Wallace V Epstein

Biographic Data

ID5537306
NAMEWallace V Epstein
GIVEN NAMESWallace V
FAMILY NAMEEpstein
SIGNATUREEPSTEIN W V
AFFILIATIONSRobert Wood Johnson Foundation
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
H-INDEX1

  • Outcomes for Persons With Rheumatoid Arthritis With a Rheumatologist Versus a Non-Rheumatologist as the Main Physician for This Condition

    Edward H Yelin, Edward Yelin et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1998References: 33

    OBJECTIVE: The authors compared outcomes among persons with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with a rheumatologist versus a non-rheumatologist as the main physician for this condition. METHODS: A cohort of 1,025 persons with rheumatoid arthritis were followed for as long as 11 years. The principal measures were obtained from an annual structured telephone interview conducted by a trained survey worker. All persons with rheumatoid arthritis originally we…

  • Practice Variation in Rheumatologists?? Encounters With Their Patients Who Have Rheumatoid Arthritis

    Maurice A Robinson, Curtis J Henke et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1991

    This article examines practice variation among rheumatologists in their use of time and procedures in follow-up outpatient encounters with rheumatoid arthritis patients. It focuses on differences across individual physicians rather than differences in populations of patients. In addition, the total variance is divided into parts due to patient characteristics, the providers' economic and other incentives to do procedures or reduce contact time, i…

  • Health Outcomes for a Chronic Disease in Prepaid Group Practice and Fee for Service Settings

    Edward H Yelin, Martin A Shearn et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1986

    The authors compare health care use and outcomes of a panel of persons with rheumatoid arthritis receiving health care in prepaid group practice and fee-for-service settings. In 1982, they randomly sampled one half of all 114 board-certified or eligible rheumatologists in Northern California. Those who participated provided the names of all patients with rheumatoid arthritis presenting during a 1-month period; 812 of these patients (97% of those …

  • Is health care use equivalent across social groups? A diagnosis-based study

    Edward H Yelin, Jane S Kramer et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health1983Cited by: 3References: 7

    Previous studies of medical care utilization have controlled for medical need by signs or symptoms or broad disease classifications. The present study uses both symptoms and discrete diagnoses to control for medical need in order to determine if the use of ambulatory and hospital care differs by race, income, education, insurance coverage, or region. Using data from the 1976 National Health Interview Survey, we found that there were no consistent…

  • A Controlled Experiment to Evaluate the Use of a Time-Oriented Summary Medical Record

    Quinn E Whiting-O??keefe, Quinn E Whiting-O keefe et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1980

    A randomized single-blind experiment was done in a medical subspecialty clinic in order to determine whether a flow-sheet type of summary medical record could validly serve as a means to communicate clinical information in the absence of the traditional medical record. Two groups of outpatient physician-patient encounters were compared: In the 68 study encounters (Group S), physicians were given a flow-sheet summary record with the option to rece…