Publications

Is American health care uniquely inefficient?

September 1, 2008

Garber AM and Skinner J

Alan M. Garber

Journal of Economic Perspectives

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2659297/

An administrative claims model suitable for profiling hospital performance based on 30-day all-cause readmission rates among patients with heart failure.

September 1, 2008

Keenan PS, Normand S-LT, Lin Z, et al.

Sharon-Lise Normand

Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

http://circoutcomes.ahajournals.org/content/1/1/29.long

Variations in surgeon volume and use of pelvic lymph node dissection with open and minimally invasive radical prostatectomy.

September 1, 2008

Prasad SM, Keating NL, Wang Q, et al.

Nancy L. Keating

Urology

http://www.goldjournal.net/article/S0090-4295(08)00640-7/abstract

Retail clinics, primary care physicians, and emergency departments: a comparison of patients’ visits

September 1, 2008

Mehrotra A, Wang MC, Lave JR et al

Health Affairs

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Retail%20clinics%2C%20primary%20care%20physicians%2C%20and%20emergency%20departments%3A%20a%20comparison%20of%20patients%E2%80%99%20visits

Estimating Peer Effects on Health in Social Networks: A Response to Cohen-Cole and Fletcher; Trogdon, Nonnemaker, Pais

September 1, 2008

J.H. Fowler and N.A. Christakis

Journal of Health Economics

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2597062/

Is having more preapproval data the best way to assure drug safety?

September 1, 2008

Alan M. Garber

Health Affairs

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/27/5/w371.long

DSM-IV pathological gambling in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication.

September 1, 2008

Kessler RC, Hwang I, LaBrie R, et al.

Ronald C. Kessler

Psychological Medicine

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2293303/

Risk factors for mortality in lower intestinal bleeding.

September 1, 2008

Strate LL, Ayanian JZ, Kotler G, et al.

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2643270/

Simple optimal weighing of cases and controls in case-control studies

September 1, 2008

S. Rose and M.J. van der Laan

International Journal of Biostatistics

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Simple%20optimal%20weighing%20of%20cases%20and%20controls%20in%20case-control%20studies

Predictors of health-related quality of life in patients with colorectal cancer.

August 25, 2008

Yost KJ, Hahn EA, Zaslavsky AM, et al.

Alan M. Zaslavsky

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2538505/