Gary A Chase
Biographic Data
| ID | 309936 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary A Chase |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary A |
| FAMILY NAME | Chase |
| SIGNATURE | CHASE G A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Design of the Central Pennsylvania Women’s Health Study (CePAWHS) Strong Healthy Women Intervention: Improving Preconceptional Health
Women’s Perceived Control of Their Birth Outcomes in the Central Pennsylvania Women’s Health Study
Mental Health Status Among Rural Women of Reproductive Age: Findings From the Central Pennsylvania Women’s Health Study
Objectives. We sought to examine variables associated with mental health among rural women of reproductive age, with particular attention given to rural area type and farm residence. Methods. We analyzed data from the Central Pennsylvania Women’s Health Study, which included a random-digit-dialed survey of women aged 18 to 45 years. Hierarchical multiple linear and logistic regression models were estimated to predict 3 mental health outcomes: sco…
Individual and Community Predictors of Preterm Birth and Low Birthweight Along the Rural‐Urban Continuum in Central Pennsylvania
Context: Preterm birth and low birthweight remain high priority public health problems and are associated with increased risk of infant mortality as well as long‐term health impairments. Although 20% of all births nationally are to rural women, relatively little attention has been paid to pregnancy outcomes in rural areas relative to more urbanized areas. Purpose: This study examines the relationship of individual‐ and community‐level socioeconom…
Health Status, Health Conditions, and Health Behaviors Among Amish Women
Vaginal Douching and Intimate Partner Violence
Preconceptional health: Risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes by reproductive life stage in the Central Pennsylvania Women’s Health Study (CePAWHS)
Hip Fracture Risk Among Community-Dwelling Elderly People in the United States: A Prospective Study of Physical, Cognitive, and Socioeconomic Indicators
Objectives. We determined risks of short-term (2-year) hip fracture in a nationally representative, prospective cohort of community-dwelling elderly people 70 years or older. Methods. We used self-report data from 2 waves of the Asset and Health Dynamics Survey (n = 5630). Sample-weighted logistic regression analyses were conducted to determine risk of hip fracture in relation to several demographic, cognitive, physical, and socioeconomic indicat…
Use of Guideline Recommended Follow-Up Care in Cancer Survivors: Routine or Diagnostic Indications
BACKGROUND: After potentially curative cancer treatment, patients may receive procedures for routine monitoring for recurrence or for evaluation of symptoms or signs. OBJECTIVE: We sought to characterize surveillance care guideline-recommended and other procedures performed in cancer survivors according to routine versus diagnostic indications. METHODS: This was a retrospective cohort study of paper and electronic medical records between 1990 and…
Contraceptive use by diabetic and obese women
Routine Surveillance Care After Cancer Treatment With Curative Intent
BACKGROUND: Many consensus guidelines recommend routine surveillance to detect recurrent disease among cancer survivors. We compare surveillance care receipt to guideline recommendations. METHODS: Cohorts of patients aged 30 years or older diagnosed with breast, colorectal, endometrial, lung, or prostate cancer between 1990 and 1995 and treated with curative intent were identified (n = 100 per site). Receipt and indications for examinations and p…
Care of Patients With Chronic Mental Illness: Comparison of Home and Half-Way House Care
Community-based services are being developed as mental health services. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect between home care and half-way house services on patients with schizophrenia. The design was quasi- expsriroental and used repeated measurements. There were 60 subjects, 37 receiving home care and 23 receiving half-way house care which were affiliated with one general hospital in the south of Taiwan. Of the 60 chronic schizo…
Measuring Physicians?? Tolerance for Ambiguity and its Relationship to Their Reported Practices Regarding Genetic Testing
Despite uncertainties in medicine, attempts to study physicians' tolerance for uncertainty have been few, and limited by the measurement instruments available. This paper describes development of a modified tolerance for ambiguity (TFA) scale, and correlates it with several physician characteristics and reported behaviors. Eighteen TFA items were included in a national survey of physicians' knowledge and attitudes about genetic testing. Sixty-fiv…
Adolescent Women's Contraceptive Decision Making
A modified rational decision model incorporating salient events and social influences (particularly from sexual partners) is used to analyze adolescent women's consistent use of oral contraceptives (OCs) over a six-month period. Data are taken from a panel study of 308 clients of an inner-city family planning clinic. Expected OC use was computed for each subject on the basis of subjective expected utility (SEU) theory, and is found in multivariat…
Assessment of risk by pregnant women: Implications for genetic counseling and education
One of the central elements of genetic counseling is the transmission of quantitative information concerning risk of defects in an unborn child from counselor to client. In order to investigate this subject, we studied the understanding of numeric and nonnumeric descriptions of genetic risk by 190 pregnant women. Specifically, three risk issues were explored: (1) whether women were able to interpret numeric risks as percentages; (2) whether shift…
Structural Determinants of Hospital Closure
In a retrospective case-control study, structural characteristics of hospitals that closed during the years 1976-1980 were contrasted with three comparison groups: hospitals that were acquired in a merger; hospitals that joined a multihospital system; and hospitals that remained autonomously opened, to investigate these characteristics as predictors of closure. Characteristics investigated included environmental, structural, and process variables…
Pregnant women's attitudes toward the abortion of defective fetuses
Determinants of Hospital Staff Nurse Turnover
Organizational and nonorganizational determinants of staff nurse turnover are investigated in a panel study of 1,259 nurses employed in two university-affiliated hospitals. Findings are consistent with a causal chain in which perceived autonomy, job satisfaction, intent to leave the hospital and turnover are a sequence of outcomes reflecting the successive stages of a nurse's decision to resign. Both personal characteristics and job-related attri…
Evaluating Primary Nursing in Hospitals: Examination of Effects on Nursing Staff
Despite widespread support in the nursing literature for the adoption of primary nursing as the optimal method of organizing hospital nursing care, little empirical evidence exists as to its effects on patients or nursing staff. This study compares units that have employed primary nursing for at least five months (N = 31) with nonprimary units (N = 20) in two large university-affiliated hospitals. Comparisons are made with respect to structural a…
Drug Utilization Review in an HMO I. Introduction and Examples of Methodology
An experimental drug utilization review program was developed for a health maintenance organization (HMO). The objectives of the program were to develop and implement an ongoing mechanism for reviewing drug use using criteria based on the scientific literature, and to evaluate the effect of the drug use review program on physician precribing patterns. Seven therapeutic categories of drugs, accounting for over 65 per cent of prescribing, were sele…
Adolescent Women's Contraceptive Decision Making
A modified rational decision model incorporating salient events and social influences (particularly from sexual partners) is used to analyze adolescent women's consistent use of oral contraceptives (OCs) over a six-month period. Data are taken from a panel study of 308 clients of an inner-city family planning clinic. Expected OC use was computed for each subject on the basis of subjective expected utility (SEU) theory, and is found in multivariat…
Hip Fracture Risk Among Community-Dwelling Elderly People in the United States: A Prospective Study of Physical, Cognitive, and Socioeconomic Indicators
Objectives. We determined risks of short-term (2-year) hip fracture in a nationally representative, prospective cohort of community-dwelling elderly people 70 years or older. Methods. We used self-report data from 2 waves of the Asset and Health Dynamics Survey (n = 5630). Sample-weighted logistic regression analyses were conducted to determine risk of hip fracture in relation to several demographic, cognitive, physical, and socioeconomic indicat…
Mental Health Status Among Rural Women of Reproductive Age: Findings From the Central Pennsylvania Women’s Health Study
Objectives. We sought to examine variables associated with mental health among rural women of reproductive age, with particular attention given to rural area type and farm residence. Methods. We analyzed data from the Central Pennsylvania Women’s Health Study, which included a random-digit-dialed survey of women aged 18 to 45 years. Hierarchical multiple linear and logistic regression models were estimated to predict 3 mental health outcomes: sco…
Pregnant women's attitudes toward the abortion of defective fetuses
Assessment of risk by pregnant women: Implications for genetic counseling and education
One of the central elements of genetic counseling is the transmission of quantitative information concerning risk of defects in an unborn child from counselor to client. In order to investigate this subject, we studied the understanding of numeric and nonnumeric descriptions of genetic risk by 190 pregnant women. Specifically, three risk issues were explored: (1) whether women were able to interpret numeric risks as percentages; (2) whether shift…
Drug Utilization Review in an HMO I. Introduction and Examples of Methodology
An experimental drug utilization review program was developed for a health maintenance organization (HMO). The objectives of the program were to develop and implement an ongoing mechanism for reviewing drug use using criteria based on the scientific literature, and to evaluate the effect of the drug use review program on physician precribing patterns. Seven therapeutic categories of drugs, accounting for over 65 per cent of prescribing, were sele…
Determinants of Hospital Staff Nurse Turnover
Organizational and nonorganizational determinants of staff nurse turnover are investigated in a panel study of 1,259 nurses employed in two university-affiliated hospitals. Findings are consistent with a causal chain in which perceived autonomy, job satisfaction, intent to leave the hospital and turnover are a sequence of outcomes reflecting the successive stages of a nurse's decision to resign. Both personal characteristics and job-related attri…
Evaluating Primary Nursing in Hospitals: Examination of Effects on Nursing Staff
Despite widespread support in the nursing literature for the adoption of primary nursing as the optimal method of organizing hospital nursing care, little empirical evidence exists as to its effects on patients or nursing staff. This study compares units that have employed primary nursing for at least five months (N = 31) with nonprimary units (N = 20) in two large university-affiliated hospitals. Comparisons are made with respect to structural a…
Pregnant women's attitudes toward the abortion of defective fetuses
Structural Determinants of Hospital Closure
In a retrospective case-control study, structural characteristics of hospitals that closed during the years 1976-1980 were contrasted with three comparison groups: hospitals that were acquired in a merger; hospitals that joined a multihospital system; and hospitals that remained autonomously opened, to investigate these characteristics as predictors of closure. Characteristics investigated included environmental, structural, and process variables…
Assessment of risk by pregnant women: Implications for genetic counseling and education
One of the central elements of genetic counseling is the transmission of quantitative information concerning risk of defects in an unborn child from counselor to client. In order to investigate this subject, we studied the understanding of numeric and nonnumeric descriptions of genetic risk by 190 pregnant women. Specifically, three risk issues were explored: (1) whether women were able to interpret numeric risks as percentages; (2) whether shift…
Adolescent Women's Contraceptive Decision Making
A modified rational decision model incorporating salient events and social influences (particularly from sexual partners) is used to analyze adolescent women's consistent use of oral contraceptives (OCs) over a six-month period. Data are taken from a panel study of 308 clients of an inner-city family planning clinic. Expected OC use was computed for each subject on the basis of subjective expected utility (SEU) theory, and is found in multivariat…
Measuring Physicians?? Tolerance for Ambiguity and its Relationship to Their Reported Practices Regarding Genetic Testing
Despite uncertainties in medicine, attempts to study physicians' tolerance for uncertainty have been few, and limited by the measurement instruments available. This paper describes development of a modified tolerance for ambiguity (TFA) scale, and correlates it with several physician characteristics and reported behaviors. Eighteen TFA items were included in a national survey of physicians' knowledge and attitudes about genetic testing. Sixty-fiv…
Care of Patients With Chronic Mental Illness: Comparison of Home and Half-Way House Care
Community-based services are being developed as mental health services. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect between home care and half-way house services on patients with schizophrenia. The design was quasi- expsriroental and used repeated measurements. There were 60 subjects, 37 receiving home care and 23 receiving half-way house care which were affiliated with one general hospital in the south of Taiwan. Of the 60 chronic schizo…
Contraceptive use by diabetic and obese women
Routine Surveillance Care After Cancer Treatment With Curative Intent
BACKGROUND: Many consensus guidelines recommend routine surveillance to detect recurrent disease among cancer survivors. We compare surveillance care receipt to guideline recommendations. METHODS: Cohorts of patients aged 30 years or older diagnosed with breast, colorectal, endometrial, lung, or prostate cancer between 1990 and 1995 and treated with curative intent were identified (n = 100 per site). Receipt and indications for examinations and p…
Preconceptional health: Risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes by reproductive life stage in the Central Pennsylvania Women’s Health Study (CePAWHS)
Hip Fracture Risk Among Community-Dwelling Elderly People in the United States: A Prospective Study of Physical, Cognitive, and Socioeconomic Indicators
Objectives. We determined risks of short-term (2-year) hip fracture in a nationally representative, prospective cohort of community-dwelling elderly people 70 years or older. Methods. We used self-report data from 2 waves of the Asset and Health Dynamics Survey (n = 5630). Sample-weighted logistic regression analyses were conducted to determine risk of hip fracture in relation to several demographic, cognitive, physical, and socioeconomic indicat…
Use of Guideline Recommended Follow-Up Care in Cancer Survivors: Routine or Diagnostic Indications
BACKGROUND: After potentially curative cancer treatment, patients may receive procedures for routine monitoring for recurrence or for evaluation of symptoms or signs. OBJECTIVE: We sought to characterize surveillance care guideline-recommended and other procedures performed in cancer survivors according to routine versus diagnostic indications. METHODS: This was a retrospective cohort study of paper and electronic medical records between 1990 and…
Individual and Community Predictors of Preterm Birth and Low Birthweight Along the Rural‐Urban Continuum in Central Pennsylvania
Context: Preterm birth and low birthweight remain high priority public health problems and are associated with increased risk of infant mortality as well as long‐term health impairments. Although 20% of all births nationally are to rural women, relatively little attention has been paid to pregnancy outcomes in rural areas relative to more urbanized areas. Purpose: This study examines the relationship of individual‐ and community‐level socioeconom…
Health Status, Health Conditions, and Health Behaviors Among Amish Women
Vaginal Douching and Intimate Partner Violence
Design of the Central Pennsylvania Women’s Health Study (CePAWHS) Strong Healthy Women Intervention: Improving Preconceptional Health
Women’s Perceived Control of Their Birth Outcomes in the Central Pennsylvania Women’s Health Study
Mental Health Status Among Rural Women of Reproductive Age: Findings From the Central Pennsylvania Women’s Health Study
Objectives. We sought to examine variables associated with mental health among rural women of reproductive age, with particular attention given to rural area type and farm residence. Methods. We analyzed data from the Central Pennsylvania Women’s Health Study, which included a random-digit-dialed survey of women aged 18 to 45 years. Hierarchical multiple linear and logistic regression models were estimated to predict 3 mental health outcomes: sco…
Medicine (20 works) · Environmental health (12 works) · Demography (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Population (8 works) · Family medicine (7 works) · Gerontology (6 works) · Pregnancy (6 works) · Internal Medicine (5 works) · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (5 works)