Health Care

Faculty
Liana Castel
Bruce Compas
Robert Dittus
Tom A. Elasy
Wesley E. Ely
Marie Griffin
Katherine E. Hartmann
Sunil Kripalani
Melissa McPheeters
Harvey Murff
Russell L. Rothman
John F. Schnelle
Theodore Speroff
Kristin Swygert

Selected Current Research
The MIND ICU Study
National Institute on Aging

Safe Critical Care: Testing Improvement Strategies
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Selected Recent Publications

Carroll KN, Gebretsadik T, Griffin MR, Wu P, Dupont WD, Mitchel EF, Enriquez R, Hartert TV. Increasing burden and risk factors for bronchiolitis-related medical visits in infants enrolled in a state health care insurance plan. Pediatrics. 122(1):58-64, 2008. 

Dossett LA, Dittus RS, Speroff T, May AK, Cotton BA. Cost-effectiveness of routine radiographs after emergent open cavity operations. Surgery. 144(2):317-21, 2008.

Hartert TV, Deng X, Hartman TJ, Wen W, Yang G, Gao YT, Jin M, Bai C, Roberts LJ, Sheller JR, Christman J, Dupont W, Griffin M, Shu XO. The Shanghai Women´s Asthma and Allergy Study: Objectives, Design, and Recruitment Results. Am J Epidemiol 167(11):1387-96, 2008.

Huang RL, Donelli A, Byrd J, Mickiewicz MA, Slovis C, Roumie C, Elasy TA, Dittus RS, Speroff T, Disalvo T, Zhao D. Using quality improvement methods to improve door-to-balloon time at an academic medical center. J Invasive Cardiol. 20(2):46-52, 2008.

Roumie CL, Mitchel E, Gideon PS, Varas-Lorenzo C, Castellsague J, Griffin MR. Validation of ICD-9 codes with a high positive predictive value for incident strokes resulting in hospitalization using Medicaid health data. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 17(1):20-6, 2008.