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June 6, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
With my colleagues at Johns Hopkins University, I fielded a survey to shed some light on what PCPs thought about the recommendations. In the setting of changing recommendations, we wanted to understand whether PCPs believed the recommendations were ...
April 10, 2012 | Story
Geographic analysis holds warning for policy-makers about unintended consequences of efforts to reduce inappropriate testing.
May 1, 2004 | Journal Article
Black men with prostate cancer have poorer disease-specific and overall survival rates than do their U.S. White counterparts. Comorbidity at the time of diagnosis has been shown to predict both overall survival and cause-specific mortality among Whi ...
February 25, 2008 | Journal Article
This study evaluates two Internet decision-making interventions for men considering a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test.
December 1, 2008 | Journal Article
This article examines rates of colorectal and prostate cancer testing among heterosexual and gay/bisexual men.
April 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Policy-makers interested in containing health care costs are targeting regional variation in utilization, including the use of advanced imaging.
September 30, 2008 | Story
"I've always been a very curious person-sometimes to my parents' chagrin because I would take things apart and not be able to put them back together," Roberts recalls.
January 31, 2008 | Story
Black pioneered research on designing ways to open the blood-brain barrier, enabling chemotherapeutic drugs to be delivered directly into a tumor.
January 12, 2012 | Program Results Report
Advancing Measurement of Equity and Patient-Centered Care to Improve Health Care Quality was a targeted solicitation for proposals to expand understanding of how to make health care both more patient-centered and more equitable.