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| Robert A LoweSummaryAffiliation: Oregon Health and Science University Country: USA Publications
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Radiology services in emergency medicine residency programs: a national surveyRobert A Lowe
Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97201 3098, USA
Acad Emerg Med 9:587-94. 2002....- Association between primary care practice characteristics and emergency department use in a medicaid managed care organizationRobert A Lowe
Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239, USA
Med Care 43:792-800. 2005..Many patients use emergency departments (EDs) for primary care. Previous studies have found that patient characteristics affect ED utilization. However, such studies have led to few policy changes... 
Impact of Medicaid cutbacks on emergency department use: the Oregon experienceRobert A Lowe
Department of Emergency Medicine and Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
Ann Emerg Med 52:626-634. 2008..We sought to study the impact of these Oregon Health Plan policy changes on statewide emergency department (ED) use...- Can the emergency department algorithm detect changes in access to care?Robert A Lowe
Department of Emergency Medicine, Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
Acad Emerg Med 15:506-16. 2008..After the Oregon Health Plan (OHP, Oregon's expanded Medicaid program) underwent cutbacks affecting access to care in 2003, the authors tested the ability of the EDA to detect changes in ED use... - Community characteristics affecting emergency department use by Medicaid enrolleesRobert A Lowe
Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239, USA
Med Care 47:15-22. 2009.... - Impact of policy changes on emergency department use by Medicaid enrollees in OregonRobert A Lowe
Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239 3098, USA
Med Care 48:619-27. 2010..We ascertained whether these changes, including $50 copayments for emergency department (ED) visits, affected ED use... - Changes in access to primary care for Medicaid beneficiaries and the uninsured: the emergency department perspectiveRobert A Lowe
Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, 97239 3098, USA
Am J Emerg Med 24:33-7. 2006..These findings suggest a worrisome reduction in access to medical care for uninsured Oregonians and unstable access for OHP enrollees, especially for behavioral health conditions... - National study of barriers to timely primary care and emergency department utilization among Medicaid beneficiariesPaul T Cheung
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
Ann Emerg Med 60:4-10.e2. 2012..We compare the association between barriers to timely primary care and emergency department (ED) utilization among adults with Medicaid versus private insurance... 
Rural-urban disparities in child abuse management resources in the emergency departmentEsther K Choo
Department of Emergency Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02903, USA
J Rural Health 26:361-5. 2010..To characterize differences in child abuse management resources between urban and rural emergency departments (EDs)...- Ambulance diversion and lost hospital revenuesK John McConnell
Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
Ann Emerg Med 48:702-10. 2006..We estimate ambulance revenues lost from each hour spent on ambulance diversion at an urban teaching hospital's emergency department (ED) and examine the financial impact of increased ICU capacity, which reduced diversion hours by 63%... - Health insurance status change and emergency department use among US adultsAdit A Ginde
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, 80045, USA
Arch Intern Med 172:642-7. 2012..Recent events have increased the instability of health insurance coverage. We compared emergency department (ED) use by newly insured vs continuously insured adults and by newly uninsured vs continuously uninsured adults... - Effect of increased ICU capacity on emergency department length of stay and ambulance diversionK John McConnell
Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239
Ann Emerg Med 45:471-8. 2005..Our objective is to determine the changes in ED length of stay and ambulance diversion occurring in an urban, academic medical center after an increase in adult ICU beds... - Association between emergency department resources and diagnosis of intimate partner violenceEsther K Choo
Department of Emergency Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Eur J Emerg Med 19:83-8. 2012..The objective of this study was to examine the association between a variety of resources and documented IPV diagnoses... - Distances to emergency department and to primary care provider's office affect emergency department use in childrenAnnameika Ludwick
Department of Emergency Medicin, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
Acad Emerg Med 16:411-7. 2009..The authors sought to determine whether ED use by pediatric Medicaid enrollees was associated with the distance to their primary care providers (PCPs), distance to the nearest ED, and distance to the nearest children's hospital... - Frequent users of emergency department services: gaps in knowledge and a proposed research agendaJesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:e64-9. 2011.... - The effect of computer-assisted prescription writing on emergency department prescription errorsKenneth E Bizovi
Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97201, USA
Acad Emerg Med 9:1168-75. 2002..To determine whether computer-assisted prescription writing reduces the frequency of prescription errors in the emergency department (ED)... - A critical assessment of the out-of-hospital trauma triage guidelines for physiologic abnormalityCraig D Newgard
Department of Emergency Medicine, Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA
J Trauma 68:452-62. 2010..We assessed whether more restrictive physiologic criteria would improve the specificity of this triage step without missing high-risk patients... - A geospatial assessment of transport distance and survival to discharge in out of hospital cardiac arrest patients: Implications for resuscitation centersMichael T Cudnik
Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA
Resuscitation 81:518-23. 2010..We sought to assess the survival of OOHCA patients by transport distance and hospital proximity... - How primary care practice affects Medicaid patients' use of emergency servicesRobert A Lowe
Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, USA
LDI Issue Brief 10:1-4. 2005..It suggests a strategy to simultaneously improve access to primary care and reduce costs of ED care... - EMTALA, two decades later: a descriptive review of fiscal year 2000 violationsDustin W Ballard
Department of Emergency Medicine, Kaiser Permanente San Rafael, CA 94903, USA
Am J Emerg Med 24:197-205. 2006..To determine to what extent cases sanctioned under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) reflect willful refusal of screening or stabilization... - An evaluation of statewide emergency department utilization following Tennessee Medicaid disenrollmentBenjamin S Heavrin
Department of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:1121-8. 2011..The objective of this study was to examine the statewide effect of such a disenrollment on Tennessee emergency department (ED) utilization... - Outpatient follow-up in today's health care environmentDaniel A Handel
Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239-3098, USA
Ann Emerg Med 49:288-92. 2007 - Emergency medical services intervals and survival in trauma: assessment of the "golden hour" in a North American prospective cohortCraig D Newgard
Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR 97239 3098, USA
Ann Emerg Med 55:235-246.e4. 2010..We evaluate the association between emergency medical services (EMS) intervals and mortality among trauma patients with field-based physiologic abnormality... - The availability and use of out-of-hospital physiologic information to identify high-risk injured children in a multisite, population-based cohortCraig D Newgard
Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239 3098, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 13:420-31. 2009.... - Researching racial and ethnic disparities in emergency medicineChristopher F Richards
Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
Acad Emerg Med 10:1169-75. 2003..This report describes the results of the consensus conference and suggests such a research agenda... - Emergency department crowding as a health policy issue: past development, future directionsLynne D Richardson
Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Ann Emerg Med 40:388-93. 2002 - Researching quality in emergency medicineKenneth E Bizovi
Department of Emergency Medicine, Portland, OR 97239, USA
Acad Emerg Med 9:1116-23. 2002..Each of these projects demonstrates some of the challenges in researching quality and their solutions... - Extrinsic risk factors for pressure ulcers early in the hospital stay: a nested case-control studyMona Baumgarten
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 63:408-13. 2008.... - Health care disparities in emergency medicineDavid C Cone
Section of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519, USA
Acad Emerg Med 10:1176-83. 2003.... - Use of photographs for the identification of pressure ulcers in elderly hospitalized patients: validity and reliabilityA Russell Localio
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 6021, USA
Wound Repair Regen 14:506-13. 2006..69 and 0.84, respectively. Trained research nurses can accurately classify pressure ulcers from photographs, even when patients are largely non-White and the photographs depict pressure ulcers spanning all pressure ulcer stages... - Pressure ulcers among elderly patients early in the hospital stayMona Baumgarten
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Division of Gerontology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 61:749-54. 2006..The goals of this study were to estimate the incidence of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers in the first 2 days of the hospital stay and to identify patient characteristics associated with higher incidence... - Factors affecting decisions to seek treatment for sick children in Kerala, IndiaRajamohanan K Pillai
CERTC, Sarayu, Kallampally, Medical College PO, Kerala 695011, Trivandrum, India
Soc Sci Med 57:783-90. 2003..Also in Kerala, the gender of the child did not influence whether or not the child was taken for treatment but did influence whether care was sought in the alternative or the allopathic system... - Deferred care for emergency department users with nonacute conditionsRobert A Lowe
Ann Intern Med 139:526; author reply 528. 2003 - Thinking bigDavid M Spiro
Ann Emerg Med 48:480. 2006
Research Grants
- Brain Research/Acute Interventions: Neurological Emergencies Treatment TrialsRobert Lowe; Fiscal Year: 2007..The BRAINETT team has the experience and resources to serve as a key participant in this important initiative. ..