Recent RAND Statistics Publications

2018 Publications

• Biases in Electronic Health Record Data Due to Processes Within the Healthcare System: Retrospective Observational Study2018

  Agniel, D., Kohane, I. S., & Weber, G. M.

  BMJ, 361, k1479

• Functional Principal Variance Component Testing for a Genetic Association Study of HIV Progression2018

  Agniel, D., Xie, W., Essex, M. & Cai, T.

  The Annals of Applied Statistics, 12(3), pp.1871-1893

• Development of Valid and Reliable Measures of Patient and Family Experiences of Hospice Care for Public Reporting2018

  Anhang, Price R., Stucky, B., Parast, L., Elliott, M.N., Haas, A., Bradley, M., Teno, J.M.

  Journal of Palliative Medicine, 12(3), pp.1871-1893

• Doubly Robust Matching Estimators for High Dimensional Confounding Adjustment2018

  Antonelli, J., Cefalu, M., Palmer, N. and Agniel, D.

  Biometrics, 74(4), pp.11711179.

• How Do Gender Differences in Quality of Care Vary Across Medicare Advantage Plans?2018

  Bird, C.E., Elliott, M.N., Adams, J.L., Schneider, E.C., Klein, D.J., Dembosky, J.W., Gaillot, S., Fremont, A.M., Haviland, A.M.

  Journal of General Internal Medicine, 33(10):1752-1759 DOI: 10.1007/s11606-018-4605-5

• Postsurgical Prescriptions for Opioid Naive Patients and Association With Overdose and Misuse: Retrospective Cohort Study2018

  Brat, G. A., Agniel, D., Beam, A., Yorkgitis, B., Bicket, M., Homer, M., ... & Kohane, I.

  BMJ, 360, j5790

• Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Attainment of Behavioral Health Quality Measures in Medicare Advantage Plans2018

  Breslau, J., Elliott, M.N., Haviland, A.M., Klein, D.J., Dembosky, J.W., Adams, J.L., Gaillot, S., Horvitz-Lennon, M., Schneider, E.C.

  Health Affairs, 37(10) 1685-1692 [Health Affairs Top 10 Articles of 2018]

• Evaluating Physicians' Communication Skills: How Do Ratings by Family Physicians, Patients and Trained Clinical Raters Compare?2018

  Burt, J., Abel, G.A., Elliott, M.N., Elmore, N., Newbould, J., Davey, A., Llanwarne, N., Maramba, C., Paddison, C., Campbell, J., Roland, M.

  Annals of Family Medicine, 16(4):330-337 DOI: 10.1370/afm.2241

• Indirect Estimation of Race/Ethnicity for Survey Respondents who do not Report Race/Ethnicity2018

  Dembosky, J.W., Haviland, A.M., Haas, A., Hambarsoomian, K., Weech-Maldonado, R., Wilson-Frederick, S.M., Gaillot, S., Elliott, M.N.

  Medical Care, doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001011

• Modeling for Dynamic Ordinal Regression Relationships: An Application to Estimating Maturity of Rockfish in California2018

  DeYoreo, M., and Kottas, A.

  Journal of the American Statistical Association, 113(531):68–80

• Bayesian Nonparametric Modeling for Multivariate Ordinal Regression2018

  DeYoreo, M., and Kottas, A.

  Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 27(1): 71-84. DOI: 10.1080/10618600.2017.1316280

• Using Predicted Spanish Preference to Target Bilingual Mailings in a Mail Survey With Telephone Follow-Up2018

  Elliott, M.N., Klein, D.J., Kallaur, P., Brown, J.A., Hays, R.D., Orr, N.E., Zaslavsky, A.M., Beckett, M.K., Gaillot, S., Edwards, C.A., Haviland, A.M.

  Health Services Research, 54(1): 5-12. DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.13088

• Imputation of Race/Ethnicity to Enable Measurement of HEDIS Performance by Race/Ethnicity2018

  Haas, A., Elliott, M.N., Dembosky, J.W., Adams, J.L., Wilson-Frederick, S., Mallett, J.S., Gaillot, S., Haffer, S.C., Haviland, A.M.

  Health Services Research, 54(1): 13-23. DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.13099

• Shifting From Passive Reporting of Quality Performance to Active Quality-Based Nudging to Influence Consumer Choice of Health Plan2018

  Haviland, A.M., Damberg, C., Mathews, M., Paddock, S., Elliott, M.N.

  Medical Care Research and Review, DOI: 10.1177/1077558718798534

• Associations of CAHPS Composites With Global Ratings Vary by Medicare Beneficiaries' Health Status2018

  Hays, R.D., Mallett, J.S., Haas, A., Kahn, K., Martino, S., Gaillot, S., Elliott, M.N.

  Medical Care, 56(8): 736-739 DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000942

• A Comparison of Methods for Classifying and Modeling Respondents Who Endorse Multiple Racial-Ethnic Categories: A Healthcare Experience Application2018

  Klein, D.J., Elliottm M,N., Haviland, A.M., Orr, N., Weech-Maldonado, R.

  Medical Care, DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001012

• The Causal Effects of Grade Retention on Behavioral Outcomes. 2018

  Mariano, L.T. and Martorell, P.

  Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness 11(2), 192-216.

• Effects of Anti-Smoking Media on College Students’ Smoking-Related Beliefs and Intentions: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study 2018

  Martino, S., Setodji, C., Dunbar, M., Gong, M., Shadel, W.G.

  Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 32, 76-83.

• Persistence of Shifts in Beliefs Associated With Exposure to Alcohol Advertising Among Adolescents 2018

  Martino, S. C., Setodji, C., Collins, R. L., D'Amico, E. J., Shadel, W. G., Tolpadi, A., Becker, K. M.

  Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 79(3), 399-407. doi: 10.15288/jsad.2018.79.399

• Are Publicly-Funded Health Databases Geographically Detailed and Timely Enough to Support Patient-Centered Outcomes Research? 2018

  Min S., Martin L.T., Rutter C.M., Concannon T.W.

  Journal of General Internal Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-018-4673-6

• Effects of Survey Mode on CAHPS Hospice Survey Scores2018

  Parast, L., Elliott, M.N., Hambarsoomian, K., Teno, J., Anhang Price, R.

  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, DOI: 10.1111/jgs.15265

• Effects of Caregiver and Decedent Characteristics on CAHPS Hospice Survey Scores2018

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

  Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2018.07.014

• National testing of the Emergency Department Patient Experience of Care (EDPEC) Discharged to Community (DTC) Survey and implications for adjustment in scoring2018

  Parast, L., Mathews, M., Tolpadi, A., Elliott, M.N., Becker, K.

  Medical Care, DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001005

• Quantifying Magnitude of Differences in Patient Experiences With Healthcare Measures2018

  Quigley, D.D., Elliott, M.N., Setodji, C.M., Hays, R.D.

  Health Services Research, 53(4): 3027-3051 DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12828

• A Comparison of Strategies for Recruiting Teachers into Survey Panels 2018

  Robbins, M.W., G. Grimm, B. Stecher, V.D. Opfer

  SAGE Open, 8, 2158244018796412.

• Effect of time to diagnostic testing for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening abnormalities on screening efficacy: a modeling study2018

  Rutter, C.M., Kim, J.J., Meester, R.G.S., Sprague, B.L., Burger, E.A., Zauber, A.G., Ergun, M.A., Campos, N.G., Doubeni, C.A., Trentham-Dietz, A., Sy, S., Alagoz, O., Stout, N.K., Lansdorp-Vogelaar, I., Corley, D.A., Tosteson, A.N.A.

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, 27(2):158-64. DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-17-0378

• Evaluating Methods to Estimate the Effect of State Laws on Firearm Deaths: A Simulation Study 2018

  Schell, Terry L., B. A. Griffin, and Andrew R. Morral

  RAND, RR-2685-RC. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2685.html

• Data Fusion for Correcting Measurement Errors2018

  Schifeling, T., Reiter, J., and DeYoreo, M.

  Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 7(2):175-200

• pMSE Mechanism: Differentially private synthetic data with maximal distributional similarity2018

  Snoke, J. and Slavković, A.

  Privacy in Statistical Databases, pp.138-159. Springer. DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-99771-1

• Providing Accurate Models Across Private Partitioned Data: Secure Maximum Likelihood Estimation2018

  Snoke, J., Brick, T.R., Slavković, A. and Hunter, M.D.

  The Annals of Applied Statistics, 12(2), pp.877-914. DOI:10.1214/18-AOAS1171

• General and Specific Utility Measures for Synthetic Data2018

  Snoke, J., Raab, G.M., Nowok, B., Dibben, C. and Slavković, A.

  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 181(3), pp.663-688. DOI:10.1111/rssa.12358

• Adjusting Medicare Advantage Star Ratings for Socioeconomic Status and Disability2018

  Sorbero, M.E., Paddock, S.M., Damberg, C.L., Haas, A., Kommareddi, M., Tolpadi, A., Mathews, M., Elliott, M.N.

  American Journal of Managed Care, 24(9):e285-e291

• Prevalence Estimation When Disease Status Is Verified Only Among Test Positives: Applications in HIV Screening Programs 2018

  Thomas E.G., Peskoe S.B., Spiegelman D.

  Statistics in Medicine.

• Improving Response Rates and Representation of Hard-to-Reach Groups in Family Experience Surveys2018

  Toomey, S.L., Elliott, M.N., Zaslavsky, A.M., Quinn, J., Klein, D.J., Wagner, S., Thomson, C., Wu, M., Onorato, S., Schuster, M.A.

  Academic Pediatrics, DOI: 10.1016/j.acap.2018.07.007

• A Preliminary Validation Study of a Composite Sleep Health Score Index: Associations With Psychological Distress, Obesity and Physical Functioning2018

  Troxel, Wendy M., Amy DeSantis, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Gerald P. Hunter, Matthew Buman, Daniel J. Buysse, Lauren Hale and Tamara Dubowitz.

  Sleep, 41(1): A392–A393, DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsy061.1054

• Methods for Optimal Covariate Balance in Observational Studies for Causal Inference2018

  Vegetabile, B.G.

  Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, Irvine