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Effect of race on ratings of hypothetical candidates for a research scholarship/research assistant positionJudith A Long
Philadelphia VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA
Teach Learn Med 16:355-60. 2004....- Evaluating medical training programs by the quality of care delivered by their alumniDavid A Asch
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
JAMA 298:1049-51. 2007 
Perceived barriers to the regionalization of adult critical care in the United States: a qualitative preliminary studyJeremy M Kahn
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 8:239. 2008..We sought to develop a framework for understanding clinician attitudes toward regionalization and potential barriers to developing a tiered, regionalized system of care in the United States...- Conducting physician mail surveys on a limited budget. A randomized trial comparing $2 bill versus $5 bill incentivesD A Asch
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Med Care 36:95-9. 1998..The effects of incentive size on physicians' response rates to a mail survey were determined... - Aggregating and partitioning populations in health care disparities research: differences in perspectiveDavid A Asch
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Clin Oncol 25:2117-21. 2007..The result is that health care disparities can be challenging to interpret unless the analytic and policy perspective is clear... 
Evaluating obstetrical residency programs using patient outcomesDavid A Asch
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6218, USA
JAMA 302:1277-83. 2009..Patient outcomes have been used to assess the performance of hospitals and physicians; in contrast, residency programs have been compared based on nonclinical measures...- Carrier screening for cystic fibrosis: costs and clinical outcomesD A Asch
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Med Decis Making 18:202-12. 1998.... - Paying for performance in population health: lessons from health care settingsDavid A Asch
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 7:A98. 2010..Nevertheless, with careful attention, conditions for successful pay-for-performance in population health might be met... - Race, treatment preferences, and hospice enrollment: eligibility criteria may exclude patients with the greatest needs for careJessica Fishman
Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Cancer 115:689-97. 2009.... - Evaluating residency programs by whether they produce good doctorsDavid A Asch
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, University of Pennsylvania, USA
LDI Issue Brief 15:1-4. 2009.... - Neighborhood of residence is associated with daily adherence to CPAP therapyAlec B Platt
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center Philadelphia, PA, USA
Sleep 32:799-806. 2009..Risk factors for nonadherence are not well understood but may reflect individual or neighborhood socioeconomic factors. We sought to determine the association of socioeconomic status and initial CPAP adherence... - Racial differences in attitudes toward innovative medical technologyPeter W Groeneveld
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:559-63. 2006..New medical technologies are used at different rates among whites and blacks. This variation may be partially explained by racial differences in patient innovativeness-the propensity of patients to adopt unfamiliar therapies... - Early adoption of BRCA1/2 testing: who and whyKatrina Armstrong
Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Genet Med 5:92-8. 2003.... - Age inconsistency in the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines for acute otitis mediaSharon B Meropol
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 108 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Dr, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Pediatrics 121:657-68. 2008..The objective was to compare strategies for diagnosing and treating otitis: (1) a commonly used, 2-criteria strategy, (2) the guidelines' 3-criteria algorithm, and (3) initially watching without antibiotics... - Adapting a patient satisfaction instrument for low literate and Spanish-speaking populations: comparison of three formatsJudy A Shea
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Patient Educ Couns 73:132-40. 2008..To compare responses to print versions of the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems 2.0 survey (CAHPS) to those for an illustration enhanced format and a telephone based interactive voice response format... - How should we design supportive cancer care? The patient's perspectiveDavid Casarett
University of Pennsylvania, 3615 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Clin Oncol 26:1296-301. 2008..Although so-called open-access hospice programs and bridge programs are beginning to offer these services to patients who are still receiving treatment, it is not known whether they best meet patients' needs... - Time of day is associated with postoperative morbidity: an analysis of the national surgical quality improvement program dataRachel R Kelz
Department of Surgery, Philadelphia VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Ann Surg 247:544-52. 2008..To examine the association between surgical start time and morbidity and mortality for nonemergent procedures... - Effect of race on patient expectations regarding their primary care physiciansCarmen E Guerra
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
Fam Pract 25:49-55. 2008..Fulfilment of patients' expectations has been associated with greater patient satisfaction with care and greater adherence to medical advice. However, little is know about how race influences patient expectations... - Harnessing the power of default options to improve health careScott D Halpern
Department of Medicine, The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, the Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104-6021, USA
N Engl J Med 357:1340-4. 2007 - Insurance coverage for obesity treatmentAdam Gilden Tsai
Center for Weight and Eating Disorders, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 106:1651-5. 2006..Given the increasing evidence for the clinical and cost-effectiveness of nonsurgical weight loss therapy, coverage policies may begin to change... - Do doctors vote?David Grande
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6218, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:585-9. 2007..Organizational leaders and scholars have issued calls for the medical profession to refocus its efforts on fulfilling the core tenets of professionalism. A key element of professionalism is participation in community affairs... - Clinical concerns about clinical performance measurementRachel M Werner
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Ann Fam Med 5:159-63. 2007..In its current state, performance measurement is better suited to improving measured care than improving the care of individual patients... - Prioritizing the organization and management of intensive care services in the United States: the PrOMIS ConferenceAmber E Barnato
Center for Research on Health Care, and the CRISMA Laboratory Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Crit Care Med 35:1003-11. 2007..We sought to elicit the perceived problems and solutions to the delivery of critical care services from a broad set of U.S. stakeholders... - Health literacy weakly but consistently predicts primary care patient dissatisfactionJudy A Shea
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Vetrans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 19:45-9. 2007..Moreover, the importance of health literacy in predicting satisfaction compared with other patient sociodemographics is underexplored... - The terrible choice: re-evaluating hospice eligibility criteria for cancerDavid J Casarett
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Clin Oncol 27:953-9. 2009..Our goal was to determine whether willingness to make this choice identifies patients with greater need for hospice services... - Racial disparities in stage-specific colorectal cancer mortality: 1960-2005Samir Soneji
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Am J Public Health 100:1912-6. 2010..We examined whether racial disparities in stage-specific colorectal cancer survival changed between 1960 and 2005... - Shared decision-making in pediatrics: a national perspectiveAlexander G Fiks
ediatric Research Consortium, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Pediatrics 126:306-14. 2010.... - Improvements in US maternal obstetrical outcomes from 1992 to 2006Sindhu K Srinivas
Department of Ob Gyn, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Med Care 48:487-93. 2010..Over 4 million women give birth annually in the United States, making delivery one of the most common reasons for hospital care... - Quality of care among obese patientsVirginia W Chang
Philadelphia VA Medical Center, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
JAMA 303:1274-81. 2010..Moreover, obese patients often feel that clinicians are biased or disrespectful because of their weight. These observations raise the concern that obese patients may receive lower quality of care... - Determinants of the decision to accept a kidney from a donor at increased risk for blood-borne viral infectionPETER P REESE
University of Pennsylvania, Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 5:917-23. 2010..This study aimed to identify the proportion of kidney transplant candidates that would accept a kidney from a DIRVI and the factors that influenced this decision... - Regulated payments for living kidney donation: an empirical assessment of the ethical concernsScott D Halpern
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 6021, USA
Ann Intern Med 152:358-65. 2010..Although regulated payments to encourage living kidney donation could reduce morbidity and mortality among patients waiting for a kidney transplant, doing so raises several ethical concerns... - Cell phone cardiopulmonary resuscitation: audio instructions when needed by lay rescuers: a randomized, controlled trialRaina M Merchant
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 55:538-543.e1. 2010.... - Cost-effectiveness of therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrestRaina M Merchant
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, the Center for Resuscitation Science and Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes 2:421-8. 2009..We sought to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of treating comatose cardiac arrest survivors with therapeutic hypothermia... - Regionalization of medical critical care: what can we learn from the trauma experience?Jeremy M Kahn
Division of Pulmonary, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Crit Care Med 36:3085-8. 2008..To review the rationale for the regionalization of adult critical care and discuss how lessons from the trauma experience may be relevant to this debate... - Short-term outcomes for obese live kidney donors and their recipientsPETER P REESE
Renal Division, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Transplantation 88:662-71. 2009.... - Visual epidemiology: photographs as tools for probing street-level etiologiesCarolyn C Cannuscio
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania, PA, United States
Soc Sci Med 69:553-64. 2009.... - Physician attitudes toward regionalization of adult critical care: a national surveyJeremy M Kahn
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Crit Care Med 37:2149-54. 2009..Regionalization has been proposed as a method to improve outcomes for patients with critical illness. We sought to determine intensivist physician attitudes and potential barriers to the regionalization of adult critical care... - A randomized, controlled trial of financial incentives for smoking cessationKevin G Volpp
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, USA
N Engl J Med 360:699-709. 2009.... - Critical illness outcomes in specialty versus general intensive care unitsJason P Lott
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 179:676-83. 2009..General intensive care units (ICUs) provide care across a wide range of diagnoses, whereas specialty ICUs provide diagnosis-specific care. Risk-adjusted outcome differences across such units are unknown... - Patient preferences can be misleading as explanations for racial disparities in health careKatrina Armstrong
Department of Medicine, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Arch Intern Med 166:950-4. 2006..Uncovering the hidden constraints that we impose on health care choice may help us reduce unwanted disparities in health care... - A randomized controlled trial of financial incentives for smoking cessationKevin G Volpp
CHERP, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University and Woodland Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:12-8. 2006..The objective of this study was to determine whether modest financial incentives increase the rate of smoking cessation program enrollment, completion, and quit rates in a outpatient clinical setting... - Epidemiology and prognosis of coma in daytime television dramasDavid Casarett
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia VA Medical Center, 9 East, 3900 Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4155, USA
BMJ 331:1537-9. 2005..To determine how soap operas portray, and possibly misrepresent, the likelihood of recovery for patients in coma... - Hypertensive patients' willingness to participate in placebo-controlled trials: implications for recruitment efficiencyScott D Halpern
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
Am Heart J 146:985-92. 2003.... - Effect of assessment method on the discrepancy between judgments of health disorders people have and do not have: a web studyJonathan Baron
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6196, USA
Med Decis Making 23:422-34. 2003..The discrepancy varied in size and direction across disorders. Subjects also thought that they would be less affected than others... - Why would caregivers not want to treat their relative's Alzheimer's disease?Jason H T Karlawish
Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 51:1391-7. 2003..To determine family caregivers' willingness to use Alzheimer's disease (AD)-slowing medicines and to examine the relationships between this willingness, dementia severity, and caregiver characteristics... - Life insurance and breast cancer risk assessment: adverse selection, genetic testing decisions, and discriminationKatrina Armstrong
Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA
Am J Med Genet A 120:359-64. 2003..Although fear of insurance discrimination is associated with the decision not to undergo BRCA1/2 testing, there was no evidence of actual insurance discrimination from BRCA1/2 testing... - When money is saved by reducing healthcare costs, where do US primary care physicians think the money goes?David A Asch
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Am J Manag Care 9:438-42. 2003..Physician willingness to reduce medical costs is mixed. Some physicians might be unwilling to reduce medical costs because they are concerned about where the savings would go... - Prior antimicrobial drug exposure: a risk factor for trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole-resistant urinary tract infectionsJoshua P Metlay
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Antimicrob Chemother 51:963-70. 2003..We used a novel data system to identify patterns of individual antimicrobial drug exposures associated with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole-resistant urinary tract infections (UTIs)... - Incremental and average cost-effectiveness ratios: will physicians make a distinction?John C Hershey
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 19104, USA
Risk Anal 23:81-9. 2003.... - Obtaining informed consent for cancer pain research: do patients with advanced cancer and patients with chronic pain have different concerns?David Casarett
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 24:506-16. 2002..Although chronic pain patients' willingness to enroll in research was related to pain severity and a desire for better pain management, cancer patients' willingness to enroll was not... - Antibiotic prescribing decisions of generalists and infectious disease specialists: thresholds for adopting new drug therapiesJoshua P Metlay
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Department of Veterans Affairs, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Med Decis Making 22:498-505. 2002..Thus, the adoption of recommendations to limit overuse of newer antibiotics may be variable across clinical settings and providers, reducing the impact of these recommendations on emerging resistance... - Physicians' preferences for active-controlled versus placebo-controlled trials of new antihypertensive drugsScott D Halpern
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA
J Gen Intern Med 17:689-95. 2002..To evaluate physicians' preferences for referring patients to, and using information from, active-controlled trials (ACTs) versus placebo-controlled trials (PCTs) of new antihypertensive drugs... - Paying hypertension research subjectsDavid Casarett
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 17:650-2. 2002..Cash payments are often used to compensate subjects who participate in research. However, ethicists have argued that these payments might constitute an undue inducement... - Empirical assessment of whether moderate payments are undue or unjust inducements for participation in clinical trialsScott D Halpern
Department of Medicine, Centers for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA
Arch Intern Med 164:801-3. 2004..Paying patients to participate in clinical trials is ethically controversial. However, there has been no empirical documentation regarding whether payment represents an undue or unjust inducement... - Assessing health literacy in African American and Caucasian adults: disparities in rapid estimate of adult literacy in medicine (REALM) scoresJudy A Shea
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion CHERP, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, PA 19104 6021, USA
Fam Med 36:575-81. 2004..The influence of literacy on health and health care is an important area of investigation. Studies with a literacy focus are most valuable when literacy is assessed with psychometrically sound instruments... - Tensions in antibiotic prescribing: pitting social concerns against the interests of individual patientsJoshua P Metlay
Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 712 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Gen Intern Med 17:87-94. 2002..However, optimal use from the perspective of the community (reserving newer agents for future use) is not always consistent with optimal use from the perspective of the individual patient (prescribing newer, broader agents)... - Living Longer and Paying the Price?John Q Trojanowski
The Institute on Aging, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Sci Aging Knowledge Environ 2005:pe38. 2005..Further, speakers presented their views on covering the costs of public and private programs for future generations of older adults... - Improving the use of hospice services in nursing homes: a randomized controlled trialDavid Casarett
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
JAMA 294:211-7. 2005..Hospice care may improve the quality of end-of-life care for nursing home residents, but hospice is underutilized by this population, at least in part because physicians are not aware of their patients' preferences... - Determinants of transplant surgeons' willingness to provide organs to patients infected with HBV, HCV or HIVScott D Halpern
Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, 19104 6021, USA
Am J Transplant 5:1319-25. 2005..HIV-infected patients should have equal access to organs unless or until evidence emerges that they fare substantially worse than other potential recipients... - Racial profiling: the unintended consequences of coronary artery bypass graft report cardsRachel M Werner
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Circulation 111:1257-63. 2005..If physicians believe that racial and ethnic minorities are at higher risk for poor outcomes, report cards could worsen existing racial and ethnic disparities in health care... - Developing an illustrated version of the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans (CAHPS)Judy A Shea
Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 31:32-42. 2005..An illustrated version of the CAHPS instrument was designed for low-literacy audiences; the illustrations were tested and were then revised toreflect respondents' feedback... - In a mailed physician survey, questionnaire length had a threshold effect on response rateChristopher Jepson
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3535 Market Street, Room 4017, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 58:103-5. 2005..To examine the association between questionnaire length and response rate in a mailed survey of generalist physicians randomly selected from the American Medical Association master file... - Designing an illustrated patient satisfaction instrument for low-literacy populationsJanet Weiner
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Am J Manag Care 10:853-60. 2004..All pictures were revised, with the majority revised at least 4 times. We report on this iterative design process as well as on lessons we learned in illustrating questions for low-literacy populations... - Update on the health disparities literatureJudith A Long
Veterans Affairs Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Ann Intern Med 141:805-12. 2004 - Public response to cost-quality tradeoffs in clinical decisionsMary Catherine Beach
Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Med Decis Making 23:369-78. 2003..To explore public attitudes toward the incorporation of cost-effectiveness analysis into clinical decisions... - Randomized trial of 5 dollars versus 10 dollars monetary incentives, envelope size, and candy to increase physician response rates to mailed questionnairesScott D Halpern
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Med Care 40:834-9. 2002..Including smaller incentives in more questionnaires may maximize total responses... - Inadequate hepatitis B vaccination and post-exposure evaluation among transplant surgeons: prevalence, correlates, and implicationsScott D Halpern
Department of Medicine, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021, USA
Ann Surg 244:305-9. 2006..Requiring documentation of HBV vaccination and immunity to maintain operating room privileges may protect surgeons, their patients, and operating room staff... - Variation in cardiac procedure use and racial disparity among Veterans Affairs HospitalsPeter W Groeneveld
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Am Heart J 153:320-7. 2007..This study's objectives were to determine if VAMCs with higher proportions of black inpatients performed fewer cardiac procedures or had larger racial differences in procedure rates than predominantly white VAMCs... - The influence of cost-effectiveness information on physicians' cancer screening recommendationsPeter A Ubel
VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Soc Sci Med 56:1727-36. 2003..Physicians are relatively reluctant to abandon common screening strategies, even when they learn that they are expensive, and are hesitant to adopt unfamiliar screening strategies, even when they learn that they are inexpensive... - Altruism, incentives, and organ donation: attitudes of the transplant communityJ D Jasper
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, USA
Med Care 42:378-86. 2004..This study investigated the attitudes of the transplant community toward the current policy of altruistic organ donation and 6 alternative policies offering incentives to the donor family... - Receipt of health services by low-income veteransJudith A Long
J Health Care Poor Underserved 14:305-17. 2003 - Misperceptions about beta-blockers and diuretics: a national survey of primary care physiciansPeter A Ubel
VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
J Gen Intern Med 18:977-83. 2003..The persistent use of these agents raises questions as to whether physicians perceive ACE inhibitors and calcium channel blockers to be better than beta-blockers and diuretics... - Commentary: Improving response rates to mailed surveys: what do we learn from randomized controlled trials?Scott D Halpern
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Int J Epidemiol 32:637-8. 2003 - Do unmet expectations for specific tests, referrals, and new medications reduce patients' satisfaction?B Mitchell Peck
College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA
J Gen Intern Med 19:1080-7. 2004..Patient-centered care requires clinicians to recognize and act on patients' expectations. However, relatively little is known about the specific expectations patients bring to the primary care visit... - How physicians react to cost-effectiveness informationDavid A Asch
VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion; University of Pennsylvania
LDI Issue Brief 8:1-4. 2003.... - Successes and failures of hospital ethics committees: a national survey of ethics committee chairsGlenn McGee
Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Camb Q Healthc Ethics 11:87-93. 2002 - Continued challenges for the physician executive in managed careDavid A Asch
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Am J Manag Care . 2002 - The unintended consequences of publicly reporting quality informationRachel M Werner
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center
JAMA 293:1239-44. 2005..Given these limitations, it may be necessary to reassess the role of public quality reporting in quality improvement... - Lack of community insurance and mammography screening rates among insured and uninsured womenJosé A Pagán
Department of Economics and Finance, Institute for Population Health Policy, College of Business Administration, University of Texas Pan American, 1201 W University Drive, Edinburg, TX 78539, USA
J Clin Oncol 26:1865-70. 2008..To evaluate whether the proportion of the local population without health insurance coverage is related to whether women undergo mammography screening... - Hospital performance measures and quality of careRachel M Werner
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
LDI Issue Brief 13:1-4. 2008..This Issue Brief summarizes studies that examine and quantify the relationship between frequently used measures of hospital performance and hospital mortality... - The validity of person tradeoff measurements: randomized trial of computer elicitation versus face-to-face interviewLaura J Damschroder
Veterans Affairs VA, Health Services Research and Development Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Med Decis Making 24:170-80. 2004..Subjects made, on average, equally consistent judgments for the 3 comparisons. A computerized PTO elicitation protocol produced results of similar quality to that of a face-to-face interview...
Research Grants
- GENETIC TESTING AND THE ECONOMICS OF LIFE INSURANCEDavid Asch; Fiscal Year: 2002..abstract_text> ..