United States Department of Veterans Affairs
United States Department of Veterans Affairs

Portland Research Enhancement Award Program

Portland Center for the study of chronic, comorbid mental and physical disorders

Publications

Recent Publications

Battin MP, van der Heide A, Ganzini L, van der Wal G, Onwuteaka-Philipsen BD. Legal physician-assisted dying in Oregon and the Netherlands: evidence concerning the impact on patients in "vulnerable" groups. Journal of Medical Ethics. 2007. 33(10): 591-7.

Buboltz M, Misra S, Ganzini L. The consequences of sipping tea. Current Psychiatry. 2006.

Burgess D, van Ryn M, Dovidio J, Saha S. Reducing racial bias among health care providers: lessons from social-cognitive psychology. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2007. 22(6): 882-7.

Carney PA, Yi JP, Abraham LA, Miglioretti DL, Eiello EJ, Gerrity MS, Reisch L, Berns EA, Sickles EA, Elmore JG. Reactions to uncertainty and the accuracy of diagnostic mamography. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2007. 22: 234-41.

Chou R, Fu R, Carson S, Saha S, Helfand M. Methodological shortcomings predicted lower harm estimates in one of two sets of studies of clinical interventions. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2007. 60(1): 18-28.

Deffenbach ME, Humphrey LL. Patient Information: Lung cander prevention and screening. UpToDate. 2007.

Deffenbach ME, Humphrey LL. Screening for lung cancer. UpToDate. 2007.

Dobscha SK, Corson K, Gerrity MS. Depression treatment preferences of VA primary care patients. Psychosomatics. 2007. 48(6): 482-8.

Dobscha SK, Corson K, Hickam DH, Perrin Na, Kraemer DF, Gerrity MS. Depression decision support in primary care: a cluster randomized trial. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2006. 145(7): 477-87.

Dobscha SK, Leibowitz RQ, Flores JA, Doak M, Gerrity MS. Primary care provider preferences for working with a collaborative support team. Implementation Science. 2007. 2: 16.

Dobscha SK, Pruitt S, Crutchfield M, Gerrity MS. Measuring depression and pain with home health monitors. Telemedicine Journal and E-Health. 2006. 12(6): 702-6.

Dobscha SK, Winterbottom LM, Snodgrass LS. Reducing drug costs at a Veterans Affairs hospital by increasing market-share of genetic fluoxetine. Community Mental Health Journal. 2007. 43(1): 75-84.

Fromme EK, Bascom PB, Smith MD, Tolle SW, Hanson L, Hickam DH, Osborne ML. Survival, mortality, and location of death for patients seen by a hospital-based palliative care team. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2006. 9(4): 903-11.

Fu R, Harris EL, Helfand M, Nelson HD. Estimating risk of breast cancer in carriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations: a meta-analytic approach. Statistics in Medicine. 2007. 26(8): 1775-87.

Ganzini L. Care of patients with delirium at the end of life. Annals of Long-Term Care. 2007. 15: 35-40.

Ganzini L, Goy ER, Dobscha SK. Why Oregon patients request assisted death: family members' views. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2008. 23(2): 154-7.

Gerrity MS, Corson K, Dobscha SK. Screening for posttraumatic stress disorder in VA primary care patients with depression symptoms. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2007. 22(9): 1321-41.

Goy ER, Carlson B, Simopoulos N, Jackson A, Ganzini L. Determinants of Oregon hospice chaplains' views on physician-assisted suicide. Journal of Palliative Care. 2006. 22(2): 83-90.

Goy ER, Carter J, Ganzini L. Neurologic disease at the end of life: caregiver descriptions of Parkinson disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Journal of Palliative Care. 2008. 11(4): 548-54.

Goy ER, Carter JH, Ganzini L. Parkinson disease at the end of life: caregiver perspectives. Neurology. 2007. 69(6): 611-12.

Gregg J, Saha S. Communicative competence: a framework for understanding language barriers in health care. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2007. 22: 368-70.

Guyatt GH, Oxman AD, Kunz R, Jaeschke R, Helfand M, Liberati A, Vist GE, Schünemann HJ; GRADE working group. Incorporating considerations of resources use into grading recommendations. British Medical Journal. 2008. 336(7654): 1170-3.

Guyatt GH, Oxman AD, Vist GE, Kunz R, Falck-Ytter Y, Alonso-Coello P, Schünemann HJ; GRADE Working Group. GRADE: an emerging consensus on rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations. British Medical Journal. 2008. 336(7650): 924-6.

Harvath TA, Miller LL, Smith KA, Clark LD, Jackson A, Ganzini L. Dilemmas encountered by hospice workers when patients wish to hasten death. Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing. 2006. 8: 200-9.

Helfand M, Saxton L. Medical decision making and electronic publishing. Medical Decision Making. 2007. 27(2): 98-100.

Hersh WR, Hickam DH, Erlichman M. The evidence base of telemedicine: Overview of the supplement. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. 2006. 12 Suppl 2: S1-2.

Hersh WR, Hickam DH, Severance SM, Dana TL, Krages KP, Helfand M. Telemedicine for the medicare population: update. Evidence Report/Technology Assessment. 2006. 131: 1-41.

Hersh WR, Hickam DH, Severance SM, Dana TL, Pyle Krages K, Helfand M. Diagnosis, access and outcomes: Update of a systematic review of telemedicine services. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. 2006. 12 Suppl 2: S3-31.

Hung R, McClendon J, Henderson A, Evans Y, Colquitt R, Saha S. Student perspectives on diversity and the cultural climate as a US medical school. Academic Medicine. 2007. 82(2): 184-92.

Meenan RT, Saha S, Chou R, Swarztrauber K, Pyle Krages K, O'Keefe-Rosetti MC, McDonagh M, Chan BK, Hornbrook MC, Helfand M. Cost-effectiveness of echocardiography to identify intracardiac thrombus among patients with first stroke or transient ischemic attack. Medical Decision Making. 2007. 27(2): 161-77.

Miani A, Raugei S, Carloni P, Helfand MS. Structure and Raman spectrum of clavulanic acid in aqueous solution. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2007. 111(10): 2621-30.

Misra S, Ganzini L. Medical care for patients with severe and persistent mental illness. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2006. 21(11): 1207-8.

Misra S, Socherman R, Park BS, Hauser P, Ganzini L. Influence of mood state on capacity to consent to research in patients with bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disorders. 2008. 10(2): 303-9.

Morasco BJ, Dobscha SK. Prescription medication misuse and substance use disorder in VA primary care patients with chronic pain. General Hospital Psychiatry. 2008. 30(2): 93-9.

Otis JD, MacDonald A, Dobscha SK. Integration and coordination of pain management in primary care. Journal of Clinical Psychology. 2006. 62(11): 1333-43.

Rischitelli G, Nygren P, Bougatsos C, Freeman M, Helfand M. Screening for elevated lead levels in childhood and pregnancy: an updated ummary of evidence for the US Preventive Services Task Force. Pediatrics. 2006. 188: 1867-1895.

Saha S. The inherent inequalities of market-based health care reform. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2006. 21(11): 1211-12.

Saha S, Fernandez A, Perez-Stable E. Reducing language barriers and racial/ethnic disparities in health care: an investment in our future. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2007. 22: 371-72.

Saha S, Freeman M, Toure J, Tippens KM, Weeks C, Ibrahim S. Racial and ethnic disparities in the VA health care system: a systematic review. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2008. 23(5): 654-71.

Saha S, Shipman SA. Race-neutral versus race-conscious workforce policy to improve access to care. Health Affairs. 2008. 27(1): 264-45.

Saha S, Solotaroff R, Oster A, Bindman AB. Are preventable hospitalizations sensitive to changes in access to primary care? The case of the Oregon Health Plan. Medical Care. 2007. 45(8): 712-19.

Schünemann HJ, Oxman AD, Brozek J, Glasziou P, Jaeschke R, Vist GE, Williams JW Jr, Kunz R, Craig J, Montori VM, Bossuyt P, Guyatt GH; GRADE Working Group.. Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations for diagnostic tests and strategies. British Medical Journal. 2008. 336(7653): 1106-10.

Snyder K, Dobscha SK, Ganzini L, Hoffman WF, Delorit MA. Clinical outcomes of integrated psychiatric and general medical care. Community Mental Health Journal. 2008. 44(3): 147-54.

Tuteja AK, Talley NJ, Joos SK, Tolman KG, Hickam DH. Abdominal bloating in employed adults: prevalence, risk factors, and association with other bowel disorders. American Journal of Gastroenterology. 2008. 103(5): 1241-8.

Williams JW, Gerrity M, Holsinger T, Dobscha S, Gaynes B, Dietrich A. Systematic review of multifaceted interventions to improve depression care. General Hospital Psychiatry. 2007. 29(2): 91-116.

Books and Book Chapters

Beach MC, Saha S, Cooper LA. The Role and relationship of cultural competence and patient-centeredness in health care quality. In: New York: Commonwealth Fund Publication No.960, 2006.

Ganzini L, Goy ER. Influence of mental illness on decision making at the end of life. In: Death in the Clinic. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006: 81-96.

Ganzini L, Johnston W. End-of-life decision making. In: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. New York, NY: Taylor and Francis Group, 2006: 811-24.

Katz I, Ganzini L. Challenges of diagnosing psychiatric disorders in medically ill patients. In: Age and Gender Considerations in Psychiatric Diagnosis: A Research Agenda for DSM-V. Arlington, Virginia: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2007: 305-15.

Saha S, Shipman SA. The Rationale for diversity in the health profession: a review of the evidence. In: Washington DC: Health Resources and Services Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services, 2006.

Reports

Hickam D, AHRQ's John M. Eisenberg Center. Management of artherosclerotic renal artery stenosis. 2007 Mar 1.

Hickam D, Chou R, King V, Bianco T, Robinson S, Schechtel M. Choosing non-opioid analgesics for osteoarthritis: clinicians' guide. 2007 Jan 1.

Hickam D, Chou R, King V, Bianco T, Robinson S, Schechtel M. Choosing pain medicine for osteoarthritis: a guide for consumers. 2007 Jan 1.

King V, Robinson S, Bianco T, Schechtel M, Hickam D. Choosing antidepressants for adults: clinicians' guide. 2007 Aug 8.

Robinson S, King V, Schechtel M, Bianco T, Hickam D. Antidepressant medicines: a guide for adults with depression. 2007 Aug 1.

Saha S, Robinson S, Bianco T, Schechtel M, Hickam D. Off-label use of atypical antipsychotic drugs: a summary of clinicians and policymakers. 2007 Jul 11; Report Number: AHRQ Pub. No. 07-EHC003-2.

HSR&D Publications

Saha S, Freeman M, Toure J, Tippens KM, Weeks C. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the VA Healthcare System: A Systematic Review. Washington, DC: US Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Health Services Research and Development Service, 2007.