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| Margaret M ByrneSummaryAffiliation: University of Miami Country: USA Publications
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Development and preliminary results of the Financial Incentive Coercion Assessment questionnaireMargaret M Byrne
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 43:86-93. 2012..Initial assessment of responses on the FICA suggests that it may provide a novel approach to measuring perceived coercion from financial incentives in research. Future work will refine the FICA and analyze its psychometric properties...- Discussions of cancer clinical trials with the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Information ServiceMargaret M Byrne
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 33136, USA
J Health Commun 17:319-37. 2012..CIS information specialists reported callers' limited knowledge of clinical trials. The CIS has the unique ability to make a substantial effect in educating patients about clinical trials as an option in cancer treatment and care... 
Correlates of smoking quit attempts: Florida Tobacco Callback Survey, 2007Evelyn P Davila
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami, USA
Tob Induc Dis 5:10. 2009..CONCLUSION: Targeted smoking cessation interventions are needed for smokers with selected medical conditions and with high nicotine dependence. The importance of physician advice in encouraging individuals to quit is further highlighted...- Anxiety, fear of cancer, and perceived risk of cancer following lung cancer screeningMargaret M Byrne
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33101, USA
Med Decis Making 28:917-25. 2008..To date, the psychological consequences of receiving an indeterminate screening result are not known... - Effects of poverty and race on outcomes in acute myeloid leukemiaMargaret M Byrne
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA
Am J Clin Oncol 34:297-304. 2011..To determine how patient race, ethnicity, and degree of poverty affect treatment and survival for acute myeloid leukemia (AML)... - Healthcare use after screening for lung cancerMargaret M Byrne
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 33136, USA
Cancer 116:4793-9. 2010..The aim of this study was to determine whether screening had an effect on healthcare use, specifically whether use increased for those with a false-positive or indeterminate screening result... - Cancer screening behaviors among smokers and non-smokersMargaret M Byrne
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
Cancer Epidemiol 34:611-7. 2010..We explored whether smoking is associated with cancer screening behaviors... 
Health care funding levels and patient outcomes: a national studyMargaret M Byrne
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami, Miami, Florida 33101, USA
Health Econ 16:385-93. 2007..Our goal was to determine whether this relationship holds true in a non-Medicare population cared for in a large integrated health care system with a capitated budget allocation system...- Collective equipoise, disappointment, and the therapeutic misconception: on the consequences of selection for clinical researchMargaret M Byrne
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami, Florida 33101, USA
Med Decis Making 26:467-79. 2006..Selection provides a reason to make nontrivial payments to subjects, and it implies that researchers should not design experiments to maximize statistical power... - Racial/ethnic differences in preferences for total knee replacement surgeryMargaret M Byrne
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33101, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 59:1078-86. 2006..To determine whether there are ethnic differences in preferences for surgery vs. medical treatment of knee osteoarthritis (OA)... - Variability in the costs of institutional review board oversightMargaret M Byrne
Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida 33101, USA
Acad Med 81:708-12. 2006..In this study, the authors explored variability among IRB costs, taking into account organizational size, components of the costs of oversight, and protocol type... - Effect of using information from only one system for dually eligible health care usersMargaret M Byrne
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami, Miami, Florida 33101, USA
Med Care 44:768-73. 2006..We sought to determine whether all diagnoses and total illness burden of patients who use both the VA and Medicare health care systems can be obtained from examination of data from only one of these systems... - Willingness to pay per quality-adjusted life year in a study of knee osteoarthritisMargaret M Byrne
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami, Florida 33136, USA
Med Decis Making 25:655-66. 2005..As debate continues over the appropriate threshold, we present measures of willingness to pay (WTP) per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) for own health and 2 hypothetical osteoarthritis scenarios... - A comprehensive evaluation of outcomes for inflammatory breast cancerRelin Yang
DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Alan Livingstone Chair in Surgical Oncology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, 3550 Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1475 NW 12th Ave, Miami, FL 33136, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 117:631-41. 2009..We sought to determine the effects of race, socioeconomic status and treatment on outcomes for women with IBC. Study design The Florida cancer registry, inpatient and ambulatory data were queried for patients diagnosed from 1998 to 2002... - Does chemoradiotherapy improve outcomes for surgically resected adenocarcinoma of the stomach or esophagus?Naveenraj L Solomon
DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
Ann Surg Oncol 17:98-108. 2010..To use a population-based registry to evaluate the effect of chemotherapy or radiation on survival for patients undergoing curative-intent surgery for adenocarcinoma of the esophagus or stomach... - Do all patients with carcinoma of the esophagus benefit from treatment at teaching facilities?Michael C Cheung
DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 33136, USA
J Surg Oncol 102:18-26. 2010..We sought to determine whether patients with esophageal carcinoma benefit from regionalization of care... - African American and poor patients have a dramatically worse prognosis for head and neck cancer: an examination of 20,915 patientsManuel A Molina
DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
Cancer 113:2797-806. 2008..To identify points of intervention and improve survival, the authors sought to determine the impact of race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status for patients with cancers of the head and neck (HN)... - Survival effects of adjuvant chemoradiotherapy after resection for pancreatic carcinomaRelin Yang
DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, FL 33136, USA
Arch Surg 145:49-56. 2010..The survival benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy alone or chemoradiotherapy in patients with pancreatic cancer who have undergone surgical resection remains unclear... - Do racial or socioeconomic disparities exist in lung cancer treatment?Relin Yang
DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 33136, USA
Cancer 116:2437-47. 2010..Determine the effects of race, socioeconomic status, and treatment on outcomes for patients diagnosed with lung cancer... - Menthol cigarette smoking and health, Florida 2007 BRFSSMonica Webb Hooper
University of Miami, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Coral Gables, FL 33146, USA
Am J Health Behav 35:3-14. 2011..To examine associations between menthol cigarette smoking and nicotine dependence, quit attempts, and physical and mental health... - Does surgery or radiation therapy impact survival for patients with extrapulmonary small cell cancers?Robert A Grossman
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Division of Surgical Oncology, DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
J Surg Oncol 104:604-12. 2011..Extrapulmonary small cell carcinomas (EPSCC) are rare tumors where therapy remains poorly defined. We sought to determine the impact of surgical extirpation and radiation therapy for outcomes of EPSCC... - Obesity and weight loss at presentation of lung cancer are associated with opposite effects on survivalRelin Yang
DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 33136, USA
J Surg Res 170:e75-83. 2011..In cancer, weight loss and obesity are associated with reduced survival. However, the effect of obesity or weight loss at presentation on lung cancer survival has not been well studied... - Are patients of low socioeconomic status receiving suboptimal management for pancreatic adenocarcinoma?Michael C Cheung
DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 33136, USA
Cancer 116:723-33. 2010..The objective of this study was to define the effects of socioeconomic status (SES) and other demographic variables on outcomes for patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma... - Impact of teaching facility status and high-volume centers on outcomes for lung cancer resection: an examination of 13,469 surgical patientsMichael C Cheung
DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA
Ann Surg Oncol 16:3-13. 2009..Studies suggest that institutional case volume and teaching status significantly affect patient survival. We sought to compare outcomes of surgical resection for lung cancer at teaching facilities (TF) and at high-volume centers (HVC)... - What is the institutional financial impact of an MD-PhD program without extramural funding?Margaret M Byrne
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
Teach Learn Med 22:56-9. 2010..This research explores the financial impacts on a university of supporting an MD-PhD program... - Method to develop health care peer groups for quality and financial comparisons across hospitalsMargaret M Byrne
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
Health Serv Res 44:577-92. 2009..To develop and explore the characteristics of a novel "nearest neighbor" methodology for creating peer groups for health care facilities... - Is surgical resection superior to transplantation in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma?Leonidas G Koniaris
Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, FL, USA
Ann Surg 254:527-37; discussion 537-8. 2011..To compare outcomes for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) treated with either liver resection or transplantation... - Will patients benefit from regionalization of gynecologic cancer care?Kathleen F Brookfield
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
PLoS ONE 4:e4049. 2009..We sought to determine the effect of volume and teaching status on patient outcomes for five gynecologic malignancies: endometrial, cervical, ovarian and vulvar carcinoma and uterine sarcoma... - Cancer care in the pediatric surgical patient: a paradigm to abolish volume-outcome disparities in surgeryJuan C Gutierrez
DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
Surgery 145:76-85. 2009..The objective of this study was to define the prognostic significance of hospital surgical volume on outcomes for pediatric neuroblastoma and Wilms tumor... - Are many community hospitals undertreating breast cancer?: lessons from 24,834 patientsJuan C Gutierrez
DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 33136, USA
Ann Surg 248:154-62. 2008..To compare treatment patterns and long-term outcomes between teaching and community hospitals treating patients with infiltrating ductal carcinoma (IDC)... - How important is the contribution of surgical specialties to a medical school's NIH funding?Uzoezi Ozomaro
DeWitt Daughtry Department of Surgery and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
J Surg Res 141:16-21. 2007..To determine the relative contribution and importance of five surgical specialties (general surgery, urology, otolaryngology, neurosurgery, and orthopedics) to the total National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding at medical schools... - Do financial incentives in a globally budgeted healthcare payment system produce changes in the way patients are categorized? A five-year studyLaura A Petersen
Division of Health Policy and Quality, Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Houston VA MedicalCenter, and Section for Health Services Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex 77030, USA
Am J Manag Care 13:513-22. 2007..To assess the responses to financial incentives after a change in the payment system in a capitation-style healthcare payment system over a 5-year period... - Valuation of arthritis health states across ethnic groups and between patients and community membersJulianne Souchek
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Med Care 43:921-8. 2005..We sought to examine differences in valuation of health by individuals from different ethnic backgrounds and between patients and community members... - Ethnic differences in health preferences: analysis using willingness-to-payMargaret M Byrne
Center for Research on Health Care, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
J Rheumatol 31:1811-8. 2004.... - Determining the costs of Institutional Review BoardsJeanne L Speckman
Health Care Research Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, MA, USA
IRB 29:7-13. 2007 - The effect of referral and transfer patients on hospital funding in a capitated health care delivery systemKenneth Pietz
Division of Health Policy and Quality, Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Veterans Health Affairs, Houston, Texas, USA
Med Care 45:951-8. 2007.... - A decision-theoretic approach to identifying future high-cost patientsKenneth Pietz
Division of Health Policy and Quality, Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, a Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, Houston VA Medical Center, Texas 77030, USA
Med Care 44:842-9. 2006..The objective of this study was to develop and evaluate a method of allocating funding for very-high-cost (VHC) patients among hospitals... - The cost of institutional review boards in academic medical centersJeremy Sugarman
N Engl J Med 352:1825-7. 2005 - The effects of organization on medical utilization: an analysis of service line organizationMargaret M Byrne
Center for Bioethics and Health Law, and Center for Research on Health Care, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Med Care 42:28-37. 2004..To determine whether clinical service lines in primary care and mental health reduces inpatient and urgent care utilization...
Research Grants
- Resource and QOL Consequences of Lung Cancer ScreeningMargaret Byrne; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..