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75
Citations
21731
World Ranking
19099
National Ranking
9524

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Arlene S. Ash is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Health Professions and Medicine, with notable contributions to subfields such as General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, Emergency Medicine, Health, and Health Information Management.

The scientist's work encompasses a variety of topics, including Healthcare Policy and Management, Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations, Emergency and Acute Care Studies, Health disparities and outcomes, Mobile Health and mHealth Applications, Healthcare cost, quality, practices, and Primary Care and Health Outcomes.

Key recent publications by Arlene S. Ash include:

  • Association of Socioeconomic Disadvantage With Long-term Mortality After Myocardial Infarction, 2021, JAMA Cardiology
  • Measuring The Enduring Imprint Of Structural Racism On American Neighborhoods, 2023, Health Affairs
  • Secure Messaging, Diabetes Self-management, and the Importance of Patient Autonomy: a Mixed Methods Study, 2020, Journal of General Internal Medicine
  • Association of Trauma Center Designation With Postdischarge Survival Among Older Adults With Injuries, 2022, JAMA Network Open
  • Diagnostic Category Prevalence in 3 Classification Systems Across the Transition to the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification, 2020, JAMA Network Open

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Arlene S. Ash include:

  • Matthew Alcusky
  • Jeroan J. Allison
  • Meagan J. Sabatino
  • Eric Mick
  • Mark S. Zocchi

The scholar has published extensively in journals such as:

  • JAMA Network Open
  • Health Services Research
  • Health Affairs
  • JAMA Health Forum
  • JMIR Diabetes

Throughout their career, Arlene S. Ash has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2012 and as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association since 1998.

Best Publications

  • Measuring patients' desire for autonomy: decision making and information-seeking preferences among medical patients.

    Jack Ende;Lewis Kazis;Arlene S. Ash;Mark A. Moskowitz

  • Inadequate Management of Blood Pressure in a Hypertensive Population

    Dan R. Berlowitz;Arlene S. Ash;Elaine C. Hickey;Robert H. Friedman

  • Risk adjustment of Medicare capitation payments using the CMS-HCC model

    Gregory C. Pope;John Kautter;Randall P. Ellis;Arlene S. Ash

  • METHODS FOR ANALYZING HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION AND COSTS

    P. Diehr;D. Yanez;Arlene S. Ash;M. Hornbrook

  • Relation of family responsibilities and gender to the productivity and career satisfaction of medical faculty

    Phyllis L. Carr;Arlene S. Ash;Robert H. Friedman;Amy Scaramucci

  • Compensation and advancement of women in academic medicine: Is there equity?

    Arlene S. Ash;Phyllis L. Carr;Richard Goldstein;Robert H. Friedman

  • Junior faculty members' mentoring relationships and their professional development in U.S. medical schools.

    Anita Palepu;Robert H. Friedman;Rosalind C. Barnett;Phyllis L. Carr

  • Faculty perceptions of gender discrimination and sexual harassment in academic medicine.

    Phyllis L. Carr;Arlene S. Ash;Robert H. Friedman;Laura Szalacha

  • Diagnosis-based risk adjustment for Medicare capitation payments.

    Randall P. Ellis;Gregory C. Pope;Lisa I. Iezzoni;John Z. Ayanian

  • Using Diagnoses to Describe Populations and Predict Costs

    Arlene S. Ash;Randall P. Ellis;Gregory C. Pope;John Z. Ayanian

  • Chemotherapy use among Medicare beneficiaries at the end of life.

    Ezekiel J. Emanuel;Yinong Young-Xu;Norman G. Levinsky;Gail Gazelle

  • Why are a quarter of faculty considering leaving academic medicine? A study of their perceptions of institutional culture and intentions to leave at 26 representative U.S. medical schools.

    Linda H. Pololi;Edward Krupat;Janet T. Civian;Arlene S. Ash

  • Searching for an improved clinical comorbidity index for use with ICD-9-CM administrative data☆

    William A. Ghali;Ruth E. Hall;Amy K. Rosen;Arlene S. Ash

  • Adjusting Medicare capitation payments using prior hospitalization data

    Arlene S. Ash;Frank W. Porell;Leonard Gruenberg;Eric Sawitz

  • Influence of age on Medicare expenditures and medical care in the last year of life

    Norman G. Levinsky;Wei Yu;Arlene S. Ash;Mark A. Moskowitz

  • Place of death: U.S. trends since 1980.

    James Flory;Young-Xu Yinong;Ipek Gurol;Norman Levinsky

  • Racial and ethnic differences in end-of-life costs why do minorities cost more than whites?

    Amresh Hanchate;Andrea C. Kronman;Yinong Young-Xu;Arlene S. Ash

  • Black women receive less mammography even with similar use of primary care

    Risa B. Burns;Ellen P. McCarthy;Karen M. Freund;Sandra L. Marwill

  • Patient characteristics associated with oral anticoagulation control: results of the Veterans AffaiRs Study to Improve Anticoagulation (VARIA)

    Adam J. Rose;Elaine M. Hylek;Al Ozonoff;Al Ozonoff;Arlene S. Ash;Arlene S. Ash

  • Statewide Quality Improvement Initiatives and Mortality After Cardiac Surgery

    William A. Ghali;Arlene S. Ash;Ruth E. Hall;Mark A. Moskowitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan R. Berlowitz
Dan R. Berlowitz University of Massachusetts Lowell
Lisa I. Iezzoni
Lisa I. Iezzoni Harvard University
Randall P. Ellis
Randall P. Ellis Boston University
Amy K. Rosen
Amy K. Rosen VA Boston Healthcare System
Jeroan J. Allison
Jeroan J. Allison University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Elaine M. Hylek
Elaine M. Hylek Boston University
Donald R. Miller
Donald R. Miller University of Louisville
Catarina I. Kiefe
Catarina I. Kiefe University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Jennifer J. Anderson
Jennifer J. Anderson Boston University
Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Ezekiel J. Emanuel University of Pennsylvania

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