Search Results - "Perrin, Edward B"

Evaluating quality-of-life and health status instruments: development of scientific review criteria by Lohr, Kathleen N., Aaronson, Neil K., Alonso, Jordi, Audrey Burnam, M., Patrick, Donald L., Perrin, Edward B., Roberts, James S.

“…The Medical Outcomes Trust is a depository and distributor of high-quality, standardized, health outcomes measurement instruments to national and international…”
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Some Thoughts on Outcomes Research, Quality Improvement, and Performance Measurement by Perrin, Edward B.

“…Outcomes research, quality improvement, and performance measurement are important activities in the cancer research community. They are, indeed, closely…”
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Commentary on the Veterans Health Study by Perrin, Edward B

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Randomized trial of a patient-centered hospital unit by Martin, Diane P, Diehr, Paula, Conrad, Douglas A, Hunt Davis, Julie, Leickly, Richard, Perrin, Edward B

“…Patient-centered hospital units have grown out of the national trend to greater consumerism, but few of these units have been evaluated rigorously. We used a…”
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Race- and ethnicity-specific characteristics of participants lost to follow-up in a telephone cohort by Psaty, B M, Cheadle, A, Koepsell, T D, Diehr, P, Wickizer, T, Curry, S, VonKorff, M, Perrin, E B, Pearson, D C, Wagner, E H

“…The purpose of this study was to describe race- and ethnicity-specific characteristics of subjects lost to follow-up. For a study of community-based health…”
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Implementation of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation's Community Health Promotion Grant Program: A Process Evaluation by Wickizer, Thomas M., Wagner, Edward, Cheadle, Allen, Pearson, David, Beery, William, Maeser, Jennifer, Psaty, Bruce, Vonkorff, Michael, Koepsell, Thomas, Diehr, Paula, Perrin, Edward B.

“…The Community Health Promotion Grants Program, sponsored by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, represents a major health initiative that established 11…”
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Measuring the quality of medical care. A clinical method by Rutstein, D D, Berenberg, W, Chalmers, T C, Child, 3rd, C G, Fishman, A P, Perrin, E B

“…We outline the implementation of a new method of measuring the quality of medical care that counts cases of unnecessary disease and disability and unnecessary…”
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Community-Based Surveillance of Acute Ischemic Heart Disease: Are One-Time Mailed Questionnaires to Physicians Useful? by Andresen, Elena M., Carter, William B., Perrin, Edward B.

“…A 12-month data collection from medical records in Seattle/King County for acute ischemic heart disease among patients with diabetes mellitus was augmented…”
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Sampling elderly in the community: a comparison of commercial telemarketing lists and random digit dialing techniques for assessing health behaviors and health status by Psaty, B M, Cheadle, A, Curry, S, McKenna, T, Koepsell, T D, Wickizer, T, VonKorff, M, Diehr, P, Perrin, E B, Wagner, E H

“…A study of health behaviors in four communities in the western United States in 1988 provided the opportunity to compare two methods of sampling elderly…”
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Primary Care Physician Compensation Method in Medical Groups: Does It Influence the Use and Cost of Health Services for Enrollees in Managed Care Organizations? by Conrad, Douglas A, Maynard, Charles, Cheadle, Allen, Ramsey, Scott, Marcus-Smith, Miriam, Kirz, Howard, Madden, Carolyn A, Martin, Diane, Perrin, Edward B, Wickizer, Thomas, Zierler, Brenda, Ross, Austin, Noren, Jay, Liang, Su-Ying

“…CONTEXT.— Growth of at-risk managed care contracts between health plans and medical groups has been well documented, but less is known about the nature of…”
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Interspecialty differences in the obstetric care of low-risk women by Rosenblatt, R A, Dobie, S A, Hart, L G, Schneeweiss, R, Gould, D, Raine, T R, Benedetti, T J, Pirani, M J, Perrin, E B

“…This study examined differences among obstetricians, family physicians, and certified nurse-midwives in the patterns of obstetric care provided to low-risk…”
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The Elements of Stochastic Processes with Application to the Natural Sciences by Perrin, Edward B.

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The distribution of birth intervals under a class of stochastic fertility models by Sheps, Mindel C., Perrin, Edward B.

“…Characterization ofthe distribution ofintervals between successive births affords both practical and theoretical advantages in the analysis of fertility data…”
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The Kaiser Family Foundation Community Health Promotion Grants Program: findings from an outcome evaluation by Wagner, E H, Wickizer, T M, Cheadle, A, Psaty, B M, Koepsell, T D, Diehr, P, Curry, S J, Von Korff, M, Anderman, C, Beery, W L, Pearson, D C, Perrin, E B

“…To present results from an outcome evaluation of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation's Community Health Promotion Grants Program (CHPGP) in the West, which…”
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The effect of matching on the power of randomized community intervention studies by Martin, D C, Diehr, P, Perrin, E B, Koepsell, T D

“…Currently, there is considerable interest in studies that use the community as the experimental unit. Health promotion programmes are one example. Because such…”
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Changes in birth rates as a function of contraceptive effectiveness: some applications of a stochastic model by SHEPS, M C, PERRIN, E B

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Clinical Investigation of the Portacaval Shunt: III. The Diagnosis of Esophageal Varices by Peternel, Wayne W, Dagradi, Angelo E, Rogers, Arvey I, Nadal, Hector M, Perrin, Edward B, Jackson, Francis C

“…In 83 patients with liver cirrhosis, an esophagogram after administration of barium sulfate, an endoscopic examination of the esophagus, and a portogram after…”
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FURTHER RESULTS FROM A HUMAN FERTILITY MODEL WITH A VARIETY OF PREGNANCY OUTCOMES by SHEPS, MINDEL C., PERRIN, EDWARD B.

“…A simplified model is presented for the sequence of events occurring during human reproduction. Like the more general system (Perrin and Sheps, 1964) of which…”
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Data analysis and sample size issues in evaluations of community-based health promotion and disease prevention programs: a mixed-model analysis of variance approach by Koepsell, T D, Martin, D C, Diehr, P H, Psaty, B M, Wagner, E H, Perrin, E B, Cheadle, A

“…The growing interest in community-based approaches to health promotion and disease prevention (HP/DP) has been accompanied by a growing need to evaluate the…”
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Biological and lifestyle factors, and lipid and lipoprotein levels among Japanese Americans in Seattle and Japanese men in Japan by NAMEKATA, T, MOORE, D. E, SUZUKI, K, MORI, M, KNOPP, R. H, MARCOVINA, S. M, PERRIN, E. B, HUGHES, D. A, HATANO, S, HAYASHI, C

“…It has been previously shown that Japanese Americans in Seattle have significantly higher cholesterol levels than native Japanese. The present study examines…”
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