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| Maria PisuSummaryAffiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham Country: USA Publications
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Geographic variation of epilepsy for older Americans: how close to the geographic variation of stroke?Maria Pisu
Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294 4410, USA
Epilepsia 53:2186-93. 2012....- Diagnostic tests and neurology care for Medicare beneficiaries with seizures: differences across racial groupsMaria Pisu
Department of Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294 4410, USA
Med Care 50:730-6. 2012..Neurologists' care is also important, given associated diagnosis and treatment challenges in older patients... 
Incidence and prevalence of epilepsy among older U.S. Medicare beneficiariesE Faught
Department of Neurology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Neurology 78:448-53. 2012..To determine the prevalence and incidence of epilepsy among U.S. Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years old and over, and to compare rates across demographic groups...- Substance abuse treatment in an urban HIV clinic: who enrolls and what are the benefits?Maria Pisu
Department of Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA
AIDS Care 22:348-54. 2010..In this small sample of HIV-infected patients with a limited follow-up period, women were more likely to enroll in SAT than men, and SAT reached those who needed it, e.g., IDUs. We did not find an effect of SAT on HIV clinical outcomes... - The out of pocket cost of breast cancer survivors: a reviewMaria Pisu
University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
J Cancer Surviv 4:202-9. 2010..Current turbulent economic climate increases the urgency to better understand this burden. Few studies or systematic reviews focus on OOP costs... - Presence of medical schools may contribute to reducing breast cancer mortality and disparitiesMaria Pisu
Department of Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294 4410, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 21:961-76. 2010..96, CI 0.94-0.99), or being successful vs. failing (OR 1.03, CI 1.00-1.06) or vs. with disparities (OR 1.04, CI 1.01-1.07). Medical resources did not explain county type differences, but type of care available may be important... - Treatment for older prostate cancer patients: disparities in a southern stateMaria Pisu
Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 35294 4410, USA
Med Care 48:915-22. 2010..Little is known about treatment rates in socioeconomically deprived states with large Black populations like Alabama... - Out of pocket cost comparison between Caucasian and minority breast cancer survivors in the Breast Cancer Education Intervention (BCEI)Maria Pisu
School of Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294 4410, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 127:521-9. 2011..Future studies can investigate how this burden affects the quality of life of breast cancer survivors, especially minorities... 
Medication assistance programs: do all in need benefit equally?Maria Pisu
The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Deep South Musculoskeletal Center for Research and Education in Therapeutics, Division of Preventive Medicine, 1530 3rd Ave South, MT 628, Birmingham, Alabama 35294 4410, USA
Ethn Dis 20:339-45. 2010..To determine if medication assistance programs (MAPs) provided by pharmaceutical companies were used differently by African Americans and Whites...- Less-than-standard treatment in rectal cancer patients: which patients are at risk?Maria Pisu
Department of Medicine Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294 4410, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 102:190-8. 2010..In states where socioeconomics and limited medical resources may hinder treatment, cancer care is understudied. The objective is to describe initiation and completion of rectal cancer treatment in Alabama... - Targeted tuberculosis contact investigation saves money without sacrificing healthMaria Pisu
Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
J Public Health Manag Pract 15:319-27. 2009..The contact priority model (CPM) uses a decision rule to minimize testing of low-risk contacts; however, its impact on costs and disease control is unknown... - Household-based costs and benefits of vaccinating healthy children in daycare against influenza virus: results from a pilot studyMaria Pisu
Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education COERE, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama 35294 4410, USA
Pharmacoeconomics 23:55-67. 2005..Vaccinating children against influenza virus may reduce infections in immunised children and household contacts, thereby reducing the household-based cost associated with respiratory illnesses... - Medication adherence among rural, low-income hypertensive adults: a randomized trial of a multimedia community-based interventionMichelle Y Martin
Division of Preventative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294 4410, USA
Am J Health Promot 25:372-8. 2011..Examine the effectiveness of a community-based, multimedia intervention on medication adherence among hypertensive adults... - Breast cancer screening interventions in selected counties across US regionsShamly Austin
Department of Health Services Administration, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1530 3rd Avenue S, Birmingham, AL 35294 1270, USA
Cancer Causes Control 21:2165-72. 2010..To determine the types of, and the populations targeted by interventions implemented to increase breast cancer screening rates in counties with large African American populations across different US regions... - Does economic burden influence quality of life in breast cancer survivors?KAREN MENESES
School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Gynecol Oncol 124:437-43. 2012..Yet, economic burden is rarely examined in cancer survivorship. The goal of this paper is to describe the effect of economic hardship and burden among women with breast cancer... - An application of longitudinal analysis with skewed outcomesAndres Azuero
School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, NE, USA
Nurs Res 59:301-7. 2010..However, these designs present statistical challenges particularly related to accounting for the variance and covariance of the repeated measurements on the same participants and to modeling outcomes that are not normally distributed... - Relationship of health behavior theories with self-efficacy among insufficiently active hypertensive African-American womenMichelle Y Martin
Department of Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1530 3rd Ave South, 1717 11th Ave South MT 617, Birmingham, AL 35294 4410, United States
Patient Educ Couns 72:137-45. 2008..This study identified theoretical correlates associated with self-efficacy among insufficiently active, hypertensive Black women... - Taking less than prescribed: medication nonadherence and provider-patient relationships in lower-income, rural minority adults with hypertensionMichelle Y Martin
Department of Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine, The School of Public Health, Health Behavior, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294 4410, USA
J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) 12:706-13. 2010..Creating clinical encounters that minimize the stressful nature of the visit and encourage patient question-asking behavior may also be important for the optimal management of hypertension... - Tailoring cancer education and support programs for low-income, primarily African American cancer survivorsMichelle Y Martin
Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Oncol Nurs Forum 38:E55-9. 2011..to identify the information and stress-management topics of most interest to low-income, predominantly African American cancer survivors... - Gender differences in discontinuation of antiretroviral treatment regimensMirjam Colette Kempf
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294 0022, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 52:336-41. 2009..Reported reasons for change or discontinuation of antiretroviral therapy ([delta]ART) include adverse events, intolerability, and nonadherence. Little is known how reasons for [delta]ART differ by gender... - Pharmaceuticals companies' medication assistance programs: potentially useful but too burdensome to use?Maria Pisu
Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education and Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
South Med J 102:139-44. 2009..This study examined how physicians perceive pharmaceutical companies' medication assistance programs (MAPs)... - The impact of cost on the availability of fruits and vegetables in the homes of schoolchildren in Birmingham, AlabamaJamy D Ard
Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA
Am J Public Health 97:367-72. 2007..We sought to determine whether fruit and vegetable cost and consumers' race and income would predict availability of fruits and vegetables in homes of schoolchildren in the Birmingham, Ala, area... - Failure to establish HIV care: characterizing the "no show" phenomenonMichael J Mugavero
Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Clin Infect Dis 45:127-30. 2007.... - Racial variation in willingness to trade financial resources for life-prolonging cancer treatmentMichelle Y Martin
Division of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294 4410, USA
Cancer 117:3476-84. 2011..We compared the willingness to use personal financial resources to extend life among white, black, Hispanic, and Asian cancer patients... - Cost-effectiveness of hepatitis B vaccination of prison inmatesMaria Pisu
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, MS D59, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Vaccine 21:312-21. 2002..Thus, while prisons might not have economic incentives to implement hepatitis B vaccination programs, the health care system would benefit from allocating resources to them... - Developing effective cancer pain education programsMichelle Y Martin
Department of Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294 4410, USA
Curr Pain Headache Rep 16:332-42. 2012..We conclude with recommendations for future research and the next generation of educational interventions... - Distribution of health care expenditures for HIV-infected patientsRay Y Chen
Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Clin Infect Dis 42:1003-10. 2006..These findings have important implications for the continued support of HIV treatment programs in the United States... - Web-based smoking cessation intervention that transitions from inpatient to outpatient: study protocol for a randomized controlled trialKathleen F Harrington
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham UAB, Birmingham, Alabama 35249 7337, USA
Trials 13:123. 2012.... - Trends in colon cancer screening procedures in the US Medicare and Tricare populations: 1999-2001Randal H Robertson
Department of Health Services Administration, School of Health Related Professions, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL 35294 3361, USA
Prev Med 42:460-2. 2006..This study examined trends in the numbers of double contrast barium enemas, flexible sigmoidoscopies, and colonoscopies and trends in the choices of colorectal cancer screening service providers... - Balancing bones and bucks among new glucocorticoid usersKenneth G Saag
J Rheumatol 30:1-3. 2003