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The demand for consumer health informationT H Wagner
VA Health Economics Resource Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
J Health Econ 20:1059-75. 2001..respectively. The results also suggest that the intervention was associated with a decreased reliance on health professionals for information...- Behavioral interventions and cost-effectiveness analysisTodd H Wagner
Department of Veterans Affairs Health Economics Resource Center, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Prev Med 39:1208-14. 2004..This is typically not done but it may be critical for study design and for interpreting CEA results... 
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...- 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... - The costs of an outreach intervention for low-income women with abnormal Pap smearsTodd H Wagner
VA Health Economics Resource Center, 795 Willow Rd, MPD 152, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 4:A11. 2007..This randomized controlled trial evaluated and compared the total cost and cost per follow-up of a tailored outreach intervention plus usual care with the total cost and cost per follow-up of usual care alone... - Cost of inpatient rehabilitation care in the Department of Veterans AffairsTodd H Wagner
Department of Veterans Affairs VA Health Economics Resource Center, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
J Rehabil Res Dev 43:929-38. 2006..Although FIM scores were associated with LOS, FIM scores accounted for little variance in cost after controlling for LOS. These results are most applicable to researchers conducting cost-effectiveness analyses... 
Prescription drug co-payments and cost-related medication underuseTodd H Wagner
Department of Veterans Affairs Health Economics Resource Center, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University, USA
Health Econ Policy Law 3:51-67. 2008..Realigning the co-payments with cost-effectiveness data, also known as value-based insurance design, warrants further investigation...- Computerized health information and the demand for medical careTodd H Wagner
VA Health Economics Resource Center, Palo Alto Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Value Health 6:29-39. 2003..This study assessed the effect of using computerized health information on consumers' demand for medical care... - Economies of scale in institutional review boardsTodd H Wagner
VA Health Economics Resource Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94025, USA
Med Care 42:817-23. 2004..Recent regulatory changes and a few high-profile problems have prompted proposals for greater investments in IRBs... 
Willingness to pay for mammography: item development and testing among five ethnic groupsT H Wagner
VA HSR and D Health Economics Resource Center, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Health Policy 53:105-21. 2000..58, P < 0.001). These questions are now in use in a larger clinical trial and future analyses will explore willingness to pay and willingness to travel within and across the ethnic groups...- Does providing consumer health information affect self-reported medical utilization? Evidence from the Healthwise Communities ProjectT H Wagner
VA HSR and D Health Economics Resource Center, Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, and Center for Health Policy, Stanford University, CA, USA
Med Care 39:836-47. 2001..To determine whether providing health information to residents of Boise ID had an effect on their self-reported medical utilization... - Does willingness to pay vary by race/ethnicity? An analysis using mammography among low-income womenT H Wagner
HSR and D Health Economics Resource Center, Department of Veterans Affairs, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Health Policy 58:275-88. 2001..Nevertheless, WTP studies that do not account for ethnic differences may be overstating net benefits to society... - When parents are given greater access to health information, does it affect pediatric utilization?T H Wagner
VA HSR and D Health Economics Resource Center, Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, and Center for Health Policy, Stanford University, CA, USA
Med Care 39:848-55. 2001..In this paper, we analyze the effect of the Healthwise Communities Project, a natural experiment that provided free self-care resources, on reported pediatric utilization... - Who uses self-care books, advice nurses, and computers for health information?T H Wagner
VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Stanford University, USA
Int J Technol Assess Health Care 17:590-600. 2001.... - Prevalence and costs of chronic conditions in the VA health care systemWei Yu
VA HSR and D Health Economics Resource Center, Center for Health Policy, Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University, USA
Med Care Res Rev 60:146S-167S. 2003..2 million) of VA health care users had 3 or more of the 29 chronic conditions. These individuals accounted for 73 percent of the total cost. Overall, VA health care users have more chronic diseases than the general population... - Spending for specialized mental health treatment in The VA: 1995-2001Shuo Chen
Health Economics Resource Center, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, California, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 22:256-63. 2003..Overall, the VA reduced the average cost (per VA user) of specialized mental health care by 22 percent while it increased the number of users of these services by 35 percent... - Average cost of VA rehabilitation, mental health, and long-term hospital staysWei Yu
VA HSR and D Health Economics Resource Center, Stanford University, USA
Med Care Res Rev 60:40S-53S. 2003..Encounter-level costs were then calculated by multiplying the average per diem cost by the number of days of stay in the fiscal year. The national cost estimates are more reliable than the local cost estimates... - 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... - 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... - Using average cost methods to estimate encounter-level costs for medical-surgical stays in the VATodd H Wagner
VA HSR and D Health Economics Resource Center, Stanford University, USA
Med Care Res Rev 60:15S-36S. 2003..They discuss the method's limitations and application in other health care systems... - The relationships among age, chronic conditions, and healthcare costsWei Yu
Health Economics Resource Center, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Am J Manag Care 10:909-16. 2004..To learn how age and chronic illness affect costs in the Veterans Affairs healthcare system... - 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... - Costs and benefits of the national cancer institute central institutional review boardTodd H Wagner
Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System and Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
J Clin Oncol 28:662-6. 2010..The goal of this study was to assess whether NCI's CIRB was associated with lower effort, time, and cost in processing adult phase III oncology trials... - Internet use and stigmatized illnessMagdalena Berger
VA Health Economics Resource Center, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA 94025, USA
Soc Sci Med 61:1821-7. 2005..Results from this survey suggest that the internet may be a valuable health communication and education tool for populations who are affected by stigmatized illnesses... - Health-related consequences of overactive bladderTodd H Wagner
Health Economics Resource Center, Department of Veterans Affairs, Stanford University School of Medicine, Menlo Park, California, USA
Am J Manag Care 8:S598-607. 2002..These consequences entail significant economic costs, of which a large percentage will be incurred by health plans. To the extent that OAB causes these consequences, there may be significant savings from effectively treating OAB... - Introduction of a rapid response system at a United States veterans affairs hospital reduced cardiac arrestsGeoffrey K Lighthall
Department of Anesthesiology, MC 112A, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
Anesth Analg 111:679-86. 2010..We sought to determine the impact of a rapid response system on cardiac arrest rates and mortality in a United States veteran population... - Healthcare utilization among Hispanics: findings from the 1994 Minority Health SurveyT H Wagner
VA HSR and D Health Economics Resource Center, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Am J Manag Care 6:355-64. 2000..To assess the effects of health need, enabling factors, and predisposing factors on entry into any type of care, volume of care, use of emergency services, hospitalization, and receipt of preventive services... - The cost of operating institutional review boards (IRBs)Todd H Wagner
Department of Veterans Affairs, HSR and D Health Economics Resource Center, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Acad Med 78:638-44. 2003..Policy debates should consider the potential savings from large IRBs, perhaps by encouraging small IRBs to merge, although this may result in less local review, control, and oversight... - An economic evaluation of inpatient residential treatment programs in the Department of Veterans AffairsTodd H Wagner
VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Med Care Res Rev 62:187-204. 2005..Because medical centers with RTPs provided more services, this offset the per diem savings, resulting in no significant differences in total costs between medical centers with and without RPTs... - Cost-related medication underuse: do patients with chronic illnesses tell their doctors?John D Piette
Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48113 0170, USA
Arch Intern Med 164:1749-55. 2004..Although many chronically ill patients underuse prescription medications because of cost concerns, we know little about their discussions with clinicians about this issue... - Estimated economic costs of overactive bladder in the United StatesTeh-wei Hu
Department of Health Economics, University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, Warren Hall, Room 412, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Urology 61:1123-8. 2003..Although this provides information on the direct and indirect costs of OAB, quality-of-life issues must be taken into account to gain a better understanding of this condition... - The effect of age on the use of health and self-care information: confronting the stereotypeLisa Smith Wagner
Department of Psychology, University of San Francisco, CA 94117, USA
Gerontologist 43:318-24. 2003..The study's primary objective was to evaluate whether a health information intervention had a differential effect for people of different ages... - Medication characteristics beyond cost alone influence decisions to underuse pharmacotherapy in response to financial pressuresJohn D Piette
Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48113 0170, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 59:739-46. 2006..We also identified differences in cost-related underuse between symptom-relief medications (e.g., analgesics) and primarily "preventive" medications (e.g., antihypertensives)... - Determinants of cost among people who died in VA nursing homesWei Yu
VA Health Economics Resource Center
Med Care Res Rev 63:477-98. 2006..Incorporating illness into models that predict future demand for nursing home use provides greater precision than using age alone, especially as diseases and their treatments change through time... - Patient strategies to cope with high prescription medication costs: who is cutting back on necessities, increasing debt, or underusing medications?Michele Heisler
Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research and Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
J Behav Med 28:43-51. 2005.... - Problems paying out-of-pocket medication costs among older adults with diabetesJohn D Piette
Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research and Department of Internal Medicine and Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48113 0170, USA
Diabetes Care 27:384-91. 2004..To identify problems faced by older adults with diabetes due to out-of-pocket medication costs... - Clinician identification of chronically ill patients who have problems paying for prescription medicationsMichele Heisler
Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48113 0170, USA
Am J Med 116:753-8. 2004..We examined whether and how providers are identifying chronically ill adults who have potential problems paying for prescription medications... - Health insurance status, cost-related medication underuse, and outcomes among diabetes patients in three systems of careJohn D Piette
Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research, VA Ann Arbor Health Care System, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48113 0170, USA
Med Care 42:102-9. 2004..Chronically ill patients often experience difficulty paying for their medications and, as a result, use less than prescribed... - Cost-related medication underuse among chronically ill adults: the treatments people forgo, how often, and who is at riskJohn D Piette
Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research, VA Ann Arbor Health Care System, PO Box 130170, Ann Arbor, MI 48113 0170, USA
Am J Public Health 94:1782-7. 2004..We sought information about the cost-related underuse of medications-which medications are underused, by whom, and how often... - The cost of institutional review board procedures in multicenter observational researchKeith Humphreys
Ann Intern Med 139:77. 2003 - Improving the decision processes of institutional review boardsTodd H Wagner
JAMA 291:1698; author reply 1698-9. 2004 - New opportunities for integrated child health systems: results from the multifaceted pre-to-three programAlison Evans Cuellar
School of Public Health, Columbia Univeristy, New York, NY 10032, USA
Am J Public Health 93:1889-90. 2003