Kathleen N Lohr
Biographic Data
| ID | 2174042 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen N Lohr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen N |
| FAMILY NAME | Lohr |
| SIGNATURE | LOHR K N |
| AFFILIATIONS | RTI International |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3825-0713 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Outcomes and Costs of Community Health Worker Interventions: A Systematic Review
OBJECTIVES: We conducted a systematic review on outcomes and costs of community health worker (CHW) interventions. CHWs are increasingly expected to improve health outcomes cost-effectively for the underserved. RESEARCH DESIGN: We searched Medline, Cochrane Collaboration resources, and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature for studies conducted in the United States and published in English from 1980 through November 2008. W…
Comparative Effectiveness Research Methods: Symposium Overview and Summary
BACKGROUND: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, in expanding its efforts to advance methods for comparative effectiveness research (CER), convened a second invitational symposium in June 2009 through its Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions About Effectiveness (DEcIDE) network. A distinguished Planning Committee set the agenda, reviewed more than 70 abstracts, and invited almost 30 speakers; the program emphasized issues of clinica…
Using patient-reported outcomes in clinical practice: Challenges and opportunities
Emerging Methods in Comparative Effectiveness and Safety: Symposium Overview and Summary
BACKGROUND: Interest in new methods for comparative effectiveness, drug and patient safety, and related studies is burgeoning. The advent of Medicare Part D for outpatient prescription drugs has drawn significant attention to the need for efficient ways to monitor the potential benefits and harms of pharmaceuticals. These trends prompted the Effective Health Care program at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and its DEcIDE (Developing…
Perinatal Depression: A Systematic Review of Prevalence and Incidence
OBJECTIVE: We systematically review evidence on the prevalence and incidence of perinatal depression and compare these rates with those of depression in women at non-childbearing times. DATA SOURCES: We searched MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and Sociofile for English-language articles published from 1980 through March 2004, conducted hand searches of bibliographies, and consulted with experts. METHODS OF STUDY SELECTION: We included cross-sectional,…
Literacy and health outcomes: A systematic review of the literature
Community-based Participatory Research: Assessing the Evidence: Evidence Report/Technology Assessment, Number 99: (439622005-001)
Health Outcomes Methodology Symposium: Summary and Recommendations
BACKGROUND: Interest in the philosophy and techniques of the assessment of health outcomes has burgeoned, prompting research funding agencies and others to examine traditional and emerging methods for outcome measurement. OBJECTIVES: This report summarizes the presentations and discussions at and research recommendations stemming from an invitational symposium on health outcomes methodology convened in September 1999. RESEARCH DESIGN: The summary…
Summary and recommendations for future research
Improving Health Care Outcomes Through Geriatric Rehabilitation: Conference Summary
The Boston Working Group on Improving Health Care Outcomes Through Geriatric Rehabilitation was structured around four major themes: (1) defining disability or disablement; (2) the patient's experience of the processes and outcomes of care; (3) the role and value of clinical practice guidelines; and (4) the need for casemix and severity or risk adjustment procedures and measures. These discussions produced opening statements of policy or empiric …
Applications of Health Status Assessment Measures in Clinical Practice: Overview of the Third Conference on Advances in Health Status Assessment
To what purposes can the measurement of health status and health-related quality of life in clinical practice be put? What success might be expected from such endeavors? What obstacles lie in the way of that success? This monograph reports on the proceedings of a conference (the third in a series on advances in health status assessment) convened to address those questions. It presents two papers concerned with barriers to and benefits of health s…
Quality of Ambulatory Care: Epidemiology and Comparison by Insurance Status and Income
In this report the data from medical history questionnaires, screening examinations, insurance claims, and a face–to–face physician interview were used to examine the quality of ambulatory care received for 17 chronic conditions by a general population of 5986 adults (≤65) and children (≤14) enrolled in the RAND Health Insurance Experiment. Subjects in six U.S. sites were randomly assigned to insurance plans that were free or that required cost s…
Advances in Health Status Assessment: Overview of the Conference
Although the art and science of health status measurement have a considerable history that is in some ways as old as the healing arts themselves, interest and developments in this field have accelerated in the last two decades. To take advantage of this encouraging environment, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation sponsored its second conference on Advances in Health Status Assessment. It had two major goals: first, to let developers and potenti…
The Findings of the Rand Health Insurance Experiment??? A Response to Welch et al
Newhouse, Joseph P.; Manning, Willard G.; Duan, Naihua; Morris, Carl N.; Keeler, Emmett B.; Leibowitz, Arleen; Marquis, M Susan; Rogers, William H.; Davies, Allyson R.; Lohr, Kathleen N.; Ware, John E. Jr.; Brook, Robert H. Author Information
Efficacy, Effectiveness, Variations, and Quality: Boundary-crossing Research
Explorations in Quality Assessment and Monitoring. Volume II. The Criteria and Standards of Quality
Quality Assurance in Medicine
The authors describe and reflect on current activities in the field, and focus on three initiatives in quality assurance sponsored by the federal government
Does Free Care Improve Adults' Health?: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Does free medical care lead to better health than insurance plans that require the patient to shoulder part of the cost? In an effort to answer this question, we studied 3958 people between the ages of 14 and 61 who were free of disability that precluded work and had been randomly assigned to a set of insurance plans for three or five years. One plan provided free care; the others required enrollees to pay a share of their medical bills. As previ…
Second-Opinion Programs: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analyses
Professor of Medicine and Public Health, University of California at Los Angeles, and Senior Health Researcher, The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California †Health Policy Analyst, The Rand Corporation, Washington, D.C
Choosing measures of health status for individuals in general populations
This paper offers suggestions to adi the selection of appropriate instruments and data gathering methods for studies that require measures of personal health status applicable in general populations. Before selecting measures, the reason for studying health status must be identified. Next, definitional issues arise when attempting to specify the components of health that are to be studied. Evidence supports restriction of the definition of person…
Choosing measures of health status for individuals in general populations
This paper offers suggestions to adi the selection of appropriate instruments and data gathering methods for studies that require measures of personal health status applicable in general populations. Before selecting measures, the reason for studying health status must be identified. Next, definitional issues arise when attempting to specify the components of health that are to be studied. Evidence supports restriction of the definition of person…
Choosing measures of health status for individuals in general populations
This paper offers suggestions to adi the selection of appropriate instruments and data gathering methods for studies that require measures of personal health status applicable in general populations. Before selecting measures, the reason for studying health status must be identified. Next, definitional issues arise when attempting to specify the components of health that are to be studied. Evidence supports restriction of the definition of person…
Second-Opinion Programs: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analyses
Professor of Medicine and Public Health, University of California at Los Angeles, and Senior Health Researcher, The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California †Health Policy Analyst, The Rand Corporation, Washington, D.C
Does Free Care Improve Adults' Health?: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Does free medical care lead to better health than insurance plans that require the patient to shoulder part of the cost? In an effort to answer this question, we studied 3958 people between the ages of 14 and 61 who were free of disability that precluded work and had been randomly assigned to a set of insurance plans for three or five years. One plan provided free care; the others required enrollees to pay a share of their medical bills. As previ…
Explorations in Quality Assessment and Monitoring. Volume II. The Criteria and Standards of Quality
Quality Assurance in Medicine
The authors describe and reflect on current activities in the field, and focus on three initiatives in quality assurance sponsored by the federal government
Efficacy, Effectiveness, Variations, and Quality: Boundary-crossing Research
The Findings of the Rand Health Insurance Experiment??? A Response to Welch et al
Newhouse, Joseph P.; Manning, Willard G.; Duan, Naihua; Morris, Carl N.; Keeler, Emmett B.; Leibowitz, Arleen; Marquis, M Susan; Rogers, William H.; Davies, Allyson R.; Lohr, Kathleen N.; Ware, John E. Jr.; Brook, Robert H. Author Information
Advances in Health Status Assessment: Overview of the Conference
Although the art and science of health status measurement have a considerable history that is in some ways as old as the healing arts themselves, interest and developments in this field have accelerated in the last two decades. To take advantage of this encouraging environment, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation sponsored its second conference on Advances in Health Status Assessment. It had two major goals: first, to let developers and potenti…
Quality of Ambulatory Care: Epidemiology and Comparison by Insurance Status and Income
In this report the data from medical history questionnaires, screening examinations, insurance claims, and a face–to–face physician interview were used to examine the quality of ambulatory care received for 17 chronic conditions by a general population of 5986 adults (≤65) and children (≤14) enrolled in the RAND Health Insurance Experiment. Subjects in six U.S. sites were randomly assigned to insurance plans that were free or that required cost s…
Applications of Health Status Assessment Measures in Clinical Practice: Overview of the Third Conference on Advances in Health Status Assessment
To what purposes can the measurement of health status and health-related quality of life in clinical practice be put? What success might be expected from such endeavors? What obstacles lie in the way of that success? This monograph reports on the proceedings of a conference (the third in a series on advances in health status assessment) convened to address those questions. It presents two papers concerned with barriers to and benefits of health s…
Summary and recommendations for future research
Improving Health Care Outcomes Through Geriatric Rehabilitation: Conference Summary
The Boston Working Group on Improving Health Care Outcomes Through Geriatric Rehabilitation was structured around four major themes: (1) defining disability or disablement; (2) the patient's experience of the processes and outcomes of care; (3) the role and value of clinical practice guidelines; and (4) the need for casemix and severity or risk adjustment procedures and measures. These discussions produced opening statements of policy or empiric …
Health Outcomes Methodology Symposium: Summary and Recommendations
BACKGROUND: Interest in the philosophy and techniques of the assessment of health outcomes has burgeoned, prompting research funding agencies and others to examine traditional and emerging methods for outcome measurement. OBJECTIVES: This report summarizes the presentations and discussions at and research recommendations stemming from an invitational symposium on health outcomes methodology convened in September 1999. RESEARCH DESIGN: The summary…
Literacy and health outcomes: A systematic review of the literature
Community-based Participatory Research: Assessing the Evidence: Evidence Report/Technology Assessment, Number 99: (439622005-001)
Perinatal Depression: A Systematic Review of Prevalence and Incidence
OBJECTIVE: We systematically review evidence on the prevalence and incidence of perinatal depression and compare these rates with those of depression in women at non-childbearing times. DATA SOURCES: We searched MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and Sociofile for English-language articles published from 1980 through March 2004, conducted hand searches of bibliographies, and consulted with experts. METHODS OF STUDY SELECTION: We included cross-sectional,…
Emerging Methods in Comparative Effectiveness and Safety: Symposium Overview and Summary
BACKGROUND: Interest in new methods for comparative effectiveness, drug and patient safety, and related studies is burgeoning. The advent of Medicare Part D for outpatient prescription drugs has drawn significant attention to the need for efficient ways to monitor the potential benefits and harms of pharmaceuticals. These trends prompted the Effective Health Care program at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and its DEcIDE (Developing…
Using patient-reported outcomes in clinical practice: Challenges and opportunities
Outcomes and Costs of Community Health Worker Interventions: A Systematic Review
OBJECTIVES: We conducted a systematic review on outcomes and costs of community health worker (CHW) interventions. CHWs are increasingly expected to improve health outcomes cost-effectively for the underserved. RESEARCH DESIGN: We searched Medline, Cochrane Collaboration resources, and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature for studies conducted in the United States and published in English from 1980 through November 2008. W…
Comparative Effectiveness Research Methods: Symposium Overview and Summary
BACKGROUND: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, in expanding its efforts to advance methods for comparative effectiveness research (CER), convened a second invitational symposium in June 2009 through its Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions About Effectiveness (DEcIDE) network. A distinguished Planning Committee set the agenda, reviewed more than 70 abstracts, and invited almost 30 speakers; the program emphasized issues of clinica…
Medicine (14 works) · Health care (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · MEDLINE (7 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gerontology (5 works) · Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (5 works) · Data science (4 works)