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Psychometric properties of the 25-item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI VFQ-25), Japanese versionYoshimi Suzukamo
Department of Epidemiology and Healthcare Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Health Qual Life Outcomes 3:65. 2005..The purpose of this study is to develop and test a Japanese version of the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI VFQ-25)...- Patient-provider communication regarding drug costs in Medicare Part D beneficiaries with diabetes: a TRIAD StudyJulie A Schmittdiel
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 10:164. 2010.... 
The association between quality of care and the intensity of diabetes disease management programsCarol M Mangione
Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095 1736, USA
Ann Intern Med 145:107-16. 2006..Although disease management programs are widely implemented, little is known about their effectiveness...- Reliability and validity of abbreviated surveys derived from the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire: the study of osteoporotic fracturesGergana Kodjebacheva
Jules Stein Eye Institute and the Department of Ophthalmology, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, 100 Stein Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7004, USA
Am J Ophthalmol 149:330-40. 2010..To test the reliability and validity of questionnaires shortened from the National Eye Institute 25-item Vision Function Questionnaire (NEI VFQ-25)... - Imputation of SF-12 health scores for respondents with partially missing dataHonghu Liu
Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, University of California, Los Angeles, 911 Broxton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Health Serv Res 40:905-21. 2005.... - Is cataract surgery cost-effective among older patients with a low predicted probability for improvement in reported visual functioning?Arash Naeim
Division of Hematology Oncology, UCLA Department of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095 1687, USA
Med Care 44:982-9. 2006..This study examines the cost-effectiveness of cataract surgery versus watchful waiting in a subgroup of patients who had less than a 30% predicted probability of reporting improvements in visual function after surgery... - Psychometric properties of the National Eye Institute-Refractive Error Quality of Life instrumentRon D Hays
University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California RAND, Santa Monica, California 90095, USA
Ophthalmology 110:2292-301. 2003.... 
Postmenopausal hormone therapy and age-related maculopathy in older womenRobin L Seitzman
Department of Ophthalmology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
Ophthalmic Epidemiol 15:308-16. 2008..To examine the association between postmenopausal hormone therapy and Age-Related Maculopathy (ARM) in older women and to determine if these associations vary by smoking status...- Investing time in health: do socioeconomically disadvantaged patients spend more or less extra time on diabetes self-care?Susan L Ettner
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, 911 Broxton Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Health Econ 18:645-63. 2009..Research on self-care for chronic disease has not examined time requirements. Translating Research into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD), a multi-site study of managed care patients with diabetes, is among the first to assess self-care time... - Estrogen receptor alpha and matrix metalloproteinase 2 polymorphisms and age-related maculopathy in older womenRobin L Seitzman
Department of Ophthalmology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 92122, USA
Am J Epidemiol 167:1217-25. 2008..02). The MMP2 rs2287074 A allele may be associated with a lower likelihood of ARM in older Caucasian women, particularly those who have never used hormone therapy. The role of MMP2 rs2287074 in ARM should be further elucidated... - The association of smoking and alcohol use with age-related macular degeneration in the oldest old: the Study of Osteoporotic FracturesAnne L Coleman
Department of Ophthalmology, Jules Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, School of Public Health, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
Am J Ophthalmol 149:160-9. 2010..To estimate the incidence of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and the association of smoking and alcohol in a population of older women... - The association between clinical care strategies and the attenuation of racial/ethnic disparities in diabetes care: the Translating Research Into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD) StudyO Kenrik Duru
David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
Med Care 44:1121-8. 2006..We sought to determine whether greater implementation of clinical care strategies in managed care is associated with attenuation of known racial/ethnic disparities in diabetes care... - Looking forward, looking back: assessing variations in hospital resource use and outcomes for elderly patients with heart failureMichael K Ong
Departments of Medicine and Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes 2:548-57. 2009..This study examines the association between mortality and resource use at the hospital level, when all Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized for heart failure are examined... - Mandatory reporting of elder abuse: between a rock and a hard placeMichael A Rodriguez
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif, USA
Ann Fam Med 4:403-9. 2006..Despite mandated reporting laws that require physicians to report elder abuse, physicians have low rates of reporting. The purpose of this study was to identify physician's perspectives on mandated reporting of elder abuse... - 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 proceduresJohn 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... - Are physician reimbursement strategies associated with processes of care and patient satisfaction for patients with diabetes in managed care?Susan L Ettner
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, UCLA Department of Medicine, 911 Broxton Plaza, Room 106, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Health Serv Res 41:1221-41. 2006..To examine associations between physician reimbursement incentives and diabetes care processes and explore potential confounding with physician organizational model... - Entering and exiting the Medicare part D coverage gap: role of comorbidities and demographicsSusan L Ettner
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 911 Broxton Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
J Gen Intern Med 25:568-74. 2010..Some Medicare Part D enrollees whose drug expenditures exceed a threshold enter a coverage gap with full cost-sharing, increasing their risk for reduced adherence and adverse outcomes... - Treatment of uncorrected refractive error improves vision-specific quality of lifeAnne L Coleman
Department of Ophthalmology, Jules Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, 100 Stein Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:883-90. 2006..To evaluate the benefit of eyeglasses and magnifiers in elderly patients with uncorrected refractive errors... - Building an academic-community partnered network for clinical services research: the Community Health Improvement Collaborative (CHIC)Kenneth B Wells
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, USA
Ethn Dis 16:S3-17. 2006.... - What is the concordance between the medical record and patient self-report as data sources for ambulatory care?Diana M Tisnado
University of California at Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
Med Care 44:132-40. 2006..The validity of quality of care assessments relies upon data quality, yet little is known about the relative completeness and validity of data sources for evaluating the quality of care... - Impact of age-related macular degeneration on vision-specific quality of life: Follow-up from the 10-year and 15-year visits of the Study of Osteoporotic FracturesAnne L Coleman
Jules Stein Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Am J Ophthalmol 150:683-91. 2010.... - The relationship between expectations for aging and physical activity among older adultsCatherine A Sarkisian
Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, Calif 90095 1687, USA
J Gen Intern Med 20:911-5. 2005..New strategies to increase physical activity among sedentary older adults are urgently needed... - Binocular visual-field loss increases the risk of future falls in older white womenAnne L Coleman
Jules Stein Eye Institute, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:357-64. 2007..To examine the relationship between binocular visual field loss and the risk of incident frequent falls in older white women... - Does ambulatory process of care predict health-related quality of life outcomes for patients with chronic disease?Katherine L Kahn
Department of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, 911 Broxton Plaza, Box 951736, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
Health Serv Res 42:63-83. 2007..We used empirical data from managed care patients enrolled in west coast physician organizations to test the hypothesis that observed changes in health-related quality of life across a 2.5-year window reflecting process of care... - Can a chronic care model collaborative reduce heart disease risk in patients with diabetes?Roberto B Vargas
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:215-22. 2007..There is a need to identify effective practical interventions to decrease cardiovascular disease risk in patients with diabetes... - Visual field loss and risk of fractures in older womenAnne L Coleman
Jules Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 57:1825-32. 2009..To evaluate the associations between visual field loss and nonspine fractures... - Health literacy and English language comprehension among elderly inpatients at an urban safety-net hospitalKristina M Cordasco
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
J Health Hum Serv Adm 32:30-50. 2009..To evaluate the relationship between health literacy and age in chronically-ill inpatients at a safety-net hospital... - Identifying risk factors for racial disparities in diabetes outcomes: the translating research into action for diabetes studyO Kenrik Duru
Division of General Internal Medicine Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Med Care 47:700-6. 2009.... - Using decision aids in community-based primary care: a theory-driven evaluation with ethnically diverse patientsDominick L Frosch
Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, United States
Patient Educ Couns 73:490-6. 2008..To assess the effects of informational brochures and video decision aids about cancer screening on patient intention to engage in shared decision-making and its predictors in a racially diverse sample... - Predictors of sustained walking among diabetes patients in managed care: the Translating Research into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD) studyO Kenrik Duru
David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:1194-9. 2008..Although patients with diabetes may benefit from physical activity, few studies have examined sustained walking in this population... - Knowledge retention after an online tutorial: a randomized educational experiment among resident physiciansDouglas S Bell
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:1164-71. 2008..The time course of physicians' knowledge retention after learning activities has not been well characterized. Understanding the time course of retention is critical to optimizing the reinforcement of knowledge... - Glaucoma risk and the consumption of fruits and vegetables among older women in the study of osteoporotic fracturesAnne L Coleman
Department of Ophthalmology and Jules Stein Eye Institute, University of California Los Angeles, 100 Stein Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Am J Ophthalmol 145:1081-9. 2008..To explore the association between the consumption of fruits and vegetables and the presence of glaucoma... - A low-literacy medication education tool for safety-net hospital patientsKristina M Cordasco
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, 11301 Wilshire Boulevard 111G, Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA
Am J Prev Med 37:S209-16. 2009..To improve medication adherence in cardiac patients, in partnership with a safety-net provider, this research team developed and evaluated a low-literacy medication education tool... - Intimate partner violence, depression, and PTSD among pregnant Latina womenMichael A Rodriguez
Department of Family Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Ann Fam Med 6:44-52. 2008..We undertook a study to describe factors related to depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among pregnant Latinas who were or were not exposed to intimate partner violence... - Partnering with community-based organizations: an academic institution's evolving perspectiveKeith C Norris
Department of Medicine, Charles R Drew University, Lynwood, CA 90262, USA
Ethn Dis 17:S27-32. 2007..Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is ideally a collaborative approach to research that equitably involves all partners in the research process and recognizes the unique strengths that each brings... - Bone mineral density and age-related maculopathy in older womenRobin L Seitzman
Department of Ophthalmology, Jules Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:740-6. 2007..To determine whether bone mineral density (BMD) is associated with age-related maculopathy (ARM) risk in older women... - Sisters in motion: a randomized controlled trial of a faith-based physical activity interventionO Kenrik Duru
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 58:1863-9. 2010..To evaluate a faith-based intervention (Sisters in Motion) intended to increase walking in older, sedentary African-American women... - Development of the 12-item Expectations Regarding Aging SurveyCatherine A Sarkisian
Division of Geriatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1687, USA
Gerontologist 45:240-8. 2005..This study describes the development of a short version of the Expectations Regarding Aging Survey (ERA-38), a 38-item survey measuring expectations regarding aging... - Patient quality of life during the 12 months following joint replacement surgeryJohn 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... - Methodological challenges associated with patient responses to follow-up longitudinal surveys regarding quality of careKatherine L Kahn
UCLA School of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1736, USA
Health Serv Res 38:1579-98. 2003.... - Higher risk of multiple falls among elderly women who lose visual acuityAnne L Coleman
Jules Stein Eye Institute and the UCLA Department of Ophthalmology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095-7004, USA
Ophthalmology 111:857-62. 2004..083). CONCLUSIONS: Loss of vision among elderly women increases the risk of frequent falls. Prevention or correction of visual loss may help reduce the number of future falls... - Health behaviors and quality of care among Latinos with diabetes in managed careArleen F Brown
School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Am J Public Health 93:1694-8. 2003..We evaluated whether ethnicity and language are associated with diabetes care for Latinos in managed care... - A systematic review of diabetes self-care interventions for older, African American, or Latino adultsCatherine A Sarkisian
Division of Geriatrics, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095 1687, USA
Diabetes Educ 29:467-79. 2003..This study systematically identified and examined published self-care interventions designed to improve glycemic control or quality of life (QoL) among older, African American, or Latino adults... - Predictors of 30-day serious events in older patients with syncopeBenjamin C Sun
Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 54:769-778.e1-5. 2009..We identify predictors of 30-day serious events after syncope in older adults... - Income-related differences in the use of evidence-based therapies in older persons with diabetes mellitus in for-profit managed careArleen F Brown
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 51:665-70. 2003..To determine whether income influences evidence-based medication use by older persons with diabetes mellitus in managed care who have the same prescription drug benefit... - Do older adults expect to age successfully? The association between expectations regarding aging and beliefs regarding healthcare seeking among older adultsCatherine A Sarkisian
Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 50:1837-43. 2002.... - Need for eye care among older adults with diabetes mellitus in fee-for-service and managed MedicareArleen F Brown
Department of Medicine, Jules Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Arch Ophthalmol 123:669-75. 2005..To compare rates of need for eye care among Medicare beneficiaries with network-model Medicare+Choice (MC) and fee-for-service (FFS) health insurance... - Do depressed older adults who attribute depression to "old age" believe it is important to seek care?Catherine A Sarkisian
Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1687, USA
J Gen Intern Med 18:1001-5. 2003..To determine whether depressed older adults who attribute becoming depressed to "old age" rather than illness are more likely to believe it is not important to seek treatment for depression... - Using focus groups of older African Americans and Latinos with diabetes to modify a self-care empowerment interventionCatherine A Sarkisian
Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095 1687, USA
Ethn Dis 15:283-91. 2005..To make cultural and age-specific modifications to a self-care empowerment intervention... - Development, reliability, and validity of the expectations regarding aging (ERA-38) surveyCatherine A Sarkisian
Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Gerontologist 42:534-42. 2002..To develop a reliable and valid instrument to measure older adults' expectations regarding aging... - Options for handling missing data in the Health Utilities Index Mark 3Arash Naeim
Division of Hematology Oncology, UCLA Department of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1687, USA
Med Decis Making 25:186-98. 2005..This situation creates a break in the scoring algorithm and leads to considerable amounts of missing data. The goal of this study is to develop strategies to deal with HUI3 scores for participants who have missing data... - Older age predicts short-term, serious events after syncopeBenjamin C Sun
Department of Medicine, West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:907-12. 2007..To assess the relationship between age and 14-day serious events after an emergency department (ED) visit for syncope... - Disparities in the diagnosis and pharmacologic treatment of high serum cholesterol by race and ethnicity: data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyKarin Nelson
VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, 660 S Columbian Way, Mail Stop S 111 GIMC, Seattle, WA 98108 1597, USA
Arch Intern Med 162:929-35. 2002..Serum cholesterol is one of the most important modifiable risk factors for coronary artery disease. There are conflicting data on racial and ethnic variation in the treatment of high cholesterol... - Generic-only drug coverage in the Medicare Part D gap and effect on medication cost-cutting behaviors for patients with diabetes mellitus: the translating research into action for diabetes studyO Kenrik Duru
David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 58:822-8. 2010..To examine the association between drug coverage during the Medicare Part D coverage gap and medication cost-cutting behaviors of beneficiaries with diabetes mellitus who use and do not use insulin... - Surgical removal vs observation for idiopathic or ocular histoplasmosis syndrome-associated subfoveal choroidal neovascularization: Vision Preference Value Scale findings from the randomized SST Group H Trial: SST Report No. 17Eric B Bass
Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Arch Ophthalmol 126:1626-32. 2008..To determine whether patients receiving observation vs surgery for subfoveal choroidal neovascularization that was idiopathic or associated with histoplasmosis differed in preference values assigned to their health and vision status... - Physician perception of reimbursement for outpatient procedures among managed care patients with diabetes mellitusCatherine Kim
Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0429, USA
Am J Manag Care 15:32-8. 2009..To examine the association between physicians' reimbursement perceptions and outpatient test performance among patients with diabetes mellitus... - Atrial fibrillation and quality of life after pacemaker implantation for sick sinus syndrome: data from the Mode Selection Trial (MOST)Kirsten E Fleischmann
Department of Medicine, The University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Am Heart J 158:78-83.e2. 2009..Our objective was to assess the impact of AF on QOL within MOST... - Low diagnostic yield of electrocardiogram testing in younger patients with syncopeBenjamin C Sun
Department of Medicine, West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA
Ann Emerg Med 51:240-6, 246.e1. 2008..For ECG testing, we assess the diagnostic yield (frequency that ECG identified the reason for syncope) and predictive accuracy for 14-day cardiac events after an episode of syncope as a function of age... - Referral management and the care of patients with diabetes: the Translating Research Into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD) studyCatherine Kim
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich, USA
Am J Manag Care 10:137-43. 2004..To examine the effect of referral management on diabetes care... - Central nervous system-active medications and risk for falls in older womenKristine E Ensrud
Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 50:1629-37. 2002..To determine whether current use of central nervous system (CNS)-active medications, including benzodiazepines, antidepressants, anticonvulsants, and narcotics, increases the risk for subsequent falls... - Pacemaker implantation and quality of life in the Mode Selection Trial (MOST)Kirsten E Fleischmann
Department of Medicine, The University of California, San Francisco, 94030, USA
Heart Rhythm 3:653-9. 2006..Dual-chamber pacemakers restore AV synchrony compared with ventricular pacemakers, but the effects on health-related quality of life (QOL) are uncertain... - External validation of the San Francisco Syncope RuleBenjamin C Sun
Department of Medicine, West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA
Ann Emerg Med 49:420-7, 427.e1-4. 2007..We externally validate the ability of the San Francisco Syncope Rule to accurately identify syncope patients who will experience a 7-day serious clinical event... - Is physician gender associated with the quality of diabetes care?Catherine Kim
Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Diabetes Care 28:1594-8. 2005..This study examines the association between physician gender and diabetes quality of care... - Predictors of short-term (seven-day) cardiac outcomes after emergency department visit for syncopeGelareh Z Gabayan
Department of Medicine, Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Am J Cardiol 105:82-6. 2010..In conclusion, ED decision-making should focus on risk of cardiac event in the first 7 days after syncope and special attention should be given to younger patients with cardiac co-morbidities... - Part-time careers in academic internal medicine: a report from the association of specialty professors part-time careers task force on behalf of the alliance for academic internal medicineMark Linzer
Section of General Internal Medicine Scholars, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Acad Med 84:1395-400. 2009.... - Guidelines for improving the care of the older person with diabetes mellitusArlene F Brown
J Am Geriatr Soc 51:S265-80. 2003 - Responsiveness of the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire to changes in visual acuity: findings in patients with subfoveal choroidal neovascularization--SST Report No. 1Päivi H Miskala
Submacular Surgery Trials Coordinating Center, Wilmer Clinical Trials and Biometry, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Arch Ophthalmol 121:531-9. 2003..The National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI-VFQ) measures vision-targeted quality of life, but it is unclear whether it is sensitive to changes within individuals over time... - Surgical removal vs observation for subfoveal choroidal neovascularization, either associated with the ocular histoplasmosis syndrome or idiopathic: II. Quality-of-life findings from a randomized clinical trial: SST Group H Trial: SST Report No. 10Barbara S Hawkins
Arch Ophthalmol 122:1616-28. 2004.... - Patients' perceptions of the value of current vision: assessment of preference values among patients with subfoveal choroidal neovascularization--The Submacular Surgery Trials Vision Preference Value Scale: SST Report No. 6Eric B Bass
Arch Ophthalmol 122:1856-67. 2004.... - Vision impairment and combined vision and hearing impairment predict cognitive and functional decline in older womenMichael Y Lin
Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:1996-2002. 2004..Studies are needed to determine whether treatment of vision and hearing impairment can decrease the risk for cognitive and functional decline... - Racial and ethnic variation in response to mailed and telephone surveys among women in a managed care populationKarin M Nelson
Primary and Specialty Medical Care Service, VA Puget Sound Health Care System and the Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98108 1597, USA
Ethn Dis 14:580-3. 2004..We used bivariate and multivariate analyses to describe the population characteristics of respondents who replied by mail, as compared to those who completed the survey by telephone... - Physician compensation from salary and quality of diabetes careCatherine Kim
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:448-52. 2007..To examine the association between physician-reported percent of total compensation from salary and quality of diabetes care... - Effect of health beliefs on delays in care for abnormal cervical cytology in a multi-ethnic populationKarin Nelson
Primary and Specialty Medical Care Service, VA Puget Sound Health Care System and the Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, 98108 1597, USA
J Gen Intern Med 17:709-16. 2002..Delays in care for abnormal Papanicolaou (Pap) smears can lead to missed cases of cervical cancer or late-stage presentation and may be one explanation for these differences... - Quality of life after iodine 125 brachytherapy vs enucleation for choroidal melanoma: 5-year results from the Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study: COMS QOLS Report No. 3Michele Melia
Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Arch Ophthalmol 124:226-38. 2006.... - For the patient. Managing diabetes with cultural sensitivity and self-empowermentCatherine A Sarkisian
Ethn Dis 15:351. 2005 - Outcome and cost-effectiveness of cardiopulmonary resuscitation after in-hospital cardiac arrest in octogenariansDavid Paniagua
Division of Cardiology, Mount Sinai Medical Center and the University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami Beach, FL, USA
Cardiology 97:6-11. 2002..The favorable cost-effectiveness ratio is highly dependent on the patients' preference for quality rather than quantity of life, as expressed by the utility assumptions... - Central nervous system active medications and risk for fractures in older womenKristine E Ensrud
Department of Medicine and Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
Arch Intern Med 163:949-57. 2003..Use of central nervous system (CNS) active medications may increase the risk for fractures. Prior studies are limited by incomplete control of confounders... - Validation and test characteristics of a 10-item neuro-ophthalmic supplement to the NEI-VFQ-25Brian A Raphael
Department of Neurology, Division of Neuro-ophthalmology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Am J Ophthalmol 142:1026-35. 2006..The use of the 10-Item Supplement in clinical trials and epidemiologic studies will examine its capacity to demonstrate treatment effects in longitudinal cohorts... - Improving the management of chronic diseaseJoe V Selby
N Engl J Med 356:2422-4; author reply 2422-4. 2007 - Identifying widely covered drugs and drug coverage variation among Medicare part D formulariesChien Wen Tseng
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, John A Burns School of Medicine at University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA
JAMA 297:2596-602. 2007..Clinicians can find it difficult to know which drugs are covered for their Medicare patients because formularies vary widely among Medicare Part D plans and many states have 50 or more such plans... - Diabetes and incidence of functional disability in older womenEdward W Gregg
Division of Diabetes Translation, National Center for Chronic Disease and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Diabetes Care 25:61-7. 2002..To examine the relationship between diabetes and the incidence of functional disability and to determine the predictors of functional disability among older women with diabetes... - Elderly patients' preferences and experiences with providers in managing their drug costsChien Wen Tseng
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:1974-80. 2007..To determine whether elderly patients with high drug expenditures want and receive providers' help in managing drug costs... - Health- and vision-related quality of life among patients with choroidal neovascularization secondary to age-related macular degeneration at enrollment in randomized trials of submacular surgery: SST report no. 4Li Ming Dong
Wilmer Clinical Trials and Biometry, The Wilmer Ophthalmologic Institute, 550 N. Broadway, 9th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21205-2010, USA
Am J Ophthalmol 138:91-108. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: Subfoveal CNV profoundly affects vision-related quality of life. The effect is more pronounced with bilateral disease, even after controlling for visual acuity... - Why don't diabetes patients achieve recommended risk factor targets? Poor adherence versus lack of treatment intensificationJulie A Schmittdiel
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, CA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:588-94. 2008..Despite the availability of effective hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and hyperglycemia therapies, target levels of systolic blood pressure (SBP), LDL-cholesterol (LDL-c), and hemoglobin A1c control are often not achieved... - Development of the National Eye Institute refractive error correction quality of life questionnaire: focus groupsSandra Berry
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California 90407, USA
Ophthalmology 110:2285-91. 2003..To identify the content area for a questionnaire designed to measure the vision-targeted, health-related quality of life for persons with well-corrected refractive error... - Practice characteristics and HMO enrollee satisfaction with specialty care: an analysis of patients with glaucoma and diabetic retinopathyJose J Escarce
RAND Health Program, Santa Monica, CA 90407 2138, USA
Health Serv Res 38:1135-55. 2003..The specialist's role in caring for managed care patients is likely to grow. Thus, assessing the correlates of patient satisfaction with specialty care is essential... - Visual acuity, contrast sensitivity, and mortality in older women: Study of osteoporotic fracturesKathryn L Pedula
Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Northwest, Portland, Oregon 97227, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:1871-7. 2006..To determine whether poorer visual acuity and contrast sensitivity are independent risk factors for all-cause and traumatic mortality in older women... - Self-reported health status of vietnamese and non-Hispanic white older adults in californiaDara Sorkin
Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Center for Health Policy Research, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 56:1543-8. 2008..Further research is needed to better understand why older Vietnamese Americans are at higher risk for worse self-reported health than older white adults... - Development and validation of disease-specific measures for choroidal melanoma: COMS-QOLS report No. 2Michele Melia
Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205 2010, USA
Arch Ophthalmol 121:1010-20. 2003..To develop and validate scales measuring common concerns of patients with choroidal melanoma: perception of appearance, concern about cancer recurrence, and difficulty with vision-dependent activities requiring stereopsis or binocularity... - Patterns of care for open-angle glaucoma in managed careAllen M Fremont
RAND Health Program, Santa Monica, Calif, USA
Arch Ophthalmol 121:777-83. 2003..However, care is falling short on several key aspects, and POAG may be undertreated relative to standards for IOP control established in recent clinical trials... - Surgery for subfoveal choroidal neovascularization in age-related macular degeneration: quality-of-life findings: SST report no. 12Päivi H Miskala
SST Coordinating Center, 550 North Broadway, 9th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21205 2010, USA
Ophthalmology 111:1981-92. 2004.... - Surgery for hemorrhagic choroidal neovascular lesions of age-related macular degeneration: quality-of-life findings: SST report no. 14Ashley L Childs
SST Coordinating Center, 550 North Broadway, 9th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Ophthalmology 111:2007-14. 2004.... - Health values before and after pacemaker implantationFrancisco Lopez-Jimenez
Division of Cardiology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, and Cardiovascular Associates of Miami, Miami Beach, Fla 33140, USA
Am Heart J 144:687-92. 2002..The values reported here may be used as a means of calculating the cost-effectiveness of different pacing modalities...
Research Grants
- A Self-Care Intervention for Latino Adults with DiabetesCarol Mangione; Fiscal Year: 2004..abstract_text> ..
- The Center for Health Improvement of Minority ElderlyCarol Mangione; Fiscal Year: 2007....