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| Michelle L MayerSummaryAffiliation: University of North Carolina Country: USA Publications
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The changing composition of the pediatric medical subspecialty workforceMichelle L Mayer
Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7590, USA
Pediatrics 116:833-40. 2005....- Too many, too few, too concentrated? A review of the pediatric subspecialty workforce literatureMichelle L Mayer
Department of Health Policy and Administration, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health, and Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research, Chapel Hill 27599 7590, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 158:1158-65. 2004..To summarize recent pediatric subspecialty workforce analyses and to highlight similarities and differences across studies... - Role of pediatric and internist rheumatologists in treating children with rheumatic diseasesMichelle L Mayer
Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 7590, USA
Pediatrics 113:e173-81. 2004..To quantify and describe the role of internist and pediatric rheumatologists in the care of children with rheumatic diseases and identify factors associated with internist rheumatologists' willingness to treat children... - Unmet need for routine and specialty care: data from the National Survey of Children With Special Health Care NeedsMichelle L Mayer
Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 7590, USA
Pediatrics 113:e109-15. 2004..To assess the prevalence of unmet needs for routine and specialty care among children with special health care needs (CSHCN) and to identify factors associated with the likelihood of having unmet need for medical care... - Simple gesturesMichelle L Mayer
Department of Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7666, USA
Obstet Gynecol 103:3-4. 2004 - Are we there yet? Distance to care and relative supply among pediatric medical subspecialtiesMichelle L Mayer
Department of Health Policy and Administration, UNC Chapel Hill School of Public Health, Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research, CB 7590, Chapel Hill NC 27599 7590, USA
Pediatrics 118:2313-21. 2006..The objective of this study was to describe geographic proximity, quantify variation in supply, and estimate pediatric population increments that are needed to support providers across pediatric subspecialties... - Disparities in geographic access to pediatric subspecialty careMichelle L Mayer
Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7590, USA
Matern Child Health J 12:624-32. 2008..To identify correlates of geographic access to pediatric medical subspecialists in the United States and identify characteristics of populations at risk for poor geographic access... - The effects of rural residence and other social vulnerabilities on subjective measures of unmet needMichelle L Mayer
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Med Care Res Rev 62:617-28. 2005..Findings suggest that rural residence and other social vulnerabilities are associated with decreased perception of need, which may bias subjective measurements of unmet need for these populations... 
Effects of insurance status on children's access to specialty care: a systematic review of the literatureAsheley Cockrell Skinner
Department of Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 7:194. 2007..Our objective was to review the literature on the effects of insurance status on children's access to specialty care...- Unmet need for therapy services, assistive devices, and related services: data from the national survey of children with special health care needsStacey C Dusing
Program in Human Movement Science, Division of Physical Therapy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Ambul Pediatr 4:448-54. 2004..Our findings highlight the importance of insurance coverage in ensuring access to therapy services, assistive devices, and related services... - The effect of rural residence on dental unmet need for children with special health care needsAsheley Cockrell Skinner
Department of Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
J Rural Health 22:36-42. 2006..The combination of rural residence and special health care needs may leave rural CSHCN particularly vulnerable to high levels of unmet dental needs... 
Influence of changes in supply on the distribution of pediatric subspecialty careMichelle L Mayer
Department of Health Policy and Management, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599 7225, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 163:1087-91. 2009..To examine whether recently certified pediatric subspecialists enter markets that previously lacked subspecialists and to determine whether changes in overall supply are associated with changes in geographic availability of care...- Access to pediatric rheumatology care in the United StatesMichelle L Mayer
Cecil B. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB #7590, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7590, USA
Arthritis Rheum 49:759-65. 2003..Research is needed to understand the role of internist rheumatologists in caring for children with rheumatic diseases and the quality of the care that they provide to this population... - Using BMI to determine cardiovascular risk in childhood: how do the BMI cutoffs fare?Asheley Cockrell Skinner
Department of Health Policy and Management, School ofNursing, University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Pediatrics 124:e905-12. 2009..We examined whether the existing BMI percentile cutoffs are optimal for defining increased risk for dyslipidemia, dysglycemia, and hypertension... - Availability of pediatric rheumatology training in United States pediatric residenciesMichelle L Mayer
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Arthritis Rheum 55:836-42. 2006..To characterize the availability of pediatric rheumatology training in general pediatric residencies... - An investment in health: anticipating the cost of a usual source of care for childrenSarah A Birken
Department of Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, USA
Pediatrics 123:77-83. 2009..We hypothesized that children with a usual source of care would have greater odds of having any outpatient expenditures, lower odds of emergency department and inpatient expenditures, and lower expenditures overall... - Distance to care and relative supply among pediatric surgical subspecialtiesMichelle L Mayer
Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
J Pediatr Surg 44:483-95. 2009..The aim of this study is to describe geographic proximity to and quantify relative supply of 7 pediatric surgical specialties in the United States... - Health status and health care expenditures in a nationally representative sample: how do overweight and healthy-weight children compare?Asheley Cockrell Skinner
Department of Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7411, USA
Pediatrics 121:e269-77. 2008..Our objective was to examine whether overweight children have (1) more chronic conditions, (2) poorer health, and (3) greater health care expenditures than healthy-weight children... - Hospital resource utilization among patients with sickle cell diseaseMichelle L Mayer
Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 14:122-35. 2003..Patient characteristics, especially severity measures, related significantly to total hospital charges, length of stay, and average daily charges, but few hospital characteristics were associated significantly with these outcomes... - Agreement among measures of asthma status: a prospective study of low-income children with moderate to severe asthmaPaul J Sharek
Division of General Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
Pediatrics 110:797-804. 2002..Understanding the relationship between these measures may facilitate more parsimonious and valid evaluation strategies without loss of information... - A medical home for children with insulin-dependent diabetes: comanagement by primary and subspecialty physicians--convergence and divergence of opinionsSteven E Wegner
AccessCare, 3500 Gateway Centre Blvd, Suite 130, Morrisville, NC 27560, USA
Pediatrics 122:e383-7. 2008.... - Subspecialty care use rates: reverse causation and generalizability issuesMichelle L Mayer
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 157:1032-3. 2003 - Does clinical presentation explain practice variability in the treatment of febrile infants?David A Bergman
Division of General Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
Pediatrics 117:787-95. 2006..None of those studies documented the extent to which this variability is accounted for by differences in clinical severity... - Effect of an evidence-based hand washing policy on hand washing rates and false-positive coagulase negative staphylococcus blood and cerebrospinal fluid culture rates in a level III NICUPaul J Sharek
Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
J Perinatol 22:137-43. 2002..Exploratory data analysis revealed a possible effect on true-positive coagulase negative staphylococcal blood and CSF culture rates, but these results need to be confirmed in future studies...