Lanis L Hicks
Biographic Data
| ID | 5534855 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lanis L Hicks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lanis L |
| FAMILY NAME | Hicks |
| SIGNATURE | HICKS L L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri Health System |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9874-8097 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Measuring the Performance of Critical Access Hospitals in Missouri Using Data Envelopment Analysis
Purpose: Rural hospitals are critical for access to health care, and for their contributions to local economies. However, many rural hospitals, especially critical access hospitals (CAHs) need to strive for more efficiency for continued viability. Routinely evaluating their performance, and providing feedback to management and policy makers, is therefore important. Method: Three measures of relative efficiency are estimated for CAHs in Missouri u…
Using Telemedicine to Avoid Transfer of Rural Emergency Department Patients
Access to emergency treatment in rural areas can often mean the difference between life and death. Telemedicine technologies have the potential of providing earlier diagnosis and intervention, of saving lives and of avoiding unnecessary transfers from rural hospital emergency departments to urban hospitals. This study examined the hypothetical impact of telemedicine services on patients served by the emergency departments of two rural Missouri li…
Effect of Linking Practice Data to Published Evidence
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of clinical direct reports (practice data with pertinent evidence from the literature) on dialysis modality selection for patients with end-stage renal disease. METHODS: A randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted at five dialysis centers. Five of the 10 physician participants were assigned through centralized computerized randomization to the intervention group (who receiv…
Effects of Second Office and Hospital Consulting Practices of Physicians on Rural Communities
This research examined the prevalence of second offices and hospital consulting practices of physicians in Missouri, the characteristics of physicians participating in such practices, the change in availability of services through these practices, the characteristics of counties and hospitals involved, and the practice organization of participating physicians. The assessment of the factors was conducted within the conceptual framework of communit…
Interpreting the Health Care Financing Administrationʼs Mortality Statistics
In this article, the methodology used by the Health Care Financing Administration in the 1992 release of 1990 mortality statistics is described, and the performance of one outlier hospital is evaluated as a case study. The study hospital is compared to all other hospitals, and to a smaller cohort of 200-to-299-bed minor teaching hospitals, in terms of predicted and observed mortality rates and mortality model determinants. Proportionately more pa…
A Literature Review of Health Issues of the Rural Elderly
Rural Populations and Rural Physicians
As physicians and other providers of health care services see their traditional markets erode, an increasingly important element of any provider location decision is the determination of a population base or “critical mass” that can professionally and financially support a given set of health care services. While the size of a local population is not the sole determinant of success, ultimately an adequate population base to support a given spectr…
Availability and Accessibility of Rural Health Care
The 1980s saw a retrenchment of the ideology that government intervention could solve the problems of inadequate access to health services in rural areas. Increased emphasis was placed on an ideology that promoted deregulation and competitive market solutions. During the 1980s, the gap in the availability of physicians in metropolitan versus nonmetropolitan areas widened. Also during that time period, the gap between metropolitan and nonmetropoli…
Necessary Conditions for Supporting a General Surgeon in Rural Areas
Loss of a general surgeon in a rural community can alter the referral patterns, the image and utilization of the local hospital, and even the market share of local primary care physicians. Prior research has not defined the necessary and/or sufficient conditions for a rural county to be able to support a local general surgeon. Based upon empirical analysis of 96 rural Missouri counties and the limited literature available on rural surgeons and ph…
Social policy implications of physician shortage areas in Missouri
A model is used to identify counties in Missouri in which the supply of physician services is inadequate to serve the resident population. In the model, a formula is used to assess the gap between the physician services available in a county and the visits which would be required to serve the residents. Incorporated in the model are adjustments for the age and specialty of the physicians and the age and sex of the population. The model is applied…
Social policy implications of physician shortage areas in Missouri
A model is used to identify counties in Missouri in which the supply of physician services is inadequate to serve the resident population. In the model, a formula is used to assess the gap between the physician services available in a county and the visits which would be required to serve the residents. Incorporated in the model are adjustments for the age and specialty of the physicians and the age and sex of the population. The model is applied…
Social policy implications of physician shortage areas in Missouri
A model is used to identify counties in Missouri in which the supply of physician services is inadequate to serve the resident population. In the model, a formula is used to assess the gap between the physician services available in a county and the visits which would be required to serve the residents. Incorporated in the model are adjustments for the age and specialty of the physicians and the age and sex of the population. The model is applied…
Necessary Conditions for Supporting a General Surgeon in Rural Areas
Loss of a general surgeon in a rural community can alter the referral patterns, the image and utilization of the local hospital, and even the market share of local primary care physicians. Prior research has not defined the necessary and/or sufficient conditions for a rural county to be able to support a local general surgeon. Based upon empirical analysis of 96 rural Missouri counties and the limited literature available on rural surgeons and ph…
Availability and Accessibility of Rural Health Care
The 1980s saw a retrenchment of the ideology that government intervention could solve the problems of inadequate access to health services in rural areas. Increased emphasis was placed on an ideology that promoted deregulation and competitive market solutions. During the 1980s, the gap in the availability of physicians in metropolitan versus nonmetropolitan areas widened. Also during that time period, the gap between metropolitan and nonmetropoli…
Rural Populations and Rural Physicians
As physicians and other providers of health care services see their traditional markets erode, an increasingly important element of any provider location decision is the determination of a population base or “critical mass” that can professionally and financially support a given set of health care services. While the size of a local population is not the sole determinant of success, ultimately an adequate population base to support a given spectr…
A Literature Review of Health Issues of the Rural Elderly
Interpreting the Health Care Financing Administrationʼs Mortality Statistics
In this article, the methodology used by the Health Care Financing Administration in the 1992 release of 1990 mortality statistics is described, and the performance of one outlier hospital is evaluated as a case study. The study hospital is compared to all other hospitals, and to a smaller cohort of 200-to-299-bed minor teaching hospitals, in terms of predicted and observed mortality rates and mortality model determinants. Proportionately more pa…
Effects of Second Office and Hospital Consulting Practices of Physicians on Rural Communities
This research examined the prevalence of second offices and hospital consulting practices of physicians in Missouri, the characteristics of physicians participating in such practices, the change in availability of services through these practices, the characteristics of counties and hospitals involved, and the practice organization of participating physicians. The assessment of the factors was conducted within the conceptual framework of communit…
Effect of Linking Practice Data to Published Evidence
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of clinical direct reports (practice data with pertinent evidence from the literature) on dialysis modality selection for patients with end-stage renal disease. METHODS: A randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted at five dialysis centers. Five of the 10 physician participants were assigned through centralized computerized randomization to the intervention group (who receiv…
Using Telemedicine to Avoid Transfer of Rural Emergency Department Patients
Access to emergency treatment in rural areas can often mean the difference between life and death. Telemedicine technologies have the potential of providing earlier diagnosis and intervention, of saving lives and of avoiding unnecessary transfers from rural hospital emergency departments to urban hospitals. This study examined the hypothetical impact of telemedicine services on patients served by the emergency departments of two rural Missouri li…
Measuring the Performance of Critical Access Hospitals in Missouri Using Data Envelopment Analysis
Purpose: Rural hospitals are critical for access to health care, and for their contributions to local economies. However, many rural hospitals, especially critical access hospitals (CAHs) need to strive for more efficiency for continued viability. Routinely evaluating their performance, and providing feedback to management and policy makers, is therefore important. Method: Three measures of relative efficiency are estimated for CAHs in Missouri u…
Medicine (9 works) · Global Health Workforce Issues (6 works) · Health care (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Healthcare Policy and Management (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Rural area (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Emergency Medicine (3 works)