Selected Publications by MPCI Faculty

In Press

• Morse AN, Labin LC, Young SB, Gurwitz JH.  The exclusion of elderly women from published randomized trials of surgery for stress urinary incontinence.  Obstet Gynecol (in press).

• Spencer FA, Allegrone J, Goldberg RJ, Gore JM, Fox KAA, Granger CB, Mehta RH, Brieger D, GRACE Investigators. Association of statin therapy with presentation and outcomes of acute coronary syndromes: The GRACE Study. Ann Intern Med (in press).

• Simon SR, Chan KA, Soumerai SB, Wagner AK, Andrade SE, Feldstein AC, Elston Lafata J, Davis RL, Gurwitz JH.   Potentially inappropriate use among elderly persons in U.S. HMOs, 2000-2001.  J Am Geriatr Soc (in press).

• Hardy JR, Holford TR, Hall GC, Bracken MB. Strategies for identifying pregnancies in the automated medical records of the United Kingdom’s General Practice Research Database.   Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety (in press and available online).

• Banerjee S, Nason FG, Yood RA.  Isolated vasculitis of the cervix presenting as vaginal discharge.  J Clin Rheumotol 2004 (in press).

• Briesacher B, Kamal-Bahl S, Hochberg M, Orwig D, Kahler KH.   Three-tiered co-payment drug coverage and use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.  Archives of Internal Medicine, 2004 (in press).

• Stille CJ, Andrade SE, Huang SS, Nordin J, Raebel MA, Chan KA, Go A, Finkelstein JA.   Increased use of second-generation macrolide antibiotics for children in nine US health plans.  Pediatrics 2004 (in press).

• Fink AK, Gurwitz J, Rakowski W, Guadagnoli E, Silliman RA.   Patient beliefs and tamoxifen adherence in older women with estrogen receptor positive breast cancer.  J Clin Oncology (in press).

• Lee WY, Capra AM, Jensvold NG, Gurwitz JH, Go AS.  Gender and risk of adverse outcomes in heart failure.   Am J Cardiol (in press).

• Gurwitz JH.   Medications and the elderly  - A clinician’s perspective.  In:  The Science and Ethics of Aging Well:  Public Policy and Responsibility Across the Generations.  Pruchno R, Smyer M, eds. Johns Hopkins University Press (in press).

• Antonelli RA, Stille CJ, Freeman L, Neufeld E.    Enhancing Collaboration:  The Roles of Primary And Subspecialty Care Physicians in Providing a Medical Home for Children with Special Health Care Needs.  U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau, 2004 (in press).

• Keough ME.   Kosovo family support project:  Offering psychosocial support for families with missing persons.  J National Assoc of Social Workers (in press).

• Andrade SE, Gurwitz JH, Field TS, Kelleher M, Majumdar SR, Reed G, Black R.   Hypertension management:  the care gap between clinical guidelines and clinical practice.  Am J Manag Care 2004 (in press).

• Kogut SJ, Andrade SE, Willey CW, Larrat EP.   Influence of nonadherence on changes in oral antidiabetic drug therapy.  Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety 2004 (in press).

• Andrade SE, Gurwitz JH, Davis RL, Chan KA, Finkelstein JA, Fortman K, McPhillips H, Raebel MA, Roblin D, Smith DH, Ulcickas Yood M, Morse AN, Platt R.   Prescription drug use in pregnancy.  Am J Obstet Gynecol 2004 (in press). 

• Field TS, Gurwitz JH, Harrold LR, Rothschild J, Debellis K, Seger AC, Auger J, Garber L, Cadoret C, Fish LS, Garber L, Kelleher M, Bates DW.  Risk factors for adverse drug events among older adults in the ambulatory setting.  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (in press).

• Mazor KM, Schwartz CE, Rogers HJ.   Development and testing of a new instrument for measuring concerns and beliefs about death in healthcare providers.  Assessment (in press).

• Mazor KM, Ockene JK,   Rogers HJ, Carlin MM, Quirk ME.   The relationship between checklist scores on a communication OSCE and patient satisfaction with communication.  Advances in Health Sciences Education (in press).

• Mazor KM, Simon SR, Gurwitz JH.  Communicating with patients about medical errors: A review of the literature.  Archives of Internal Medicine (in press).

• Billings-Gagliardi S, Barrett SV, Mazor KM.  Into the black box:  What are students thinking as they complete course evaluations.  Medical Education (in press).

• Field TS, Gurwitz JH, Harrold LR, Rothschild J, Debellis K, Seger AC, Fish LS, Garber L, Kelleher M, Bates DM.   The detection of adverse drug events among older persons in the ambulatory setting.  The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (in press).

• Keough ME.   Kosovo family support project:  Offering psychosocial support for families with missing persons.  Journal of the National Association of Social Workers  (in press).

• Steinman, Fischer, Shlipak, Bosworth, Oddone, Hoffman, Goldstein.  Are clinicians aware of their adherence to hypertension guidelines?  Am J Med 2004 (in press).

• Malek K, Fink AK, Thwin SS, Gurwitz JH, Ganz PA, Silliman RA.  The relationship between physicians’ specialty, perceptions of the risk and benefits of adjuvant tamoxifen therapy, and its recommendation in older patients with breast cancer.  Med Care (in press).

• Wagner AK, Zhang F, Soumerai SB, Walker AM, Gurwitz JH, Glynn RJ, Ross-Degnan D.   Benzodiazepines and hip fractures among the elderly:  Who is at greatest risk?  Arch Intern Med (in press).