Megan K. Beckett — Publications

Consistency in Self-Reported Race-and-Ethnicity Over Time: Implications for Improving the Accuracy of Imputations and Making the Best Use of Self-Report

2025
Evaluation of Proposed New Measures for the Hospital CAHPS Survey

2025
Updated Adjustment of the HCAHPS Survey for New Modes of Survey Administration and Patient Mix

2025
Comparison of Alternative Approaches to Using Race-and-Ethnicity Data in Estimating Differences in Health Care and Social Determinants of Health

2024
Gaps in Internet Use Narrowed Among Older Adults with Medicare During the COVID-19 Pandemic but Persist

2024
Inpatient Care Experiences Differ for VA and Non-VA Hospitals, With Different Patterns by Health, Race, and Ethnicity

2024
Interventions and Hospital Characteristics Associated With Patient Experience: An Update of the Evidence

2024
Medicare Advantage Enrollees' Reports of Unfair Treatment During Health Care Encounters

2024
Mixed Mode Substantially Increases Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Response Rates Relative to Single-Mode Protocols

2024
Survey Protocols, Response Rates, and Representation of Underserved Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial

2024
Trends in HCAHPS Survey Scores, 2008–2019: A Quality Improvement Perspective

2024
Are the Experiences of Those New to Medicare Good from the Start?

2023
Changes in Patient Experiences of Hospital Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2023
Development of a Medicare Plan Dashboard to Promote Health Equity

2023
Do Hospital Characteristics Predict Racial-and-Ethnic Disparities in Patient Experience? National Results from the HCAHPS Survey

2023
Measuring Equity in the Hospital Setting: An HCAHPS Application of the Health Equity Summary Score

2023
Community-dwelling Adults with Functional Limitations Are at Greater Risk for Sleep Disturbances

2022
Distinguishing Neighborhood and Individual Social Risk Factors in Health Care

2022
The Hospital Care Experiences of Older Patients Compared to Younger Patients

2022
A Comparison of National and International Approaches to COVID-19-Related Measures

2021
The Development of a Patient-Reported Functional Limitations Index

2020
Using Ancillary Sociodemographic Data to Identify Sexual Minority Adults Among Those Responding "Something Else" or "Don't Know" to Sexual Orientation Questions

2019
Establishing Limits for Supplemental Items on a Standardized National Survey

2016
Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Enrollees Report Less Positive Experiences Than Their Medicare Advantage Counterparts

2016
Understanding the Role Played by Medicare's Patient Experience Points System in Hospital Reimbursement

2016
Accelerating Improvement and Narrowing Gaps: Trends in Patients' Experiences with Hospital Care Reflected in HCAHPS Public Reporting

2015
Family Resilience in the Military: Definitions, Models, and Policies

2015
Living Alone and Patient Care Experiences: The Role of Gender in a National Sample of Medicare Beneficiaries

2015
Maternal Health Status and Early Childbearing: A Test of the Weathering Hypothesis

2015
Sexual Minorities in England Have Poorer Health and Worse Health Care Experiences: A National Survey

2015
Consequences of Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Symptoms on Women's Work Participation and Income: Results from a National Household Sample

2014
Early and School-Age Care in Santa Monica: Current System, Policy Options, and Recommendations: Executive Summary

2014
Early and School-Age Care in Santa Monica: Current System, Policy Options, and Recommendations

2014
Care Experiences of Managed Care Medicare Enrollees Near the End of Life

2013
CMS Innovation Center Health Care Innovation Awards: Evaluation Plan

2013
A Randomized Experiment Investigating the Suitability of Speech-Enabled IVR and Web Modes for Publicly Reported Surveys of Patients' Experience of Hospital Care

2013
Using Indirect Estimates Based on Name and Census Tract to Improve the Efficiency of Sampling Matched Ethnic Couples from Marriage License Data

2013
Developing a Higher Education Ranking System for Abu Dhabi

2012
Gender Differences in Patients' Perceptions of Inpatient Care

2012
Bridging the Gap Between Basic Science and Clinical Practice: A Role for Community Clinicians

2011
Bridging the Gap Between Basic Science and Clinical Practice: The Role of Organizations in Addressing Clinician Barriers

2011
Reengineering the Clinical Research Enterprise to Involve More Community Clinicians

2011
A Worksite Parenting Program That Works

2011
Are Adolescents Talking with Their Parents About Sex Before Becoming Sexually Active?

2010
Characteristics of Hospitals Demonstrating Superior Performance in Patient Experience and Clinical Process Measures of Care

2010
Do Hospitals Rank Differently on HCAHPS for Different Patient Subgroups?

2010
Hospital Survey Shows Improvements in Patient Experience

2010
Timing of Parent and Child Communication About Sexuality Relative to Children's Sexual Behaviors

2010
Effects of Survey Mode, Patient Mix, and Nonresponse on CAHPS Hospital Survey Scores

2009
How Can the Military Best Support Guard and Reserve Families During Deployment?

2009
How Parental HIV Affects Children

2009
Improving Disparity Estimates for Rare Racial/Ethnic Groups with Trend Estimation and Kalman Filtering: An Application to the National Health Interview Survey

2009
Outpatient Satisfaction: The Role of Nominal Versus Perceived Communication

2009
Current-Generation Youth Programs: What Works, What Doesn't, and at What Cost?

2008
Deployment Experiences of Guard and Reserve Families: Implications for Support and Retention

2008
How Do Proxy Responses and Proxy-Assisted Responses Differ from What Medicare Beneficiaries Might Have Reported About Their Health Care?

2008
Sample Designs for Measuring the Health of Small Racial/Ethnic Subgroups

2008
Adolescent Romantic Relationships as Precursors of Healthy Adult Marriages: A Review of Theory, Research, and Programs

2007
Children of HIV-Infected Parents: Custody Status in a Nationally Representative Sample

2007
Evaluation of Severity-Adjusted DRG Systems: Interim Report

2007
Forecasting the Supply of and Demand for Physicians in the Inland Southern California Area

2007
Guardianship Planning Among HIV-infected Parents in the United States: Results from a Nationally Representative Sample

2007
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Issues Among People with HIV: Lessons from HCSUS

2007
Problem-Oriented Reporting of CAHPS Consumer Evaluations of Health Care

2007
Redesign of the National Hospital Discharge Survey: Conceptual Framework and Feasibility Study: Final Report

2007
Do Children Know Their Parent's HIV Status? Parental Reports of Child Awareness in a Nationally Representative Sample

2006
A Review of Current State-Level Adverse Medical Event Reporting Practices: Toward National Standards

2006
Hugs and Kisses: HIV-infected Parents' Fears About Contagion and the Effects on Parent-Child Interaction in a Nationally Representative Sample

2005
Making Out-of-School Time Matter

2005
Making Out-of-School-Time Matter: Evidence for an Action Agenda

2005
The Labor Market for Attorneys in the State of California: Past, Present, and Future

2003
Substance Use and High-Risk Sex Among People with HIV: A Comparison Across Exposure Groups

2003
Does the Association Between Marital Status and Health Vary by Sex, Race, and Ethnicity?

2002
Ethnicity, Language, and Economic Well-Being in Rural Guatemala

2002
Evaluating After-School Care

2002
Mortality and Sample Selection: Reply to Noymer

2002
RAND Review: Vol. 26, No. 3, Fall 2002

2002
Rating Best Places: Going Beyond Real Estate in Making Location Decisions

2002
Social Environment, Life Challenge, and Health Among the Elderly in Taiwan

2002
The Status of Gender Integration in the Military: Supporting Appendices

2002
The Status of Gender Integration in the Military: Analysis of Selected Occupations

2002
Accountability for After-School Care: Devising Standards and Measuring Adherence to Them

2001
Diffusion of Ideas About Personal Hygiene and Contamination in Poor Countries: Evidence from Guatemala

2001
The Quality of Retrospective Data: An Examination of Long-Term Recall in a Developing Country

2001
Converging Health Inequalities in Later Life: An Artifact of Mortality Selection?

2000
Do Health Interview Surveys Yield Reliable Data on Chronic Illness Among Older Respondents?

2000

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Megan K. Beckett — Publications

Consistency in Self-Reported Race-and-Ethnicity Over Time: Implications for Improving the Accuracy of Imputations and Making the Best Use of Self-Report

Evaluation of Proposed New Measures for the Hospital CAHPS Survey

Updated Adjustment of the HCAHPS Survey for New Modes of Survey Administration and Patient Mix

Comparison of Alternative Approaches to Using Race-and-Ethnicity Data in Estimating Differences in Health Care and Social Determinants of Health

Gaps in Internet Use Narrowed Among Older Adults with Medicare During the COVID-19 Pandemic but Persist

Inpatient Care Experiences Differ for VA and Non-VA Hospitals, With Different Patterns by Health, Race, and Ethnicity

Interventions and Hospital Characteristics Associated With Patient Experience: An Update of the Evidence

Medicare Advantage Enrollees' Reports of Unfair Treatment During Health Care Encounters

Mixed Mode Substantially Increases Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Response Rates Relative to Single-Mode Protocols

Survey Protocols, Response Rates, and Representation of Underserved Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Trends in HCAHPS Survey Scores, 2008–2019: A Quality Improvement Perspective

Are the Experiences of Those New to Medicare Good from the Start?

Changes in Patient Experiences of Hospital Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Development of a Medicare Plan Dashboard to Promote Health Equity

Do Hospital Characteristics Predict Racial-and-Ethnic Disparities in Patient Experience? National Results from the HCAHPS Survey

Measuring Equity in the Hospital Setting: An HCAHPS Application of the Health Equity Summary Score

Community-dwelling Adults with Functional Limitations Are at Greater Risk for Sleep Disturbances

Distinguishing Neighborhood and Individual Social Risk Factors in Health Care

The Hospital Care Experiences of Older Patients Compared to Younger Patients

A Comparison of National and International Approaches to COVID-19-Related Measures

The Development of a Patient-Reported Functional Limitations Index

Using Ancillary Sociodemographic Data to Identify Sexual Minority Adults Among Those Responding "Something Else" or "Don't Know" to Sexual Orientation Questions

Establishing Limits for Supplemental Items on a Standardized National Survey

Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Enrollees Report Less Positive Experiences Than Their Medicare Advantage Counterparts

Understanding the Role Played by Medicare's Patient Experience Points System in Hospital Reimbursement

Accelerating Improvement and Narrowing Gaps: Trends in Patients' Experiences with Hospital Care Reflected in HCAHPS Public Reporting

Family Resilience in the Military: Definitions, Models, and Policies

Living Alone and Patient Care Experiences: The Role of Gender in a National Sample of Medicare Beneficiaries

Maternal Health Status and Early Childbearing: A Test of the Weathering Hypothesis

Sexual Minorities in England Have Poorer Health and Worse Health Care Experiences: A National Survey

Consequences of Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Symptoms on Women's Work Participation and Income: Results from a National Household Sample

Early and School-Age Care in Santa Monica: Current System, Policy Options, and Recommendations: Executive Summary

Early and School-Age Care in Santa Monica: Current System, Policy Options, and Recommendations

Care Experiences of Managed Care Medicare Enrollees Near the End of Life

CMS Innovation Center Health Care Innovation Awards: Evaluation Plan

A Randomized Experiment Investigating the Suitability of Speech-Enabled IVR and Web Modes for Publicly Reported Surveys of Patients' Experience of Hospital Care

Using Indirect Estimates Based on Name and Census Tract to Improve the Efficiency of Sampling Matched Ethnic Couples from Marriage License Data

Developing a Higher Education Ranking System for Abu Dhabi

Gender Differences in Patients' Perceptions of Inpatient Care

Bridging the Gap Between Basic Science and Clinical Practice: A Role for Community Clinicians

Bridging the Gap Between Basic Science and Clinical Practice: The Role of Organizations in Addressing Clinician Barriers

Reengineering the Clinical Research Enterprise to Involve More Community Clinicians

A Worksite Parenting Program That Works

Are Adolescents Talking with Their Parents About Sex Before Becoming Sexually Active?

Characteristics of Hospitals Demonstrating Superior Performance in Patient Experience and Clinical Process Measures of Care

Do Hospitals Rank Differently on HCAHPS for Different Patient Subgroups?

Hospital Survey Shows Improvements in Patient Experience

Timing of Parent and Child Communication About Sexuality Relative to Children's Sexual Behaviors

Effects of Survey Mode, Patient Mix, and Nonresponse on CAHPS Hospital Survey Scores

How Can the Military Best Support Guard and Reserve Families During Deployment?

How Parental HIV Affects Children

Improving Disparity Estimates for Rare Racial/Ethnic Groups with Trend Estimation and Kalman Filtering: An Application to the National Health Interview Survey

Outpatient Satisfaction: The Role of Nominal Versus Perceived Communication

Current-Generation Youth Programs: What Works, What Doesn't, and at What Cost?

Deployment Experiences of Guard and Reserve Families: Implications for Support and Retention

How Do Proxy Responses and Proxy-Assisted Responses Differ from What Medicare Beneficiaries Might Have Reported About Their Health Care?

Sample Designs for Measuring the Health of Small Racial/Ethnic Subgroups

Adolescent Romantic Relationships as Precursors of Healthy Adult Marriages: A Review of Theory, Research, and Programs

Children of HIV-Infected Parents: Custody Status in a Nationally Representative Sample

Evaluation of Severity-Adjusted DRG Systems: Interim Report

Forecasting the Supply of and Demand for Physicians in the Inland Southern California Area

Guardianship Planning Among HIV-infected Parents in the United States: Results from a Nationally Representative Sample

Mental Health and Substance Abuse Issues Among People with HIV: Lessons from HCSUS

Problem-Oriented Reporting of CAHPS Consumer Evaluations of Health Care

Redesign of the National Hospital Discharge Survey: Conceptual Framework and Feasibility Study: Final Report

Do Children Know Their Parent's HIV Status? Parental Reports of Child Awareness in a Nationally Representative Sample

A Review of Current State-Level Adverse Medical Event Reporting Practices: Toward National Standards

Hugs and Kisses: HIV-infected Parents' Fears About Contagion and the Effects on Parent-Child Interaction in a Nationally Representative Sample

Making Out-of-School Time Matter

Making Out-of-School-Time Matter: Evidence for an Action Agenda

The Labor Market for Attorneys in the State of California: Past, Present, and Future

Substance Use and High-Risk Sex Among People with HIV: A Comparison Across Exposure Groups

Does the Association Between Marital Status and Health Vary by Sex, Race, and Ethnicity?

Ethnicity, Language, and Economic Well-Being in Rural Guatemala

Evaluating After-School Care

Mortality and Sample Selection: Reply to Noymer