Mailing Address:
Harvard Medical School
Department of Population Medicine
133 Brookline Avenue, 6th Floor
Boston, MA 02215
Fang_Zhang@harvardpilgrim.org
Phone: (617) 509-9962
Fax: (617) 859-9853
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Fang Zhang, PhD
Fang Zhang is an instructor of the Department of Population Medicine. His primary research interests are in health services, public health surveillance and general Bayesian methodology development, particularly as it pertains to the statistical aspects of evaluating the impacts of local, national and international pharmaceutical policies and drug safety monitoring. He is currently providing statistical support for various studies including studies to evaluate the impact of Medicare drug benefit on use and cost-related underuse of medicines, studies to evaluate the prior authorization policies of atypical antipsychotic agents, bipolar agents and antidepressants. He is also involved in multi-site studies on vaccine and medication safety.
Selected Publications:
Zhang F,Wagner AK,Soumerai SB,Ross-Degnan D,.
Methods for estimating confidence intervals in interrupted time series analyses of health interventions
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J Clin Epidemiol. 2009 Feb;2:143-148
Velentgas P,Bohn RL,Brown JS,Chan KA,Gladowski P,Holick CN,Kramer JM,Nakasato C,Spettell CM,Walker AM,Zhang F,Platt R,.
A distributed research network model for post-marketing safety studies: the Meningococcal Vaccine Study23
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Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2008 Dec;12:1226-1234
Fortuna RJ,Ross-Degnan D,Finkelstein J,Zhang F,Campion FX,Simon SR,.
Clinician attitudes towards prescribing and implications for interventions in a multi-specialty group practice
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J Eval Clin Pract. 2008 Dec;6:969-973
Tjia J,Briesacher BA,Soumerai SB,Pierre-Jacques M,Zhang F,Ross-Degnan D,Gurwitz JH,.
Medicare beneficiaries and free prescription drug samples: a national survey
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J Gen Intern Med. 2008 Jun;6:709-714
Adams AS,Trinacty CM,Zhang F,Kleinman K,Grant RW,Meigs JB,Soumerai SB,Ross-Degnan D,.
Medication adherence and racial differences in A1C control
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Diabetes Care. 2008 May;5:916-921
Soumerai SB,Zhang F,Ross-Degnan D,Ball DE,LeCates RF,Law MR,Hughes TE,Chapman D,Adams AS,.
Use of atypical antipsychotic drugs for schizophrenia in Maine Medicaid following a policy change
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Health Aff (Millwood ). 2008 May;3:w185-w195
Madden JM,Graves AJ,Zhang F,Adams AS,Briesacher BA,Ross-Degnan D,Gurwitz JH,Pierre-Jacques M,Safran DG,Adler GS,Soumerai SB,.
Cost-related medication nonadherence and spending on basic needs following implementation of Medicare Part D
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JAMA. 2008 Apr 23;16:1922-1928
Pierre-Jacques M,Safran DG,Zhang F,Ross-Degnan D,Adams AS,Gurwitz J,Rusinak D,Soumerai SB,.
Reliability of new measures of cost-related medication nonadherence
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Med Care. 2008 Apr;4:444-448
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