Recent RAND Statistics Publications

2019 Publications

• Identifying and Quantifying Variation Between Healthcare Organisations and Geographical Regions; Using Mixed-Effects Models 2019

  Abel G., Elliott M.N.

  BMJ Qual Saf. (12):1032-1038. PMCID: PMC6934242.

• Synthetic Estimation For the Complier Average Causal Effect 2019

  Agniel, D., Han, B., and Cefalu, M.

  arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.05813

• Colonoscopy Indication Algorithm Performance Across Diverse Health Care Systems in the PROSPR Consortium2019

  Burnett-Hartman AN, Kamineni A, Corley DA, Singal AG, Halm EA, Rutter CM, Chubak J, Lee JK, Doubeni CA, Inadomi JM, Doria-Rose P, Zheng Y.

  eGEMs (Generating Evidence & Methods to improve patient outcomes), 7(1): 37, pp. 1–10. PMCID: PMC6676916

• A Likelihood-Free Estimator of Population Structure Bridging Admixture Models and Principal Components Analysis 2019

  Cabreros I., Storey J.D.

  Genetics https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.119.302159

• Hospital Quality Indicators Are Not Unidimensional: A Reanalysis of Lieberthal and Comer 2019

  Cefalu M.S., Elliott M.N., Setodji C.M., Cleary P.D., Hays R.D.

  Health Serv Res. 54(2):502-508. PMCID: PMC6407350.

• Using Ancillary Sociodemographic Data to Identify Sexual Minority Adults among Those Responding “Something Else” or “Don’t Know” to Sexual Orientation Questions 2019

  Elliott M.N., Dahlhamer J.M., MacCarthy S., Beckett M.K., Orr N., Guerino P., Agniel D., Saunders C.L., Schuster M.A., Ng J.H., Martino S.C.

  Med Care. 57(12):e87-e95. PMCID: PMC7644134.

• A Cheap Trick to Improve the Power of a Conservative Hypothesis Test 2019

  Fisher T.J., Robbins M.W.

  The American Statistician, 73, 232-242.

• Causal Difference-in-Differences Estimation for Evaluating the Impact of Semi-Continuous Medical Home Scores on Health Care for Children2019

  Han, B., Yu, H.

  Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology

• The Effect of Different Sampling and Recall Periods in the Clinician & Group (CG) CAHPS Survey 2019

  Hargraves J.L., Cosenza C., Elliott M.N., Cleary P.D.

  Health Serv Res. 54(5):1036-1044. PMCID: PMC6736918.

• Self-Reporting Discrepancies of Bullying Victimization and Perpetration Measures2019

  Jetelina, K.K., Reingle, J.M., Cuccaro, P.M., Peskin, M.F., Pompeii, L., Atem, F., Elliott, M.N., Earnshaw, V.A., Davies, S.L., Schuster, M.A.

  Annals of Epidemiology

• An Integrated Approach to Measuring Sexual Orientation Disparities in Women’s Access to Health Services: An NHIS Application 2019

  MacCarthy S., Martino S.C., Burkhart Q., Beckett M.K., Schuster M.A., Quigley D.D., Ng J.H., Agniel D., Elliott M.N.

  LGBT Health. 6(2):87-93. PMID: 30724685.

• Methods for Improving Response Rates in an Emergency Department Setting - A Randomized Feasibility Study 2019

  Mathews M., Parast L., Tolpadi A., Marc M.N., Flow-Delwiche E., Becker K.

  Survey Practice, 12(1): 10.29115/SP-2019-0007.

• Cost-effectiveness of a multitarget stool DNA test for colorectal cancer screening of Medicare beneficiaries 2019

  Naber S.K., Knudsen A.B., Zauber A.G., Rutter C.M., Fischer S.E., Pabiniak C.J., Soto B., Kuntz K.M., Lansdorp-Vogelaar I.

  PloS one. 14(9):e0220234. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220234; PMID: 31483796; PMCID: PMC6726189

• Access, Quality, and Financial Performance of Rural Hospitals Following Health System Affiliation 2019

  O'Hanlon C., Kranz A., DeYoreo M., Mahmud A., Damberg C., and Timbie J.

  Health Affairs, 38(12):2095-2104.

• Dynamic Risk Prediction for Diabetes Using Biomarker Change Measurements 2019

  Parast L., Mathews M., Friedberg M.

  BMC Medical Research Methodology, 19:175.

• Effects of Push-To-Web Mixed Mode Approaches on Survey Response Rates: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Emergency Departments 2019

  Parast L., Mathews M., Marc M.N., Tolpadi A., Flow-Delwiche E., Lehrman W.G., Stark D., Becker K.

  Survey Practice, 12(1): 10.29115/SP-2019-0008.

• National Testing of the Emergency Department Patient Experience of Care (EDPEC) Discharged to Community (DTC) Survey and Implications for Adjustment in Scoring 2019

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

  Medical Care, 57(1): 42-48.

• Using a Surrogate Marker for Early Testing of a Treatment Effect 2019

  Parast L., Cai T., Tian L.

  Biometrics, 75(4): 1253-1263.

• Microsimulation Model Calibration Using Incremental Mixture Approximate Bayesian Computation2019

  Rutter, C.M., Ozik, J., DeYoreo, Collier, N.

  Annals of Applied Statistics

• Informing Pragmatic Clinical Trial Design With Data Collected From Electronic Medical Records2019

  Shortreed, S., Rutter, C.M., Cook, A., Simon, G.

  Clinical Trials

• An Exponential Effect Persistence Model for Intensive Longitudinal Data2019

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

  Psychological Methods, 24(5), 622-636.

• Differences in Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Clinician and Group Survey Scores by Recency of the Last Visit: Implications for Comparability of Periodic and Continuous Sampling 2019

  Setodji C.M., Burkhart Q., Hays R.D., Quigley D.D., Skootsky S.A., Elliott M.N.

  Medical Care, 52(12), e80-e86. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001134

• Differential item functioning of the CAHPS In-center Hemodialysis Survey 2019

  Setodji C.M., Peipert J.D., Hays R.D.

  Quality of Life Research, 28(11), 3117-3135. doi: 10.1007/s11136-019-02250-5

• Estimating the Entropy Rate of Finite Markov Chains With Application to Behavior Studies2019

  Vegetabile B.G., Stout-Oswald S.A., Davis E.P., Baram T.Z., Stern H.S.

  Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, https://doi.org/10.3102%2F1076998618822540