Dissertation Title： "Assessing Patient-Reported Quality in Medical Group Practices: An Analysis of Data from the National Field Test of the Group-Level CAHPS Instrument"
There is growing interest in measuring the quality of healthcare provided by medical...
Dissertation Title： "Safety Climate in US Hospitals: Its Measurement, Variation, and Relationship to Organizational Safety Performance"
Patient safety problems remain common in healthcare organizations. Drawing on lessons from high reliability...
Dissertation Title: "Gender and Health: The Influence of Psychosocial Factors on Health"
The medical literature presents many examples of differences in health care use by men and women. The roots of these differences include biological, social, and...
Dissertation Title："Continuity and Team Approaches to Care: Effects on Physician-Patient Relationship Quality, Patients’ Experiences, and the Technical Quality of Care"
Team approaches to care are increasingly being considered critical to improving quality...
Dissertation Title："Conducting Social Network and Social Norm Research in Low-Resource Settings: Food Insecutiry, Depression, and HIV Testing in Rural Uganda"
This dissertation examines the role of social networks and social norms in health outcomes and...
Dissertation Title: "Work Process Failure and Organizational Learning in Health Care Delivery Settings"
This dissertation examines behavioral influences on the emergence and management of work process failure in health care delivery organizations. In...
Dissertation Title: "Social Networks and Health: From Epidemiology to Intervention"
This dissertation applies network science to three foundational problems in: epidemiology (the social gradient in mortality), health economics (the geographic variation...
Dissertation Title: "Trust and Agency: The Patient-Physician Relationship in the Era of Managed Care"
Trust is essential in social life. Interpersonal relationships are complex and often unpredictable, and as such, trust minimizes the cognitive and...
Dissertation Title: "End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD): Factors Affecting Patient's Treatment and Care Assessments"
Nearly 455,000 people in the United States are living with ESRD, and more than 100,000 people are diagnosed each year. ESRD patients receive...
Dissertation Title: "Social Ties and Health: An Analysis of Patient-Doctor Trust and Network-Based Public Health Interventions Through Randomized Experiments and Simulations"
This dissertation investigates the structure and function of interpersonal ties...