Helen Burstin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5533887 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Burstin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Burstin |
| SIGNATURE | BURSTIN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Advancing Health Policy and Outcomes for People With Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities
Consensus health priorities identified in this project and centered on IDD community members' perspectives are generalizable to many other patient populations. Public and private payers and regulators setting standards for health information technology have an opportunity to promote clinical data collection that focuses on individuals' needs, quality measurement that emphasizes person-centered goals rather than primarily clinical guidelines, and …
Jama Health Forum Peer Reviewers in 2021
Blueprint for Action
Childbirth Connection hosted a 90th Anniversary national policy symposium, Transforming Maternity Care: A High Value Proposition, on April 3, 2009, in Washington, DC. Over 100 leaders from across the range of stakeholder perspectives were actively engaged in the symposium work to improve the quality and value of U.S. maternity care through broad system improvement. A multi-disciplinary symposium steering committee guided the strategy from its inc…
Childbirth Connection Transforming Maternity Care Symposium Leadership List
The National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
BACKGROUND: Congress directed the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to lead an effort for the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to develop 2 annual reports: a National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) and a National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR). OBJECTIVES: This article lays out key concepts, definitions, statistical methods, and findings from these first ever national reports on quality and disparities. We…
The Importance of Safety and Quality in Rural America
Hispanic Healthcare Disparities
BACKGROUND: Hispanic Americans are often treated as a monolithic ethnic group with a single pattern of healthcare utilization. However, there could be considerable differences within this population. We examine the association between use of healthcare services and Hispanic Americans'country of ancestry or origin, language of interview, and length of time lived in the United States. METHODS: Our data come from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey…
Assessing the Comparability of Various Measures of the Quality of Ambulatory Care
BACKGROUND: Report cards based on various performance measures have become increasingly common for rating hospitals and health care plans. However, little has been done to create report cards at the ambulatory clinic level, nor has there been much comparison of the potential components of report cards. OBJECTIVES: To create a report card for ambulatory clinics based on different data collection methods and to assess the correlations of clinic sco…
Primary Care, HMO Enrollment, and Hospitalization for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions
OBJECTIVE: To examine the association of primary care availability, HMO enrollment, and other person and location variables with potentially preventable hospitalization for adults in New York State, compared with other types of hospitalization. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING: Hospital discharges of New York residents in the age group 20-64 hospitalized either in New York or in three contiguous states: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, or Connecticut using 19…
John M. Eisenberg
From Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland. Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Carolyn M. Clancy, AHRQ, 6010 Executive Blvd., Rockville, MD 20852. E-mail: [email protected]
Update From Funders
From the Center for Primary Care Research, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland
Incidence and Types of Adverse Events and Negligent Care in Utah and Colorado
BACKGROUND: The ongoing debate on the incidence and types of iatrogenic injuries in American hospitals has been informed primarily by the Harvard Medical Practice Study, which analyzed hospitalizations in New York in 1984. The generalizability of these findings is unknown and has been questioned by other studies. OBJECTIVE: We used methods similar to the Harvard Medical Practice Study to estimate the incidence and types of adverse events and negl…
Negligent Care and Malpractice Claiming Behavior in Utah and Colorado
BACKGROUND: Previous studies relating the incidence of negligent medical care to malpractice lawsuits in the United States may not be generalizable. These studies are based on data from 2 of the most populous states (California and New York), collected more than a decade ago, during volatile periods in the history of malpractice litigation. OBJECTIVES: The study objectives were (1) to calculate how frequently negligent and nonnegligent management…
Insurance or a regular physician
OBJECTIVES: This study compared the relative effects on access to health care of relationship with a regular physician and insurance status. METHODS: The subjects were 1952 nonretired, non-Medicare patients aged 18 to 64 years who presented with 1 of 6 chief complaints to 5 academic hospital emergency departments in Boston and Cambridge, Mass, during a 1-month study period in 1995. Access to care was evaluated by 3 measures: delay in seeking care…
Nonurgent Emergency Department Visits
OBJECTIVES: The authors assess the association between having a regular doctor and presentation for nonurgent versus urgent emergency department visits while controlling for potential confounders such as sociodemographics, health status, and comorbidity. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted in emergency departments of five urban teaching hospitals in the northeast. Adult patients presenting with chest pain, abdominal pain, or asthma (n …
Insurance or a regular physician
OBJECTIVES: This study compared the relative effects on access to health care of relationship with a regular physician and insurance status. METHODS: The subjects were 1952 nonretired, non-Medicare patients aged 18 to 64 years who presented with 1 of 6 chief complaints to 5 academic hospital emergency departments in Boston and Cambridge, Mass, during a 1-month study period in 1995. Access to care was evaluated by 3 measures: delay in seeking care…
Insurance or a regular physician
OBJECTIVES: This study compared the relative effects on access to health care of relationship with a regular physician and insurance status. METHODS: The subjects were 1952 nonretired, non-Medicare patients aged 18 to 64 years who presented with 1 of 6 chief complaints to 5 academic hospital emergency departments in Boston and Cambridge, Mass, during a 1-month study period in 1995. Access to care was evaluated by 3 measures: delay in seeking care…
Nonurgent Emergency Department Visits
OBJECTIVES: The authors assess the association between having a regular doctor and presentation for nonurgent versus urgent emergency department visits while controlling for potential confounders such as sociodemographics, health status, and comorbidity. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted in emergency departments of five urban teaching hospitals in the northeast. Adult patients presenting with chest pain, abdominal pain, or asthma (n …
Incidence and Types of Adverse Events and Negligent Care in Utah and Colorado
BACKGROUND: The ongoing debate on the incidence and types of iatrogenic injuries in American hospitals has been informed primarily by the Harvard Medical Practice Study, which analyzed hospitalizations in New York in 1984. The generalizability of these findings is unknown and has been questioned by other studies. OBJECTIVE: We used methods similar to the Harvard Medical Practice Study to estimate the incidence and types of adverse events and negl…
Negligent Care and Malpractice Claiming Behavior in Utah and Colorado
BACKGROUND: Previous studies relating the incidence of negligent medical care to malpractice lawsuits in the United States may not be generalizable. These studies are based on data from 2 of the most populous states (California and New York), collected more than a decade ago, during volatile periods in the history of malpractice litigation. OBJECTIVES: The study objectives were (1) to calculate how frequently negligent and nonnegligent management…
Update From Funders
From the Center for Primary Care Research, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland
Assessing the Comparability of Various Measures of the Quality of Ambulatory Care
BACKGROUND: Report cards based on various performance measures have become increasingly common for rating hospitals and health care plans. However, little has been done to create report cards at the ambulatory clinic level, nor has there been much comparison of the potential components of report cards. OBJECTIVES: To create a report card for ambulatory clinics based on different data collection methods and to assess the correlations of clinic sco…
Primary Care, HMO Enrollment, and Hospitalization for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions
OBJECTIVE: To examine the association of primary care availability, HMO enrollment, and other person and location variables with potentially preventable hospitalization for adults in New York State, compared with other types of hospitalization. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING: Hospital discharges of New York residents in the age group 20-64 hospitalized either in New York or in three contiguous states: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, or Connecticut using 19…
John M. Eisenberg
From Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland. Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Carolyn M. Clancy, AHRQ, 6010 Executive Blvd., Rockville, MD 20852. E-mail: [email protected]
The Importance of Safety and Quality in Rural America
Hispanic Healthcare Disparities
BACKGROUND: Hispanic Americans are often treated as a monolithic ethnic group with a single pattern of healthcare utilization. However, there could be considerable differences within this population. We examine the association between use of healthcare services and Hispanic Americans'country of ancestry or origin, language of interview, and length of time lived in the United States. METHODS: Our data come from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey…
The National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
BACKGROUND: Congress directed the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to lead an effort for the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to develop 2 annual reports: a National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) and a National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR). OBJECTIVES: This article lays out key concepts, definitions, statistical methods, and findings from these first ever national reports on quality and disparities. We…
Blueprint for Action
Childbirth Connection hosted a 90th Anniversary national policy symposium, Transforming Maternity Care: A High Value Proposition, on April 3, 2009, in Washington, DC. Over 100 leaders from across the range of stakeholder perspectives were actively engaged in the symposium work to improve the quality and value of U.S. maternity care through broad system improvement. A multi-disciplinary symposium steering committee guided the strategy from its inc…
Childbirth Connection Transforming Maternity Care Symposium Leadership List
Jama Health Forum Peer Reviewers in 2021
Advancing Health Policy and Outcomes for People With Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities
Consensus health priorities identified in this project and centered on IDD community members' perspectives are generalizable to many other patient populations. Public and private payers and regulators setting standards for health information technology have an opportunity to promote clinical data collection that focuses on individuals' needs, quality measurement that emphasizes person-centered goals rather than primarily clinical guidelines, and …
Medicine (15 works) · Health care (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Family medicine (9 works) · Primary Care and Health Outcomes (8 works) · Healthcare Policy and Management (5 works) · Emergency Medicine (4 works) · Emergency Medicine (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Logistic regression (4 works)