Steven C. Martino

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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
How Does Removing Menthol Tobacco Product Displays at Point-of-Sale Affect Adolescents' Cigarette Smoking Intentions? The Mediating Effects of Social Norms

2025
Assessing the Accuracy of Race-And-Ethnicity Data in the Outcome and Assessment Information Set

2024
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
De-biasing the Bias: Methods for Improving Disparity Assessments with Noisy Group Measurements

2024
Differential Privacy Protections in 2020 U.S. Decennial Census Data Do Not Impede Measurement of Racial and Ethnic Disparities

2024
Doing More with Less: A Proposal to Advance Cigarette Packaging Regulations in the United States

2024
Evaluation of a Protocol for Eliciting Narrative Accounts of Pediatric Inpatient Experiences of Care

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

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

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

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

2024
Development of a Medicare Plan Dashboard to Promote Health Equity

2023
Does Removing Menthol Cigarettes in Convenience Stores Reduce Susceptibility to Cigarette Smoking? An Experimental Investigation in Young People

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

2023
An Experimental Evaluation of the Effects of Banning the Sale of Flavored Tobacco Products on Adolescents' and Young Adults' Future Nicotine Vaping Intentions

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

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

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

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
Patient Experience for Hispanic Older Adults Varies by Language Preference

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

2022
Predicting Race And Ethnicity To Ensure Equitable Algorithms For Health Care Decision Making

2022
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Emergency Department Utilization and Experience

2022
Standardized Assessment of Depression Symptoms in Post-Acute Care: A Screening Threshold Approach

2022
Developing Health Equity Measures

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

2021
Rates of Disenrollment From Medicare Advantage Plans Are Higher for Racial/Ethnic Minority Beneficiaries

2021
The Development of a Patient-Reported Functional Limitations Index

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

2020
Using Natural Language Processing to Code Patient Experience Narratives: Capabilities and Challenges

2020
Do Graphic Health Warning Labels on Cigarette Packages Deter Purchases at Point-of-Sale? An Experiment With Adult Smokers

2019
Increased Attention to the Tobacco Power Wall Predicts Increased Smoking Risk Among Adolescents

2019
Inpatient Care Experiences Differ by Preferred Language Within Racial/Ethnic Groups

2019
National Racial/Ethnic and Geographic Disparities in Experiences with Health Care Among Adult Medicaid Beneficiaries

2019
Psychometric Evaluation of the Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plan Disenrollment Reasons Survey

2019
Using Ancillary Sociodemographic Data to Identify Sexual Minority Adults Among Those Responding "Something Else" or "Don't Know" to Sexual Orientation Questions

2019
What Words Convey: The Potential for Patient Narratives to Inform Quality Improvement

2019
Associations of CAHPS Composites With Global Ratings of the Doctor Vary by Medicare Beneficiaries' Health Status

2018
Development and Maintenance of Standardized Cross Setting Patient Assessment Data for Post-Acute Care: Summary Report of Findings from Alpha 2 Pilot Testing

2018
Drinking It In: The Impact of Youth Exposure to Alcohol Advertising

2018
Exposure to the Tobacco Power Wall Increases Adolescents' Willingness to Use E-cigarettes in the Future

2018
A Framework for Conceptualizing How Narratives from Health-Care Consumers Might Improve or Impede the Use of Information About Provider Quality

2018
Persistence of Shifts in Beliefs Associated With Exposure to Alcohol Advertising Among Adolescents

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

2018
CAHPS and Comments: How Closed-Ended Survey Questions and Narrative Accounts Interact in the Assessment of Patient Experience

2017
Choosing Doctors Wisely: Can Assisted Choice Enhance Patients' Selection of Clinicians?

2017
Development and Maintenance of Standardized Cross Setting Patient Assessment Data for Post-Acute Care: Summary Report of Findings from Alpha 1 Pilot Testing

2017
Does Self-Efficacy Causally Influence Initial Smoking Cessation? An Experimental Study

2017
Effects of Antismoking Media on College Students' Smoking-Related Beliefs and Intentions

2017
Exposure to Alcohol Advertising and Adolescents' Drinking Beliefs: Role of Message Interpretation

2017
Noncigarette Tobacco Advertising May Be Hazardous to a Teen's Health

2017
Placing Antismoking Graphic Warning Posters at Retail Point-of-Sale Locations Increases Some Adolescents' Susceptibility to Future Smoking

2017
Scaled Inverse Probability Weighting: A Method to Assess Potential Bias Due to Event Nonreporting in Ecological Momentary Assessment Studies

2017
The SelectMD 2.0 Provider Choice Experiment: Methodological Overview

2017
Using "Roll-up" Measures in Healthcare Quality Reports: Perspectives of Report Sponsors and National Alliances

2017
Alcohol Advertising Exposure Among Middle School-Age Youth: An Assessment Across All Media and Venues

2016
Breaking Narrative Ground: Innovative Methods for Rigorously Eliciting and Assessing Patient Narratives

2016
Can a More User-Friendly Medicare Plan Finder Improve Consumers' Selection of Medicare Plans?

2016
Ecological Momentary Assessment of the Association Between Exposure to Alcohol Advertising and Early Adolescents' Beliefs About Alcohol

2016
Factors Associated with Younger Adolescents' Exposure to Online Alcohol Advertising

2016
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Medicare Beneficiaries' Carecoordination Experiences

2016
Simplified Novel Application (SNApp) Framework: A Guide to Developing and Implementing Second-Generation Mobile Applications for Behavioral Health Research

2016
Can Big Tobacco's Power Wall Be Breached?

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

2015
Hiding the Tobacco Power Wall Reduces Cigarette Smoking Risk in Adolescents: Using an Experimental Convenience Store to Assess Tobacco Regulatory Options at Retail Point-of-Sale

2015
How Patient Comments Affect Consumers' Use of Physician Performance Measures

2015
Taking Patients' Narratives About Clinicians from Anecdote to Science

2015
Evaluation of a Care Coordination Measure for the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) Medicare Survey

2014
Quantifying the Persistence of Pro-Smoking Media Effects on College Students' Smoking Risk

2014
Evaluating the Content of the Communication Items in the CAHPS® Clinician and Group Survey and Supplemental Items with What High-Performing Physicians Say They Do

2013
Exposure to Pro-Smoking Media in College Students: Does Type of Media Channel Differentially Contribute to Smoking Risk?

2013
Friends Moderate the Effects of Pro-Smoking Media on College Students' Intentions to Smoke

2013
Middle and High Schools Students' Exposure to Alcohol- and Smoking-Related Media: A Pilot Study Using Ecological Momentary Assessment

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

2013
Consumer Response to Patient Experience Measures in Complex Information Environments

2012
A Field Experiment on the Impact of Physician-Level Performance Data on Consumers' Choice of Physician

2012
If You Provide the Test, They Will Take It: Factors Associated with HIV/STI Testing in a Representative Sample of Homeless Youth in Los Angeles

2012
A Matrix of New Media Use Measures and Brief Media Survey

2012
Measuring Exposure to Protobacco Marketing and Media: A Field Study Using Ecological Momentary Assessment

2012
Momentary Effects of Exposure to Prosmoking Media on College Students' Future Smoking Risk

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

2012
Research Gaps and Measurement Challenges for Studying the Influence of New Media on Adolescent Sexual Health

2012
Depression and the Health Care Experiences of Medicare Beneficiaries

2011
Increased Substance Use and Risky Sexual Behavior Among Migratory Homeless Youth: Exploring the Role of Social Network Composition

2011
Influence of New Media on Adolescent Sexual Health: Evidence and Opportunities

2011
Lapse-induced Surges in Craving Influence Relapse in Adult Smokers: An Experimental Investigation

2011
Propensity Scoring and the Relationship Between Sexual Media and Adolescent Sexual Behavior: Comment on Steinberg and Monahan (2011)

2011
Relationships Between Adolescent Sexual Outcomes and Exposure to Sex in Media: Robustness to Propensity-Based Analysis

2011
A Worksite Parenting Program That Works

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

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

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

2010
It's Better on TV: Does Television Set Teenagers Up for Regret Following Sexual Initiation?

2009
Multiple Trajectories of Peer and Parental Influence and Their Association with the Development of Adolescent Heavy Drinking

2009
Psychometric Properties of an Instrument to Assess Medicare Beneficiaries' Prescription Drug Plan Experiences

2009
Recanting of Life-Time Inhalant Use: How Big a Problem and What to Make of It

2009
Beyond the "Big Talk": The Roles of Breadth and Repetition in Parent-Adolescent Communication About Sexual Topics

2008
Developmental Trajectories of Substance Use from Early to Late Adolescence: A Comparison of Rural and Urban Youth

2008
Does Watching Sex on Television Predict Teen Pregnancy? Findings from a National Longitudinal Survey of Youth

2008
Exposure to Sex on TV May Increase the Chance of Teen Pregnancy

2008
Multiple Trajectories of Physical Aggression Among Adolescent Boys and Girls

2008
Virginity Pledges Among the Willing: Delays in First Intercourse and Consistency of Condom Use

2008
"But Others Do It!": Do Misperceptions of Schoolmate Alcohol and Marijuana Use Predict Subsequent Drug Use Among Young Adolescents?

2007
Exploring the Link Between Substance Abuse and Abortion: The Roles of Unconventionality and Unplanned Pregnancy.

2006
Exposure to Degrading Versus Nondegrading Music Lyrics and Sexual Behavior Among Youth

2006
Improving the Development and Utilization of Air Force Space and Missile Officers

2006
Measuring and Reporting the Performance of Disease Management Programs

2006
New Analytic Methods Can Improve the Development of Air Force Space and Missile Officers

2006
Socio-environmental Influences on Adolescents' Alcohol Outcome Expectancies: A Prospective Analysis

2006
Cross-lagged Relationships Between Substance Use and Intimate Partner Violence Among a Sample of Young Adult Women

2005
Effects of Early and Later Marriage on Women's Alcohol Use in Young Adulthood: A Prospective Analysis

2005
Measuring Developmental Changes in Alcohol Expectancies

2005
Processes Linking Adolescent Problems to Substance-Use Problems in Late Young Adulthood

2005
Social Cognitive Processes Mediating the Relationship Between Exposure to Television's Sexual Content and Adolescents' Sexual Behavior

2005
Substance Use Trajectories from Early Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood: A Comparison of Smoking, Binge Drinking, and Marijuana Use

2005
Marijuana Use from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Multiple Developmental Trajectories and Their Associated Outcomes

2004
Substance Use and Early Marriage

2004
Substance Use and Vulnerability to Sexual and Physical Aggression: A Longitudinal Study of Young Adults

2004
Branding Behavior: The Strategy Behind the Truth Campaign

2002

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Steven C. Martino

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

How Does Removing Menthol Tobacco Product Displays at Point-of-Sale Affect Adolescents' Cigarette Smoking Intentions? The Mediating Effects of Social Norms

Assessing the Accuracy of Race-And-Ethnicity Data in the Outcome and Assessment Information Set

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

De-biasing the Bias: Methods for Improving Disparity Assessments with Noisy Group Measurements

Differential Privacy Protections in 2020 U.S. Decennial Census Data Do Not Impede Measurement of Racial and Ethnic Disparities

Doing More with Less: A Proposal to Advance Cigarette Packaging Regulations in the United States

Evaluation of a Protocol for Eliciting Narrative Accounts of Pediatric Inpatient Experiences of Care

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

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

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

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

Development of a Medicare Plan Dashboard to Promote Health Equity

Does Removing Menthol Cigarettes in Convenience Stores Reduce Susceptibility to Cigarette Smoking? An Experimental Investigation in Young People

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

An Experimental Evaluation of the Effects of Banning the Sale of Flavored Tobacco Products on Adolescents' and Young Adults' Future Nicotine Vaping Intentions

Income-related Disparities in Medicare Advantage Behavioral Health Care Quality

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

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

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

Distinguishing Neighborhood and Individual Social Risk Factors in Health Care

Patient Experience for Hispanic Older Adults Varies by Language Preference

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

Predicting Race And Ethnicity To Ensure Equitable Algorithms For Health Care Decision Making

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Emergency Department Utilization and Experience

Standardized Assessment of Depression Symptoms in Post-Acute Care: A Screening Threshold Approach

Developing Health Equity Measures

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

Rates of Disenrollment From Medicare Advantage Plans Are Higher for Racial/Ethnic Minority Beneficiaries

The Development of a Patient-Reported Functional Limitations Index

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

Using Natural Language Processing to Code Patient Experience Narratives: Capabilities and Challenges

Do Graphic Health Warning Labels on Cigarette Packages Deter Purchases at Point-of-Sale? An Experiment With Adult Smokers

Increased Attention to the Tobacco Power Wall Predicts Increased Smoking Risk Among Adolescents

Inpatient Care Experiences Differ by Preferred Language Within Racial/Ethnic Groups

National Racial/Ethnic and Geographic Disparities in Experiences with Health Care Among Adult Medicaid Beneficiaries

Psychometric Evaluation of the Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plan Disenrollment Reasons Survey

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

What Words Convey: The Potential for Patient Narratives to Inform Quality Improvement

Associations of CAHPS Composites With Global Ratings of the Doctor Vary by Medicare Beneficiaries' Health Status

Development and Maintenance of Standardized Cross Setting Patient Assessment Data for Post-Acute Care: Summary Report of Findings from Alpha 2 Pilot Testing

Drinking It In: The Impact of Youth Exposure to Alcohol Advertising

Exposure to the Tobacco Power Wall Increases Adolescents' Willingness to Use E-cigarettes in the Future

A Framework for Conceptualizing How Narratives from Health-Care Consumers Might Improve or Impede the Use of Information About Provider Quality

Persistence of Shifts in Beliefs Associated With Exposure to Alcohol Advertising Among Adolescents

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

CAHPS and Comments: How Closed-Ended Survey Questions and Narrative Accounts Interact in the Assessment of Patient Experience

Choosing Doctors Wisely: Can Assisted Choice Enhance Patients' Selection of Clinicians?

Development and Maintenance of Standardized Cross Setting Patient Assessment Data for Post-Acute Care: Summary Report of Findings from Alpha 1 Pilot Testing

Does Self-Efficacy Causally Influence Initial Smoking Cessation? An Experimental Study

Effects of Antismoking Media on College Students' Smoking-Related Beliefs and Intentions

Exposure to Alcohol Advertising and Adolescents' Drinking Beliefs: Role of Message Interpretation

Noncigarette Tobacco Advertising May Be Hazardous to a Teen's Health

Placing Antismoking Graphic Warning Posters at Retail Point-of-Sale Locations Increases Some Adolescents' Susceptibility to Future Smoking

Scaled Inverse Probability Weighting: A Method to Assess Potential Bias Due to Event Nonreporting in Ecological Momentary Assessment Studies

The SelectMD 2.0 Provider Choice Experiment: Methodological Overview

Using "Roll-up" Measures in Healthcare Quality Reports: Perspectives of Report Sponsors and National Alliances

Alcohol Advertising Exposure Among Middle School-Age Youth: An Assessment Across All Media and Venues

Breaking Narrative Ground: Innovative Methods for Rigorously Eliciting and Assessing Patient Narratives

Can a More User-Friendly Medicare Plan Finder Improve Consumers' Selection of Medicare Plans?

Ecological Momentary Assessment of the Association Between Exposure to Alcohol Advertising and Early Adolescents' Beliefs About Alcohol

Factors Associated with Younger Adolescents' Exposure to Online Alcohol Advertising

Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Medicare Beneficiaries' Carecoordination Experiences

Simplified Novel Application (SNApp) Framework: A Guide to Developing and Implementing Second-Generation Mobile Applications for Behavioral Health Research

Can Big Tobacco's Power Wall Be Breached?

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

Hiding the Tobacco Power Wall Reduces Cigarette Smoking Risk in Adolescents: Using an Experimental Convenience Store to Assess Tobacco Regulatory Options at Retail Point-of-Sale

How Patient Comments Affect Consumers' Use of Physician Performance Measures

Taking Patients' Narratives About Clinicians from Anecdote to Science

Evaluation of a Care Coordination Measure for the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) Medicare Survey

Quantifying the Persistence of Pro-Smoking Media Effects on College Students' Smoking Risk

Evaluating the Content of the Communication Items in the CAHPS® Clinician and Group Survey and Supplemental Items with What High-Performing Physicians Say They Do

Exposure to Pro-Smoking Media in College Students: Does Type of Media Channel Differentially Contribute to Smoking Risk?

Friends Moderate the Effects of Pro-Smoking Media on College Students' Intentions to Smoke