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  1. Opioid Discussion in the Twittersphere

    Article • Substance Use & Misuse, April 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Rachel Graves, Professor Daniel Polsky

  2. The Impact of Hospital Closures and Hospital and Population Characteristics on Increasing Emergency Department Volume: A Geographic Analysis

    Article • Population Health Management, December 2015, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  3. Comparative Effectiveness And Cost-Effectiveness Analyses Frequently Agree On Value

    Article • Health Affairs, May 2015, Health Affairs

    Professor Daniel Polsky, Dr Eleanor M Perfetto

  4. Most Uninsured Adults Could Schedule Primary Care Appointments Before The ACA, But Average Price Was $160

    Article • Health Affairs, May 2015, Health Affairs

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  5. Appointment Availability after Increases in Medicaid Payments for Primary Care

    Article • The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Science, February 2015, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS)

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  6. 86. Inpatient Hospitalizations Among Insured Young Adults, 2012-2013, United States

    Article • Journal of Adolescent Health, February 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  7. Understanding sampling uncertainty: the concepts

    Article • October 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  8. Assessing quality-adjusted life years

    Article • October 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  9. Analyzing cost

    Article • October 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  10. Analyzing censored cost

    Article • October 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  11. Valuing medical service use

    Article • October 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  12. Introduction to economic evaluations in clinical trials

    Article • October 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  13. Sampling uncertainty: calculation, sample size and power, and decision criteria

    Article • October 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  14. Transferability of the results from trials

    Article • October 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  15. Designing economic evaluations in clinical trials

    Article • October 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  16. Comparing cost and effect: point estimates for cost-effectiveness ratios and net monetary benefit

    Article • October 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  17. Relevance of trial-based economic analyses

    Article • October 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  18. Economic Evaluation in Clinical Trials

    Article • October 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  19. Access Points for the Underserved

    Article • Medical Care, September 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  20. The Zigzagging zeitgeist of health services research: Rapidly changing priorities in the field

    Article • Healthcare, July 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  21. Primary Care Access for New Patients on the Eve of Health Care Reform

    Article • JAMA Internal Medicine, June 2014, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  22. The effect of entry regulation in the health care sector: The case of home health

    Article • Journal of Public Economics, February 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  23. Cross Border Effects of State Health Technology Regulation

    Article • January 2014, National Bureau of Economic Research

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  24. Prevalence and patterns of cooking dinner at home in the USA: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2007–2008

    Article • Public Health Nutrition, October 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Senbagam Virudachalam, Professor Daniel Polsky

  25. Electrocardiographic Screening for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Long QT Syndrome: The Drivers of Cost-Effectiveness for the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death

    Article • Pediatric Cardiology, September 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  26. Pharmacoeconomics: Economic Evaluation of Pharmaceuticals

    Article • July 2013, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  27. Impact of Minimally Invasive Surgery on Medical Spending and Employee Absenteeism

    Article • JAMA Surgery, July 2013, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  28. Radical Cystectomy versus Bladder-Preserving Therapy for Muscle-Invasive Urothelial Carcinoma: Examining Confounding and Misclassification Biasin Cancer Observational Comparative Effectiveness Research

    Article • Value in Health, June 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  29. Shipping out instead of shaping up: Rehospitalization from nursing homes as an unintended effect of public reporting

    Article • Journal of Health Economics, March 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  30. Are the Healthy Behaviors of US High-Deductible Health Plan Enrollees Driven by People Who Chose These Plans? Smoking as a Case Study

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2013, PLOS

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  31. The Effect of Pay‐for‐Performance in Nursing Homes: Evidence from State Medicaid Programs

    Article • Health Services Research, February 2013, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  32. High deductible health plans: does cost sharing stimulate increased consumer sophistication?

    Article • Health Expectations, December 2012, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  33. Comorbidities as a driver of the excess costs of community-acquired pneumonia in U.S. commercially-insured working age adults

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, October 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  34. The Impact of Hospital Pay‐for‐Performance on Hospital and Medicare Costs

    Article • Health Services Research, October 2012, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  35. Near/far matching: a study design approach to instrumental variables

    Article • Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, June 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  36. Academic Medical Centers and Equity in Specialty Care Access for Children

    Article • Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, April 2012, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  37. Design and methodological considerations of an effectiveness trial of a computer-assisted intervention: An example from the NIDA Clinical Trials Network

    Article • Contemporary Clinical Trials, March 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Daniel Polsky, Kathleen Carroll

  38. Cost-Effectiveness of Long-Term Outpatient Buprenorphine-Naloxone Treatment for Opioid Dependence in Primary Care

    Article • Journal of General Internal Medicine, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  39. Pharmacoeconomics: Economic Evaluation of Pharmaceuticals

    Article • January 2012, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  40. Do consumers respond to publicly reported quality information? Evidence from nursing homes

    Article • Journal of Health Economics, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  41. Geographic Variation in Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Use and Heart Failure Survival

    Article • Medical Care, January 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  42. Variations in Ambulance Use in the United States: The Role of Health Insurance

    Article • Academic Emergency Medicine, October 2011, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  43. Integration and Task Allocation: Evidence from Patient Care

    Article • September 2011, National Bureau of Economic Research

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  44. Problem solving to improve adherence and asthma outcomes in urban adults with moderate or severe asthma: A randomized controlled trial

    Article • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, September 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  45. HEALTH SERVICE USE AMONG THE PREVIOUSLY UNINSURED: IS SUBSIDIZED HEALTH INSURANCE ENOUGH?

    Article • Health Economics, August 2011, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  46. Estimating treatment effects on healthcare costs under exogeneity: is there a ‘magic bullet’?

    Article • Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, June 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  47. Intervening To Improve Adherence And Asthma Outcomes In Urban Adults With Moderate Or Severe Asthma

    Article • May 2011, American Thoracic Society

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  48. The Effect Of Pay-For-Performance In Hospitals: Lessons For Quality Improvement

    Article • Health Affairs, April 2011, Health Affairs

    Dr Rachel M Werner, Professor Daniel Polsky

  49. Medicare's Policy On Carotid Stents Limited Use To Hospitals Meeting Quality Guidelines Yet Did Not Hurt Disadvantaged

    Article • Health Affairs, February 2011, Health Affairs

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  50. Racial Differences in Surgeons and Hospitals for Endometrial Cancer Treatment

    Article • Medical Care, February 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  51. Changes in Patient Sorting to Nursing Homes under Public Reporting: Improved Patient Matching or Provider Gaming?

    Article • Health Services Research, November 2010, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  52. Response to McWilliams Commentary: “Assessing the Health Effects of Medicare Coverage for Previously Uninsured Adults: A Matter of Life and Death?”

    Article • Health Services Research, September 2010, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  53. Cost‐effectiveness of extended buprenorphine–naloxone treatment for opioid‐dependent youth: data from a randomized trial

    Article • Addiction, August 2010, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  54. Would Insuring Near-Elderly Persons Reduce Medicare Spending in Patients Aged 65 Years or Older?

    Article • Annals of Internal Medicine, April 2010, American College of Physicians

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  55. County-Level Variation in the Prevalence of Medicaid-Enrolled Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Article • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, March 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  56. The opportunity costs of screening children for asthma

    Article • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, March 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  57. Design of comprehensive Alzheimer's disease centers to address unmet national needs

    Article • Alzheimer s & Dementia, March 2010, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  58. Malpractice Premiums and the Supply of Obstetricians

    Article • INQUIRY The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing, February 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  59. The Importance of Clinical Variables in Comparative Analyses Using Propensity-Score Matching

    Article • PharmacoEconomics, September 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  60. Impact of Public Reporting on Quality of Postacute Care

    Article • Health Services Research, August 2009, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  61. The Burden of Health Care Costs for Working Families — Implications for Reform

    Article • The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Science, July 2009, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS)

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  62. The Health Effects of Medicare for the Near-Elderly Uninsured

    Article • Health Services Research, June 2009, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  63. Costing and Cost Analysis in Randomized Controlled Trials

    Article • PharmacoEconomics, January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  64. The Impact of Consumer-Directed Health Plans and Patient Socioeconomic Status on Physician Recommendations for Colorectal Cancer Screening

    Article • Journal of General Internal Medicine, July 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  65. Short‐ and Long‐Term Mortality after an Acute Illness for Elderly Whites and Blacks

    Article • Health Services Research, July 2008, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  66. Use of Propensity Scores in Non-Linear Response Models: The Case for Health Care Expenditures

    Article • June 2008, National Bureau of Economic Research

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  67. Valuing reductions in on-the-job illness: ‘presenteeism’ from managerial and economic perspectives

    Article • Health Economics, January 2008, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  68. POLSKY AND SOCHALSKI RESPOND

    Article • American Journal of Public Health, December 2007, American Public Health Association

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  69. POLSKY AND SOCHALSKI RESPOND

    Article • American Journal of Public Health, December 2007, American Public Health Association

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  70. Is Lower 30-Day Mortality Posthospital Admission Among Blacks Unique to the Veterans Affairs Health Care System?

    Article • Medical Care, November 2007, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  71. Depression and Retirement in Late Middle‐Aged U.S. Workers

    Article • Health Services Research, September 2007, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  72. Trends in Characteristics and Country of Origin Among Foreign-Trained Nurses in the United States, 1990 and 2000

    Article • American Journal of Public Health, May 2007, American Public Health Association

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  73. Is Thirty‐Day Hospital Mortality Really Lower for Black Veterans Compared with White Veterans?

    Article • Health Services Research, January 2007, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  74. Pharmacoeconomics: Economic Evaluation of Pharmaceuticals

    Article • December 2006, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  75. Clinical Trial-Based Cost-Effectiveness Analyses of Antipsychotic Use

    Article • American Journal of Psychiatry, December 2006, American Psychiatric Association

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  76. Clinical Trial-Based Cost-Effectiveness Analyses of Antipsychotic Use

    Article • American Journal of Psychiatry, December 2006, American Psychiatric Association

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  77. The Health Effects of Medicare for the Near-Elderly Uninsured

    Article • September 2006, National Bureau of Economic Research

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  78. Analyses of Cost Data in Economic Evaluations Conducted Alongside Randomized Controlled Trials

    Article • Value in Health, September 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  79. Variation in Chemotherapy Utilization in Ovarian Cancer: The Relative Contribution of Geography

    Article • Health Services Research, July 2006, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  80. Pharmacoeconomics: Economic Evaluation of Pharmaceuticals

    Article • March 2006, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  81. Measuring the effects of work loss on productivity with team production

    Article • Health Economics, February 2006, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  82. Self-medication and health insurance coverage in Mexico

    Article • Health Policy, January 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  83. Access to Health Care for Migrants Returning to Mexico

    Article • Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, January 2006, Project Muse

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  84. Changes in Veterans’ Use of Outpatient Care From 1992 to 2000

    Article • American Journal of Public Health, December 2005, American Public Health Association

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  85. Differential Loss to Follow-up by Insurance Status in the Health and Retirement Study: Implications for National Estimates on Health Insurance Coverage

    Article • Archives of Internal Medicine, November 2005, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  86. Long-term Risk for Depressive Symptoms After a Medical Diagnosis

    Article • Archives of Internal Medicine, June 2005, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  87. Employer Health Insurance Offerings and Employee Enrollment Decisions

    Article • Health Services Research, May 2005, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  88. Comparing the supply of pediatric subspecialists and child neurologists

    Article • The Journal of Pediatrics, January 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  89. How to Present the Business Case for Healthcare Quality to Employers

    Article • Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  90. Accounting for Apparent “Reverse” Racial Disparities in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)–Based Medical Care: Influence of Out-of-VA Care

    Article • American Journal of Public Health, December 2004, American Public Health Association

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  91. The Magnitude and Nature of Risk Selection in Employer‐Sponsored Health Plans

    Article • Health Services Research, November 2004, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  92. The 2004 Marshall Urist Award: Delays until Surgery after Hip Fracture Increases Mortality

    Article • Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, November 2004, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  93. Response

    Article • Pediatric Neurology, October 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  94. Morbidity and mortality of colorectal carcinoma surgery differs by insurance status

    Article • Cancer, September 2004, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  95. Measuring the Effects of Workloss on Productivity With Team Production

    Article • July 2004, National Bureau of Economic Research

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  96. Why Are Managed Care Plans Less Expensive: Risk Selection, Utilization, or Reimbursement?

    Article • Journal of Risk & Insurance, February 2004, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  97. More intensive treatment of addiction does benefit society

    Article • Addiction, January 2004, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  98. Strategies to attract medical students to the specialty of child neurology

    Article • Pediatric Neurology, January 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  99. Factors affecting decisions to seek treatment for sick children in Kerala, India

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, September 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  100. Services Integration and Cost‐Effectiveness

    Article • Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research, February 2003, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  101. Receipt of Health Services by Low-Income Veterans

    Article • Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, January 2003, Project Muse

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  102. An exploratory instrumental variable analysis of the outcomes of localized breast cancer treatments in a medicare population

    Article • Health Economics, January 2003, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  103. Patient Choice of Breast Cancer Treatment

    Article • Medical Care, November 2002, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  104. Design and analysis of unit cost estimation studies: How many hospital diagnoses? How many countries?

    Article • Health Economics, August 2002, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  105. Initial Practice Locations of International Medical Graduates

    Article • Health Services Research, August 2002, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  106. Duration of Therapy and Health Care Costs of Fluoxetine, Paroxetine, and Sertraline in 6 Health Plans

    Article • The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, February 2002, Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  107. Quantifying stochastic uncertainty and presenting results of cost-effectiveness analyses

    Article • Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research, October 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  108. A comparison of scoring weights for the EuroQol derived from patients and the general public

    Article • Health Economics, January 2001, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  109. A comparison of scoring weights for the EuroQol� derived from patients and the general public

    Article • Health Economics, January 2001, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  110. HMO penetration and the geographic mobility of practicing physicians

    Article • Journal of Health Economics, September 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  111. Has Job Stability Declined Yet? New Evidence for the 1990s

    Article • Journal of Labor Economics, October 1999, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  112. Changing Consequences of Job Separation in the United States

    Article • ILR Review, July 1999, JSTOR

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  113. Self-Reported Physician Specialties and the Primary Care Content of Medical Practice

    Article • Medical Care, April 1999, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  114. Estimating country‐specific cost‐effectiveness from multinational clinical trials

    Article • Health Economics, September 1998, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  115. Economic Analysis of Tirilazad Mesylate for Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage:Economic Evaluation of a Phase III Clinical Trial in Europe and Australia

    Article • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, January 1998, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  116. Has Job Stability Declined Yet? New Evidence for the 1990's

    Article • December 1997, National Bureau of Economic Research

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  117. Confidence Intervals for Cost-Effectiveness Ratios: A Comparison of Four Methods

    Article • Health Economics, May 1997, Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  118. Job Stability in the United States

    Article • Journal of Labor Economics, April 1997, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  119. Comment on Kenneth A. Swinnerton and Howard Wial, "Is Job Stability Declining in the U.S. Economy?"

    Article • ILR Review, January 1996, JSTOR

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  120. Job Stability in the United States

    Article • September 1994, National Bureau of Economic Research

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  121. Selection Bias in Observational Data

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  122. Integration and Task Allocation: Evidence from Patient Care

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  123. Selection Bias in Observational Data

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  124. Pharmacoeconomics: Economic Evaluation of Pharmaceuticals

    Article • Wiley

    Professor Daniel Polsky

  125. Shipping Out Instead of Shaping Up: Rehospitalization from Nursing Homes as an Unintended Effect of Public Reporting

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Daniel Polsky