Richard Brand
Biographic Data
| ID | 5534471 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Brand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Brand |
| SIGNATURE | BRAND R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, San Francisco |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Portal Use Among Patients With Chronic Conditions
BACKGROUND: Personal health records offer patients access to view their own health information and to manage their care online through secure patient portal tools. Little is known about the patient-reported experience in using health portals to manage chronic conditions. OBJECTIVE: In a patient-centered research study, we examined how using portal tools affects patient health care experiences among patients with chronic conditions. We also examin…
Involving patients in clinical research
BACKGROUND: To date, patient involvement in the development of clinical research work has been limited. In 2011, the Telescot research team commenced work on a feasibility trial to investigate home telemonitoring of blood pressure for people who have experienced stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA). The team decided to involve patients in the development of the research. OBJECTIVES: To improve research design through patient involvement. ME…
Validation of an Algorithm for Categorizing the Severity of Hospital Emergency Department Visits
BACKGROUND: Differentiating between appropriate and inappropriate resource use represents a critical challenge in health services research. The New York University Emergency Department (NYU ED) visit severity algorithm attempts to classify visits to the ED based on diagnosis, but it has not been formally validated. OBJECTIVE: To assess the validity of the NYU algorithm. RESEARCH DESIGN: A longitudinal study in a single integrated delivery system …
Office Visit Copayments
BACKGROUND: There is limited information on patients' knowledge about their cost-sharing requirements and how that influenced their care-seeking behavior. OBJECTIVE: To examine patients' knowledge of their office visit copayments, their self-reported responses to perceived and actual copayments, and discussions with physicians about costs. RESEARCH DESIGN: Cross-sectional telephone interview study with a 71% response rate. SUBJECTS: Stratified ra…
Care-Seeking Behavior in Response to Emergency Department Copayments
BACKGROUND: Patients are increasingly paying for more of their medical care through cost-sharing, yet little is known about how patients change the ways that they seek care in response. OBJECTIVE: We sought to assess how patients change their care-seeking behavior in response to emergency department (ED) copayments. RESEARCH DESIGN: Telephone interviews with a stratified random sample of adult members of a large integrated delivery system. SUBJEC…
Cost-Sharing
BACKGROUND: The use of cost-sharing to control healthcare expenditures is increasing, but there is scant information about patients' knowledge of cost-sharing or its influence on behavior. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate what patients know about their individual levels of cost-sharing and how it influences decisions to seek care. STUDY DESIGN: We conducted a cross-sectional telephone survey with a 69% response rate. SUBJECT…
Recalling sexual behavior
This study examined the effect of time lag on the validity of retrospective self-reports of sexual behavior. Seventy-five heterosexual students (44 women, 31 men) made daily recordings of sexual behavior, condom use, and alcohol or substance use for 1 month. Ability of respondents to recall sexual behavior recorded during this period was assessed at 1, 2, and 3 months after diary completion using recall interviews (25 interviewed at each interval…
The Best of Both Worlds
BACKGROUND: There remains considerable uncertainty about whether prospective or concurrent risk adjustment (RA) is preferable. Although concurrent models have better predictive power than prospective models, the large payments associated with concurrent RA create incentives for fraudulent coding. A hybrid strategy--in which prospective payments were used for patients with low expected costs and concurrent payments were available upon the diagnosi…
Social Connections and Mortality From All Causes and From Cardiovascular Disease
The association between an a priori measure of social connections and five-year mortality from all causes, cardiovascular diseases (International Classification of Diseases, Eighth Revision (ICD-8) codes 390-458), and ischemic heart disease (ICD-8 codes 410-414) was studied in 13,301 men and women from eastern Finland who were first interviewed in 1972 or 1977. For men, there was a graded association between extent of social connections and morta…
Recalling sexual behavior
This study examined the effect of time lag on the validity of retrospective self-reports of sexual behavior. Seventy-five heterosexual students (44 women, 31 men) made daily recordings of sexual behavior, condom use, and alcohol or substance use for 1 month. Ability of respondents to recall sexual behavior recorded during this period was assessed at 1, 2, and 3 months after diary completion using recall interviews (25 interviewed at each interval…
Social Connections and Mortality From All Causes and From Cardiovascular Disease
The association between an a priori measure of social connections and five-year mortality from all causes, cardiovascular diseases (International Classification of Diseases, Eighth Revision (ICD-8) codes 390-458), and ischemic heart disease (ICD-8 codes 410-414) was studied in 13,301 men and women from eastern Finland who were first interviewed in 1972 or 1977. For men, there was a graded association between extent of social connections and morta…
Recalling sexual behavior
This study examined the effect of time lag on the validity of retrospective self-reports of sexual behavior. Seventy-five heterosexual students (44 women, 31 men) made daily recordings of sexual behavior, condom use, and alcohol or substance use for 1 month. Ability of respondents to recall sexual behavior recorded during this period was assessed at 1, 2, and 3 months after diary completion using recall interviews (25 interviewed at each interval…
The Best of Both Worlds
BACKGROUND: There remains considerable uncertainty about whether prospective or concurrent risk adjustment (RA) is preferable. Although concurrent models have better predictive power than prospective models, the large payments associated with concurrent RA create incentives for fraudulent coding. A hybrid strategy--in which prospective payments were used for patients with low expected costs and concurrent payments were available upon the diagnosi…
Cost-Sharing
BACKGROUND: The use of cost-sharing to control healthcare expenditures is increasing, but there is scant information about patients' knowledge of cost-sharing or its influence on behavior. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate what patients know about their individual levels of cost-sharing and how it influences decisions to seek care. STUDY DESIGN: We conducted a cross-sectional telephone survey with a 69% response rate. SUBJECT…
Care-Seeking Behavior in Response to Emergency Department Copayments
BACKGROUND: Patients are increasingly paying for more of their medical care through cost-sharing, yet little is known about how patients change the ways that they seek care in response. OBJECTIVE: We sought to assess how patients change their care-seeking behavior in response to emergency department (ED) copayments. RESEARCH DESIGN: Telephone interviews with a stratified random sample of adult members of a large integrated delivery system. SUBJEC…
Office Visit Copayments
BACKGROUND: There is limited information on patients' knowledge about their cost-sharing requirements and how that influenced their care-seeking behavior. OBJECTIVE: To examine patients' knowledge of their office visit copayments, their self-reported responses to perceived and actual copayments, and discussions with physicians about costs. RESEARCH DESIGN: Cross-sectional telephone interview study with a 71% response rate. SUBJECTS: Stratified ra…
Validation of an Algorithm for Categorizing the Severity of Hospital Emergency Department Visits
BACKGROUND: Differentiating between appropriate and inappropriate resource use represents a critical challenge in health services research. The New York University Emergency Department (NYU ED) visit severity algorithm attempts to classify visits to the ED based on diagnosis, but it has not been formally validated. OBJECTIVE: To assess the validity of the NYU algorithm. RESEARCH DESIGN: A longitudinal study in a single integrated delivery system …
Involving patients in clinical research
BACKGROUND: To date, patient involvement in the development of clinical research work has been limited. In 2011, the Telescot research team commenced work on a feasibility trial to investigate home telemonitoring of blood pressure for people who have experienced stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA). The team decided to involve patients in the development of the research. OBJECTIVES: To improve research design through patient involvement. ME…
Portal Use Among Patients With Chronic Conditions
BACKGROUND: Personal health records offer patients access to view their own health information and to manage their care online through secure patient portal tools. Little is known about the patient-reported experience in using health portals to manage chronic conditions. OBJECTIVE: In a patient-centered research study, we examined how using portal tools affects patient health care experiences among patients with chronic conditions. We also examin…
Medicine (7 works) · Healthcare Policy and Management (5 works) · Chronic Disease Management Strategies (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Health care (3 works) · Internal Medicine (3 works) · Medical emergency (3 works) · MEDLINE (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Copayment (2 works)