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Note: An asterisk following a title indicates that the research was funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Health Services Research & Development Service.
Oral Presentations
Plenary session
Thursday, February 14, 2002
11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
1001 Denise Hynes - Potential Cost Savings
for Erythropoietin for ESRD: Translating Results from a VA RCT to
Medicare *
1002 Wei Yu - The Cost of Common Chronic
Diseases in the VA Health Care System *
1003 Timothy Wilt - Effectivness of Statins to
Reduce Clinical Events in Adults with CHD *
1004 Steven Wright - Enrollment and Utilization
in Medicare Among Veterans Turning Age 65
1005 Timothy Hofer - Physician’s
Understanding and Misunderstanding of Diabetes Care Priorities
*
First concurrent oral sessions
Thursday, February 14, 2002
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Pre-and-post-doctoral fellowship program
1006 Jennifer Hoffman - Adverse Drug Events
Leading to Hospital Admissions *
1007 Patty Huang - Determinants of Nurse
Practitioner Use in VA Primary Care Practices *
1008 Maria Ansari - Subjects in Heart Failure
Trials Are Not the Same as Your Patients
1009 Mitchell Barnett - Population-Based
Evaluation of Variation in Medicare Utilization by VAMC
Patients. *
1010 Michael Ho - Adverse outcomes in ischemic
heart disease patients who do not undergo a lipid
measurement
Evidence-based care; is it implemented?
1011 Bradley Doebbeling - Benchmarking VAMCs in
Delivery of Evidence-based Clinical Preventive Services
*
1012 Elizabeth Yano - Impact of VA Smoking
Cessation Initiatives on Smoking Cessation Practices and
Outcomes *
1013 Stephen Fihn, presenting for Marcia Burman - Outpatient management of chronic stable angina in the
VA: Data from the ACQUIP study *
1014 Tom Vaughn - Organizational Structures
Support Implementation and Adherence to VA Clinical Practice
Guidelines *
1015 Charlene Weir - Appropriateness of Clinical
Response to Adverse Drug Events *
Advances in health outcomes assessment, 1st session
1016 Valerie Lawrence - Natural History of Functional
Recovery After Major Abdominal Surgery in Elders
1017 Pamela Duncan - Structure, Process, and
Outcome in VA Stroke Rehabilitation *
1018 Vincent Fan - Case-mix Measures Derived
from Self-Report of Diagnoses and Health: the Seattle Index of
Comorbidity *
1019 Peter Kaboli - Predictive Validity of
Comorbid Measures for Administrative Data in VA and Private Sector
Inpatients *
1020 Paula Diehr - Relative Performance of the
PCS and PCD to Measure Health Status in a Longitudinal Study with
Deaths *
Health systems and
policies
1021 Timothy Dresselhaus - The Ethical Problem of False Positives: A
Comparison of Standardized Patients and the Medical Record
*
1022 Donna Washington - Sufficiency of VA
Resources for the Delivery of Health Care to Women Veterans
1023 Douglas Wakefield - Development of an
Operational Model for Examining the Delivery of Coronary Bypass
Surgery *
1024 Nina Sayer - Perceptions of the
Compensation and Pension Process for PTSD Predict Stressfulness and
Satisfaction *
1025 Julie Cradock - Evaluating the impact of
mental illness on access to medical care
Health economics
1026 James Breckenridge - Mental Healthcare
Utilization and Costs Among Veterans with PTSD: The Impact of
Comorbid Disorders *
1027 Fenghua Wang - VA-Medicare Enrollees’
Reliance on VA Care: Controlling for endogeneity of comprehensive
Medicare *
1028 Kevin L. Sloan - Predicting Outpatient
Pharmacy Cost using Diagnosis- and Pharmacy-Based Case-Mix
Instruments *
1029 Susan Loveland - Do Different Modeling
Techniques Affect Judgments of VISN Performance after Adjustment
for Case-Mix? *
1030 Maria Montez - How Well Does the CDPS
Predict Utilization: a Comparison to Other Case-Mix Measures
*
Clinical
epidemiology
1031 William Duckworth - A Proposal For Improving Glycemic Control In
Insulin-Treated Veterans With Type II Diabetes Mellitus
*
1032 Kathryn Magruder - PTSD Symptom Severity in
VA Primary Care Patients *
1033 Patrick Calhoun - Health Related Quality of
Life in Veterans Diagnosed with SMI and PTSD *
1034 Eric Mortensen - Underperformance of
Processes of Care for Veterans Hospitalized with Community-Acquired
Pneumonia *
1035 Hashem El-Serag - Psychiatric Disorders
Among Veterans with Hepatitis C Infection : A Case-Control
Study *
Innovative use of
technology in HSR&D research
1036 Julie Lowery - Accuracy of Web-Based Telemedicine System for Monitoring
Ulcers *
1037 James Rothendler - Use of Computer
Telephony for the Administration of the Veterans' SF-36 and
SF-12 *
1038 George Joseph - Merging three distinct VHA
Databases (NPCD, PBM and VISTA-LAB): Using clinical data for
research
1039 Grace Warner - How Well Do Standard Risk
Adjustment Models Predict Utilization for Patients with a Major
Functional
1040 Jeff Luck - Development of an Automated
Scoring System for Computerized Clinical Vignettes *
Second concurrent oral sessions
Friday, February 15, 2002
10:00-11:30 a.m.
Assessing quality of care
following change
1041 Paul Peloso - Predictors of Screening for Depression in a National
Sample *
1042 John Fortney - Improving the Rate of
Depression Treatment in Primary Care Using Electronic Medical
Records *
1043 Frances Weaver - Increasing Influenza
Vaccinations in the VA SCI&D Population *
1044 Maude Rittman - Outcomes of Group
Outpatient Clinic Visits
1045 Bonnie BootsMiller - Strategies that
Improved Knowledge of the VA CHF Practice Guideline Did Not
Increase Compliance *
Advances in health
outcomes assessment, 2nd session
1046 Mary McDonell - Comparison of the SF-36 and SF-12 Summary Scales in a
Veteran Population *
1047 Vincent Fan - Change in SF-36 and Risk of
Hospitalization and Mortality *
1048 Stephan Fihn - Routine Reporting of Health
Status Data Does Not Improve General Health or Satisfaction
*
1049 Jeffrey Pyne - Sensitivity of Generic
Effectiveness Measures to Changes in Schizophrenia Symptom
Severity *
1050 Marta Render - Variation in risk adjusted
VA intensive care unit hospital mortality *
Quality of care
1051 John W. Peabody - Are We as Good as We Hope? Using comparative data
to evaluate quality at VA and non-VA facilities *
1052 Mayur Desai - Mental Disorders and the
Quality of Diabetes Care in the Veterans Health
Administration
1053 Douglas Leslie - Comparing the Quality of
Pharmacotherapy for Schizophrenia in the VA and the Private
Sector
1054 Elizabeth Yano - Do Patient Ratings of Care
Suffer in VAs with High Rates of Managed Care Practice
Adoption? *
1055 Kevin Stroupe - Pre-planning for Initiation
of Dialysis at VA Medical Centers: Implications for Quality of
Care *
Race, ethnicity, gender,
age
1056 Robert Morgan - Use of Surname Matching to Identify Elderly Hispanic
Males in Combined Medicare/VA Data Files *
1057 Nancy Kressin - Racial Differences in
Physician Perceptions of and Communication with Cardiac
Patients *
1058 Bevanne Bean-Mayberry - A Gender-Specific
Tool to Assess Satisfaction: The Women Veteran Experience
1059 Marian Butterfield - Racial Differences in
Hepatitis B and C and Associated Risks in Veterans with Severe
Mental Illness *
1060 Shawn Fultz - Racial Differences in
Diabetic Costs and Control
Health economics, cost and
resource use
1061 Yujing Shen - The Demand for primary care physicians for VA Enrollees
and its impact on VA inpatient care *
1062 Shao-Chun Zhu - Do enrollees come to VA
just for Pharmacy? *
1063 Matt Maciejewski - Cost Evaluation in a
Clinical Trial of Therapeutic Footwear
1064 Shuo Chen - Expenditures for Mental Health
Treatment in the Veterans Health Administration: 1995-1999
*
1065 Heather Gage - VA Utilization and Costs for
Patients with Parkinson’s Disease *
Medical therapeutics
(including pharmaco-epidemiology/economics)
1066 David Au - Beta-agonists and the risk of heart failure admission
and mortality among patients with known LVSD *
1067 Sam Bozzette - Cardio- and Cerebrovascular
Outcomes with Changing Process of Anti-HIV Therapy in Veterans
*
1068 Andrea Charbonneau - Benchmarking Patterns
in the Pharmacotherapy of Depression *
1069 Dan Berlowitz - The Need for More Intensive
Hypoglycemic Medication Therapy in Patients With Diabetes
*
1070 Richard Hoffman - Efficacy and safety of
laser prostatectomy techniques for treating symptomatic benign
prostatic hype
Patient safety
1071 Audrey Nelson - Redesigning Patient Handling Tasks to Prevent Nursing
Back Injuries *
1072 Sanjay Saint - Which Disinfectant Should We
Use for Vascular Catheter Site Care: Chlorhexidine or
Povidone-Iodine?
1073 John Hurdle - Utility of Nursing Narratives
in ADE Detection: Incident Reports,Bedside Notes, and Electronic
Notes *
1074 Hope Tiesman - The Impact of New Lifting
Technology in a Long Term Care Unit
1075 Peter Glassman - Perceived Impact of CPRS
on Quality and Safety of Patient Care *
HSR&D sampler
1076 Michael Shlipak - Interventions to Improve Beta-Blocker Utilization
in Heart Failure *
1077 Anne Joseph - GIFT (Guideline
Implementation for Tobacco) Study: Increasing Treatment of
Smokers *
1078 Charles Bennett - Improving patient safety:
Physician recognition of 9 rare & potentially fatal drug
adverse reactions *
1079 Stephen Flach - Economic Factors Influence
the Intensity of Clinical Practice Guideline Implementation
*
1080 John Rumsfeld - Depression And Quality of
Life Following Acute Coronary Syndromes *
Poster Sessions
Thursday, February 14, 2002
8:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.
Pre-and-post-doctoral fellowship program
1081 Maria Ansari - Cardiology Specialty Care
Improves Outcomes in Outpatients with New Onset Heart
Failure
1082 Mitchell Barnett - Changes in Length of
Stay in VA and Private Sector Hospitals: Is VA Closing the Gap?
*
1083 John Davison - Two software programs for
providing training in Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF)
Ratings
1084 Kelli Dominick - Racial Variations in
Health Service Utilization among Veterans with Osteoarthritis
*
1085 Arjun Jayadev - VA Enrollees' Access to VA
and Non-VA Hospitals and its Impacts *
1086 Joseph Johnston - Impact of Comorbidity on
Predicted Hospital Mortality in Intensive Care Unit Patients
*
1087 Deborah Kasman - Educating for
Professionalism: Medical Trainees' Emotions on Hospital Wards
*
1088 John McCarthy - Continuity of Outpatient
Care Among Veterans With Psychosis: Accessibility Barriers
1089 M. Jane Mohler - Strategies, Skills, and
Social Contexts that Enhance or Disrupt Adherence *
1090 Mary Jo Pugh - Adoption of New Medication
Recommendations for Diabetes *
1091 Mary Jo Pugh - VA Cooperative Studies on
Anti-Epileptic Drugs: Do They Impact Practice?
1092 Jennifer Strauss - Limited Knowledge of HIV
Risks Among Veterans With Severe Mental Illnesses *
1093 Joseph Wagner - Use of Pharmacy Benefits
Management Data to Assess Medication Adherence
1094 William Yancy, Jr. - The Relationship
Between Body Weight and Health-Related Quality of Life in Men
*
1095 John Zeber - The Cost-utility of Depression
Screening: Usual Care versus Collaborative Treatment
1096 Sandra Zinn - Effects of Cognitive
Impairment on Quality of Rehabilitative Care and Functional
Outcomes in Stroke *
Race, ethnicity, gender, age
1097 Claudine Armand - Trauma and
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Among Women Veterans: Trauma
Types and PTSD Rates
1098 Susan Frayne - VA Healthcare Delivery
Systems for Women Veterans: The Role of Fee Basis Care
1099 Terri Fried - Seriously Ill Older Persons'
Communication About And Desire For Prognostic Information
*
1100 Allen L. Gifford - Racial and Ethnic
Variations in Access to Research Trials and Experimental Treatments
in HIV Care
1101 Nancy Harada - The Influence of Race and
Veteran Identity on VA Outpatient Care Utilization *
1102 Jonathan Nebeker - Age as a Risk Factor for
Injury and Error Associated with Drug Use *
1103 Kimberly O'Malley - Trust in Physician,
Facility, and System: Qualitative Differences Between Ethnic
Groups
1104 Laura Petersen - Impact of Race on Cardiac
Care and Outcomes in Veterans with Acute Myocardial Infarction
*
1105 Michelle van Ryn - Do cardiologists beleive
patient social and behavioral factors should influence receipt of
PTCA/CABG
1106 Amy Wallace - Differences in income between
male and female primary care physicians *
1107 Elizabeth Yano - How is VA Health Care
Organized for Women Veterans?: Results of a National Survey
*
Implementing practice changes
1108 Matthew Chinman - Improving public
sector mental health care through the use of consumers
1109 Marylou Guihan - Providers' Perceptions
About Clinical Practice Guideline Implementation *
1110 James Lohr - A Patient-Centered and
Cost-Effective Psychiatric Inpatient Alternative: Model for the
Future? *
1111 John McKellar - Alcoholics Anonymous and
Positive Treatment Outcomes: Cause or Effect *
1112 Landis Mitchner - Evidence-Based Review of
Mood Stabilizers for Manic-Depressive Disorder
1113 Gail Powell-Cope - Provider Perceived
Barriers and Facilitators to IHD Guideline Adherence
*
1114 Jacqueline Pugh - Barriers and Facilitators
of Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) Implementation
*
1115 Nicholas Smith - Cardiovascular risk factor
control among veterans with diabetes *
1116 Bernard Sorofman - Differing views of
clinical practice guidelines: Variation by role responsibility.
*
1117 Robert White - Improving the Process of
Chronic Diabetes Care by Using Non-Visit Care
Health economics
1118 Somnath Saha - Echocardiography in the
Management of Stroke: Systematic Review and Cost-Utility
Analysis
1119 Todd Wagner - The cost of operating
institutional review boards (IRBs) *
Medical therapeutics (including
pharmaco-epidemiology/economics)
1120 Charles Bennett - Treatment Decision
Intervention for Veterans with Prostate Cancer *
1121 Teresita Corvera-Tindel - Nurse-Managed
Home Walking Program Improves Exercise Duration and Reduces
Symptoms in Heart Failure *
1122 Robert Morgan - Low Intensity Exercise and
Falls Risk Among a Clinically Defined Sample of At-Risk Elders
*
1123 Marcia Valenstein - Pharmacy Data
Identifies Poorly Adherent Patients with Schizophrenia At Increased
Risk for Admission *
Patient safety
1124 Emily Patterson - Usability Test of Bar
Code Medication Administration (BCMA) *
1125 Michael Sernyak - Occult Hyperglycemia and
Diabetes Mellitus in Clozapine-Treated Patients
Advances in health outcomes assessment
1126 Judith Babcock - Establishing Benchmarks
for Blind Rehabilitation by Calibrating Clinical and Self-Report
Measures
1127 William Best - Preop Risks and Postop
Adverse Events from Administrative Data Bases *
1128 Michael Brimacombe - Charlson index
instability among veterans with diabetes *
1129 Joseph King, Jr. - Quality of Life
Assessment with the SF-36 in VA Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy
Patients
1130 Stephen Luther - A Survey of Veterans with
Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Concerning Outcomes Related to Neurogenic
Bowel *
1131 Judy Shea - Health Literacy and Patient
Satisfaction *
Health systems and policies
1132 Ian Gralnek - Hospital Care for Low-Risk
Patients with Acute Upper GI Bleed: A Comparison of Practice
Settings
1133 Sarah Krein - Proactive Diabetes Case
Management: Expectation Versus Reality *
1134 Carter Rakovski - Identifying elderly
veterans for Geriatric Evaluation and Management using
administrative data *
1135 Xinhua Ren - Patients’ Experiences
with Health Care in the Veterans Health Administration
1136 Michele Spoont - Changes in Service
Utilization during Phases of the C&P process for PTSD
1137 Christine Timko - Models of Standard and
Intensive Outpatient Care in Mental Health *
1138 William Weeks - CABG utilization and
Medicare referral patterns in VISN 1
1139 William Weeks - Rural/Urban differences in
Inpatient Health Services Utilization in New England
Clinical epidemiology
1140 Tracie Collins - The Prevalence of
Intermittent Claudication in an Ethnically Diverse Bilingual
Population
1141 Joseph Conigliaro - Hazardous Drinking and
Alcohol Consumption among Veterans with HIV Infection
1142 U. Nalla Durai - Post-traumatic Stress
Disorder in Elderly Veterans: Results from a Multi-site Study
(PRISMe)
1143 Amy Kilbourne - Medication Adherence among
Veterans: Comparing Patient, Provider Report with Electronic
Monitoring
1144 Maria LLorente - Suicidal Thoughts Among
Elderly Primary Care Veterans: Results from a Multi-site Study
(PRISMe)
1145 Jennifer Ritsher - Psychiatric Comorbidity,
Continuing Care, and Self-Help as Predictors of Substance Abuse
Remission *
1146 Kevin L. Sloan - Hepatitis C Testing in the
VHA Northwest Network – Prevalence, Risk Markers & Future
Recommendations
1147 Louise Walter - Risk of Hip Fracture in
Disabled Community-Living Older Adults
1148 Linda Williams - Prevalence of Depression
After Stroke: What You Find Depends on Where You Look
*
Workshops
Session One
Thursday, February 14, 2002
2:00-3:30 p.m.
1149 Ashley Hedeen - Clinical Reminders as Tools for Quality
Improvement
1150 Scott Sherman - "Why don't we do a provider
survey?": Tips on conducting surveys of health care
providers
1151 John Hurdle - Improving Patient Safety:
Advances in ADE Research and Surveillance
1152 Mark Smith - Methods for determining costs
in VA studies: the use of average cost and micro-cost tools
1153 Donna Haiduven - Focus Groups: Evolution
from Market Research to Qualitative Research
1154 RG Best - Managing
Variability in the Local IRB Process: Survivers’ Guide for
Multi-Site Researchers
1155 TBA
Session Two
Friday, February 15, 2002
8:15-9:45 a.m.
1156 Karl Lorenz - Introduction to Topics on Research of VA End of Life
Care
1157 Cindy L. Christiansen - Comparison of
Software Packages and Analyses of VA Data with a Hierarchical
Structure
1158 Martin Lee - Design Strategies and
Statistical Approaches to Evaluating Healthcare Provider Behavior
Change
1159 John Cornell - Exploring Study
Heterogeneity in Quantitative Systematic Reviews
1160 Wei Yu - Using a New VA Health Care Cost
Database--Decision Support System--for Health Services
Research
1161 TBA
1162 TBA
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