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Hospital characteristics associated with highly automated and usable clinical information systems in Texas, United StatesRuben Amarasingham
Department of Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center and Parkland Health and Hospital System, Dallas, USA
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 8:39. 2008..This environment is not yet well defined. We examined whether specific hospital characteristics are associated with highly automated and usable clinical information systems...- Segregation and disparities in health services useDarrell J Gaskin
African American Studies Department, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland, 2169 LeFrak Hall, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Med Care Res Rev 66:578-89. 2009..Our findings suggest that disparities in health care utilization may differ across communities and that residential segregation may be a confounding factor... 
Do hospitals provide lower-quality care to minorities than to whites?Darrell J Gaskin
African American Studies Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 27:518-27. 2008..Only a few hospitals provide lower quality of care to minorities than to whites...- Race and ethnic disparities in valuing healthDarrell J Gaskin
Department of African American Studies, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Med Decis Making 28:12-20. 2008..However, no prior studies have examined whether there are racial and ethnic differences in preferences for health states in a general population sample... - Examining racial and ethnic disparities in site of usual source of careDarrell J Gaskin
Morgan Hopkins Center of Health Disparities Solutions, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 99:22-30. 2007..Therefore, in addition to focusing on provider-patient relationships, perhaps future research and policymakers should focus on system-level factors to explain and increase minority use of care in private physicians' offices... - Do diabetic patients living in racially segregated neighborhoods experience different access and quality of care?Kitty S Chan
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Med Care 50:692-9. 2012..Place of residence, particularly residential segregation, has been implicated in health and health care disparities. However, prior studies have not focused on care for diabetes, a prevalent condition for minority populations... 
Do minority patients use lower quality hospitals?Darrell J Gaskin
Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Suite 441, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Inquiry 48:209-20. 2011..Analysts and policymakers should be cautious when making generalizations about the overall service quality of hospitals that treat minority patients...- Perceived discrimination and adherence to medical care in a racially integrated communitySarah Stark Casagrande
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:389-95. 2007..Past research indicates that access to health care and utilization of services varies by sociodemographic characteristics, but little is known about racial differences in health care utilization within racially integrated communities... - Residential segregation and the availability of primary care physiciansDarrell J Gaskin
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Health Serv Res 47:2353-76. 2012..To examine the association between residential segregation and geographic access to primary care physicians (PCPs) in metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs)... - Socioeconomic disparities for hearing-impaired children in the United StatesEmily F Boss
Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
Laryngoscope 121:860-6. 2011..This study aims to evaluate disparities in socioeconomic status and healthcare utilization in hearing-impaired children using a nationally representative sample... - The economic costs of pain in the United StatesDarrell J Gaskin
Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, and Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Pain 13:715-24. 2012..Because of its economic toll on society, the nation should invest in research, education, and training to advocate the successful treatment, management, and prevention of pain... - Residential segregation and disparities in health care services utilizationDarrell J Gaskin
Department of Health Policy and Management, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Med Care Res Rev 69:158-75. 2012..Therefore, efforts to improve access to health care services and to eliminate health care disparities for African Americans and Hispanics should not only focus on individual-level factors but also include community-level factors... - Children's and adolescents' use of mental health care is a family matterDarrell J Gaskin
University of Maryland, USA
Med Care Res Rev 65:748-62. 2008..Family participation in government subsidies programs offsets the influence of family income on the use of mental health services... - Residential segregation, geographic proximity and type of services used: evidence for racial/ethnic disparities in mental healthGniesha Y Dinwiddie
African American Studies Department, University of Maryland College Park, 1147 Taliaferro Hall, College Park, MD 20742, United States
Soc Sci Med 80:67-75. 2013.... - Level of evidence of the value of care in federally qualified health centers for policy makingKevin Frick
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Prog Community Health Partnersh 1:75-82. 2007..Not all cost-effectiveness studies employ formal peer-reviewed methodologies. A review of the literature on CHCs' cost effectiveness is necessary to assess whether a higher level of evidence is needed to guide future policy... - Exploring racial and ethnic disparities in prescription drug spending and use among Medicare beneficiariesDarrell J Gaskin
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 4:96-111. 2006..Little is known about why minority Medicare beneficiaries spend less on and use fewer prescription drugs than white Medicare beneficiaries... - The determinants of HMOs' contracting with hospitals for bypass surgeryDarrell J Gaskin
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Health Serv Res 37:963-84. 2002..However, are HMOs compromising quality to lower costs? To address this and other questions we identify factors that influence HMOs' selective contracting for coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG)...