Publications

Are the peers peers?

JAMA
Soumerai SB

Withdrawal of a drug from the market: what should the prescriber do?

JAMA
Ross-Degnan D, Soumerai SB, Fortess EE, Gurwitz JH

Effects of a limit on Medicaid drug-reimbursement benefits on the use of psychotropic agents and acute mental health services by patients with schizophrenia.

N. Engl. J. Med.
Soumerai SB, McLaughlin TJ, Ross-Degnan D, Casteris CS, Bollini P

Examining product risk in context. Market withdrawal of zomepirac as a case study.

JAMA
Ross-Degnan D, Soumerai SB, Fortess EE, Gurwitz JH

Influence of knowledge and attitudes on the quality of physicians' transfusion practice.

Med Care
Salem-Schatz SR, Avorn J, Soumerai SB

A controlled trial of educational outreach to improve blood transfusion practice.

JAMA
Soumerai SB, Salem-Schatz S, Avorn J, Casteris CS, Ross-Degnan D, Popovsky MA

Improving choice of prescribed antibiotics through concurrent reminders in an educational order form.

Med Care
Soumerai SB, Avorn J, Taylor WC, Wessels M, Maher D, Hawley SL

A critical analysis of studies of state drug reimbursement policies: research in need of discipline.

Milbank Q
Soumerai SB, Ross-Degnan D, Fortess EE, Abelson J

A randomized trial of a program to reduce the use of psychoactive drugs in nursing homes.

N. Engl. J. Med.
Avorn J, Soumerai SB, Everitt DE, Ross-Degnan D, Beers MH, Sherman D, Salem-Schatz SR, Fields D

Reducing the use of H2-receptor antagonists in the long-term-care setting.

J Am Geriatr Soc
Gurwitz JH, Noonan JP, Soumerai SB

Effects of professional and media warnings about the association between aspirin use in children and Reye's syndrome.

Milbank Q
Soumerai SB, Ross-Degnan D, Kahn JS

Effects of Medicaid drug-payment limits on admission to hospitals and nursing homes.

N. Engl. J. Med.
Soumerai SB, Ross-Degnan D, Avorn J, McLaughlin Tj, Choodnovskiy I

Drug prescribing in pediatrics: challenges for quality improvement.

Pediatrics
Soumerai SB, Ross-Degnan D

Changing surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis practices through education targeted at senior department leaders.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
Everitt DE, Soumerai SB, Avorn J, Klapholz H, Wessels M

Experience of state drug benefit programs.

Health Aff (Millwood)
Soumerai SB, Ross-Degnan D

Influence of clinical knowledge, organizational context, and practice style on transfusion decision making. Implications for practice change strategies.

JAMA
Salem-Schatz SR, Avorn J, Soumerai SB

Improving medication prescribing and utilization in the nursing home.

J Am Geriatr Soc
Gurwitz JH, Soumerai SB, Avorn J

Quality assurance for drug prescribing.

Qual Assur Health Care
Soumerai SB, McLaughlin TJ, Avorn J

Withdrawing payment for nonscientific drug therapy. Intended and unexpected effects of a large-scale natural experiment.

JAMA
Soumerai SB, Ross-Degnan D, Gortmaker S, Avorn J

Principles of educational outreach ('academic detailing') to improve clinical decision making.

JAMA
Soumerai SB, Avorn J