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Research
ASCH RECENT RESEARCH 2003-2007
February 7-9, 2003, “Challenges for medical directors, for pharmacy directors, and for health care.” Atlanta Health Care Summit. Atlanta, GA.
October 15-17, 2004, “Negotiating your way out of the Health & Society Scholars Program.” Health & Society Scholars Meeting, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
December 7-8, 2004, “Things that worry me about performance measurement and electronic health records.” National Board of Medical Examiners. Philadelphia, PA.
March 11, 2005, “The critical role of negotiation in generalist careers.” Society of General Internal Medicine. New York, NY.
June 11-14, 2005, “Career negotiation.” Beeson Faculty Scholars National Meeting. La Jolla, CA.
October 9, 2005, “Negotiating your way out of the Health & Society Scholars Program.” Health & Society Scholars Meeting, Columbia University, New York, NY.
May 22, 2006, “Health Policy and Research Challenges in Latino Uninsurance.” University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX.
June 25, 2006, “Leadership in Health Services Research.” AcademyHealth, Seattle, WA.
Hershey J, Asch DA, Jepson C, Baron J, Ubel PA. Incremental and average cost-effectiveness ratios: will physicians make a distinction? Risk Analysis.2003;23:81-9.
Asch DA, Jepson C, Hershey JC, Baron J, Ubel PA. When money is saved by reducing health care costs, where do US primary care physicians think the money goes? Am J Managed Care. 2003;9:438-42.
Karlawish JHT, Casarett DJ, James BD, TenHave T, Clark CM, Asch DA. Why would caregivers not want to treat their relative’s Alzheimer’s Disease? J Am Geriatr Soc. 2003;51:1391-7.
Metlay JP, Strom BL, Asch DA. Prior antimicrobial drug exposure: a risk factor for trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole-resistant urinary tract infections. J Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2003;51:963-70.
Ubel PA, Jepson C, Asch DA. Misperceptions about ß-blockers and diuretics: A national survey of primary care physicians. J Gen Intern Med. 2003:18:977-83.
Armstrong K, Weiner J, Weber B, Asch DA. Early adoption of BRCA1/2 testing: Who and why? Genet in Med. 2003;5:92-9.
Halpern SD, Karlawish JHT, Casarett, D, Berlin JA, Townsend RR, Asch DA. Hypertensive patients’ willingness to participate in placebo-controlled trials: Implications for recruitment efficiency. Am Heart J. 2003;146:985-92.
Halpern SD, Karlawish JHT, Casarett, D, Berlin JA, Asch DA. Empirical assessment of whether moderate payments are undue or unjust inducements for participation in clinical trials. Arch Intern Med. 2004;164:801-803.
Armstrong K, Weber B, FitzGerald G, Hershey JC, Pauly MV, Lemaire J, Subramanian K, Asch DA. Life insurance and breast cancer risk assessment: Adverse selection, genetic testing decisions, and discrimination. Am J Med Genet. 2003;120A:359-64.
Long JA, Polsky D, Asch DA. Receipt of health services by low-income veterans. J Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 2003;14:305-15.
Baron J, Asch DA, Fagerlin A, Jepson C, Loewenstein G, Riis J, Steinman MG, Ubel, PA. Effect of assessment method on the discrepancy between judgments of health disorders people have and do not have: a web study. Med Decis Making. 2003;23:422-34.
Jasper JD, Nickerson CAE, Ubel PA, Asch DA. Altruism, incentives and organ donation: Attitudes of the transplant community. Med Care. 2004;42:378-86.
Beach MC, Asch DA, Jepson C, Hershey JC, Mohr T, McMorrow S, Ubel PA. Public responses to cost-quality tradeoffs in clinical decisions. Med Decis Making 2003;23:369-78.
Shea JA, Beers BB, McDonald VJ, Quistberg DA, Ravenell KL, Asch DA. Assessing health literacy in African American and Caucasian adults: Disparities in Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM) scores. Family Medicine. 2004;36:575-81.
Damschroder LJ, Baron J, Hershey JC, Asch DA, Jepson C, Ubel PA. The validity of person tradeoff measurements: randomized trial of computer elicitation versus face-to-face interview. Med Decis Making 2004;24:170-80.
Long JA, Gomez A, Asch DA, Shea JA. Effect of race on ratings of hypothetical candidates for a research scholarship/research assistant position. Teaching and Learning and Medicine. 2004;16(4):355-60.
Shea JA, Aguirre AC, Sabatini J, Weiner J, Schaffer M, Asch DA. Developing an illustrated version of the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Safety.2005;31:32-42.
Weiner JA, Aguirre A, Ravenell K, Kovath K, McDevit L, Murphy J, Asch DA, Shea JA. Designing an illustrated patient satisfaction instrument. Am J Managed Care. 2004:10(2):853-60.
Peck BM, Ubel PA, Roter DL, Goold SD, Asch DA, Jeffreys AS, Grambow SC, Tulsky JA. Do unmet expectations for specific tests, referrals, and new medications reduce patients’ satisfaction. J Gen Intern Med. 2004;19:1080-7.
Halpern SD, Asch DA, Shaked A, Stock PG, Blumberg E. Determinants of transplant surgeons’ willingness to provide organs to patients infected with HBV, HCV, or HIV. Am J Transplantation. 2005:5:1319-25.
Werner R, Asch DA, Polsky D. Racial Profiling: The unintended consequences of coronary artery bypass graft report cards. Circulation. 2005;111:1257-63.
Jepson C, Asch DA, Hershey JC, Ubel PA. In a mailed physician survey, questionnaire length had a threshold effect on response rate. J Clin Epidemiol. 2005;58:103-5
Werner R, Asch DA. The unintended consequences of publicly reporting quality information. JAMA. 2005;293:1239-44.
Casarett D, Karlawish J, Morales K, Crowley R, Mirsch T, Asch DA. Improving the use of hospice services in nursing homes. A randomized controlled trial. JAMA. 2005;294:211-7.
Tsai AG, Asch DA, Wadden T. Insurance coverage for obesity treatment. J Am Dietetic Assoc. In press.
Casarett D, Fishman JM, MacMoran HJ, Pickard A, Asch DA. Epidemiology and prognosis of coma in daytime television dramas. Brit Med J. 2005;331:1537-9.
Armstrong K, Hughes-Halbert C, Asch DA. Patient preferences can be misleading as explanations for racial disparities in health care. Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:950-4.
Volpp KG, Gurmankin AD, Asch DA, Berlin JA, Murphy JJ, Gomez A, Zhu J, Sox H, Lerman C. A randomized controlled trial of financial incentives for smoking cessation. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention. 2006;15:12-8.
Halpern SD, Asch DA, Shaked A, Stock PG, Blumberg E. Inadequate hepatitis B vaccination and post-exposure evaluation among transplant surgeons: prevalence, correlates, and implications. Ann Surg. In press.
Groeneveld PW, Sonnad SS, Lee AK, Asch DA, Shea JA. Racial differences in attitudes toward innovative medical technology. J Gen Intern Med 2006;21:559-63.
Viswanathan KS, Lemaire J, Withers K, Armstrong K. Baumritter A, Hershey JC, Pauly MV, Asch DA. Adverse selection in life insurance purchasing, due to the BRCA 1/2 genetic test and elastic demand. J Risk and Insurance, in press.
Damshroder LJ, Baron J, Hershey JC, Asch DA, Ubel PA. Does being on the hot seat change people’s valuation of health conditions? [abstract] Med Decis making. 2003;23:557.
Volpp KG, Gurmankin A, Asch DA, Murphy JJ, Gomes A, Sox HC, Lerman C. The effect of financial incentives on smoking cessation program attendance and completion. [abstract] J Gen Intern Med. 2004;19(S1):217.
Casarett D, Karlawish J, Morales K, Asch DA. Effectiveness of a palliative care ‘case-finding’ intervention: results of a randomized controlled trial. Winner, Best paper award, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine annual meeting, New Orleans LA, January 22, 2005.
Volpp K; Gurmankin A. Gomez A, Asch DA, Berlin JA, Murphy JJ, Zhu J, Lerman C. A randomized control trial of financial incentives for smoking cessation. [abstract] J Gen Intern Med. 2005;20(S1):131-2.
Tsai AG, Asch DA, Wadden T. Insurance coverage for obesity in Pennsylvania. [abstract] J Gen Intern Med. 2005;20(S1):136.
Editorials, Reviews, and Chapters
Halpern SD, Asch DA. Improving response rates to mailed surveys: What do we learn from randomized controlled trials? [commentary] Int J Epidem. 2003;32:637-8.
Long JA, Chang VW, Ibrahim SA, Asch DA. Update on the health disparities literature. Ann Intern Med. 2004;141:805-12.
Trojanowski JQ, Jedrziewski MK, Asch DA, Living longer and paying the price? Sci. Aging Knowl. Environ. 2005;49: pe3.
Asch DA, Hershey JC, Ubel PA. How physicians react to cost-effectiveness information. LDI Issue Brief. Summer 2003, Volume 8, Number 9.
Jasper JD, Asch DA. Professional and public attitudes toward incentives for organ donation. LDI Issue Brief. March 2004, Volume 9 Number 5.
Werner RM, Asch DA. Publicly reporting quality information. [letter] JAMA. 2005;293:3000-1.
