Health Care Delivery

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Language Access Services for Latinos with Limited English Proficiency: Lessons Learned from Hablamos Juntos (with M. Susan Ridgely, JD; Jose J. Escarce, MD, PhD; and Leo S. Morales, MD, PhD), Journal of General Internal Medicine (2007)
 

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Motivation to Change Chronic Illness Care: Results from a National Evaluation of Quality Improvement Collaboratives (with Michael K. Lin, Jill A. Marsteller, Stephen M. Shortell, Peter Mendel, Marjorie Pearson, and Mayde Rosen), Health Care Management Review (2005)
This article examines the motivation of health care professionals to improve quality of chronic illness...
 

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An Evaluation of an Adult Asthma BTS Collaborative and the Effect of Patient Self-Management (with M Schonlau, R Mangione-Smith, M Rosen, K Chan, T A. Louis, and EB Keeler), Annals of Family Medicine (2005)

Purpose: To examine whether a collaborative to improve asthma care influences process and outcomes of...

 

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The Role of Perceived Team Effectiveness in Improving Chronic Illness Care (with Stephen M. Shortell,; Jill A. Marsteller; Michael Lin; Marjorie L. Pearson; Peter Mendel; Shan Cretin; and Mayde Mayde), Medical Care (2004)

Background/Objectives: The importance of teams for improving quality of care has received increased attention. We...

 

Health Policy

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Reducing the Risk of Falls and Fall-related Injuries among Older People (with David A. Ganz), Report prepared for the Workshop on the Social Determinants of Adult Health and Mortality. Organized by National Academies of Sciences, Washington, DC, (2007)
This paper reviews approaches to preventing falls in older adults at the individual, community and...
 

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HIV PREVENTION CASE MANAGEMENT IS NOT COST-EFFECTIVE (with Deborah A. Cohen and Thomas A. Farley), American Journal of Public Health (2006)
 

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Structural Interventions to Prevent HIV/Sexually Transmitted Disease: Are They Cost-Effective for Women in the Southern United States? (with Cohen Cohen and Thomas Farley), Sexually Transmitted Diseases (2006)

Background: Structural interventions are theoretically promising for populations with a low prevalence of HIV, because...

 

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Systematic Review: Impact of Health Information Technology on Quality, Efficiency, and Costs of Medical Care (with Basit Chaudhry, Jerome Wang, Margaret Maglione, Walter Mojica, Elizabeth Roth, Sally C. Morton, and Paul G. Shekelle), Annals of Internal Medicine (2006)

Background: Experts consider health information technology key to improving efficiency and quality of health care....

 

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. A Cost-Effective National HIV Prevention Strategy for the United States (with Deborah A. Cohen and Thomas A. Farley), Health Affairs (2005)
Relative to the magnitude of the epidemic, government funds available for HIV prevention are scarce....
 

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Comparing the Cost-Effectiveness of HIV Prevention Interventions (with Deborah Cohen and Thomas Farley), Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (2004)

Objective: Communities need to identify cost-effective interventions for HIV prevention to optimize limited resources.

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The Value of Screening for Sexually Transmitted Diseases in an HIV Clinic. (with Thomas A. Farley, Deborah A. Cohen, and Ceryl Lynn Besch), Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (2003)
Summary: Because bacterial sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) facilitate HIV transmission, screening for and treatment of...
 

Methods

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Development and Application of a Model to Estimate the Impact of Type 1 Diabetes on Health-Related Quality of Life (with Francois Sainfort, Russell Tomar, James L. Tollios, Dennis G. Fryback, Ronald Klein, and Barbara Klein), Diabetes Care (1998)