Andrew W. Dick

Senior Economist
Boston Office

Education

Ph.D. in economics, Stanford University

Overview

Recent Projects

  • Access to care and health insurance for children
  • Financing health care for children with special health care needs
  • Assessing quality of care and improving risk adjustment for report cards
  • Cost effectiveness of medical technologies

Selected Publications

Glance LG, Osler TM, Mukamel DB, Dick AW, "Impact of the Present-On-Admission Indicator on Hospital Quality Measurement: Experience with the AHRQ Inpatient Quality Indicators," Medical Care (forthcoming)

Li Y, Dick AW, Glance LG, Mukamel DB, "Misspecification Issues in Risk Adjustment and Construction of Outcome-Based Quality Indicators," Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology (forthcoming)

Glance LG, Osler TM, Mukamel DB, Dick AW, "Effect of Complications on Mortality after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery: Evidence from New York State," Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 134(1):53-58, 2007

Noyes K, Corona E, Zwanziger J, Hall WJ, Zhao H, Wang H, Moss AJ, Dick AW, "Health-Related Quality of Life Consequences of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators: Results from MADIT II," Medical Care, 45(5):377-85, 2007

Stone PW, Mooney-Kane C, Larson EL, Horan T, Glance LG, Zwanziger J, Dick AW, "Nurse Working Conditions and Patient Safety Outcomes," Medical Care, 45(6):571-78, 2007

Stone PW, Mooney-Kane C, Larson EL, Pastor DK, Zwanziger J, Dick AW, "Nurse Working Conditions, Organizational Climate, and Intent to Leave in ICUs: An Instrumental Variable Approach," Health Services Research, 42(3):1085-104, 2007

Noyes K, Dick AW, Holloway RG, "The Implications of Using US-Specific EQ-5D Preference Weights for Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation," Medical Decision Making, 27(3):327-34, 2007

Glance LG, Osler TM, Mukamel DB, Dick AW, "Use of a Matching Algorithm to Evaluate Hospital Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Performance as an Alternative to Conventional Risk Adjustment," Medical Care, 45(4):292-99, 2007

Glance LG, Dick AW, Osler TM, Mukamel DB, "Accuracy of Hospital Report Cards Based on Administrative Data," Health Services Research, 41(4):1413-37, 2006

Yu H, Dick AW, Szilagyi PG, "Role of SCHIP in Serving Children with Special Health Care Needs," Health Care Financing Review, 28(2):53-64, 2006

Economics

Recent Projects

  • Access to care and health insurance for children
  • Financing health care for children with special health care needs
  • Assessing quality of care and improving risk adjustment for report cards
  • Cost effectiveness of medical technologies

Selected Publications

Glance LG, Osler TM, Mukamel DB, Meredith W, Dick AW, "Hospital Performance in Caring for Injured Patients: Does the Type of Injury Make a Difference?" Archives of Surgery (forthcoming)

Glance LG, Osler TM, Mukamel DB, Meredith W, Dick AW, "Impact of Statistical Approaches for Handling Missing Data on Trauma Center Quality," Annals of Surgery (forthcoming)

Hangsheng L, Phelps C, Veazie P, Dick AW, Shone LP, Klein JD, Noyes K, Szilagyi PG, "Managed Care Quality of Care and Plan Choice in New York SCHIP," Health Services Research (forthcoming)

Stone PW, Dick AW, Pogorzelska M, Horan TC, Furuya Y, Larson EL, "Staffing and Structure of Infection Prevention and Control Programs," American Journal of Infection Control (forthcoming)

Griggs JJ, Sorbero MS, Ahrendt GM, Stark A, Heininger S, Gold HT, Schiffhauer LM, Dick AW, "The Pen and the Scalpel: Effect of Diffusion of Information on Non-Clinical Variations in Surgical Treatment," Medical Care (forthcoming)

Gold HT, Do HT, Dick AW, "Correlates and Effect of Suboptimal Radiotherapy in Women with Ductal Carcinoma in situ or Early Invasive Breast Cancer," Cancer, 113(11):3108-3115, 2008

Yu Hao, Dick AW, Szilagyi PG, "Does Public Insurance Provide Better Financial Protection Against Rising Health Care Costs for Families of Children With Special Health Care Needs," Medical Care, 46(10):1064-1070, 2008

Glance LG, Li Y, Osler TM, Mukamel DB, Dick AW, "Impact of Date Stamping on Patient Safety Measurement in Patients Undergoing CABG: Experience with the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators," BMC Health Services Research, (8):176, 2008

Publications