Publications

Impact of a high-deductible health plan on outpatient visits and associated diagnostic tests.

Med Care
Reddy SR, Ross-Degnan D, Zaslavsky AM, Soumerai SB, Wharam JF

Rapid increase in breast magnetic resonance imaging use: trends from 2000 to 2011.

JAMA Intern Med
Stout NK, Nekhlyudov L, Li L, Malin ES, Ross-Degnan D, Buist DS, Rosenberg MA, Alfisher M, Fletcher SW

Impacts of drug reimbursement reductions on utilization and expenditures of oral antidiabetic medications in Taiwan: an interrupted time series study.

Health Policy
Hsu JC, Lu CY, Wagner AK, Chan KA, Lai MS, Ross-Degnan D

Access to medicines for acute illness in middle income countries in Central America.

Rev Saude Publica
Emmerick IC, Luiza VL, Camacho LA, Ross-Degnan D

The ACA and high-deductible insurance--strategies for sharpening a blunt instrument.

N. Engl. J. Med.
Wharam JF, Ross-Degnan D, Rosenthal MB

Access to affordable medicines after health reform: evidence from two cross-sectional surveys in Shaanxi Province, western China.

Lancet Glob Health
Fang Y, Wagner AK, Yang S, Jiang M, Zhang F, Ross-Degnan D

Low-socioeconomic-status enrollees in high-deductible plans reduced high-severity emergency care.

Health Aff (Millwood)
Wharam JF, Zhang F, Landon BE, Soumerai SB, Ross-Degnan D

Interrupted time-series analysis yielded an effect estimate concordant with the cluster-randomized controlled trial result.

J Clin Epidemiol
Fretheim A, Soumerai SB, Zhang F, Oxman AD, Ross-Degnan D

Appointment systems are essential for improving chronic disease care in resource-poor settings: learning from experiences with HIV patients in Africa.

Int Health
Chalker JC, Wagner AK, Tomson G, Johnson K, Wahlström R, Ross-Degnan D,

Health care payments in the Asia Pacific: validation of five survey measures of economic burden.

Int J Equity Health
Reddy SR, Ross-Degnan D, Zaslavsky AM, Soumerai SB, Wagner AK

Facility-level intervention to improve attendance and adherence among patients on anti-retroviral treatment in Kenya--a quasi-experimental study using time series analysis.

BMC Health Serv Res
Boruett P, Kagai D, Njogo S, Nguhiu P, Awuor C, Gitau L, Chalker J, Ross-Degnan D, Wahlström R, Tomson G,

The relationship between emergency department use and cost-related medication nonadherence among Medicare beneficiaries.

Ann Emerg Med
Blanchard J, Madden JM, Ross-Degnan D, Gresenz CR, Soumerai SB

Have we improved use of medicines in developing and transitional countries and do we know how to? Two decades of evidence.

Trop. Med. Int. Health
Holloway KA, Ivanovska V, Wagner AK, Vialle-Valentin C, Ross-Degnan D

Improving private drug sellers' practices for managing common health problems in Nepal.

J Nepal Health Res Counc
Kafle KK, Karkee SB, Shrestha N, Prasad RR, Bhuju GB, Das PL, Shrestha AD, Ross-Degnan D

Some families who purchased health coverage through the Massachusetts Connector wound up with high financial burdens.

Health Aff (Millwood)
Galbraith AA, Sinaiko AD, Soumerai SB, Ross-Degnan D, Dutta-Linn MM, Lieu TA

Need for and access to health care and medicines: are there gender inequities?

PLoS ONE
Wagner AK, Graves AJ, Fan Z, Walker S, Zhang F, Ross-Degnan D

Does access to medicines differ by gender? Evidence from 15 low and middle income countries.

Health Policy
Stephens P, Ross-Degnan D, Wagner AK

Impact of emerging health insurance arrangements on diabetes outcomes and disparities: rationale and study design.

Prev Chronic Dis
Wharam JF, Soumerai S, Trinacty C, Eggleston E, Zhang F, LeCates R, Canning C, Ross-Degnan D

Changes in use of antidiabetic medications following price regulations in China (1999–2009)

J Pharm Health Serv Res
Lu CY, Ross-Degnan D, Stephens P, Liu B, Wagner AK

The experience of Massachusetts shows that consumers will need help in navigating insurance exchanges.

Health Aff (Millwood)
Sinaiko AD, Ross-Degnan D, Soumerai SB, Lieu T, Galbraith A