Julianne Souchek

Biographic Data

ID1737237
NAMEJulianne Souchek
GIVEN NAMESJulianne
FAMILY NAMESouchek
SIGNATURESOUCHEK J
AFFILIATIONSBaylor College of Medicine
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
H-INDEX1

  • Valuation of Arthritis Health States Across Ethnic Groups and Between Patients and Community Members

    Julianne Souchek, Mother Martin Byrne et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2005References: 26

    OBJECTIVE: We sought to examine differences in valuation of health by individuals from different ethnic backgrounds and between patients and community members. RESEARCH DESIGN: We surveyed 193 community members identified by random-digit dialing (ie, 64 white, 65 black, and 64 Hispanic) and 198 patients with osteoarthritis (OA), 66 per ethnic group, drawn sequentially from clinic lists of an outpatient institution. MEASURES: Participants were int…

  • Physician-patient communication following invasive procedures

    Open AccessH Scott Gordon, Richard L Street et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2005Cited by: 11References: 54

  • A psychometric analysis of the measurement level of the rating scale, time trade-off, and standard gamble

    Open AccessK F Cook, Carol M Ashton et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2001Cited by: 1References: 17

  • A Trial for Comparing Methods for Eliciting Treatment Preferences From Men With Advanced Prostate Cancer

    Julianne Souchek, James R Stacks et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2000References: 23

    OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate the convergent validity of 3 types of utility measures: standard gamble, time tradeoff, and rating scale. RESEARCH DESIGN: A prospective cohort of 120 men with advanced prostate cancer were first asked to rank order 8 health states, and then utility values were obtained from each participant for each of the 8 health states through 2 of the 3 techniques evaluated (standard gamble, time tradeof…

  • Assessing the Performance of Utility Techniques in the Absence of a Gold Standard

    R Brian Giesler, Carol M Ashton et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1999References: 25

    BACKGROUND: Utility techniques are the most commonly used means to assess patient preferences for health outcomes. However, whether utility techniques produce valid measures of preference has been difficult to determine in the absence of a gold standard. OBJECTIVE: To introduce and demonstrate two methods that can be used to evaluate how well utility techniques measure patients' preferences. SUBJECTS AND DESIGN: Patients treated for advanced pros…

  • The Association of Quality of Care and Occurrence of In-Hospital, Treatment-Related Complications

    Jane M Geraci, Carol M Ashton et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1999References: 18

    BACKGROUND: Little data exist supporting the association of quality of care and nonfatal adverse outcomes in hospitalized patients, yet those outcomes are routinely scrutinized in quality assessment efforts. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether measurable differences in quality of care are associated with the occurrence of non-fatal, in-hospital, and treatment-related complications. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SUBJECTS: A total of 2,268 patien…

  • Application of an Analytic Model to Early Readmission Rates Within the Department of Veterans Affairs

    Naomi R Wray, Nelda P Wray Nelda P Wray et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1997References: 19

    OBJECTIVES: Adverse outcome rates are increasingly used as yardsticks for the quality of hospital care. However, the validity of many outcome studies has been undermined by the application of one outcome to all patients in large, diagnostically diverse populations, many of which lack evidence of a link between antecedent process of care and the rate of the outcome, the underlying assumption of the analysis. METHODS: To address this analytic probl…

  • The Association Between the Quality of Inpatient Care and Early Readmission

    Carol M Ashton, Carol M Ashton Carol M Ashton et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1997References: 27

    OBJECTIVES: To help resolve the current controversy over the validity of early readmission as an indicator of the quality of care, the authors critically reviewed the literature using meta-analysis to derive summary estimates of effect and evaluate inter-study heterogeneity. METHODS: The authors selected reports meeting five criteria: (1) presentation of new data on medical-surgical hospitalization of adults; (2) measurement of outcome as a perso…

  • Selecting Disease-Outcome Pairs for Monitoring the Quality of Hospital Care

    Nelda P Wray, Carol M Ashton et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1995

    Health care payors and providers are increasingly monitoring hospital discharge data bases for adverse events as markers for quality of care. The principal criticisms of these analyses have focused on the impediments to risk adjustment posed by the incompleteness and inaccuracy of the data bases. However, efforts to address the inadequacies of the data bases will not correct deficiencies of the analytic process. These deficiencies arise from the …