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Estimating transitions between symptom severity states over time in schizophrenia: a Bayesian meta-analytic approachAnirban Basu
Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave, MC 2007, AMD B201, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Stat Med 25:2886-910. 2006..In addition, consistent estimation of uncertainty in the time-profile parameters also has important implications for the practice of cost-effectiveness analysis and for future resource allocation policies in schizophrenia treatment...
A linear index for predicting joint health-states utilities from single health-states utilitiesAnirban Basu
Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Center for Health and the Social Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Health Econ 18:403-19. 2009..Further validation of this function for joint health states in other clinical scenarios is warranted...- Use of instrumental variables in the presence of heterogeneity and self-selection: an application to treatments of breast cancer patientsAnirban Basu
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Health Econ 16:1133-57. 2007..Our results reveal some of the advantages and limitations of conventional and alternative IV methods in estimating mean treatment effect parameters... - Value of information on preference heterogeneity and individualized careAnirban Basu
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Center for Health and Social Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Med Decis Making 27:112-27. 2007..However, there may be considerable value in identifying when treatments are cost-effective for individual patients given their preferences or other personal attributes... - Issues for the next generation of health care cost analysesAnirban Basu
Department of Medicine, Center for Health and the Social Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Med Care 47:S109-14. 2009..The field continues to develop new approaches and to evaluate the performance of the existing ones... - Differential trends in prevalence of diabetes and unrelated general medical illness for schizophrenia patients before and after the atypical antipsychotic eraAnirban Basu
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Center for Health and the Social Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago IL 60637, USA
Schizophr Res 86:99-109. 2006.... - Scale of interest versus scale of estimation: comparing alternative estimators for the incremental costs of a comorbidityAnirban Basu
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Health Econ 15:1091-107. 2006..The new flexible model is found to appropriately represent the scale of estimation and less susceptible to over-fitting despite estimating additional parameters in the link and the variance functions... - Forecasting distribution of body mass index in the United States: is there more room for growth?Anirban Basu
Section of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, Center for Health and Social Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Med Decis Making 30:E1-E11. 2010..Much of the literature on obesity has consistently documented the unprecedented rise in body weight over the past 2 decades. Less attention is paid to future projections of the population distribution of body mass index (BMI)... - A time tradeoff method for eliciting partner's quality of life due to patient's health states in prostate cancerAnirban Basu
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Center for Health and Social Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Med Decis Making 30:355-65. 2010..Cost-effectiveness analyses may better reflect the full costs and benefits of medical interventions if they incorporate the effects of patients' health on their family members... - Estimating lifetime or episode-of-illness costs under censoringAnirban Basu
Section of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, and Center for Health and the Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 5841 So Maryland Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Health Econ 19:1010-28. 2010..We find our estimator to be unbiased and also more efficient for these designs. We apply our method and compare it with the IPW method using data from the Medicare-SEER files on prostate cancer... 
Impact of Medicare Part D on Medicare-Medicaid dual-eligible beneficiaries' prescription utilization and expendituresAnirban Basu
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, and Center for Health and the Social Sciences, University of Chicago, IL, USA
Health Serv Res 45:133-51. 2010..To examine the effect of Part D on 65-78-year-old noninstitutionalized dual eligibles' prescription utilization and expenditures...- Estimating marginal and incremental effects on health outcomes using flexible link and variance function modelsAnirban Basu
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Ave MC 2007, Chicago IL 60637, USA
Biostatistics 6:93-109. 2005..Using Monte Carlo simulations, we show that the resulting parameter estimators are consistent. The method is illustrated with an analysis of inpatient expenditure data from a study of hospitalists... - Projecting the future diabetes population size and related costs for the U.SElbert S Huang
Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Diabetes Care 32:2225-9. 2009..We developed a novel population-level model for projecting future direct spending on diabetes. The model can be used in the federal budget process to estimate the cost implications of alternative policies... - The prevalence, correlates, and impact of logically inconsistent preferences in utility assessments for joint health states in prostate cancerWilliam Dale
Section of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Med Care 49:59-66. 2011..One potential source of error is when joint health state (JS) utilities are rated higher than the embedded single state (SS) utilities. Knowing when and in whom this occurs can improve cost-effectiveness analyses... - Predicting future risk of depressive episode in adolescents: the Chicago Adolescent Depression Risk Assessment (CADRA)Benjamin W Van Voorhees
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Ann Fam Med 6:503-11. 2008..A risk prediction index, similar to those used for other disorders, such as cardiovascular disease, would facilitate depression prevention by identifying those who would benefit most from preventative measures in primary care settings... - Predicting utility ratings for joint health States from single health States in prostate cancer: empirical testing of 3 alternative theoriesWilliam Dale
University of Chicago, Department of Medicine, Section of Geriatrics, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Med Decis Making 28:102-12. 2008..The authors compared these 3 models for predicting joint-state utilities from single-state utilities in men at the time of prostate biopsies... - Using clinical information to project federal health care spendingElbert S Huang
University of Chicago, School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 28:w978-90. 2009.... - Implications of spillover effects within the family for medical cost-effectiveness analysisAnirban Basu
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave, MC 2007, Office B201, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Health Econ 24:751-73. 2005..However, concerns about equity present a dilemma for the practice of CEA from the societal perspective... - The cost-effectiveness of continuous glucose monitoring in type 1 diabetesElbert S Huang
1Section of General Internal Medicine, University of Chicago, USA
Diabetes Care 33:1269-74. 2010..0% in a cohort of all ages). Trial data were integrated into a simulation model of type 1 diabetes complications. The main outcome was the cost per quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) gained... - Relationship between quality of care of hospitalized vulnerable elders and postdischarge mortalityVineet M Arora
Section of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 58:1642-8. 2010..To assess the relationship between quality of hospital care, as measured by Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders (ACOVE) quality indicators (QI), and postdischarge mortality for hospitalized seniors... - Cost-effectiveness analysis of pharmacological treatments in schizophrenia: critical review of results and methodological issuesAnirban Basu
Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago, 1155 E 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Schizophr Res 71:445-62. 2004..To comprehensively review and critically appraise the results and the methodological issues in the cost-effectiveness literature on pharmacological treatments in schizophrenia... - Impact of hormone therapy when combined with external beam radiotherapy for early-stage, intermediate-, or high-risk prostate cancerAshesh B Jani
Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, University of Chicago, IL, USA
Am J Clin Oncol 26:382-5. 2003..27.0%). Thus, biochemical failure decreased with the administration of hormone therapy in this group of patients with early stage, intermediate- or high-risk prostate cancer. This finding requires validation by ongoing randomized trials... - Generalized modeling approaches to risk adjustment of skewed outcomes dataWillard G Manning
Harris School of Public Policy Studies, The University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Health Econ 24:465-88. 2005..The GGM also provides a potentially more robust alternative estimator to the standard alternatives. An example using inpatient expenditures is also analyzed... - Sentinel lymph node versus axillary lymph node dissection for early-stage breast carcinoma: a comparison using a utility-adjusted number needed to treat analysisAshesh B Jani
Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Cancer 97:359-66. 2003..This finding is quite robust and was found to remain constant over a range of values for utility and lymph node prevalence... - Does competition under Medicare Prospective Payment selectively reduce expenditures on high-cost patients?David Meltzer
University of Chicago, USA
Rand J Econ 33:447-68. 2002..We conclude that competition and PPS selectively reduced spending among the most expensive patients and that careful assessment of these patients' outcomes is important... - Protective and vulnerability factors predicting new-onset depressive episode in a representative of U.S. adolescentsBenjamin W Van Voorhees
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
J Adolesc Health 42:605-16. 2008..Depressive episodes cause considerable morbidity and mortality in adolescents. We sought to identify factors predicting new onset depressive episode in a representative sample of U.S. adolescents... - Social costs of robbery and the cost-effectiveness of substance abuse treatmentAnirban Basu
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Center for Health and the Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 969 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Health Econ 17:927-46. 2008..Conventional wisdom posits the economic benefits of SAT. We find that SAT is even more beneficial than is commonly assumed... - Minimal modeling approaches to value of information analysis for health researchDavid O Meltzer
Section of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Med Decis Making 31:E1-E22. 2011..The authors conclude that minimal modeling approaches to VOI can be readily applied in some instances to estimate the expected benefits of clinical research... - The complexity of medication regimens and test ordering for patients with diabetes from 1995 to 2003Elbert S Huang
Section of General Internal Medicine, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Curr Med Res Opin 23:1423-30. 2007.... - Health literacy as a predictor of follow-up after an abnormal Pap smear: a prospective studyStacy Tessler Lindau
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pritzker School of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:829-34. 2006..Low literacy influences cervical cancer screening knowledge, and is a possible contributor to racial disparities in cervical cancer... - The economics of comparative effectiveness studies: societal and private perspectives and their implications for prioritizing public investments in comparative effectiveness researchDavid Meltzer
Department of Medicine, Department of Economics, and Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Pharmacoeconomics 28:843-53. 2010.... - Characteristics of patients receiving pharmaceutical samples and association between sample receipt and out-of-pocket prescription costsG Caleb Alexander
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Med Care 46:394-402. 2008..Pharmaceutical samples are widely used for promotion and marketing, yet little is known about who receives samples or how their use is associated with patient's prescription costs... - Effect of clinician advice and patient preparedness to quit on subsequent quit attempts in hospitalized smokersLisa M Shah
Program in Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
J Hosp Med 5:26-32. 2010..This study aimed to assess preparedness to quit smoking and quit behaviors... - Comparing alternative models: log vs Cox proportional hazard?Anirban Basu
Harris School of Public Policy, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Health Econ 13:749-65. 2004..We find that the proportional hazard assumption is an essential requirement to obtain consistent estimate of the E(y|x) using the Cox model... - Comparative effectiveness research for antipsychotic medications: how much is enough?David O Meltzer
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 28:w794-808. 2009..Our work suggests that additional research to increase the precision of comparisons of the effectiveness of antipsychotics would be well worth the cost... - An evidence-based analysis of the management of localized prostate cancerIbrahim Abdalla
Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637-1470, USA
Cancer J 8:40-6. 2002..The consequences of treatment in terms of both survival and quality of life determine patient choice and physician recommendations... - JDRF randomized clinical trial to assess the efficacy of real-time continuous glucose monitoring in the management of type 1 diabetes: research design and methodsWilliam V Tamborlane
Diabetes Technol Ther 10:310-21. 2008..RESULTS: Recruitment for the study was completed on December 15, 2007. CONCLUSION: Results of this clinical trial should help establish whether or not current RT-CGM devices are beneficial to patients with T1D... - Two-stage residual inclusion estimation: addressing endogeneity in health econometric modelingJoseph V Terza
Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research and Department of Economics, University of Florida, 1329 SW, 16th Street, Room 5130, Box 100147, Gainesville, FL 32610 0147, United States
J Health Econ 27:531-43. 2008..This study can be used as a guide by future researchers in health economics who are confronted with endogeneity in their empirical work... - Cost-effectiveness of olanzapine as a first-line treatment: a commentAnirban Basu
Value Health 9:357; author reply 358. 2006 - The effect of the Medicare Part D prescription benefit on drug utilization and expendituresWesley Yin
Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Ann Intern Med 148:169-77. 2008..Information about the effect of the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Benefit on drug utilization and expenditures is limited... - Multilevel modeling and practice-based researchL Miriam Dickinson
Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, Colorado 80045 0508, USA
Ann Fam Med 3:S52-60. 2005..We illustrate the concept of multilevel structure and provide examples with implications for practice-based research...
Research Grants
- A Comprehensive Probabilistic-Micro-Simulation Model to Assess Cost-EffectivenessAnirban Basu; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- A Comprehensive Probabilistic-Micro-Simulation Model to Assess Cost-EffectivenessAnirban Basu; Fiscal Year: 2010....