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Jacobs JC, Lo J, Van Houtven CH, Wagner TH. The impact of informal caregiving on U.S. Veterans Health Administration utilization and expenditures. Social science & medicine (1982). 2024 Mar 1; 344:116625.
Kim CE, Yoon LS, Michels KB, Tranfield W, Jacobs JP, May FP. The Impact of Prebiotic, Probiotic, and Synbiotic Supplements and Yogurt Consumption on the Risk of Colorectal Neoplasia among Adults: A Systematic Review. Nutrients. 2022 Nov 21; 14(22).
Gujral K, Van Campen J, Jacobs J, Kimerling R, Blonigen D, Zulman DM. Mental Health Service Use, Suicide Behavior, and Emergency Department Visits Among Rural US Veterans Who Received Video-Enabled Tablets During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Network Open. 2022 Apr 1; 5(4):e226250.
Cholankeril G, Al-Hillan A, Tarlow B, Abrams D, Jacobs JS, Flores NP, Rana A, Kanwal F, Goss JA. Clinical Factors Associated With Lack of Serological Response to SARS-CoV-2 Messenger RNA Vaccine in Liver Transplantation Recipients. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society. 2022 Jan 1; 28(1):123-126.
Gujral K, Scott JY, Ambady L, Dismuke-Greer CE, Jacobs J, Chow A, Oh A, Yoon J. A Primary Care Telehealth Pilot Program to Improve Access: Associations with Patients' Health Care Utilization and Costs. Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association. 2022 May 1; 28(5):643-653.
Jacobs J, Ferguson JM, Van Campen J, Yefimova M, Greene L, Heyworth L, Zulman DM. Organizational and External Factors Associated with Video Telehealth Use in the Veterans Health Administration Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association. 2022 Feb 1; 28(2):199-211.
Ferguson JM, Jacobs J, Yefimova M, Greene L, Heyworth L, Zulman DM. Virtual care expansion in the Veterans Health Administration during the COVID-19 pandemic: clinical services and patient characteristics associated with utilization. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2021 Mar 1; 28(3):453-462.
Barnett PG, Jacobs JC, Jarvik JG, Chou R, Boothroyd D, Lo J, Nevedal A. Assessment of Primary Care Clinician Concordance With Guidelines for Use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients With Nonspecific Low Back Pain in the Veterans Affairs Health System. JAMA Network Open. 2020 Jul 1; 3(7):e2010343.
Jacobs JC, Hu J, Slightam C, Gregory A, Zulman DM. Virtual Savings: Patient-Reported Time and Money Savings from a VA National Telehealth Tablet Initiative. Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association. 2020 Sep 1; 26(9):1178-1183.
Nevedal AL, Lewis ET, Wu J, Jacobs J, Jarvik JG, Chou R, Barnett PG. Factors Influencing Primary Care Providers' Unneeded Lumbar Spine MRI Orders for Acute, Uncomplicated Low-Back Pain: a Qualitative Study. Journal of general internal medicine. 2020 Apr 1; 35(4):1044-1051.
Stanfors M, Jacobs JC, Neilson J. Caregiving time costs and trade-offs: Gender differences in Sweden, the UK, and Canada. SSM - population health. 2019 Dec 1; 9:100501.
Jacobs JC, Barnett PG. Emergent Challenges in Determining Costs for Economic Evaluations. Pharmacoeconomics. 2017 Feb 1; 35(2):129-139.
Gehlert E, Jacobs JC, Barnett PG. Technical Report 32: Costing Methods Used in VA Research, 1980-2012. Menlo Park, CA: Health Economics Resource Center; 2016 Oct 1. Available from: https://www.herc.research.va.gov/include/page.asp?id=technical-report-costing-methods.
Jacobs JC. The effect of informal caregiving on women's retirement in the United States. Journal of population ageing. 2016 Aug 4; DOI: 10.1007/s12062-016-9154-2.
Jacobs JC. Caregiving intensity and retirement status in Canada. Paper presented at: Work and Family Researchers Network Annual Conference; 2016 Jun 23; Washington, DC.
Jacobs JC, Burke S, Rouse M, Sarma S, Zaric G. Cardiovascular Disease Risk Awareness and Its Association With Preventive Health Behaviors: Evidence From a Sample of Canadian Workplaces. Journal of occupational and environmental medicine / American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2016 May 1; 58(5):459-65.
Jacobs JC. Heterogamy and effective contraceptive use among married and cohabiting women. Paper presented at: Population Association of America Annual Meeting; 2016 Mar 31; Washington, DC.
Jacobs JC. Introduction to Effectiveness, Patient Preferences, and Utilities. HERC Cost Effectiveness Analysis Course [Cyberseminar]. HSR&D. 2016 Feb 10.
Jacobs JC, Van Houtven C, Laporte A, Coyte PC. Baby Boomer caregivers in the workforce: Do they fare better or worse than their predecessors? Journal of the economics of ageing. 2015 Dec 1; 6:89-101.
Staes C, Jacobs J, Mayer J, Allen J. Description of outbreaks of health-care-associated infections related to compounding pharmacies, 2000-12. American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. 2013 Aug 1; 70(15):1301-12.