Carol M Ashton

Dados Biográficos

ID1734902
NOMECarol M Ashton
PRENOMESCarol M
SOBRENOMEAshton
ASSINATURAASHTON C M
AFILIAÇÕESBaylor College of Medicine
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS34
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES41
TOTAL COMO AUTOR34
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1987
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2016
ÍNDICE H3

  • Outcomes and Resource Use of Sepsis-associated Stays by Presence on Admission, Severity, and Hospital Type

    Sarah-Louise Jones, Stephen L Jones et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2016Referências: 13

    Greater emphasis is needed on public awareness of sepsis and the detection of sepsis in the prehospitalization and early hospitalization period. Hospital characteristics and case mix should be accounted for in cross-hospital comparisons of sepsis outcomes and costs

  • An Interview with Ronald Andersen, PhD

    Carol M AshtonARTICLEMedical Care2008

    From the University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama. Reprints: Carol M. Ashton, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, University of Alabama School of Medicine, 642 Medical Towers, 1530 3rd Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35294-4410. E-mail: [email protected]

  • Announcing a New Occasional Feature of Medical Care

    Carol M Ashton, Jeroan J Allison et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2007Referências: 4

    Medical Care: August 2007 - Volume 45 - Issue 8 - p 697-698 doi: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e318074cebd

  • Response to Letter From Dr. Bindman

    Carol M Ashton, Kenneth PietzARTICLEMedical Care2005Referências: 5

    Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization StudiesVA Medical CenterDepartment of MedicineBaylor College of MedicineHouston, Texas

  • Predicting Healthcare Costs in a Population of Veterans Affairs Beneficiaries Using Diagnosis-Based Risk Adjustment and Self-Reported Health Status

    Kenneth Pietz, Carol M Ashton et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2004Referências: 17

    BACKGROUND: Many healthcare organizations use diagnosis-based risk adjustment systems for predicting costs. Health self-report may add information not contained in a diagnosis-based system but is subject to incomplete response. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate the added predictive power of health self-report in combination with a diagnosis-based risk adjustment system in concurrent and prospective models of healthcare cost. …

  • Racial and ethnic disparities in the use of health services

    Carol M Ashton, Paul Haidet et al.ARTICLEJournal of General Internal…2003

  • The ABCs of Empowered Communication

    Open AccessDerrel Zeno, Coreen Domingo et al.ARTICLEThe AMA Journal of Ethic2003

    Community education about how patients can best communicate with their physicians has been successful in various communities, particularly when working with an ethnically diverse patient population. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association

  • Medical Care

    Colleen A Mchorney, Carol M AshtonARTICLEMedical Care2003

  • Process of Care in Hispanic, Black, and White VA Beneficiaries

    H Scott Gordon, Michael L Johnson et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2002Referências: 30

    OBJECTIVE: To examine whether process of hospital care differs among Hispanic, black, and white VA beneficiaries. SUBJECTS: Two thousand eight-hundred fifty-two Hispanic, black, and white male VA beneficiaries from a case-control study discharged alive from one of twelve southern veterans hospitals with one of three diagnoses, diabetes mellitus (DM), congestive heart failure (CHF), or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). METHODS: We appl…

  • Looking Forward, Looking Back

    Carol M AshtonARTICLEMedical Care2002

    The activity centered around the TX-2 computer at Lincoln Laboratory in the 1960’s laid the foundation for much of HCI. Through the use of archival film footage, and live presentations by some of the key protagonists, this panel is intended to contribute to a more general awareness of this work, its historical importance to HCI, and its relevance to research today

  • A Remarkable Legacy of Science

    William M Tierney, Morris Weinberger et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2002Referências: 79

    Tierney, William M. MD; Weinberger, Morris PhD; Ashton, Carol M. MD, MPH; McHorney, Colleen A. PhD Author Information

  • A psychometric analysis of the measurement level of the rating scale, time trade-off, and standard gamble

    Open AccessK F Cook, Carol M Ashton et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2001Citada por: 1Referências: 17

  • A Trial for Comparing Methods for Eliciting Treatment Preferences From Men With Advanced Prostate Cancer

    Julianne Souchek, James R Stacks et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2000Referências: 23

    OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate the convergent validity of 3 types of utility measures: standard gamble, time tradeoff, and rating scale. RESEARCH DESIGN: A prospective cohort of 120 men with advanced prostate cancer were first asked to rank order 8 health states, and then utility values were obtained from each participant for each of the 8 health states through 2 of the 3 techniques evaluated (standard gamble, time tradeof…

  • Veterans Affairs Quality Enhancement Research Initiative in Chronic Heart Failure

    Carol M Ashton, Biykem Bozkurt et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2000Referências: 49

    Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a highly prevalent condition associated with serious morbidity, intense levels of health services use, and shortened survival. It is also a condition for which ameliorative therapies exist. The evidence indicates that there is substantial need to change clinical practice and health care delivery for people with CHF and thereby improve their outcomes. The goal of the Veterans Affairs (VA) Quality Enhancement Research…

  • Assessing the Performance of Utility Techniques in the Absence of a Gold Standard

    R Brian Giesler, Carol M Ashton et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1999Referências: 25

    BACKGROUND: Utility techniques are the most commonly used means to assess patient preferences for health outcomes. However, whether utility techniques produce valid measures of preference has been difficult to determine in the absence of a gold standard. OBJECTIVE: To introduce and demonstrate two methods that can be used to evaluate how well utility techniques measure patients' preferences. SUBJECTS AND DESIGN: Patients treated for advanced pros…

  • The Association of Quality of Care and Occurrence of In-Hospital, Treatment-Related Complications

    Jane M Geraci, Carol M Ashton et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1999Referências: 18

    BACKGROUND: Little data exist supporting the association of quality of care and nonfatal adverse outcomes in hospitalized patients, yet those outcomes are routinely scrutinized in quality assessment efforts. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether measurable differences in quality of care are associated with the occurrence of non-fatal, in-hospital, and treatment-related complications. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SUBJECTS: A total of 2,268 patien…

  • An Empirical Assessment of the Validity of Explicit and Implicit Process-of-Care Criteria for Quality Assessment

    Carol M Ashton, David H Kuykendall et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1999Referências: 17

    OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the validity of three criteria-based methods of quality assessment: unit weighted explicit process-of-care criteria; differentially weighted explicit process-of-care criteria; and structured implicit process-of-care criteria. METHODS: The three methods were applied to records of index hospitalizations in a study of unplanned readmission involving roughly 2,500 patients with one of three diagnoses treated at 12 Veterans Affa…

  • Impact of an All-Inclusive Diagnosis-Related Group Payment System on Inpatient Utilization

    Terri J Menke, Terri Menke et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1998Referências: 13

    OBJECTIVES: Although case-based payment is one of the main reimbursement mechanisms for hospitals, little is known about its effects in the general population. Prior studies have focused on Medicare or on all-payer systems in particular states. This study estimates the effect of a prospective payment system based on diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) nationwide in the Department of Veterans Affairs. METHODS: Multiple regression analysis was used to …

  • The Veterans Affairs Medical Care System

    Carol M Ashton, Nancy J Petersen et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1998Referências: 16

    OBJECTIVES: The authors describe the role the Veterans Affairs (VA) medical system plays as a provider of clinic and hospital services by examining utilization levels and users' characteristics. METHODS: The Veterans Affairs hospital discharge database, the Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic files, and the veteran population files were used to estimate the number of persons using the Veterans Affairs medical care system in 1994 and the intensity …

  • Application of an Analytic Model to Early Readmission Rates Within the Department of Veterans Affairs

    Naomi R Wray, Nelda P Wray Nelda P Wray et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1997Referências: 19

    OBJECTIVES: Adverse outcome rates are increasingly used as yardsticks for the quality of hospital care. However, the validity of many outcome studies has been undermined by the application of one outcome to all patients in large, diagnostically diverse populations, many of which lack evidence of a link between antecedent process of care and the rate of the outcome, the underlying assumption of the analysis. METHODS: To address this analytic probl…

  • International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification Codes in Discharge Abstracts Are Poor Measures of Complication Occurrence in Medical Inpatients

    Jane M Geraci, Carol M Ashton et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1997Referências: 19

    OBJECTIVES: The authors tested the ability of International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes in discharge abstracts to identify medical inpatients who experienced an in-hospital complication, using complications identified through chart review as the gold standard. METHODS: Two sets of ICD-9-CM codes were used: an inclusive set including many medical diagnoses that may also be coexistent complicatin…

  • The Association Between the Quality of Inpatient Care and Early Readmission

    Carol M Ashton, Carol M Ashton Carol M Ashton et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1997Referências: 27

    OBJECTIVES: To help resolve the current controversy over the validity of early readmission as an indicator of the quality of care, the authors critically reviewed the literature using meta-analysis to derive summary estimates of effect and evaluate inter-study heterogeneity. METHODS: The authors selected reports meeting five criteria: (1) presentation of new data on medical-surgical hospitalization of adults; (2) measurement of outcome as a perso…

  • Dimensions of quality of life expressed by men treated for metastatic prostate cancer

    Open AccessJack A Clark, Naomi R Wray et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1997Citada por: 13Referências: 24

  • A State-of-the-Art Conference on Databases Pertaining to Veterans' Health

    Carol M Ashton, Terri J Menke et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1996Referências: 15

    ASHTON, CAROL; MENKE, TERRI; DEYKIN, DANIEL; CAMBERG, LOIS; CHARNS, MARTIN Author Information

  • Research Organizations in the Department of Veterans Affairs that Focus on Database Analysis

    Terri J Menke, Terri Menke et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1996

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) established several internal research organizations to analyze the many VA and non-VA databases. The information obtained assists VA in achieving its objective of providing cost-effective, high quality health care for veterans. Each group has a unique and well-defined function. All major informational inputs needed for VA planning are covered by the groups: resource allocation, workload requirements, popula…