G RICHARD SMITH

Biographic Data

ID5536139
NAMEG RICHARD SMITH
GIVEN NAMESG RICHARD
FAMILY NAMESMITH
SIGNATURESMITH G R
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
H-INDEX0

  • Quality Enhancement Research Initiative in Mental Health

    Ellen P Fischer, Stephen R Marder et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2000References: 55

    The Veterans Administration (VA) recently introduced its Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) to facilitate the translation of best practices into usual clinical care. The Mental Health QUERI (MHQ) was charged with developing strategic plans for major depressive disorder (MDD) and schizophrenia. Twenty percent or more of VA service users are affected by 1 of these 2 disorders, disorders that often have a devastating impact on affected …

  • Rural-Urban Differences in Depression Treatment and Suicidality

    Kathryn Rost, Mingliang Zhang et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1998References: 24

    OBJECTIVES: Because there are fewer per capita providers trained to deliver mental health services in rural areas, the authors hypothesized that depressed rural individuals would receive less outpatient treatment and report higher rates of hospital admittance and suicide attempts than their urban counterparts. METHODS: The authors recruited 74% of eligible participants (n = 470) from a 1992 telephone survey and followed up 95% of subjects for 1 y…

  • Does This Treatment Work

    Open AccessKathryn Rost, Kathryn M Rost et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1996References: 20

    The purpose of this study was to evaluate the outcomes of routine care administered to alcohol-dependent inpatients. The authors sought to validate a self-administered instrument that measures the types and extent of care delivered, the outcomes of that care, and casemix characteristics that influence the outcomes of care. Seventy-eight patients who were beginning inpatient treatment for alcohol dependence were recruited; 85% were followed 5 mont…

  • Rural‐Urban Differences in Stigma and the Use of Care for Depressive Disorders

    Open AccessKathryn Rost, Glen Smith et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Rural Health1993

    Stigma may be a particularly important barrier to mental health care in rural communities where lack of anonymity increases the probability that someone who seeks care will be labeled “crazy.” This study examined rural‐urban differences in the stigma associated with depressive symptoms and the stigma associated with seeking treatment for depressive disorders. In addition, the study compared how the stigma associated with seeking treatment predict…

  • Development of Screeners for Depressive Disorders and Substance Disorder History

    Kathryn Rost, M Audrey Burnam et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1993

    If screeners are going to be widely incorporated in clinical care to increase the detection of common psychiatric disorders, they need to be brief, easy to score, and sensitive across diverse patient populations. Few screeners exist that meet these criteria. This problem is addressed in this study by identifying a subset of questions from the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS), which predicted simultaneously obtained DIS diagnoses. A two-item sc…

  • Measuring the Outcomes of Care for Mental Health Problems

    Kathryn Rost, Glen Smith et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1992

    To conduct effectiveness research in mental health, many nontrivial problems need to be addressed. A multidisciplinary expert panel designed an outcomes module for major depression and dysthymia to measure disease-specific outcomes, treatments routinely provided, and patient characteristics that influence treatment or its outcomes. The outcomes module was pilot-tested to evaluate its ability to identify a diagnostically homogeneous group of patie…

  • An Analysis of Panel Data

    T MICHAEL KASHNER, Kathryn Rost et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1992

    In this study, the cost and health outcomes of a psychiatric consultation letter to primary care physicians caring for a sample of patients diagnosed with somatization disorder, a psychiatric condition associated with multiple, unexplained medical complaints, was assessed. To accommodate the small sample size of 73 patients, outcome effects were calculated using panel analysis. Study patients were randomized to a consultation or noconsultation gr…

  • Health Perceptions of Primary Care Patients and the Influence on Health Care Utilization

    Julia E Connelly, John T Philbrick et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1989

    This prospective study was conducted to determine the influence of primary care patients' health perceptions on their utilization of health care services. Patients' health perceptions were measured using the RAND Corporation's General Health Perceptions Questionnaire. Physicians provided scores of how they thought the patients perceived their health and of actual physical and emotional health. Utilization data (number of office visits, number of …