Layla Parast

Biographic Data

ID228931
NAMELayla Parast
GIVEN NAMESLayla
FAMILY NAMEParast
SIGNATUREPARAST L
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Texas at Austin
ORCID0000-0002-7288-1009
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Updated Adjustment of the HCAHPS Survey for New Modes of Survey Administration and Patient Mix

    Marc N Elliott, Megan K Beckett et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2025References: 19

    BACKGROUND: Web-first multimode survey protocols increase Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey response rates and representativeness but may result in different HCAHPS scores because of survey mode effects and selective email address availability. A variable absent from many patient-mix adjustment models that may result in more positive patient experiences is whether the hospital admission was planned; …

  • Survey Protocols, Response Rates, and Representation of Underserved Patients

    Open AccessMarc N Elliott, Julie A Brown et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2024

    In this randomized clinical trial, web-first multimode survey protocols significantly improved the RR and representativeness of patient surveys. The best-performing protocol based on RR and representativeness was web-mail-phone. Web-phone performed well for young and diverse patient populations, and web-mail for older and less diverse patient populations. The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will allow hospitals to use the web-mail, we…

  • Statistical Methods to Evaluate Surrogate Markers

    Layla Parast, Lü Tian et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2024References: 35

    BACKGROUND: There is tremendous interest in evaluating surrogate markers given their potential to decrease study time, costs, and patient burden. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this statistical workshop article is to describe and illustrate how to evaluate a surrogate marker of interest using the proportion of treatment effect (PTE) explained as a measure of the quality of the surrogate marker for: (1) a setting with a general fully observed primary …

  • National Testing of the Emergency Department Patient Experience of Care Discharged to Community Survey and Implications for Adjustment in Scoring

    Layla Parast, Megan Mathews et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2019References: 21

    BACKGROUND: The emergency department (ED) setting is unique and measuring quality of care in the ED requires the development of ED-specific tools. The Emergency Department Patient Experience of Care Discharged to Community Survey was designed to measure patient experience in the ED setting. OBJECTIVES: Describe results from the Emergency Department Patient Experience of Care Discharged to Community Survey including respondent characteristics and …

  • Factors associated with drop-in center utilization among unaccompanied youth experiencing homelessness

    Open AccessJoan S Tucker, Eric R Pedersen et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2018Cited by: 2References: 32

  • A Propensity-Score-Weighted Population-Based Study of the Health Benefits of Dogs and Cats for Children

    Jeremy N V Miles, Layla Parast et al.ARTICLEAnthrozoös2017Cited by: 3References: 23

    There is a widely held belief that children's general and psychological health benefits from owning and/or interacting with pets. In our study, we aimed to determine whether children who live with a dog or cat in their home have better mental and physical health outcomes compared with children without such a pet. Our study design consisted of a secondary analysis of household survey data from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey. Children …