Curriculum vitae
SUSAN D. HORN, Ph.D.
Institute for Clinical Outcomes Research
International
Severity Information Systems, Inc.
699 E. South Temple, Suite 100
Salt
Lake City, UT 84102-1282
(801) 466-5595; fax: (801)
466-6685
shorn@isisicor.com
www.isisicor.com
Education
Cornell University B.A. Mathematics 1964 (Distinction in all subjects)
Cornell University Biometrics 1965
Stanford University M.S. Statistics 1966
Stanford University Ph.D. Statistics 1968
Experience in Higher Education
1968-75 Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
1968-72 Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics,
1972-77 Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University
1973-77 Assistant Professor, Department of Health Services Administration, The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
1977-81 Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University
1977-86 Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
1979-90 Associate Director, The Center for Hospital Finance and Management, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
1986-91 Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
1991-92 Adjunct Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
1992- Adjunct Professor, Department of Medical Informatics, University of Utah School of Medicine
1999-2001 Research Professor, University of Texas - Houston, School of Nursing
2004-2005 Visiting Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing, Vanderbilt University
2004- Research Professor, Division of Physical Therapy, University of Utah College of Health
Other Professional Experience
1991-95 Senior Scientist, Intermountain Health Care, Salt Lake City, Utah
1995- Senior Scientist, Institute for Clinical Outcomes Research, Salt Lake City, Utah
Fellowships, Grants, and Contracts
1966-68 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University
1969-73 Investigator on U.S. Air Force Contract F44620-72-C-0094
1968-69 Investigator on U.S. Department of Transportation Traffic Contract FH-11-6884
1974-77 Investigator on U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare Grant 1-RO1-HS-01590-01
1978-82 Principal Investigator Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Health Care Financing Administration, Grant 18-P-97045, "Hospital Costs, Death Rates, Classification, and Case Mix: An Analysis of Maryland Hospitals for Regulation Purposes"
1979-84 Co-Principal Investigator The John A. Hartford Foundation, Center for Hospital Finance and Management, Grant 80012-2H
1980-82 Principal Investigator Department of Health and Human Services (subcontract with Arthur Young & Co.) HHS-100-80-0155, "The Financing of Graduate Medical Education"
1982-85 Principal Investigator Pew Memorial Trust grant, "Quantifying Severity of Illness: A New Method for Uniform Evaluation of Disparate Patient Populations"
1982-83 Principal Investigator Johns Hopkins Hospital grant, "Severity of Illness in the Neurosciences"
1983-84 Co-Investigator Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Ontario contract, "Development of a Case-Mix Management System"
1983-84 Principal Investigator Johns Hopkins Hospital grant, "Implementing the Severity of Illness Index at Johns Hopkins Hospital"
1983-84 Principal Investigator Department of Health and Human Services, Health Care Financing Administration, Grant 18-P-98378/3-01, "Severity of Illness Within Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs)"
1984-85 Principal Investigator Cystic Fibrosis Foundation contract, "Misclassification of Cystic Fibrosis in DRGs"
1984-90 Principal Investigator New York University Hospital contract, "Implementing The Severity of Illness Index for Internal Hospital Management"
1984-87 Principal Investigator Johns Hopkins Hospital contract, "Severity of Illness and Other Indices Within Johns Hopkins Hospital"
1984-86 Principal Investigator National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions, "Severity of Illness and Resource Use Differences with Pediatric DRGs"
1984-86 Principal Investigator National Center for Health Services Research procurement contract, "Protocol Study"
1985-86 Principal Investigator National Institutes of Mental Health contract, "Psychiatric Severity of Illness Measurement"
1985-90 Principal Investigator Pew Memorial Trust grant, "Ambulatory Visit Severity of Illness Study"
1985-88 Investigator Burn Foundation grant, "Differences in Resource Use Among Patients with Burn Injuries"
1986-87 Principal Investigator Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission/Johns Hopkins Hospital contract, "Nursing Intensity Study"
1987-88 Principal Investigator Hemophilia Foundation contract, "Costs of Care for Patients with Hemophilia"
1987-94 Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant, "Faculty Fellowship Program in Health Care Financing"
1989 Principal Investigator Maryland PSRO contract, "Severity Measurement of Medicare Patients"
1989 Principal Investigator Rutgers University contract, "Psychiatric Severity of Illness Study"
1991-date Principal Investigator National Pharmaceutical Council contract, "Relationship of Pharmacy Cost Control Methods to Patient Outcomes in the Ambulatory Setting"
1993-95 Principal Investigator IHC [Bill Prows], "Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers"1993-95 Co-Principal Investigator - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant, "Regionalization of ICU Care"
1994-95 Principal Investigator Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant, "Research-Based Superior Protocols in Medical Malpractice Tort Reform"
1994-95 Principal Investigator Parke-Davis grant, "Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding Study"
1995 Principal Investigator American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology Grant, "Analysis of Asthma Treatment from the MCOP Database"
1995 Principal Investigator National Pharmaceutical Council grant, "Analyzing Data from the Managed Care Outcomes Project"
1995 Principal Investigator Adventist Health System West contract, "Abdominal Surgery Clinical Practice Improvement Study"
1995 Principal Investigator Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, "Pediatric Computerized Severity Index" Contract #282-95-0042.
1995 Principal Investigator Ross Laboratories contract, "Clinical Practice Improvement Study to Assess Nutritional Support to Bone Marrow Transplant and Colorectal Cancer Patients"
1995 Principal Investigator Southwest Washington Medical Center contract, "Clinical Practice Improvement Study to Assess Congestive Heart Failure"
1996 Principal Investigator Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center contract, "Improving the Care of Congestive Heart Failure Patients"
1996 Principal Investigator Merck & Company contract, "Analyses of Asthma Patients in the Managed Care Outcomes Project Database."
1996 Principal Investigator Searle contract, "Analyses of Hypertension and Arthritis Patients in Managed Care Outcomes Project Database."
1996 Principal Investigator Health Resources and Services Administration, "Medical Malpractice Reports/ICD-9-CM and Severity Coding - Pilot Study"
1997 Principal Investigator Ross Laboratories contract, "Clinical Practice Improvement Study to Assess Nutritional Support to Prevent Pressure Ulcers in Long Term Care Patients."
Principal Investigator Centura Health contract, "Abdominal Surgery Clinical Practice Improvement."
1998 Principal Investigator - Adventist Health contract, "Preventing Inpatient Falls Clinical Practice Improvement Study."
Principal Investigator Adventist Health contract, "Diabetes Clinical Practice Improvement Study in the Ambulatory Setting."
1998 Principal Investigator - Adventist Health contract, "Post-operative Nutrition Clinical Practice Improvement Study."
Co-Investigator Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to National Hospice Organization, "National Hospice Outcomes Feasibility Project."
Principal Investigator - Adventist Health contract, "Association of PCA Pumps and Wound Infections."
1999 Investigator National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research. Cooperative agreement with Dr. Alan Jette, principal investigator, Boston University, to direct a Rehabilitation Research and Training Center in Measuring Rehabilitative Outcomes. Principal Investigator Project 3: "Effectiveness of Stroke Rehabilitation Interventions."
2000 Principal Investigator - Adventist Health contract, "Clinical Practice Improvement Study of IV Medication Errors."
2000 Principal Investigator - IC-USA contract, "CSIฎ Severity Adjustment to Study the Impact of IC-USA Care."
1999 Principal Investigator - Marshfield TeleHealth contract, "Evaluation Study of Long Term Care Telemedicine Clinical Practice Improvement Study."
2000 Principal Investigator - Marshfield TeleHealth contract, "Evaluation Study of Teledermatology Clinical Practice Improvement Study."
2000-03 Principal Investigator - Legacy Health System contract, "Abdominal Surgery Clinical Practice Improvement."
2001-04 Co-Investigator with National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, National Hospice Outcomes Project, Phase 3.
Co-Investigator with National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, National Hospice Outcomes Project, Phase 3.
Principal Investigator Memorial Hermann Health System, C-Section Clinical Practice Improvement study.
Principal Investigator AHRQ Research Project Cooperative Agreement, Real-time Optimal Care Plans for Nursing Home QI.
2003-05 Investigator Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, CPI Study of Nurse Practitioner and Resident Care for Diabetes Patients.
2004-07 Principal Investigator AHRQ Research Project Cooperative Agreement, Nursing Home IT: Optimal Medication and Care Delivery.
2005-07 Principal Investigator AHRQ Contract, On-Time Prevention of Pressure Ulcers: Partnering with Quality Improvement Organizations.
2005-07 Co-Principal Investigator National Rehabilitation Hospital, HealthSouth, and others Contract, Post-acute Rehabilitation of Patients with Joint Replacement in IRFs and SNFs.
2005-08 Co-Principal Investigator - National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research. Grant to National Rehabilitation Hospital, Gerben DeJong, Principal Investigator. Black-White Disparities in Stroke Rehabilitation.
Publications in Journals
1. Lamy PP, Kitler ME, Horn SD, Liebman JS, LeSage PJ, Bowling D. Predicting Manpower Needs for the Outpatient Pharmacy - A Preliminary Report, American Journal of Hospital Pharmacies 27 (April, 1970): 300-307.
2. Horn SD, Schach S. An Extension of the Hewitt-Savage Zero-One Law, Annals of Mathematical Statistics 41 (December, 1970): 2130-2131. MR42#3821.
3. Duncan DB, Horn SD. Linear Dynamic Recursive Estimation from the Viewpoint of Regression Analysis, Journal of American Statistical Association 67 (December, 1972): 815-821. MR50#11642.
4. Horn SD. On the Optimality Criterion for Compound Decision Problems, Annals of Statistics 3 (May, 1975): 767-772.
5. Horn SD, Horn RA, Duncan DB. Estimating Heteroscedastic Variances in Linear Models, Journal of American Statistical Association 70 (June, 1975): 308-385. MR51#7169.
6. Horn SD, Horn RA. Comparison of Estimators of Heteroscedastic Variances in Linear Models, Journal of American Statistical Association 70 (December, 1975): 872-879. MR52#9514.
7. Starfield B, Simborg D, Horn SD, Yourtree SA. Continuity and Coordination in Primary Care: Their Achievement and Utility, Medical Care 14 (July, 1976): 625-636.
8. Horn SD. Teaching Statistics to Elementary School Students, Communications in Statistics 5 (Fall, 1976): 895-899.
9. Simborg D, Starfield B, Horn SD. Information Factors Affecting Problem Follow-up in Ambulatory Care, Medical Care 14 (September, 1976): 848-856.
10. Horn SD. Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Discrete Data: A Review and An Application to a Health Impairment Scale, Biometrics 33 (March, 1977): 237-248.
11. Horn SD, Pozen MW. Interpretation of Implicit Judgments in Chart Review, Journal of Community Health 2 (Summer, 1977): 251-258.
12. Horn SD, Williamson JW. Statistical Methods for Reliability and Validity Testing: An Application to Nominal Group Judgments in Health Care, Medical Care 15 (November, 1977): 922-928.
13. Starfield BH, Simborg DW, Johns CJ, Horn SD. Coordination of Care: Its Relationship to Continuity and Medical Records, Medical Care 15 (November, 1977): 929-938.
14. Simborg DW, Starfield BH, Horn SD. Physician and Nonphysician Practitioners: The Characteristics of their Practices and their Interrelationship, American Journal of Public Health 68 (January, 1978): 44-48.
15. Bartels RH, Horn SD, Liebetrau AM, Harris WL. A Computational Investigation of Conover's Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test for Discrete Distributions, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 7 (1978): 151-162.
16. Horn SD, Yesalis C, Bartels R. Selection of Regression Models for Health Care Data, Medical Care 16 (July, 1978): 574-583.
17. Williamson JW, Braswell H, Horn SD, Lohmehyer S. Priority Setting in Quality Assurance: Reliability of Staff Judgments in Medical Institutions, Medical Care 16 (November, 1978): 931-940.
18. Williamson JW, Braswell H, Horn SD. Validity of Medical Staff Judgments in Establishing Quality Assurance Priorities, Medical Care 17 (April, 1979): 331-346.
19. Horn SD Schumacher DN. An Analysis of Case Mix Complexity Using Information Theory and Diagnostic Related Grouping, Medical Care 17 (April, 1979): 382-389.
20. McCormick MD, Shapiro S, Horn SD. The Relationship Between Infant Mortality Rates and Medical Care and Socio-Economic Variables, Chile 1960-1970, International Journal of Epidemiology 8 (June, 1979): 145-154.
21. Schumacher DN, Horn SD, Solnick MF, Atkinson G, Cook J. Hospital Cost Per Case: Analyses Using a Statewide Data System, Medical Care 17 (October, 1979): 1037-1047.
22. Starfield B, Vanden Berg BJ, Steinwachs DM, Katz HP, Horn SD. Variations in Utilization of Health Services by Children, Pediatrics 63 (1979): 633-641.
23. Horn SD, Roveti GC, Kreitzer SL. Length of Stay Variations: A Focused Review, Quality Review Bulletin (February, 1980): 6-10. Reprinted in Quality Review Bulletin Special Edition 1983, Data Management in Cost Containment and Quality Review Strategies.
24. Amano H, Bulkley G, Gorey T, Hamilton S, Horn SD, Zuidema G. The Role of Microvascular Patency in the Recovery of Small Intestine From Ischemic Injury, Surgical Forum 31 (1980): 157-159.
25. Roveti GC, Horn SD, Kreitzer SL. AS-SCORE - A Multi-Attribute, Clinical Index of Illness Severity, Quality Review Bulletin 6 (July, 1980): 25-31. Reprinted in Quality Review Bulletin Special Edition 1983, Data Management in Cost Containment and Quality Review Strategies.
26. Bulkley GB, Gharagozloo F, Alderson PO, Horn SD, Zuidema GD. Use of Intraperitoneal Xenon-133 for Imaging of Intestinal Strangulation in Small Bowel Obstruction, American Journal of Surgery 141 (January, 1981): 128-135.
27. Horn SD. Validity, Reliability, and Implications of an Index of Inpatient Severity of Illness, Medical Care 19 (March, 1981): 354-362.
28. Bulkley GB, Zuidema GD, Hamilton SR, O'Mara CS, Klacsmann PG, Horn SD. Intraoperative Determination of Small Intestinal Viability Following Ischemic Injury: A Prospective, Controlled Trial of Two Adjuvant Methods (Doppler and Fluorescein) Compared to Standard Clinical Judgment, Annals of Surgery 193 (May, 1981): 628-637.
29. Yesalis CE, Horn SD. Commentary on Membership Duration and Utilization Rates in a Prepaid Group Practice (Griffith, MJ and Baloff, N), Medical Care 19 (December, 1981): 1226-1232.
30. Bertram DA, Schumacher DN, Horn SD, Clopton CJ, Lord JG, Chan C. Hospital Case Mix Groupings and Generic Algorithms: A New Approach to Patient Classification, Quality Review Bulletin 8 (January, 1982): 24-30. Reprinted in Quality Review Bulletin Special Edition 1983, Data Management in Cost Containment and Quality Review Strategies.
31. Horn SD, Schumacher DN. Comparing Classification Methods: Measurement of Variations in Charges, Length of Stay, and Mortality, Medical Care 20 (May, 1982): 489-500.
32. Horn SD. Severity Index Applied to DRGs Accounts for Sicker Patients, Hospitals (December 16, 1982): 37.
33. Faden R, Chwalow AJ, Holtzman NA, Horn SD. A Survey to Evaluate Parental Consent as Public Policy for Neonatal Screening, American Journal of Public Health 72 (December, 1982): 1347-1351.
34. Horn SD, Sharkey PD, Bertram D. Measuring Severity of Illness: Homogeneous Case Mix Groups, Medical Care 21 (January, 1983): 14-31.
35. Horn SD. Measuring Severity of Illness: Comparisons Across Institutions, American Journal of Public Health 73 (January, 1983): 25-31.
36. Horn SD, Sharkey PD. Measuring Severity of Illness to Predict Patient Resource Use Within DRGs, Inquiry 20 (Winter, 1983): 314-321.
37. Holtzman NA, Faden R, Chwalow AJ, Horn SD. The Effect of Informed Consent on Mothers' Knowledge of Newborn Screening and Their Attitude Toward Consent, Pediatrics 72 (December, 1983): 807-812.
38. Horn SD. Does Severity of Illness Make A Difference in Prospective Payment? Healthcare Financial Management (May, 1983): 49-53.
39. Horn SD, Chachich B, Clopton C. Measuring Severity of Illness: A Reliability Study, Medical Care 21 (July, 1983): 705-714.
40. Cunningham F, Shapiro S, Horn S. Factors Influencing Progress Towards Viability of Federally Funded HMOs, The Group Health Journal 4 (Winter, 1983): 12-27.
41. Starfield B, Katz H, Gabriel A, Livingston G, Benson P, Hankin J, Horn S, Steinwachs D. Morbidity in Childhood: A Longitudinal View, New England Journal of Medicine 310:13 (March, 1984): 824-829.
42. Horn SD. Help in Slicing the Health Care Pie, Personal Computing (March, 1984): 17-22.
43. Horn SD, Horn RA. Severity Data Aid in Hospital Management, Hospital Forum (July/ August, 1984): 55-60.
44. Horn SD, Horn RA, Sharkey PD. The Severity of Illness Index as a Severity Adjustment to DRGs, Health Care Financing Review (November, 1984 annual supplement): 33-45.
45. Horn SD. Hospital Planning for Profit: The Importance of Measuring Severity of Illness, Alabama Journal of Medical Sciences 22 (January, 1985): 21-29.
46. Starfield B, Hankin J, Steinwachs D, Horn SD, Benson P, Katz H, Gabriel A. Utilization and Morbidity: Random or Tandem? Pediatrics 75 (February, 1985): 241-247.
47. Horn SD, Bulkley G, Sharkey PD, Chambers AF, Horn RA, Schramm CJ. Inter-Hospital Differences in Patient Severity: Problems for Prospective Payment Based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs), New England Journal of Medicine 313 (July 4, 1985): 20-24.
48. Horn SD et al. Will PPS Be Super Someday: What Seven Experts Say, Healthcare Financial Management (July, 1985): 29-34.
49. Bulkley GB, Oshima A, Bailey RW, Horn SD. Control of Gastric Vascular Resistance in Cardiogenic Shock, Surgery 98 (August, 1985): 213-223.
50. Horn SD. A Plan to Modify DRGs, Business and Health (September, 1985): 32-35.
51. Horn SD, Horn RA, Sharkey PD, Chambers AF. Severity of Illness Within DRGs: Impact on Prospective Payment, American Journal of Public Health 75 (October, 1985): 1195-1199.
52. Horn SD. Is a Severity Adjustment Needed for PPS? AMI Prospective 86:2 (February, 1986): 2-4.
53. Horn SD, Horn RA. Reliability and Validity of the Severity of Illness Index, Medical Care 24 (February, 1986): 159-178.
54. Horn SD, Horn RA, Sharkey PD, Beall RJ, Hoff JS, Rosenstein BJ. Misclassification Problems in Diagnosis Related Groups: Cystic Fibrosis as an Example, New England Journal of Medicine 314 (February 20, 1986): 484-487.
55. Horn SD, Horn RA. The Computerized Severity Index: A New Tool for Case-Mix Management, Journal of Medical Systems 10 (February, 1986): 73-78.
56. Horn SD, Horn RA, Sharkey PD, Chambers AF. Severity of Illness Within DRGs: Homogeneity Study, Medical Care 24 (March, 1986): 225-235.
57. Horn SD, Horn RA, Moses HG. Profiles of Physician Practice and Severity of Illness, American Journal of Public Health 76 (May, 1986): 532-535.
58. Horn SD. Measuring Severity: How sick is sick? How well is well? Healthcare Financial Management (October, 1986): 21-32.
59. Horn SD, Sharkey PD. A Study of Patients in Cancer-Related DRGs, Journal of Cancer Program Management 1 (November, 1986): 8-14.
60. Backofen J, Ashworth MA, Horn SD. The Computerized Severity Index: A New Sophisticated Tool to Measure Hospital Quality of Care, Healthcare Forum (March/April, 1987): 35-37.
61. Horn SD. The Computerized Severity Index, The AMPRA Review 4 (March/April, 1987): 6-7.
62. Horn SD, Backofen J. Ethical Issues in the Use of a Prospective Payment System: The Issue of a Severity of Illness Adjustment, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 12 (May, 1987): 145-153.
63. Horn SD. Physician Profiling: How It Can Be Misleading and What To Do, Journal of Medical Consultation 27 (December, 1987): 86-94.
64. Victor J, Lawrence P, Munster A, Horn S. A Statewide Targeted Burn Prevention Program. The Journal of Burn Care and Rehabilitation 9 (July/August, 1988): 425-429.
65. Averill RF, Horn SD. Quality of Care: Regulatory Trends and Hospital Marketing Strategies, Health Span, The Report of Health Business and Law 5 (October, 1988): 3-7.
66. Horn SD, Buckle JM, Carver CM. The Ambulatory Severity Index: Development of an Ambulatory Case Mix System, Journal of Ambulatory Care Management 11 (November, 1988): 53-62.
67. Horn SD, Chambers AF, Sharkey PD, Horn RA. Psychiatric Severity of Illness: A Case Mix Study, Medical Care 27 (January, 1989): 69-84.
68. Horn SD, Buckle JM. Severity Indices: Potential Uses in Quality Measurement, Topics in Health Record Management 10 (December, 1989): 45-55.
69. Anderson G, Steinberg E, Powe N, Antebi S, Whittle J, Horn, S, Herbert R. Setting Payment Rates for Capitated Systems: A Comparison of Various Alternatives, Inquiry 27 (Fall, 1990): 225-233.
70. Stoskopf C, Horn SD. The Computerized Psychiatric Severity Index as a Predictor of Inpatient Length of Stay for Psychoses, Medical Care 29 (March, 1991): 179-195.
71. Horn SD, Sharkey PD, Buckle JM, Backofen JE, Averill RF, Horn RA. The Relationship Between Severity of Illness and Hospital Length of Stay and Mortality, Medical Care 29 (April, 1991): 305-317.
72. Sharkey PD, Horn SD, Brigham PA, Horn RA, Potts L, Wayne JB, Dimick AR. Classifying Burn Patients for Hospital Reimbursement: DRGs and Modifications for Severity, Journal of Burn Care & Rehabilitation 12 (July/August, 1991): 319-329.
73. Buckle JM, Horn SD, Simpson RL. Nursing Care Classification: A Conceptual Model, Applied Nursing Research 4 (August, 1991): 100-106.
74. Classen DC, Evans RS, Pestotnik SL, Horn SD, Menlove RL, Burke, JP. The Timing of Prophylactic Administration of Antibiotics and the Risk of Surgical-Wound Infection, New England Journal of Medicine 326 (January 30, 1992): 281-286.
75. Stoskopf C, Horn SD. Predicting Length of Stay for Patients with Psychoses, Health Services Research 26 (February, 1992): 743-766.
76. Whitehead WE, Morrison A, Crowell MD, Heller BR, Robinson JC, Benjamin C, Horn SD. Development of a Scale to Measure Childhood Learning of Illness Behavior, Western Journal of Nursing Research 14 (April, 1992): 170-185.
77. Nathanson N, Horn SD. Neurovirulence Tests of Type 3 Oral Poliovirus Vaccine Manufactured by Lederle Laboratories, 1964-1988, Vaccine 10:7 (July, 1992): 469-474.
78. Buckle JM, Horn SD, Oates VM, Abbey H. Severity of Illness and Resource Use Differences Among White and Black Hospitalized Elderly, Archives of Internal Medicine 152 (August, 1992): 1596-1603.
79. Averill RF, McGuire TE, Manning BE, Fowler DA, Horn SD, Dickson PS, Coye MJ, Knowlton DL, Bender JA. A Study of the Relationship Between Severity of Illness and Hospital Cost in New Jersey Hospitals, Health Services Research 27:5 (December, 1992): 587-617.
80. Sharkey PD, DeHaemer MJ, Simmons LP, Horn SD. Assessing the Severity of Patients' Illnesses to Better Manage Health Care Resources, Interfaces 23:4 (July/August, 1993): 12-20.
81. Horn SD. Comments on "Is the Spirit of Capitalism Undermining the Ethics of Health Services Research?" Health Services Research 28:6 (February, 1994): 678-684.
82. Evans RS, Pestotnik SL, Classen DC, Horn SD, Bass SB, Burke JP. Preventing Adverse Drug Events in Hospitalized Patients, Annals of Pharmacotherapy 28 (April, 1994): 523-527.
83. Whitehead WE, Crowell MD, Heller BR, Robinson JC, Horn SD, Schuster MM. Modeling and Reinforcement of the Sick Role During Childhood Predicts Adult Illness Behavior, Psychosomatic Medicine 56:6 (November 1994): 541-550.
84. Horn SD. National Guidelines and Local Action: Priority-Setting for Development of Research Based Protocols at Intermountain Health Care, Setting Priorities for Clinical Practice Guidelines, Institute of Medicine (1995): 111-132.
85. Blatter DD, Bigler ED, Gale SD, Johnson SC, Anderson CV, Burnett BM, Parker N, Kurth S, Horn SD. Quantitative Volumetric Analysis of Brain MR: Normative Database Spanning 5 Decades of Life, American Journal of Neuroradiology 16 (February, 1995): 241-251.
86. Carroll RJ, Horn SD, Soderfeldt B, James BC, Malmberg L. An International Comparison of Waiting Times for Selected Cardiovascular Procedures, Journal of American College of Cardiology 25:3 (March 1, 1995): 557-63.
87. Horn SD. Commentary on Integrating Outcomes Measurements, Managed Care Quarterly 3:2 (1995): 1-2.
88. Rhodes RS, Sharkey PD, Horn SD. Effect of Patient Factors on Hospital Costs for Major Bowel Surgery: Implications for Managed Health Care, Surgery 117 (April 1995): 443-450.
89. Horn SD. Using Clinical Practice Improvement: An Interview with Susan Horn, The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement 21:6 (June 1995): 301-308.
90. Horn SD. Clinical Practice Improvement: Improving Quality and Decreasing Cost in Managed Care, Medical Interface (July 1995): 60-70.
91. Horn SD, Sharkey PD, Levy R. A Managed Care Pharmacoeconomic Research Model Based on the Managed Care Outcomes Project, Journal of Pharmacy Practice 8:4 (August 1995): 172-177.
92. Horn SD, Sharkey PD, Tracy DM, Horn CE, James B, Goodwin F. Intended and Unintended Consequences of HMO Cost-Containment Strategies: Results from the Managed Care Outcomes Project, The American Journal of Managed Care 2:3 (March 1996): 253-264.
93. Horn SD, Sharkey PD, Gassaway J. Managed Care Outcomes Project: Study Design, Baseline Patient Characteristics, and Outcome Measures, The American Journal of Managed Care 2:3 (March 1996): 237-247.
94. Horn SD. Clinical Practice Improvement: A New Methodology for Outcomes Research, Nutrition 12:5 (May 1996): 384-385.
95. Horn SD, Prather S, Jones CA. A Cohort Analysis of Pre-Menopausal Women with Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding, HMO Practice 10:2 (June 1996): 59-64.
96. Horn SD. The Clinical Practice Improvement (CPI) Model and How It Is Used to Examine the Availability of Pharmaceuticals and Utilization of Ambulatory Healthcare Services in HMOs: Results from the Managed Care Outcomes Project (MCOP), PharmacoEconomics 10: (Supplement 2, 1996): 50-55.
97. Gibson RF, Haug PJ, Horn SD. Lessons from Evaluating an Automated Patient Severity Index, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 3:5 (September/October 1996): 349-356.
98. Horn SD. Overcoming Obstacles to Effective Treatment: Use of Clinical Practice Improvement, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 58 (Supplement 1, 1997): 15-19.
99. Horn SD. Tools and Techniques in Disease Management: Programmes for Improving and Measuring Outcomes, Disease Management and Health Outcomes 1:1 (January 1997): 17-25.
100. Horn SD, Sharkey SS, Rimmasch HL. Clinical Practice Improvement: A Methodology to Improve Quality and Decrease Cost in Health Care, Oncology Issues 12:1 (January/February 1997): 16-20.
101. Bartels SJ, Horn SD, Sharkey PD, Levine K. Treatment of Depression in Older Primary Care Patients in Health Maintenance Organizations, International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine 27:3 (March 1997): 215-231.
102. Horn SD, Sharkey PD. The Impact of Managed Care Cost-Containment Strategies on the Aging Population, Critical Issues in Aging (October 1997): 40-41.
103. Wright HL, Horn SD. Analysis of Nonrandom Distribution of Caesarean Sections as a Quality Improvement Indicator, Disease Management 1:1 (January 1998): 13-16.
104. Horn SD, Sharkey PD, Phillips-Harris C. Formulary Limitations in the Elderly: Results from the Managed Care Outcomes Project. The American Journal of Managed Care 4:8 (August 1998): 105-1113.
105. Horn SD. Women's Use of Health Services, Advances in Integrated Healthcare 3:5 (September 1998): 1-6.
106. Horn SD. Data-Driven Clinical Outcomes Improvement to Reduce Health Care Cost, Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management 6:3 (March 1999): 26-32.
107. Raddish M, Horn SD, Sharkey PD. Continuity of Care: Is It Cost Effective? The American Journal of Managed Care 5:6 (June 1999): 727-734.
108. Elliott CG, Dudney T, Egger M, Orme J, Clemmer T, Horn S. Calf-Thigh Sequential Pneumatic Compression Compared with Plantar Venous Pneumatic Compression to Prevent Deep-Vein Thrombosis after Non-Lower Extremity Trauma, The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care 47:1 (July 1999): 25-32.
109. Horn SD. Provision of Outcomes Data. New Horizons (Society of Critical Care Medicine) 7:2 (July 1999): 198-204.
110. Clemmer TP, Spuhler VJ, Oniki TA, Horn SD. Results of a Collaborative Quality Improvement Program on Outcomes and Costs in a Tertiary Critical Care Unit, Critical Care Medicine 27:9 (September 1999): 1768-1774.
111. Willson DF, Horn SD, Smout RJ, Gassaway J, Torres A. Severity Assessment in Children Hospitalized with Bronchiolitis Using the Pediatric Component of the Comprehensive Severity Index (CSIฎ), Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 1:2 (October 2000): 127-132.
112. Neumayer LA, Smout RJ, Horn HGS, Horn SD. Early and Sufficient Feeding Reduces Length of Stay and Charges in Surgical Patients, Journal of Surgical Research 95:1 (January 2001) 73-77.
113. Antonow JA, Smout RJ, Gassaway J, Horn SD, Willson DF. Variation Among Ten Pediatric Hospitals: Sepsis Evaluations for Infants with Bronchiolitis, Journal Nursing Care Quality 15:3 (April 2001) 39-49.
114. Horn SD. Quality, Clinical Practice Improvement, and the Episode of Care, Managed Care Quarterly 9:3 (Summer 2001) 10-24.
115. Horn SD, Sharkey PD, Kelly HW, Uden DL. Newness of Drugs and Use of HMO Services by Asthma Patients, Annals of Pharmacotherapy 35 (September 2001) 990-996.
116. Willson DF, Horn SD, Hendley JO, Smout R, Gassaway J. The Effect of Practice Variation on Resource Utilization in Infants Hospitalized for Viral Lower Respiratory Illness (VLRI), PEDIATRICS 108:4 (October 2001) 851-855.
117. Buckle J, Sharkey P, Myriski P, Smout R, Horn S. Improving Outcomes for Patients Hospitalized with CHF. Managed Care Quarterly 2002;10(1):30-40.
118. Horn SD, Wright HL, Couperus JJ, Rhodes RS, Smout RJ, Roberts KA, Linares AP. Association Between Patient Controlled Analgesia Pump Use and Post-Operative Surgical Site Infection in Intestinal Surgery Patients, Surgical Infections 2002:(3(2):109-118. Abstracted in Year Book of Surgery, 2003.
119. Neumayer LA, Smout RJ, Horn HGS, Horn SD. Early and Sufficient Feeding Reduces Length of Stay and Charges in Surgical Patients, reprinted in 2002 Year Book of Surgery.
120. Horn SD, Torres A Jr, Willson D, Dean JM, Gassaway J, Smout R. Development of a Pediatric Age- and Disease-Specific Severity Measure. J Pediatrics 2002;141(4):496-503.
121. Horn SD, Goodwin F, Goldberg R. What Seniors Should Know about Government Restrictions on Prescription Drugs. The Heritage Foundation Backgrounder 2002:1-6.
122. Horn SD. Outcomes and Expenditures: Lessons from a New Research Paradigm. Drug Benefit Trends 2002;14(Supp. E):5-18.
123. Horn SD, Bender SA, Bergstrom N, Cook AS, Ferguson ML, Rimmasch HL, Sharkey SS, Smout RJ, Taler G, Voss, AC. Description of the National Pressure Ulcer Long-Term Care Study (NPULS). J. American Geriatrics Society 2002;50:1816-1825.
124. Bartels SJ, Horn SD, Smout RJ, Dums AR, Flaherty E, Jones JK, et al. Agitation and depression in frail nursing home elderly with dementia: Treatment characteristics and service use. American J Geriatric Psychiatry 2003;11(2):231-238.
125. Goldfarb-Rumyantzev AS, Scandling JD, Pappas L, Smout RJ, Horn SD. Prediction of Three Year Cadaveric Graft Survival Based on Pre-transplant Variables in a Large National Dataset. Clinical Transplantation 2003;17:485-497.
126. Horn SD. Limiting access to psychiatric services can increase total healthcare costs. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2003; 64(Supplement 17):23-28.
127. Horn SD, Smout RJ. Effect of prematurity on respiratory syncytial virus hospital resource use and outcomes. J Pediatrics 2003;143 (5 Suppl): S133-141.
128. Willson DF, Landrigan CP, Horn SD, Smout RJ. Complications in infants hospitalized for bronchiolitis or respiratory syncytial virus pneumonia. J Pediatrics 2003;143 (5 Suppl): S142-9.
129. Horn SD. Improving clinical outcomes over the continuum of a patient's care. Drug Benefit Trends 2003; 15(10):32-40.
130. Webster C, Neumayer L, Smout R, Horn S, Daley J, Henderson W, Khuri S; National Veterans Affairs Surgical Quality Improvement Program. Prognostic models of abdominal wound dehiscence after laparotomy. J Surg Res. 2003 Feb;109(2):130-7.
131. Horn SD. Limiting access to psychiatric services can increase total health care costs. Drug Benefit Trends 2003; 15 (Supplement 1, December): 12-18.
132. Horn SD, Bender SA, Ferguson ML, Smout RJ, Bergstrom N, Taler G, Cook AS, Sharkey SS, Voss AC. The National Pressure Ulcer Long-term Care Study (NPULS): Pressure ulcer development in long-term care residents. J. American Geriatrics Society 2004 March;52(3):359-367.
133. DeJong G, Horn SD, Gassaway JA, Slavin MD, Dijkers MP. Toward a taxonomy of rehabilitation interventions: Using an inductive approach to examine the "black box" of rehabilitation. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2004 April;85:678-86.
134. Bartels SJ, Horn SD, Smout RJ, Dums AR. Dementia complicated by mixed agitation and depression: treatment characteristics and service use. In B. Vellas, L. J. Fitten, B. Winblad, H. Feldman, M. Grundman, E. Giacobini & A. Kurz (Eds.), Research and Practice in Alzheimer's Disease 2004. Vol. 9, pp. 180-184. Paris: Serdi Publisher.
135. Jette DU, Latham NK, Smout RJ, Gassaway JV, Slavin MD, Horn SD. Physical therapy interventions for patients with stroke in in-patient rehabilitation facilities. Physical Therapy 2005 March; 85:238-248.
136. Ryser DK, Egger MJ, Horn SD, Handrahan D, Gandhi P, Bigler ED. Measuring medical complexity during inpatient rehabilitation following traumatic brain injury Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2005;86:1108-1117.
137. Ochs RF, Horn SD, van Rijswijk L, Pietsch C, Smout RJ. Comparison of air-fluidized therapy with other support surfaces used to treat pressure ulcers in nursing home residents. Ostomy/Wound Management 2005;51(2):38-68.
138. Dorr DA, Horn SD, Smout RJ. Cost analysis of nursing home registered nurse staffing times. J American Geriatrics Society 2005;53:840-845.
139. Horn SD. Practices that improve patient outcomes. Texas Medicine 2005 January.
140. Connor SR, Horn SD, Smout RJ, Gassaway JV. The National Hospice Outcomes Project (NHOP): Development and Implementation of a Multi-Site Hospice Outcomes Study. J Pain Symptom Manage 2005 March;29(3):286-296.
141. Horn SD, Buerhaus P, Bergstrom N, Smout RJ. Association between registered nurse staffing time and outcomes of long-stay nursing home residents. Amer J Nursing November 2005;105(11):58-71.
142. Bergstrom N, Horn SD, Smout RJ, Bender SA, Ferguson ML, Taler G, Sauer AC, Sharkey SS, Voss AC. The National Pressure Ulcer Long-Term Care Study (NPULS): Outcomes of pressure ulcer treatments in long-term care. J. American Geriatrics Society 2005;53:1721-29.
143. DeJong G, Horn SD, Conroy B, Nichols D, Healton E. Opening the Black Box of Poststroke Rehabilitation: Stroke Rehabilitation Patients, Processes, and Outcomes. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2005;86(12 Supplement 2):S1-S7.
144. Horn SD, DeJong G, Ryser D, Veazie P, Teraoka, J. Another Look at Observational Studies in Rehabilitation Research: Going Beyond the Holy Grail of the Randomized Controlled Trial. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2005;86(12 Supplement 2):S8-S15.
145. Gassaway J, Horn SD, DeJong G, Smout R, Clark C, James R. Applying the Clinical Practice Improvement Approach to Stroke Rehabilitation: Methods Used and Baseline Results. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2005;86(12 Supplement 2):S16-S33.
146. Maulden S, Gassaway J, Horn SD, Smout R, DeJong G. Timing of Initiation of Rehabilitation After Stroke. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2005;86(12 Supplement 2):S34-S40.
147. Latham N, Jette D, Slavin M, Richards L, Procino A, Smout R, Horn S. Physical Therapy during Stroke Rehabilitation for People with Different Walking Abilities. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2005;86(12 Supplement 2):S41-S50.
148. Conroy B, Zorowitz R, Horn S, Ryser D, Teraoka J, Smout R. An Exploration of Central Nervous System Medication Use and Outcomes in Stroke Rehabilitation Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2005;86(12 Supplement 2):S73-S81.
149. James R, Gines D, Menlove A, Horn SD, Gassaway J, Smout R. Nutrition Support (Tube Feeding) as a Rehabilitation Intervention. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2005;86(12 Supplement 2):S82-S92.
150. DeJong G, Horn SD, Smout R, Ryser D. The Early Effects of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System on Stroke Rehabilitation Case-mix, Practice Patterns, and Outcomes. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2005;86(12 Supplement 2):S93-S100.
151. Horn SD, DeJong G, Smout R, Gassaway J, James R, Conroy B. Stroke Rehabilitation Patients, Practice, and Outcomes: Is Earlier and More Aggressive Therapy Better? Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2005;86(12 Supplement 2):S101-S114.
152. Latham NK, Jette DU, Coster W, Richards L, Smout RJ, James RA, Gassaway JV, Horn, SD. Occupational therapy activities and intervention techniques for clients with stroke in six rehabilitation hospitals. Amer J Occupational Therapy (to appear March-April 2006).
153. Zorowitz R, Smout R, Gassaway J, Horn, S. Prophylaxis for and Treatment of Deep Venous Thrombosis After Stroke: The Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Outcomes Project (PSROP), Top Stroke Rehabil 2005;12(4):1-10.
154. Zorowitz R, Smout R, Gassaway J, Horn, S. Antiplatelet and Anticoagulant Medication Usage During Stroke Rehabilitation: The Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Outcomes Project (PSROP), Top Stroke Rehabil 2005;12(4):11-19.
155. Zorowitz R, Smout R, Gassaway J, Horn, S. Antihypertensive Medication Usage During Stroke Rehabilitation: The Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Outcomes Project (PSROP), Top Stroke Rehabil 2005;12(4):20-27.
156. Zorowitz R, Smout R, Gassaway J, Horn, S. Neurostimulant Medication Usage During Stroke Rehabilitation: The Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Outcomes Project (PSROP), Top Stroke Rehabil 2005;12(4):28-36.
157. Zorowitz R, Smout R, Gassaway J, Horn, S. Usage of Pain Medications During Stroke Rehabilitation: The Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Outcomes Project (PSROP), Top Stroke Rehabil 2005;12(4):37-49.
158. Latham NK, Jette DU, Coster W, Richards L, Smout RJ, James RA, Gassaway J, Horn SD. Occupational therapy activities and intervention techniques for clients with stroke in six rehabilitation hospitals. Amer J Occupational Therapy (In Pressto be published July/August 2006).
Books
Horn SD. International Classification of Disease - 9th Edition - Clinical Modification, Severity Adjusted (ICD-9-CM-SA) Health Systems International, New Haven, Connecticut, 3rd edition, October, 1989.
Horn SD, Hopkins DSP. Clinical Practice Improvement: A New Technology for Developing Cost-Effective Quality Health Care. Faulkner & Gray, New York, New York, May, 1994.
Horn SD, Editor. Clinical Practice Improvement Methodology: Implementation and Evaluation. Faulkner & Gray, New York, New York, September 1997.
Chapters in Books
1. Reitz J, Horn S. Controlling Health Care Expenditures: Strategies for Cost Containment, Chapter 56 of Current Issues in Nursing - Second Edition, Blackwell Scientific Publishing Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, 1985.
2. Horn SD. Severity of Illness: Case Mix Beyond DRGs, Chapter 16 of Costing Out Nursing Service, Franklin A. Shaffer, editor, National League for Nursing, New York, 1985.
3. Horn SD, Buckle JM. The CSI for Measuring Quality of Care, Chapter in Innovations in Health Care Quality Measurement, Patricia Spath, editor, American Hospital Publishing, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, 1989.
4. Horn SD, Ashworth MA. Adjusting DRGs for Severity of Illness, Chapter 7 of Socioeconomics of Surgery, The C.V. Mosby Company, St. Louis, Missouri, 1989: 132-141
5. Horn SD, Buckle JM, Carver, CM. The Ambulatory Severity Index: Development of an Ambulatory Case Mix System, Chapter in Ambulatory Care Quality Assurance Manual, Howard S. Rowland and Beatrice L. Rowland, editors, Aspen Publishers Inc., Rockville, Maryland, November 1989.
6. Horn SD. Continuous Quality Improvement, Chapter 7 in Medical and Biological Engineering in the Future of Health Care, J.D. Andrade, editor, U of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1994: 53-56.
7. Horn SD, Sharkey SS. Translating National Guidelines for Local Use, Chapter 7 in APhA Guide to Drug Treatment Protocols: A Resource for Creating and Using Disease-Specific Pathways. 1996.
8. Horn SD. Case Study: The Managed Care Outcomes Project, in Integrated Patient Care: Managing Health Care Costs, Maximizing Health Care Value and Quality. KPMG Peat Marwick LLP Health Care & Life Sciences Series, April 1996.
9. Horn SD. Quality, Clinical Practice Improvement, and the Episode of Care, Chapter 9 in Global Fees for Episodes of Care: New Approaches to Purchasing Healthcare. D. W. Emery, editor. McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1998.
10. Rhodes R, Horn SD. Surgeons and Health Services Research, Chapter 107 in Surgical Research. Jasna Markovac, PhD, editor-in-chief, Life and Biomedical Sciences, Academic Press, Fall 2000.
11. Horn SD, Hickey JV, Carroll TL, France ACI. Can Evidence-Based Medicine and Outcomes Research Contribute to Error Reduction? Chapter to appear in What Do We Know About Medical Mishaps? M M Rosenthal, editor, University of Michigan Press, 2000.
12. Horn SD. Improving Quality of Care, Chapter to appear in Health Care Delivery in the United States. Seveth Edition. S. Jonas, M.D., A.R. Kovner, Ph.D, editor, Springer Publishing Company, 2001.
13. Horn SD. Comorbidity, Chapter in Encyclopedia of Disability. Gary Albrecht, editor, Sage Publications, 2005.
Statements for Congressional Record and Congressional Testimony
Horn SD. Severity Adjustments to the Medicare Prospective Payment System, written statement submitted at the request of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, September 24, 1985.
Horn SD. The Computerized Severity Index: How it Addresses Problems with the Medicare Prospective Payment System. Invited testimony delivered to Senate Special Committee on Aging, Senator John Heinz, Chairman, November 12, 1985.
Letters to the Editor
Horn SD, Bulkley G, Horn RA. Reply to letters from Dr. Carolyne Davis and Dr. Robert Mullin, New England Journal of Medicine (October 31, 1985).
Horn SD. Concerning Severity of Illness Index and the Adverse Patient Occurrence Index, Medical Care 26 (July, 1988):736-737.
Blonde L, Ginsberg BH, Horn SD, et al. Frequency of Blood Glucose Monitoring in Relation to Glycemic Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes, Diabetes Care 25:1 (January 2002) 245-246.
Bergstrom, N, Horn, S. Response Letter to Dr. Finucane (Rhetoric of Research: Promoting Nutrition Products for Pressure Ulcers), JAGS 54:5 (May 2006) 859-860.
Honors and Awards Received
Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Kappa Phi
Sigma Xi
Outstanding Young Women of America (elected 1979)
Fellow of The American Statistical Association (elected 1978)
Listed in World's Who's Who of Women
Listed in World's Who's Who in American Education
Listed in the Health Care 1500 (Faulkner and Gray) 1995-96 edition
Fellow of the Association for Health Services Research 1997
Membership in Professional Societies
American Statistical Association
Member, Committee on Statistical Education, 1975-76
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Energy Statistics, 1979-81
Member, Committee on Publications, 1981-82
Biometric Society
Member, Regional Advisory Board of Eastern North American Region of the Biometric Society, 1976-78 and 1981-83
American Public Health Association
American Women in Science
Association for Health Services Research
Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America
Other Professional Activities
National Research Council Panel Member:
- NRC Panel to recommend awards of National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships in Applied Mathematics, 1975-78, Chairman in 1978
- NRC Panel to recommend awards of National Science Foundation National Needs Traineeships to U.S. Universities, 1977
1. Member, Diet and Cancer Scientific Review Committee, DHEW Program in Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer, 1978-79
2. Lecturer in the Visiting Lecturer Program in Statistics sponsored by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, 1978-date
3. Member, NIH Panel on Total Hip Replacement, March 1-3, 1982
4. Associate Director, The Center for Hospital Finance and Management, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 1979-90
5. Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Prospective Payment Survival, published by American Health Consultants, Atlanta, Georgia
6. Member, Policy Advisory Committee, New York State Case Mix Prospective Reimbursement System for Long Term Care
7. Member, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene DRG "Outlier" Working Group, 1984
8. Member, Health Care Technology Study Section, National Center for Health Services Research, July 1, 1984 - June 30, 1988
9. Member, National Center for Health Statistics Consultant Panel to the Division of Health Care Statistics, 1986-87
10. Member, Advisory Board to the Francis Scott Key Medical Center Burn Center's Community Burn Prevention Program, 1986-89
11. Member, Methods Panel of the Council on Health Care Technology, Institute of Medicine, 1986-date
12. Member, Faculty of Research Science Institute, McLean, Virginia, July, 1986
13. Reviewer and Site Visitor, National Center for Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health, 1988
14. Member, Journal Article Award Committee for the Healthcare Financial Management Association, 1989
15. Member, Commission on Arthritis and Related Diseases, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, State of Maryland, 1989-92
16. Member, Advisory Council on Foot Health Care, The Academy of Ambulatory Foot Surgery, 1991-92
17. Chairman, Special Review Committee on Implementing Clinical Practice Guidelines, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, May 11, 1992
18. Member, Rand/HCFA Panel on Performance Standards for Clinical Prediction Models, 1992
19. Member, Advisory Panel for the Assessment of Information Technology and Health Care, Office of Technology Assessment, 1994-96
20. Member, Women and Mathematics Program
21. Member, AHCPR Expert Meeting on "Quality and Utilization Review Criteria from AHCPR-Supported Guidelines: Lessons Learned and Implications for Quality Measurement." 1994
22. Participant, Institute of Medicine Workshop: Setting Priorities for Guidelines Development. Presentation on Priority Setting and Users of Guidelines, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, August 15, 1994
23. Member, Institute of Medicine, Committee on Evaluating Clinical Applications of Telemedicine, 1995-96
24. Member, Monsanto VIHMS Advisory Board, 1998
25. Member, Becton Dickinson Worldwide Diabetes Healthcare Advisory Board, 2001-2002
Editorial Advisory Boards
Hospital Benchmarks, The Newsletter of Best Practices. American Health Consultants Inc., 1993-date
Journal of Outcomes Research, 2005-
Medical Outcomes and Audit Alert. Faulkner & Gray, 1993-1996
Outcomes Research Digest. The Zitter Group, 1994-1996
Patient Outcomes in Managed Care. Williams & Williams 1994-95
Strategic Medicine. Medical Economics 1997-1999
Disease Management. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 1997-date
Reviewer/Referee for:
American Journal of Public Health
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Health Services Research
Healthcare Financial Management
Inquiry
Journal of the American Medical Association
Journal of Health Politics Policy & Law
Journal of Orthopedic Trauma
Mathematical Reviews
Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Medical Care
New England Journal of Medicine
Doctoral Thesis Students
Arthur Hartz (Ph.D., 1973) - "Reduction of Variables in Regression Analysis"
Chao Ling Wang (Ph.D., 1973) - "Restricted Least Squares Estimation"
Ann Zauber (Ph.D., 1973) - "Multiple Hit Model for Analyzing Mortality Curves" (advised jointly with Dr. E.A. Murphy and Dr. Helen Abbey)
Dena Puskin (Sc.D., 1978) - "Patterns of Ambulatory Medical Care Practice in the United States: An Analysis of the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey"
Belavadi Shankar (Sc.D., 1980) - "An Empirical Evaluation of the Quality of Hospital Care Utilizing Hospital Death Rate: Maryland Hospital Data"
Thomas Clopton (Sc.D., 1984) - "A Comparison of Methodologies for Hospital Service Area Delineation"
Judy Reitz (Sc.D., 1985) - "Development and Testing of a Nursing Intensity Index"
Edgar Adams (Sc.D., 1978-88) - "Factors Associated with an Elevated Risk of Cocaine Use and Dependence"
Carleen Stoskopf (Sc.D., 1985-88) - "Predicting the Cost of Psychiatric Care"
Caroline Bagley (Sc.D., 1981-89) - "Effect of Breast Cancer Disclosure Legislation on Physician Disclosure Practice"
Vivian Chen Segal (Sc.D., 1988-90) - "Factors Associated with Adult-Onset Drug Abuse and Dependence Syndromes"
LaRah Payne (Sc.D., 1982-90) - An Examination of Severity Differences in Hospital Inpatients
June Buckle (Sc.D., 1985-90) - "Predicting Post-Hospital Resource Use With Severity"
Judith Feustel (Sc.D., 1986-92) - "The Impact of Informal Caregivers and Social Support on Elderly Patient's Post-Discharge Complications and Unmet Needs"
Catherine Hoffman (Sc.D., 1990-92) - "Health Insurance Status and the Use of Hospital Resources"
Herv้ Guillain (Sc.D., 1991-92) - "Patient Severity and Physician Payment"
Carol Van Buren (Sc.D., 1983-92)
Katherine C. Hall (Sc.D., 1984-92)
Hubert Gurley (Sc.D., 1986-92)
Andrew Shore (Sc.D., 1989-91)
Richard Gibson, M.D. (Ph.D. 1995) - "An Automated Patient Severity Index"
Monica Perkins (Ph.D. 2004)
Masters Students
Karen Warburton (1985-87), MHS
Janice Bigelson (1986-87), MPH
Joyce Chuen-Chuen Huang (1986-87), MPH
Maureen Molloy (1987-88), MPH
Jodie Jackson (1989-92), MPH
Richard Carroll, M.D. (1990-92), Sc.M. "An International Comparison of Waiting Times for Selected Cardiovascular Procedures"
Richard Snow, D.O. (1990-91), MPH
John Farley, M.D. (1990-91), MPH
Richard Guerin, D.D.S. (1990-91), MPH/DrPH
Bertram Haussler, M.D. (1990-91), MPH
Laurie Hansen, R.N. (1994)
Randall J. Smout (1998), "Clinical Practice Improvement: Malnutrition and Abdominal Surgery"
Sarah Maulden, M.D. (2004)
Ray Shih-jui Lin (2005), "Single and Multiple Time-Point Prediction Models in Kidney Transplant Outcome"
Special Students
Uen Lii Shao-jen, from Taiwan (1988)
Vikki Holtz (1988-90)
K.S. Rajan, M.D., F.A.C.G. (1990)
Post-Doctoral Fellows/Robert Wood Johnson Fellows
1987-88
Edward Berkowitz, Ph.D.
William Foley, Ph.D.
Vanessa Gamble, M.D., Ph.D.
Marshall Kapp, J.D., M.P.H.
Keith Mueller, Ph.D.
Robert Ohsfeldt, Ph.D.
1989-90
Peter Bacon, Ph.D.
Philip DiSalvio, Ph.D.
John Ford, Ph.D.
Katherine Jones, Ph.D.
William Koprowski, Ph.D.
Carlos Mu๑oz, Ph.D.
1990-91
Julius Bentley, Ph.D.
Claudia Campbell, Ph.D.
Jenifer Ehreth, Ph.D.
Vincent Griesser, M.D.
Mark Hall, J.D.
Deborah McFarland, Ph.D.
Jeremie Sherman, Ph.D.
Kit Simpson, Dr.PH.
1991-92
Peter Buerhaus, Ph.D., R.N.
Caryl Carpenter, Ph.D.
Donald Cohen, D.M.D.
E. Greer Gay, Ph.D.
Ernest Moy, M.D.
Caroline Popper, M.B.B.Ch.
Robert Rhodes, M.D.