Dragana Bolcic‐Jankovic

Biographic Data

ID6763309
NAMEDragana Bolcic‐Jankovic
GIVEN NAMESDragana
FAMILY NAMEBolcic‐Jankovic
SIGNATUREJANKOVIC D B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Massachusetts Boston
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Physicians’ Perceptions Of People With Disability And Their Health Care

    Lisa I Iezzoni, Sowmya R Rao et al.ARTICLEHealth Affairs2021

    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 …

  • Using Cognitive Testing to Develop Items for Surveying Asian American Cancer Patients and Their Caregivers as a Pathway to Culturally Competent Care

    Open AccessDragana Bolcic‐Jankovic, Fengxin Lu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2016References: 1

    We report the results from cognitive interviews with Asian American patients and their caregivers. We interviewed seven caregivers and six patients who were all bilingual Asian Americans. The main goal of the cognitive interviews was to test a survey instrument developed for a study about perspectives of Asian American patients with advanced cancer who are facing decisions around end-of-life care. We were particularly interested to see whether it…

  • Public opinion about FDA regulation of menthol and nicotine

    Dragana Bolcic-Jankovic, Dragana Bolcic‐Jankovic et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2014

    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

    Lois Biener, Anthony M Roman et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2014

    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

  • Exploring Determinants of Surrogate Decision-Maker Confidence

    Open AccessDragana Bolcic‐Jankovic, Brian Clarridge et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2014References: 1

    This article is an exploratory data analysis of the determinants of confidence in a surrogate decision maker who has been asked to permit an intensive care unit (ICU) patient's participation in genetic research. We pursue the difference between surrogates' and patients' confidence that the surrogate can accurately represent the patient's wishes. The article also explores whether greater confidence leads to greater agreement between patients and s…

  • Considerations in the Construction of an Instrument to Assess Attitudes Regarding Critical Illness Gene Variation Research

    Open AccessBradley D Freeman, Carie R Kennedy et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2012Cited by: 2References: 5

    Clinical studies conducted in intensive care units are associated with logistical and ethical challenges. Diseases investigated are precipitous and life-threatening, care is highly technological, and patients are often incapacitated and decision-making is provided by surrogates. These investigations increasingly involve collection of genetic data. The manner in which the exigencies of critical illness impact attitudes regarding genetic data colle…

  • Factors That Influence Practitioners' Interpretations of Evidence From Alternative Medicine Trials

    Jon C Tilburt, Franklin G Miller et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2010References: 12

    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

    Dragana Bolcic-Jankovic, Dragana Bolcic‐Jankovic et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2007References: 8

    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…