Lauren A McCormack
Biographic Data
| ID | 5539413 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren A McCormack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren A |
| FAMILY NAME | McCormack |
| SIGNATURE | MCCORMACK L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | RTI International |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Mental Models of Infectious Diseases and Public Understanding of Covid-19 Prevention
The emergence of viral diseases such as Ebola virus disease, Zika virus disease, and the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has posed considerable challenges to health care systems around the world. Public health strategy to address emerging infectious diseases has depended in part on human behavior change and yet the perceptions and knowledge motivating that behavior have been at times inconsistent with the latest consensus of peer-reviewed science.…
Health Literacy Measurement
This article aimed to provide a descriptive review of the psychometric properties and conceptual dimensions of published health literacy measurement tools. PsycINFO and PubMed search from 1999 through 2013, review of the grey literature, and an environmental scan was conducted to identify health literacy measurement tools. For each tool, we evaluated the conceptual dimensions assessed, test parameters, and psychometric properties. Of the 51 tools…
Measuring patient-centered communication in cancer care
Patient-centered communication (PCC) is a critical element of patient-centered care, which the Institute of Medicine (Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, 2001) promulgates as essential to improving healthcare delivery. Consequently, the US National Cancer Institute's Strategic Plan for Leading the Nation (2006) calls for assessing the delivery of PCC in cancer care. However, no comprehensive measure of PCC exists, and stakeholders con…
Beneficiary Knowledge of Original Medicare and Medicare Managed Care
BACKGROUND: Previous research on beneficiary knowledge of the Medicare program has shown that the beneficiary population is not well informed about Medicare. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented the National Medicare Education Program in 1998 to educate Medicare beneficiaries about program benefits; choices, rights, responsibilities and protections, and health behaviors. OBJECTIVES: We sought to measure beneficiary knowl…
How Does Beneficiary Knowledge of the Medicare Program Vary by Type of Insurance
Background. Prior research found that Medicare beneficiaries' knowledge of the Medicare program varied by the type of supplemental insurance they had. However, none of these studies used both multivariate methods and nationally representative data to examine the issue. Objectives. To measure beneficiary knowledge of the Medicare program and to evaluate how knowledge varies by type of supplemental insurance. Objectives. A mail survey with telephon…
Time Trends in Late-Stage Diagnosis of Cervical Cancer
From the Center for Health Economics Research, Waltham, Massachusetts. Funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Address correspondence to: Janet Mitchell, PhD, Center for Health Economics Research, 300 Fifth Ave., 6th Floor, Waltham, MA, 02154
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Time Trends in Late-Stage Diagnosis of Cervical Cancer
From the Center for Health Economics Research, Waltham, Massachusetts. Funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Address correspondence to: Janet Mitchell, PhD, Center for Health Economics Research, 300 Fifth Ave., 6th Floor, Waltham, MA, 02154
How Does Beneficiary Knowledge of the Medicare Program Vary by Type of Insurance
Background. Prior research found that Medicare beneficiaries' knowledge of the Medicare program varied by the type of supplemental insurance they had. However, none of these studies used both multivariate methods and nationally representative data to examine the issue. Objectives. To measure beneficiary knowledge of the Medicare program and to evaluate how knowledge varies by type of supplemental insurance. Objectives. A mail survey with telephon…
Beneficiary Knowledge of Original Medicare and Medicare Managed Care
BACKGROUND: Previous research on beneficiary knowledge of the Medicare program has shown that the beneficiary population is not well informed about Medicare. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented the National Medicare Education Program in 1998 to educate Medicare beneficiaries about program benefits; choices, rights, responsibilities and protections, and health behaviors. OBJECTIVES: We sought to measure beneficiary knowl…
Measuring patient-centered communication in cancer care
Patient-centered communication (PCC) is a critical element of patient-centered care, which the Institute of Medicine (Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, 2001) promulgates as essential to improving healthcare delivery. Consequently, the US National Cancer Institute's Strategic Plan for Leading the Nation (2006) calls for assessing the delivery of PCC in cancer care. However, no comprehensive measure of PCC exists, and stakeholders con…
Health Literacy Measurement
This article aimed to provide a descriptive review of the psychometric properties and conceptual dimensions of published health literacy measurement tools. PsycINFO and PubMed search from 1999 through 2013, review of the grey literature, and an environmental scan was conducted to identify health literacy measurement tools. For each tool, we evaluated the conceptual dimensions assessed, test parameters, and psychometric properties. Of the 51 tools…
Mental Models of Infectious Diseases and Public Understanding of Covid-19 Prevention
The emergence of viral diseases such as Ebola virus disease, Zika virus disease, and the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has posed considerable challenges to health care systems around the world. Public health strategy to address emerging infectious diseases has depended in part on human behavior change and yet the perceptions and knowledge motivating that behavior have been at times inconsistent with the latest consensus of peer-reviewed science.…
Medicine (6 works) · Health care (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · MEDLINE (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Actuarial science (2 works) · Beneficiary (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Family medicine (2 works)