The Clinical and Population Health Research (CPHR) program at UMass Medical School emphasizes clinical and health services research skills, providing students the tools to conduct research on health care access, screening, treatment, quality, and outcomes. This collection showcases publications and presentations written by CPHR faculty and students.

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Submissions from 2009

Development and Validation of a Modified Disease Activity Score (MDAS28) in Rheumatoid Arthritis for Use in Standard Care, Mary Jane Bentley and George W. Reed

Medication adherence and use of generic drug therapies, Becky A. Briesacher, Susan E. Andrade, Hassan Fouayzi, and K. Arnold Chan

Improving Community Based Mental Health Services for Elders in Massachusetts: Twelve-Month Diagnosed Prevalence of Mental Illness, Substance Use Disorders, and Medical Comorbidity in Massachusetts Medicare and Medicaid Members Aged 55 and Over, 2005, Robin E. Clark, Yat (Gary) Leung, Wen-Chieh Lin, Faith C. Little, Elizabeth O'Connell, Darlene M. O'Connor, Jianying Zhang, Sandra Albright, and Mary Kay Browne

Perceived accessibility of cigarettes among youth: a prospective cohort study, Chyke A. Doubeni, Wenjun Li, Hassan Fouayzi, and Joseph R. DiFranza

Whole grain and legume acceptability among youths with type 1 diabetes, Lauren A. Gellar, Alisha J. Rovner, and Tonja R. Nansel

The expanded Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events: Baseline characteristics, management practices, and hospital outcomes of patients with acute coronary syndromes, Shaun G. Goodman, Wei Huang, Andrew T. Yan, Andrzej Budaj, Brian M. Kennelly, Joel M. Gore, Keith A. A. Fox, Robert J. Goldberg, and Frederick A. Anderson

Evaluation of composite measures of treatment response without acute-phase reactants in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, Jeffrey D. Greenberg, Leslie R. Harrold, Mary Jane Bentley, Joel Kremer, George W. Reed, and Vibeke Strand

Adherence with urate-lowering therapies for the treatment of gout, Leslie R. Harrold, Susan E. Andrade, Becky A. Briesacher, Marsha A. Raebel, Hassan Fouayzi, Robert A. Yood, and Ira S. Ockene

A Prospective Nested Case-Control Study of Dengue in Infants: Rethinking and Refining the Antibody-Dependent Enhancement Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Model., Daniel H. Libraty, Luz P. Acosta, Veronica Tallo, Edelwisa Segubre-Mercado, Analisa Bautista, James A. Potts, Richard G. Jarman, In-Kyu Yoon, Robert V. Gibbons, Job D. Brion, and Rosario Z. Capeding

Recent Trends in Clinical Outcomes and Resource Utilization for Pulmonary Embolism in the United States: Findings From the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, B. Park, Louis M. Messina, Phong Dargon, Wei Huang, R. Ciocca, and Frederick A. Anderson

The effect of a low-glycemic diet vs a standard diet on blood glucose levels and macronutrient intake in children with type 1 diabetes, Alisha J. Rovner, Tonja R. Nansel, and Lauren A. Gellar

Mortality following placement of drug-eluting and bare-metal stents for ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction in the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events, Phillippe Gabriel Steg, Keith A. A. Fox, Kim A. Eagle, Mark I. Furman, Frans Van de Werf, Gilles Montalescot, Shaun G. Goodman, Alvaro Avezum, Wei Huang, and Joel M. Gore

Examining the Effects of Treatment and Patient Characteristics on Patient Profiles of Depression, Anxiety and Functionality after an Acute Coronary Syndrome, Mayra Tisminetzky, B. C. Bray, Ruben Miozzo, and Thomas J. McLaughlin

Submissions from 2008

Simplified composite disease activity measures in rheumatoid arthritis: should they be used in standard care, Mary Jane Bentley and George W. Reed

Comparison of drug adherence rates among patients with seven different medical conditions, Becky A. Briesacher, Susan E. Andrade, Hassan Fouayzi, and K. Arnold Chan

In vitro evidence that commercial influenza vaccines are not similar in their ability to activate human T cell responses, Mary Dawn T. Co, Laura Orphin, John Cruz, Pamela P. Pazoles, Karin M. Green, James A. Potts, Anita M. Leporati, Jenny Aurielle B. Babon, James E. Evans, Francis A. Ennis, and Masanori Terajima

Stress-Associated Poor Health Among Adult Immigrants with a Language Barrier in the United States, Hongliu Ding and Lee Hargraves

Perceived accessibility as a predictor of youth smoking, Chyke A. Doubeni, Wenjun Li, Hassan Fouayzi, and Joseph R. DiFranza

Effect of varying glycemic index meals on blood glucose control assessed with continuous glucose monitoring in youth with type 1 diabetes on basal-bolus insulin regimens, Tonja R. Nansel, Lauren A. Gellar, and Adrienne McGill

Thirty-year trends (1975-2005) in the magnitude and hospital death rates associated with complete heart block in patients with acute myocardial infarction: a population-based perspective, Hoa L. Nguyen, Darleen M. Lessard, Frederick A. Spencer, Jorge L. Yarzebski, Juan Carlos Zevallos, Joel M. Gore, and Robert J. Goldberg

Clinical and laboratory features that distinguish dengue from other febrile illnesses in endemic populations, James A. Potts and Alan L. Rothman

Alzheimer's disease: epidemiology, genetics, and beyond, Xiao-Ping Wang and Hongliu Ding

Changes of procedural learning in Chinese patients with non-demented Parkinson disease, Xiao-Ping Wang, Bo-Min Sun, and Hongliu Ding

Is coronary artery disease a multifactorial inherited disorder with a sex-influenced trait, Changsheng Yang, Xiao-Ping Wang, and Hongliu Ding

Submissions from 2007

Family medicine physicians' views of how to improve chronic pain management, Linda Garufi Clark and Carole C. Upshur

Bone health in postmenopausal women with early breast cancer: how protective is tamoxifen, Hongliu Ding and Terry S. Field

Healthy eating practices: perceptions, facilitators, and barriers among youth with diabetes, Lauren A. Gellar, Kelly Schrader, and Tonja R. Nansel

Validity of gout diagnoses in administrative data, Leslie R. Harrold, Kenneth G. Saag, Robert A. Yood, Ted R. Mikuls, Susan E. Andrade, Hassan Fouayzi, Judith Davis, K. Arnold Chan, Marsha A. Raebel, Ann Von Worley, and Richard Platt

Submissions from 2006

Patterns and predictors of mammography utilization among breast cancer survivors, Chyke A. Doubeni, Terry S. Field, Marianne Ulcickas Yood, Sharon J. Rolnick, Charles P. Quessenberry, Hassan Fouayzi, Jerry H. Gurwitz, and Feifei Wei

Acceptability of lower glycemic index foods in the diabetes camp setting, Tonja R. Nansel, Lauren A. Gellar, and Linda Zeitzoff

Primary care provider concerns about management of chronic pain in community clinic populations, Carole C. Upshur, Roger S. Luckmann, and Judith A. Savageau

Submissions from 2005

Disparities and survival among breast cancer patients, Terry S. Field, Diana S. M. Buist, Chyke A. Doubeni, Shelley M. Enger, Hassan Fouayzi, Gene Hart, Eli J. Korner, Lois E. Lamerato, Donald J. Bachman, Jennifer L. Ellis, Lisa J. Herrinton, Mark C. Hornbrook, Richard Krajenta, Liyan Liu, and Janice Yao

Building a virtual cancer research organization, Mark C. Hornbrook, Gene Hart, Jennifer L. Ellis, Donald J. Bachman, Gary Ansell, Sarah M. Greene, Edward H. Wagner, Roy Pardee, Mark M. Schmidt, Ann M. Geiger, Amy L. Butani, Terry S. Field, Hassan Fouayzi, Irina Miroshnik, Liyan Liu, Robert Diseker, Karen Wells, Richard Krajenta, Lois E. Lamerato, and Christine Neslund Dudas