John L. Adams — Publications

County-level Racial Bias Is Associated with Worse Care for White and Especially Black Older US Adults: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study

2024
Income-related Disparities in Medicare Advantage Behavioral Health Care Quality

2023
Imputation of Race/Ethnicity to Enable Measurement of HEDIS Performance by Race/Ethnicity

2019
Loss Function-Based Evaluation of Physician Report Cards

2018
Development and Testing of the Pediatric Respiratory Illness Measurement System (PRIMES) Quality Indicators

2017
What Role Does Efficiency Play in Understanding the Relationship Between Cost and Quality in Physician Organizations?

2017
Misclassification Risk of Tier-Based Physician Quality Performance Systems

2016
Better-than-average and Worse-Than-Average Hospitals May Not Significantly Differ from Average Hospitals: An Analysis of Medicare Hospital Compare Ratings

2015
Do Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Quality and Patient Experience Within Medicare Plans Generalize Across Measures and Racial/Ethnic Groups?

2015
Is Self-Referral Associated with Higher Quality Care?

2015
Physician-reported Barriers to Referring Cancer Patients to Specialists: Prevalence, Factors, and Association with Career Satisfaction

2014
Does integrated care deliver the benefits expected? Findings from 16 integrated care pilot initiatives in England

2013
Evaluation of a Center of Excellence Program for Spine Surgery

2013
Evaluation of Centers of Excellence Program for Knee and Hip Replacement

2013
Impact of Socioeconomic Adjustment on Physicians' Relative Cost of Care

2013
Patterns of Osteoporosis Treatment Change and Treatment Discontinuation Among Commercial and Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Members in a National Health Plan

2013
Reliability of Utilization Measures for Primary Care Physician Profiling

2013
Reporting CAHPS and HEDIS Data by Race/Ethnicity for Medicare Beneficiaries

2013
Evaluating chronic disease management: Recommendations for funders and users

2012
Evaluating disease management programmes: Learning from diverse approaches across Europe

2012
Physicians with the Least Experience Have Higher Cost Profiles Than Do Physicians with the Most Experience

2012
Prevalence, Predictors, and Patient Outcomes Associated with Physician Co-Management: Findings from the Los Angeles Women's Health Study

2012
Cost Implications of Improving Blood Pressure Management Among U.S. Adults

2011
Cost Implications to Health Care Payers of Improving Glucose Management among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes

2011
Depression and Medication Adherence in the Treatment of Chronic Diseases in the United States: A Meta-Analysis

2011
Does Better Quality of Care for Falls and Urinary Incontinence Result in Better Participant-Reported Outcomes?

2011
ExpertLens: A System for Eliciting Opinions from a Large Pool of Non-Collocated Experts with Diverse Knowledge

2011
Methodological Considerations in Generating Provider Performance Scores for Use in Public Reporting: A Guide for Community Quality Collaboratives

2011
The Modified Kalman Filter Macro: User's Guide

2011
Physician and Practice Characteristics Influencing Tumor Board Attendance: Results from the Provider Survey of the Los Angeles Women's Health Study

2011
Will Adoption of Electronic Health Records Improve Quality in U.S. Hospitals?

2011
Adjuvant Chemotherapy Use and Adverse Events Among Older Patients with Stage III Colon Cancer

2010
Adoption and Use of Stand-Alone Electronic Prescribing in a Health Plan-Sponsored Initiative

2010
Associations Between Physician Characteristics and Quality of Care

2010
Cost Profiles: Should the Focus Be on Individual Physicians or Physician Groups?

2010
The Effect of Different Attribution Rules on Individual Physician Cost Profiles

2010
Electronic Health Record Adoption and Quality Improvement in US Hospitals

2010
Estimating Reliability and Misclassification in Physician Profiling

2010
Evaluation of UK Integrated Care Pilots: Research Protocol

2010
Incorporating Statistical Uncertainty in the Use of Physician Cost Profiles

2010
Is Physician Cost Profiling Ready for Prime Time?

2010
Physician Cost Profiling: Reliability and Risk of Misclassification

2010
Physician Cost Profiling -- Reliability and Risk of Misclassification: Detailed Methodology and Sensitivity Analyses

2010
Practice Redesign to Improve Care for Falls and Urinary Incontinence: Primary Care Intervention for Older Patients

2010
Relationship Between Quality Improvement Processes and Clinical Performance

2010
Use of Interpreters By Physicians Treating Limited English Proficient Women with Breast Cancer: Results from the Provider Survey of the Los Angeles Women's Health Study

2010
Use of Radical Cystectomy for Patients with Invasive Bladder Cancer

2010
Comparing Costs and Quality of Care at Retail Clinics with That of Other Medical Settings for 3 Common Illnesses

2009
Do Non-Economic Damages Caps and Attorney Fee Limits Reduce Access to Justice for Victims of Medical Negligence?

2009
A Practice-Based Intervention to Improve Primary Care for Falls, Urinary Incontinence, and Dementia

2009
The Reliability of Provider Profiling: A Tutorial

2009
The Structural Landscape of the Health Care System for Breast Cancer Care: Results from the Los Angeles Women's Health Study

2009
Variation in Physician-Patient Discussion of Breast Reconstruction

2009
Cybersecurity Economic Issues: Corporate Approaches and Challenges to Decisionmaking

2008
Financial Incentives for Quality in Breast Cancer Care

2008
Impact of Physician-Patient Discussions on Patient Satisfaction

2008
Improving the Quality of Health Care for Older Adults

2008
The National Computer Security Survey (NCSS): Final Methodology

2008
Retail Clinics, Primary Care Physicians, and Emergency Departments: A Comparison of Patients' Visits

2008
Symptom Management After Breast Cancer Treatment: Is It Influenced By Patient Characteristics?

2008
Symptoms After Breast Cancer Treatment: Are They Influenced by Patient Characteristics?

2008
Validating the Link Between Good Physician Process of Care and Better Health-Related Quality of Life for Patients

2008
Combining Multiple Indicators of Clinical Quality: An Evaluation of Different Analytic Approaches

2007
Does Ambulatory Process of Care Predict Health-Related Quality of Life Outcomes for Patients with Chronic Disease?

2007
Does Concordance Between Data Sources Vary By Medical Organization Type?

2007
Do Policies That Target Physicians Who Make Medical Malpractice Payments Reduce Negligent Injuries?

2007
Identifying Malpractice-Prone Physicians

2007
Patient Centered Experiences in Breast Cancer: Predicting Long-Term Adherence to Tamoxifen Use

2007
Quality by Any Other Name? A Comparison of Three Profiling Systems for Assessing Health Care Quality

2007
The Quality of Ambulatory Care Delivered to Children in the United States

2007
Reducing Medical Malpractice By Targeting Physicians Making Medical Malpractice Payments

2007
Relationship Between Number of Medical Conditions and Quality of Care

2007
Surviving Colorectal Cancer: Patient-Reported Symptoms 4 Years After Diagnosis

2007
Comparison of Administrative Data and Medical Records to Measure the Quality of Medical Care Provided to Vulnerable Older Patients

2006
The Design of a Multilevel Survey of Children, Families, and Communities: The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey

2006
Does the Concordance Between Medical Records and Patient Self-Report Vary with Patient Characteristics?

2006
The First National Report Card on Quality of Health Care in America

2006
Measuring the Quality of Cancer Care: The National Initiative for Cancer Care Quality (NICCQ)

2006
Patients' Global Ratings of Their Health Care Are Not Associated with the Technical Quality of Their Care

2006
The Quality of Health Care Delivered to Adults in the United States: Appendix

2006
The Quality of Obstructive Lung Disease Care for Adults in the United States as Measured by Adherence to Recommended Processes

2006
The Quality of Pharmacologic Care for Adults in the United States

2006
Results of the National Initiative for Cancer Care Quality: How Can We Improve the Quality of Cancer Care in the United States?

2006
What Is the Concordance Between the Medical Record and Patient Self-Report as Data Sources for Ambulatory Care?

2006
Who Is at Greatest Risk for Receiving Poor-Quality Health Care?

2006
Accuracy of Cancer Registry Data When Treatment Is in the Ambulatory Setting: Implications for Quality Measurement

2005
Improving Quality of Care: How the VA Outpaces Other Systems in Delivering Patient Care

2005
Imputation of SF-12 Health Scores for Respondents with Partially Missing Data

2005
Need for Eye Care Among Older Adults with Diabetes Mellitus in Fee-for-Service and Managed Medicare

2005
Predictors of Overall Quality of Care Provided to Vulnerable Older People

2005
Quality of Care for Hypertension in the United States

2005
Quality of Care Is Associated With Survival in Vulnerable Older Patients

2005
Comparison of Quality of Care for Patients in the Veterans Health Administration and Patients in a National Sample

2004
Evaluating Disease Management Program Effectiveness: An Introduction to Survival Analysis

2004
Meta-regression Approaches: What, Why, When, and How?

2004
Profiling Quality of Care: Is There a Role for Peer Review?

2004
Profiling the Quality of Care in Twelve Communities: Results from the CQI Study: Information on Quality at the Community Level Can Stimulate Change Where It Makes the Most Impact on Americans' Health

2004
Quality of Health Care Received by Older Adults

2004
The Quality of Pharmacologic Care for Vulnerable Older Patients

2004
Sociodemographic Differences in Use of Preventive Services by Women Enrolled in Medicare+Choice Plans

2004
Socioeconomic Disparities in the Use of Home Health Services in a Medicare Managed Care Population

2004
Socioeconomic Status and Medical Care Expenditures in Medicare Managed Care

2004
Specificity and Sensitivity of Claims-Based Algorithms for Identifying Members of Medicare+choice Health Plans That Have Chronic Medical Conditions

2004
Use of Preventive Services by Men Enrolled in Medicare+Choice Plans

2004
Using an Empirical Method for Establishing Clinical Outcome Targets in Disease Management Programs

2004
An Assessment of the Total Population Approach for Evaluating Disease Management Program Effectiveness

2003
Evaluating Disease Management Program Effectiveness: An Introduction to Time-Series Analysis

2003
Methodological Challenges Associated with Patient Responses to Follow-Up Longitudinal Surveys Regarding Quality of Care

2003
Patterns of Care for Open-Angle Glaucoma in Managed Care

2003
Practice Characteristics and HMO Enrollee Satisfaction and Speciality Care: An Analysis of Patients with Glaucoma and Diabetic Retinopathy

2003
Quality-of-care Indicators for Early-Stage Prostate Cancer

2003
The Quality of Health Care Delivered to Adults in the United States

2003
Quality of Health Care for Women: A Demonstration of the Quality Assessment Tools System

2003
The Quality of Medical Care Provided to Vulnerable Community-Dwelling Older Patients

2003
Sampling Patients Within and Across Health Care Providers: Multi-Stage Non-Nested Samples in Health Services Research

2003
Sampling Patients Within Physician Practices and Health Plans: Multistage Cluster Samples in Health Services Research

2003
Antimicrobial Prophylaxis for Urinary Tract Infection in Persons with Spinal Cord Dysfunction

2002
The Case Identification Challenge in Measuring Quality of Cancer Care

2002
Characteristics of Eye Care Practices with Managed Care Contracts

2002
Developing a Reliable, Valid, and Feasible Plan for Quality-of-Care Measurement for Cancer: How Should We Measure?

2002
Increased Risk of Serious Injury Following an Initial Prescription for Diphenhydramine

2002
Public Release of Information on Quality

2002
Report Cards for Health Care: Is Anyone Checking Them?

2002
Validity of Cancer Registry Data for Measuring Quality of Breast Cancer Care

2002
Arm Edema in Breast Cancer Patients

2001
Case-mix Adjustment of the National CAHPS Benchmarking Data 1.0: A Violation of Model Assumptions?

2001
Measuring the Incremental Cost of Clinical Cancer Research

2001
The Cost of Cancer Treatment Study's Design and Methods

2000
Measuring Quality of Care for Prostate Cancer

2000
Prostate Cancer Patient Outcomes and Choice of Providers: Development of an Infrastructure for Quality Assessment

2000
Creating a Coordinated Autos/UAW Reporting System (CARS) For Evaluating Health Plan Performance

1999
Developing Health Plan Performance Reports: Responding to the BBA

1999
Product and Stock Market Response to Automotive Product Liability Verdicts

1999
Adjustment of Consumer Assessments of Health Plans in the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Studies (CAHPS)

1998
Improving Block Grant Allocation Formulas: More Refined Measures Would Shift Substance Abuse Funds to Smaller, More Rural States

1998
A Randomized Trial of Office-Based Screening for Common Problems in Older Persons

1997
Review and Evaluation of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Block Grant Allotment Formula

1997
Choosing an Alternative to Tort

1995
Prenatal and Obstetric Care in Los Angeles County, 1990-1992

1995
Prenatal and Obstetric Care in Los Angeles County, 1990-1992

1995
An evaluation of the Nokomis Challenge Program in Michigan

1994
Access to Cadaveric Kidney Transplantation

1993
Chronic Juvenile Offenders: Final Results from the Skillman Aftercare Experiment

1993
Modeling and Forecasting the Demand for Aircraft Recoverable Spare Parts

1993
Prenatal and Obstetric Care in Los Angeles County, 1990

1993
Patterns of Inpatient Physician Services for End Stage Renal Disease Beneficiaries

1992
Relation Between Hospital Experience and In-Hospital Mortality for Patient with AIDS-related Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia: Experience from 3,126 Cases in New York City in 1987

1992
Assessing Benefits of the U.S. Forest Service's Geographic Information System: Research Design

1991
No-Fault Approaches to Automobile-Injury Compensation

1991
No-Fault Approaches to Compensating People Injured in Automobile Accidents

1991

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Social and Economic Policy Divisions

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John L. Adams — Publications

County-level Racial Bias Is Associated with Worse Care for White and Especially Black Older US Adults: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study

Income-related Disparities in Medicare Advantage Behavioral Health Care Quality

Imputation of Race/Ethnicity to Enable Measurement of HEDIS Performance by Race/Ethnicity

Loss Function-Based Evaluation of Physician Report Cards

Development and Testing of the Pediatric Respiratory Illness Measurement System (PRIMES) Quality Indicators

What Role Does Efficiency Play in Understanding the Relationship Between Cost and Quality in Physician Organizations?

Misclassification Risk of Tier-Based Physician Quality Performance Systems

Better-than-average and Worse-Than-Average Hospitals May Not Significantly Differ from Average Hospitals: An Analysis of Medicare Hospital Compare Ratings

Do Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Quality and Patient Experience Within Medicare Plans Generalize Across Measures and Racial/Ethnic Groups?

Is Self-Referral Associated with Higher Quality Care?

Physician-reported Barriers to Referring Cancer Patients to Specialists: Prevalence, Factors, and Association with Career Satisfaction

Does integrated care deliver the benefits expected? Findings from 16 integrated care pilot initiatives in England

Evaluation of a Center of Excellence Program for Spine Surgery

Evaluation of Centers of Excellence Program for Knee and Hip Replacement

Impact of Socioeconomic Adjustment on Physicians' Relative Cost of Care

Patterns of Osteoporosis Treatment Change and Treatment Discontinuation Among Commercial and Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Members in a National Health Plan

Reliability of Utilization Measures for Primary Care Physician Profiling

Reporting CAHPS and HEDIS Data by Race/Ethnicity for Medicare Beneficiaries

Evaluating chronic disease management: Recommendations for funders and users

Evaluating disease management programmes: Learning from diverse approaches across Europe

Physicians with the Least Experience Have Higher Cost Profiles Than Do Physicians with the Most Experience

Prevalence, Predictors, and Patient Outcomes Associated with Physician Co-Management: Findings from the Los Angeles Women's Health Study

Cost Implications of Improving Blood Pressure Management Among U.S. Adults

Cost Implications to Health Care Payers of Improving Glucose Management among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes

Depression and Medication Adherence in the Treatment of Chronic Diseases in the United States: A Meta-Analysis

Does Better Quality of Care for Falls and Urinary Incontinence Result in Better Participant-Reported Outcomes?

ExpertLens: A System for Eliciting Opinions from a Large Pool of Non-Collocated Experts with Diverse Knowledge

Methodological Considerations in Generating Provider Performance Scores for Use in Public Reporting: A Guide for Community Quality Collaboratives

The Modified Kalman Filter Macro: User's Guide

Physician and Practice Characteristics Influencing Tumor Board Attendance: Results from the Provider Survey of the Los Angeles Women's Health Study

Will Adoption of Electronic Health Records Improve Quality in U.S. Hospitals?

Adjuvant Chemotherapy Use and Adverse Events Among Older Patients with Stage III Colon Cancer

Adoption and Use of Stand-Alone Electronic Prescribing in a Health Plan-Sponsored Initiative

Associations Between Physician Characteristics and Quality of Care

Cost Profiles: Should the Focus Be on Individual Physicians or Physician Groups?

The Effect of Different Attribution Rules on Individual Physician Cost Profiles

Electronic Health Record Adoption and Quality Improvement in US Hospitals

Estimating Reliability and Misclassification in Physician Profiling

Evaluation of UK Integrated Care Pilots: Research Protocol

Incorporating Statistical Uncertainty in the Use of Physician Cost Profiles

Is Physician Cost Profiling Ready for Prime Time?

Physician Cost Profiling: Reliability and Risk of Misclassification

Physician Cost Profiling -- Reliability and Risk of Misclassification: Detailed Methodology and Sensitivity Analyses

Practice Redesign to Improve Care for Falls and Urinary Incontinence: Primary Care Intervention for Older Patients

Relationship Between Quality Improvement Processes and Clinical Performance

Use of Interpreters By Physicians Treating Limited English Proficient Women with Breast Cancer: Results from the Provider Survey of the Los Angeles Women's Health Study

Use of Radical Cystectomy for Patients with Invasive Bladder Cancer

Comparing Costs and Quality of Care at Retail Clinics with That of Other Medical Settings for 3 Common Illnesses

Do Non-Economic Damages Caps and Attorney Fee Limits Reduce Access to Justice for Victims of Medical Negligence?

A Practice-Based Intervention to Improve Primary Care for Falls, Urinary Incontinence, and Dementia

The Reliability of Provider Profiling: A Tutorial

The Structural Landscape of the Health Care System for Breast Cancer Care: Results from the Los Angeles Women's Health Study

Variation in Physician-Patient Discussion of Breast Reconstruction

Cybersecurity Economic Issues: Corporate Approaches and Challenges to Decisionmaking

Financial Incentives for Quality in Breast Cancer Care

Impact of Physician-Patient Discussions on Patient Satisfaction

Improving the Quality of Health Care for Older Adults

The National Computer Security Survey (NCSS): Final Methodology

Retail Clinics, Primary Care Physicians, and Emergency Departments: A Comparison of Patients' Visits

Symptom Management After Breast Cancer Treatment: Is It Influenced By Patient Characteristics?

Symptoms After Breast Cancer Treatment: Are They Influenced by Patient Characteristics?

Validating the Link Between Good Physician Process of Care and Better Health-Related Quality of Life for Patients

Combining Multiple Indicators of Clinical Quality: An Evaluation of Different Analytic Approaches

Does Ambulatory Process of Care Predict Health-Related Quality of Life Outcomes for Patients with Chronic Disease?

Does Concordance Between Data Sources Vary By Medical Organization Type?

Do Policies That Target Physicians Who Make Medical Malpractice Payments Reduce Negligent Injuries?

Identifying Malpractice-Prone Physicians

Patient Centered Experiences in Breast Cancer: Predicting Long-Term Adherence to Tamoxifen Use

Quality by Any Other Name? A Comparison of Three Profiling Systems for Assessing Health Care Quality

The Quality of Ambulatory Care Delivered to Children in the United States

Reducing Medical Malpractice By Targeting Physicians Making Medical Malpractice Payments

Relationship Between Number of Medical Conditions and Quality of Care

Surviving Colorectal Cancer: Patient-Reported Symptoms 4 Years After Diagnosis

Comparison of Administrative Data and Medical Records to Measure the Quality of Medical Care Provided to Vulnerable Older Patients

The Design of a Multilevel Survey of Children, Families, and Communities: The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey

Does the Concordance Between Medical Records and Patient Self-Report Vary with Patient Characteristics?