Amelia M. Haviland — 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
Telephone Follow-Up on Medicare Patient Surveys Remains Critical

2025
Comparing HEDIS Performance of Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans to Other Coverage Types for Dually Eligible People

2024
Comparison of Alternative Approaches to Using Race-and-Ethnicity Data in Estimating Differences in Health Care and Social Determinants of Health

2024
County-level Racial Bias Is Associated with Worse Care for White and Especially Black Older US Adults: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study

2024
Factors Associated with Self-Reports of Limitations in Activities of Daily Living Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Recipients

2024
Medicare Advantage Customer Service Is Used Most by Higher-Need Patients

2024
Personal Physician Access by Preferred Language Among Medicare Advantage and Medicare Fee-for-Service Older Adults

2024
Which Medicare Advantage Enrollees Are at Highest One-Year Mortality Risk?

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

2023
Income-related Disparities in Medicare Advantage Behavioral Health Care Quality

2023
Rural Disparities in the Quality of Clinical Care Are Notable and Larger for Males

2023
Association of Medicare Advantage Premiums With Measures of Quality and Patient Experience

2022
Patient Experience for Hispanic Older Adults Varies by Language Preference

2022
Poor Self-rated Mental Health and Medicare Beneficiaries' Routine Care-Seeking

2022
Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Health Care in Medicare Advantage: April 2021

2021
Distinguishing High-Performing Health Systems Using a Composite of Publicly Reported Measures of Ambulatory Care

2020
Educational Attainment and Perceived Need for Urgent Care

2020
Gender Differences in Patient Experience Across Medicare Advantage Plans

2020
Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Health Care in Medicare Advantage: April 2020

2020
Shifting From Passive Quality Reporting to Active Nudging to Influence Consumer Choice of Health Plan

2020
Imputation of Race/Ethnicity to Enable Measurement of HEDIS Performance by Race/Ethnicity

2019
Indirect Estimation of Race/Ethnicity for Survey Respondents Who Do Not Report Race/Ethnicity

2019
Understanding U.S. Health Systems: Using Mixed Methods to Unpack Organizational Complexity

2019
Care Experiences Among Medicare Beneficiaries With and Without a Personal Physician

2018
Patient-Reported Denials, Appeals, and Complaints: Associations With Overall Plan Ratings

2018
Speaking Up and Walking Out: Are Vulnerable Patients Less Likely to Disagree With or Change Doctors?

2018
The Impact of State Medical Malpractice Reform on Individual-Level Health Care Expenditures

2017
What Matters Most to Whom: Racial, Ethnic, and Language Differences in the Health Care Experiences Most Important to Patients

2017
Advice to Quit Smoking and Ratings of Health Care Among Medicare Beneficiaries Aged 65+

2016
Do "Consumer-Directed" Health Plans Bend the Cost Curve Over Time?

2016
Clinician Advice to Quit Smoking Among Seniors

2015
Comparing the Health Care Experiences of Medicare Beneficiaries with and Without Depressive Symptoms in Medicare Managed Care Versus Fee-for-Service

2015
Do Experiences with Medicare Managed Care Vary According to the Proportion of Same-Race/Ethnicity/language Individuals Enrolled in One's Contract?

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

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

2015
Does the Racial/Ethnic Composition of Medicare Advantage Plans Reflect Their Areas of Operation?

2014
How Much Do Additional Mailings and Telephone Calls Contribute to Response Rates in a Survey of Medicare Beneficiaries?

2014
A Retrospective Evaluation of the Perfecting Patient Care University Training Program for Health Care Organizations

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

2013
Does Naming the Focal Plan in a CAHPS Survey of Health Care Quality Affect Response Rates and Beneficiary Evaluations?

2013
Experiences of Care Among Medicare Beneficiaries with ESRD: Medicare Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Survey Results

2013
Price Shopping in Consumer-Directed Health Plans

2013
Racial/ethnic Differences in Medicare Experiences and Immunization: The Role of Disease Burden

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

2013
Are There Differences in the Medicare Experiences of Beneficiaries in Puerto Rico Compared with Those in the U.S. Mainland?

2012
Are There Unusually Effective Occupational Safety and Health Inspectors and Inspection Practices?

2012
An Evaluation of the California Injury and Illness Prevention Program

2012
Growth of Consumer-Directed Health Plans to One-Half of All Employer-Sponsored Insurance Could Save $57 Billion Annually

2012
How Event Reporting by US Hospitals Has Changed from 2005 to 2009

2012
Measuring Success for Health Care Quality Improvement Interventions

2012
Motives for Smoking in Movies Affect Future Smoking Risk in Middle School Students: An Experimental Investigation

2012
Multiple Patient Safety Events Within a Single Hospitalization: A National Profile in US Hospitals

2012
A New Estimate of the Impact of OSHA Inspections on Manufacturing Injury Rates, 1998-2005

2012
Racial/ethnic Disparities in Medicare Part D Experiences

2012
Skin in the Game: How Consumer-Directed Plans Affect the Cost and Use of Health Care

2012
The Effects of Consumer-Directed Health Plans on Episodes of Health Care

2011
Healthcare Spending and Preventive Care in High-Deductible and Consumer-Directed Health Plans

2011
High-Deductible Health Plans Cut Spending but Also Reduce Preventive Care

2011
How Do Consumer-Directed Health Plans Affect Vulnerable Populations?

2011
How Do the Experiences of Medicare Beneficiary Subgroups Differ Between Managed Care and Original Medicare?

2011
Immunization Disparities By Hispanic Ethnicity and Language Preference

2011
Understanding Nonresponse to the 2007 Medicare CAHPS Survey

2011
Understanding Variations in Medicare Consumer Assessment of Health Care Providers and Systems Scores: California as an Example

2011
Adverse Event Reporting Practices by U.S. Hospitals: Survey Results from 2005 and 2009

2010
Does Improved Patient Safety Reduce Malpractice Litigation?

2010
Is Better Patient Safety Associated with Less Malpractice Activity? Evidence from California

2010
The Pennsylvania Certified Safety Committee Program: An Evaluation of Participation and Effects on Work Injury Rates

2010
Smoking Motives in Movies Are Important for Understanding Adolescent Smoking: A Preliminary Investigation

2010
Adjusting for Subgroup Differences in Extreme Response Tendency in Ratings of Health Care: Impact on Disparity Estimates

2009
Assessing Patient Safety Practices and Outcomes in the U.S. Health Care System

2009
Assessment of Contributions to Patient Safety Knowledge by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality-Funded Patient Safety Projects

2009
Canary Measures Among the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators

2009
Composite Estimates from Incomplete and Complete Frames for Minimum-Mse Estimation in a Rare Population: An Application Fo Families with Young Children

2009
Patient Activation Status as a Predictor of Patient Experience Among Medicare Beneficiaries

2009
The Relationship Between Protective Factors and Outcomes for Children Investigated for Maltreatment

2009
Safety Outcomes in the United States: Trends and Challenges in Measurement

2009
Victimization from Mental and Physical Bullying and Substance Use in Early Adolescence

2009
Adverse-event-reporting Practices by US Hospitals: Results of a National Survey

2008
Assessment of the AHRQ Patient Safety Initiative: Final Report -- Evaluation Report IV

2008
Issues and Performance in the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation System

2008
Measuring the Performance of Telephone-Based Disease Surveillance Systems in Local Health Departments

2008
The Pennsylvania Certified Safety Committee Program: An Evaluation of Participation and Effects on Work Injury Rates

2008
Prioritizing Patient Safety Outcomes Measures: Results of an Expert Consensus Process

2008
What Kinds of Injuries Do OSHA Inspections Prevent?

2008
Workers' Compensation in Pennsylvania: How is the System Performing? How Should It Be Reformed?

2008
Assessing the Diffusion of Safe Practices in the U.S. Health Care System: Interim Report to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

2007
Assessment of the AHRQ Patient Safety Initiative: Focus on Implementation and Dissemination Evaluation Report III (2004-2005)

2007
Consumer-Directed Health Care: Early Evidence Shows Lower Costs, Mixed Effects on Quality of Care

2007
A Description and Analysis of Evolving Data Resources on Small Business

2007
Improving and Enhancing Telephone-based Disease Surveillance Systems in Local Health Departments

2007
Use of a Web-Based Convenience Sample to Supplement a Probability Sample

2007
Are Small Businesses Riskier Than Larger Ones?

2006
Consumer-directed Health Care: Early Evidence About Effects on Cost and Quality

2006
Small Businesses and Workplace Fatality Risk: An Exploratory Analysis

2006
"Consumer-directed" Health Plans: Implications for Health Care Quality and Cost

2005

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Amelia M. Haviland — 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

Telephone Follow-Up on Medicare Patient Surveys Remains Critical

Comparing HEDIS Performance of Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans to Other Coverage Types for Dually Eligible People

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

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

Factors Associated with Self-Reports of Limitations in Activities of Daily Living Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Recipients

Medicare Advantage Customer Service Is Used Most by Higher-Need Patients

Personal Physician Access by Preferred Language Among Medicare Advantage and Medicare Fee-for-Service Older Adults

Which Medicare Advantage Enrollees Are at Highest One-Year Mortality Risk?

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

Income-related Disparities in Medicare Advantage Behavioral Health Care Quality

Rural Disparities in the Quality of Clinical Care Are Notable and Larger for Males

Association of Medicare Advantage Premiums With Measures of Quality and Patient Experience

Patient Experience for Hispanic Older Adults Varies by Language Preference

Poor Self-rated Mental Health and Medicare Beneficiaries' Routine Care-Seeking

Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Health Care in Medicare Advantage: April 2021

Distinguishing High-Performing Health Systems Using a Composite of Publicly Reported Measures of Ambulatory Care

Educational Attainment and Perceived Need for Urgent Care

Gender Differences in Patient Experience Across Medicare Advantage Plans

Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Health Care in Medicare Advantage: April 2020

Shifting From Passive Quality Reporting to Active Nudging to Influence Consumer Choice of Health Plan

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

Indirect Estimation of Race/Ethnicity for Survey Respondents Who Do Not Report Race/Ethnicity

Understanding U.S. Health Systems: Using Mixed Methods to Unpack Organizational Complexity

Care Experiences Among Medicare Beneficiaries With and Without a Personal Physician

Patient-Reported Denials, Appeals, and Complaints: Associations With Overall Plan Ratings

Speaking Up and Walking Out: Are Vulnerable Patients Less Likely to Disagree With or Change Doctors?

The Impact of State Medical Malpractice Reform on Individual-Level Health Care Expenditures

What Matters Most to Whom: Racial, Ethnic, and Language Differences in the Health Care Experiences Most Important to Patients

Advice to Quit Smoking and Ratings of Health Care Among Medicare Beneficiaries Aged 65+

Do "Consumer-Directed" Health Plans Bend the Cost Curve Over Time?

Clinician Advice to Quit Smoking Among Seniors

Comparing the Health Care Experiences of Medicare Beneficiaries with and Without Depressive Symptoms in Medicare Managed Care Versus Fee-for-Service

Do Experiences with Medicare Managed Care Vary According to the Proportion of Same-Race/Ethnicity/language Individuals Enrolled in One's Contract?

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

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

Does the Racial/Ethnic Composition of Medicare Advantage Plans Reflect Their Areas of Operation?

How Much Do Additional Mailings and Telephone Calls Contribute to Response Rates in a Survey of Medicare Beneficiaries?

A Retrospective Evaluation of the Perfecting Patient Care University Training Program for Health Care Organizations

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

Does Naming the Focal Plan in a CAHPS Survey of Health Care Quality Affect Response Rates and Beneficiary Evaluations?

Experiences of Care Among Medicare Beneficiaries with ESRD: Medicare Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Survey Results

Price Shopping in Consumer-Directed Health Plans

Racial/ethnic Differences in Medicare Experiences and Immunization: The Role of Disease Burden

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

Are There Differences in the Medicare Experiences of Beneficiaries in Puerto Rico Compared with Those in the U.S. Mainland?

Are There Unusually Effective Occupational Safety and Health Inspectors and Inspection Practices?

An Evaluation of the California Injury and Illness Prevention Program

Growth of Consumer-Directed Health Plans to One-Half of All Employer-Sponsored Insurance Could Save $57 Billion Annually

How Event Reporting by US Hospitals Has Changed from 2005 to 2009

Measuring Success for Health Care Quality Improvement Interventions

Motives for Smoking in Movies Affect Future Smoking Risk in Middle School Students: An Experimental Investigation

Multiple Patient Safety Events Within a Single Hospitalization: A National Profile in US Hospitals

A New Estimate of the Impact of OSHA Inspections on Manufacturing Injury Rates, 1998-2005

Racial/ethnic Disparities in Medicare Part D Experiences

Skin in the Game: How Consumer-Directed Plans Affect the Cost and Use of Health Care

The Effects of Consumer-Directed Health Plans on Episodes of Health Care

Healthcare Spending and Preventive Care in High-Deductible and Consumer-Directed Health Plans

High-Deductible Health Plans Cut Spending but Also Reduce Preventive Care

How Do Consumer-Directed Health Plans Affect Vulnerable Populations?

How Do the Experiences of Medicare Beneficiary Subgroups Differ Between Managed Care and Original Medicare?

Immunization Disparities By Hispanic Ethnicity and Language Preference

Understanding Nonresponse to the 2007 Medicare CAHPS Survey

Understanding Variations in Medicare Consumer Assessment of Health Care Providers and Systems Scores: California as an Example

Adverse Event Reporting Practices by U.S. Hospitals: Survey Results from 2005 and 2009

Does Improved Patient Safety Reduce Malpractice Litigation?

Is Better Patient Safety Associated with Less Malpractice Activity? Evidence from California

The Pennsylvania Certified Safety Committee Program: An Evaluation of Participation and Effects on Work Injury Rates

Smoking Motives in Movies Are Important for Understanding Adolescent Smoking: A Preliminary Investigation

Adjusting for Subgroup Differences in Extreme Response Tendency in Ratings of Health Care: Impact on Disparity Estimates

Assessing Patient Safety Practices and Outcomes in the U.S. Health Care System

Assessment of Contributions to Patient Safety Knowledge by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality-Funded Patient Safety Projects

Canary Measures Among the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators

Composite Estimates from Incomplete and Complete Frames for Minimum-Mse Estimation in a Rare Population: An Application Fo Families with Young Children

Patient Activation Status as a Predictor of Patient Experience Among Medicare Beneficiaries

The Relationship Between Protective Factors and Outcomes for Children Investigated for Maltreatment