Peter Franks
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 209595 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter Franks |
| NOMBRES | Peter |
| APELLIDO | Franks |
| FIRMA | FRANKS P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9782-0181 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 64 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 313 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1971 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Body Mass Index and Health Care Utilization in Diabetic and Nondiabetic Individuals
BACKGROUND: Although controversial, most studies examining the relationship of body mass index (BMI) with mortality in diabetes suggest a paradox: the lowest risk category is above normal weight, versus normal weight in nondiabetic persons. One proposed explanation is greater morbidity of diabetes in normal weight persons. If this were so, it would suggest a health care utilization paradox in diabetes, paralleling the mortality paradox, yet no st…
Satisfaction With Health Care Providers and Preventive Care Adherence
BACKGROUND: Prior studies demonstrating associations between patient satisfaction with health care providers and preventive adherence were cross-sectional, limiting causal inferences. In cross-sectional and prospective analyses, we explored 3 hypotheses previously invoked to explain associations between satisfaction with providers and preventive adherence: (1) receiving preventive care increases satisfaction; (2) enhancing satisfaction increases …
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Health Characteristics Associated With Gaining and Losing Private and Public Health Insurance
BACKGROUND: Millions of Americans lack or lose health insurance annually, yet how health characteristics predict insurance acquisition and loss remains unclear. OBJECTIVE: To examine associations of health characteristics with acquisition and loss of private and public health insurance. RESEARCH DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS: Prospective observational analysis of 2000 to 2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data for persons aged 18 to 63 on entry, enr…
Patient-provider Sex and Race/Ethnicity Concordance
BACKGROUND: Increasing patient-provider sex and race/ethnicity concordance has been proposed to improve healthcare and help mitigate health disparities, but the relationship between concordance and health outcomes remains unclear. OBJECTIVE: To examine associations of patient-provider sex, race/ethnicity, and dual concordance with healthcare measures. RESEARCH DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS: Analyses of data from adult respondents indicating a usual sou…
Mortality Prediction by Quality-Adjusted Life Year Compatible Health Measures
BACKGROUND: Responses to single-item categorical self-rated health (SRH) measures predict mortality, but performance of quality-adjusted life year (QALY) compatible health measures in this regard has not been much investigated. OBJECTIVES: To examine mortality prediction and discrimination by 4 QALY compatible health measures, a reference single-item categorical SRH measure, and 1-year declines in those measures. RESEARCH DESIGN: Cox survival and…
The Relative Health Burden of Selected Social and Behavioral Risk Factors in the United States
Objectives. We sought to quantify the potential health impact of selected medical and nonmedical policy changes within the United States. Methods. Using data from the 1997–2000 National Health Interview Surveys (linked to mortality data through 2002) and the 1996–2002 Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys, we calculated age-specific health-related quality-of-life scores and mortality probabilities for 8 social and behavioral risk factors. We then use…
Differences Between Individual and Societal Health State Valuations
OBJECTIVE: The concept of "adaptation" has been proposed to account for differences between individual and societal valuations of specific health states in patients with chronic diseases. Little is known about psychological indices of adaptational capacity, which may predict differences in individual and societal valuations of health states. We investigated whether such differences were partially explained by personality traits in chronic disease…
Personality and EQ-5D scores among individuals with chronic conditions
Franks Et Al. Respond
Farrelly and Engelen appear to have repeated our analyses, but have included 2 more recent years of data and used Nielsen retail price data as well as the tax burden data that we used. There are some noteworthy inconsistencies. First, despite using more years of data, their sample size was over 1 million persons smaller than ours. Second, they noted that a meta-analysis found an elasticity of −0.4, which is what we found in the earlier time perio…
Continuity of Care and Cancer Screening Among Health Plan Enrollees
CONTEXT: Although having a usual source of care has been associated with cancer screening, whether there is additional benefit from continuity with a specific physician is uncertain. In addition, little is known about the relationship between continuity of care and receipt of colorectal and prostate cancer screening. METHODS: Subjects were enrolled in a Washington State health plan that operates an integrated delivery system that emphasizes acces…
Self-Report Adherence Measures in Chronic Illness
BACKGROUND: Patient self-report is a practical method for measuring adherence, but little is known about its optimal use. OBJECTIVES: To examine the retest reliability and predictive validity of 3 different types of self-report adherence measures among patients with common chronic illnesses. RESEARCH DESIGN: Correlation and regression analyses of data from an ongoing randomized controlled trial. SUBJECTS: Patients (N = 415) aged >or=40 years recr…
Depressive Symptoms Moderated the Effect of Chronic Illness Self-Management Training on Self-Efficacy
BACKGROUND: Identifying moderators of the effects of self-efficacy enhancing interventions could facilitate their refinement and more targeted, cost-effective delivery. Current theories and data concerning the potential moderating effect of depressive symptoms on interventions to enhance patient chronic illness self-management self-efficacy are conflicting. OBJECTIVES: To explore the moderating effect of depressive symptoms on the effect of an in…
Health Status Among US Hispanics
BACKGROUND: The relationship between health status and Hispanic ethnicities, language, and nativity is poorly understood, due to the limitations and conflicting findings of previous studies. OBJECTIVES: To examine the effects of language and nativity on health status in Hispanic ethnic subgroups and non-Hispanic whites (whites). RESEARCH DESIGN: Cross-sectional analyses of data from the 1998-2004 National Health Interview Survey linked to the 199…
Blackball '08
Trade Union Structure and Politics in Australia and New Zealand
This thematic and comparative analysis of more than 150 years of unionism in Australasia explores the similarities and differences in the economic and political contexts in which trade unions have sought to define themselves and represent their members. The state and employers have followed a similar path in Australia and New Zealand for much of that time, and in both cases that journey has been to the detriment of unions for the last generation.…
No Left Turn
Post Partum Discharge Against Medical Advice
Cigarette Prices, Smoking, and the Poor
Objective. We examined the relationship between smoking participation and cigarette pack price by income group and time period to determine role of cigarette prices in income-related disparities in smoking in the United States. Methods. We used data from the 1984–2004 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System surveys linked to information on cigarette prices to examine the adjusted prevalence of smoking participation and smoking participation–ci…
Trans-Tasman Labour History
Three glorious summer days and the hospitality of the Auckland University of Technology provided an ideal environment for the first ever trans-Tasman Labour History Conference. Held at the Auckland University of Technology from 30 January to 1 February, 2007 the conference was attended by historians from inside and outside of universities, postgraduate students, and local labour movement activists. They listened to, and debated, over 30 stimulati…
Gender and the Burden of Disease Attributable to Obesity
Objectives. We estimated the burden of disease in the United States attributable to obesity by gender, with life expectancy, quality-adjusted life expectancy, years of life lost annually, and quality-adjusted life years lost annually as outcome measures. Methods. We obtained burden of disease estimates for adults falling into the following body-mass index categories: normal weight (23 to Results. Overweight men and women lost 270 000 and 1.8 mill…
Connoisseurs of Care? Unannounced Standardized Patients’ Ratings of Physicians
BACKGROUND: Patient satisfaction surveys can be informative, but bias and poor response rates may limit their utility as stable measures of physician performance. Using unannounced standardized patients (SPs) may overcome some of these limitations because their experience and training make them able judges of physician behavior. OBJECTIVES: We sought to understand the reliability of unannounced SPs in rating primary care physicians when covertly …
Relative Disutilities of 47 Risk Factors and Conditions Assessed with Seven Preference-Based Health Status Measures in a National U.S. Sample
BACKGROUND: Preference-based health measures yield summary scores that are compatible with cost-effectiveness analyses. There is limited comparative information, however, about how different measures weight health conditions in the U.S. population. METHODS: We examined data from 11,421 adults in the 2000 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, a nationally representative sample of the U.S. general population, using information on sociodemographics (age…
Do Patient Requests for Antidepressants Enhance or Hinder Physicians’ Evaluation of Depression
OBJECTIVE: We sought to ascertain whether patients' requests for antidepressants affect visit duration or history taking by primary care physicians (PCPs) for patients with depressive symptoms and a coexisting musculoskeletal disorder and to determine whether more thorough history taking is associated with diagnostic accuracy or with provision of minimally acceptable initial care for major depression. DESIGN: This was a randomized trial using sta…
Mammography Self-Report and Mammography Claims
BACKGROUND: National self-report surveys show minimal racial disparity in mammography, whereas analyses of administrative data show large disparity. METHODS: Using the 1998-2002 Medicare Current Beneficiary Surveys, which contain participants' self-report and claims data, we developed multivariable adjusted models examining factors associated with self-reported mammography and self-reported mammography verified by billing records. RESULTS: No rac…
Sociodemographics, self-rated health, and mortality in the US
Measuring patient-centered communication in Patient-Physician consultations
The burden of disease associated with being African-American in the United States and the contribution of socio-economic status
Does psychological distress contribute to racial and socioeconomic disparities in mortality
Being black or poor are powerful predictors of mortality. Although psychological distress has been proposed as mediating the effects of race and socioeconomic status on mortality, this hypothesis has not been previously directly tested. We used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination I (NHANES I), a nationally representative sample from the U.S, and the NHANES I Epidemiological Follow-up Survey (NHEFS) of subsequent mortality to t…
Social relationships and health
The associations between social relationships and health have been examined using two major research traditions. Using a social epidemiological approach, much research has shown the beneficial effect of social supports on health and health behaviors. Family interaction research, which has grown out of a more clinical tradition, has shown the complex effects of family functioning on health, particularly mental health. No studies have examined the …
Gender and the Burden of Disease Attributable to Obesity
Objectives. We estimated the burden of disease in the United States attributable to obesity by gender, with life expectancy, quality-adjusted life expectancy, years of life lost annually, and quality-adjusted life years lost annually as outcome measures. Methods. We obtained burden of disease estimates for adults falling into the following body-mass index categories: normal weight (23 to Results. Overweight men and women lost 270 000 and 1.8 mill…
Cigarette Prices, Smoking, and the Poor
Objective. We examined the relationship between smoking participation and cigarette pack price by income group and time period to determine role of cigarette prices in income-related disparities in smoking in the United States. Methods. We used data from the 1984–2004 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System surveys linked to information on cigarette prices to examine the adjusted prevalence of smoking participation and smoking participation–ci…
Studying physician effects on patient outcomes
The income-associated burden of disease in the United States
The Relative Health Burden of Selected Social and Behavioral Risk Factors in the United States
Objectives. We sought to quantify the potential health impact of selected medical and nonmedical policy changes within the United States. Methods. Using data from the 1997–2000 National Health Interview Surveys (linked to mortality data through 2002) and the 1996–2002 Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys, we calculated age-specific health-related quality-of-life scores and mortality probabilities for 8 social and behavioral risk factors. We then use…
Health insurance and subjective health status
OBJECTIVES. The relationship between health insurance and subjective health status was investigated. It was hypothesized that persons without health insurance would have lower levels of subjective health status than those with health insurance and that this relationship would hold for both poor and nonpoor persons. METHODS. Data from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey were analyzed to examine the relationship between health insurance an…
The CPSU Obkom First Secretary
The ‘average’ obkom first secretary is likely to be Russian or Ukrainian by nationality and will certainly have a higher education, with a reasonable chance that this has been acquired through, or supplemented by, the Party's own educational system. He34 will be (1966) about fifty years old, having joined the Party around the age of twenty-five in the period 1939 to 1945. First secretary status is likely to have come to him in 1961 or since 1963 …
Constructing A Classified Ranking of Cpsu Provincial Committees
This article is an account of a tentative attempt to solve a problem which arose in the course of an investigation of the career mobility of CPSU obkom first secretaries. At the outset we were only vaguely aware that a problem meriting investigation existed and, even now, all we would claim to be doing is presenting a report of the progress made so far towards its solution. Given, however, that research into the obkom tier is being carried on by …
Telephone ownership and deaf people
OBJECTIVES: This study was done to determine the prevalence of telephone ownership in different deaf populations and to explore its implications for telephone-based surveys. METHODS: Multivariate analyses, with adjustments for sociodemographics and health status, were done of National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data from 1990 and 1991, the years in which the NHIS Hearing Supplement was administered. RESULTS: Prelingually deafened adults were …
Stroke death and unemployment in London
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to investigate the relationship between social factors and stroke mortality in men and women aged between 45 and 74 years using census and mortality data from 32 London boroughs in 1971 and 1981. DESIGN--Census data from 1971 and 1981 on type of accommodation, density of room occupation, male unemployment rate, and proportion of households without a car were linked with stroke mortality available for each London borou…
Trade Union Structure and Politics in Australia and New Zealand
This thematic and comparative analysis of more than 150 years of unionism in Australasia explores the similarities and differences in the economic and political contexts in which trade unions have sought to define themselves and represent their members. The state and employers have followed a similar path in Australia and New Zealand for much of that time, and in both cases that journey has been to the detriment of unions for the last generation.…
Franks Et Al. Respond
Farrelly and Engelen appear to have repeated our analyses, but have included 2 more recent years of data and used Nielsen retail price data as well as the tax burden data that we used. There are some noteworthy inconsistencies. First, despite using more years of data, their sample size was over 1 million persons smaller than ours. Second, they noted that a meta-analysis found an elasticity of −0.4, which is what we found in the earlier time perio…
Leadership in Soviet‐type Political Systems
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The CPSU Obkom First Secretary
The ‘average’ obkom first secretary is likely to be Russian or Ukrainian by nationality and will certainly have a higher education, with a reasonable chance that this has been acquired through, or supplemented by, the Party's own educational system. He34 will be (1966) about fifty years old, having joined the Party around the age of twenty-five in the period 1939 to 1945. First secretary status is likely to have come to him in 1961 or since 1963 …
Constructing A Classified Ranking of Cpsu Provincial Committees
This article is an account of a tentative attempt to solve a problem which arose in the course of an investigation of the career mobility of CPSU obkom first secretaries. At the outset we were only vaguely aware that a problem meriting investigation existed and, even now, all we would claim to be doing is presenting a report of the progress made so far towards its solution. Given, however, that research into the obkom tier is being carried on by …
History and Photographs
Journal Article History and Photographs: Frank Meadow Sutcliffe (1853–1941) Get access Peter Frank Peter Frank Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 2, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1976, Pages 93–95, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/2.1.93 Published: 01 October 1976
Leadership in Soviet‐type Political Systems
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From Brezhnev to Andropov
Physician Satisfaction With Patient Encounters
While patient satisfaction has been studied extensively and considered an outcome measure of physician-patient encounters, physician satisfaction has received limited consideration. The reliability and validity of an "encounter-specific" physician satisfaction scale were examined. The Delphi technique was used to develop a 39-item questionnaire comprising four hypothesized domains of physician satisfaction: interactive, personal, professional, an…
Comparisons of Family Physicians and Internists
In view of the relatively high cost and mortality associated with hospitalization, 1,989 inpatients of family physicians and internists were compared with regard to length of stay, charges generated, charges generated per day, disposition (home, death, or other), number and type of diagnoses, and number of procedures. There were no interspecialty differences in mean length of stay (9 days), charges generated ($3,604), charges per day ($475), numb…
Farming
We report findings from the first stage of a community‐oriented primary care approach initiated in a financially depressed agricultural area of upstate New York that sought to characterize the causes of relatively increased cardiovascular and cerebrovascular mortality in the region. This report focuses on 633 people aged 16 years and older employed in two adjacent towns. They were surveyed for standard sociodemographic data, information about uti…
The Twenty-Eighth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
TO PARAPHRASE ALEXANDER YAKOVLEV, THE ONLY predictable thing about the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) would be its utter unpredictability.Twice brought forward from its original planned date (February 1991), it began its deliberations in Moscow's Palace of Congresses on 2 July 1990. Little optimism attended the opening. Instead, the mood was nervous and jittery, angry and spiteful. Gone were the self-congratulatio…
Stroke death and unemployment in London
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to investigate the relationship between social factors and stroke mortality in men and women aged between 45 and 74 years using census and mortality data from 32 London boroughs in 1971 and 1981. DESIGN--Census data from 1971 and 1981 on type of accommodation, density of room occupation, male unemployment rate, and proportion of households without a car were linked with stroke mortality available for each London borou…
Social relationships and health
The associations between social relationships and health have been examined using two major research traditions. Using a social epidemiological approach, much research has shown the beneficial effect of social supports on health and health behaviors. Family interaction research, which has grown out of a more clinical tradition, has shown the complex effects of family functioning on health, particularly mental health. No studies have examined the …
Health insurance and subjective health status
OBJECTIVES. The relationship between health insurance and subjective health status was investigated. It was hypothesized that persons without health insurance would have lower levels of subjective health status than those with health insurance and that this relationship would hold for both poor and nonpoor persons. METHODS. Data from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey were analyzed to examine the relationship between health insurance an…
Physician Gender Bias in Clinical Decisionmaking
There has been increasing interest in gender disparities in clinical decisionmaking. Few studies have examined this issue in nationally representative samples or focussed on primary care. In addition, few of the studies have examined the role of physician gender. The 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey was used to examine the relationship between physician gender and screening deficiency in women for three gender-sensitive tests (breast exam…
The role of intimacy and social support in health outcomes
That intimacy and social support are related to an individual's health and well‐being has often been noted. The present study had two goals. First, we intended to establish whether intimacy and social support were related to mental and physical health in a large, representative community sample. Second, we sought to determine whether intimacy and social support make unique contributions to predicting health, as a step toward developing a model of…
Venous ulcer healing
OBJECTIVE--To determine which social and clinical factors are associated with healing in patients with venous ulceration. DESIGN--Patients were questioned about social factors at their first visit to a community ulcer clinic. They were treated by high compression bandage system and were interviewed again after 12 weeks. SETTING--Community leg ulcer clinics held in health centres throughout Riverside Health Authority in London. PATIENTS--All patie…
Assessing the Health of the Nation
Health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) measures are becoming increasingly important for evaluating the effectiveness of medical interventions and assessing the health of populations. Preference-based instruments, a subset of HRQOL measures, allow comparisons of overall health status in populations and in clinical settings, and are suitable for economic analyses; but validity studies have used selected samples, mostly examining morbidity. This stu…
Poverty or income inequality as predictor of mortality
Objective: To determine the effect of inequality in income between communities independent of household income on individual all cause mortality in the United States. Design: Longitudinal cohort study. Subjects: A nationally representative sample of 14 407 people aged 25-74 years in the United States from the first national health and nutrition examination survey. Setting: Subjects were followed from initial interview in 1971-5 until 1987. Comple…
Defining Primary Care
OBJECTIVES: Efforts to contain health care costs have increased interest in defining which specialties provide primary care and in developing tools to assess the delivery of primary care services. METHODS: Using data from the 1985-1991 National Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys, the authors examined the activities of 29 physician specialty groups to determine whether the recent Institute of Medicine definition of primary care could be operationaliz…
Family Care in the United States
OBJECTIVES: The authors describe the epidemiology of family care in the United States. METHODS: A cross-sectional analysis of data from the household component of the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey was performed. A representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized US population was analyzed. Participants in the study were all households with at least a mother between the ages of 18 and 55 years and at least one child younger t…
Does psychological distress contribute to racial and socioeconomic disparities in mortality
Being black or poor are powerful predictors of mortality. Although psychological distress has been proposed as mediating the effects of race and socioeconomic status on mortality, this hypothesis has not been previously directly tested. We used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination I (NHANES I), a nationally representative sample from the U.S, and the NHANES I Epidemiological Follow-up Survey (NHEFS) of subsequent mortality to t…
Skepticism Toward Medical Care and Health Care Utilization
OBJECTIVES: As health care moves toward systems that assume accountability for defined populations, there has been increasing emphasis on developing performance measures for those systems and their providers, with little attention given to patient demand or attitudinal factors. The impact of skepticism toward health care providers on health behavior and health care utilization was assessed using a cross-sectional analysis of data from the 1987 Na…
Toward Consistency in Cost-Utility Analyses
OBJECTIVES: The authors developed an "off-the-shelf" source of health-related quality of life (HRQL) scores for cost-effectiveness analysts unable to collect primary data. METHODS: The authors derived and conducted preliminary validation on a set of health-related quality of life scores for chronic conditions using nationally representative data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and the Healthy People 2000 Years of Healthy Life mea…
Telephone ownership and deaf people
OBJECTIVES: This study was done to determine the prevalence of telephone ownership in different deaf populations and to explore its implications for telephone-based surveys. METHODS: Multivariate analyses, with adjustments for sociodemographics and health status, were done of National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data from 1990 and 1991, the years in which the NHIS Hearing Supplement was administered. RESULTS: Prelingually deafened adults were …
Does Skepticism Towards Medical Care Predict Mortality
OBJECTIVES: Attitudes towards medical care have a strong effect on utilization and outcomes. However, there has been little attention to the impact on outcomes of doubts about the value of medical care. This study examines the impact of skepticism toward medical care on mortality using data from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES). METHODS: A nationally representative sample from the United States comprising 18,240 persons (> or =…
Inequality in Quality
Socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in health care quality have been extensively documented. Recently, the elimination of disparities in health care has become the focus of a national initiative. Yet, there is little effort to monitor and address disparities in health care through organizational quality improvement. After reviewing literature on disparities in health care, we discuss the limitations in existing quality assessment for iden…
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