Susan Irene DesHarnais, PhD, MPH

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1015 Walnut Street
Suite 115
Philadelphia, PA 19107

(215) 955-9306
(215) 923-7583 fax

Graduate School
PhD, Medical Care Organization - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
MPH - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

University Appointment

Research and Clinical Interests
Risk Adjustment, Quality of Care, Cancer Care, End of Life Care

Publications

Most Recent Peer-reviewed Publications

1. A four-system comparison of patients with chronic illness: the Military Health System, Veterans Health Administration, Medicaid, and commercial plans.
2. Primary hypertension at a single center: Treatment, time to control, and extended follow-up
3. Laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation in the head-elevated position in obese patients: a randomized, controlled, equivalence trial.
4. A System for Interactive Assessment and Management in Palliative Care
5. Lack of concordance between physician and patient: Reports on end-of-life care discussions
6. Care at the end of life: Focus on communication and race
7. Physician perspectives on end-of-life care: factors of race, specialty, and geography.
8. Insights into successful change management: Empirically supported techniques for improving medical practice patterns
9. Compliance with breast-conservation standards for patients with early-stage breast carcinoma
10. Risk-adjusted clinical quality indicators: indices for measuring and monitoring rates of mortality, complications, and readmissions.
11. A tale of two bounties: The impact of competing fees on physician behavior
12. Community perceptions of the effects of rural hospital closure on access to care
13. Risk-adjusted quality outcome measures: indexes for benchmarking rates of mortality, complications, and readmissions.
14. How to use risk-adjusted quality indicators to assess hospitals.
15. Do Physicians Cost Shift?
16. Variations in practice patterns: Antiviral drug use in hospitalized patients with herpes infections
17. Information management in the age of managed competition.
18. HQEF update: master's degree program guidelines for a concentration in healthcare quality management.
19. Indices for monitoring hospital outcomes in developed countries
20. Applications for risk-adjusted outcome measures.

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