Kenneth B. Wells — Publications

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Community-based Partnered Research: New Directions in Mental Health Services Research - 2011

Post-Katrina Project Demonstrates a Rapid, Participatory Assessment of Health Care and Develops a Partnership for Post-Disaster Recovery in New Orleans - 2010

Using a Community Partnered Participatory Research Approach to Implement a Randomized Controlled Trial: Planning Community Partners in Care - 2010

Applying Health Care Reform Principles to Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services - 2009

Celebrate Victory - 2009

Community Partners in Care: Leveraging Community Diversity to Improve Depression Care for Underserved Populations - 2009

How Quality Improvement Interventions for Depression Affect Stigma Concerns Over Time: A Nine-Year Follow-Up Study - 2009

Long-term Benefits of Short-Term Quality Improvement Interventions for Depressed Youths in Primary Care - 2009

Promoting Mental Health Recovery After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: What Can Be Done at What Cost - 2009

Rapid Community Participatory Assessment of Health Care in Post-Storm New Orleans - 2009

Research in Community-Partnered, Participatory Research - 2009

Teaching Community-Based Participatory Research Principles to Physicians Enrolled in a Health Services Research Fellowship - 2009

The Vision, Valley, and Victory of Community Engagement - 2009

Using Community Arts Events to Enhance Collective Efficacy and Community Engagement to Address Depression in an African American Community - 2009

Work Through the Valley: Evaluate - 2009

Work Through the Valley: Do - 2009

Bringing Experimental Design to Community-Partnered Participatory Research - 2008

How a Therapy-Based Quality Improvement Intervention for Depression Affected Life Events and Psychological Well-Being Over Time: A 9-Year Longitudinal Analysis - 2008

Interventions in Organizational and Community Context: A Framework for Building Evidence on Dissemination and Implementation in Health Services Research - 2008

Out of the Ivory Tower, Into the Real World: Examples of Street-Smart Community Health Research - 2008

The Effects of Quality Improvement for Depression in Primary Care at Nine Years: Results from a Randomized, Controlled Group-Level Trial - 2008

The Societal Promise of Improving Care for Depression: Nine Years Out - 2008

A Community-Based Participatory Assessment of Health Care Needs in Post-Katrina New Orleans: An Update for Community Members and Advocates - 2007

Cost-Effectiveness of Quality Improvement Programs for Patients With Subthreshold Depression or Depressive Disorder - 2007

Mental Health Service Use Among Hurricane Katrina Survivors in the Eight Months After the Disaster - 2007

Processes and Outcomes of Substance Abuse Treatment Between Two Programs for Clients Insured Under Managed Care - 2007

The Cumulative Effects of Quality Improvement for Depression on Outcome Disparities Over 9 Years: Results from a Randomized, Controlled Group-Level Trial - 2007

The Effects of Health Sector Market Factors and Vulnerable Group Membership on Access to Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Health Care - 2007

The Importance of Social Context: Neighborhood Stressors, Stress-Buffering Mechanisms, and Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Health Disorders - 2007

The Teen Photovoice Project: A Pilot Study to Promote Health Through Advocacy - 2007

A Community Participatory Research Partnership: The Development of a Faith-Based Intervention for Children Exposed to Violence - 2006

Adolescent Primary Care Patients' Preferences for Depression Treatment - 2006

Building an Academic-Community Partnered Network for Clinical Services Research: The Community Health Improvement Collaborative (CHIC) - 2006

Improving Care for Depression in Patients With Comorbid Substance Misuse - 2006

Improving Care for Depression in Patients with Comorbid Substance Misuse - 2006

Influence of Patient Preference and Primary Care Clinician Proclivity for Watchful Waiting on Receipt of Depression Treatment - 2006

Innovative Approaches to Obtaining Community Feedback in the Witness for Wellness Experience - 2006

Longitudinal Patterns of Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Health Need and Care in a National Sample of U.S. Adults - 2006

Talking Wellness: A Description of a Community-Academic Partnered Project to Engage an African-American Community Around Depression Through the Use of Poetry, Film, and Photography - 2006

The Building Wellness Project: A Case History of Partnership, Power Sharing, and Compromise - 2006

Three Steps for Improving the Quality of Mental Health Care in the United States - 2006

What Is Necessary to Transform the Quality of Mental Health Care - 2006

Witness for Wellness: Preliminary Findings from a Community-Academic Participatory Research Mental Health Initiative - 2006

Depression and Role Impairment Among Adolescents in Primary Care Clinics - 2005

Effectiveness of a Quality Improvement Intervention for Adolescent Depression in Primary Care Clinics: A Randomized Controlled Trial. - 2005

Healing Storm Victims' Mental Health - 2005

Obstacles and Opportunities in Providing Mental Health Services Through a Faith-Based Network in Los Angeles - 2005

Physician Conceptions of Responsibility to Individual Patients and Distributive Justice in Health Care - 2005

Quality Improvement for Depression in Primary Care: Do Patients with Subthreshold Depression Benefit in the Long Run? - 2005

Quality of Publicly-Funded Outpatient Specialty Mental Health Care for Common Childhood Psychiatric Disorders in California - 2005

Bridging Community Intervention and Mental Health Services Research - 2004

Characteristics, Treatment Patterns, and Outcomes of Persistent Depression Despite Treatment in Primary Care - 2004

Clinician Screening and Treatment of Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Problems in Primary Care: Results from Healthcare for Communities - 2004

Cost-effectiveness of Interventions for Depressed Latinos - 2004

Do the Effects of Quality Improvement for Depression Care Differ for Men and Women? - 2004

Effects of Primary Care Depression Treatment on Minority Patients' Clinical Status and Employment - 2004

Five-year Impact of Quality Improvement for Depression: Results of a Group-Level Randomized Controlled Trial - 2004

The Partners in Care Approach to Ethics Outcomes in Quality Improvement Programs for Depression - 2004

Does Satisfaction Reflect the Technical Quality of Mental Health Care? - 2003

Impact of a Primary Care Quality Improvement Intervention on Use of Psychotherapy for Depression - 2003

Improving Care for Minorities: Can Quality Improvement Interventions Improve Care and Outcomes for Depressed Minorities? Results of a Randomized, Controlled Trial - 2003

Stigma and Depression Among Primary Care Patients - 2003

Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Care for Uninsured and Insured Adults - 2002

Beating Depression: The Journey to Hope - 2002

Do Family Physicians and Internists Differ in Knowledge, Attitudes, and Self-Reported Approaches for Depression? - 2002

Effects of Cost-Containment Strategies Within Managed Care on Continuity of The Relationship Between Patients with Depression and Their Primary Care Providers - 2002

Improving the Care for Depression in Patients with Comorbid Medical Illness - 2002

Overcoming Barriers to Reducing the Burden of Affective Disorders - 2002

Quality Improvement for Depression Enhances Long-term Treatment Knowledge for Primary Care Clinicians - 2002

The Effects of Primary Care Depression Treatment on Patients' Clinical Status and Employment - 2002

Unmet Need for Mental Health Care Among U.S. Children: Variation By Ethnicity and Insurance Status - 2002

Can Quality Improvement Programs for Depression in Primary Care Address Patient Preferences for Treatment? - 2001

Can Utility-Weighted Health-Related Quality-of-Life Estimates Capture Health Effects of Quality Improvement for Depression? - 2001

Cost-effectiveness of Practice-Initiated Quality Improvement for Depression: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial - 2001

Does Obesity Contribute as Much to Morbidity as Poverty or Smoking? - 2001

Fidelity, Adherence and Robustness of Interventions - 2001

Impact of Disseminating Quality Improvement Programs for Depression in Managed Primary Care - 2001

Long-term Effectiveness of Disseminating Quality Improvement for Depression in Primary Care - 2001

RAND Review: Vol. 25, No. 3, Fall 2001 - 2001

The Quality Improvement for Depression Collaboration General Analytic Strategies for a Coordinated Study of Quality Improvement in Depression Care - 2001

The Quality of Care for Depressive and Anxiety Disorders in the United States - 2001

Two-year Effects of Quality Improvement Programs on Medication Management for Depression - 2001

Are People With Mental Illness Getting the Help They Need? New Findings About Parity Laws, Insurance Coverage, and Access to Care - 2000

Associations Between Health Status and Utilities Implications for Policy - 2000

Clinical Trials and Effectiveness Research - 2000

Clinician Guide to Depression Assessment and Management in Primary Care - 2000

Community Effects on Access to Behavioral Health Care - 2000

Depression and Health-Related Quality of Life in Ethnic Minorities Seeking Care in General Medical Settings - 2000

Estimation of Utilities for the Effects of Depression from the SF-12 - 2000

Functioning and Utility for Current Health of Patients with Drepression or Chronic Medical Conditions in Managed, Primary Care Practices - 2000

Guidelines and Resources for the Depression Nurse Specialist - 2000

Guidelines for the Study Therapist - 2000

Health Insurance May Be Improving, But Not For Individuals With Mental Illness - 2000

Mental Disorders and the Use of Alternative Medicine: Results from a National Survey - 2000

Partners in Care: Hope for Those Who Struggle with Hope - 2000

Training Agendas and Materials for Expert Leaders, Depression Nurse Specialists, and Psychotherapists - 2000

Treatment Preferences Among Depressed Primary Care Patients - 2000

Who Is at Risk of Nondetection of Mental Health Problems in Primary Care? - 2000

A Naturalistic Study of Psychotherapy: The Medical Outcomes Study Approach - 1999

Evidence-Based Care for Depression in Managed Primary Care Practices - 1999

Labor Force Participation By Persons with Mental Illness - 1999

Labor Force Participation By Persons with Mental Illness - 1999

Quality of Care for Primary Care Patients with Depression in Managed Care - 1999

Relationship Between Age and Patients' Current Health State Preferences - 1999

Termination of Social Security Benefits Among Los Angeles Recipients Disabled By Substance Abuse - 1999

The Design of Healthcare for Communities: A Study of Health Care Delivery for Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Conditions - 1999

The Design of Partners in Care: Evaluating the Cost Effectiveness of Improving Care for Depression in Primary Care - 1999

Treating depression in staff-model versus network-model managed care organizations - 1999

Treatment Research at the Crossroads: The Scientific Interface of Clinical Trials and Effectiveness Research - 1999

What Outcomes Matter to Patients? - 1999

Empirically Defined Health States for Depression from the SF-12 - 1998

Improving the Quality and Cost-Effectiveness of Treatment for Depression - 1998

Medication Management of Depression in the United States and Ontario - 1998

Physician Knowledge, Financial Incentives and Treatment Decisions for Depression - 1998

Caring for Depression in Primary Care: Defining and Illustrating the Policy Context - 1997

Course of Depression in Patients with Comorbid Anxiety Disorders - 1997

Measuring Health Outcomes for Depression - 1997

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Functioning and Quality of Life Outcomes in Female Vietnam Veterans - 1997

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Functioning and Quality of Life Outcomes in a Nationally Representative Sample of Male Vietnam Veterans - 1997

Treatment Typically Provided for Comorbid Anxiety Disorders - 1997

Caring for Depression - 1996

Comorbid anxiety disorder and the functioning and well-being of chronically ill patients of general medical providers - 1996

Counseling typically provided for depression : role of clinician specialty and payment system - 1996

Effects of Medicare's Prospective Payment System on service use by depressed elderly inpatients - 1996

Functioning and well-being of patients with panic disorder - 1996

Functioning and well-being outcomes of patients with depression compared with chronic general medical illnesses - 1996

Prevalence of comorbid anxiety disorders in primary care outpatients - 1996

Provider choice and continuity for the treatment of depression - 1996

Switches between prepaid and fee-for-service health systems among depressed outpatients : results from the Medical Outcomes Study - 1996

Care for Depression in a Changing Environment - 1995

Cost Containment and Mental Health Outcomes: Experiences from U.s. Studies - 1995

How Can Care for Depression Become More Cost-Effective? - 1995

Issues and Approaches in Evaluating Managed Mental Health Care - 1995

Mental Health Care Utilization in Prepaid and Fee-For-Service Plans Among Depressed Patients in the Medical Outcomes Study - 1995

Personal and psychosocial risk factors for physical and mental health outcomes and course of depression among depressed patients - 1995

Severity of depression in prepaid and fee-for-service general medical and mental health specialty practices - 1995

Subthreshold depression and depressive disorder : clinical characteristics of general medical and mental health specialty outpatients - 1995

Can Prepaid Care for Depression be Improved Cost-Effectively? - 1994

Clinician Specialty and Treatment Style for Depressed Outpatients With and Without Medical Comorbidities - 1994

Clinician Specialty and Treatment Style for Depressed Outpatients with and Without Medical Comorbidities - 1994

Do Depressed Patients in Different Treatment Settings Have Different Levels of Well-Being and Functioning? - 1994

Long-term Functioning and Well-Being Outcomes Associated with Physical Activity and Exercise in Patients with Chronic Conditions in the Medical Outcomes Study - 1994

Prevalence of comorbid alcohol disorder and consumption in medically ill and depressed patients - 1994

Provider Choice and Continuity for the Treatment of Depression - 1994

Quality of Antidepressant Medications Prescribed at Discharge to Depressed Elderly Patients in General Medical Hospitals Before and After Prospective Payment System - 1994

Quality of Care for Depressed Elderly Pre-Post Prospective Payment System: Differences in Response Across Treatment Settings - 1994

The structure of patient satisfaction with outpatient medical care - 1994

Understanding ''Usual'' Interpersonal Care for Depression: Role of Clinician Specialty and Payment System - 1994

Development of measures of physical activity/exercise and tests of variations in physical activity levels within chronic disease groups in the Medical Outcomes Study - 1993

Do limitations in functioning and well-being of depressed outpatients persist over time? - 1993

Health plan and provider switching among depressed outpatients in the Medical Outcomes Study - 1993

Outcomes for adult outpatients with depression under prepaid or fee-for-service financing - 1993

Personal and psychosocial risk factors for physical and mental health outcomes and course of depression among depressed patients - 1993

Quality of Care for Hospitalized Depressed Elderly Patients Before and After Implementation of the Medicare Prospective Payment System - 1993

Clinical Factors Associated with Better Quality of Life in a Seriously Mentally Ill Population - 1992

Medicare's PPS Implementation and Increase in Recording of Psychotic Depressive Disorder: Some Thoughts on the Reasons - 1992

Methods of Sampling - 1992

Physical/psychophysiologic Symptoms Measure - 1992

Psychological Distress/well-Being and Cognitive Functioning Measures - 1992

Summary and Discussion of MOS Measures - 1992

The Effects of Preferred Provider Options in Fee-for-Service Plans on Use of Outpatient Mental Health Services By Three Employee Groups - 1992

The Effects of the DRG-Based Prospective Payment System on Quality of Care for Hospitalized Medicare Patients: Final Report - 1992

Caring for Depression in America: Lessons Learned from Early Findings of the Medical Outcomes Study - 1991

How Do HMOs Reduce Outpatient Mental Health Care Costs? - 1991

How the Medical Comorbidity of Depressed Patients Differs Across Health Care Settings: Results from the Medical Outcomes Study - 1991

Mental Health and Selection of Preferred Providers: Experience in Three Employee Groups - 1991

Quality of Life of Seriously Mentally Ill Persons in Mississippi - 1991

The Effects of Preferred Provider Options on Use of Outpatient Mental Health Services for Three Employee Groups - 1991

The Effects of the DRG-Based Prospective Payment System on Quality of Care for Hospitalized Medicare Patients: Executive Summary - 1991

A Summary of the Effects of DRG-Based Prospective Payment System on Quality of Care for Hospitalized Medicare Patients - 1990

Alcohol Use and Depressive Symptoms Among Mexican Americans and Non-Hispanic Whites - 1990

Health Care Utilization in Employer Plans with Preferred Provider Organization Options - 1990

Patterns of Outpatient Mental Health Care Over Time: Some Implications for Estimates of Demand and for Benefit Design - 1990

The Study of Preferred Provider Organizations: Executive Summary - 1990

Acculturation and the Probability of Use of Health Services By Mexican Americans - 1989

Affective, Substance Use, and Anxiety Disorders in Persons with Arthritis, Diabetes, Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure, or Chronic Lung Conditions - 1989

Chronic Medical Conditions in a Sample of the General Population with Anxiety, Affective, and Substance Use Disorders - 1989

Effects of Mental Health Insurance: Evidence from the Health Insurance Experiment - 1989

Functional Status and Well-Being of Patients with Chronic Conditions: Results from the Medical Outcomes Study - 1989

Improving the Preparation of Preclinical Students for Taking Sexual Histories - 1989

The Effects of Insurance Generosity on the Psychological Distress and Well-Being of a General Population: Results from a Randomized Trial of Insurance - 1989

The Effects of a Prepaid Group Practice on Mental Health Outcomes of a General Population: Results from a Randomized Trial - 1989

The Functioning and Well-Being of Depressed Patients: Results from the Medical Outcomes Study - 1989

Data Collection for a Study of Variation in Psychiatric Care Resource Use - 1988

Historical Trends in Quality Assurance for Mental Health - 1988

Medical Record Abstraction Form and Guidelines for Assessing Quality of Care for Hospitalized Patients with Depression - 1988

Psychiatric Disorder and Limitations in Physical Functioning in a Sample of the Los Angeles General Population - 1988

Commentary: Assessment of Psychological Morbidity in Primary Care - 1987

Use of Outpatient Mental Health Services Over Time in a Health Maintenance Organization and Fee-for-Service Plans - 1987

The Demand for Episodes of Mental Health Services - 1986

The Practices of General and Subspecialty Internists in Counseling About Smoking and Exercise - 1986

Use of Outpatient Mental Health Care: Trial of a Prepaid Group Practice Versus Fee-for-Service - 1986

Career Orientations of Medical and Pediatric Residents - 1985

Depression as a Tracer Condition for the National Study of Medical Care Outcomes: Background Review - 1985

Health Status, Sociodemographic Factors, and Use of Prescribed Psychotropic Drugs - 1985

Cost Sharing and the Use of Ambulatory Mental Health Services - 1984

Health Status and the Use of Outpatient Mental Health Services - 1984

Conceptualization and Measurement of Health for Adults: Use of Hypnotic and Anxiolytic Drugs - 1982

Cost Sharing and the Demand for Ambulatory Mental Health Services - 1982

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