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Subject allocation and study curtailment for fixed event comparative Poisson trialsDonald R Hoover
Department of Statistics, Rutgers University, 473 Hill Center, 110 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854 8019, U S A
Stat Med 23:1229-45. 2004..If a specific localized k is selected to minimize disease cases for a study analysed by exact test, the study may be underpowered should the final allocation deviate even slightly from that k when it is conducted...
Medicare inpatient treatment for elderly non-dementia psychiatric illnesses 1992--2002; length of stay and expenditures by facility typeDonald R Hoover
Center for Health Services Research on Pharmacotherapy, Chronic Disease Management, The State University of New Jersey, 30 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Adm Policy Ment Health 35:231-40. 2008..This suggests that inpatient treatment for NDPI is shifting into less expensive settings which may reflect cost-cutting strategies, preferences for less restrictive settings, and outpatient treatment advances...- Characteristics of community dwelling elderly not vaccinated for pneumococcus in 1998 and 2001Donald R Hoover
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Prev Med 39:517-27. 2004..We estimate proportions and numbers of elderly (>65 years old) not vaccinated for pneumococcus in 1998 and 2001 by ethnic group, socioeconomic status, health history, and access and use of health care... - Clinical trials of behavioural interventions with heterogeneous teaching subgroup effectsDonald R Hoover
Department of Statistics, Rutgers University, 473 Hill Center, 110 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854 8019, USA
Stat Med 21:1351-64. 2002..05 two-sided type I errors range from 0.055 to 0.47, while when planning studies, estimated sample sizes are only 11.1-95.2 per cent of the true requirements... 
Depression in the first year of stay for elderly long-term nursing home residents in the USAD R Hoover
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Int Psychogeriatr 22:1161-71. 2010..We quantified first year depression in American LTNH residents and the associations between depression and resident/facility characteristics...- Power for T-test comparisons of unbalanced cluster exposure studiesDonald R Hoover
Department of Statistics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854 8019, USA
J Urban Health 79:278-94. 2002..The methods presented here for simple cluster designs may be extended to some settings involving complex hierarchical weighted cluster samples... - Hospitalization for psychiatric illness among community-dwelling elderly persons in 1992 and 2002Ayse Akincigil
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, NJ, USA
Psychiatr Serv 59:1046-8. 2008..The authors evaluated the evolution of inpatient care for psychiatric illness in 1992 and 2002 for senior community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries... - Psychiatric rehospitalization among elderly persons in the United StatesJonathan D Prince
School of Social Work, Rutgers University, 536 George St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 1167, USA
Psychiatr Serv 59:1038-45. 2008..This study examined predictors of psychiatric rehospitalization among elderly persons... - Substance abuse and hospitalization for mood disorder among Medicaid beneficiariesJonathan D Prince
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, School of Social Work, Rutgers University, 536 George St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Am J Public Health 99:160-7. 2009..g., anxiety, HIV) among people with mood disorder (N=129,524) to explore risk factors for psychiatric hospitalization and early readmission within 3 months of discharge... - Use of Medicaid data to explore community characteristics associated with HIV prevalence among beneficiaries with schizophreniaJames Walkup
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Public Health Rep 126:89-101. 2011..We demonstrated the potential of Medicaid data to address this gap... - Mental illness and length of inpatient stay for medicaid recipients with AIDSDonald R Hoover
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University, 30 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Health Serv Res 39:1319-39. 2004.... - Medical expenditures during the last year of life: findings from the 1992-1996 Medicare current beneficiary surveyDonald R Hoover
Department of Statistics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8019, USA
Health Serv Res 37:1625-42. 2002..Policies promoting improved allocation of resources for end-of-life care may not affect non-Medicare expenditures, which disproportionately support chronic and custodial care... - Triple-combination pharmacotherapy for medically ill smokers: a randomized trialMichael B Steinberg
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, USA
Ann Intern Med 150:447-54. 2009..Clinical trial data on the effectiveness of triple-combination pharmacotherapy for tobacco dependence treatment in these high-risk smokers are not available... - Three surveys of HIV-1 prevalence and risk factors among men working at a sugar estate in MalawiNewton I Kumwenda
Infectious Diseases Program, Department of Epidemiology, School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Sex Transm Dis 29:366-71. 2002..0001), and condom use rose (from 10.9% to 18.9%; P < 0.0001). STDs were significantly associated with prevalent HIV infection each year. CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of HIV has remained relatively stable and high in this cohort... - Multivariate estimation of cumulative incidence, prevalence, and morbidity time of a disease when death is likelyYan Yan
Department of Surgery, Washington University Medical School, 4960 Children s Place, Box 8242, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 56:546-52. 2003..Data from the Johns Hopkins Hospital AIDS service were used to illustrate this extended method. The importance of estimates was discussed in the context of planning health care needs... - Reimbursement denial and reversal by health plans at a university hospitalJeffrey D Greenberg
Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA
Am J Med 117:629-35. 2004..More profitable plans had higher denial and discount rates. Evidence-based standards for denials and downgrades are needed to maintain optimal patient care and the fiscal health of hospitals and health plans... - Nevirapine and zidovudine at birth to reduce perinatal transmission of HIV in an African setting: a randomized controlled trialTaha E Taha
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
JAMA 292:202-9. 2004.... - Insulin, insulin-like growth factor-I, endogenous estradiol, and risk of colorectal cancer in postmenopausal womenMarc J Gunter
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
Cancer Res 68:329-37. 2008.... - A procedure for group sequential comparative poisson trialsQi Xia
Genentech Inc, South San Francisco 94080, USA
J Biopharm Stat 17:869-81. 2007..We also discuss the impact of number of interim analyses, different alpha spending functions, and the discreetness of binomial distribution on the efficiency of this procedure. Corresponding Splus programs were also developed... - HIV type 1 variants with nevirapine resistance mutations are rarely detected in antiretroviral drug-naive African women with subtypes A, C, and DJessica D Church
Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 23:764-8. 2007.... - Hepatitis B infection and vaccination among high-risk noninjection drug-using women: baseline data from the UNITY studyBeryl A Koblin
Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention, New York Blood Center, New York, NY 10021, USA
Sex Transm Dis 34:917-22. 2007..This study was designed to assess the extent of HBV infection and vaccination, level of knowledge about hepatitis B, motivators and barriers to accepting vaccination and uptake of hepatitis B vaccine... - Psychological distress and progression to AIDS in a cohort of injection drug usersElizabeth T Golub
Department of Epidemilogy, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 32:429-34. 2003..Further study of the effects of psychological distress on AIDS progression within this population is warranted... - Comparison of LigAmp and an ASPCR assay for detection and quantification of K103N-containing HIV variantsJessica D Church
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 24:595-605. 2008..Further studies are needed to compare performance of assays for detection and quantification of HIV drug resistance mutations in clinical samples... - Extended antiretroviral prophylaxis to reduce breast-milk HIV-1 transmissionNewton I Kumwenda
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
N Engl J Med 359:119-29. 2008..Effective strategies are urgently needed to reduce mother-to-child transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) through breast-feeding in resource-limited settings... - Prevalence and predictors of metabolic syndrome among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected women in the Women's Interagency HIV StudyMagdalena E Sobieszczyk
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 48:272-80. 2008..To assess the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetSynd) among participants of the Women's Interagency HIV Study and to describe the association of MetSynd with HIV infection, antiretroviral therapies, and sociodemographic factors... - Development of nevirapine resistance in infants is reduced by use of infant-only single-dose nevirapine plus zidovudine postexposure prophylaxis for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1Susan H Eshleman
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Infect Dis 193:479-81. 2006..20/23 [87%]; P < .001). The risk of MTCT of HIV-1 was comparable with these regimens. Infant-only prophylaxis also eliminates the development of NVP resistance in mothers... - Opioid detoxification with buprenorphine, clonidine, or methadone in hospitalized heroin-dependent patients with HIV infectionAnnie Umbricht
National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program, 5500 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 69:263-72. 2003..05). These findings suggest buprenorphine, clonidine, and methadone regimens each decrease opioid withdrawal in medically ill HIV-infected patients... - Heat-denatured human immunodeficiency virus type 1 protein 24 antigen: prognostic value in adults with early-stage diseaseTimothy R Sterling
Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 424 N Bond Street, Rm 117, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
J Infect Dis 186:1181-5. 2002..Heat-denatured p24 antigen level predicted subsequent clinical disease progression in early-stage HIV-1 infection and correlated with both CD4(+) lymphocyte count and HIV-1 RNA level... - Late postnatal transmission of HIV-1 and associated factorsTaha E Taha
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Infect Dis 196:10-4. 2007..The present study was undertaken to determine the risk and timing of late postnatal transmission (LPT) of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)... - Bimodal virological response to antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection: an application using a mixture model with left censoringXiuhong Li
Room E7648, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 60:811-8. 2006..This data analysis overcomes limitations of measurement techniques of observations having values below detection limits and serves to characterise the dynamics of the virological response to therapies... - Comparison of HIV-1 mother-to-child transmission after single-dose nevirapine prophylaxis among African women with subtypes A, C, and DSusan H Eshleman
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 42:518-21. 2006 - Total lymphocyte count, hemoglobin, and delayed-type hypersensitivity as predictors of death and AIDS illness in HIV-1-infected women receiving highly active antiretroviral therapyKathryn Anastos
Women s Interagency HIV Study, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY 10467, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 35:383-92. 2004..If delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) response predicts clinical response in persons using highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), it may also prove useful in resource-poor settings... - Protection against persistence of hepatitis CShruti H Mehta
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Lancet 359:1478-83. 2002..Our data suggest that immunity against viral persistence can be acquired, and that vaccines should be tested to reduce the burden of HCV-related liver disease... - Association between renal disease and outcomes among HIV-infected women receiving or not receiving antiretroviral therapyLynda Anne Szczech
Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
Clin Infect Dis 39:1199-206. 2004..The associations of proteinuria and an elevated creatinine level with progression to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and death in the era of highly antiretroviral therapy (HAART) have not been fully described... - Herpes zoster in women with and at risk for HIV: data from the Women's Interagency HIV StudyMarshall J Glesby
Division of International Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 37:1604-9. 2004..Herpes zoster occurs at all CD4 cell counts in HIV-infected adults. It was hypothesized that even in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), zoster risk is higher in HIV-infected than uninfected women... - Case-control study of diabetes mellitus in HIV-infected patientsCecilia Yoon
Department of Medicine, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York, NY 10011, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 37:1464-9. 2004..Diabetes mellitus (DM) is more prevalent among patients with HIV infection. Besides protease inhibitors (PIs), other factors may contribute to the development of DM... - Gender differences in perinatal HIV acquisition among African infantsTaha E Taha
Infectious Diseases Program, Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, MBBS, Room E7138, 615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Pediatrics 115:e167-72. 2005..We investigated gender-specific risks of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) at birth and at 6 to 8 weeks among infants born to HIV-infected African women... - Nevirapine (NVP) resistance in women with HIV-1 subtype C, compared with subtypes A and D, after the administration of single-dose NVPSusan H Eshleman
Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Infect Dis 192:30-6. 2005..Here, we evaluate the rate of NVP resistance mutations in women with subtype C... - Individual variation in CD4 cell count trajectory among human immunodeficiency virus-infected men and women on long-term highly active antiretroviral therapy: an application using a Bayesian random change-point modelHaitao Chu
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Epidemiol 162:787-97. 2005..At the individual level, 35% of men in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study versus 25% of women in the Women's Interagency HIV Study had a statistically significant change in CD4 cell count trajectory within 7 years after HAART initiation... - Resistance after single-dose nevirapine prophylaxis emerges in a high proportion of Malawian newbornsSusan H Eshleman
Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA
AIDS 19:2167-9. 2005..Nevirapine resistance was more frequent in infants with subtype C than with subtypes A and D (87 versus 50%, P = 0.016)... - Short postexposure prophylaxis in newborn babies to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1: NVAZ randomised clinical trialTaha E Taha
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Lancet 362:1171-7. 2003..We aimed to determine whether post-exposure prophylaxis of nevirapine plus zidovudine given to babies only reduced transmission of HIV more than did a regimen of nevirapine alone... - Factors associated with poor immunologic response to virologic suppression by highly active antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected womenCarlos M Vaamonde
Division of International Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York 10021, USA
AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 22:222-31. 2006..We conclude that higher baseline CD4 count and lower HIV RNA level were associated with poor immunologic response to HAART in women with virologic suppression for at least 6 months. Persistent low level viremia may also contribute... - Higher in utero and perinatal HIV infection risk in girls than boysRobert J Biggar
Viral Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Division of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 41:509-13. 2006..This study analyzed mother-to-child HIV transmission rates by sex and exposure time for babies born to HIV-infected, untreated African women... - Association between the replication capacity and mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1, in antiretroviral drug-naive Malawian womenSusan H Eshleman
Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Infect Dis 193:1512-5. 2006..45 for each 10% increase in replication capacity [95% confidence interval, 1.11-1.90]; P = .0063), after adjustment for maternal HIV-1 load and other factors... - Quantitative analysis of HIV-1 variants with the K103N resistance mutation after single-dose nevirapine in women with HIV-1 subtypes A, C, and DTamara S Flys
Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 42:610-3. 2006..Further studies are needed to evaluate the clinical significance of NVP-resistant variants in this setting... - Longitudinal anthropometric patterns among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected womenJessica E Justman
Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 47:312-9. 2008..Previous studies suggest that indicators of central adiposity such as waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and waist circumference may be altered by HIV infection, antiretroviral treatment, or both...