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Lifetime earnings for physicians across specialtiesJ Paul Leigh
Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, CA 95616 8638, USA
Med Care 50:1093-101. 2012..Earlier studies estimated annual income differences across specialties, but lifetime income may be more relevant given physicians' long-term commitments to specialties...- Are low wages risk factors for hypertension?J Paul Leigh
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California Davis School of Medicine, CA, USA
Eur J Public Health 22:854-9. 2012..But SES has several components, including income and correlations in cross-sectional data need not imply SES is a risk factor. This study investigates whether wages-the largest category within income-are risk factors... - Workers' compensation benefits and shifting costs for occupational injury and illnessJ Paul Leigh
Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, CA 95616, USA Email
J Occup Environ Med 54:445-50. 2012..Moreover, few studies address which groups in the economy pay for occupational injury and illness when workers' compensation does not... 
Economic burden of occupational injury and illness in the United StatesJ Paul Leigh
Center for Healthcare Policy and Research and Department of Public Health Sciences, UC Davis Medical School, MS1C, Davis, CA 95616 5270, USA
Milbank Q 89:728-72. 2011..This article provides estimates of the national costs of occupational injury and illness among civilians in the United States for 2007...
Differences in workers' compensation disability and impairment ratings under old and new California lawJ Paul Leigh
Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, University of California, Davis, California 95616 8638, USA
J Occup Environ Med 48:419-25. 2006..Previous methods used to rate permanent disability were replaced by new methods to rate permanent impairment. We sought to estimate the difference in ratings under the old and new law...- Costs differences across demographic groups and types of occupational injuries and illnessesJ Paul Leigh
Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care and Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, California 95817, USA
Am J Ind Med 49:845-53. 2006..Little is known about cost differences for demographic groups or across occupational injuries and illnesses... - An economic model of adverse events and costs for oral anticoagulants used for atrial fibrillationJ Paul Leigh
Center for Healthcare Policy and Research and Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 5270, USA
Curr Med Res Opin 23:2071-81. 2007..To construct a semi-Markov model to compare health outcomes and medical costs associated with warfarin and a second anticoagulant over 1- and 5-year periods... - Costs of needlestick injuries and subsequent hepatitis and HIV infectionJ Paul Leigh
Center for Healthcare Policy and Research and Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 8638, USA
Curr Med Res Opin 23:2093-105. 2007..Physicians, nurses and other healthcare workers (HCWs) are at risk of bloodborne pathogens infection from needlestick injuries, but costs of needlesticks are little studied... - High gasoline prices and mortality from motor vehicle crashes and air pollutionJ Paul Leigh
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, California 95616 8638, USA
J Occup Environ Med 50:249-54. 2008..To estimate the effects of increasing gas prices on mortality... - Characteristics of persons and jobs with needlestick injuries in a national data setJ Paul Leigh
Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 8638, USA
Am J Infect Control 36:414-20. 2008..Physicians, nurses, and others are at risk of needlesticks, yet little national information is available regarding incidence across demographic and occupational categories... - Hypertension and occupation among seniorsJ Paul Leigh
From the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research and Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, MS1C, Davis, CA 95616 5270, USA
J Occup Environ Med 51:661-71. 2009..Little is known about statistical associations between occupation and hypertension for persons more than age 65... - Physician career satisfaction within specialtiesJ Paul Leigh
Center for Healthcare Policy and Research and Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 8638, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 9:166. 2009..Specialty-specific data on career satisfaction may be useful for understanding physician workforce trends and for counseling medical students about career options... - Physician wages across specialties: informing the physician reimbursement debateJ Paul Leigh
Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California Davis School of Medicine, USA
Arch Intern Med 170:1728-34. 2010..Previous studies have compared annual incomes across specialties unadjusted for work hours. Wage (earnings-per-hour) comparisons could better inform the physician payment debate... - Costs of occupational injuries and illnesses in CaliforniaJ P Leigh
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, TB168, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616 863, USA
Prev Med 32:393-406. 2001..S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, California Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau, California Division of Industrial Relations, the National Center for Health Statistics, and the U.S. Health Care Financing Administration... - Occupational disease and workers' compensation: coverage, costs, and consequencesJ Paul Leigh
Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, TB 168, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616 8638, USA
Milbank Q 82:689-721. 2004..Designing policies to reduce the cost shifting and its associated inefficiency will be challenging... - Medical costs of fourteen occupational illnesses in the United States in 1999J Paul Leigh
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, TB168, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616 838, United States
Scand J Work Environ Health 29:304-13. 2003..This study estimated the annual medical costs associated with 14 occupational illnesses in the United States in 1999... - Costs of occupational injury and illness across industriesJ Paul Leigh
Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Scand J Work Environ Health 30:199-205. 2004..This study has ranked industries using estimated total costs and costs per worker... - Instrumental variables technique: cigarette price provided better estimate of effects of smoking on SF-12J Paul Leigh
Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, and Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, 2103 Stockton, Suite 2224, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 57:284-93. 2004..The choice of an instrument for the technique has been contentious. This study estimated the effects of smoking on physical functional status. We chose an especially valid and strong instrument: cigarette price... - Costs of occupational injuries in agricultureJ P Leigh
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine TB168, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616 8638, USA
Public Health Rep 116:235-48. 2001..This study was conducted to estimate the costs of job-related injuries in agriculture in the United States for 1992... - Costs of occupational COPD and asthmaJ Paul Leigh
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616-8638, USA
Chest 121:264-72. 2002..1 to $2.1 billion for asthma. CONCLUSIONS: The estimated $6.6 billion cost of occupational COPD and asthma in 1996 is likely to rise with the increasing prevalence of these diseases and warrants preventive intervention... - Cigarette prices, smoking, and the poor: implications of recent trendsPeter Franks
Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Am J Public Health 97:1873-7. 2007..We examined the relationship between smoking participation and cigarette pack price by income group and time period to determine role of cigarette prices in income-related disparities in smoking in the United States... - An estimate of the U.S. Government's undercount of nonfatal occupational injuriesJ Paul Leigh
Departmetn of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Medicine School, University of California at Davis, 95616, USA
J Occup Environ Med 46:10-8. 2004..We concluded that there was substantial undercapture in the BLS Annual Survey, some due to the excluded categories of government workers and the self-employed, as well as some due to underreporting... - Tracking career satisfaction and perceptions of quality among US obstetricians and gynecologistsRichard L Kravitz
Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Obstet Gynecol 102:463-70. 2003.... - The impact of pediatric intensive care unit volume on mortality: a hierarchical instrumental variable analysisJames P Marcin
UC Davis Children s Hospital, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Pediatr Crit Care Med 6:136-41. 2005..To evaluate the relation between annual pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission volume and mortality... - Association of higher costs with symptoms and diagnosis of depressionEdward J Callahan
Center for Health Service Research in Primary Care and Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California at Davis, 4860 Y Street, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
J Fam Pract 51:540-4. 2002..We examined the relationships among depressive symptoms, physician diagnosis of depression, and charges for care... - Physician career satisfaction across specialtiesJ Paul Leigh
Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, PSSB Suite 2500, UCD Medical Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Arch Intern Med 162:1577-84. 2002..The career satisfaction and dissatisfaction physicians experience likely influence the quality of medical care... - Determinants of longer time from HIV result to enrollment in publicly funded care and treatment in California by race/ethnicity and behavioral riskFred Molitor
ETR Associates, Sacramento, California, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 16:555-65. 2002..The California EIP represents a model for programs seeking equity in access to HIV care and treatment across racial and ethnic groups. Getting injectors into timely HIV care and treatment represents a challenge... - Costs of hepatitis CJ P Leigh
Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Patient Services and Support Building, Suite 2500, University of California at Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Arch Intern Med 161:2231-7. 2001..To estimate the direct and indirect costs of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the United States in 1997... - Estimating the costs of job related arthritisJ P Leigh
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, 95616-8638, USA
J Rheumatol 28:1647-54. 2001.... - Lifestyle risk factors predict healthcare costs in an aging cohortJ Paul Leigh
Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, University of California-Davis, Davis, California, USA
Am J Prev Med 29:379-87. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: Seniors who were leaner, smoked fewer cigarettes over a lifetime, reduced their smoking, or walked farther had significant subsequent cost savings compared to those with less-healthy lifestyle-related habits... - Frailty and education in the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyJ Paul Leigh
Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, University of California, Davis Medical Center, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 13:112-27. 2002..Similar, but somewhat weaker, correlations were discovered after a measure of self-efficacy was accounted for... - Costs of occupational injury and illness across statesGeetha Waehrer
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, Maryland, USA
J Occup Environ Med 46:1084-95. 2004..Southern and especially Western states were disproportionately represented in the high cost per worker list. A significant amount of the variation in cost per worker across states was explained by the composition of industries... - Costs of occupational injury and illness within the health services sectorGeetha Waehrer
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, USA
Int J Health Serv 35:343-59. 2005..The hospital industry was the third most expensive of 313 U.S. industries. Costs of occupational injury and illness in the health services industry were high and varied across occupation, industry, disease, race, and gender... - Expanding research on the economics of occupational healthJ Paul Leigh
Scand J Work Environ Health 32:1-4. 2006
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- Costs of Occupational Injury and IllnessJ Leigh; Fiscal Year: 2007..But reported national injury rates have been fallen since 1992. Moreover, Workers' Compensation costs fell from 1993 to 1998 but have risen since 1999. Current and comprehensive estimates are needed. ..
- Costs of Occupational Injury and IllnessJ Leigh; Fiscal Year: 2009..But reported national injury rates have been fallen since 1992. Moreover, Workers' Compensation costs fell from 1993 to 1998 but have risen since 1999. Current and comprehensive estimates are needed. ..