Center for Outcomes Research & Evaluation (CORE)
Submissions from 2022
Epistemic Beliefs: Relationship to Future Expectancies and Quality of Life in Cancer Patients., Paul K J Han, Elizabeth Scharnetzki, Eric Anderson, John DiPalazzo, Tania D Strout, Caitlin Gutheil, F Lee Lucas, Emily Edelman, and Jens Rueter
Submissions from 2021
The influence of uncertainty and uncertainty tolerance on attitudes and self-efficacy about genomic tumor testing, Eric C. Anderson, Alexandra Hinton, Christine W. Lary, Tania Strout, Andrey Antov, Emily Edelman, Petra Helbig, Kate Reed, Jens Rueter, and Paul K. Han
Prescription opioid policies and associations with opioid overdose and related adverse effects, Valerie S. Harder, Susan E. Varni, Kimberly A. Murray, Timothy B. Plante, Andrea C. Villanti, Daniel L. Wolfson, and Sanchit Maruti
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance plasma concentrations and metabolomic markers of type 2 diabetes in the Diabetes Prevention Program trial, Susanna D. Mitro, Jinxi Liu, Lindsay M. Jaacks, Abby F. Fleisch, Paige L. Williams, William C. Knowler, Blandine Laferrère, Wei Perng, George A. Bray, Amisha Wallia, Marie-France Hivert, Emily Oken, Tamarra M. James-Todd, and Marinella Temprosa
Submissions from 2020
A cascade of Hepatitis C screening and Care at Maine Medical Center Internal Medicine Clinics, Wollelaw Agmas, Brian King, Wendy Craig, and Kinna Thakarar
Do Naturopathic Doctors Play a Role in Cancer Screening in Maine, Evan Barnathan, Mike Kohut, Devra Krassner, and Craig Schneider MD
Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) Infrastructure at MMC, Adam Black, Dave Denton, John DiPalazzo, and Susan Santangelo
Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine may help hospitalized patients with substance use disorder., Alisa Cleary, E. Katherine Nenninger, David Keller, and Kinna Thakarar
Optimizing Resident Wellness by Enhancing Peer Relationships: a Pilot Study, Wendy Craig, Jordan Faloon, Jason Lachance, and Deb Sepulveda
Evaluating the Impacts of Geographic Cohorting and Patient Rooming on Hospital Efficiency, Theresa Fuller, Mohit Shukla, Yaren Bilge Kaya, Joe East, Daniel Meyer, Samir Haydar, Jordan Peck, Nicole Nehls, and James C. Benneyan
Evidence-Based Education for Perianesthesia RNs to Increase Knowledge and Change Attitudes of Electroconvulsive Therapy., Lois M Hayworth and Kristiina E Hyrkas
PCP's Lung Cancer Screening Attitudes and Practices: Results of a Statewide Survey, Neil Korsen, Alexandra Hinton, Susan Leeds, Jaclyn Janis, and Paul Han
Clinical and immunological features of post-resuscitation care, Teresa May, Sergey Ryzhov, Lee Lucas, Clara Ahlberg, Danijela Rados, John Dziodzio, Deanna Williams, Alexandra Hinton, and David Seder
Addressing the Opioid Epidemic in Maine: Liposomal Bupivicaine Reduces Postoperative Opioid Consumption Following Shoulder Surgery, Ryan Mountjoy, Michael B. Henry, Wendy Craig, and Janelle M. Richard
“I Only Want To See the Doctor” Comparison of Patient Satisfaction between Urology Physicians and Advanced Practice Providers, Erin Santos, Kelly Ernst, Lisa Beaule, Moritz Hansen, Matthew Hayn, and Jesse D. Sammon
Variation in additional testing and patient outcomes after stress echocardiography or myocardial perfusion imaging, according to accreditation status of testing site., Jay N Shah, Kimberly M Murray, F L Lucas, Kathleen M Fairfield, and Mylan C Cohen
Delayed nephrectomy has comparable long-term overall survival to immediate nephrectomy for cT1a renal cell carcinoma: A population-based analysis., Wei Shen Tan, Quoc-Dien Trinh, Matthew H Hayn, Maya Marchese, Stuart R Lipsitz, Junaid Nabi, Kerry L Kilbridge, Justin A Vale, Bijan Khoubehi, Adam S Kibel, Maxine Sun, Steven L Chang, and Jesse D Sammon
Outcomes of Infective Endocarditis Cases Among People Who Inject Drugs: Assessing the effects of an inpatient addiction medicine consult service, Kinna Thakarar, Brett Armstrong, Jessica Schaumburg, Jaclyn Janis, and Amy McAuliffe
How well does the Surprise Question Predict 1-year Mortality for Patients Admitted with COPD, Dana Tripp, Jaclyn Janis, and Rebecca Hutchinson
Submissions from 2019
The Relationship Between Uncertainty and Affect., Eric C Anderson, R Nicholas Carleton, Michael Diefenbach, and Paul K J Han
The relationship between uncertainty tolerance and oncologists’ perceptions of large-panel genomic tumor testing, Eric Anderson, Alexandra Hinton, Christine Lary, Kimberly Murray, Leo Waterson, Paul Han, and Maine Cancer Genomics Initiative
Standardized Observational Cancer Research Using the OMOP CDM Oncology Module., Rimma Belenkaya, Michael Gurley, Dmitry Dymshyts, Sonia Araujo, Andrew Williams, RuiJun Chen, and Christian Reich
Emerging Aspects of the Body Composition, Bone Marrow Adipose Tissue and Skeletal Phenotypes in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus., Adriana L Carvalho, Bianca Massaro, Luciana T P E Silva, Carlos E G Salmon, Sandra Y Fukada, Marcello H Nogueira-Barbosa, Jorge Elias, Maria C F Freitas, Carlos E B Couri, Maria C Oliveira, Belinda P Simões, Clifford J Rosen, and Francisco J A de Paula
Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance Plasma Concentrations and Bone Mineral Density in Midchildhood: A Cross-Sectional Study (Project Viva, United States)., Rachel Cluett, Shravanthi M Seshasayee, Lisa B Rokoff, Sheryl L Rifas-Shiman, Xiaoyun Ye, Antonia M Calafat, Diane R Gold, Brent Coull, Catherine M Gordon, Clifford J Rosen, Emily Oken, Sharon K Sagiv, and Abby F Fleisch
Increasing Doses of Intraoperative Hydromorphone Do Not Reduce Postoperative Pain, Craig S. Curry, Michael B. Henry, Wendy Craig, Janelle M. Richard, and Denham S. Ward
Association Between Rurality and Lung Cancer Treatment Characteristics and Timeliness., Kathleen M Fairfield, Adam W Black, F Lee Lucas, Kimberly Murray, Erika Ziller, Neil Korsen, Leo B Waterston, and Paul K J Han
Tolerating uncertainty about conceptual models of uncertainty in health care., Paul K.J. Han and Benjamin Djulbegovic
Prognostic value of a modified surprise question designed for use in the emergency department setting., Samir A Haydar, Tania D Strout, Alicia G Bond, and Paul Kj Han
The effect of beta blocker use on bone outcomes using the Framingham Osteoporosis Study, Christine Lary
Where we were, where we are, and where are we going? The state of research at MaineHealth, Clifford J. Rosen
Submissions from 2018
Procedure-based postoperative risk prediction using NSQIP data., David E Clark, Timothy L Fitzgerald, and Albert W Dibbins
Predictors of viewing progress notes among users of VA's electronic health portal who receive mental health care., Steven K Dobscha, Lauren M Denneson, Maura K Pisciotta, Donald S Bourne, Jason I Chen, David Philipps-Moses, and Susan S Woods
Clinicians' perspectives on incidentally discovered silent brain infarcts - A qualitative study., Lester Y Leung, Paul K J Han, Christine Lundquist, Gene Weinstein, David E Thaler, and David M Kent
Editorial Comment., Adam Ludvigson and Jesse Sammon
Association of patient navigation with care coordination in an Lynch syndrome screening program., Susan Miesfeldt, W Gregory Feero, Frances L Lucas, and Karen Rasmussen
Submissions from 2017
Intensity in End-of-Life Care for Medicare Patients Dying with Melanoma (S741)., Rebecca Hutchinson, Lee Lucas, and Kathleen Fairfield
Pregnancy outcomes for women without a male partner undergoing donor insemination., C S. Ladanyi, Wendy Craig, K A. Maas, A Penzias, and B Lennon
Factors Associated With Deciding Between Risk-Reducing Salpingo-oophorectomy and Ovarian Cancer Screening Among High-Risk Women Enrolled in GOG-0199: An NRG Oncology/Gynecologic Oncology Group Study., Phuong L. Mai, Marion Piedmonte, Paul K. Han, Richard P. Moser, Joan L. Walker, Gustavo Rodriguez, John Boggess, Thomas J. Rutherford, Oliver Zivanovic, David E. Cohn, J Tate Thigpen, Robert M. Wenham, Michael L. Friedlander, Chad A. Hamilton, Jamie Bakkum-Gamez, Alexander B. Olawaiye, Martee L. Hensley, Mark H. Greene, Helen Q. Huang, and Lari Wenzel
Submissions from 2016
The effect of a 4-hour moderate and 1-hour intense exercise session versus resting condition on luteinizing hormone (LH) level, variation, and pulsatility in six healthy male subjects., J L. Chiang, M P. Leondires, Wendy Craig, F L. Lucas, and D I. Spratt
Improving Adherence to Cardiovascular Therapies: An Economic Evaluation of a Randomized Pragmatic Trial., David H Smith, Maureen O'Keeffe-Rosetti, Ashli A Owen-Smith, Cynthia Rand, Jeffrey Tom, Suma Vupputuri, Reesa Laws, Amy Waterbury, Dana D Hankerson-Dyson, Cyndee Yonehara, Andrew Williams, Jennifer Schneider, John F Dickerson, and William M Vollmer
Submissions from 2015
Physicians' perceptions of the value of prognostic models: the benefits and risks of prognostic confidence., Sarah A M Hallen, Norbert A M Hootsmans, Laura Blaisdell, Caitlin M Gutheil, and Paul K J Han
Physicians' perceptions of the value of prognostic models: the benefits and risks of prognostic confidence., Sarah A.M. Hallen, Norbert A.M. Hootsmans, Laura Blaisdell, Caitlin M. Gutheil, and Paul K.J. Han
Genetic information-seeking behaviors and knowledge among family members and patients with inherited bone marrow failure syndromes., Jada G Hamilton, Sadie P Hutson, Amy E Frohnmayer, Paul K J Han, June A Peters, Ann G Carr, and Blanche P Alter
"Clinical and functional outcomes after 2 years in the early detection and intervention for the prevention of psychosis multisite effectiveness trial": Erratum., William R. McFarlane, Bruce Levin, Lori Travis, F Lee Lucas, Sarah Lynch, Mary Verdi, Deanna Williams, Steven Adelsheim, Roderick Calkins, Cameron S. Carter, Barbara Cornblatt, Stephan F. Taylor, Andrea M. Auther, Bentson McFarland, Ryan Melton, Margaret Migliorati, Tara Niendam, J Daniel Ragland, Tamar Sale, Melina Salvador, and Elizabeth Spring
Effects of False-Positive Cancer Screenings and Cancer Worry on Risk-Reducing Surgery Among BRCA1/2 Carriers., David B. Portnoy, Jennifer T. Loud, Paul K.J. Han, L. Mai Phoung, and Mark H. Green
Noninvasive prenatal testing: the importance of pretest trisomy risk and posttest predictive values., Joseph R Wax, Renee Chard, Angelina Cartin, Christian Litton, Michael G Pinette, and F Lee Lucas
Submissions from 2014
The results of a 2-year randomized trial of a worksite weight management intervention., Andrew E Williams, Victor J Stevens, Cheryl L Albright, Claudio R Nigg, Richard T Meenan, and Thomas M Vogt
Submissions from 2013
Physicians' beliefs about breast cancer surveillance testing are consistent with test overuse., Paul K J Han, Carrie N Klabunde, Anne-Michelle Noone, Craig C Earle, John Z Ayanian, Patricia A Ganz, Katherine S Virgo, and Arnold L Potosky
Submissions from 2012
Representing randomness in the communication of individualized cancer risk estimates: effects on cancer risk perceptions, worry, and subjective uncertainty about risk., Paul K J Han, William M P Klein, Bill Killam, Tom Lehman, Holly Massett, and Andrew N Freedman
Association of age, gender, and race with intensity of end-of-life care for Medicare beneficiaries with cancer., Susan Miesfeldt, Kimberly Murray, Lee Lucas, Chiang-Hua Chang, David Goodman, and Nancy E Morden
Submissions from 2011
Multiple clinical practice guidelines for breast and cervical cancer screening: perceptions of US primary care physicians., Paul K J Han, Carrie N Klabunde, Nancy Breen, Gigi Yuan, Alyssa Grauman, William W Davis, and Stephen H Taplin
Varieties of uncertainty in health care: a conceptual taxonomy., Paul K J Han, William M P Klein, and Neeraj K Arora
Communication of uncertainty regarding individualized cancer risk estimates: effects and influential factors., Paul K J Han, William M P Klein, Tom Lehman, Bill Killam, Holly Massett, and Andrew N Freedman
A systematic review of the use and effectiveness of the Objective Structured Teaching Encounter., Robert L Trowbridge, Laura K Snydman, Jenny Skolfield, Janet Hafler, and Robert G Bing-You
