Sharon‐Lise T Normand

Datos Biográficos

ID5420993
NOMBRESharon‐Lise T Normand
NOMBRESSharon‐Lise T
APELLIDONormand
FIRMANORMAND S L T
AFILIACIONESHarvard University
ORCID0000-0001-7027-4769
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS35
TOTAL DE CITAS1
TOTAL COMO AUTOR35
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1993
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H1

  • Racial Disparities in Quality of Dental Care Among Publicly Insured Children

    Open AccessSung Eun Choi, Rindala Fayyad et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2025Referencias: 32

    BACKGROUND: Reducing oral health disparities requires identifying subgroups experiencing gaps in quality of dental care and the sizes of those gaps. This study measured magnitudes and trends of racial/ethnic disparities in overall quality of dental care and examined factors contributing to the disparities. METHODS: This retrospective cohort study used claims data from beneficiaries under age 21 enrolled in Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance…

  • Racial and Ethnic Differences in Telemedicine Use

    Open AccessFelippe O Marcondes, Sharon‐Lise T Normand et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2024

    The results of this cross-sectional study of US Medicare enrollees suggest that although nationally, Black individuals, Hispanic individuals, and individuals of other racial groups received more telemedicine visits during the pandemic and disproportionately lived in geographic regions with higher telemedicine use, after controlling for geographic region, Black individuals, Hispanic individuals, and individuals of other racial groups received fewe…

  • Use of Telemedicine and Quality of Care Among Medicare Enrollees With Serious Mental Illness

    Open AccessAndrew D Wilcock, Haiden A Huskamp et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2023

    In this cohort study of Medicare beneficiaries with serious mental illness, patients receiving care from practices that had a higher level of telemedicine use during the COVID-19 pandemic had more mental health visits per year compared with prepandemic levels, with no differential changes in other observed quality metrics over the same period

  • Healthcare Access for a Diverse Population with Schizophrenia Following the Onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open AccessMarcela Horvitz‐Lennon, Emily Leckman‐Westin et al.ARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal2023Citada por: 1Referencias: 31

    COVID-19 has had a disproportionate impact on the most disadvantaged members of society, including minorities and those with disabling chronic illnesses such as schizophrenia. We examined the pandemic's impacts among New York State's Medicaid beneficiaries with schizophrenia in the immediate post-pandemic surge period, with a focus on equity of access to critical healthcare. We compared changes in utilization of key behavioral health outpatient s…

  • Evaluation of Claims-Based Ascertainment of Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias Across Health Care Settings

    Open AccessNatalia Festa, Mary Price et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2022

    This cohort study evaluates the ascertainment of Alzheimer disease and related dementia using diagnostic codes in various health care settings

  • Identifying Medicare Beneficiaries With Delirium

    Lidia M V R Moura, Sahar Zafar et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2022Referencias: 33

    BACKGROUND: Each year, thousands of older adults develop delirium, a serious, preventable condition. At present, there is no well-validated method to identify patients with delirium when using Medicare claims data or other large datasets. We developed and assessed the performance of classification algorithms based on longitudinal Medicare administrative data that included International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition diagnostic codes. ME…

  • Quality of primary health care in China

    Open AccessXi Li, Harlan M Krumholz et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2020

  • Understanding the large heterogeneity in hospital readmissions and mortality for acute myocardial infarction

    Open AccessMariana Lobo, Mariana F Lobo et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy2020

  • Picturing inequities for health impact assessment

    Open AccessLeonor Bacelar–nicolau, Teresa Rodrigues et al.ARTICLEImpact Assessment and Project…2018

    Health impact assessment (HIA) focuses on minimizing inequities when studying the effects of a policy on the population’s health. Nevertheless, it is seldom simultaneously quantified, multivariate, and visually graphically comprehensible for non-statisticians. This paper aims to address that gap, assessing a policy promoting the quality of Electronic Health Records, linking hospital and primary health care data (Blood Pressure, Cholesterol, Trigl…

  • Diffusion of Bevacizumab Across Oncology Practices

    Nancy L Keating, Haiden A Huskamp et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2018Referencias: 41

    BACKGROUND: Technological advances can improve care and outcomes but are a primary driver of health care spending growth. Understanding diffusion and use of new oncology therapies is important, given substantial increases in prices and spending on such treatments. OBJECTIVES: Examine diffusion of bevacizumab, a novel (in 2004) and high-priced biologic cancer therapy, among US oncology practices during 2005-2012 and assess variation in use across …

  • Quality of Care in the United States Territories, 1999–2012

    Sudhakar V Nuti, Yun Wang et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2017Referencias: 17

    BACKGROUND: Millions of Americans live in the US territories, but health outcomes and payments among Medicare beneficiaries in these territories are not well characterized. METHODS: Among Fee-for-Service Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years and older hospitalized between 1999 and 2012 for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart failure (HF), and pneumonia, we compared hospitalization rates, patient outcomes, and inpatient payments in the territo…

  • Rationale and Design of the Women and Inclusion in Academic Medicine Study

    Emorcia V Hill, Michael J C Wake et al.ARTICLEEthnicity & Disease2016

    We describe the design, methods, rationale and limitations of one of the largest and most comprehensive studies of women faculty in academic medicine with a focus on WOC. This study will enhance our understanding of challenges that face women, and, especially WOC, faculty in academic medicine and will provide solutions at both the individual and institutional levels

  • Hospital Phenotypes in the Management of Patients Admitted for Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Xiao Xu, Shu-Xia Li et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2016Referencias: 21

    OBJECTIVES: To characterize hospital phenotypes by their combined utilization pattern of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) procedures, and intensive care unit (ICU) admissions for patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction (AMI). RESEARCH DESIGN: Using the Premier Analytical Database, we identified 129,138 hospitalizations for AMI from 246 hospitals with the capacity for performing open-h…

  • Antipsychotic Prescribing

    Timothy S Anderson, Haiden A Huskamp et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2015Referencias: 26

    BACKGROUND: Academic medical centers (AMCs) have increasingly adopted conflict of interest policies governing physician-industry relationships; it is unclear how policies impact prescribing. OBJECTIVES: To determine whether 9 American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC)-recommended policies influence psychiatrists' antipsychotic prescribing and compare prescribing between academic and nonacademic psychiatrists. RESEARCH DESIGN: We measured num…

  • Hospital Teaching Intensity and Mortality for Acute Myocardial Infarction, Heart Failure, and Pneumonia

    David M Shahian, Xiu Liu et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2014Referencias: 12

    BACKGROUND: Under the Affordable Care Act, health care reimbursement will increasingly be linked to quality and costs. In this environment, teaching hospitals will be closely scrutinized, as their care is often more expensive. Furthermore, although they serve vital roles in education, research, management of complex diseases, and care of vulnerable populations, debate continues as to whether teaching hospitals deliver better outcomes for common c…

  • Regional Associations Between Medicare Advantage Penetration and Administrative Claims-based Measures of Hospital Outcomes

    Vivek Kulkarni, Vivek T Kulkarni et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2012Referencias: 8

    BACKGROUND: Risk-standardized measures of hospital outcomes reported by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services include Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) patients and exclude Medicare Advantage (MA) patients due to data availability. MA penetration varies greatly nationwide and seems to be associated with increased FFS population risk. Whether variation in MA penetration affects the performance on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service…

  • Accurately Predicting Bipolar Disorder Mood Outcomes

    Alisa B Busch, Brian Neelon et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2012Referencias: 24

    BACKGROUND: Monitoring mental health treatment outcomes for populations requires an understanding as to which patient information is needed in electronic format and is feasible to obtain in routine care. OBJECTIVE: To examine whether bipolar disorder outcomes can be accurately predicted and how much clinical detail is needed to do so. RESEARCH DESIGN, DATA SOURCES, AND PARTICIPANTS: Longitudinal study of bipolar disorder patients treated during 2…

  • A Framework for Evidence Evaluation and Methodological Issues in Implantable Device Studies

    Art Sedrakyan, Danica Marinac-Dabic et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2010Referencias: 29

    Implantable medical devices (IMD) are frequently used in interventional medicine. There are a host of complex methodological issues to consider in conducting device studies. A general conceptual framework for evidence evaluation is needed to help investigators conduct comparative studies in this setting. It is known that clinical trials of implants require study design planning and creative execution that are quite different from those in pharmac…

  • Use of Administrative Claims Models to Assess 30-Day Mortality Among Veterans Health Administration Hospitals

    James Stirling Ro, Joseph S Ross et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2010Referencias: 14

    BACKGROUND: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) publicly reports hospital-specific risk-standardized, 30-day, all-cause, mortality rates (RSMRs) for all hospitalizations among fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart failure (HF), and pneumonia at non-Federal hospitals. OBJECTIVE: To examine the performance of the statistical models used by CMS among veterans at least 65 years of age hos…

  • Rethinking Analytical Strategies for Surveillance of Medical Devices

    Sharon‐Lise T Normand, Sharon-Lise Normand et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2010Referencias: 14

    BACKGROUND: Randomized trials that sometimes serve as the basis for device approval are small, short term, and generalizable to an increasingly smaller percentage of patients. Some of the most common and challenging devices are those used in hip replacement. Artificial hips are implanted in thousands to alleviate pain caused by noninflammatory joint disease and to restore patient mobility. During 2004 in the United States, although 68% of hospita…

  • Is Same-Hospital Readmission Rate a Good Surrogate for All-Hospital Readmission Rate

    Khurram Nasir, Zhenqiu Lin et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2010Referencias: 5

    BACKGROUND: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) readmission measure is based on all-cause readmissions to any hospital within 30 days of discharge. Whether a measure based on same-hospital readmission, an outcome that is easier for hospitals and some systems to track, could serve as a proxy for the all-hospital measure is not known. OBJECTIVES: Evaluate whether same-hospital readmission rate is a good surrogate for all-hospital rea…

  • Longitudinal Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Antimanic Medication Use in Bipolar-I Disorder

    Alisa B Busch, Haiden A Huskamp et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2009Referencias: 28

    OBJECTIVE: To examine racial/ethnic longitudinal disparities in antimanic medication use among adults with bipolar-I disorder. METHODS: Observational study using administrative data from Florida's Medicaid program, July 1997 to June 2005, for enrollees diagnosed with bipolar-I disorder (N = 13,497 persons; 126,413 person-quarters). We examined the likelihood of receiving one of the following during a given quarter: (1) any antimanic agent (antips…

  • Evaluation of a Patient Activation and Empowerment Intervention in Mental Health Care

    Margarita Alegria, Antonio Polo et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2008Referencias: 35

    BACKGROUND: Evidence suggests that minority populations have lower levels of attendance and retention in mental health care than non-Latino whites. Patient activation and empowerment interventions may be effective in increasing minority patients' attendance and retention. OBJECTIVES: This study developed and evaluated a patient self-reported activation and empowerment strategy in mental health care. RESEARCH DESIGN: The Right Question Project-Men…

  • Response to Letter from Dr. Alexander S. Young

    Barbara Dickey, Sharon‐Lise T Normand et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2007

    Dickey, Barbara PhD; Normand, Sharon-Lise PhD; Cleary, Paul PhD; Hermann, Richard MD, MS; Eisen, Sue PhD; Cortés, Dharma PhD; Ware, Norma PhD Author Information

  • Selection and Plan Switching Behavior

    Open AccessRusty Tchernis, Sharon‐Lise T Normand et al.ARTICLEINQUIRY The Journal of Health…2006

    A majority of employees can choose among health insurance plans of varying generosity. They may switch plans if prices, information, or their health status change. This paper analyzes switching behavior presumptively caused by changes in health status. We show that people who move to a less generous plan have lower medical spending prior to the switch than the average for the generous plan in which they started, while those who move to a more gen…