OBJECTIVE (STUDY QUESTION): To use systems thinking with diverse system actors to (a) characterize current problems at the intersection of chronic conditions (CCs) and reproductive health (RH) care and their determinants, (b) determine nece…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether accounting for past patient composition in evaluations of the association between public quality reports and patient selectivity changes findings and conclusions. DATA SOURCES: Secondary data analysis of p…
OBJECTIVE: To understand how Black and Native American women with chronic conditions experience reproductive health care and identify patient-centered strategies to improve care. STUDY SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: We held a series of virtual …
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effects of early pregnancy loss on subsequent health care use and costs. DATA SOURCES: Linked administrative health databases from Manitoba, Canada. STUDY DESIGN: This was a population-based cohort study. The ex…
OBJECTIVE: To estimate differences in average annual health care expenditures of adult women with chronic overlapping pain conditions (COPCs) by pain treatment modality as follows: (1) no long-term opioid or complementary and integrative he…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the intersection of race and economic context in treatment with hysterectomy among reproductive aged women with noncancerous gynecologic conditions. DATA SOURCES: We combined administrative billing records of inpa…
OBJECTIVE: To examine the association of clinical chorioamnionitis on cesarean delivery in a national sample of hospital discharges. DATA SOURCE: Hospital discharge data from the 1998-2010 Nationwide Inpatient Sample. STUDY DESIGN: We per…
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the effects of financial access and other individual characteristics on the likelihood that a woman pursues infertility treatment and the choice of treatment type. DATA SOURCE/STUDY SETTING: The 1995 National Survey …
OBJECTIVE: This study investigates the role of nonclinical factors (physician characteristics) in explaining variations in hysterectomy practice patterns. DATA SOURCES AND STUDY SETTING: Patient discharge data are obtained from the Arizona…