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Income-related Disparities in Medicare Advantage Behavioral Health Care Quality 2023
Patient Experience for Hispanic Older Adults Varies by Language Preference 2022
Poor Self-rated Mental Health and Medicare Beneficiaries' Routine Care-Seeking 2022
Predicting Race And Ethnicity To Ensure Equitable Algorithms For Health Care Decision Making 2022
Standardized Assessment of Depression Symptoms in Post-Acute Care: A Screening Threshold Approach 2022
Developing Health Equity Measures 2021
Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Health Care in Medicare Advantage: April 2021 2021
Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Health Care in Medicare Advantage: April 2020 2020
Using Natural Language Processing to Code Patient Experience Narratives: Capabilities and Challenges 2020
Do Graphic Health Warning Labels on Cigarette Packages Deter Purchases at Point-of-Sale? An Experiment With Adult Smokers 2019
Increased Attention to the Tobacco Power Wall Predicts Increased Smoking Risk Among Adolescents 2019
Inpatient Care Experiences Differ by Preferred Language Within Racial/Ethnic Groups 2019
Psychometric Evaluation of the Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plan Disenrollment Reasons Survey 2019
Using Ancillary Sociodemographic Data to Identify Sexual Minority Adults Among Those Responding "Something Else" or "Don't Know" to Sexual Orientation Questions 2019
What Words Convey: The Potential for Patient Narratives to Inform Quality Improvement 2019
Associations of CAHPS Composites With Global Ratings of the Doctor Vary by Medicare Beneficiaries' Health Status 2018
Development and Maintenance of Standardized Cross Setting Patient Assessment Data for Post-Acute Care: Summary Report of Findings from Alpha 2 Pilot Testing 2018
Drinking It In: The Impact of Youth Exposure to Alcohol Advertising 2018
Exposure to the Tobacco Power Wall Increases Adolescents' Willingness to Use E-cigarettes in the Future 2018
A Framework for Conceptualizing How Narratives from Health-Care Consumers Might Improve or Impede the Use of Information About Provider Quality 2018
Persistence of Shifts in Beliefs Associated With Exposure to Alcohol Advertising Among Adolescents 2018
Speaking Up and Walking Out: Are Vulnerable Patients Less Likely to Disagree With or Change Doctors? 2018
CAHPS and Comments: How Closed-Ended Survey Questions and Narrative Accounts Interact in the Assessment of Patient Experience 2017
Choosing Doctors Wisely: Can Assisted Choice Enhance Patients' Selection of Clinicians? 2017
Development and Maintenance of Standardized Cross Setting Patient Assessment Data for Post-Acute Care: Summary Report of Findings from Alpha 1 Pilot Testing 2017
Does Self-Efficacy Causally Influence Initial Smoking Cessation? An Experimental Study 2017
Effects of Antismoking Media on College Students' Smoking-Related Beliefs and Intentions 2017
Exposure to Alcohol Advertising and Adolescents' Drinking Beliefs: Role of Message Interpretation 2017
Noncigarette Tobacco Advertising May Be Hazardous to a Teen's Health 2017
Placing Antismoking Graphic Warning Posters at Retail Point-of-Sale Locations Increases Some Adolescents' Susceptibility to Future Smoking 2017
Scaled Inverse Probability Weighting: A Method to Assess Potential Bias Due to Event Nonreporting in Ecological Momentary Assessment Studies 2017
The SelectMD 2.0 Provider Choice Experiment: Methodological Overview 2017
Using "Roll-up" Measures in Healthcare Quality Reports: Perspectives of Report Sponsors and National Alliances 2017
Alcohol Advertising Exposure Among Middle School-Age Youth: An Assessment Across All Media and Venues 2016
Breaking Narrative Ground: Innovative Methods for Rigorously Eliciting and Assessing Patient Narratives 2016
Can a More User-Friendly Medicare Plan Finder Improve Consumers' Selection of Medicare Plans? 2016
Ecological Momentary Assessment of the Association Between Exposure to Alcohol Advertising and Early Adolescents' Beliefs About Alcohol 2016
Factors Associated with Younger Adolescents' Exposure to Online Alcohol Advertising 2016
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Medicare Beneficiaries' Carecoordination Experiences 2016
Simplified Novel Application (SNApp) Framework: A Guide to Developing and Implementing Second-Generation Mobile Applications for Behavioral Health Research 2016
Can Big Tobacco's Power Wall Be Breached? 2015
Comparing the Health Care Experiences of Medicare Beneficiaries with and Without Depressive Symptoms in Medicare Managed Care Versus Fee-for-Service 2015
Hiding the Tobacco Power Wall Reduces Cigarette Smoking Risk in Adolescents: Using an Experimental Convenience Store to Assess Tobacco Regulatory Options at Retail Point-of-Sale 2015
How Patient Comments Affect Consumers' Use of Physician Performance Measures 2015
Taking Patients' Narratives About Clinicians from Anecdote to Science 2015
Evaluation of a Care Coordination Measure for the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) Medicare Survey 2014
Quantifying the Persistence of Pro-Smoking Media Effects on College Students' Smoking Risk 2014
Evaluating the Content of the Communication Items in the CAHPS® Clinician and Group Survey and Supplemental Items with What High-Performing Physicians Say They Do 2013
Exposure to Pro-Smoking Media in College Students: Does Type of Media Channel Differentially Contribute to Smoking Risk? 2013
Friends Moderate the Effects of Pro-Smoking Media on College Students' Intentions to Smoke 2013
Middle and High Schools Students' Exposure to Alcohol- and Smoking-Related Media: A Pilot Study Using Ecological Momentary Assessment 2013
Reporting CAHPS and HEDIS Data by Race/Ethnicity for Medicare Beneficiaries 2013
Consumer Response to Patient Experience Measures in Complex Information Environments 2012
A Field Experiment on the Impact of Physician-Level Performance Data on Consumers' Choice of Physician 2012
If You Provide the Test, They Will Take It: Factors Associated with HIV/STI Testing in a Representative Sample of Homeless Youth in Los Angeles 2012
A Matrix of New Media Use Measures and Brief Media Survey 2012
Measuring Exposure to Protobacco Marketing and Media: A Field Study Using Ecological Momentary Assessment 2012
Momentary Effects of Exposure to Prosmoking Media on College Students' Future Smoking Risk 2012
Motives for Smoking in Movies Affect Future Smoking Risk in Middle School Students: An Experimental Investigation 2012
Research Gaps and Measurement Challenges for Studying the Influence of New Media on Adolescent Sexual Health 2012
Depression and the Health Care Experiences of Medicare Beneficiaries 2011
Increased Substance Use and Risky Sexual Behavior Among Migratory Homeless Youth: Exploring the Role of Social Network Composition 2011
Influence of New Media on Adolescent Sexual Health: Evidence and Opportunities 2011
Lapse-induced Surges in Craving Influence Relapse in Adult Smokers: An Experimental Investigation 2011
Propensity Scoring and the Relationship Between Sexual Media and Adolescent Sexual Behavior: Comment on Steinberg and Monahan (2011) 2011
Relationships Between Adolescent Sexual Outcomes and Exposure to Sex in Media: Robustness to Propensity-Based Analysis 2011
A Worksite Parenting Program That Works 2011
Are Adolescents Talking with Their Parents About Sex Before Becoming Sexually Active? 2010
Smoking Motives in Movies Are Important for Understanding Adolescent Smoking: A Preliminary Investigation 2010
Timing of Parent and Child Communication About Sexuality Relative to Children's Sexual Behaviors 2010
It's Better on TV: Does Television Set Teenagers Up for Regret Following Sexual Initiation? 2009
Multiple Trajectories of Peer and Parental Influence and Their Association with the Development of Adolescent Heavy Drinking 2009
Psychometric Properties of an Instrument to Assess Medicare Beneficiaries' Prescription Drug Plan Experiences 2009
Recanting of Life-Time Inhalant Use: How Big a Problem and What to Make of It 2009
Beyond the "Big Talk": The Roles of Breadth and Repetition in Parent-Adolescent Communication About Sexual Topics 2008
Developmental Trajectories of Substance Use from Early to Late Adolescence: A Comparison of Rural and Urban Youth 2008
Does Watching Sex on Television Predict Teen Pregnancy? Findings from a National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 2008
Exposure to Sex on TV May Increase the Chance of Teen Pregnancy 2008
Multiple Trajectories of Physical Aggression Among Adolescent Boys and Girls 2008
Virginity Pledges Among the Willing: Delays in First Intercourse and Consistency of Condom Use 2008
"But Others Do It!": Do Misperceptions of Schoolmate Alcohol and Marijuana Use Predict Subsequent Drug Use Among Young Adolescents? 2007
Exploring the Link Between Substance Abuse and Abortion: The Roles of Unconventionality and Unplanned Pregnancy. 2006
Exposure to Degrading Versus Nondegrading Music Lyrics and Sexual Behavior Among Youth 2006
Improving the Development and Utilization of Air Force Space and Missile Officers 2006
Measuring and Reporting the Performance of Disease Management Programs 2006
New Analytic Methods Can Improve the Development of Air Force Space and Missile Officers 2006
Socio-environmental Influences on Adolescents' Alcohol Outcome Expectancies: A Prospective Analysis 2006
Cross-lagged Relationships Between Substance Use and Intimate Partner Violence Among a Sample of Young Adult Women 2005
Effects of Early and Later Marriage on Women's Alcohol Use in Young Adulthood: A Prospective Analysis 2005
Measuring Developmental Changes in Alcohol Expectancies 2005
Processes Linking Adolescent Problems to Substance-Use Problems in Late Young Adulthood 2005
Social Cognitive Processes Mediating the Relationship Between Exposure to Television's Sexual Content and Adolescents' Sexual Behavior 2005
Substance Use Trajectories from Early Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood: A Comparison of Smoking, Binge Drinking, and Marijuana Use 2005
Marijuana Use from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Multiple Developmental Trajectories and Their Associated Outcomes 2004
Substance Use and Early Marriage 2004
Substance Use and Vulnerability to Sexual and Physical Aggression: A Longitudinal Study of Young Adults 2004
Branding Behavior: The Strategy Behind the Truth Campaign 2002

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