Staff Bios

John L. Adams

Senior Statistician, RAND Statistics Group

Santa Monica Office

Education

Ph.D., Statistics, University of Minnesota, 1990

Fields

Regression and econometric methods, optimized study design, and evaluation methodology

Policy Areas

Health: Quality of care; Provider profiling; Evaluation of interventions to improve care; Disease management program evaluation

Recent Projects

Measuring the quality of health care delivered to adults in the United States
Developing a reliable, valid, and feasible plan for quality-of-care measurement for cancer
Measuring the quality of pharmacologic care for vulnerable older patients

Selected Publications

Sampling patients within and across health care providers: multi-stage non-nested samples in health services research - 2004

Health Serv Outcomes Res Methodol. 2004; 4(3): 151-167
Adams JL, Schonlau M, Escarce JJ, Kilgore M, Schoenbaum M, Goldman DP

Profiling quality of care: Is there a role for peer review? - 2004

BMC Health Serv Res. 2004 May 19;4:9
Hofer TP, Asch SM, Hayward RA, Rubenstein LV, Hogan MM, Adams JL, Kerr EA

Profiling the quality of care in twelve communities: results from the CQI study - 2004

Health Aff (Millwood). 2004 May-Jun;23(3):247-56
Kerr EA, McGlynn EA, Adams JL, Keesey J, Asch SM

The quality of pharmacologic care for vulnerable older patients - 2004

Ann Int Med. 2004; 140:714-20
Higashi T, Shekelle PG, Solomon DH, Knight EL, Roth C, Chang JT, Kamberg CJ, MacLean CH, Young RT, Adams JL, Reuben DB, Avorn J, Wenger NS

Sampling patients within physician practices and health plans: multistage cluster samples in health services research - 2003

Health Serv Res. 2003;38(6):1625-40
Adams JL, Wickstrom SL, Burgess MJ, Lee PP, Escarce JJ

Methodological challenges associated with patient responses to follow-up longitudinal surveys regarding quality of care - 2003

Health Serv Res. 2003;38(6):1579-1598
Kahn KL, Liu H, Adams JL, Chen W-P, Tisnado DM, Carlisle DM, Hays RD, Mangione CM, Damberg CL

An assessment of the total population approach for evaluating disease management program effectiveness - 2003

Dis Manage. 2003;6(2): 93-102
Linden A, Adams JL, Roberts N

The quality of health care delivered to adults in the United States - 2003

N Engl J Med. 2003 Jun 26;348(26):2635-45
Article received Academy Health Article of the Year Award
McGlynn EA, Asch SM, Adams J, Keesey J, Hicks J, DeCristofaro A, Kerr EA

Quality-of-Care Indicators for Early-Stage Prostate Cancer - 2003

J Clin Oncol. 2003;21(10):1928-1936.
Spencer, BA, Steinberg M, Malin J, Adams JL, Litwin MS

Developing a reliable, valid, and feasible plan for quality-of-care measurement for cancer-How should we measure? - 2002

Med Care. 2002;40,(6):III-73-III-85.
Kahn K, Malin J, Adams JL, Ganz P