Dissertation Title： "Delivering the Right Amount of Care - Sometimes More is Less"
New technologies utilized in clinical practice offer improved tools for diagnosing and treating patients. In some cases these improvements cause unintended consequences by...
Dissertation Title： "Drivers of Physician Productivity and Performance: The Role of Queuing Systems, Relative Performance Feedback, and Cohort Turnover"
This dissertation investigates how operational choices about the design of work systems in health care...
Dissertation Title: "Chronic Illness and Public Health: Evaluating Influential Intersections Between Politics and Policy"
The first paper investigates the political bias of the U.S. news media in its coverage of two recent health controversies: the 2009...
Dissertation Title："Three Essays in Physician Behavior"
Physicians are the foundation of health care in the United States. Their decisions drive both spending and quality of care and it is their actions that will largely determine the success of efforts to...
Dissertation Title: "Cost-Effectiveness and Social Values in Health Care Priority Setting: Normative Reasons and Public Deliberation"
Paper 1 discusses the question of whether health policy should treat drugs for rare diseases (“orphan drugs”) differently...
Dissertation Title: "Understanding Variation in the Correlates of Health Care Satisfaction and Beliefs"
Public satisfaction and approval are important components of determining the performance, stability, and legitimacy of health systems. Meeting public...
Dissertation Title: "Promoting Value Through Health Insurance Design: Empirical and Normative Assessments"
Chapter 1. The Effect of a Large Regional Health Plan’s Value-Based Insurance Design Program on Statin Use.
My first chapter examines a value-based...