Hector P Rodriguez
Biographic Data
| ID | 5533969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hector P Rodriguez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hector P |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodriguez |
| SIGNATURE | RODRIGUEZ H P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6564-2229 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Incomplete implementation of substance use treatment referrals in U.S. hospitals
Changes in US Primary Care Access and Capabilities During the Covid-19 Pandemic
In this cohort study, over the time period including the COVID-19 pandemic, primary care practices reported a decline in access to care, while average practice capabilities improved. Integrated practice ownership and ACO participation were both associated with better access and capability scores, suggesting that value-based payment and integrated care delivery support the development of higher-quality primary care. Variations across practices poi…
Health Equity and Hospital Markets
BACKGROUND: As hospital markets become increasingly consolidated, whether regulators should account for consolidation's impacts on health equity has become a key policy question. We assess the association of hospital market concentration with quality of care and examine differences by patient race/ethnicity and payer. METHODS: We analyzed linked 2017 American Hospital Association Annual Survey and Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project State Inp…
Stakeholders' Viewpoints on Working to Advance Health Equity
Safety Net Primary Care Capabilities After the Covid-19 Pandemic
The results of this survey study suggest that FQHCs outperformed non-FQHC practices on important care processes while serving a patient population with lower incomes who are medically underserved compared with patients in other practice types. Legislation to expand funding for the FQHC program should improve services for underserved populations and target current non-FQHC safety net practices to serve these populations. Increased support for thes…
Rental Housing Deposits and Health Care Use
In this cohort study, compared to case management only, housing deposits with case management were not associated with short-term changes in health care use. There may be other unmeasured health benefits or downstream benefits from greater case management engagement. States considering housing deposits as an expanded Medicaid benefit may need to temper expectations about short-term health care use impacts
Hospital Capabilities Associated With Behavioral Health Integration Within Emergency Departments
OBJECTIVES: To identify hospital capabilities associated with behavioral health (BH) processes in emergency departments (EDs). RESEARCH DESIGN: Six hundred two hospital responses to the 2017/2018 National Survey of Healthcare Organizations and Systems were linked to 2017 American Hospital Association Annual Survey data. Separate multivariable regressions estimated how hospital capabilities (the use of quality improvement methods, approaches to di…
Intensity of Social Needs Case Management Services and Changes in Hospital and Emergency Department Use Among Adult Medicaid Beneficiaries
OBJECTIVES: We identify the association between high- and low-intensity case management services on hospital and emergency department (ED) use among CommunityConnect patients. BACKGROUND: Social needs case management services vary in intensity, including the modality, workforce specialization, and maximum caseload. CommunityConnect is a social needs case management program implemented by Contra Costa Health, a county safety-net health system in C…
Collaborative Learning Among Health Care Organizations to Improve Quality and Advance Racial Equity
Background: The study examined stakeholder experiences of a statewide learning collaborative, sponsored and led by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA) and facilitated by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in quality of care. Methods: =44) were analyzed to assess experiences of collaborative learning and interventions to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in quality of care. The in…
Assessing the Impact of Telemedicine Implementation in Diverse Health Care Systems
Health care organizations and systems can have a large impact on how extensively telemedicine and virtual visits are used by medical practices and individual clinicians. This supplemental issue of medical care aims to advance evidence about how health care organizations and systems can best support telemedicine and virtual visit implementation. This issue includes 10 empirical studies examining the impact of telemedicine on quality of care, utili…
Telehealth Use, Care Continuity, and Quality
BACKGROUND: Community health centers (CHCs) pivoted to using telehealth to deliver chronic care during the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. While care continuity can improve care quality and patients' experiences, it is unclear whether telehealth supported this relationship. OBJECTIVE: We examine the association of care continuity with diabetes and hypertension care quality in CHCs before and during COVID-19 and the mediating effect of telehealth. …
Shared Decision-making Lowers Medical Expenditures and the Effect Is Amplified in Racially-Ethnically Concordant Relationships
BACKGROUND: Racial-ethnic disparities are pervasive in health care. One mechanism that may underlie disparities is variation in shared decision-making (SDM), which encompasses high-quality clinician-patient communication, including deliberative discussions about treatment options. OBJECTIVES: To determine whether SDM has causal effects on outcomes and whether these effects are stronger within racial-ethnic concordant clinician-patient relationshi…
Hospital Characteristics Associated With Clinically Integrated Network Participation
BACKGROUND: Increased integration of physician organizations and hospitals into health systems has not necessarily improved clinical integration or patient outcomes. However, federal regulators have issued favorable opinions for clinically integrated networks (CINs) as a way to pursue coordination between hospitals and physicians. Hospital organizational affiliations, including independent practice associations (IPA), physician-hospital organizat…
Telemedicine implementation and use in community health centers during Covid-19
In March 2020, federal and state telehealth policy changes catalyzed telemedicine adoption and use in community health centers. There is a dearth of evidence on telemedicine implementation and use in these safety net settings and a lack of information reflecting the perspectives of patients with limited English proficiency. We conducted in-depth interviews with clinic personnel and patients during the pandemic in two federally qualified health ce…
Survey of Information Exchange and Advanced Use of Other Health Information Technology in Primary Care Settings
BACKGROUND: Advanced use of health information technology (IT) functionalities can support more comprehensive, coordinated, and patient-centered primary care services. Safety net practices may benefit disproportionately from these investments, but it is unclear whether IT use in these settings has kept pace and what organizational factors are associated with varying use of these features. OBJECTIVE: The aim was to estimate advanced use of health …
Factors Associated With Family Medicine and Internal Medicine First-Year Residents’ Ambulatory Care Training Time
PURPOSE: Despite the importance of training in ambulatory care settings for residents to acquire important competencies, little is known about the organizational and environmental factors influencing the relative amount of time primary care residents train in ambulatory care during residency. The authors examined factors associated with postgraduate year 1 (PGY-1) residents' ambulatory care training time in Accreditation Council for Graduate Medi…
Immigration Policy Vulnerability Linked to Adverse Mental Health Among Latino Day Laborers
Latino day laborers in the United States are socially and economically vulnerable due to exclusionary immigration policies. Using data from a multi-mode survey, we examine the relationship between immigration policy legal vulnerability and mental health outcomes among 138 Latino, male day laborers (mean age = 45.65, SD = 12.05). Multivariable linear and logistic regression models separately estimated the effect of legal vulnerability, as measured…
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Diabetes Care Quality among Women of Reproductive Age in an Integrated Delivery System
Cigarettes smoked among daily and non-daily smokers following CVS Health’s tobacco-free pharmacy policy
The removal of tobacco products from CVS pharmacies was associated with a reduction in the number of cigarettes smoked per day among non-daily smokers in metropolitan CBSAs, particularly those in which CVS had a large pharmacy market share
U.S. county “food swamp” severity and hospitalization rates among adults with diabetes
The Early Impact of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services State Innovation Models Initiative on 30-Day Hospital Readmissions Among Adults With Diabetes
BACKGROUND: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) State Innovation Models (SIM) Initiative funds states to accelerate delivery system and payment reforms. All SIM states focus on improving diabetes care, but SIM's effect on 30-day readmissions among adults with diabetes remains unclear. METHODS: A quasi-experimental research design estimated the impact of SIM on 30-day hospital readmissions among adults with diabetes in 3 round 1 SIM…
Early Impact of the State Innovation Models Initiative on Diagnosed Diabetes Prevalence Among Adults and Hospitalizations Among Diagnosed Adults
BACKGROUND: The State Innovation Models (SIM) Initiative invested $254 million in 6 states in Round 1 to accelerate delivery system and payment reforms. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to examine the association of early SIM implementation and diagnosed diabetes prevalence among adults and hospitalization rates among diagnosed adults. RESEARCH DESIGN: Quasi-experimental design compares diagnosed diabetes prevalence and hospitalization …
Linking Structural Capabilities and Workplace Climate in Community Health Centers
Many strategies to improve health care quality focus on improving the structural capabilities of primary care practices, including quality infrastructure and registry use, which are critical to managing chronic diseases. However, improving structural capabilities requires practices to expend significant resources and can be especially disruptive to community health centers (CHCs) serving high proportions of socioeconomically vulnerable patients. …
Patient Engagement in ACO Practices and Patient-reported Outcomes Among Adults With Co-occurring Chronic Disease and Mental Health Conditions
BACKGROUND: Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have increased their use of patient activation and engagement strategies, but it is unknown whether they achieve better outcomes for patients with comorbid chronic physical and mental health conditions. OBJECTIVES: To assess the extent to which practices with patient-centered cultures, greater shared decision-making strategies, and better coordination among team members have better patient-reporte…
Organizational Influences on Time Pressure Stressors and Potential Patient Consequences in Primary Care
BACKGROUND: Primary care teams face daily time pressures both during patient encounters and outside of appointments. OBJECTIVES: We theorize 2 types of time pressure, and test hypotheses about organizational determinants and patient consequences of time pressure. RESEARCH DESIGN: Cross-sectional, observational analysis of data from concurrent surveys of care team members and their patients. SUBJECTS: Patients (n=1291 respondents, 73.5% response r…
Local Public Health Systems and the Incidence of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Objectives. We examined the associations of local public health system organization and local health department resources with county-level sexually transmitted disease (STD) incidence rates in large US health jurisdictions. Methods. We linked annual county STD incidence data (2005–2008) to local health department director responses (n = 211) to the 2006 wave of the National Longitudinal Study of Local Public Health Systems, the 2005 national Loc…
Patient Engagement in ACO Practices and Patient-reported Outcomes Among Adults With Co-occurring Chronic Disease and Mental Health Conditions
BACKGROUND: Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have increased their use of patient activation and engagement strategies, but it is unknown whether they achieve better outcomes for patients with comorbid chronic physical and mental health conditions. OBJECTIVES: To assess the extent to which practices with patient-centered cultures, greater shared decision-making strategies, and better coordination among team members have better patient-reporte…
U.S. county “food swamp” severity and hospitalization rates among adults with diabetes
The Use of Enhanced Appointment Access Strategies by Medical Practices
BACKGROUND: Strategies to enhance appointment access are being adopted by medical practices as part of patient-centered medical home (PCMH) implementation, but little is known about the use of these strategies nationally. OBJECTIVES: We examine practice use of open access scheduling and after-hours care. RESEARCH DESIGN: Data were analyzed from the Third National Study of Physician Organizations (NSPO3) to examine which enhanced appointment acces…
The Adoption and Discontinuation of Clinical Services by Local Health Departments
Objectives. We identified factors associated with local health department (LHD) adoption and discontinuation of clinical services. Methods. We used multivariate regression with 1997 and 2008 LHD survey and area resource data to examine factors associated with LHDs maintaining or offering more clinical services (adopter) versus offering fewer services (discontinuer) over time and with the number of clinical services discontinued among discontinuer…
Evaluating Patients’ Experiences with Individual Physicians
BACKGROUND: There is increasing interest in measuring patients' experiences with individual physicians, and empirical evidence supports this area of measurement. However, the high cost of data collection remains a significant barrier. Survey modes with the potential to lower costs, such as Internet and interactive voice response (IVR) telephone, are attractive alternatives to mail, but their comparative response rates and data quality have not be…
Multidisciplinary Primary Care Teams
BACKGROUND: Multidisciplinary teams may hold promise for improving primary care quality. This study examined the influence of multidisciplinary teams on patients' assessments of primary care, including access, integration, and clinician-patient interaction quality. METHODS: From January 2004 through March 2005, a large multispecialty practice in Massachusetts obtained data monthly from patients of 145 primary care physicians using a well-validate…
Patient Samples for Measuring Primary Care Physician Performance
BACKGROUND: In measuring patients' experiences with individual primary care physicians (PCPs), the reliability and validity of data based on samples of "established" patients of a physician's panel have been shown. However, as large-scale initiatives seek the least costly approach to obtaining these data, little is known about the implications of expanding samples to include any patient who has seen the physician in the relevant time period. METH…
Voluntary Physician Switching by Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Individuals
OBJECTIVE: We sought to assess which patient, physician, and organizational factors are related to voluntary physician switching among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients. DESIGN: We analyzed the results from a 3-wave survey of patients conducted by the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study (HCSUS), a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of noninstitutionalized HIV-infected individuals receiving care in the …
Attributing Sources of Variation in Patients’ Experiences of Ambulatory Care
BACKGROUND: Public reporting and pay-for-performance programs increasingly rely on patient experience data to evaluate individual physicians and guide quality improvement efforts. The extent to which performance variation is attributable to physicians versus other system-level units, however, remains unclear. METHODS: Using ambulatory care experience survey data from 61,839 patients of 1729 primary care physicians in California (response rate = 3…
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Pediatric Experiences of Family-Centered Care
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have examined racial and ethnic disparities in the receipt of family-centered care among children with special health care needs and health plan enrollees, but the extent of disparities in the general pediatric population remains unclear. OBJECTIVE: To examine racial and ethnic disparities in the receipt of family-centered care among a general population of US children. METHODS: Linked data from the Medical Expenditur…
The Provision of Diabetes-Monitoring Exams to Older Latinos
There are considerable missed opportunities in the provision of diabetes monitoring for older Latinos, particularly those with limited English proficiency, less comprehensive insurance, and noninsulin therapy
Exploring the Role of Neighborhood Socio-Demographic Factors on HPV Vaccine Initiation Among Low-Income, Ethnic Minority Girls
Local Public Health Systems and the Incidence of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Objectives. We examined the associations of local public health system organization and local health department resources with county-level sexually transmitted disease (STD) incidence rates in large US health jurisdictions. Methods. We linked annual county STD incidence data (2005–2008) to local health department director responses (n = 211) to the 2006 wave of the National Longitudinal Study of Local Public Health Systems, the 2005 national Loc…
The Reliability of Medical Group Performance Measurement in a Single Insurer’s Pay for Performance Program
BACKGROUND: Most public reporting and pay for performance (P4P) programs in the United States continue to be organized and implemented by single insurers. Adequate medical group-level reliability on clinical care process measures is possible in multistakeholder initiatives because patient samples can be pooled across payers. However, the extent to which reliable measurement is achievable in single insurer P4P initiatives remains unclear. METHODS:…
The Adoption and Discontinuation of Clinical Services by Local Health Departments
Objectives. We identified factors associated with local health department (LHD) adoption and discontinuation of clinical services. Methods. We used multivariate regression with 1997 and 2008 LHD survey and area resource data to examine factors associated with LHDs maintaining or offering more clinical services (adopter) versus offering fewer services (discontinuer) over time and with the number of clinical services discontinued among discontinuer…
Policy Dilemmas in Latino Health Care and Implementation of the Affordable Care Act
The changing Latino demographic in the United States presents a number of challenges to health care policy makers, clinicians, organizations, and other stakeholders. Studies have demonstrated that Latinos tend to have worse patterns of access to, and utilization of, health care than other ethnic and racial groups. The implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 may ameliorate some of these disparities. However, even with the ACA, it i…
Patient Activation is Inconsistently Associated with Positive Health Behaviors Among Obese Safety Net Patients
Local Health Department Collaborative Capacity to Improve Population Health
Local health departments (LHDs) can more effectively develop and strengthen community health partnerships when leaders focus on building partnership collaborative capacity (PCC), including a multisector infrastructure for population health improvement. Using the 2008 National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Profile survey, we constructed an overall measure of LHD PCC comprised of the five dimensions: outcomes-based advoca…
Emotional Exhaustion in Primary Care During Early Implementation of the VA’s Medical Home Transformation
Objective: Transformation of primary care to new patient-centered models requires major changes in healthcare organizations, including interprofessional expectations and organizational policies. Emotional exhaustion (EE) among workers can accompany major organizational change, threatening its success. Yet little guidance exists about the magnitude of associations with EE during primary care transformation. We assessed EE during the initial phase …
The Use of Enhanced Appointment Access Strategies by Medical Practices
BACKGROUND: Strategies to enhance appointment access are being adopted by medical practices as part of patient-centered medical home (PCMH) implementation, but little is known about the use of these strategies nationally. OBJECTIVES: We examine practice use of open access scheduling and after-hours care. RESEARCH DESIGN: Data were analyzed from the Third National Study of Physician Organizations (NSPO3) to examine which enhanced appointment acces…
Measuring Workplace Climate in Community Clinics and Health Centers
BACKGROUND: The effectiveness of community clinics and health centers' efforts to improve the quality of care might be modified by clinics' workplace climates. Several surveys to measure workplace climate exist, but their relationships to each other and to distinguishable dimensions of workplace climate are unknown. OBJECTIVE: To assess the psychometric properties of a survey instrument combining items from several existing surveys of workplace c…
Performance Management in Accountable Care Organizations in the U.S. and Germany
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Linking Structural Capabilities and Workplace Climate in Community Health Centers
Many strategies to improve health care quality focus on improving the structural capabilities of primary care practices, including quality infrastructure and registry use, which are critical to managing chronic diseases. However, improving structural capabilities requires practices to expend significant resources and can be especially disruptive to community health centers (CHCs) serving high proportions of socioeconomically vulnerable patients. …
Patient Engagement in ACO Practices and Patient-reported Outcomes Among Adults With Co-occurring Chronic Disease and Mental Health Conditions
BACKGROUND: Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have increased their use of patient activation and engagement strategies, but it is unknown whether they achieve better outcomes for patients with comorbid chronic physical and mental health conditions. OBJECTIVES: To assess the extent to which practices with patient-centered cultures, greater shared decision-making strategies, and better coordination among team members have better patient-reporte…
Organizational Influences on Time Pressure Stressors and Potential Patient Consequences in Primary Care
BACKGROUND: Primary care teams face daily time pressures both during patient encounters and outside of appointments. OBJECTIVES: We theorize 2 types of time pressure, and test hypotheses about organizational determinants and patient consequences of time pressure. RESEARCH DESIGN: Cross-sectional, observational analysis of data from concurrent surveys of care team members and their patients. SUBJECTS: Patients (n=1291 respondents, 73.5% response r…
Early Impact of the State Innovation Models Initiative on Diagnosed Diabetes Prevalence Among Adults and Hospitalizations Among Diagnosed Adults
BACKGROUND: The State Innovation Models (SIM) Initiative invested $254 million in 6 states in Round 1 to accelerate delivery system and payment reforms. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to examine the association of early SIM implementation and diagnosed diabetes prevalence among adults and hospitalization rates among diagnosed adults. RESEARCH DESIGN: Quasi-experimental design compares diagnosed diabetes prevalence and hospitalization …
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Diabetes Care Quality among Women of Reproductive Age in an Integrated Delivery System
Cigarettes smoked among daily and non-daily smokers following CVS Health’s tobacco-free pharmacy policy
The removal of tobacco products from CVS pharmacies was associated with a reduction in the number of cigarettes smoked per day among non-daily smokers in metropolitan CBSAs, particularly those in which CVS had a large pharmacy market share
U.S. county “food swamp” severity and hospitalization rates among adults with diabetes
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