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Training physicians about caring for persons with disabilities: "Nothing about us without us!"Lisa I Iezzoni
Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Disabil Health J 5:136-9. 2012....- Hard lessons from a long hospital stayLisa I Iezzoni
Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Nurs 112:39-42. 2012..They believe that inadequate staffing and insufficient training and supervision of nursing assistants, among other factors, underlay these problems... - Eliminating health and health care disparities among the growing population of people with disabilitiesLisa I Iezzoni
Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 30:1947-54. 2011..Eliminating these multifaceted disadvantages among people with disabilities should be a critical national priority... - Patterns of mobility aid use among working-age persons with multiple sclerosis living in the community in the United StatesLisa I Iezzoni
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, DHarvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Disabil Health J 2:67-76. 2009..Difficulty walking is the most visible sign of disability among persons with multiple sclerosis (MS). However, little is known about mobility aid use by persons with MS living in the community... 
Working-age persons with multiple sclerosis and access to disease-modifying medicationsL I Iezzoni
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the Charles A Dana Research Institute, and the Harvard Thorndike Laboratory, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Mult Scler 14:112-22. 2008..4% worried ;a lot' about getting MS medications when they needed them. Substantial fractions of persons with MS confront financial and health plan-related barriers to obtaining MS drugs...
Physical access barriers to care for diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer among women with mobility impairmentsLisa I Iezzoni
Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
Oncol Nurs Forum 37:711-7. 2010..To explore the perceptions of patients with breast cancer with mobility impairments of the physical accessibility of healthcare facilities and equipment...- Implications of mobility impairment on the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancerLisa I Iezzoni
Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Department of Medicine, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 20:45-52. 2011..Among women with chronic, preexisting mobility impairments, we sought to explore how their mobility difficulties affected the diagnosis and treatment of early-stage breast cancer.. - BlockedLisa I Iezzoni
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 27:203-9. 2008 - Disability legacy of the Haitian earthquakeLisa I Iezzoni
Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Staniford Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Ann Intern Med 152:812-4. 2010..Ultimately, one positive legacy of Haiti's earthquake could be the emergence of social attitudes, public policies, and physical environments that more fully accommodate disability across the life span... - Treatment disparities for disabled medicare beneficiaries with stage I non-small cell lung cancerLisa I Iezzoni
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 89:595-601. 2008..Treatment disparities for disabled Medicare beneficiaries with stage I non-small cell lung cancer... - Turning the disability tide: the importance of definitionsLisa I Iezzoni
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
JAMA 299:332-4. 2008 - Uninsured persons with disability confront substantial barriers to health care servicesLisa I Iezzoni
Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Disabil Health J 4:238-44. 2011..The study objectives were to characterize working-age adults with disabilities who lack health insurance and to examine their self-reported barriers to care... - Multiple chronic conditions and disabilities: implications for health services research and data demandsLisa I Iezzoni
Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Staniford Street, Room 901B, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Health Serv Res 45:1523-40. 2010.... - Use of administrative data to find substandard care: validation of the complications screening programS N Weingart
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Charles A Dana Research Institute, and the Harvard Thorndike Library, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Med Care 38:796-806. 2000..Our objective was to validate whether a screening method that uses data from standard hospital discharge abstracts identifies complications of care and potential quality problems... - Does clinical evidence support ICD-9-CM diagnosis coding of complications?E P McCarthy
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the Charles A Dana Research Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Med Care 38:868-76. 2000..Prior studies of coding validity have investigated whether coding guidelines were met, not whether the clinical condition was actually present... - Does the Complications Screening Program flag cases with process of care problems? Using explicit criteria to judge processesL I Iezzoni
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 11:107-18. 1999..The Complications Screening Program (CSP) aims to identify 28 potentially preventable complications of hospital care using computerized discharge abstracts, including demographic information, diagnosis and procedure codes... - Identification of in-hospital complications from claims data. Is it valid?A G Lawthers
Center for Quality of Care Research and Education, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Med Care 38:785-95. 2000.... - Mobility impairments and use of screening and preventive servicesL I Iezzoni
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Public Health 90:955-61. 2000..This study examined use of screening and preventive services among adults with mobility problems (difficulty walking, climbing stairs, or standing for extended periods)... - Screening inpatient quality using post-discharge eventsL I Iezzoni
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Med Care 37:384-98. 1999..Decreasing hospital lengths of stay (LOS) hamper efforts to detect and to definitively treat complications of care. Patients leave before some complications are identified... - Mobility problems and perceptions of disability by self-respondents and proxy respondentsL I Iezzoni
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the Charles A Dana Research Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Med Care 38:1051-7. 2000..The Americans With Disabilities Act defines disability on the basis of physical or mental impairments or external perceptions of impairment... - Linguistic and cultural barriers to careQuyen Ngo-Metzger
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Mass 02215, USA
J Gen Intern Med 18:44-52. 2003..Primarily because of immigration, Asian Americans are one of the fastest growing and most ethnically diverse minority groups in the United States. However, little is known about their perspectives on health care quality... - Mobility difficulties are not only a problem of old ageL I Iezzoni
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Gen Intern Med 16:235-43. 2001..Lower extremity mobility difficulties often result from common medical conditions and can disrupt both physical and emotional well-being... - Use of screening and preventive services among women with disabilitiesL I Iezzoni
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Charles A Dana Research Institute, Harvard Thorndike Laboratory, Boston, Mass, USA
Am J Med Qual 16:135-44. 2001..4-0.9), mammograms (odds ratio, 0.7; 95% confidence interval, 0.5-0.9), and smoking queries (odds ratio, 0.6; 95% confidence interval, 0.5-0.8). Various approaches exist to improve access for disabled women to health care services... - Disparities in breast cancer treatment and survival for women with disabilitiesEllen P McCarthy
Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Ann Intern Med 145:637-45. 2006..Little is known about breast cancer treatment for women with disabilities... - Physician professionalism and changes in physician-industry relationships from 2004 to 2009Eric G Campbell
Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Staniford St, Ninth Floor, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Arch Intern Med 170:1820-6. 2010..Since 2004 much has been done at the institutional, state, and national levels to limit PIRs. This study estimates the nature, extent, consequences, and changes in PIRs nationally... - Activities, productivity, and compensation of men and women in the life sciencesCatherine M DesRoches
The Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Acad Med 85:631-9. 2010..The authors undertook this study because previous studies found differences in the academic experiences of women and men... - Implicit bias among physicians and its prediction of thrombolysis decisions for black and white patientsAlexander R Green
The Disparities Solutions Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 50 Staniford Street, Suite 901, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:1231-8. 2007..No study to date has measured physicians' unconscious racial bias to test whether this predicts physicians' clinical decisions... - Cancer stage at diagnosis and survival among persons with Social Security Disability Insurance on MedicareEllen P McCarthy
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, E RO 139, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Health Serv Res 42:611-28. 2007..To examine stage at diagnosis and survival for disabled Medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with cancer under age 65 and compare their experiences with those of other persons diagnosed under age 65... - Patient safety climate in hospitals: act locally on variation across unitsEric G Campbell
Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 36:319-26. 2010..A study was conducted to assess the extent and nature of variation in safety climate across units within an academic medical center... - Satisfaction with quality and access to health care among people with disabling conditionsLisa I Iezzoni
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 14:369-81. 2002..To compare satisfaction with health care between persons with and without disabling conditions... - 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... - Interpreter services, language concordance, and health care quality. Experiences of Asian Americans with limited English proficiencyAlexander R Green
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Gen Intern Med 20:1050-6. 2005..Both interpreter- and language-concordant clinicians may help overcome these problems but few studies have compared these approaches... - Risk adjustment for pediatric quality indicatorsKaren Kuhlthau
Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Pediatrics 113:210-6. 2004..We conclude with an overall assessment of the status of risk adjustment for pediatric quality measures and recommendations for additional research and application... - Quality dimensions that most concern people with physical and sensory disabilitiesLisa I Iezzoni
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Charles A. Dana Research Institute, Harvard-Thorndike Laboratory, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Arch Intern Med 163:2085-92. 2003..These findings held regardless of the disabling condition. Thoughtful systematic approaches are required to improve communication and to reduce time pressures that might compromise the health care experiences of people with disabilities... - Variability in the measurement of hospital-wide mortality ratesDavid M Shahian
Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
N Engl J Med 363:2530-9. 2010..Massachusetts policymakers recently requested an assessment of methods to calculate this aggregate mortality metric for use as a measure of hospital quality... - Physician-reviewers' perceptions and judgments about quality of careS N Weingart
Division of General Madicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 13:357-65. 2001..We sought to identify features of individual cases that are associated with physicians' judgments... - Make no assumptions: communication between persons with disabilities and cliniciansLisa I Iezzoni
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Assist Technol 18:212-9. 2006..Following two basic precepts immeasurably improves communication between clinicians and patients with disabilities: first, make no assumptions, and second, just ask patients about their needs and preferences... - Physical and sensory functioning over time and satisfaction with care: the implications of getting better or getting worseLisa I Iezzoni
Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Health Serv Res 39:1635-51. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: Persons whose functioning improved rarely reported better satisfaction than did those whose functioning did not improve, while those whose functioning worsened expressed more systematic reservations about their care... - The canary in the mineLisa I Iezzoni
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 83:1476-8. 2002..As solutions are crafted, people with disabilities, their families, and communities should help design and direct fundamental changes to the health care system... - Health, disability, and life insurance experiences of working-age persons with multiple sclerosisL I Iezzoni
Department of Medicine, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel, Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Mult Scler 13:534-46. 2007..3% delayed filling prescriptions, skipped medication doses, or split pills because of costs. Overall, 26.6% reported considerable worries about affording even basic necessities, such as food, utilities, and housing... - Health coaching via an internet portal for primary care patients with chronic conditions: a randomized controlled trialSuzanne G Leveille
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brookline, MA 02446, USA
Med Care 47:41-7. 2009..Patient internet portals offer an efficient venue for coaching patients to discuss chronic conditions with their primary care physicians (PCP)... - Communicating about health care: observations from persons who are deaf or hard of hearingLisa I Iezzoni
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Charles A. Dana Research Institute, Harvard-Thorndike Laboratory, and Third Sector New England, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Ann Intern Med 140:356-62. 2004..Physicians are not reimbursed for making some accommodations, such as hiring sign language interpreters. However, ensuring effective communication is essential to safe, timely, efficient, and patient-centered care... - Discrepancies between explicit and implicit review: physician and nurse assessments of complications and qualitySaul N Weingart
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Health Serv Res 37:483-98. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: We identified many discrepancies between explicit and implicit review of complications and quality. Physician reviewers may not consider process problems that are ubiquitous in hospitals to represent substandard quality... - Comparing the importance of disease rate versus practice style variations in explaining differences in small area hospitalization rates for two respiratory conditionsErol A Pekoz
School of Management, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Stat Med 22:1775-86. 2003..Our results show that for the two conditions, disease rate variation explains at least as much of the variation in hospitalization rates as does practice style variation... - Going beyond disease to address disabilityLisa I Iezzoni
Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA
N Engl J Med 355:976-9. 2006 - Response to "Building research capacity: the role of partnerships": communication holds the key to productive collaborationLisa I Iezzoni
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Am J Phys Med Rehabil 84:1005-8. 2005 - Using severity measures to predict the likelihood of death for pneumonia inpatientsL I Iezzoni
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Gen Intern Med 11:23-31. 1996..CONCLUSIONS: Some pairs of severity measures ranked over 25% of patients very differently by predicted probability of death. Results of outcomes studies may vary depending on which severity method is used for risk adjustment... - 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... - Risk adjusting rehabilitation outcomes: an overview of methodologic issuesLisa I Iezzoni
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the Charles A. Dana, Research Institute, and the Harvard-Thorndike Laboratory, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Am J Phys Med Rehabil 83:316-26. 2004..Knowing which risk factors are missing helps guide interpretation of the results and determines how well risk-adjusted outcomes fairly compare providers or treatments... - Did the 1997 balanced budget act reduce use of physical and occupational therapy services?Nancy K Latham
Health and Disability Research Institute, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA 02118 2639, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 89:807-14. 2008..To investigate whether use of physical therapy (PT) and occupational therapy (OT) services decreased after the passage of the 1997 Balanced Budget Act (BBA)... - Screening for chronic conditions using a patient internet portal: recruitment for an internet-based primary care interventionSuzanne G Leveille
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brookline, MA 02446, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:472-5. 2008..Patient Internet portals have created new opportunities for assessment and management of chronic conditions... - Improving patient-clinician communication about chronic conditions: description of an internet-based nurse E-coach interventionMarybeth Allen
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Nurs Res 57:107-12. 2008..Patient-provider Internet portals offer an exciting new venue for empowering and engaging patients in better management of chronic conditions... - Teaching medical students about communicating with patients with major mental illnessLisa I Iezzoni
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Charles A Dana Research Institute, Harvard Thorndike Laboratory, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:1112-5. 2006..Educational researchers must explore ways to better prepare young physicians to communicate effectively with patients with major mental illness... - Rural residents with disabilities confront substantial barriers to obtaining primary careLisa I Iezzoni
Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue RO-137, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Health Serv Res 41:1258-75. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: Meeting the health care needs of rural residents with disabilities will require interventions beyond health care, involving transportation and access issues more broadly... - Does more "appropriateness" explain higher rates of cardiac procedures among patients hospitalized with coronary heart disease?Joseph D Restuccia
School of Management, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Med Care 40:500-9. 2002..There have been few studies of the extent to which differences in the pool of patients being managed might account for geographic variations in treatment rates... - Consensus-based method for risk adjustment for surgery for congenital heart diseaseKathy J Jenkins
Department of Cardiology, Children s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 123:110-8. 2002..The aim was to develop a consensus-based method of risk adjustment for in-hospital mortality among children younger than 18 years after surgery for congenital heart disease (designated RACHS-1)... - Obesity among adults with disabling conditionsEvette Weil
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215, USA
JAMA 288:1265-8. 2002..CONCLUSION: Obesity appears to be more prevalent in adults with sensory, physical, and mental health conditions. Health care practitioners should address weight control and exercise among adults with disabilities... - Use of physical and occupational therapy by Medicare beneficiaries within five conditions: 1994-2001Long Ngo
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Phys Med Rehabil 88:308-21. 2009..To examine the use of physical therapy and occupational therapy among Medicare beneficiaries nationwide before and after the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, which introduced prospective payment for rehabilitation services... - Medical record documentation of patients' hearing loss by physiciansChristopher F Halpin
Department of Audiology Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, 243 Charles Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Gen Intern Med 24:517-9. 2009..No published studies have investigated this issue quantitatively... - Primary care experiences of people with psychiatric disabilities: barriers to care and potential solutionsBonnie O'Day
Cornell University Institute for Policy Research, Washington, DC, USA
Psychiatr Rehabil J 28:339-45. 2005..In addition to suggestions for improving patient-physician communication and expanding physician knowledge, participants emphasized strategies to become empowered in their relationships with physicians and to obtain personal support... - Using administrative data to study persons with disabilitiesLisa I Iezzoni
Harvard University, USA
Milbank Q 80:347-79. 2002..Linking administrative data to survey or other data sources enhances the utility of administrative data for disability studies... - Do variations in disease prevalence limit the usefulness of population-based hospitalization rates for studying variations in hospital admissions?Michael Shwartz
School of Management, Boston University, MA 02215, USA
Med Care 43:4-11. 2005.... - Managed care and cancer outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries with disabilitiesRichard G Roetzheim
Department of Family Medicine, University of South Florida, 12901 Bruce B Downs Blvd, MDC 13, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
Am J Manag Care 14:287-96. 2008..To determine if the type of insurance arrangement, specifically health maintenance organization (HMO) vs fee-for-service (FFS), affects cancer outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries with disabilities... - Structural impairments that limit access to health care for patients with disabilitiesKristi L Kirschner
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill 60611, USA
JAMA 297:1121-5. 2007 - Racial and ethnic differences in utilization of health services in patients with diabetes enrolled in medicaidRoberto B Vargas
General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, UCLA School of Medicine, California, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 15:562-75. 2004.... - Capturing and classifying functional status information in administrative databasesLisa I Iezzoni
Health Care Financ Rev 24:61-76. 2003..The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) identified the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) as the only viable code set for consistently reporting functional status... - Accommodating medical school faculty with disabilitiesAnnie G Steinberg
University of Pennsylvania, USA
LDI Issue Brief 8:1-4. 2002..It also recommends practical steps medical schools can take to provide a welcoming and accessible academic medical environment... - Transparency: a mandatory requirement for risk modelsDavid M Shahian
J Am Coll Surg 206:1240-2; author reply 1242-5. 2008 - Tracking disability disparities: the data dilemmaLisa I Iezzoni
J Health Serv Res Policy 13:129-30. 2008 - Looking for medical injuries where the light is brightSaul N Weingart
JAMA 290:1917-9. 2003 - Toward universal design in assessing health care experiencesLisa I Iezzoni
Med Care 40:725-8. 2002 - Reasonable accommodations for medical faculty with disabilitiesAnnie G Steinberg
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA
JAMA 288:3147-54. 2002..Faculty with disabilities bring identical intellectual and collegial benefits to medical schools as their nondisabled counterparts. In addition, they may offer special insights into how chronic illness and impairments affect daily life... - Improving health care experiences of persons who are blind or have low vision: suggestions from focus groupsMary Killeen
Cherry Engineering Support Services Inc, McLean, VA, USA
Am J Med Qual 19:193-200. 2004..Using common courtesy and individualized communication techniques, physicians and office staff could improve health care experiences of blind and low-vision patients...
Research Grants
- How Health Insurance Status Affects Persons with DisabilitiesLisa Iezzoni; Fiscal Year: 2007..This goal addresses the objectives of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which has identified persons with disabilities as one of its priority populations. ..
- Early-Stage Breast Cancer Treatment Decisions by Women with Physical DisabilitiesLisa Iezzoni; Fiscal Year: 2007..Our findings will help begin educating patients and physicians and could perhaps improve breast cancer care for women with physical disabilities. ..
- Cancer Care and Outcomes for Disabled Medicare PatientsLisa Iezzoni; Fiscal Year: 2006..These findings may suggest areas where more attention is needed, such as increasing cancer screening among disabled Medicare recipients or rethinking initial treatment strategies. ..
- How Access Affects Outcomes of Rehabilitation ServicesLisa Iezzoni; Fiscal Year: 2005..The primary outcome of the proposed study will be an assessment of the association of PT and OT, as routinely practiced nationwide and important outcomes of care. ..
- PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: QUALITY OF CARE/SERVICE USELisa Iezzoni; Fiscal Year: 2001..Given that roughly 49 million Americans have a disabling condition, addressing concerns about their quality of care is essential. ..
- ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF ALTERNATIVE RISK ADJUSTERSLisa Iezzoni; Fiscal Year: 2001..abstract_text> ..