Benjamin Littenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 5537309 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Littenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Littenberg |
| SIGNATURE | LITTENBERG B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vermont |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7647-1808 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Urban–Rural Differences in Mental and Physical Health among Primary Care Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions
Among adults with demonstrated access to care and multiple diagnosed chronic conditions, rural residents had better mental health and functional capacity than their urban counterparts. This finding is not consistent with prior research documenting rural health disparities and should be confirmed
Nonlinear Relationships among the Natural Environment, Health, and Sociodemographic Characteristics across US Counties
Background: The aim of this study was to explore the nonlinear relationships between natural amenities and health at the intersection of sociodemographic characteristics among primary care patients with chronic conditions. Methods: We used survey data from 3409 adults across 119 US counties. PROMIS-29 mental and physical health summary scores were the primary outcomes. The natural environment (measured using the County USDA Natural Amenities Scal…
The Single Item Literacy Screener
The use of insulin declines as patients live farther from their source of care
Adults with type 2 diabetes who live farther from their source of primary care are significantly less likely to use insulin. This association is not due to confounding by age, sex, race, education, income, health insurance, body mass index, duration of diabetes, use of oral agents, glycemic control, or frequency of care, and may be responsible for the poorer physiologic control noted among patients with greater travel burdens
Diabetes Decision Support
Interventions that have proven effective in the management of chronic illness have often been difficult to establish in widespread practice. The Chronic Care Model provides a framework for implementing interventions, but it is expensive and difficult to implement. We developed a decision support system based on this model to improve the care of adults who have diabetes and receive primary care in Vermont or adjacent New York. The Vermont Diabetes…
The development and validation of an instrument to assess acute sinus disease in children
Automated utility assessment of global health
A Survey of Current Problems in Meta-Analysis
The United States Agency for Health Care Policy and Research brought together representatives from each of the Patient Outcomes Research Teams (PORTs) as the Inter-PORT Meta-Analysis Work Group. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss a wide range of problems the panel had encountered in the area of meta-analysis. Several actual problems were presented, and tentative solutions to those problems were given. The PORTs had to consider issues such …
Improving Physician Compliance With Preventive Medicine Guidelines
Similar general medical outpatient clinics with randomly assigned patients were used to evaluate the effectiveness of a program that was to increase house staff compliance with preventive medicine guidelines. Two clinics were designated experimental and two served as controls. In the experimental clinics, age-specific checklists of all recommended preventive procedures (drawn from the Canadian Task Force report on The Periodic Health Examination …
Does Cost Information Availability Reduce Physician Test Usage
Four similar teams of physicians associated with similar inpatient units and randomly assigned patients were used to study the effect of providing physicians with cost information about their use of lab tests and x-rays. Two teams received information about lab test costs, and two teams received x-ray test costs. Test usage fell during the experimental conditions and continued to fall after the experimental period ended in teams in which there wa…
Response from Littenberg and Neuhauser
Response from Littenberg and Neuhauser Benjamin Littenberg, and Duncan Neuhauser CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.71.10.1172 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Diabetes Decision Support
Interventions that have proven effective in the management of chronic illness have often been difficult to establish in widespread practice. The Chronic Care Model provides a framework for implementing interventions, but it is expensive and difficult to implement. We developed a decision support system based on this model to improve the care of adults who have diabetes and receive primary care in Vermont or adjacent New York. The Vermont Diabetes…
Response from Littenberg and Neuhauser
Response from Littenberg and Neuhauser Benjamin Littenberg, and Duncan Neuhauser CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.71.10.1172 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Improving Physician Compliance With Preventive Medicine Guidelines
Similar general medical outpatient clinics with randomly assigned patients were used to evaluate the effectiveness of a program that was to increase house staff compliance with preventive medicine guidelines. Two clinics were designated experimental and two served as controls. In the experimental clinics, age-specific checklists of all recommended preventive procedures (drawn from the Canadian Task Force report on The Periodic Health Examination …
Does Cost Information Availability Reduce Physician Test Usage
Four similar teams of physicians associated with similar inpatient units and randomly assigned patients were used to study the effect of providing physicians with cost information about their use of lab tests and x-rays. Two teams received information about lab test costs, and two teams received x-ray test costs. Test usage fell during the experimental conditions and continued to fall after the experimental period ended in teams in which there wa…
A Survey of Current Problems in Meta-Analysis
The United States Agency for Health Care Policy and Research brought together representatives from each of the Patient Outcomes Research Teams (PORTs) as the Inter-PORT Meta-Analysis Work Group. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss a wide range of problems the panel had encountered in the area of meta-analysis. Several actual problems were presented, and tentative solutions to those problems were given. The PORTs had to consider issues such …
Automated utility assessment of global health
The development and validation of an instrument to assess acute sinus disease in children
The Single Item Literacy Screener
The use of insulin declines as patients live farther from their source of care
Adults with type 2 diabetes who live farther from their source of primary care are significantly less likely to use insulin. This association is not due to confounding by age, sex, race, education, income, health insurance, body mass index, duration of diabetes, use of oral agents, glycemic control, or frequency of care, and may be responsible for the poorer physiologic control noted among patients with greater travel burdens
Diabetes Decision Support
Interventions that have proven effective in the management of chronic illness have often been difficult to establish in widespread practice. The Chronic Care Model provides a framework for implementing interventions, but it is expensive and difficult to implement. We developed a decision support system based on this model to improve the care of adults who have diabetes and receive primary care in Vermont or adjacent New York. The Vermont Diabetes…
Urban–Rural Differences in Mental and Physical Health among Primary Care Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions
Among adults with demonstrated access to care and multiple diagnosed chronic conditions, rural residents had better mental health and functional capacity than their urban counterparts. This finding is not consistent with prior research documenting rural health disparities and should be confirmed
Nonlinear Relationships among the Natural Environment, Health, and Sociodemographic Characteristics across US Counties
Background: The aim of this study was to explore the nonlinear relationships between natural amenities and health at the intersection of sociodemographic characteristics among primary care patients with chronic conditions. Methods: We used survey data from 3409 adults across 119 US counties. PROMIS-29 mental and physical health summary scores were the primary outcomes. The natural environment (measured using the County USDA Natural Amenities Scal…
Medicine (11 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Family medicine (6 works) · Chronic Disease Management Strategies (3 works) · Gerontology (3 works) · Health care (3 works) · Internal Medicine (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Population (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)