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Assessing cost-effectiveness and value as imaging grows:the case of carotid artery CTLaurence C Baker
Department of Health Research and Policy, Sanford University, California, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 29:2260-7. 2010..Tracking the uses of emerging technologies to encourage efficient use is essential, but it can be challenging in cases where new tools have multiple uses and information is incomplete...
Differences in neonatal mortality among whites and Asian American subgroups: evidence from CaliforniaLaurence C Baker
Department of Health Research, and Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 161:69-76. 2007..To obtain information about health outcomes in neonates in 9 subgroups of the Asian population in the United States...
Benefits of interoperability: a closer look at the estimatesLaurence C Baker
Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) . 2005..This commentary outlines some questions about their assumptions and suggests that less-aggressive assumptions could lead to more realistic expectations about the financial implications of achieving interoperability...- Effect of an Internet-based system for doctor-patient communication on health care spendingLaurence Baker
Department of Health Research and Policy, HRP Redwood Building, Room 110, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 5405
J Am Med Inform Assoc 12:530-6. 2005..12. Spending associated with use of the electronic service was $0.29 per member per month. We conclude that use of structured electronic visits can reduce health care spending... - Relationship between HMO market share and the diffusion and use of advanced MRI technologiesLaurence C Baker
Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305 5405, USA
J Am Coll Radiol 1:478-87. 2004..This study examined whether managed-care activity was associated with the adoption rate of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment during the 1990s... - Variations in hospital resource use for Medicare and privately insured populations in CaliforniaLaurence C Baker
Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 27:w123-34. 2008.... - Expanded use of imaging technology and the challenge of measuring valueLaurence C Baker
Stanford University in Stanford, California, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 27:1467-78. 2008..This may be a common situation; thus, a particularly important question is how non-health-outcome benefits of imaging can be quantified... - Integrated telehealth and care management program for Medicare beneficiaries with chronic disease linked to savingsLaurence C Baker
Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 30:1689-97. 2011..Meanwhile, mortality differences in the treatment and control groups suggest that the intervention may have produced noticeable changes in health outcomes, but we leave it to future research to explore these effects fully... - The contribution of health plans and provider organizations to variations in measured plan qualityLaurence C Baker
Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, 259 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305 5405, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 22:210-8. 2010..We investigate the relative impact of physician organizations and health plans on quality measures... - HMO coverage reduces variations in the use of health care among patients under age sixty-fiveLaurence C Baker
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 29:2068-74. 2010.... - Acquisition of MRI equipment by doctors drives up imaging use and spendingLaurence C Baker
Stanford University, California, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 29:2252-9. 2010..Not only did MRI spending increase for their patients, but spending for other aspects of care rose as well. Attention should be paid to ensuring that advanced medical equipment acquired in physician practices is used appropriately... - The relationship between technology availability and health care spendingLaurence Baker
Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) . 2003..Policy efforts to assess and manage the availability of new technologies could benefit society where the additional spending produced by new services is not associated with strong quality improvements... - Within-year variation in hospital utilization and its implications for hospital costsLaurence C Bakera
Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University, HRP Redwood Building, Rm 253, Stanford, CA 94305 5405, USA
J Health Econ 23:191-211. 2004..We examine the impact of variation on hospital costs, showing that increases in variance are associated with increases in hospital expenditures, but that the effects are qualitatively modest... - Managed care, medical technology, and the well-being of societyLaurence Baker
Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Top Magn Reson Imaging 13:107-13. 2002.... - Managed care and technology adoption in health care: evidence from magnetic resonance imagingL C Baker
Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University and NBER, HRP Redwood Building Room 253, Stanford, CA 94305 5405, USA
J Health Econ 20:395-421. 2001..These results suggest that technology adoption in health care can respond to changes in financial and other incentives associated with managed care, which may have implications for health care costs and patient welfare... - Managed care spillover effectsLaurence C Baker
National Bureau of Economic Research and Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 5405, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 24:435-56. 2003.... - Managed care, consolidation among health care providers, and health care: evidence from mammographyL C Baker
Stanford University, USA
Rand J Econ 30:351-74. 1999..We also find that increases in HMO market share are associated with reductions in costs for mammography and with increases in waiting times for appointments, but not with worse health outcomes... - Managed care, technology adoption, and health care: the adoption of neonatal intensive careLaurence C Baker
Stanford University, USA
Rand J Econ 33:524-48. 2002.... - Do health plans influence quality of care?Laurence C Baker
Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 5405, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 16:19-30. 2004..To investigate the relative impact of physician groups and health plans on quality of care measures... - Use of the Internet and e-mail for health care information: results from a national surveyLaurence Baker
Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif 94305 5405, USA
JAMA 289:2400-6. 2003..Available estimates of use and impact vary widely. Without accurate estimates of use and effects, it is difficult to focus policy discussions or design appropriate policy activities... - Predictors of surgery resident satisfaction with teaching by attendings: a national surveyClifford Y Ko
RAND, Santa Monica, California, USA
Ann Surg 241:373-80. 2005..Improving such satisfaction may help to produce a better product... - Consumers' use of the Internet for health insuranceM Kate Bundorf
Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, HRP Redwood Building, Room 257, Stanford, CA 94205 5405, USA
Am J Manag Care 10:609-16. 2004..We examined consumers' search for information about health insurance choices and their use of the Internet for that search and to manage health benefits... - Factors associated with the perception that debt influences physicians' specialty choicesL C Baker
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ, USA
Acad Med 72:1088-96. 1997..To investigate the responses of individual physicians to educational debt... - Measuring competition in health care marketsL C Baker
Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University, CA 94305-5405, USA
Health Serv Res 36:223-51. 2001..Data needed for constructing measures are also frequently scarce, insufficient, or both. Measurement could be improved with access to better data... - The effect of HMOs on fee-for-service health care expenditures: evidence from MedicareL C Baker
Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305 5092, USA
J Health Econ 16:453-81. 1997.... - Level and volume of neonatal intensive care and mortality in very-low-birth-weight infantsCiaran S Phibbs
Health Economics Resource Center and the Center for Health Care Evaluation, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
N Engl J Med 356:2165-75. 2007..We examined differences in neonatal mortality among infants with very low birth weight (below 1500 g) among NICUs with various levels of care and different volumes of very-low-birth-weight infants... - Proposition 71 and CIRM--assessing the return on investmentMichael T Longaker
Department of Surgery, Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, 257 Campus Drive West, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Nat Biotechnol 25:513-21. 2007..state coffers to sell $3 billion in bonds to fund the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) with the expectation of health and financial benefits, what benchmarks should be used to measure the initiative's success?.. - Health care cost growth among the privately insuredM Kate Bundorf
Stanford University School of Medicine, California, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 28:1294-304. 2009..Rising prices played a greater role in growth in spending for brand-name than for generic drugs. These findings can inform efforts to control private- sector spending... - Magnetic resonance imaging and low back pain care for Medicare patientsJacqueline D Baras
Stanford University s School of Medicine in Stanford, California, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 28:w1133-40. 2009..We find that increases in MRI supply are related to higher use of both low back MRI and surgery. This is worrisome, and careful attention should be paid to assessing the outcomes for patients... - Effect of opening midlevel neonatal intensive care units on the location of low birth weight births in CaliforniaCorinna A Haberland
Stanford University School of Medicine, Center for Health Policy Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, 117 Encina Commons, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Pediatrics 118:e1667-79. 2006..Causes for this are unknown. We sought to explore the impact of diffusion of specialty or midlevel NICUs on the types of hospitals in which low birth weight newborns are born... - Free internet access, the digital divide, and health informationTodd H Wagner
VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, USA
Med Care 43:415-20. 2005..This provides a unique setting to study the ways that people who had not previously obtained Internet access use the Internet when it becomes available to them... - Do mandates requiring insurers to pay for emergency care influence the use of the emergency department?Renee Y Hsia
Department of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine, Stanford Kaiser Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Stanford, California, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 25:1086-94. 2006..None of the analyses show evidence that the mandates are associated with increased use. We conclude that prudent layperson mandates are not associated with increases in ED visits among privately insured patients... - Use of the Internet for health information by the chronically illTodd H Wagner
Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 1:A13. 2004..The Internet is a source of health information and advice for individuals with chronic conditions and shows promise for helping individuals manage their conditions and improve their quality of life... - Health plan performance measurement: does it affect quality of care for Medicare managed care enrollees?M Kate Bundorf
Stanford University School of Medicine, HRP Redwood Building, Room 108, Stanford, CA 94305 5405, USA
Inquiry 45:168-83. 2008..Our results provide no evidence that performance measurement increased quality of care among MMC enrollees... - The relationship between SCHIP enrollment and hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in CaliforniaDustin Bermudez
Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 16:96-110. 2005..These results suggest a strong beneficial effect of SCHIP on primary care among the children covered... - Managed care and technology diffusion: the case of MRIL C Baker
Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University, CA, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 17:195-207. 1998..This suggests that managed care may be able to reduce health care costs by influencing the adoption and use of new medical equipment and technologies... - The burden of out-of-pocket payments for health care in Tbilisi, Republic of GeorgiaJacek Skarbinski
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University Medical Center, Room H3151, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
JAMA 287:1043-9. 2002..Future reforms should consider an appropriate system for health care insurance risk pooling for the population of Tbilisi, Georgia... - Medicaid managed care and health care for childrenLaurence C Baker
Stanford University School of Medicine, HRP Redwood Building, Rm. 110, Stanford, CA 94305-5405, USA
Health Serv Res 40:1466-88. 2005..Some impacts may be positive (e.g., less ED use and more outpatient provider use), although concern about increasing challenges in access to care and satisfaction is also warranted... - Laws requiring health plans to provide direct access to obstetricians and gynecologists, and use of cancer screening by womenLaurence C Baker
Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University, Center for Health Policy, Stanford University, National Bureau of Economic Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 5405, USA
Health Serv Res 42:990-1007. 2007..One benefit of these laws may be improved preventive screening rates, but no literature has examined the relationship between ob/gyn direct access laws and use of breast cancer and cervical cancer screening... - The effect of area HMO market share on cancer screeningLaurence C Baker
Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Health Serv Res 39:1751-72. 2004..Neither the level of competition between area HMOs nor area PPO market share is associated with screening rates. CONCLUSIONS: Area-level managed care activity can influence preventive care treatment patterns... - Who searches the internet for health information?M Kate Bundorf
Stanford University School of Medicine, HRP Redwood Building, Room 108, Stanford, CA 94305 5405, USA
Health Serv Res 41:819-36. 2006..To determine what types of consumers use the Internet as a source of health information... - Workforce perceptions of hospital safety culture: development and validation of the patient safety climate in healthcare organizations surveySara Singer
Center for Health Policy, Stanford University, 117 Encina Commons, Stanford, CA 94305 6019, USA
Health Serv Res 42:1999-2021. 2007..To describe the development of an instrument for assessing workforce perceptions of hospital safety culture and to assess its reliability and validity... - Predictors for medical students entering a general surgery residency: National survey resultsClifford Y Ko
David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif, USA
Surgery 136:567-72. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: In this national survey, factors are identified that are significantly associated with students entering a GS residency. Some of these mutable factors may increase the pool of GS residency applicants... - Trends in charges and payments for nonhospitalized emergency department pediatric visits, 1996-2003Renee Y Hsia
San Francisco General Hospital, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 15:347-54. 2008..To compare charges and payments for outpatient pediatric emergency visits across payer groups to provide information on reimbursement trends...
Research Grants
- Race, Ethnicity and Quality of Health Care for NewbornsLaurence Baker; Fiscal Year: 2005..Our work will focus on Black-White differences, disparities for Hispanics (including subgroups like Mexican and Puerto Rican), and disparities for Asian and Pacific Islanders. ..
- MANAGED CARE AND HEALTH CARE MARKETSLaurence Baker; Fiscal Year: 2003..abstract_text> ..
- Improving Safety Culture and Outcomes in HealthcareLaurence Baker; Fiscal Year: 2006..abstract_text> ..