Dragana Bolcic-Jankovic
Biographic Data
| ID | 5536070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dragana Bolcic-Jankovic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dragana |
| FAMILY NAME | Bolcic-Jankovic |
| SIGNATURE | BOLCIC-JANKOVIC D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dragana Bolcic-Jankovic is the director of survey operations and a research fellow in the Center for Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Boston, in Boston, Massachusetts. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Physicians’ Perceptions Of People With Disability And Their Health Care
More than sixty-one million Americans have disabilities, and increasing evidence documents that they experience health care disparities. Although many factors likely contribute to these disparities, one little-studied but potential cause involves physicians' perceptions of people with disability. In our survey of 714 practicing US physicians nationwide, 82.4 percent reported that people with significant disability have worse quality of life than …
Public opinion about FDA regulation of menthol and nicotine
The greater smoker support for reductions in nicotine than menthol could be due to inaccurate beliefs about the disease risk associated with the two substances (ie, a belief that nicotine is more harmful than menthol), or to greater awareness of the sensory role that menthol plays in smokers' satisfaction. In any case, if FDA goes ahead with regulations to remove menthol, it will be important to develop strategies to reduce smoker resistance
Snus use and rejection in the USA
The low rate of adoption of snus suggests that neither the hopes nor the fears surrounding this new product are likely to be realised in the USA with the current marketing patterns
Factors That Influence Practitioners' Interpretations of Evidence From Alternative Medicine Trials
BACKGROUND: Clinical trial evidence in controversial areas such as complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) must be approached with an open mind. OBJECTIVE: To determine what factors may influence practitioners' interpretation of evidence from CAM trials. RESEARCH DESIGN: In a mailed survey of 2400 US CAM and conventional medicine practitioners we included 2 hypothetical factorial vignettes of positive and negative research results for CAM cl…
Do Characteristics of Hipaa Consent Forms Affect the Response Rate
OBJECTIVE: Under the The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Rule, researchers are required to obtain written authorization from patients to gain access to protected health information. The purpose of this research was to examine how the characteristics of authorization forms used by hospitals affect the likelihood of consent. METHOD: This work reports on a recent telephone survey (administered January to August 2004) of p…
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Do Characteristics of Hipaa Consent Forms Affect the Response Rate
OBJECTIVE: Under the The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Rule, researchers are required to obtain written authorization from patients to gain access to protected health information. The purpose of this research was to examine how the characteristics of authorization forms used by hospitals affect the likelihood of consent. METHOD: This work reports on a recent telephone survey (administered January to August 2004) of p…
Factors That Influence Practitioners' Interpretations of Evidence From Alternative Medicine Trials
BACKGROUND: Clinical trial evidence in controversial areas such as complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) must be approached with an open mind. OBJECTIVE: To determine what factors may influence practitioners' interpretation of evidence from CAM trials. RESEARCH DESIGN: In a mailed survey of 2400 US CAM and conventional medicine practitioners we included 2 hypothetical factorial vignettes of positive and negative research results for CAM cl…
Public opinion about FDA regulation of menthol and nicotine
The greater smoker support for reductions in nicotine than menthol could be due to inaccurate beliefs about the disease risk associated with the two substances (ie, a belief that nicotine is more harmful than menthol), or to greater awareness of the sensory role that menthol plays in smokers' satisfaction. In any case, if FDA goes ahead with regulations to remove menthol, it will be important to develop strategies to reduce smoker resistance
Snus use and rejection in the USA
The low rate of adoption of snus suggests that neither the hopes nor the fears surrounding this new product are likely to be realised in the USA with the current marketing patterns
Physicians’ Perceptions Of People With Disability And Their Health Care
More than sixty-one million Americans have disabilities, and increasing evidence documents that they experience health care disparities. Although many factors likely contribute to these disparities, one little-studied but potential cause involves physicians' perceptions of people with disability. In our survey of 714 practicing US physicians nationwide, 82.4 percent reported that people with significant disability have worse quality of life than …
Medicine (5 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Alternative medicine (2 works) · Family medicine (2 works) · Internal Medicine (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Population (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Smoking Behavior and Cessation (2 works) · Acupuncture (1 work)