Publications from 2013
What Aspect of Dependence Does the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence Measure?, Joseph R. DiFranza, Robert J. Wellman, Judith A. Savageau, Ariel Beccia, W. W. Sanouri A. Ursprung, and Robert McMillen
Methodological challenges of measuring primary care delivery to pediatric medicaid beneficiaries who use community health centers, Karen R. Tyo, Deborah Gurewich, and Donald S. Shepard
Prenatal Oral Health Education in U.S. Obstetrics and Gynecology Residencies and Dental Schools: Results of a National Survey, Megan Weeks, Judith A. Savageau, and Hugh Silk
Publications from 2012
Medicaid, Robert A. Baldor and Michael A. Tutty
Medicare, Robert A. Baldor and Michael A. Tutty
Evaluating the Efficacy of Training Programs for Community Health Workers in Rural Uganda, Elizabeth Butler, Edward O’Neil, Zachary Tabb, Edward Mwebe, John Mukadde, Prossy Jim, Michael A. Godkin, Judith A. Savageau, Safi Ahmed, and Arwen Wolfe
Community Mental Health Provider Reluctance to Provide Pharmacotherapy May Be a Barrier to Addressing Perinatal Depression: A Preliminary Study, Nancy Byatt, Kathleen Biebel, Gifty Debordes-Jackson, Rebecca S. Lundquist, Tiffany A. Moore Simas, Linda F. Weinreb, and Douglas M. Ziedonis
Perspectives of People Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing on Mental Health, Recovery, and Peer Support, Linda M. Cabral, Kathy Muhr, and Judith A. Savageau
Inquiring into our past: when the doctor is a survivor of abuse, Lucy M. Candib, Judith A. Savageau, Linda F. Weinreb, and George W. Reed
Partnering for health: collaborative leadership between a community health center and the YWCA central Massachusetts, Suzanne B. Cashman, Patricia Flanagan, Matthew A. Silva, and Lucy M. Candib
Variation of Adenoma Prevalence by Age, Sex, Race, and Colon Location in a Large Population: Implications for Screening and Quality Programs, Douglas A. Corley, Christopher D. Jensen, Amy R. Marks, Wei K. Zhao, Jolanda de Boer, Theodore R. Levin, Chyke A. Doubeni, Bruce H. Fireman, and Charles P. Quesenberry
Assessing Patient-Provider Collaboration in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes in Jamaica and Effects on Glycemic Control, Paul E. Daniel Jr., Michael A. Godkin, Judith A. Savageau, Rosemarie Wright-Pascoe, and Michael G. Lee
A comparison of the Autonomy over Tobacco Scale and the Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence, Joseph R. DiFranza, Judith A. Savageau, and Robert J. Wellman
The assessment of tobacco dependence in young users of smokeless tobacco, Joseph R. DiFranza, Michael Sweet, Judith A. Savageau, and W. W. Sanouri A. Ursprung
Does progression through the stages of physical addiction indicate increasing overall addiction to tobacco, Joseph R. DiFranza, Robert J. Wellman, and Judith A. Savageau
Neighborhood socioeconomic status and use of colonoscopy in an insured population--a retrospective cohort study, Chyke A. Doubeni, Guruprasad D. Jambaulikar, Hassan Fouayzi, Scott B. Robinson, Margaret J. Gunter, Terry S. Field, Douglas W. Roblin, and Robert H. Fletcher
Socioeconomic status and the risk of colorectal cancer: An analysis of more than a half million adults in the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study, Chyke A. Doubeni, Adeyinka O. Laiyemo, Jacqueline M. Major, Mario Schootman, Min Lian, Yikyung Park, Barry I. Graubard, Albert R. Hollenbeck, and Rashmi Sinha
Contribution of behavioral risk factors and obesity to socioeconomic differences in colorectal cancer incidence, Chyke A. Doubeni, Jacqueline M. Major, Adeyinka O. Laiyemo, Mario Schootman, Ann G. Zauber, Albert R. Hollenbeck, Rashmi Sinha, and Jeroan J. Allison
Health Status, Neighborhood Socioeconomic Context, and Premature Mortality in the United States: The National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study, Chyke A. Doubeni, Mario Schootman, Jacqueline M. Major, Rosalie A. Torres Stone, Adeyinka O. Laiyemo, Yikyung Park, Min Lian, Lynne Messer, Barry I. Graubard, Rashmi Sinha, Albert R. Hollenbeck, and Arthur Schatzkin
Developing community health worker diabetes training, Warren J. Ferguson, Celeste A. Lemay, J. Lee Hargraves, T. Gorodetsky, and J. Calista
Assessing Health Care Reform: Potential Effects on Insurance Coverage Among Persons With Disabilities, Jack Gettens, Alexis D. Henry, and Jay S. Himmelstein
The Prospect of Losing Benefits and the Work Decisions of Participants in Disability Programs : A Cross-Program Comparison, Jack Gettens, Alexis D. Henry, Aniko Laszlo, and Jay S. Himmelstein
Achieving excellence in community health centers: implications for health reform, Deborah Gurewich, John Capitman, Jenna T. Sirkin, and Diana Traje
On-site provision of substance abuse treatment services at community health centers, Deborah Gurewich, Jenna T. Sirkin, and Donald S. Shepard
Eat Walk Sleep for Health: Primary Prevention in a Refugee Community, Heather-Lyn Haley, Meredith Walsh, Nang Maung, Clara Savage, and Suzanne B. Cashman
Community health workers assisting patients with diabetes in self-management, J. Lee Hargraves, Warren J. Ferguson, Celeste A. Lemay, and Joan Pernice
Self-reported colorectal cancer screening of Medicare beneficiaries in family medicine vs. internal medicine practices in the United States: a cross-sectional study, Angela (Young) Higgins, Anna R. B. Doubeni, Karon L. Phillips, Adeyinka O. Laiyemo, Becky A. Briesacher, Jennifer Tjia, and Chyke A. Doubeni
An Ounce of Prevention: How Are We Managing the Early Assessment of Residents' Clinical Skills?: A CERA Study, Tracy Kedian, Lisa S. Gussak, Judith A. Savageau, Andreas Cohrssen, Ilene Abramson, Kelly Everard, and Alison Dobbie
Gender Differences in the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence in Korean Americans, Sun Kim, (Julia) Hua Fang, Joseph R. DiFranza, Douglas M. Ziedonis, and Grace X. Ma
Obesity, weight change, and risk of adenoma recurrence: a prospective trial, Adeyinka O. Laiyemo, Chyke A. Doubeni, Dilhana S. Badurdeen, Gillian Murphy, Pamela M. Marcus, Robert E. Schoen, E. Lanza, Duane T. Smoot, and A. J. Cross
Factors associated with inadequate colorectal cancer screening with flexible sigmoidoscopy, Adeyinka O. Laiyemo, Chyke A. Doubeni, Paul F. Pinsky, V. Paul Doria-Rose, Andrew K. Sanderson II, Robert Bresalier, Joel Weissfeld, Robert E. Schoen, Pamela M. Marcus, Phillip C. Prorok, and Christine D. Berg
A new approach to ensuring oral health care for people living with HIV/AIDS: the dental case manager, Celeste A. Lemay, Suzanne B. Cashman, Anne McDonald, and John R. Graves
Community health worker encounter forms: a tool to guide and document patient visits and worker performance, Celeste A. Lemay, Warren J. Ferguson, and J. Lee Hargraves
Socioeconomic status, healthcare density, and risk of prostate cancer among African American and Caucasian men in a large prospective study, Jacqueline M. Major, M. Norman Oliver, Chyke A. Doubeni, Albert R. Hollenbeck, Barry I. Graubard, and Rashmi Sinha
Breakout Session: "Integrating Community Engaged Research into the Patient-Centered Medical Home", Toni McGuire and Carole C. Upshur
Smoking among pregnant women with disabilities, Monika Mitra, Emily Lu, and Hafsatou Diop
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Family Intervention for Co-occurring Substance Use and Severe Psychiatric Disorders, Kim T. Mueser, Shirley M. Glynn, Corrine Cather, Haiyi Xie, Roberto Zarate, Lindy Fox Smith, Robin E. Clark, Jennifer D. Gottlieb, Rosemarie Wolfe, and James Feldman
Perceptions of evidence-based programs among community-based organizations tackling health disparities: a qualitative study, Shoba Ramanadhan, Josephine Crisostomo, Jaclyn Alexander-Molloy, Ediss Gandelman, Milagro Grullon, Vilma Lora, Chrasandra Reeves, Clara Savage, Kasisomayajula Viswanatha, PLANET MassCONECT C-PAC, and Chyke A. Doubeni
Health Care for the Homeless: An Aging Demographic 2006 to 2010, Jennifer Aborn Russo and Carole C. Upshur
Acute Care Surgery Patterns in the Current Era: Results of a Qualitative Study, Heena Santry, Patricia L. Pringle, Timothy A. Emhoff, George C. Velmahos, L. D. Britt, Lee Hargraves, and Catarina I. Kiefe
The EHR Has No Clothes, Barry G. Saver
Provision of contraceptive services to homeless women: results of a survey of health care for the homeless providers, Barry G. Saver, Linda F. Weinreb, Lillian Gelberg, and Suzanne Zerger
Assessing Oral Health Curriculum in US Family Medicine Residency Programs: A CERA Study, Hugh Silk, Ronnelle King, Ian M. Bennett, Alexander W. Chessman, and Judith A. Savageau
Improving population health through integration of primary care and public health: providing access to physical activity for community health center patients, Matthew A. Silva, Suzanne B. Cashman, Parag Kunte, and Lucy M. Candib
Quality improvement "201": context-relevant quality improvement leadership training for the busy clinician-educator, Christopher J. Stille, Judith A. Savageau, Jeanne McBride, and Eric J. Alper
Quality improvement "201": context-relevant quality improvement leadership training for the busy clinician-educator, Christopher J. Stille, Judith A. Savageau, Jeanne McBride, and Eric J. Alper
Implementing a Primary Prevention Social Skills Intervention in Urban Preschools: Factors Associated with Quality and Fidelity, Melodie Wenz-Gross and Carole C. Upshur
Publications from 2011
Medicaid, Robert A. Baldor
Medicare, Robert A. Baldor
Receipt of general medical care by colorectal cancer patients: a longitudinal study, Laura-Mae Baldwin, Sharon A. Dobie, Yong Cai, Barry G. Saver, Pamela K. Green, and C. Y. Wang
Factors associated with Medicaid patients' access to buprenorphine treatment, Jeffrey D. Baxter, Robin E. Clark, Mihail D. Samnaliev, Yat (Gary) Leung, and Lobat Hashemi
Return-to-work self-efficacy: development and validation of a scale in claimants with musculoskeletal disorders, Sandra Brouwer, Renee-Louise Franche, Sheilah Hogg-Johnson, Hyunmi Lee, Niklas Krause, and William S. Shaw
Transforming the culture of surgical education: promoting teacher identity through human factors training, Mitchell A. Cahan, Susan Starr, Anne C. Larkin, Demetrius E. M. Litwin, Kate Sullivan, and Mark E. Quirk
The evidence doesn't justify steps by state Medicaid programs to restrict opioid addiction treatment with buprenorphine, Robin E. Clark, Mihail D. Samnaliev, Jeffrey D. Baxter, and Yat (Gary) Leung
Helping men make an informed decision about prostate cancer screening: A pilot study of telephone counseling, Mary E. Costanza, Roger S. Luckmann, Milagros C. Rosal, Mary Jo White, Nancy R. LaPelle, Melissa Partin, Caroline Cranos, Katherine Leung, and Christine M. Foley
An evaluation of a clinical approach to staging tobacco addiction, Joseph R. DiFranza, Michael Sweet, Judith A. Savageau, and W. W. Sanouri A. Ursprung
Do primary care physicians lose contact with their colorectal cancer patients, Sharon Dobie, Barry G. Saver, Ching-Yun Wang, Pamela K. Green, and Laura-Mae Baldwin
Model approaches for advancing interprofessional prevention education, Clyde H. Evans, Suzanne B. Cashman, Donna A. Page, and David R. Garr
Teaching Oral Health in U.S. Medical Schools: Results of a National Survey, Ashley Ferullo, Hugh Silk, and Judith A. Savageau
Comparison of blogged and written reflections in two medicine clerkships, Melissa A. Fischer, Heather-Lyn Haley, Carrie L. Saarinen, and Katherine C C. Chretien
Have working-age people with disabilities shared in the gains of Massachusetts health reform, John Gettens, Monika Mitra, Alexis D. Henry, and Jay S. Himmelstein
Eat Walk Sleep Discuss: Building a Multi-Dimensional Participatory Relationship, Heather-Lyn Haley, Suzanne B. Cashman, Michael A. Godkin, Meredith Walsh, Nang Maung, Toy Lim, Sarah Tracy, Clara Savage, and James Madison II
Provision of Fluoride Varnish to Medicaid-Enrolled Children by Physicians: The Massachusetts Experience, Inyang A. Isong, Hugh Silk, Sowmya R. Rao, James M. Perrin, Judith A. Savageau, and Karen Donelan
A comparison of brain and behavioral effects of varenicline and nicotine in rats, Jean A. King, Wei Huang, Wei Chen, Meghan E. Heffernan, Jessica Shields, Pallavi Rane, Rhiannon Bircher, and Joseph R. DiFranza
Likelihood of missed and recurrent adenomas in the proximal versus the distal colon, Adeyinka O. Laiyemo, Chyke A. Doubeni, Andrew K. Sanderson II, Paul F. Pinsky, Dilhana S. Badurdeen, V. Paul Doria-Rose, Pamela M. Marcus, Robert E. Schoen, Elaine Lanza, Arthur Schatzkin, and Amanda J. Cross
Being there, there and there: using research methodology to evaluate the effectiveness of librarians embedded in chart rounds within a multi-center Family Medicine residency program, Len L. Levin, Judith M. Nordberg, and Heather-Lyn Haley
Geographic variation in colorectal cancer survival and the role of small-area socioeconomic deprivation: a multilevel survival analysis of the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study Cohort, Min Lian, Mario Schootman, Chyke A. Doubeni, Yikyung Park, Jacqueline M. Major, Rosalie A. Torres Stone, Adeyinka O. Laiyemo, Albert R. Hollenbeck, Barry I. Graubard, and Arthur Schatzkin
Geographic variation in colorectal cancer survival and the role of small-area socioeconomic deprivation: a multilevel survival analysis of the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study Cohort, Min Lian, Mario Schootman, Chyke A. Doubeni, Yikyung Park, Jacqueline M. Major, Rosalie A. Torres Stone, Adeyinka O. Laiyemo, Albert R. Hollenbeck, Barry I. Graubard, and Arthur Schatzkin
Impact of psychological factors in the experience of pain, Steven J. Linton and William S. Shaw
Chronic physical conditions in older adults with mental illness and/ or substance use disorders, Wen-Chieh Lin, Jianying Zhang, Yat (Gary) Leung, and Robin E. Clark
Commentary: defining disability in health care education, Linda M. Long-Bellil, Darlene M. O'Connor, Kenneth L. Robey, Joan Earle Hahn, Paula M. Minihan, Catherine L. Graham, and Suzanne C. Smeltzer
Teaching medical students about disability: the use of standardized patients, Linda M. Long-Bellil, Kenneth L. Robey, Catherine L. Graham, Paula M. Minihan, Suzanne C. Smeltzer, and Paul Kahn
Socioeconomic deprivation impact on meat intake and mortality: NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study, Jacqueline M. Major, Amanda J. Cross, Chyke A. Doubeni, Yikyung Park, Min Lian, Albert R. Hollenbeck, Arthur Schatzkin, Barry I. Graubard, and Rashmi Sinha
Desired educational outcomes of disability-related training for the generalist physician: knowledge, attitudes, and skills, Paula M. Minihan, Kenneth L. Robey, Linda M. Long-Bellil, Catherine L. Graham, Joan Earle Hahn, Laurie Woodard, and Gary E. Eddey
Unmet needs for home and community-based services among persons with disabilities in Massachusetts, Monika Mitra, Karen Bogen, Linda M. Long-Bellil, and Dennis Heaphy
Physical abuse around the time of pregnancy among women with disabilities, Monika Mitra, Susan E. Manning, and Emily Lu
Sexual violence victimization against men with disabilities, Monika Mitra, Vera E. Mouradian, and Marci Diamond
Introduction: elder mental health: the next frontier, Darlene M. O'Connor and Laney Bruner-Canhoto
Leveraging the PASRR process to divert and transition elders with mental illness from nursing facilities, Darlene M. O'Connor, Jennifer S. Ingle, and Kimberly N. Wamback
Mapping Patient Distributions Informs Community-Oriented Primary Care in Four Community Health Centers in Central Massachusetts, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Warren J. Ferguson, Suzanne B. Cashman, Rahul Rakshit, Heather-Lyn Haley, Marie Caggiano, Konstantinos Deligiannidis, and Ben Adler
Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis with Marine and Botanical Oils: Influence on Serum Lipids, Barbara C. Olendzki, Katherine Leung, Susan Van Buskirk, George W. Reed, and Robert B. Zurier
Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis with Marine and Botanical Oils: Influence on Serum Lipids (poster), Barbara C. Olendzki, Katherine Leung, Susan Van Buskirk, George W. Reed, and Robert B. Zurier
Weaving public health education into the fabric of a family medicine residency, Mary M. Philbin, Konstantinos Deligiannidis, Suzanne B. Cashman, Marie E. Caggiano, Lisa H. Carter, Heather-Lyn Haley, and Warren J. Ferguson
Are we making progress?: the tenth international forum for primary care research on low back pain, Glenn S. Pransky, Jeffrey M. Borkan, Amanda E. Young, and Daniel C. Cherkin
Randomized trial of a literacy-sensitive, culturally tailored diabetes self-management intervention for low-income latinos: latinos en control, Milagros C. Rosal, Ira S. Ockene, Angela Restrepo, Mary Jo White, Amy Borg, Barbara C. Olendzki, Jeffrey Scavron, Lucy M. Candib, Garry Welch, and George W. Reed
Recruitment and Retention of Primary Care Physicians at Community Health Centers: A Survey of Massachusetts Physicians, Judith A. Savageau, Warren J. Ferguson, Joan L. Bohlke, Linda J. Cragin, and Elizabeth O'Connell
Are population-based diabetes models useful for individual risk estimation, Barry G. Saver, J. Lee Hargraves, and Kathleen M. Mazor
Addressing occupational factors in the management of low back pain: implications for physical therapist practice, William S. Shaw, Chris J. Main, and Venerina Johnston
The effects of patient-provider communication on 3-month recovery from acute low back pain, William S. Shaw, Glenn S. Pransky, Debra L. Roter, Thomas Winters, Torill H. Tveito, and Susan M. Larson
Children's loss of autonomy over smoking: the Global Youth Tobacco Survey, Elpidoforos S. Soteriades, George Spanoudis, Michael A. Talias, Charles W. Warren, and Joseph R. DiFranza
Expert communication training for providers in community health centers, Mary F. Sullivan, Warren J. Ferguson, Heather-Lyn Haley, Mary Philbin, Tracy Kedian, Kate Sullivan, and Mark E. Quirk
What is the Significance of Experiencing Relaxation in Response to the First Use of Nicotine?, W. W. Sanouri A. Ursprung, Judith A. Savageau, and Joseph R. DiFranza
Disparities in routine breast cancer screening for medicaid managed care members with a work-limiting disability, Sharada G. Weir, Heather Posner, Whitney C. Jones, Georgianna Willis, Jeffrey D. Baxter, and Robin E. Clark
Predictors of prenatal and postpartum care adequacy in a medicaid managed care population, Sharada G. Weir, Heather Posner, Jianying Zhang, Georgianna Willis, Jeffrey D. Baxter, and Robin E. Clark
Exploring extensions to working life: job lock and predictors of decreasing work function in older workers, Ross Wilkie, Manuel Cifuentes, and Glenn S. Pransky
Global longitudinal pathway: has medical education curriculum influenced medical students' skills and attitudes toward culturally diverse populations?, Mary L. Zanetti, Michael A. Godkin, Joshua P. Twomey, and Michele P. Pugnaire
Publications from 2010
Practice parameters and financial factors impacting developmental-behavioral pediatrics, Robin Adair, Ellen C. Perrin, Carol Hubbard, and Judith A. Savageau
A human factors curriculum for surgical clerkship students, Mitchell Cahan, Anne C. Larkin, Susan Starr, Scott Wellman, Heather-Lyn Haley, Kate Sullivan, Shimul A. Shah, Michael P. Hirsh, Demetrius E. M. Litwin, and Mark E. Quirk
The course of opioid prescribing for a new episode of disabling low back pain: opioid features and dose escalation, Manuel Cifuentes, Barbara Webster, Stephane Genevay, and Glenn S. Pransky
The prevalence of obesity in children with autism: a secondary data analysis using nationally representative data from the National Survey of Children's Health, Carol Curtin, Sarah E. Anderson, Aviva Must, and Linda G. Bandini