Jay Himmelstein Publications

2003

Dembe, Allard E, Fox, Sharon E, Himmelstein, Jay S.  "Improving Workers' Compensation Medical Care: A National Challenge" OEM Press, 2003.

2002

PDF Icon Dembe, Allard E, Fox, Sharon E, Himmelstein, Jay S. "The RWJF Workers' Compensation Health Initiative: Findings and Strategies"Health Affairs, January/February 2002: 251-255.

2001

PDF Icon Fox, Sharon E, Dembe, Allard E, Lawthers, Ann G, Himmelstein, Jay S.  "The Accessibility, Costs, and Quality of Workers' Compensation Medical Care." Workers' Compensation Policy Review, November/December 2001: 3-15.

Deitchman, Scott, Allard Dembe, and Jay Himmelstein. "The Advent of Occupational Health Services Research." American Journal of Industrial Medicine 40, no. 3 (2001): 291-94.

Pransky, Glenn S., Katy Benjamin, Jay Himmelstein, Kenneth Mundt, William Morgan, Michael Feuerstein, Kim Koyamatsu, and Carolyn Hill-Fotouhi. "Work-Related Upper-Extremity Disorders: Prospective Evaluation of Clinical and Functional Outcomes." Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (in press).

2000

Dembe, Allard, and Jay Himmelstein. "The Workers' Compensation Health Initiative: At the Convergence of Work and Health." In To Improve Health and Health Care 2001: The Robert Wood Johnson Anthology, edited by Stephen L. Isaacs and James R. Knickman, 119-43. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers, Fall 2000.

PDF Icon Spieler, EA, PS Barth, JF Burton, JS Himmelstein, and L. Rudolph.  "Recommendations for Revisions of the Ama's Guidelines to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment."  JAMA 283, no. 4 (2000): 519-23.

1999

Dembe, Allard, and Jay Himmelstein. "Contract Provisions to Ensure Quality in Workers' Compensation Managed Care Arrangements." Journal of Insurance Regulation (1999): 289-326. Dembe, Allard, Jay Himmelstein, Beth Stevens, and Michael Beachler. "Improving Workers' Compensation Health Care." IAIABC Journal 36, no. 1 (1999): 69-79.

Himmelstein, Jay, J. Buchanan, Allard Dembe, and Beth Stevens. "Health Services Research in Workers' Compensation Medical Care: Policy Issues and Research Opportunities." Health Services Research 34, no. 1 (1999): 427-37.

Himmelstein, JS, GS Pransky, and CP Sweet. "Ability to Work and the Evaluation of Disability." In Occupational Health: Recognizing and Preventing Work-Related Disease and Injury, edited by BS Levy and DH Wegman. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 1999.

Pransky, GS, T. Snyder, A. Dembe, and J. Himmelstein. "Under-Reporting of Work-Related Disorders in the Workplace: A Case Study and Review of the Literature." Ergonomics 42, no. 1 (1999): 171-82.

1998

Himmelstein, J., A. Dembe, and J. Buchanan. "Application of Health Services Research Techniques to Workers' Compensation Medical Care: Policy and Methodological Considerations." Paper presented at the Association for Health Services Research, 15th Annual Meeting, June 21-23, 1998.

Himmelstein, JS, guest editor, and GS Pransky, guest editor. "Worker Fitness and Risk Evaluations." State of the Art Reviews: Occupational Medicine 3, no. 1 (1998).

1997

Dembe, A., and J. Himmelstein. "New Directions in Workers' Compensation Medical Care." In Workers' Compensation Managed Care Sourcebook, edited by G.C. Segre, 99-105. New York: Faulkner & Gray, Inc., 1997.

Dembe, A, and J Himmelstein. "New Directions in Workers' Compensation Medical Care." 43-46. NCCI 1997 Issues Report, 1997.

Dembe, A., J. Himmelstein, B. Stevens, and M. Beachler. "Improving Workers' Compensation Health Care." Health Affairs 16, no. 4 (1997): 253-57.

Himmelstein, JS, GS Pransky, and D Fram. "Pre-Employment and Preplacement Evaluations and the Americans with Disabilities Act." In Musculoskeletal Disorders in the Workplace, Principles and Practice, edited by Andersson, Pope and Nordin, 1997.

Pransky, GS, M Feuerstein, JS Himmelstein, and JN Katz. "Measuring Functional Outcomes in Work-Related Upper Extremity Disorders: Development and Validation of the Upper Extremity Functional Scale." Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 39, no. 12 (1997).

Pransky, GS, K Hammer, R Long, L Schulz, JS Himmelstein, and J Fowke. "Screening for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in the Workplace: Analysis of Portable Nerve Conduction Devices." Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 39, no. 8 (1997).

1996

Beavers, D, JS Himmelstein, SK Hammond, T Smith, T Kenyon, and CP Sweet. "Exposure in Household Using Gasoline-Contaminated Water." Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 38, no. 1 (1996).

Himmelstein, JS, and K Rest. "How Workers' Compensation Medical Care Is Affected by Health Care Reform?" Public Health Reports, 1996.

Pransky, GS, and JS Himmelstein. "Evaluating Outcomes of Workers Compensation Medical Care." In Workers' Compensation Medical Care: Effective Measurement of Outcomes, edited by K Kimpan, 11-32: Workers' Compensation Research Institute, 1996.

Pransky, GS, and JS Himmelstein. "Outcomes Research: Implications for Occupational Health." American Journal of Industrial Medicine 29, no. 6 (1996).

Pransky, GS, and JS Himmelstein. "Outcomes Evaluation in Workers' Compensation Medical Care." Occupational Medicine Clinical Care Update 2, no. 22 (1996).

Pransky, GS, guest editor, and JS Himmelstein, guest editor. "Outcomes Research in Occupational Health." American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 1996.

Pransky, GS, TB Snyder, and JS Himmelstein. "The Organization Response. Influence on Cumulative Trauma Disorders in the Workplace." In Psychosocial Aspects of Musculoskeletal Disorders in Office Work., edited by SL Sauter and S Moon: Taylor and Francis, 1996.

1995

Himmelstein, JS, K. Koyamatsu, M. Feuerstein, W. Morgan, E. Stanek, K. Anderson, and GS Pransky. "Work-Related Upper Extremity Disorders and Work Disability- Clinical and Psychosocial Presentation." Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 37, no. 11 (1995).

Himmelstein, JS, and GS Pransky. "Ability to Work and Disability Evaluation." In Occupational Health: Recognizing and Preventing Work-Related Disease., edited by BS Levy and DH Wegman: Little and Brown, 1995.

Himmelstein, JS, and GS Pransky. "Measuring and Improving the Quality of Workers' Compensation Medical Care." 4-9. John Burton's Workers' Compensation Monitor, 1995.

Pransky, GS, and JS Himmelstein. "Overview of Complete Patient Management in Upper Extremity Repetitive Motion Disorders." In Repetitive Motion Disorders., edited by S. Green: Taylor and Francis, 1995.

Sorenson, G, JS Himmelstein, MK Hunt, R Youngstrom, JR Hebert, SK Hammond, R Palombo, A Stoddard, and JK Ockene. "A Model for Worksite Cancer Prevention: Integration of Health Promotion in the Wellsworks Project." American Journal of Health Promotion 10, no. 1 (1995): 55-62.

1994

Himmelstein, JS, T Droney, G. Pransky, W. Morgan, and M. Feuerstein. "Development of a Multidisciplinary Research Clinic for Patient with Work-Related Upper Extremity Disorders." Journal of Ambulatory Care Management 17, no. 2 (1994): 34-43.

Himmelstein, JS, and K. Rest. "Workers' Compensation and Health Care Reform: Is There a Need for Federal Action?" National Health Policy Forum, 1994.

Pransky, GS, JS Himmelstein, and W Morgan. "Ergonomic Issues in Rehabilitation and Return to Work in Occupational Upper Extremity Cumulative Trauma Disorders: Observations from the New England Center for Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders (NECOMD)." Paper presented at the 12th Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, August 1994.