Area of research
Emergency Medical Services · General Health Professions
Research interest
Research interests include Patient Safety and Medication Errors, Primary Care and Health Outcomes, Healthcare Policy and Management, and Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes.
Explaining site-level fidelity within a national initiative to implement a VA patient safety guidebook: the difference-making role of networks & communications.
Patient-Directed Education to Promote Deprescribing
Racial and Ethnic and Rural Variations in Access to Primary Care for Veterans Following the MISSION Act
Quality improvement lessons learned from National Implementation of the "Patient Safety Events in Community Care: Reporting, Investigation, and Improvement Guidebook".
Trends in Bundled Outpatient Behavioral Health Services in VA-Direct Versus VA-Purchased Care.
Standardizing Patient Safety Event Reporting between Care Delivered or Purchased by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Disparities in Wait Times for Care Among US Veterans by Race and Ethnicity
MSR119 Statistical Methods to Examine Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Surgical Literature: A Review and Recommendations for Improvement
Direct-to-consumer strategies to promote deprescribing in primary care: a pilot study
Did Access to Care Improve Since Passage of the Veterans Choice Act?
Innovations in Community Care Programs, Policies, and Research
Rural Veterans’ Experiences With Outpatient Care in the Veterans Health Administration Versus Community Care
County-level Predictors of Growth in Community-based Primary Care Use Among Veterans
Disparities in Utilization of Ambulatory Cholecystectomy: Results From Three States
Factors influencing providers' willingness to deprescribe medications
Association of Race, Health Insurance Status, and Household Income With Location and Outcomes of Ambulatory Surgery Among Adult Patients in 2 US States
Comparing cataract surgery complication rates in veterans receiving VA and community care.
Cancer stage at presentation for incarcerated patients at a single urban tertiary care center
A cardiovascular disease risk prediction algorithm for use with the Medicare current beneficiary survey.
Preoperative opioid use and postoperative pain associated with surgical readmissions
Comparison of Risk-Standardized Readmission Rates of Surgical Patients at Safety-Net and Non–Safety-Net Hospitals Using Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and American Hospital Association Data
Comparison of a Potential Hospital Quality Metric With Existing Metrics for Surgical Quality–Associated Readmission
Association between postoperative opioid use and outpatient surgical adverse events
Homeless Status, Postdischarge Health Care Utilization, and Readmission After Surgery
Caprini Risk Model Decreases Venous Thromboembolism Rates in Thoracic Surgery Cancer Patients
Differences in Risk Scores of Veterans Receiving Community Care Purchased by the Veterans Health Administration
Association Between Preoperative Proteinuria and Postoperative Acute Kidney Injury and Readmission
Association of Postoperative Readmissions With Surgical Quality Using a Delphi Consensus Process to Identify Relevant Diagnosis Codes
Hospital Readmissions after Surgery: How Important Are Hospital and Specialty Factors?
Does Surveillance Bias Influence the Validity of Measures of Inpatient Complications? A Systematic Review