Mark W Smith

Biographic Data

ID5419455
NAMEMark W Smith
GIVEN NAMESMark W
FAMILY NAMESmith
SIGNATURESMITH M W
AFFILIATIONSTruven Health Analytics (United States)
ORCID0000-0002-4582-9088
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS59
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX3

  • Assessing the Content Validity of the Revised Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS 2018)

    Open AccessMeredith Harris, Meredith G Harris et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    The Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) comprises 12 scales that cover the kinds of problems that may be experienced by working-age adults in contact with specialised mental health services. Drawing on 20 years' experience in clinical practice, a collaborative, international review of the HoNOS was undertaken and a revised measure (known as the HoNOS 2018) was published. In this study, 32 experts from Australia, England and New Zealand co…

  • Hospital Utilization and Costs Among Preterm Infants by Payer

    Open AccessDanielle T Barradas, Martin P Wasserman et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2016

  • Hospital Readmission Rates and Emergency Department Visits for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Conditions

    Open AccessMark W Smith, Carol Stocks et al.ARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal2015Cited by: 4References: 16

  • Construction of Student Groups Using Belbin

    Mark Scott Smith, Mark W Smith et al.ARTICLEJournal of Geography in Higher…2012Cited by: 1References: 8

    Belbin team role self and observer perceptions were applied to a large cohort (145) of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences undergraduates in a module assessed through two separate group projects. Students self-selected groups for the first project; for the second, groups were more ‘balanced.’ Results show slight improvement in group performance compared with that of previous years, with a significant increase in first-class grades. No evi…

  • Substance Use Disorders and Health Care Costs Among Veterans Affairs Nursing Home Residents

    Mark W Smith, Sonne Lemke et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2011

    BACKGROUND: Research on the relationship between substance use disorders (SUDs) and older adults' health care costs is equivocal. A large-scale study comparing health care costs among older adults with and without SUDs has never been conducted. OBJECTIVE: To determine the relation of SUDs to health care costs in a large sample of adults following entry into a Veterans Affairs (VA) nursing home. METHODS: We performed a retrospective analysis of 29…

  • Using policy to increase prescribing of smoking cessation medications in the VA healthcare system

    Mark W Smith, Shuo Chen et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2010

    The results provide strong support for the efficacy of these policies and illustrate how healthcare systems can successfully employ multiple strategies to increase evidence-based smoking-cessation treatment

  • Military-Related Sexual Trauma Among Veterans Health Administration Patients Returning From Afghanistan and Iraq

    Rachel Kimerling, Amy E Street et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2010Cited by: 18References: 23

    We examined military-related sexual trauma among deployed Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans. Of 125 729 veterans who received Veterans Health Administration primary care or mental health services, 15.1% of the women and 0.7% of the men reported military sexual trauma when screened. Military sexual trauma was associated with increased odds of a mental disorder diagnosis, including posttraumatic stress disorder, other …

  • The Veterans Health Administration and Military Sexual Trauma

    Rachel Kimerling, Kristian Gima et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2007Cited by: 31References: 37

    Objectives. We examined the utility of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) universal screening program for military sexual violence. Methods. We analyzed VHA administrative data for 185 880 women and 4139888 men who were veteran outpatients and were treated in VHA health care settings nationwide during 2003. Results. Screening was completed for 70% of patients. Positive screens were associated with greater odds of virtually all categories of…

  • Physician Incentives and the Timing of Cesarean Sections

    Joanne Spetz, Mark W Smith et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2001References: 18

    OBJECTIVES: The timing of cesarean sections is studied to examine how physician convenience and financial incentives play a role in the decision to perform a cesarean section. METHODS: Using birth certificate and hospital financial data from California, the likelihood of cesarean sections being performed at particular times of day was examined, controlling for maternal characteristics and the mother's insurance coverage. Two diagnoses associated …

  • CEO Succession

    Open AccessMichael C White, Mark Smith et al.ARTICLEHuman Relations1997Cited by: 3References: 70

    Population ecologists suggest that inertial pressures make it difficult for organizations to adapt their strategies and structures in response to environmental changes. One way in which organizations may attempt to overcome these inertial tendencies is by selecting executive successors with different career specializations than their predecessors, which may enable them to better cope with changing environmental contingencies. The present study ex…

  • A Typology of Executive Career Specialization

    Open AccessMichael C White, Mark Smith et al.ARTICLEHuman Relations1994Cited by: 2References: 33

    This paper presents a career specialization typology that is specifically designed to assess a CEO's career specialization, but more generally can be used to assess other top executives' career specialization as well. The typology is based on the results of a study involving 544 chief executive officers of Fortune 1000 companies. The typology integrates the functional and institutional specializations of the executives into a single typology of c…