Publications

Payment restrictions for prescription drugs under Medicaid. Effects on therapy, cost, and equity.

N. Engl. J. Med.
Soumerai SB, Avorn J, Ross-Degnan D, Gortmaker S

Information and education as determinants of antibiotic use: report of Task Force 5.

Rev. Infect. Dis.
Avorn J, Harvey K, Soumerai SB, Herxheimer A, Plumridge R, Bardelay G

Predictors of physician prescribing change in an educational experiment to improve medication use.

Med Care
Soumerai SB, Avorn J

Changing prescribing practices through individual continuing education.

JAMA
Soumerai SB, Avorn J

The impact of health maintenance organizations on geriatric care.

Ann. Intern. Med.
Gillick MR

Is asthma misdiagnosed?

J Asthma
Plaut TF, Hershey JE, Bendich DM, Katz HP, Schoen EJ

Blindness in Saudi Arabia.

JAMA
Tabbara KF, Ross-Degnan D

Economic and policy analysis of university-based drug "detailing".

Med Care
Soumerai SB, Avorn J

Common-sense models of health and disease.

N. Engl. J. Med.
Gillick MR

Physician education and cost containment.

JAMA
Soumerai SB, Avorn J

Efficacy and cost-containment in hospital pharmacotherapy: state of the art and future directions.

Milbank Mem Fund Q Health Soc
Soumerai SB, Avorn J

Sounding boards. Is the care of the chronically ill a medical prerogative?

N. Engl. J. Med.
Gillick MR

Health promotion, jogging, and the pursuit of the moral life.

J Health Polit Policy Law
Gillick MR

A new approach to reducing suboptimal drug use.

JAMA
Avorn J, Soumerai SB

Use of a computer-based Medicaid drug data to analyze and correct inappropriate medication use.

J Med Syst
Avorn J, Soumerai SB

Field methodology for ocular surveys in rural Africa.

Soc Sci Med
Ross-Degnan D, Schwab L, Mburu FM

Improving drug-therapy decisions through educational outreach. A randomized controlled trial of academically based "detailing".

N. Engl. J. Med.
Avorn J, Soumerai SB

Perceived health, life satisfaction, and activity in urban elderly: a controlled study of the impact of part-time work.

J Gerontol
Soumerai SB, Avorn J

Cataract and corneal opacity are the main causes of blindness in the Samburu tribe of Kenya.

Ophthalmic Surg
Whitfield R, Schwab L, Bakker NJ, Bisley GG, Ross-Degnan D

Referral of patients from long-term to acute-care facilities.

J Am Geriatr Soc.
Gillick M, Steel K