CHOICES is involved in a wide range of activities that have resulted in numerous publications, papers and presentations.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Fendrick AM, Chernew ME, Hirth RA, Bloom BS, Bandekar RR, and Scheiman JM. Clinical and economic effects of population-based Helicobacter pylori screening. Archives of Internal Medicine (forthcoming).

Hirth RA and Chernew ME. The physician labor market in a managed care-dominated environment. Economic Inquiry (forthcoming).

Matchar DB, Samsa GP, Ancukiewicz M, Abrahamse P, Hasselbald V, Parmigiani G and Bian J. Performing cost-effectiveness analysis by integrating randomized trial data with a comprehensive decision model: Application to treatment of acute ischemic stroke. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (forthcoming).

Wilson TE, Wallace C, Roubidoux MA, Sonnad SS, Crowe DJ and Helvie MA. Patient satisfaction with on-line versus off-line mammography. Academic Radiology (forthcoming).

Chernew ME, Scanlon D, and Hayward R. Insurance type and choice of hospital for coronary bypass graft surgery. Health Services Research 1998;33(1):447-466.

Dwamena BA, Kloos RT, Fendrick AM, Gross MD, Francis IR, Korobkin MT and Shapiro B. Diagnostic evaluation of the adrenal incidentaloma: Decision and cost-effectiveness analysis. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 1998;39:707-712.

Katz SJ, Kessler RC, Lin B and Wells K. Medication management of depression in the United States and Ontario. Journal of General Internal Medicine 1998;13:77-85.

Katz SJ, Verrilli D and Barer M. Canadian's use of U.S. medical services. Health Affairs 1998;17(1):225-235.

Langlotz CP and Sonnad SS. Meta-analysis of diagnostic procedures: a brief overview. Academic Radiology 1998;5(S2):S269-S273.

Scanlon DP, Chernew ME, Fendrick AM, and Sheffler S. Health plan report cards: Do they communicate physician quality? Joint Commission Journal on Healthcare Quality 1998;24(1):5-20.

Scanlon DP, Chernew ME, Sheffler S and Fendrick AM. Health plan report cards: Exploring differences in plan ratings. Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement 1998;24(1):5-20.

Sonnad, SS. Organizational requirements for the successful assimilation of process innovation: Applications to medical practice guidelines. Health Care Management Review 1998;23(3):23-30.

Verrilli DK, Berenson R and Katz SJ. A comparison of cardiovascular procedure use between the United States and Canada. Health Services Research 1998;33:3(Part I); 467-487.

Zemencuk JK, Feightner JW, Hayward RA, Skarupski KA and Katz SJ. Patients' desires and expectations for medical care in primary care clinics. Journal of General Internal Medicine 1998;13:273-276.

Chernew ME, Hirth RA, Sonnad SS, Ermann R, and Fendrick AM. Managed care, medical technology and health care cost growth: A review of the evidence. Medical Care Research and Review September 1998;(55):259-288.

Chernew ME, Fendrick AM, and Hirth RA. Managed care and medical technology: Implications for health care cost growth. Health Affairs 1997;(16):196-206.

De Pouvourville G, Ribet-Reinhart N, Fendrick AM, Houry S, Testas P and Huguier M. Prospective comparison of costs and morbidity of laparoscopic versus open cholecystectomy. Hepato-Gastroenterology 1997;44:35-39.

Fendrick AM, McCort J, Chernew ME, Hirth RA, Patel C and Bloom BS. Immediate Helicobacter pylori eradication for patients with previously documented peptic ulcer disease: Clinical and economic effects. American Journal of Gastroenterology 1997; 92(11):2017-24.

Katz SJ, Lomas J, Charles C, Welch HG. Physician relations in Canada: Shooting inward as the circle closes. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 1997;22(6):1413-1431.

Phillips KA, Morrison KR, Sonnad SS, and Bleeker T. HIV counseling and testing of pregnant women by primary care providers: Self-reported beliefs and practices. JAIDS 1997;14:174-178.

Sonnad SS and Foreman SE. An incentive approach to physician implementation of medical practice guidelines. Health Economics 1997;6:467-477.

Woloshin S, Schwartz LM, Katz SJ and Welch HG. Is language a barrier to the use of preventive services? Journal of General Internal Medicine 1997;12(8):472-477.

Hirth RA. Competition between for profit and non-profit health care providers: Can it help achieve social goals? Medical Care Research and Review December 1997;(54): 414-438.

Fendrick AM. Outcomes research in Helicobacter pylori infection. Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics April 1997;11(1):95-101.

Krumholz HM, Fendrick AM, Williams C and Hynes WM. Differences in physician compensation for cardiovascular services by age, sex, and race. The American Journal of Managed Care April 1997;3(4):557-563.

Bree R, Kaserooni L and Katz SJ. Effect of mandatory radiology consultation on inpatient imaging use: A randomized controlled trial. JAMA 1996;276:1595-1598.

Fendrick AM, Chernew ME, Hirth RA and Menton D. Understanding the behavioral response to medical innovation. American Journal of Managed Care 1996;2(7):793-799.

Hofer TP and Katz SJ. Healthy behaviors among women in the United States and Ontario: The effect on use of preventive care. Am J Pub Health 1996;86(12)1755-1759.

Katz SJ, McMahon LF and Manning WG. Comparing the use of diagnostic tests in Canadian and U. S. hospitals. Med Care 1996;34:117-125.

McDonnell WM, Lok AS and Fendrick AM. Diagnostic and treatment strategies in hepatitis C virus infection. Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management 1996;3(6):15-24.

Fendrick AM, Chernew ME, Hirth RA and Bloom BS. Immediate endoscopy or initial serological testing for Helicobacter pylori for patients with suspected ulcer disease: A cost-effectiveness analysis. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine March/April 1996; 69(2):187-195.

Other Publications

Sonnad SS, Bernstein SJ, Comfort M and Sanghvi, S. Hospital decisions to adopt cesarean section guidelines, abs. Medical Decision Making 1997;17(4):535.

Trever K, Kazerooni E, Bree RL and Sonnad SS. Patient beliefs and desires for screening ultrasound during normal pregnancy, abs. Medical Decision Making 1997;17(4):522.

Smith DG, Bell CG and Moyer CA. Corporate self-insurance for health benefits: Motivations, prevalence and managed care. (A literature review and analysis: draft report for the Calhoun County Health Improvement Program, Battle Creek, Michigan) August 1997.

Moyer CA. Expanding the role of mammographers: Self-directed training manual. (NC-BCSP, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center) March 1997.

Sonnad SS and Matuszewski KA. Case study: implementing radiopaque contrast media guidelines. (Technology assessment report, University Healthsystems Consortium, Oakbrook, IL) 1996.

Dake, Karl, et al. Attitudes and beliefs toward biotechnology in different countries: cross cultural commonalties and differences. (Report prepared for The Center of Technology Assessment in Baden-Würtenberg) 1995.

Presentations

Katz SJ. "Breast Cancer Screening in the United States and Canada." National Cancer Institute, June 1998.

Moyer CA, Vishnu L and Sonnad SS. "Providing Health Information to Women: The Role of Magazines." International Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care. Ottawa, ONT, June, 1998.

Sonnad SS, Moyer CA and Bernstein SJ. "Cesarean Section Guideline Use and Physician Attitudes." International Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care. Ottawa, ONT, June, 1998.

Chernew ME and Gowrisankaran G. "Payer Type and the Return to Bypass Surgery: Evidence from Hospital Entry Behavior." Harvard, MIT, Boston University Health Economics Seminar. Boston, April 1998.

Fendrick AM. "Getting Off The Bench: The Outcomes In" Senior Residents' Research Conference, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, Michigan. April, 1998.

Sonnad SS, Eagle KA, Boersma E, Nath P, Karavite D, Russman P, L'Italien G and Poldermans D. "Assessing Cardiac Risk of Vascular Surgery: A Simple Bayesian Model Using Clinical Markers and Results of Preoperative Dobutamine Echocardiography." American College of Cardiology. Atlanta, GA, April, 1998.

Fendrick AM. "Introduction to Decision Analysis" Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of Michigan School of Medicine. Ann Arbor, Michigan. March, 1998.

Fendrick AM. "Getting Off The Bench. The Outcomes In." Grand Rounds, Department of Internal Medicine, Foothills Hospital, University of Calgary School of Medicine. Calgary, Alberta, Canada, March 1998.

Fendrick AM. "Medical Technology, Managed Care, and the Academic Medical Center" University of Connecticut Health Center. Farmington, Connecticut, February 1998.

Moyer CA, Burns CB, Altpeter M, Pisano E and Earp JA. "Enhancing the Mammography Experience for Older, Rural, Low-Income, African-American Women by Targeting Mammographers." The American Public Health Association National Meeting. Indianapolis, Indiana, November 1997.

Fendrick AM. "Diffusion of Public Health Innovations: A Model of State Mammography Quality Assurance Efforts." 1997 Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association. Indianapolis, Indiana, November, 1997.

Shehab RM, Jeffries MA, Gunaratnam NT, Sonnad SS and Lok ASF. "Current Practice Patterns of Primary Care Physicians in the Management of Hepatitis C." American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. Chicago, IL, November, 1997.

Fendrick AM. "The Role of Outcomes Research in Helicobacter pylori." 1997 Gastroenterology Symposium, Kaiser Permanente. Newport Beach, California, October 1997.

Fendrick AM. "Cost-Effectiveness and Outcomes Research." 4th Annual Conference on Health Services Research in Radiology and Annual SHSRR Scientific Meeting. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 1997.

Fendrick AM. "Seminar of Vaccine Economics." Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Atlanta, Georgia, August 1997.

Fendrick AM. "Importance of Outcomes Research: What you need to know." American College of Gastroenterology Fellows' Forum. Colorado Springs, Colorado, August 1997.

Fendrick AM. "Performing Economic Evaluations of Medical Interventions." Center for Gerontology & Health Care Research, Brown University. Providence, Rhode Island, June 1997.

Katz SJ. "Mental Health Care Utilization in the United States and Ontario." Center for Health Services Policy and Research, the University of British Columbia, June 1997.

Katz SJ. "Appropriate medication management of depression in the United States and Ontario." The Society of General Internal Medicine National Meeting. Washington, DC, May 1997.

Katz SJ. "Appropriate Medical Management of Depression in United States and Ontario." The Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the International Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care. Barcelona, Spain, May 1997.

Fendrick AM. "Clinical and Economic Effects of Helicobacter pylori Screening to Prevent Gastric Cancer." International Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care. Barcelona, Spain, May 1997.

Fendrick AM. "Do Patients, Physicians, and Managers Differ in Their Willingness to Pay for Diagnostic Certainty?" International Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care. Barcelona, Spain, May 1997.

Fendrick AM. "The Cost-Effectiveness of Sequential Treatment Strategies within Episodes of Care." International Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care. Barcelona, Spain, May 1997.

Fendrick AM. "What You Need to Know About Outcomes Research." National Oncology Fellows Forum. Tucson, Arizona, March 1997.

Katz SJ. "Mental Healthcare Utilization in the United States and Ontario." Health Policy Research Seminar Series, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, March 1997.

Katz SJ. "Reflections on Career Development: What General Robert Wood Johnson Did Not Teach Me." Seminar, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of Michigan, February 1997.

Katz SJ. "Mental Healthcare Use, Severity of Illness, and Socioeconomic Status in the United States and Ontario." VA HSR&D, Research Seminar, February 1997.

Katz SJ. "Trends in cancer screening in the United States and Canada." Seminar Series Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, January 1997.

Katz SJ. "Determinants of and Satisfaction with Surgical Treatments for Breast Cancer: Is DCIS Different Than Invasive Disease?" Decision Consortium Seminar Series, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, January 1997.

Fendrick AM. "Evaluation of Diagnostic Technologies." ISTAHC Conference - Health Systems, Innovation and Technology Assessment: The Challenge of Complexity. Ville d'Esterel, Quebec, Canada, January 1997.

Fendrick AM. "Developing a Model for Disease Management Outcomes-Case Study: Ulcers." Third Annual State Directors Meeting & First Term Legislator Leadership Training Conference. Women in Government/Legislative Business Roundtable. Scottsdale, Arizona, January 1997.

Fendrick AM. "Outcomes Research: Implications for Gastroenterology." Gastroenterology Grand Rounds, Mayo Clinic. Rochester, Minnesota, January 1997.

Fendrick AM, Chernew, M.E., Hirth, R.A., and D. Menton, "Understanding the Behavioral Response to Medical Innovation," International Society for Technology Assessment in Health Care Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA, June 1996.

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