Recent RAND Statistics Publications

• 2024-2022
• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018

2024-2022 Publications

• Changes in Hospice Care Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic 2024

  DeYoreo, M., Price, R. A., Haas, A., Tolpadi, A., Teno, J. M., Elliott, M. N.

  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

• Understanding the social risk factor adjustment's effect on Star Ratings2024

  Tolpadi, A., Sorbero, M., DeYoreo, M., Elliott, M., Damberg, C.

  AJMC.

• Survey Protocols, Response Rates, and Representation of Underserved Patients 2024

  Elliott M.N., Brown J.A., Hambarsoomian K., Parast L., Beckett M.K., Lehrman W.G., Giordano L.A., Goldstein E.H., Cleary PD

  JAMA Health Forum.

• Assessing the Accuracy of Race-and-Ethnicity Data in the Outcome and Assessment Information Set 2024

  Martino S.C., Elliott M.N., Haas A., Peltz A., Saliba D., Hassan S., Rothenberg E., Keshawarz A., Rushkin M., Gildner J., Orr N., Hager M., Myers R., Kiser R., Bernheim S.

  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

• Methods for Synthetic Data Generation2024

  Snoke, J., S. K. Kinney

  Handbook of formally private and synthetic data approaches for statistical disclosure control. CRC Press.

• Incompatibilities Between Current Practices in Statistical Data Analysis and Differential Privacy2024

  Snoke, J., C. M. Bowen, A. R. Williams, A. F. Barrientos

  Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality.

• Disclosing Economists Privacy Perspectives: A Survey of American Economic Association Members on Differential Privacy and Data Fitness for Use Standards2024

  Williams, A. R., J. Snoke, C. M. Bowen, A. F. Barrientos

  Harvard Data Science Review.

• Differential Privacy Protections in 2020 U.S. Decennial Census Data Do Not Impede Measurement of Racial and Ethnic Disparities 2024

  Snoke, J., A. Haas, S. C. Martino, M. N. Elliott

  Medical Care Research and Review.

• Modeling basal body temperature data using horseshoe process regression 2024

  Elizabeth C. Chase, Jeremy M.G. Taylor, Philip S. Boonstra

  Statistics in Medicine.

• Effects of a Web–Mail Mode on Response Rates and Responses to a Care Experience Survey: Results of a Randomized Experiment 2024

  Tolpadi, A., Parast, L., Elliott, M. N., Haas, A., Bradley, M., Wolf, J., Teno, J. M., DeYoreo, M., Fuentes, L., Price, R. A.

  Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology.

• Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences 2023

  Price, R. A., Parast, L., Elliott, M. N., Tolpadi, A., Bradley, M., Schlang, D., Teno, J. M.

  JAMA Internal Medicine.

• Use of and Attitudes About Telelactation Services among New Parents2023

  Uscher-Pines, L., Kandice A. Kapinos, Ateev Mehrotra, Jill Demirci, Kristin N. Ray, Gabriela Alvarado, Maria DeYoreo

  Telemedicine and e-Health.

• Changes in Breastfeeding and Lactation Support Experiences during COVID 2023

  DeYoreo, M., Kapinos, K., Lawrence, R., Alvarado, G., Waymouth, M., Demirci, J., Uscher-Pines, L.

  Journal of Women's Health.

• A formal framework for incorporating equity into quality measurement 2023

  Agniel D., Cabreros I., Damberg C.L., Elliott M.N., Rogers R.

  Health Affairs.

• A Feasibility Study of Differentially Private Summary Statistics and Regression Analyses with Evaluations on Administrative and Survey Data 2023

  Barrientos, A. F., A. R. Williams, J. Snoke, C. M. Bowen

  Journal of the American Statistical Association.

• Understanding the social risk factor adjustment's effect on Star Ratings 2023

  Tolpadi, A., Sorbero, M., DeYoreo, M., Elliott, M. N., Damberg, C.

  The American Journal of Managed Care.

• Exploring Which Patients Use Their Closest Emergency Departments Using Geocoded Data 2023

  Tolpadi, A., Elliott, M. N., Becker, K., Lehrman, W., Stark, D., Parast, L.

  The Journal of Emergency Medicine.

• Improving the Quality of Written Discharge Instructions: A Multisite Collaborative Project 2023

  Desai, A. D., Tolpadi, A., Parast, L., Esporas, M., Britto, M. T., Gidengil, C., Wilson, K., Bardach, N., Basco, W., Brittan, M., Johnson, D. P., Wood, K., Yung, S., Dawley, E., Fiore, D., Gregoire, L., Hodo, L. N., Leggett, B., Piazza, K., Sartori, L. F., Weber, D. E., Mangione-Smith, R.

  Pediatrics.

• Predicting race and ethnicity to ensure equitable algorithms for health care decision-making 2022

  Cabreros I., Agniel D, Martino S.C., Damberg C.L., Elliott M.N.

  Health Affairs.

• The contribution of first-name information to the accuracy of racial-and-ethnic imputations varies by gender and race-and-ethnicity 2022

  Haas A., Adams J.L., Haviland A.M., Dembosky J., Morrison P.A., Gaillot S., Fremont A., Gildner J., Tamayo L., Elliott M.N.

  Medical Care.

• Collaborative to Increase Lethal Means Counseling for Caregivers of Youth with Suicidality 2022

  Leyenaar, J., Tolpadi, A., Parast, L., Esporas, M., Britto, M. T., Gidengil, C., Wilson, K., Bardach, N., Basco, W., Brittan, M., Williams, D. J., Wood, K., Yung, S., Dawley, E., Elliott, A., Manges, K., Plemmons, G., Rice, T., Wiener, B., Mangione-Smith, R.

  Pediatrics.

• Variation in Hospice Experiences by Care Setting For Patients with Dementia 2022

  Parast, L., Tolpadi, A., Teno, J. M., Elliott, M. N., Price, R. A.

  Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.

• Adding Telephone Follow-up Can Improve Representativeness of Surveys of Seriously Ill People 2022

  DeYoreo, M., Price, R. A., Bradley, M., Schlang, D., Montemayor, C., Tolpadi, A., Cleary, P., Teno, J., Elliott, M. N.

  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

• Adjusting for Patient Characteristics to Compare Quality of Care Provided by Serious Illness Programs 2022

  DeYoreo, M., Price, R. A., Montemayor, C., Tolpadi, A., Bradley, M., Schlang, D., Teno, J., Cleary, P., Elliott, M. N.

  Journal of Palliative Medicine.

• National travel distances for emergency care 2022

  Tolpadi, A., Elliott, M. N., Waxman, D., Becker, K., Flow-Delwiche, E., Lehrman, W., Stark, D., Parast, L.

  BMC Health Services Research.