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  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Ashish K. Jha is affiliated with Brown University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and economics, focusing on health services, economic evaluations, and healthcare policy. The scientist has published extensively, with 50 works in Medicine and 32 in Economics, Econometrics, and Finance.

Their subfields of study include Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Emergency Medicine, Health, and Infectious Diseases. Ashish K. Jha's main topics of research cover:

  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies
  • Health Disparities and Outcomes
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies
  • Healthcare Cost, Quality, Practices

Among their frequent co-authors are José F. Figueroa, E. John Orav, Thomas C. Tsai, Jessica Phelan, and Irene Papanicolas.

Their research has been published in journals and venues such as:

  • Health Services Research
  • New England Journal of Medicine
  • JAMA Network Open
  • JAMA
  • Health Affairs

Recent papers include:

  • Critical Supply Shortages - The Need for Ventilators and Personal Protective Equipment during the Covid-19 Pandemic, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Addressing Social Determinants of Health, 2020, JAMA
  • Impacts of Social Distancing Policies on Mobility and COVID-19 Case Growth in the US, 2021, Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
  • Association of Race, Ethnicity, and Community-Level Factors with COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Across U.S. Counties, 2020, Healthcare
  • Medicaid Expansion and Mortality Among Patients With Breast, Lung, and Colorectal Cancer, 2020, JAMA Network Open

Ashish K. Jha was recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Critical Supply Shortages - The Need for Ventilators and Personal Protective Equipment during the Covid-19 Pandemic.

    Megan L. Ranney;Valerie Griffeth;Ashish K. Jha

  • Use of electronic health records in U.S. hospitals.

    Ashish K. Jha;Catherine M. DesRoches;Eric G. Campbell;Karen Donelan

  • Electronic Health Records in Ambulatory Care — A National Survey of Physicians

    Catherine M. DesRoches;Eric G. Campbell;Sowmya R. Rao;Karen Donelan

  • Health care spending in the United States and other high-income countries

    Irene Papanicolas;Liana R. Woskie;Ashish K. Jha

  • Research Commentary---The Digital Transformation of Healthcare: Current Status and the Road Ahead

    Ritu Agarwal;Guodong (Gordon) Gao;Catherine DesRoches;Ashish K. Jha

  • Patients' Perception of Hospital Care in the United States

    Ashish K Jha;E John Orav;Jie Zheng;Arnold M Epstein

  • Comparison of Hospital Mortality and Readmission Rates for Medicare Patients Treated by Male vs Female Physicians.

    Yusuke Tsugawa;Anupam B. Jena;Jose F. Figueroa;E. John Orav

  • Effect of the Transformation of the Veterans Affairs Health Care System on the Quality of Care

    Ashish K. Jha;Jonathan B. Perlin;Kenneth W. Kizer;R. Adams Dudley

  • Thirty-day readmission rates for Medicare beneficiaries by race and site of care.

    Karen E. Joynt;E. John Orav;Ashish K. Jha

  • Identifying adverse drug events: development of a computer-based monitor and comparison with chart review and stimulated voluntary report.

    Ashish K. Jha;Gilad J. Kuperman;Jonathan M. Teich;Lucian Leape

  • Variation in surgical-readmission rates and quality of hospital care.

    Thomas C. Tsai;Karen E. Joynt;E. John Orav;Atul A. Gawande

  • The global burden of unsafe medical care: analytic modelling of observational studies

    Ashish K Jha;Itziar Larizgoitia;Carmen Audera-Lopez;Nittita Prasopa-Plaizier

  • Care in U.S. hospitals--the Hospital Quality Alliance program.

    Ashish K. Jha;Zhonghe Li;E. John Orav;Arnold M. Epstein

  • Will Ebola change the game? Ten essential reforms before the next pandemic. the report of the Harvard-LSHTM Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola

    Suerie Moon;Devi Sridhar;Muhammad A Pate;Ashish K Jha

  • The use of health information technology in seven nations

    Ashish K. Jha;David Doolan;Daniel Grandt;Tim Scott

  • Thirty-Day Readmissions — Truth and Consequences

    Karen E. Joynt;Ashish K. Jha;Ashish K. Jha

  • A Research Agenda for Personal Health Records (PHRs)

    David C. Kaelber;Ashish K. Jha;Douglas Johnston;Douglas Johnston;Blackford Middleton

  • Characteristics of Hospitals Receiving Penalties Under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program

    Karen E. Joynt;Ashish K. Jha

  • Pediatric readmission prevalence and variability across hospitals

    Jay G. Berry;Sara L. Toomey;Alan M. Zaslavsky;Ashish K. Jha

  • A Changing Landscape of Physician Quality Reporting: Analysis of Patients’ Online Ratings of Their Physicians Over a 5-Year Period

    Guodong Gordon Gao;Jeffrey S McCullough;Ritu Agarwal;Ashish K Jha

Frequent Co-Authors

E. John Orav
E. John Orav Harvard University
Arnold M. Epstein
Arnold M. Epstein Harvard University
Julia Adler-Milstein
Julia Adler-Milstein University of California, San Francisco
David W. Bates
David W. Bates Brigham and Women's Hospital
Catherine M. DesRoches
Catherine M. DesRoches Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Atul A. Gawande
Atul A. Gawande Brigham and Women's Hospital
Anupam B. Jena
Anupam B. Jena Harvard University
Stuart R. Lipsitz
Stuart R. Lipsitz Brigham and Women's Hospital
Eric G. Campbell
Eric G. Campbell University of Colorado Denver
David Blumenthal
David Blumenthal Harvard University

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