKaren Kuhlthau
Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Pediatrics 113:e249-55. 2004..This study examines patterns of specialist use among children and adolescents by presence of a chronic condition or disability, insurance, and sociodemographic characteristics... - Children's use of motor vehicle restraints: maternal psychological distress, maternal motor vehicle restraint practices, and sociodemographicsWhitney P Witt
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611 2611, USA
Ambul Pediatr 6:145-51. 2006..To determine the relative contribution of maternal psychological distress, maternal restraint use, and sociodemographic characteristics to the likelihood that a child would not be restrained in a motor vehicle... - Primary care and specialty care for US children: what is the right mix?Timothy G Ferris
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 157:219-20. 2003 - The epidemic of discontinuity in health careTimothy G Ferris
Ambul Pediatr 4:197-8. 2004 - Depressive symptom burden as a barrier to screening for breast and cervical cancersPaul A Pirraglia
Division of General Internal Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 13:731-8. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: The presence of a high depressive symptom burden is a modest independent risk factor for lack of subsequent mammography. Ensuring that depressed patients receive regular cancer screening services is important... - Limited English proficiency and breast and cervical cancer screening in a multiethnic populationElizabeth A Jacobs
John H Stroger Jr Hospital of Cook County and Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Am J Public Health 95:1410-6. 2005..We examined the relationship between ability to speak English and receipt of Papanicolaou tests, clinical breast examinations, and mammography in a multiethnic group of women in the United States... - The who, what, and why of risk adjustment: a technology on the cusp of adoptionDavid Blumenthal
Harvard Medical School, USA
J Health Polit Policy Law 30:453-73. 2005..For the future of RA in particular, its history suggests the need for health service researchers to consider barriers to use adoption and new analytic technologies as they develop them... - Preparedness of internal medicine and family practice residents for treating common conditionsFrancine C Wiest
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Department of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Healthcare System, and Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
JAMA 288:2609-14. 2002..These differences were consistent with the emphasis on an inpatient setting for IM residents and on office-based care for FP residents...
Research Grants
- "Improving Pediatric Safety and Quality with Health Car*Timothy Ferris; Fiscal Year: 2006..The proposed research will provide quantitative information on the value of CDSS in terms of patient safety, adherence to guidelines, and patient experience of care. ..