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| Lauren McCormackSummaryAffiliation: RTI International Country: USA Publications
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Providing information to help Medicare beneficiaries choose a health planL A McCormack
Research Triangle Institute, Health and Social Policy Division, P O Box 1219, 3040 Cornwallis Road, Cox Building, Room 163, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 2194, USA
J Aging Soc Policy 12:49-72. 2001..Through our discussion of the handbook, we highlight several ways to communicate information effectively about a complex publicly funded program to an older adult population...
Communication message strategies for increasing knowledge about prostate cancer screeningLauren A McCormack
RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
J Cancer Educ 24:238-43. 2009..This community-based intervention study examined the effects of 2 different message strategies for presenting information about the prostate specific antigen (PSA) test...- Development and validation of an instrument to measure resources and support for chronic illness self-management: a model using diabetesLauren A McCormack
RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Diabetes Educ 34:707-18. 2008..This article describes the development and validation of the instrument, focusing on individuals' reported access to RSSM from providers and from nonclinical, social, and community sources... 
Translating medical evidence to promote informed health care decisionsLauren McCormack
RTI International, 3040 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Health Serv Res 46:1200-23. 2011..To examine the effects of a community-based intervention on decisions about prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening using multiple measures of informed decision making (IDM)...- Measuring patient-centered communication in cancer care: a literature review and the development of a systematic approachLauren A McCormack
Health Communication Program, RTI International, 3040 Cornwallis Road, RTP, NC 27709, USA
Soc Sci Med 72:1085-95. 2011..The NCI Strategic Plan for Leading the Nation: To Eliminate the Suffering and Death Due to Cancer. NIH Publication No. 06-5773... - Measuring health literacy: a pilot study of a new skills-based instrumentLauren McCormack
RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
J Health Commun 15:51-71. 2010..The overall instrument demonstrated good internal consistency, with a Cronbach's alpha of 0.86. Additional analyses are planned, with the goal of creating a short form of the instrument... - How does beneficiary knowledge of the Medicare program vary by type of insurance?Lauren A McCormack
Health, Social, and Economics Research, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 27709 2194, USA
Med Care 41:972-8. 2003..OBJECTIVES To measure beneficiary knowledge of the Medicare program and to evaluate how knowledge varies by type of supplemental insurance... - Measuring beneficiary knowledge in two randomized experimentsL A McCormack
University of Oregon, USA
Health Care Financ Rev 23:47-62. 2001..Beneficiaries in both studies showed statistically significant gains in knowledge after receiving the new materials. Policy implications for the measurement of knowledge and creation of future versions of the materials are discussed... - Beneficiary survey-based feedback on new Medicare informational materialsL A McCormack
University of Oregon, USA
Health Care Financ Rev 23:37-46. 2001..Additional research is needed to determine which subgroups of beneficiaries may need more and, possibly less, information... - Retiree health insurance: recent trends and tomorrow's prospectsLauren A McCormack
University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA
Health Care Financ Rev 23:17-34. 2002..The forces discouraging its growth--rising premium costs, a slower economy, judicial challenges, and an uncertain Medicare+Choice (M+C) program and policy agenda--far outweigh the forces likely to encourage expansion... - The impact of a CAHPS report on employee knowledge, beliefs, and decisionsJudith H Hibbard
University of Oregon, USA
Med Care Res Rev 59:104-16. 2002..Finally, the findings show that those who saw the report are more influenced by information sent by their employer than those who did not see the report... - Health insurance knowledge among Medicare beneficiariesLauren A McCormack
RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Health Serv Res 37:43-63. 2002..While the absolute gain in knowledge was modest, it was greater than increases in knowledge associated with traditional Medicare information sources... - Trends in retiree health benefitsLauren A McCormack
RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 21:169-76. 2002..Indemnity enrollment remains strong among retirees, and employers are cautious about Medicare+Choice because of continuing plan withdrawals. Numerous indicators point to a further and accelerating decline in retiree coverage... - Promoting prostate-specific antigen informed decision-making. Evaluating two community-level interventionsDavid L Driscoll
RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Am J Prev Med 35:87-94. 2008..Studies assessing how to promote PSA informed decision-making (IDM) have been conducted almost exclusively in healthcare settings; there is a need for similar research in community settings... - Health information styles among participants in a prostate cancer screening informed decision-making interventionPamela A Williams-Piehota
Health Communication Program, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Health Educ Res 23:440-53. 2008..The health information styles segmentation strategy used in this study offers a viable framework for segmenting audiences... - Voluntary disenrollment from Medicare advantage plans: valuable signals of market performanceLee R Mobley
Research Triangle International, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Am J Manag Care 13:677-84. 2007..To examine 2000-2005 trends in the reasons Medicare beneficiaries gave for disenrolling from their Medicare Advantage (MA) plans... - Beneficiary knowledge of original Medicare and Medicare managed careJennifer D Uhrig
RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
Med Care 44:1020-9. 2006.... - Measuring beneficiary knowledge of the Medicare program: a psychometric analysisCarla M Bann
RTI, Statistics Research Division, PO Box 12194, Research Triangle, Park, NC 27709 2194
Health Care Financ Rev 24:111-25. 2003..Overall, based on both content considerations and the psychometric analyses, the true/false quiz proved to be the more accurate and useful measure of beneficiaries' knowledge... - Voluntary disenrollment from Medicare managed care: market factors and disabled beneficiariesLee Mobley
RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 2194, USA
Health Care Financ Rev 26:45-62. 2005..Findings suggest that disabled beneficiaries are more likely to experience multiple problems with managed care... - Behind Closed Doors: What Happens when Patients and Providers Talk about Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening?: Survey of the Effects of a Community-Based InterventionLauren McCormack
RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
Patient 2:191-201. 2009.... - The health literacy skills frameworkLinda Squiers
RTI International, 3040 Cornwallis Road, P O Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
J Health Commun 17:30-54. 2012..The Health Literacy Skills framework could also be used to guide the development of interventions to improve health literacy. Future research should be conducted to fully test the relations in the framework... - Health literacy: what is it?Nancy D Berkman
RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 2194, USA
J Health Commun 15:9-19. 2010..to this important issue suggests the need to review existing definitions of the term "health literacy," because despite the growing interest in this field, one question that persists is, "What is health literacy?".. - Applying social marketing in health care: communicating evidence to change consumer behaviorW Douglas Evans
RTI International, Washington, DC 20005, USA
Med Decis Making 28:781-92. 2008..There is a need for more research on message strategies that work in health care and population-level effectiveness studies... - Measures and predictors of Medicare knowledge: a review of the literatureLeslie M Greenwald
RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 2194, USA
Health Care Financ Rev 27:1-12. 2006.... - The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Diabetes Initiative: demonstration projects emphasizing self-managementEdwin B Fisher
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7440, USA
Diabetes Educ 33:83-4, 86-8, 91-2, passim. 2007..The purpose of the Diabetes Initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is to demonstrate feasible and sustainable approaches to promoting diabetes self-management in primary care and community settings...
Research Grants
- Development of an Instrument to Measure Health LiteracyLauren McCormack; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Development of an Instrument to Measure Health LiteracyLauren McCormack; Fiscal Year: 2009....