John FitzGerald

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Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Potential impact on patient residence to hospital travel distance and access to care under a policy of preferential referral to high-volume knee replacement hospitals
    John D FitzGerald
    University of California Los Angeles, 1000 Veteran Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1670, USA
    Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 64:890-7. 2012
  2. ncbi Patient quality of life during the 12 months following joint replacement surgery
    John D FitzGerald
    David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
    Arthritis Rheum 51:100-9. 2004
  3. ncbi Impact of changes in Medicare Home Health care reimbursement on month-to-month Home Health utilization between 1996 and 2001 for a national sample of patients undergoing orthopedic procedures
    John D FitzGerald
    Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095 1670, USA
    Med Care 44:870-8. 2006
  4. ncbi Changes in regional variation of Medicare home health care utilization and service mix for patients undergoing major orthopedic procedures in response to changes in reimbursement policy
    John D FitzGerald
    Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA Med Rheum, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1670, USA
    Health Serv Res 44:1232-52. 2009
  5. ncbi High plasma leptin levels confer increased risk of atherosclerosis in women with systemic lupus erythematosus, and are associated with inflammatory oxidised lipids
    Maureen McMahon
    Division Department of Rheumatology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Ann Rheum Dis 70:1619-24. 2011
  6. ncbi Low physical activity is associated with proinflammatory high-density lipoprotein and increased subclinical atherosclerosis in women with systemic lupus erythematosus
    Elizabeth R Volkmann
    David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1670, USA
    Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 62:258-65. 2010
  7. ncbi Current issues in joint replacement surgery
    Haoling H Weng
    Rheumatology Rehabilitation Center, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
    Curr Opin Rheumatol 18:163-9. 2006
  8. ncbi Stress activation of cellular markers of inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis: protective effects of tumor necrosis factor alpha antagonists
    Sarosh J Motivala
    UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, University of California, Los Angeles 90095 7076, USA
    Arthritis Rheum 58:376-83. 2008
  9. ncbi Proinflammatory high-density lipoprotein as a biomarker for atherosclerosis in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis
    Maureen McMahon
    University of California at Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
    Arthritis Rheum 54:2541-9. 2006
  10. ncbi Case finding for population-based studies of rheumatoid arthritis: comparison of patient self-reported ACR criteria-based algorithms to physician-implicit review for diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis
    Honghu Liu
    UCLA Department of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
    Semin Arthritis Rheum 33:302-10. 2004

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Publications16

  1. ncbi Potential impact on patient residence to hospital travel distance and access to care under a policy of preferential referral to high-volume knee replacement hospitals
    John D FitzGerald
    University of California Los Angeles, 1000 Veteran Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1670, USA
    Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 64:890-7. 2012
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  2. ncbi Patient quality of life during the 12 months following joint replacement surgery
    John D FitzGerald
    David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
    Arthritis Rheum 51:100-9. 2004
    ..To determine whether preoperative characteristics influence quality of life outcomes 1, 6, and 12 months after joint replacement surgery...
  3. ncbi Impact of changes in Medicare Home Health care reimbursement on month-to-month Home Health utilization between 1996 and 2001 for a national sample of patients undergoing orthopedic procedures
    John D FitzGerald
    Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095 1670, USA
    Med Care 44:870-8. 2006
    ..Reimbursements were first significantly reduced under the Interim Payment System (IPS) and then relaxed slightly until implementation of the HH Prospective Payment System (PPS) on October 1, 2000...
  4. ncbi Changes in regional variation of Medicare home health care utilization and service mix for patients undergoing major orthopedic procedures in response to changes in reimbursement policy
    John D FitzGerald
    Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA Med Rheum, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1670, USA
    Health Serv Res 44:1232-52. 2009
    ..Under Medicare's Home Health Interim and Prospective Payment Systems, reimbursement policies designed to curb expenditure growth and reduce regional variation were instituted...
  5. ncbi High plasma leptin levels confer increased risk of atherosclerosis in women with systemic lupus erythematosus, and are associated with inflammatory oxidised lipids
    Maureen McMahon
    Division Department of Rheumatology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Ann Rheum Dis 70:1619-24. 2011
    ..High levels of leptin and low levels of adiponectin are associated with both atherosclerosis and immunomodulatory functions in the general population...
  6. ncbi Low physical activity is associated with proinflammatory high-density lipoprotein and increased subclinical atherosclerosis in women with systemic lupus erythematosus
    Elizabeth R Volkmann
    David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1670, USA
    Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 62:258-65. 2010
    ..To investigate the association between physical activity, functional activity of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), and subclinical cardiovascular disease in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)...
  7. ncbi Current issues in joint replacement surgery
    Haoling H Weng
    Rheumatology Rehabilitation Center, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
    Curr Opin Rheumatol 18:163-9. 2006
    ..SUMMARY: Advances in our understanding of outcomes after joint replacement aid in predicting best candidates for surgery. More study is needed on the optimal timing of replacement surgery and the variations in utilization...
  8. ncbi Stress activation of cellular markers of inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis: protective effects of tumor necrosis factor alpha antagonists
    Sarosh J Motivala
    UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, University of California, Los Angeles 90095 7076, USA
    Arthritis Rheum 58:376-83. 2008
    ..The purpose of this study was to determine whether RA patients show increased monocyte production of TNFalpha following acute psychological stress and whether such responses are abrogated in RA patients taking TNFalpha antagonists...
  9. ncbi Proinflammatory high-density lipoprotein as a biomarker for atherosclerosis in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis
    Maureen McMahon
    University of California at Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
    Arthritis Rheum 54:2541-9. 2006
    ..This study was undertaken to determine whether patients with SLE, who have chronic inflammation that causes oxidative damage, have more proinflammatory HDL and higher levels of ox-LDL, thus predisposing them to atherosclerosis...
  10. ncbi Case finding for population-based studies of rheumatoid arthritis: comparison of patient self-reported ACR criteria-based algorithms to physician-implicit review for diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis
    Honghu Liu
    UCLA Department of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
    Semin Arthritis Rheum 33:302-10. 2004
    ..To evaluate the interrater reliability of rheumatologist diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and the concordance between rheumatologist and computer algorithms for assessing the accuracy of a diagnosis of RA...
  11. ncbi Cholesterol efflux by high density lipoproteins is impaired in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis
    Christina Charles-Schoeman
    Medicine Rheumatology, Rm 32 59, UCLA, 1000 Veteran Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90095 USA
    Ann Rheum Dis 71:1157-62. 2012
    ..In the current work, the authors evaluated whether the RCT capacity of HDL from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients is impaired when compared to healthy controls...
  12. ncbi Dysfunctional proinflammatory high-density lipoproteins confer increased risk of atherosclerosis in women with systemic lupus erythematosus
    Maureen McMahon
    David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA Medical Center, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
    Arthritis Rheum 60:2428-37. 2009
    ..The aim of this study was to determine whether dysfunctional proinflammatory HDL (piHDL) is associated with subclinical atherosclerosis in SLE...
  13. ncbi Protection against renal disease in (NZB x NZW)F(1) lupus-prone mice after somatic B cell gene vaccination with anti-DNA immunoglobulin consensus peptide
    Francesca Ferrera
    David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Arthritis Rheum 56:1945-53. 2007
    ..The purpose of the present study was to test our hypothesis that T cells that recognize an Ig consensus sequence presented by B cells will modulate lupus-like disease in mice...
  14. ncbi Impact of the Medicare Short Stay Transfer Policy on patients undergoing major orthopedic surgery
    John D FitzGerald
    Rehabilitation Center, School of Medicine, University of California, Room 32 59, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1670, USA
    Health Serv Res 42:25-44. 2007
    ..To examine the impact of the Short Stay Transfer Policy (SSTP) on practice patterns...
  15. ncbi Correlation of the degree of dyspnea with health-related quality of life, functional abilities, and diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide in patients with systemic sclerosis and active alveolitis: results from the Scleroderma Lung Study
    Dinesh Khanna
    David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
    Arthritis Rheum 52:592-600. 2005
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