Recent RAND Statistics Publications

2022-2023 Publications

• Identifying optimal methods for addressing confounding bias when estimating the effects of state-level policies 2023

  Griffin, B.A., Schuler, M, Stone, E.M., Patrick, S.W., Stein, BD., Nascimento de Lima, P, Griswold, M, Scherling, A., & Stuart, E.

  Epidemiology.

• A Tutorial for Propensity Score Weighting for Moderation Analysis With Categorical Variables: An Application Examining Smoking Disparities Among Sexual Minority Adults 2023

  Griffin, Beth Ann PhD; Schuler, Megan S. PhD*; Cefalu, Matt PhD†; Ayer, Lynsay PhD*; Godley, Mark PhD‡; Greifer, Noah PhD§; Coffman, Donna L. PhD∥; McCaffrey, Daniel F. PhD

  Medical Care.

• Estimating Policy Effects using Lagged Outcome Values to Impute Counterfactuals 2023

  David Powell, Beth Ann Griffin, Tal Wolfson

• Exploring the association of state policies and the trajectories of buprenorphine prescriber patient caseloads 2023

  Griffin, BA, Cabreros, I, Saloner, B, Gordon, AJ, Kerber, R, Stein, BD

  Substance Abuse Journal.

• How Much Can You Trust the Results of This Health Policy Evaluation 2023

  Megan S. Schuler, Elizabeth A. Stuart, Beth Ann Griffin, Rosanna Smart, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, David Powell, Stephen W. Patrick, Shelby M. Hockenberry, Bradley D. Stein

  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

• The Role of Pre-Treatment Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Adolescent Substance Use Treatment Outcome 2023

  Coffman DL, Ayer L, Schuler MS, Godley M, Funk R, & Griffin B.A.

  Substance Use & Misuse.

• Methodological considerations for estimating policy effects in the context of co-occurring policies 2023

  Griffin, B.A., Schuler, M.S., Pane, J., Patrick, S. W., Smart, R., Bradley, D. S., Grimm, G., & Stuart, E.

  Health Serv Outcomes Res Method.

• 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.

• Development and Testing of an Emergency Department Quality Measure for Pediatric Suicidal Ideation and Self-Harm 2022

  Layla Parast, Q Burkhart, Naomi S Bardach, Robert Thombley, William T Basco Jr, Greg Barabell, Derek J Williams, Ed Mitchel, Edison Machado Jr, Priya Raghavan, Anagha Tolpadi, Rita Mangione-Smith

  Academic Pediatrics.

• Covariate balancing & weighting web app (COBWEB): an online tool simplifying robust causal inference in observational studies 2022

  Markoulidakis, A, Holmans, P, Pallmann, P, Busse, M and Griffin, BA

  Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry .

• Scaling interventions to manage chronic disease: Innovative methods at the intersection of health policy research and implementation science 2022

  McGinty, E. E., Seewald, N. J., Bandara, S., Cerda, M., Daumit, G.L., Eisenberg, M. D., Griffin, B. A., Igusa, T., Jackson, J. W., Kennedy-Hendricks, A., Marsteller, J., Miech, E. J., Purtle, J., Schmid, I., Schular, M. S., Yuan, C.T., & Stuart, E.A

  Prevention Science.

• Volunteer Recovery Support for Adolescents: Using propensity score based methods to understand dosage effects within a randomized controlled trial. 2022

  Godley, M. D., Passetti, L. L., Hunter, B. D., Griffin, B. A.

  Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment.

• Higher Moments for Optimal Balance Weighting in Causal Estimation 2022

  Huang, M.Y., Vegetabile, B.G., Burgette, L.F., Setodji , C., Griffin , B.A

  Epidemiology.

• A tutorial comparing different covariate balancing methods with an application evaluating the causal effects of substance use treatment programs for adolescents 2022

  Markoulidakis, A., Taiyari, K., Holmans, P., Pallmann, P., Busse-Morris, M., Godley, M. D., Griffin, B. A.

  Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology. .

• 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.