Robert H. Brook — Publications

What Is Single-Payer Health Care? A Review of Definitions and Proposals in the U.S. 2017
Fostering a Commitment to Quality: Best Practices in Safety-Net Hospitals 2016
Identifying Best Practices for "Safe Harbor" Legislation to Protect Child Sex Trafficking Victims: Decriminalization Alone Is Not Sufficient 2016
Impact of a Risk Calculator on Risk Perception and Surgical Decision Making: A Randomized Trial 2016
The Lack of Documentation of Preferences in a Cohort of Adults Who Died After Ischemic Stroke 2016
Physician Professional Satisfaction and Area of Clinical Practice: Evidence from an Integrated Health Care Delivery System 2016
Surgeon Perception of Risk and Benefit in the Decision to Operate 2016
Variation in Hospital Use of Postacute Care After Surgery and the Association with Care Quality 2016
Comparison Between Clinical Registry and Medicare Claims Data on the Classification of Hospital Quality of Surgical Care 2015
Emergency Physician Perceptions of Medically Unnecessary Advanced Diagnostic Imaging 2015
Emergency Physician Perceptions of Shared Decision-Making 2015
Hospital Costs by Cost Center of Inpatient Hospitalization for Medicare Patients Undergoing Major Abdominal Surgery 2015
Improving Care for Chronic Conditions: Current Practices and Future Trends in Health Plan Programs 2015
A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of Performance Improvement Teams in the Safety-Net: A Labor-Management Partnership Model for Engaging Frontline Staff 2015
Redefining Health Care Systems 2015
Results from a National Survey on Chronic Care Management by Health Plans 2015
Using the Knowledge Base of Health Services Research to Redefine Health Care Systems 2015
Disproportionate-share Hospital Payment Reductions May Threaten the Financial Stability of Safety-Net Hospitals 2014
Why Not Big Ideas and Big Interventions? 2014
Factors Affecting Physician Professional Satisfaction 2013
Factors Affecting Physician Professional Satisfaction and Their Implications for Patient Care, Health Systems, and Health Policy 2013
Health Systems, Heuristics, and Comparative Effectiveness Research 2013
Changing Eating Habits for the Medical Profession 2012
Do Physicians Need a "Shopping Cart" for Health Care Services? 2012
Two Years and Counting: How Will the Effects of the Affordable Care Act Be Monitored? 2012
Vision and Persistence: Changing the Education of Physicians Is Possible 2012
Accountable Care Organizations and Community Empowerment 2011
Assessment of Food Offerings and Marketing Strategies in the Food-Service Venues at California Children's Hospitals 2011
Can the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Become Relevant to Controlling Medical Costs and Improving Value? 2011
Facts, Facts, Facts: What Is a Physician to Do 2011
Health Services Research and Clinical Practice 2011
Is Choice of Physician and Hospital an Essential Benefit 2011
The Role of Physicians in Controlling Medical Care Costs and Reducing Waste 2011
The End of the Quality Improvement Movement: Long Live Improving Value 2010
Medical Leadership in an Increasingly Complex World 2010
Physician Compensation, Cost, and Quality 2010
Response: Comments on "The Condition of the Literature on Differences in Hospital Mortality" by Mary E. W. Goss 2010
Rights and Responsibilities in Health Care: Striking a Balance 2010
What If Physicians Actually Had to Control Medical Costs? 2010
Assessing the Appropriateness of Care — Its Time Has Come 2009
Condom Use and High-Risk Sexual Acts in Adult Films: A Comparison of Heterosexual and Homosexual Films 2009
Disruption and Innovation in Health Care 2009
Off-label Prescribing to Children in the United States Outpatient Setting 2009
Possible Outcomes of Comparative Effectiveness Research 2009
Quality, Transparency, and the US Government 2009
The Science of Health Care Reform 2009
Access to Care for Youth with Special Health Care Needs in the Transition to Adulthood 2008
Attrition in the RAND Health Insurance Experiment: A Response to Nyman 2008
Health Policy and Public Trust 2008
High-deductible Health Plans and Better Benefit Design 2008
Modeling the Health and Medical Care Spending of the Future Elderly 2008
Out of the Ivory Tower, Into the Real World: Examples of Street-Smart Community Health Research 2008
Population-based Assessments of Ophthalmologic and Audiologic Follow-Up in Children with Very Low Birth Weight Enrolled in Medicaid: A Quality-of-Care Study 2008
Programmable Infusion Pumps in ICUs: An Analysis of Corresponding Adverse Drug Events 2008
Rigorous Development Does Not Ensure That Guidelines Are Acceptable to a Panel of Knowledgeable Providers 2008
Seven Ideas to Improve Quality 2008
Elderly Patients' Preferences and Experiences with Providers in Managing Their Drug Costs 2007
High-deductible Health Plans and Emergency Department Use 2007
Identifying Widely Covered Drugs and Drug Coverage Variation Among Medicare Part D Formularies 2007
RAND Review: Vol. 31, No. 2, Summer 2007 2007
Suboptimal Control of Atherosclerotic Disease Risk Factors After Cardiac and Cerebrovascular Procedures 2007
Effects of Medicare's Prospective Payment System on the Quality of Hospital Care 2006
The Health Insurance Experiment: A Classic RAND Study Speaks to the Current Health Care Reform Debate 2006
Quality-of-care Indicators for the Neurodevelopmental Follow-Up of Very Low Birth Weight Children: Results of an Expert Panel Process 2006
Electronic Prescribing Systems: Making It Safer to Take Your Medicine? 2005
How Good Is the Quality of Health Care in the United States? 2005
Identifying Potential Health Care Innovations for the Future Elderly 2005
Changing Practice Patterns in the Management of Primary Breast Cancer: Concensus Development Program 2004
Cost-lowering Strategies Used By Medicare Beneficiaries Who Exceed Drug Benefit Caps and Have a Gap in Drug Coverage 2004
Cross-Validation Performance of Mortality Prediction Models 2004
Differences in Quality of Care for Hospitalized Elderly Men and Women 2004
Does Inappropriate Use Explain Geographic Variations in the Use of Health Care Services? 2004
Hospital Characteristics and Quality of Care 2004
How Coronary Angiography is Used: Clinical Determinants of Appropriateness 2004
Preventable Deaths: Who, How Often, and Why? 2004
Recommendations for Comparing Electronic Prescribing Systems: Results of an Expert Consensus Process : Guidance to Help Early Adopters and Policymakers Select the Systems Most Likely to Benefit Patients 2004
Surgical Quality: Review of Californian Measures 2004
Watching the Doctor-Watchers: How Well do Peer Review Organization Methods Detect Hospital Care Quality Problems? 2004
Can Health Care Quality Indicators Be Transferred Between Countries? 2003
Children's Use of Emergency Departments for Asthma: Persistent Barriers or Acute Need 2003
Impact of an Annual Dollar Limit or Cap on Prescription Drug Benefits for Medicare Patients 2003
Measuring General Practice: A Demonstration Project to Develop and Test a Set of Primary Care Clinical Quality Indicators 2003
Usage Patterns of Over-The-Counter Phenazopyridine (Pyridium) 2003
Utilization of Papanicolaou Smears by South Asian Women Living in the United States 2003
Visual Acuity Following Cataract Surgeries in Relation to Preoperative Appropriateness Ratings 2003
Waiting Times in California's Emergency Departments 2003
Evaluating the Quality of Care 2002
How Good is the Quality of Health Care in the United States? 2002
Next-day Care for Emergency Department Users with Nonacute Conditions: A Randomized, Controlled Trial 2002
Quality of Breast Cancer Care: What Do We Know? 2002
Quality of Life of Patients with Chronic Stable Angina Before and Four Years After Coronary Revascularisation Compared with a Normal Population 2002
Report Cards for Health Care: Is Anyone Checking Them? 2002
Use of Preventive Services in a Population of Very Low-Income Women 2002
Assessing Use of Primary Health Care Services by Very Low-Income Adults in a Managed Care Program 2001
Changing Views of Chiropractic: ... and a National Reappraisal of Nontraditional Health Care 2001
Keeping Quality on the Policy Agenda 2001
Managed Care is Not the Problem, Quality Is 2001
Measuring Underuse of Necessary Care Among Eledery Medicare Beneficiaries Using Inpatient and Outpatient Claims 2001
Quality of Life of Chronic Stable Angina Patients 4 Years After Coronary Angioplasty or Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery 2001
RAND Review: Vol. 25, No. 2, Summer 2001 2001
An Agenda for Research Into Uterine Artery Embolization: Results of an Expert Panel Conference 2000
Associations Between Primary Care Physician Satisfaction and Self-Reported Aspects of Utilization Management 2000
Defining and Measuring Quality of Care: A Perspective from U.S. Researchers 2000
Dying to Know: Public Release of Information about Quality of Health Care 2000
Effect of Variability in the Interpretation of Coronary Angiograms on the Appropriateness of use of Coronary Revascularization Procedures 2000
An English and Spanish Pediatric Asthma Symptom Scale 2000
Family Planning Clinic Patients: Their Usual Health Care Providers, Insurance Status, and Implications for Managed Care 2000
Is the Diagnostic Yield of Upper GI Endoscopy Improved by the Use of Explicit Panel-Based Appropriateness Criteria? 2000
Measuring Quality of Care for Prostate Cancer 2000
Overuse and Underuse of Colonoscopy in a European Primary Care Setting 2000
Prostate Cancer Patient Outcomes and Choice of Providers: Development of an Infrastructure for Quality Assessment 2000
Public Disclosure of Performance Data: Learning from the US Experience 2000
The Public Release of Performance Data: What Do We Expect to Gain? A Review of the Evidence 2000
Public Reporting of Performance: Lessons from the USA 2000
Quality of Care for Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis 2000
Safely Directing Patients to Appropriate Levels of Care: Guideline-Driven Triage in the Emergency Service 2000
Use of Performance Data to Change Physician Behavior 2000
Uterine Artery Embolization: A Systematic Review of the Literature and Proposal for Research 2000
Appropriateness of Referral of Coronary Angiography Patients in Sweden 1999
Elevated Asthma Morbidity in Puerto Rican Children: A Review of Possible Risk and Prognostic Factors 1999
Ensuring Delivery of Necessary Care in the United States: Testimony Presented to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 1999
Measuring the Quality of Health Care 1999
The Relationship Between Perceived Parental Expectations and Pediatrician Antimicrobial Prescribing Behavior 1999
Taking the Pulse of Health Care in America 1999
Underuse and Overuse of Diagnostic Testing for Coronary Artery Disease in Patients Presenting with New-Onset Chest Pain 1999
Underuse of cardiac procedures : do women, ethnic minorities, and the uninsured fail to receive needed revascularization? 1999
Changes in the Healthcare System: Goals, Forces, Solutions 1998
Congruence Between Decisions to Initiate Chiropractic Spinal Manipulation for Low Back Pain and Appropriateness Criteria in North America 1998
Costs Attributable to Osteoarthritis 1998
Differences Between Child and Parent Reports of Symptoms Among Latino Children with Asthma 1998
Health Information Systems: Design Issues and Analytic Applications 1998
Measuring the Quality of Outpatient Treatment for Schizophrenia 1998
Member Ratings of Health Care Provided by 48 Physician Groups 1998
Performance of Panel-Based Criteria to Evaluate the Appropriateness of Colonoscopy: A Prospective Study 1998
Reliability of Panel-Based Guidelines for Colonoscopy: An International Comparison 1998
The Smoking Gun: Do Clinicians Follow Guidelines on Firearm Safety Counseling? 1998
Toward Assessing Outcomes of Emergency Care 1998
The UCLA Prostate Cancer Index: Development, Reliability, and Validity of a Health-Related Quality of Life Measure 1998
Visual Function Impairments in Relation to Gender, Age, and Visual Acuity in Patients Who Undergo Cataract Surgery 1998
Appropriateness of Indications for Surgery of Lumbar Disc Hernia and Spinal Stenosis 1997
The Appropriateness of Intention to Treat Decisions for Invasive Therapy in Coronary Artery Disease in the Netherlands 1997
Appropriateness of Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy: Comparison of American and Swiss Criteria 1997
Effect of Panel Composition on Physician Ratings of Appropriateness of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Surgery: Elucidating Differences Between Multispecialty Panel Results and Specialty Society Recommendations 1997
Having a Foot in Both Camps: The Impact of Kerr White's Vision 1997
Influence of Projected Complication Rates on Estimated Appropriate Use Rates for Carotid Endarterectomy 1997
Overuse of Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in a Country with Open-Access Endoscopy: A Prospective Study in Primary Care 1997
Phase II of the AHCPR-Sponsored Heart Failure Guideline: Translating Practice Recommendations into Review Criteria 1997
Primary Care Physicians' Satisfaction with Quality of Care in California Capitated Medical Groups 1997
Understanding Changes in Health Status: Is the Floor Phenomenon Merely the Last Step of the Staircase? 1997
Under Use of Coronary Angiography: Application of a Clinical Method 1997
Underuse of Coronary Revascularization Procedures: Application of a Clinical Method 1997
Underutilization of Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 1997
Variations in Cataract Extraction Rates in Medicare Prepaid and Fee-for-Service Settings 1997
Why the Quality of U.S. Health Care Must Be Improved 1997
Adapting practice patterns to a managed care environment, carotid endarterectomy--a case example 1996
Adjusted hospital death rates : a potential screen for quality of medical care 1996
Appropriateness and Diagnostic Yield of Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in an Open-Access Endoscopy Unit 1996
The Appropriateness of Chiropractic Spinal Manipulation for Low-Back Pain, a Pilot Study 1996
The Appropriateness of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery in Academic Medical Centers 1996
The appropriateness of coronary artery bypass graft surgery in academic medical centers 1996
Assessment of Appropriateness of Cataract Surgery at Ten Academic Medical Centers in 1990 1996
Critical Issues in Radiotherapy, SBU/The Swedish Council on Technology Assessment 1996
Determinants of Emergency Department Use: Are Race and Ethnicity Important? 1996
Documentation Patterns Before Cataract Surgery at Ten Academic Centers 1996
The Effect of Race and Ethnicity on the Use of Selected Health Care Procedures: A Comparison of South Central Los Angeles and the Remainder of Los Angeles County 1996
Effects of Medicare's Prospective Payment System on Service Use by Depressed Elderly Inpatients 1996
Health system reform and quality 1996
Maintaining Quality of Care in a Cost-Conscious Environment: A National Imperative 1996
Managed care and capitation in California, how do physicians at financial risk control their own utilization? 1996
Measuring health and economic status of older adults in developing countries 1996
Measuring Quality of Care: Part 2: Measuring Quality of care 1996
Medicare quality and getting older : a personal essay 1996
Outcomes in 248 patients who had diagnostic evaluations for epilepsy surgery 1996
Practice guidelines : to be or not to be 1996
Quality Assurance in Capitated Physician Groups: Where Is the Emphasis? 1996
Spinal Manipulation for Low-Back Pain 1996
Variations by Specialty in Physician Ratings of the Appropriateness and Necessity of Indications for Procedures 1996
Benefits and costs of screening and treatment for early breast cancer : development of a basic benefit package 1995
The Cost Effectiveness of Preoperative Autologous Blood Donations 1995
Designing a National Report on Effectiveness and Appropriateness of Care: Measurement, Data Collection, and Reporting Strategies : Appendix B 1995
Determinants of Emergency Department Use by Ambulatory Patients at an Urban Public Hospital 1995
Effect of Physician Specialty on Use of Necessary Coronary Angiography 1995
Geographic Variation in Rates of Selected Surgical Procedures Within Los Angeles County 1995
The Institute of Medicine, Quality of Care, and the Future of Health Care 1995
The Medical Quality Commission (TMQC) 1994-1995 Consumer Satisfaction Study 1995
Outcome Assessment for Epilepsy Surgery: The Impact of Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life 1995
Outcomes of Patients with Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders: Toward an Understanding of What Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders Mean and How They Affect Patients 1995
Quality of Care for Depressed Elderly Patients Hospitalized in the Specialty Psychiatric Units or General Medical Wards 1995
Quality-of-life Outcomes in Men Treated for Localized Prostate Cancer 1995
The RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method 1995
Regionalization of Cardiac Surgery in the United States and Canada: Geographic Access, Choice, and Outcomes 1995
Validity of Criteria Used for Detecting Underuse of Coronary Revascularization 1995
Appropriateness: The Next Frontier 1994
The Appropriateness of the Use of Cardiovascular Procedures: British Versus U.S. Perspectives 1994
The Appropriateness of Use of Cardiovascular Procedures in Women and Men 1994
Beyond Health Care Reform: Key Issues in Policy and Management 1994
Comparison of the Appropriateness of Coronary Angiography and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Between Canada and New York State 1994
Coronary Angiography and Revascularization: Defining Procedural Indications Through Formal Group Processes 1994
The Effect of Alternative Case-Mix Adjustments on Mortality Differences Between Municipal and Voluntary Hospitals in New York City 1994
Effect of Panel Composition on Appropriateness Ratings 1994
Functional Disability Screening of Ambulatory Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial in a Hospital-Based Group Practice 1994
Health care for black and poor hospitalized Medicare patients 1994
Health care reform is on the way, do we want to compete on quality? 1994
Measuring the Necessity of Medical Procedures 1994
The Medical Appropriateness of Tympanostomy Tubes Proposed for Children Younger Than 16 Years in the United States 1994
Quality Measures for Prenatal Care: A Comparison of Care in Six Health Care Plans 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
Regular Source of Ambulatory Care and Medical Care Utilization by Patients Presenting to a Public Hospital Emergency Department 1994
The Agreed Indications and Contra-Indications for Cholecystectomy 1993
Analysis of Quality of Care for Patients Who are Black and Poor in Rural and Urban Settings 1993
The appropriateness of hysterectomy : a comparison of care in seven health plans 1993
Appropriateness of the Use of Cardiovascular Procedures: A Method and Results of This Application 1993
The Appropriateness of Use of Coronary Angiography in New York State 1993
The Appropriateness of Use of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery, Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty, and Coronary Angiography in New York State 1993
The Appropriateness of Use of Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty in New York State 1993
Assessing the Performance of Mortality Prediction Models: Final Report for HCFA Severity Project 1993
Cataract Surgery: A Literature Review and Ratings of Appropriateness and Cruciality 1993
Coronary Angiography: Ratings of Appropriateness and Necessity by a Canadian Panel 1993
Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery and Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty : Ratings of Appropriateness and Necessity by a Canadian Panel 1993
Indications for Cholecystectomy: The Results of a Consensus Panel Approach 1993
Maintaining Hospital Quality: The Need for International Cooperation 1993
Medical Record Abstraction Form and Guidelines for Assessing the Appropriateness of Hysterectomy 1993
Medical Record Abstraction Form and Guidelines for Assessing the Quality of Pre-Natal Care 1993
Mortality Differences Between New York City Municipal and Voluntary Hospitals, for Selected Conditions 1993
Quality of Care for Hospitalized Depressed Elderly Patients Before and After Implementation of the Medicare Prospective Payment System 1993
Quality of life of epilepsy surgery patients compared to outpatients with hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, and 1993
Use of Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery in the United States and Canada: Influence of Age and Income 1993
Using Scientific Information to Improve Quality of Health Care 1993
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Surgery: A Literature Review and Ratings of Appropriateness and Necessity 1992
Appropriateness of Care: A Comparison of Global and Outcome Methods to Set Standards 1992
The Appropriateness of Spinal Manipulation for Low-Back Pain: Indications and Ratings by an All-Chiropractic Expert Panel 1992
Assessing Clinical Instability at Discharge: The Clinician's Responsibility 1992
Assigning Appropriateness Ratings for Diagnostic Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Using Two Different Approaches 1992
Choosing Quality-of-Care Measures Based on the Expected Impact of Improved Quality of Care for the Major Causes of Mortality and Morbidity 1992
Clinical Epilepsy Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke 1992
Coronary Angiography: A Literature Review and Ratings of Appropriateness and Necessity 1992
Defining Our Terms 1992
The Effects of the DRG-Based Prospective Payment System on Quality of Care for Hospitalized Medicare Patients: Final Report 1992
Group Judgments of Appropriateness: The Effect of Panel Composition 1992
HMO Vs Fee-for-Service Care of Older Persons with Acute Myocardial Infarction 1992
Improving Practice: The Clinician's Role 1992
Prenatal care : a literature review and quality assessment criteria 1992
Regional Differences in Appropriateness of Cholecystectomy in a Prepaid Health Insurance System 1992
Relation Between Hospital Experience and In-Hospital Mortality for Patient with AIDS-related Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia: Experience from 3,126 Cases in New York City in 1987 1992
Reliability and Validity of the Katz Adjustment Scales in an Epilepsy Sample 1992
Appropriateness of Acute Medical Care for the Elderly: An Analysis of the Literature 1991
The Appropriateness of Carotid Endarterectomy 1991
The Appropriateness of Spinal Manipulation for Low-Back Pain: Indications and Ratings by a Multidisciplinary Expert Panel 1991
The Appropriateness of Spinal Manipulation for Low-Back Pain: Project Overview and Literature Review 1991
The Appropriateness of Using a Medical Procedure: Is Information in the Medical Record Valid? 1991
Assessing Clinical Decision Making: Is the Ideal System Feasible? 1991
Board Certification and Practice Style: An Analysis of Office-Based Care 1991
Clinical Practice: Audit of Coronary Angiography and Bypass Surgery 1991
A Community-Based Study of the Use of Chiropractic Services 1991
A Comparison of Cost-Sharing Versus Free Care in Children: Effects on the Demand for Office-Based Medical Care 1991
Consensus Methods: Characteristics and Guidelines for Use 1991
Coronary Artery Bypass Graft: A Literature Review and Ratings of Appropriateness and Necessity 1991
Derivation of Clinical Indications for Carotid Endarterectomy by an Expert Panel 1991
Do Patient, Physician, and Hospital Characteristics Affect Appropriateness and Outcome of Selected Procedures? 1991
The Effect of Comorbidity on Appropriateness Ratings for Two Gastrointestinal Procedures 1991
Effects of Cost Sharing in Health Insurance on Disability Days 1991
The Effects of the DRG-Based Prospective Payment System on Quality of Care for Hospitalized Medicare Patients: Executive Summary 1991
Efficacy, Effectiveness, Variations, and Quality: Boundary-crossing Research 1991
Explaining Variations in Hospital Death Rates: Randomness, Severity of Illness, Quality of Care 1991
Failure of Physicians to Recognize Functional Disability in Ambulatory Patients 1991
A Fair Approach to Comparing Quality of Care 1991
Geographic Variations in the Use of Services: Do They Have Any Clinical Significance? 1991
The Health Care Resource Allocation Debate: Defining Our Terms 1991
Health, Health Insurance, and the Uninsured: A Short Essay 1991
Health Services Research: Is It Good for You and Me? 1991
Hospital Inpatient Mortality: Is It a Predictor of Quality? 1991
Measuring the Clinical Appropriateness of the Use of a Procedure: Can We Do It? 1991
A Method for the Detailed Assessment of the Appropriateness of Medical Technologies 1991
Outcomes of Carotid Endarterectomy-Response 1991
Patients Who Leave a Public Hospital Emergency Department Without Being Seen by a Physician: Causes and Consequences 1991
Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty: A Literature Review and Ratings of Appropriateness and Necessity 1991
Physician Ratings of Appropriate Indications for Six Medical and Surgical Procedures 1991
Quality of Care: Do We Care? 1991
Structured Implicit Review of the Medical Record: A Method for Measuring the Quality of Inhospital Medical Care and a Summary of Quality Changes Following Implementation of the Medicare Prospective Payment System 1991
Sufficiency of Clinical Literature on the Appropriate Uses of Six Medical and Surgical Procedures 1991
Use of Carotid Endarterectomy in Five California Veterans Administration Medical Centers 1991
Will We Need to Ration Effective Health Care? 1991
Carotid Endarterectomy for Elderly Patients: Predicting Complications 1990
Changes in Quality of Care for Five Diseases Measured By Implicit Review, 1981 to 1986 1990
Changes in Sickness at Admission Following the Introduction of the Prospective Payment System 1990
Comparing Outcomes of Care Before and After Implementation of the DRG-based Prospective Payment System 1990
Effectiveness, Variations, and Quality: Boundary-Crossing Research 1990
The Effects of the DRG-based Prospective Payment System on Quality of Care for Hospitalized Medicare Patients: An Introduction to the Series 1990
Explaining Variations in Hospital Death Rates: Randomness, Severity of Illness, Quality of Care 1990
Explaining Variations in Hospital Death Rates: Randomness, Severity of Illness, Quality of Care 1990
Format and Conduct of Consensus Development Conferences, Multination Comparison 1990
Measuring Quality of Care with Explicit Process Criteria Before and After Implementation of the DRG-based Prospective Payment System 1990
Predicting the Appropriate Use of Carotid Endarterectomy, Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and Coronary Angiography 1990
Prepaid Group Practice Effects on the Utilization of Medical Services and Health Outcomes for Children: Results From a Controlled Trial 1990
Prospective Payment System and Impairment at Discharge: The 'Quicker-And-Sicker' Story Revisited 1990
Quality of Ambulatory Care: Epidemiology and Comparison By Insurance Status and Income 1990
Quality of Care Before and After Implementation of the DRG-based Prospective Payment System: A Summary of Effects 1990
The Relationship Between Appropriateness and Outcome 1990
A Summary of the Effects of DRG-Based Prospective Payment System on Quality of Care for Hospitalized Medicare Patients 1990
Surgery for Epilepsy 1990
Appropriateness of Acute Medical Care for the Elderly: An Analysis of the Literature 1989
Appropriateness of Care 1989
The Appropriateness of Use of Selected Medical and Surgical Procedures and Its Relationship to Geographic Variations in Their Use 1989
Changing Medical Practice Through Technology Assessment: An Evaluation of the NIH Consensus Development Program 1989
The Condition of the Literature on Differences in Hospital Mortality 1989
Differences among Hospitals in Medicare Patient Mortality 1989
How Free Care Improved Vision in the Health Insurance Experiment 1989
Improving Patient Function: A Randomized Trial of Functional Disability Screening 1989
Practice Guidelines and Practicing Medicine: Are They Compatible? 1989
Relation Between Surgeons' Practice Volumes and Geographic Variation in the Rate of Carotid Endarterectomy 1989
Structured Implicit Review for Physician Implicit Measurement of Quality of Care: Development of the Form and Guidelines for Its Use 1989
The Appropriateness of Performing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery 1988
Competition and Quality 1988
Diagnosis and Treatment of Coronary Disease: Comparison of Doctors' Attitudes in the USA and the UK 1988
The Early Effect of Medicare's Prospective Payment System on the Use of Medical Intensive Care Services in Three Community Hospitals 1988
Historical Trends in Quality Assurance for Mental Health 1988
Interpreting Hospital Mortality Data: How Can We Proceed? 1988
Management of Patients on Psychotropic Drugs in Primary Care Clinics 1988
Measuring Differences Between Teaching and Nonteaching Hospitals 1988
Medical Record Abstraction Form and Guidelines for Assessing Quality of Care for Hospitalized Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction 1988
Medical Record Abstraction Form and Guidelines for Assessing Quality of Care for Hospitalized Patients with Cerebrovascular Accident 1988
Medical Record Abstraction Form and Guidelines for Assessing Quality of Care for Hospitalized Patients with Congestive Heart Failure 1988
Medical Record Abstraction Form and Guidelines for Assessing Quality of Care for Hospitalized Patients with Depression 1988
Medical Record Abstraction Form and Guidelines for Assessing Quality of Care for Hospitalized Patients with Hip Fracture 1988
Medical Record Abstraction Form and Guidelines for Assessing Quality of Care for Hospitalized Patients with Pneumonia 1988
Quality Assessment and Technology Assessment: Critical Linkages 1988
The Quality of Care Received by Older Patients in 15 University-Based Ambulatory Practices 1988
The Use and Misuse of Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 1988
Allocating Health Care Resources: How Can We Ensure Access to Essential Care? 1987
The Association Between Hypertension Treatment, Control, and Functional Status 1987
Assuring the Quality of Health Care for Older Persons: An Expert Panel's Priorities 1987
Case-mix Measurement and Assessing Quality of Hospital Care 1987
Does Inappropriate Use Explain Geographic Variations in the Use of Health Care Services? : A Study of Three Procedures 1987
Does More Generous Dental Insurance Coverage Improve Oral Health? 1987
Educating Physicians and Treating Patients in the Ambulatory Setting: Where Are We Going and How Will We Know When We Arrive? 1987
Effect of a Health Maintenance Organization on Physiologic Health: Results from a Randomized Trial 1987
Effect of a Health Maintenance Organization on Physiologic Health: Results from a Randomized Trial 1987
The Effect of Cost Sharing on the Use of Antibiotics in Ambulatory Care: Results from a Population-Based Randomized Controlled Trial 1987
Effects of Cost Sharing on Physiological Health, Health Practices, and Worry 1987
General Health Status Measures and Outcome Measurement: A Commentary on Measuring Functional Status 1987
Health Outcomes for Adults in Prepaid and Fee-for-Service Systems of Care: Results from the Health Insurance Experiment 1987
How Coronary Angiography Is Used: Clinical Determinants of Appropriateness 1987
Measuring Case Mix and Quality of Care: Validity Studies for the Graduate Medical Education Study 1987
Measuring Case Mix and Quality of Care: Rater Training and Reliability in the Graduate Medical Education Study 1987
Medical Record Abstraction Forms for Assessing Compliance with NIH Consensus Conference Recommendations 1987
Monitoring Quality of Care in the Medicare Program: Two Proposed Systems 1987
Obtaining Clinical Data on the Appropriateness of Medical Care in Community Practice 1987
Physician Survey for Evaluating the NIH Consensus Development Program 1987
Providing Primary General Medical Care in University Hospitals: Efficiency and Cost 1987
Changing Physician Payment for Medicare Patients: Projected Effects on the Quality of Care 1986
Comparison of Health Outcomes at Health Maintenance Organization with Those of Fee-for-Service Care 1986
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 1, Overview of Chronic Disease in a General Adult Population 1986
Consumer Acceptance of Prepaid and Fee-for-Service Medical Care: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial 1986
Dental Insurance and the Oral Health of Preschool Children 1986
Evaluation of Ambulatory Care Training by Graduates of Internal Medicine Residencies 1986
Evaluation of the Effects on the Quality of Care of Selected Alternatives for Paying Physicians Under the Medicare Program 1986
The Functional Status Questionnaire: Reliability and Validity When Used in Primary Care 1986
Inappropriate Use of Hospitals in a Randomized Trial of Health Insurance Plans 1986
Indications for Selected Medical and Surgical Procedures - A Literature Review and Ratings of Appropriateness: Cholecystectomy 1986
Indications for Selected Medical and Surgical Procedures - A Literature Review and Ratings of Appropriateness: Diagnostic Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 1986
Indications for Selected Medical and Surgical Procedures - A Literature Review and Ratings of Appropriateness: Coronary Angiography 1986
Indications for Selected Medical and Surgical Procedures - A Literature Review and Ratings of Appropriateness: Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery 1986
Indications for Selected Medical and Surgical Procedures - A Literature Review and Ratings of Appropriateness: Colonoscopy 1986
Indications for Selected Medical and Surgical Procedures - A Literature Review and Ratings of Appropriateness: Carotid Endarterectomy 1986
Measurement of Physiologic Health for Children: Volume 6, Urinary Tract Infection 1986
Medicare Capitation and Quality of Care for the Frail Elderly 1986
Physician Ratings of Appropriate Indications for Six Medical and Surgical Procedures 1986
Popular Press Coverage of Eight National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Topics 1986
The Practices of General and Subspecialty Internists in Counseling About Smoking and Exercise 1986
Quality of Care for Psychotropic Drug Use in Internal Medicine Group Practices 1986
Setting Standards of Performance for Program Evaluations: The Case of the Teaching Hospital General Medicine Group Practice Program 1986
Termination of Medi-Cal Benefits: A Follow-Up Study One Year Later 1986
Use of Medical Care in the RAND Health Insurance Experiment: Diagnosis- and Service-specific Analyses in a Randomized Controlled Trial 1986
Variations in the Use of Medical and Surgical Services By the Medicare Population 1986
Variations in the Use of Medical and Surgical Services by the Medicare Population 1986
Work Satisfaction and Career Aspirations of Internists Working in Teaching Hospital Group Practices 1986
Career Orientations of Medical and Pediatric Residents 1985
Final Evaluation Report: Provider Survey Data 1985
Final Evaluation Report: The Structure of Care 1985
Final Evaluation Report: Medical Record Abstraction Data 1985
Final Evaluation Report: Patient Survey Data 1985
General Medical Care and the Education of Internists in University Hospitals: An Evaluation of the Teaching Hospital General Medicine Group Practice Program 1985
Geographic Variations in the Use of Medical Services and Surgical Procedures: A Chartbook 1985
Health Status, Sociodemographic Factors, and Use of Prescribed Psychotropic Drugs 1985
How Free Care Reduced Hypertension in the Health Insurance Experiment 1985
How Free Care Reduced Hypertension of Participants in the RAND Health Insurance Experiment 1985
How to Help Your Patients Function Better 1985
The Impact of Cost Sharing on Emergency Department Use 1985
Impact of Medicare Prospective Payment on the Quality of Medical Care: A Research Agenda 1985
Innovations in Medical Curricula: Templates for Change 1985
Measurement of Physiologic Health for Children : Volume 4, Vision Impairments 1985
Persuasive Communication and Medical Technology Assessment 1985
Physician and Patient Satisfaction as Factors Related to the Organization of Internal Medicine Group Practices 1985
Some Interim Results from a Controlled Trial in Health Insurance 1985
Consequences of variations in definitions of the primary care physician 1984
The Effect of Coinsurance on the Health of Adults: Results from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment 1984
Quality Assurance in Medicine 1984
Quality Assurance in Medicine: Experience in the Public Sector 1984
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 15, Surgical Conditions 1983
Measurement of Physiologic Health for Children : Volume 5, Anemia 1983
Measurement of Physiologic Health for Children: Volume 3, Seizure Disorders 1983
Measurement of Physiologic Health for Children: Volume 1, Allergic Conditions 1983
Measurement of Physiologic Health for Children: Volume 2, Middle Ear Disease and Hearing Impairment 1983
Who Is the Primary Physician? 1983
Conceptualization and Measurement of Health for Adults: Use of Hypnotic and Anxiolytic Drugs 1982
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 8, Chronic Obstructive Airway Disease 1982
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 9, Thyroid Disease 1982
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 17, Peptic Ulcer Disease 1982
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 12, Vision Impairment 1982
Construction and Scoring of Aggregate Functional Status Measures: Volume II, Appendixes 1982
Construction and Scoring of Aggregate Functional Status Measures: Volume I 1982
Some Interim Results from a Controlled Trial of Cost Sharing in Health Insurance 1982
Choosing Measures of Health Status for Individuals in General Populations 1981
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 16, Urinary Tract Infection 1981
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 13, Hay Fever 1981
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 14, Hearing Loss 1981
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 7, Diabetes Mellitus 1981
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 11, Hypercholesterolemia 1981
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 4, Angina Pectoris 1981
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 5, Congestive Heart Failure 1981
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 10, Joint Disorders 1981
Peer Review and Technology Assessment in Medicine 1981
Conceptualization and Measurement of Health for Adults in the Health Insurance Study: Vol. I, Model of Health and Methodology 1980
Conceptualization and Measurement of Health for Adults in the Health Insurance Study: Vol. VI, Analysis of Relationships Among Health Status Measures 1980
Conceptualization and Measurement of Health for Children in the Health Insurance Study 1980
Conceptualization and Measurement of Health Habits for Adults in the Health Insurance Study: Vol. II, Overweight 1980
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 3, Hypertension 1980
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 2, Acne 1980
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 6, Anemia 1980
Quality assurance in medical care: lessons from the U.S. experience 1980
Quality of Care in Episodes of Respiratory Illness Among Medicaid Patients in New Mexico 1980
Quality of care in the New Mexico Medicaid program (1971-1975) : the effect of the New Mexico Experimental Medical Care Review Organization on the use of antibiotics for common infectious diseases 1980
Conceptualization and Measurement of Health for Adults in the Health Insurance Study: Vol. III, Mental Health 1979
Conceptualization and Measurement of Health for Adults in the Health Insurance Study: Vol. VII, Power Analysis of Health Status Measures 1979
Conceptualization and Measurement of Health for Adults in the Health Insurance Study : Vol. VIII, Overview 1979
Conceptualization and Measurement of Health Habits for Adults in the Health Insurance Study: Vol. I, Smoking 1979
Measuring Components of Children's Health Status 1979
The PSRO and the nursing home. Vol. 1, An assessment of PSRO long-term care review 1979
The PSRO and the nursing home. Vol. II, Ten demonstration projects in PSRO long-term care review 1979
Quality Assessment in Mental Health 1979
Selected reflections on quality of medical care evaluation in the 1980s 1979
Associations Among Psychological Well-Being and Other Health Status Constructs 1978
Conceptualization and Measurement of Health for Adults in the Health Insurance Study: Vol. IV, Social Health 1978
Conceptualization and Measurement of Health for Adults in the Health Insurance Study: Vol. II, Physical Health in Terms of Functioning 1978
Controlling the Use and Cost of Medical Services: The New Mexico Experimental Medical Care Review Organization — A Four-Year Case Study 1978
The Health Insurance Study Screening Examination Procedures Manual 1978
Research opportunities in primary care 1978
Use, Costs, and Quality of Medical Services: Impact of the New Mexico Peer Review System : a 1971-1975 Study 1978
Development of Outcome Criteria and Standards to Assess the Quality of Care for Patients with Osteoarthrosis 1977
Evaluation of the New Mexico Peer Review System, 1971 to 1973. 1977
Mechanisms for Assuring Quality of U.S. Medical Care Services: Past, Present, and Future 1977
Quality assurance and cost control in ambulatory care 1977
A Study of the Reliability, Validity, and Precision of Scales to Measure Chronic Functional Limitations Due to Poor Health 1977
Effect of Medical Care Review on the Use of Injections: A Study of the New Mexico Experimental Medical Care Review Organization 1976
Foreign Medical Graduates and Their Effects on the Quality of Medical Care in the United States 1976
The Impact of the New Mexico Experimental Medical Care Review Organization on the Quality of the Use of Injections. 1976
Quality Assurance Today and Tomorrow: Forecast for the Future 1976
Quality of Medical Care Assessment Using Outcome Measures: Executive Summary 1976
Quality of Medical Care Assessment Using Outcome Measures: An Overview of the Method 1976
Quality of Medical Care Assessment Using Outcome Measures: Eight Disease-Specific Applications 1976
Evaluating Quality of Health Care for the Disadvantaged: A Literature Review 1975
Policy Issues in Quality Assurance. 1975
Quality Assurance in the 20th Century: Will It Lead to Improved Health in the 21st? 1975
The Relationship Between Medical Malpractice and Quality of Care 1975

Robert H. Brook — Publications

What Is Single-Payer Health Care? A Review of Definitions and Proposals in the U.S. 2017

Fostering a Commitment to Quality: Best Practices in Safety-Net Hospitals 2016

Identifying Best Practices for "Safe Harbor" Legislation to Protect Child Sex Trafficking Victims: Decriminalization Alone Is Not Sufficient 2016

Impact of a Risk Calculator on Risk Perception and Surgical Decision Making: A Randomized Trial 2016

The Lack of Documentation of Preferences in a Cohort of Adults Who Died After Ischemic Stroke 2016

Physician Professional Satisfaction and Area of Clinical Practice: Evidence from an Integrated Health Care Delivery System 2016

Surgeon Perception of Risk and Benefit in the Decision to Operate 2016

Variation in Hospital Use of Postacute Care After Surgery and the Association with Care Quality 2016

Comparison Between Clinical Registry and Medicare Claims Data on the Classification of Hospital Quality of Surgical Care 2015

Emergency Physician Perceptions of Medically Unnecessary Advanced Diagnostic Imaging 2015

Emergency Physician Perceptions of Shared Decision-Making 2015

Hospital Costs by Cost Center of Inpatient Hospitalization for Medicare Patients Undergoing Major Abdominal Surgery 2015

Improving Care for Chronic Conditions: Current Practices and Future Trends in Health Plan Programs 2015

A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of Performance Improvement Teams in the Safety-Net: A Labor-Management Partnership Model for Engaging Frontline Staff 2015

Redefining Health Care Systems 2015

Results from a National Survey on Chronic Care Management by Health Plans 2015

Using the Knowledge Base of Health Services Research to Redefine Health Care Systems 2015

Disproportionate-share Hospital Payment Reductions May Threaten the Financial Stability of Safety-Net Hospitals 2014

Why Not Big Ideas and Big Interventions? 2014

Factors Affecting Physician Professional Satisfaction 2013

Factors Affecting Physician Professional Satisfaction and Their Implications for Patient Care, Health Systems, and Health Policy 2013

Health Systems, Heuristics, and Comparative Effectiveness Research 2013

Changing Eating Habits for the Medical Profession 2012

Do Physicians Need a "Shopping Cart" for Health Care Services? 2012

Two Years and Counting: How Will the Effects of the Affordable Care Act Be Monitored? 2012

Vision and Persistence: Changing the Education of Physicians Is Possible 2012

Accountable Care Organizations and Community Empowerment 2011

Assessment of Food Offerings and Marketing Strategies in the Food-Service Venues at California Children's Hospitals 2011

Can the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Become Relevant to Controlling Medical Costs and Improving Value? 2011

Facts, Facts, Facts: What Is a Physician to Do 2011

Health Services Research and Clinical Practice 2011

Is Choice of Physician and Hospital an Essential Benefit 2011

The Role of Physicians in Controlling Medical Care Costs and Reducing Waste 2011

The End of the Quality Improvement Movement: Long Live Improving Value 2010

Medical Leadership in an Increasingly Complex World 2010

Physician Compensation, Cost, and Quality 2010

Response: Comments on "The Condition of the Literature on Differences in Hospital Mortality" by Mary E. W. Goss 2010

Rights and Responsibilities in Health Care: Striking a Balance 2010

What If Physicians Actually Had to Control Medical Costs? 2010

Assessing the Appropriateness of Care — Its Time Has Come 2009

Condom Use and High-Risk Sexual Acts in Adult Films: A Comparison of Heterosexual and Homosexual Films 2009

Disruption and Innovation in Health Care 2009

Off-label Prescribing to Children in the United States Outpatient Setting 2009

Possible Outcomes of Comparative Effectiveness Research 2009

Quality, Transparency, and the US Government 2009

The Science of Health Care Reform 2009

Access to Care for Youth with Special Health Care Needs in the Transition to Adulthood 2008

Attrition in the RAND Health Insurance Experiment: A Response to Nyman 2008

Health Policy and Public Trust 2008

High-deductible Health Plans and Better Benefit Design 2008

Modeling the Health and Medical Care Spending of the Future Elderly 2008

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

Population-based Assessments of Ophthalmologic and Audiologic Follow-Up in Children with Very Low Birth Weight Enrolled in Medicaid: A Quality-of-Care Study 2008

Programmable Infusion Pumps in ICUs: An Analysis of Corresponding Adverse Drug Events 2008

Rigorous Development Does Not Ensure That Guidelines Are Acceptable to a Panel of Knowledgeable Providers 2008

Seven Ideas to Improve Quality 2008

Elderly Patients' Preferences and Experiences with Providers in Managing Their Drug Costs 2007

High-deductible Health Plans and Emergency Department Use 2007

Identifying Widely Covered Drugs and Drug Coverage Variation Among Medicare Part D Formularies 2007

RAND Review: Vol. 31, No. 2, Summer 2007 2007

Suboptimal Control of Atherosclerotic Disease Risk Factors After Cardiac and Cerebrovascular Procedures 2007

Effects of Medicare's Prospective Payment System on the Quality of Hospital Care 2006

The Health Insurance Experiment: A Classic RAND Study Speaks to the Current Health Care Reform Debate 2006

Quality-of-care Indicators for the Neurodevelopmental Follow-Up of Very Low Birth Weight Children: Results of an Expert Panel Process 2006

Electronic Prescribing Systems: Making It Safer to Take Your Medicine? 2005

How Good Is the Quality of Health Care in the United States? 2005

Identifying Potential Health Care Innovations for the Future Elderly 2005

Changing Practice Patterns in the Management of Primary Breast Cancer: Concensus Development Program 2004

Cost-lowering Strategies Used By Medicare Beneficiaries Who Exceed Drug Benefit Caps and Have a Gap in Drug Coverage 2004

Cross-Validation Performance of Mortality Prediction Models 2004

Differences in Quality of Care for Hospitalized Elderly Men and Women 2004

Does Inappropriate Use Explain Geographic Variations in the Use of Health Care Services? 2004

Hospital Characteristics and Quality of Care 2004

How Coronary Angiography is Used: Clinical Determinants of Appropriateness 2004

Preventable Deaths: Who, How Often, and Why? 2004

Recommendations for Comparing Electronic Prescribing Systems: Results of an Expert Consensus Process : Guidance to Help Early Adopters and Policymakers Select the Systems Most Likely to Benefit Patients 2004

Surgical Quality: Review of Californian Measures 2004

Watching the Doctor-Watchers: How Well do Peer Review Organization Methods Detect Hospital Care Quality Problems? 2004

Can Health Care Quality Indicators Be Transferred Between Countries? 2003