Robert A Wolfe
Biographic Data
| ID | 5534747 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert A Wolfe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert A |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolfe |
| SIGNATURE | WOLFE R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
El desvío
In the arena of free-fighting, traditional blocking techniques and grappling entries often don’t work as well as the simple parry. The parry—a refinement of the “slap away” motion that most combatants employ instinctively when confronted with an attack—is a critical tool in the martial artist’s armamentarium, yet it has received surprisingly little scrutiny in the research and writing of the arts. Having been students and teachers of various stri…
Using Knowledge of Multiple Levels of Variation in Care to Target Performance Incentives to Providers
BACKGROUND: In developing "pay-for-performance" and capitation systems that provide incentives for improving the quality and efficiency of care, policymakers need to determine which healthcare providers to evaluate and reward. OBJECTIVES: This study demonstrates methods for determining and understanding the relative contributions of facilities and physicians to the quality and cost of care. Specifically, this study distinguishes levels of variati…
Manhunts
The shadow of the nazi period is a long one, particularly in terms of the search for notorious Nazi criminals. The 1960 Israeli capture of Adolf Eichmann still fires the public imagination, due to the daring nature of the kidnapping and to the historic importance of Eichmann's trial. Also fervent in the public imagination are those Nazi figures of singular evil who disappeared after the war and who, unlike Eichmann, managed to escape justice enti…
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis
This book is a direct result of the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. Drawing upon many documents declassified under this law, the authors demonstrate what US intelligence agencies learned about Nazi crimes during World War II and about the nature of Nazi intelligence agencies' role in the Holocaust. It examines how some US corporations found ways to profit from Nazi Germany's expropriation of the property of German Jews. This book also reveal…
Personalized Targeted Mailing Increases Mammography Among Long-Term Noncompliant Medicare Beneficiaries
OBJECTIVES: The study purpose was to increase mammography screening among older women by identifying female Medicare beneficiaries without a recent mammogram and assesses the cost-effectiveness of a personalized targeted mailing encouraging them to have a mammogram. METHODS: A randomized paired controlled trial included 1229 pairs of women matched on zip code, race, and urban or rural county. Postintervention mammography claims were measured from…
The Mystery of Heinrich Müller
In April 2001, the National Archives released twenty Central Intelligence Agency “Name Files” as part of the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. Many more such releases will follow. While all of the files contain items of interest to students of the Nazi period and the Cold War, the file for Hitler's Gestapo Chief, Heinrich Müller, is most interesting for what it does not contain. While it is impossible to say for certain how or even whether Mül…
Racial and Gender Variation in Use of Diagnostic Colonic Procedures in the Michigan Medicare Population
BACKGROUND: There is accumulating evidence that screening programs can alter the natural history of colorectal cancer, a significant cause of mortality and morbidity in the US. Understanding how the technology to diagnose colonic diseases is utilized in the population provides insight into both the access and processes of care. METHOD: Using Medicare Part B billing files from the state of Michigan from 1986 to 1989 we identified all procedures us…
Flaws in the Nuremberg Legacy
This article examines the legal and historical issues that arose at Nuremberg and that have frustrated subsequent efforts—through the 1998 charter of the International War Crimes Tribunal—to establish an international framework for prosecuting crimes against humanity. Wolfe concludes that the main obstacle to the successful establishment of such a tribunal continues to be the abiding reluctance of nations to yield elements of their sovereignty to…
Socioeconomic Influence on Small Area Hospital Utilization
Health care policy makers, concerned with the rising cost of health care, have focused on the observed variation in the use of hospitals as a potential area in which to lower health care costs, i.e., if hospital utilization can be decreased, health care costs may also decline. However, it is crucial that the reasons for the observed variation in the current practice be understood or attempts to reduce costs may lead to policies that harm groups o…
Atlanticism without the Wall
In December 1989, in the midst of the most extraordinary few months in European life in four decades, the United States secretary of state, James Baker, went to Berlin to speak about a 'new era for Europe.' Baker evoked the now-familiar image of a 'new architecture' whose purpose would be first to overcome the division of Europe and second to 'bridge the Atlantic Ocean' as 'America's security politically, militarily, and economically remains link…
Small-Area Variation in Hospital Discharge Rates
Although numerous studies have been made of the determinants of small-area variation in hospital discharge rates, there is still disagreement about the role of socioeconomic factors. The lack of consensus stems, in part, from the difficulty in comparing results across studies that use different units and methods of analysis. Many of the studies using well-defined hospital service areas did not have the data needed to conduct a controlled analysis…
Variation in Hospital Admissions Among Small Areas
Analysis of age-adjusted hospital admission profiles among small geographic areas has shown marked variation in hospital admissions for both surgical and medical cases in areas ranging from Maine to Manitoba. Much of the work has been led by John Wennberg and has focused on rural areas. This study examines the degree of variation in hospital admissions in small areas in the state of Michigan to determine whether those diseases that demonstrated h…
The Effects of Burn Severity and Institutional Differences on the Costs of Care
Burn care treatment is among the costliest yet least studied forms of care. This paper presents estimates of the magnitude and components of burn care costs. It analyzes the extent to which burn care cost is determined by severity of burns or by characteristics of the institution in which the patient is treated, based on patient-specific data from eight hospitals representing different levels of technical sophistication in the delivery of burn ca…
Putative Threat to National Security as a Nuremberg Defense for Genocide
Otto Ohlendorf, SS group leader and Lieutenant General of Police, director of the Reich Security Main Office that was responsible for domestic intelligence and public opinion analysis, and lawyer and economist, was the best- known defendant in the subsequent Nuremberg trial of the Einsatzgruppen commanders (case 9) for the mass murder of Jews and others in the rear areas of the invading German armies during the first two years of the Russian camp…
The Parisian Club De La Revolution of the 18th Arrondissement 1870-1871
Journal Article THE PARISIAN CLUB DE LA REVOLUTION OF THE 18TH ARRONDISSEMENT 1870–1871 Get access Robert Wolfe Robert Wolfe New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 39, Issue 1, April 1968, Pages 81–119, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/39.1.81 Published: 01 April 1968
Flaws in the Nuremberg Legacy
This article examines the legal and historical issues that arose at Nuremberg and that have frustrated subsequent efforts—through the 1998 charter of the International War Crimes Tribunal—to establish an international framework for prosecuting crimes against humanity. Wolfe concludes that the main obstacle to the successful establishment of such a tribunal continues to be the abiding reluctance of nations to yield elements of their sovereignty to…
Atlanticism without the Wall
In December 1989, in the midst of the most extraordinary few months in European life in four decades, the United States secretary of state, James Baker, went to Berlin to speak about a 'new era for Europe.' Baker evoked the now-familiar image of a 'new architecture' whose purpose would be first to overcome the division of Europe and second to 'bridge the Atlantic Ocean' as 'America's security politically, militarily, and economically remains link…
The Parisian Club De La Revolution of the 18th Arrondissement 1870-1871
Journal Article THE PARISIAN CLUB DE LA REVOLUTION OF THE 18TH ARRONDISSEMENT 1870–1871 Get access Robert Wolfe Robert Wolfe New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 39, Issue 1, April 1968, Pages 81–119, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/39.1.81 Published: 01 April 1968
Putative Threat to National Security as a Nuremberg Defense for Genocide
Otto Ohlendorf, SS group leader and Lieutenant General of Police, director of the Reich Security Main Office that was responsible for domestic intelligence and public opinion analysis, and lawyer and economist, was the best- known defendant in the subsequent Nuremberg trial of the Einsatzgruppen commanders (case 9) for the mass murder of Jews and others in the rear areas of the invading German armies during the first two years of the Russian camp…
The Effects of Burn Severity and Institutional Differences on the Costs of Care
Burn care treatment is among the costliest yet least studied forms of care. This paper presents estimates of the magnitude and components of burn care costs. It analyzes the extent to which burn care cost is determined by severity of burns or by characteristics of the institution in which the patient is treated, based on patient-specific data from eight hospitals representing different levels of technical sophistication in the delivery of burn ca…
Small-Area Variation in Hospital Discharge Rates
Although numerous studies have been made of the determinants of small-area variation in hospital discharge rates, there is still disagreement about the role of socioeconomic factors. The lack of consensus stems, in part, from the difficulty in comparing results across studies that use different units and methods of analysis. Many of the studies using well-defined hospital service areas did not have the data needed to conduct a controlled analysis…
Variation in Hospital Admissions Among Small Areas
Analysis of age-adjusted hospital admission profiles among small geographic areas has shown marked variation in hospital admissions for both surgical and medical cases in areas ranging from Maine to Manitoba. Much of the work has been led by John Wennberg and has focused on rural areas. This study examines the degree of variation in hospital admissions in small areas in the state of Michigan to determine whether those diseases that demonstrated h…
Atlanticism without the Wall
In December 1989, in the midst of the most extraordinary few months in European life in four decades, the United States secretary of state, James Baker, went to Berlin to speak about a 'new era for Europe.' Baker evoked the now-familiar image of a 'new architecture' whose purpose would be first to overcome the division of Europe and second to 'bridge the Atlantic Ocean' as 'America's security politically, militarily, and economically remains link…
Socioeconomic Influence on Small Area Hospital Utilization
Health care policy makers, concerned with the rising cost of health care, have focused on the observed variation in the use of hospitals as a potential area in which to lower health care costs, i.e., if hospital utilization can be decreased, health care costs may also decline. However, it is crucial that the reasons for the observed variation in the current practice be understood or attempts to reduce costs may lead to policies that harm groups o…
Flaws in the Nuremberg Legacy
This article examines the legal and historical issues that arose at Nuremberg and that have frustrated subsequent efforts—through the 1998 charter of the International War Crimes Tribunal—to establish an international framework for prosecuting crimes against humanity. Wolfe concludes that the main obstacle to the successful establishment of such a tribunal continues to be the abiding reluctance of nations to yield elements of their sovereignty to…
Racial and Gender Variation in Use of Diagnostic Colonic Procedures in the Michigan Medicare Population
BACKGROUND: There is accumulating evidence that screening programs can alter the natural history of colorectal cancer, a significant cause of mortality and morbidity in the US. Understanding how the technology to diagnose colonic diseases is utilized in the population provides insight into both the access and processes of care. METHOD: Using Medicare Part B billing files from the state of Michigan from 1986 to 1989 we identified all procedures us…
The Mystery of Heinrich Müller
In April 2001, the National Archives released twenty Central Intelligence Agency “Name Files” as part of the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. Many more such releases will follow. While all of the files contain items of interest to students of the Nazi period and the Cold War, the file for Hitler's Gestapo Chief, Heinrich Müller, is most interesting for what it does not contain. While it is impossible to say for certain how or even whether Mül…
Personalized Targeted Mailing Increases Mammography Among Long-Term Noncompliant Medicare Beneficiaries
OBJECTIVES: The study purpose was to increase mammography screening among older women by identifying female Medicare beneficiaries without a recent mammogram and assesses the cost-effectiveness of a personalized targeted mailing encouraging them to have a mammogram. METHODS: A randomized paired controlled trial included 1229 pairs of women matched on zip code, race, and urban or rural county. Postintervention mammography claims were measured from…
Manhunts
The shadow of the nazi period is a long one, particularly in terms of the search for notorious Nazi criminals. The 1960 Israeli capture of Adolf Eichmann still fires the public imagination, due to the daring nature of the kidnapping and to the historic importance of Eichmann's trial. Also fervent in the public imagination are those Nazi figures of singular evil who disappeared after the war and who, unlike Eichmann, managed to escape justice enti…
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis
This book is a direct result of the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. Drawing upon many documents declassified under this law, the authors demonstrate what US intelligence agencies learned about Nazi crimes during World War II and about the nature of Nazi intelligence agencies' role in the Holocaust. It examines how some US corporations found ways to profit from Nazi Germany's expropriation of the property of German Jews. This book also reveal…
Using Knowledge of Multiple Levels of Variation in Care to Target Performance Incentives to Providers
BACKGROUND: In developing "pay-for-performance" and capitation systems that provide incentives for improving the quality and efficiency of care, policymakers need to determine which healthcare providers to evaluate and reward. OBJECTIVES: This study demonstrates methods for determining and understanding the relative contributions of facilities and physicians to the quality and cost of care. Specifically, this study distinguishes levels of variati…
El desvío
In the arena of free-fighting, traditional blocking techniques and grappling entries often don’t work as well as the simple parry. The parry—a refinement of the “slap away” motion that most combatants employ instinctively when confronted with an attack—is a critical tool in the martial artist’s armamentarium, yet it has received surprisingly little scrutiny in the research and writing of the arts. Having been students and teachers of various stri…
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