David Ballard
Biographic Data
| ID | 4145597 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Ballard |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Ballard |
| SIGNATURE | BALLARD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | RAND Corporation |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2755-1326 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Comparative Effectiveness and Safety Emerging Methods Symposium
From the Institute for Health Care Research and Improvement, Baylor Health Care System, Dallas, Texas. Reprints: David J. Ballard, MD, PhD, Institute for Health Care Research and Improvement, Baylor Health Care System, 8080 N. Central Expressway, Suite 500, Dallas, TX 75206. E-mail: [email protected]
Using learning processes to promote change for sustainable development
Sustainable development is widely recognized as a major change challenge, though its urgency is not as widely appreciated. This article begins by reviewing the challenge and showing how it is not currently being taken up. Drawing on the wider literature, it identifies some of the key contextual issues that need to be addressed in change programmes for sustainability. It then develops a simple model of three conditions, ‘awareness’, ‘agency’ (the …
A Call to Action
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology; Director, Center for Clinical Evaluation Sciences; Emory University; and; President, Kerr White Institute for Health; Services Research; Decatur Plaza; Decatur, Georgia From the Kerr L. White Institute for Health Services Research, Decatur, Georgia, and Emory University Center for Clinical Evaluation Sciences, Atlanta, Georgia. Address correspondence to: David J. Ballard, MD, PhD, Kerr L. White Institute fo…
Variations by Specialty in Physician Ratings of the Appropriateness and Necessity of Indications for Procedures
The authors compare the appropriateness ratings and mutual influence of panelists from different specialties rating a comprehensive set of indications for six surgical procedures. Nine-member panels rated each procedure: abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery, carotid endarterectomy, cataract surgery, coronary angiography, and coronary artery bypass graft surgery/percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (common panel). Panelists individually rat…
Using learning processes to promote change for sustainable development
Sustainable development is widely recognized as a major change challenge, though its urgency is not as widely appreciated. This article begins by reviewing the challenge and showing how it is not currently being taken up. Drawing on the wider literature, it identifies some of the key contextual issues that need to be addressed in change programmes for sustainability. It then develops a simple model of three conditions, ‘awareness’, ‘agency’ (the …
Variations by Specialty in Physician Ratings of the Appropriateness and Necessity of Indications for Procedures
The authors compare the appropriateness ratings and mutual influence of panelists from different specialties rating a comprehensive set of indications for six surgical procedures. Nine-member panels rated each procedure: abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery, carotid endarterectomy, cataract surgery, coronary angiography, and coronary artery bypass graft surgery/percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (common panel). Panelists individually rat…
A Call to Action
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology; Director, Center for Clinical Evaluation Sciences; Emory University; and; President, Kerr White Institute for Health; Services Research; Decatur Plaza; Decatur, Georgia From the Kerr L. White Institute for Health Services Research, Decatur, Georgia, and Emory University Center for Clinical Evaluation Sciences, Atlanta, Georgia. Address correspondence to: David J. Ballard, MD, PhD, Kerr L. White Institute fo…
Using learning processes to promote change for sustainable development
Sustainable development is widely recognized as a major change challenge, though its urgency is not as widely appreciated. This article begins by reviewing the challenge and showing how it is not currently being taken up. Drawing on the wider literature, it identifies some of the key contextual issues that need to be addressed in change programmes for sustainability. It then develops a simple model of three conditions, ‘awareness’, ‘agency’ (the …
The Comparative Effectiveness and Safety Emerging Methods Symposium
From the Institute for Health Care Research and Improvement, Baylor Health Care System, Dallas, Texas. Reprints: David J. Ballard, MD, PhD, Institute for Health Care Research and Improvement, Baylor Health Care System, 8080 N. Central Expressway, Suite 500, Dallas, TX 75206. E-mail: [email protected]
Medicine (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Family medicine (2 works) · Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (2 works) · Healthcare cost, quality, practices (2 works) · Healthcare Policy and Management (2 works) · Suite (2 works) · Action (physics (1 works)