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| Dylan SmithSummaryAffiliation: University of Michigan Country: USA Publications
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Mispredicting and misremembering: patients with renal failure overestimate improvements in quality of life after a kidney transplantDylan Smith
VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan, MI, USA
Health Psychol 27:653-8. 2008..The authors surveyed kidney transplant patients, both before and after transplant, to test whether they would overestimate the benefits of a successful transplant for their quality of life...
Misremembering colostomies? Former patients give lower utility ratings than do current patientsDylan M Smith
Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Health Psychol 25:688-95. 2006....- Why are you calling me? How study introductions change response patternsDylan M Smith
VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, VA Ann Arbor Health Care System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Qual Life Res 15:621-30. 2006..The current investigation extends this work by testing whether standard survey introductions alter the observed associations between variables... - Are subjective well-being measures any better than decision utility measures?Dylan M Smith
VA Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, USA
Health Econ Policy Law 3:85-91. 2008..We conclude with a call for expanded research into developing new tools for quantifying health-related quality of life that are more valid, more sensitive to changes in health status, and less biased... - Mispredictions and misrecollections: challenges for subjective outcome measurementDylan M Smith
VA Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Disabil Rehabil 30:418-24. 2008..To review research from the behavioral sciences that demonstrates how predictions of future events--and memories of past events--are often systematically biased... 
Happily hopeless: adaptation to a permanent, but not to a temporary, disabilityDylan M Smith
VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, USA
Health Psychol 28:787-91. 2009..Based on prior research and theorizing, the authors hypothesized that, paradoxically, those with irreversible colostomies would adapt more fully, and become happier, than would those with colostomies that were potentially reversible...- What is perfect health to an 85-year-old?: evidence for scale recalibration in subjective health ratingsPeter A Ubel
Program for Improving Health Care Decisions, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 0429, USA
Med Care 43:1054-7. 2005.... - Does a helping hand mean a heavy heart? Helping behavior and well-being among spouse caregiversMichael J Poulin
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Psychol Aging 25:108-17. 2010..Helping valued loved ones may promote caregivers' well-being... - Misimagining the unimaginable: the disability paradox and health care decision makingPeter A Ubel
Program for Improving Health Care Decisions, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0429, USA
Health Psychol 24:S57-62. 2005..On balance, the available evidence suggests that, whereas patients misreport their well-being, healthy people also mispredict the emotional impact that chronic illness and disability will have on their lives... - Abandoning the language of "response shift": a plea for conceptual clarity in distinguishing scale recalibration from true changes in quality of lifePeter A Ubel
Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan, 300 North Ingalls Building, Rm 7C27, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 5429, USA
Qual Life Res 19:465-71. 2010..g., scale recalibration) with true causes of changing QoL (e.g., hedonic adaptation). We propose abandoning the term response shift, in favor of less ambiguous terms, like scale recalibration and adaptation... - Small area variations in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: does the neighborhood matter?Comilla Sasson
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Ann Intern Med 153:19-22. 2010..The incidence and outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest vary widely across cities. It is unknown whether similar differences exist at the neighborhood level... - Effects of activity strategy training on pain and physical activity in older adults with knee or hip osteoarthritis: a pilot studySusan L Murphy
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Arthritis Rheum 59:1480-7. 2008..To examine effects of activity strategy training (AST), a structured rehabilitation program taught by occupational therapists and designed to teach adaptive strategies for symptom control and engagement in physical activity (PA)... - Communicating side effect risks in a tamoxifen prophylaxis decision aid: the debiasing influence of pictographsBrian J Zikmund-Fisher
VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Patient Educ Couns 73:209-14. 2008.... - Effect of esthetic outcome after breast-conserving surgery on psychosocial functioning and quality of lifeJennifer F Waljee
Sections of General Surgery and Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
J Clin Oncol 26:3331-7. 2008..Understanding the effect of asymmetry on psychosocial functioning is essential for patients to make an informed choice for surgery... - The relative importance of physician communication, participatory decision making, and patient understanding in diabetes self-managementMichele Heisler
Veterans Affairs Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Mich, USA
J Gen Intern Med 17:243-52. 2002.... - Caregiving behavior is associated with decreased mortality riskStephanie L Brown
VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Psychol Sci 20:488-94. 2009..These findings suggest that it may be premature to conclude that health risks for caregivers are due to providing active help. Indeed, under some circumstances, caregivers may actually benefit from providing care... - Ecological measurement of fatigue and fatigability in older adults with osteoarthritisSusan L Murphy
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Michigan, 300 North Ingalls Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 2007, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 65:184-9. 2010..quot;Fatigability" was recently proposed to clarify the fatigue-activity relationship. The purpose of this study was to present a new measurement method of fatigability and begin to test its validity... - Testing whether decision aids introduce cognitive biases: results of a randomized trialPeter A Ubel
VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Patient Educ Couns 80:158-63. 2010..Decision aids (DAs) offer a promising method of helping them make this decision. But concern lingers that DAs might introduce cognitive biases... - Long-term cognitive impairment and functional disability among survivors of severe sepsisTheodore J Iwashyna
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
JAMA 304:1787-94. 2010..Although the incidence of severe sepsis is high and increasing, the magnitude of patients' long-term cognitive and functional limitations after sepsis is unknown... - Measuring activity pacing in women with lower-extremity osteoarthritis: a pilot studySusan L Murphy
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Institute of Gerontology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Am J Occup Ther 62:329-34. 2008..We examined how women with osteoarthritis naturally use activity pacing and how pacing relates to symptoms and physical activity within daily routines... - The impact of momentary pain and fatigue on physical activity in women with osteoarthritisSusan L Murphy
University of Michigan, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Arthritis Rheum 59:849-56. 2008.... - Coping with spousal loss: potential buffering effects of self-reported helping behaviorStephanie L Brown
VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, University of Michigan, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 34:849-61. 2008..Implications of these results for theoretical approaches to the study of close relationships and well-being are discussed... - Building a better quality measure: are some patients with 'poor quality' actually getting good care?Eve A Kerr
VA Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48113, USA
Med Care 41:1173-82. 2003.... - Racial disparities in diabetes care processes, outcomes, and treatment intensityMichele Heisler
Veterans Affairs Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48113 0170, USA
Med Care 41:1221-32. 2003..However, the extent to which differences in medical care processes and treatment intensity contribute to poorer diabetes outcomes is unknown... - How well do patients' assessments of their diabetes self-management correlate with actual glycemic control and receipt of recommended diabetes services?Michele Heisler
Veterans Affairs Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Diabetes Care 26:738-43. 2003..We explored these associations in a nationwide sample of Veterans' Affairs (VA) patients with diabetes... - Health, wealth, and happiness: financial resources buffer subjective well-being after the onset of a disabilityDylan M Smith
VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Psychol Sci 16:663-6. 2005..We also found some evidence that the buffering effect of wealth faded with time, as below-median participants recovered some of their well-being... - Comparing clinical automated, medical record, and hybrid data sources for diabetes quality measuresEve A Kerr
VA Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Improv 28:555-65. 2002..The agreement between diabetes quality measures constructed from clinical automated versus medical record data sources was compared, and the performance of hybrid measures derived from a combination of the two data sources was examined... - Measuring numeracy without a math test: development of the Subjective Numeracy ScaleAngela Fagerlin
VA Health Services Research and Development Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Med Decis Making 27:672-80. 2007..Basic numeracy skills are necessary before patients can understand the risks of medical treatments. Previous research has used objective measures, similar to mathematics tests, to evaluate numeracy... - Validation of the Subjective Numeracy Scale: effects of low numeracy on comprehension of risk communications and utility elicitationsBrian J Zikmund-Fisher
VA Health Services Research and Development Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Med Decis Making 27:663-71. 2007..In a companion article, the authors describe the Subjective Numeracy Scale (SNS), a self-assessment of numerical aptitude and preferences for numbers that correlates strongly with objective numeracy... - Making numbers matter: present and future research in risk communicationAngela Fagerlin
Ann Arbor VA HSR and D Center for Excellence, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0429, USA
Am J Health Behav 31:S47-56. 2007..To summarize existing research on individual numeracy and methods for presenting risk information to patients... - Effects of a tailored activity pacing intervention on pain and fatigue for adults with osteoarthritisSusan L Murphy
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Am J Occup Ther 64:869-76. 2010..We examined whether tailored activity pacing intervention was more effective at reducing pain and fatigue than general activity pacing intervention... - Providing social support may be more beneficial than receiving it: results from a prospective study of mortalityStephanie L Brown
Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48106 1248, USA
Psychol Sci 14:320-7. 2003..These results have implications for understanding how social contact influences health and longevity... - Patient comprehension of emergency department care and instructions: are patients aware of when they do not understand?Kirsten G Engel
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Ann Emerg Med 53:454-461.e15. 2009..The objective of this study is to assess, at discharge, patients' comprehension of their ED care and instructions and their awareness of deficiencies in their comprehension... - Peer mentoring: a culturally sensitive approach to end-of-life planning for long-term dialysis patientsErica Perry
National Kidney Foundation of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA
Am J Kidney Dis 46:111-9. 2005..This study is designed to explore the impact of peer mentoring on end-of-life decision making... - The association between three different measures of health status and satisfaction among patients with diabetesEve A Kerr
VA Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research and University of Michigan School of Medicine, USA
Med Care Res Rev 60:158-77. 2003..In this diabetes population, health status appears to have a substantial impact on patient satisfaction, and this effect is considerably greater for diabetes severity than for physical functioning... - The confounded nature of angry men and happy womenD Vaughn Becker
Applied Psychology Program, Arizona State University at the Polytechnic Campus, Mesa, AZ 85212, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 92:179-90. 2007.... - Physician ratings of patient literacy: bending over backwards?Jennifer J Griggs
Patient Educ Couns 69:213; author reply 214. 2007