Kathleen Carey
Biographic Data
| ID | 5533736 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen Carey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Carey |
| SIGNATURE | CAREY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7924-431X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Provision of Behavioral Health Services at Community Health Centers and Hospital Emergency Department Visits
BACKGROUND: Numerous US patients seek the hospital emergency department (ED) for behavioral health care. Community Health Centers (CHCs) offer a potential channel for redirecting many to a more patient-centered, lower cost setting. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to identify unique market areas serviced by CHCs and to examine whether CHCs are effective in offsetting behavioral health ED visits. RESEARCH DESIGN: We identified CHC-year specifi…
Jama Health Forum Peer Reviewers in 2021
Quality and Cost in Community Health Centers
BACKGROUND: Quantifying health care quality has long presented a challenge to identifying the relationship between provider level quality and cost. However, growing focus on quality improvement has led to greater interest in organizational performance, prompting payers to collect various indicators of quality that can be combined at the provider level. OBJECTIVE: To explore the relationship between quality and average cost of medical visits provi…
The Effect of Telehealth Services on Provider Productivity
BACKGROUND: Telehealth services historically have played a small role in the provision of health care in the United States. However during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, public and private insurers rapidly expanded access to telehealth in order to reduce exposure and avoid transmission. It is unknown whether telehealth will become a more regular substitute for in-person care beyond the pandemic. OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to …
Hospital Response to CMS Public Reports of Hospital Charge Information
BACKGROUND: In an effort to increase price transparency, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began reporting charges for Medicare inpatients treated in ∼3400 hospitals online in 2013. As of 2019, CMS began to require hospitals themselves to publicize a more comprehensive list of their underlying procedure charges. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to assess the responses of hospitals to broad-scale public reporting of th…
Moral worry and religiosity in US and Canadian college samples
The objective of this study was to investigate the presence of worry about personal moral attitudes and behaviors in two college samples, and to check associations with religiosity, age, gender, personality traits, and geographic region. The study sample was drawn from college students in Minneapolis, Minnesota (N = 333) and Sydney, Nova Scotia (N = 137). Instruments consisted of moral worry and religiosity questionnaires, and the Eysenck Persona…
Psychiatrists’ attitudes and practices regarding the moral worries of their patients
The 2004 presidential election process highlighted the relevance to the American public of the moral character of each candidate. Recent works in psychology and philosophy have enlarged our understanding of the moral emotions, especially guilt, shame, regret, and remorse, and the centrality of a sense of moral concern in defining personal identity. A previous study demonstrated that patients report a moderate degree of worry about moral issues in…
Hospital Cost Efficiency and System Membership
Using a recently developed taxonomy of hospital organizations, this paper estimates a stochastic frontier cost function to test for inefficiency differences among system hospitals having common strategic and/or structural characteristics. System hospitals that centralized around physician arrangements and insurance products display the smallest deviations from the least cost locus. This suggests efficiency benefits from organization of physician …
A reappraisal of medieval mysticism & hysteria
This paper examines the historical association between medieval mysticism and asceticism and the psychopathological condition of hysteria. We first review the particular forms of medieval mysticism and asceticism that seem to have inspired modern psychiatrists and reductive historians to dismiss these phenomena as indubitably neurotic behaviours. Then we review the concept of hysteria as it evolved during the last two centuries for points of conv…
Moral Conflict as a Component of Ordinary Worry
This article contributes to the psychology of moral behavior by inquiring into the presence and extent of worrying about moral concerns in one's life relative to worrying about practical concerns. A 20-item questionnaire was developed, mixing eight moral worry questions with twelve ordinary worry items (finances, health) identified in previous research on worry. Factor analysis produced three domains of worrisome thinking: moral concerns, social …
A Panel Data Design for Estimation of Hospital Cost Functions
This paper estimates a multiple-output hospital cost function using a panel data technique that allows for correlation between unobservable individual effects and observable determinants of behavior. Analysis of 1733 facilities for the period of 1987–1991 yields estimates that differ widely from those obtained from a more standard cross-sectional procedure. While the latter method results in negative and stable measures of ray economies of scale,…
By Me Bein’ Pregnant I Would Stay Sick All the Time
Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Role of Learnability in Grammatical Theory (1996)
The grammaticalization of the perfect in Old English
The Role of Conversational Implicature in the Early Grammaticalization of the English Perfect
Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1990), pp. 371-380
Tourism development in LDCs
In‐patient community meetings
The role of the in‐patient community meeting is discussed in relation to the general difficulty of attributing specific effectiveness to any type of therapeutic activity on an in‐patient service. Close scrutiny of such units demonstrates that staff and patients are composed of several heterogeneous subgroups, not all of whom share common attitudes and values or benefit from similar activities. Within this framework the major problems as well as f…
In‐patient community meetings
The role of the in‐patient community meeting is discussed in relation to the general difficulty of attributing specific effectiveness to any type of therapeutic activity on an in‐patient service. Close scrutiny of such units demonstrates that staff and patients are composed of several heterogeneous subgroups, not all of whom share common attitudes and values or benefit from similar activities. Within this framework the major problems as well as f…
Tourism development in LDCs
The Role of Conversational Implicature in the Early Grammaticalization of the English Perfect
Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1990), pp. 371-380
The grammaticalization of the perfect in Old English
By Me Bein’ Pregnant I Would Stay Sick All the Time
Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Role of Learnability in Grammatical Theory (1996)
A Panel Data Design for Estimation of Hospital Cost Functions
This paper estimates a multiple-output hospital cost function using a panel data technique that allows for correlation between unobservable individual effects and observable determinants of behavior. Analysis of 1733 facilities for the period of 1987–1991 yields estimates that differ widely from those obtained from a more standard cross-sectional procedure. While the latter method results in negative and stable measures of ray economies of scale,…
A reappraisal of medieval mysticism & hysteria
This paper examines the historical association between medieval mysticism and asceticism and the psychopathological condition of hysteria. We first review the particular forms of medieval mysticism and asceticism that seem to have inspired modern psychiatrists and reductive historians to dismiss these phenomena as indubitably neurotic behaviours. Then we review the concept of hysteria as it evolved during the last two centuries for points of conv…
Moral Conflict as a Component of Ordinary Worry
This article contributes to the psychology of moral behavior by inquiring into the presence and extent of worrying about moral concerns in one's life relative to worrying about practical concerns. A 20-item questionnaire was developed, mixing eight moral worry questions with twelve ordinary worry items (finances, health) identified in previous research on worry. Factor analysis produced three domains of worrisome thinking: moral concerns, social …
Hospital Cost Efficiency and System Membership
Using a recently developed taxonomy of hospital organizations, this paper estimates a stochastic frontier cost function to test for inefficiency differences among system hospitals having common strategic and/or structural characteristics. System hospitals that centralized around physician arrangements and insurance products display the smallest deviations from the least cost locus. This suggests efficiency benefits from organization of physician …
Psychiatrists’ attitudes and practices regarding the moral worries of their patients
The 2004 presidential election process highlighted the relevance to the American public of the moral character of each candidate. Recent works in psychology and philosophy have enlarged our understanding of the moral emotions, especially guilt, shame, regret, and remorse, and the centrality of a sense of moral concern in defining personal identity. A previous study demonstrated that patients report a moderate degree of worry about moral issues in…
Moral worry and religiosity in US and Canadian college samples
The objective of this study was to investigate the presence of worry about personal moral attitudes and behaviors in two college samples, and to check associations with religiosity, age, gender, personality traits, and geographic region. The study sample was drawn from college students in Minneapolis, Minnesota (N = 333) and Sydney, Nova Scotia (N = 137). Instruments consisted of moral worry and religiosity questionnaires, and the Eysenck Persona…
Hospital Response to CMS Public Reports of Hospital Charge Information
BACKGROUND: In an effort to increase price transparency, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began reporting charges for Medicare inpatients treated in ∼3400 hospitals online in 2013. As of 2019, CMS began to require hospitals themselves to publicize a more comprehensive list of their underlying procedure charges. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to assess the responses of hospitals to broad-scale public reporting of th…
Quality and Cost in Community Health Centers
BACKGROUND: Quantifying health care quality has long presented a challenge to identifying the relationship between provider level quality and cost. However, growing focus on quality improvement has led to greater interest in organizational performance, prompting payers to collect various indicators of quality that can be combined at the provider level. OBJECTIVE: To explore the relationship between quality and average cost of medical visits provi…
The Effect of Telehealth Services on Provider Productivity
BACKGROUND: Telehealth services historically have played a small role in the provision of health care in the United States. However during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, public and private insurers rapidly expanded access to telehealth in order to reduce exposure and avoid transmission. It is unknown whether telehealth will become a more regular substitute for in-person care beyond the pandemic. OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to …
Jama Health Forum Peer Reviewers in 2021
Provision of Behavioral Health Services at Community Health Centers and Hospital Emergency Department Visits
BACKGROUND: Numerous US patients seek the hospital emergency department (ED) for behavioral health care. Community Health Centers (CHCs) offer a potential channel for redirecting many to a more patient-centered, lower cost setting. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to identify unique market areas serviced by CHCs and to examine whether CHCs are effective in offsetting behavioral health ED visits. RESEARCH DESIGN: We identified CHC-year specifi…
Psychology (9 works) · Family medicine (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Healthcare Policy and Management (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)