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Dennis Ross-Degnan

Dennis Ross-Degnan

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Medicine

D-Index
88
Citations
30301
World Ranking
13104
National Ranking
6688

Overview

Dennis Ross-Degnan is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, predominantly Medicine, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Health Professions. The subfields of study most represented in their work include Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Family Practice, Surgery, and Oncology.

The main topics in Dennis Ross-Degnan's research cover a range of areas within healthcare and economic evaluation. These topics include Healthcare Policy and Management, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Medication Adherence and Compliance, Primary Care and Health Outcomes, Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy, Global Health Care Issues, and Healthcare Systems and Reforms.

The scientist has published papers in various academic venues, with frequent contributions to Medical Care, JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Network Open, BMJ Open, and the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Recent significant publications attributed to Dennis Ross-Degnan include:

  • Risk factors for suicide attempt in children, adolescents, and young adults hospitalized for mental health disorders, 2020, Child and Adolescent Mental Health
  • The effectiveness of training strategies to improve healthcare provider practices in low-income and middle-income countries, 2021, BMJ Global Health
  • Concurrent hiatal hernia repair and bariatric surgery: outcomes after sleeve gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, 2020, Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases
  • Cost-related Medication Nonadherence and Its Risk Factors Among Medicare Beneficiaries, 2020, Medical Care
  • How does the effectiveness of strategies to improve healthcare provider practices in low-income and middle-income countries change after implementation? Secondary analysis of a systematic review, 2021, BMJ Quality & Safety

Dennis Ross-Degnan frequently collaborates with several researchers, including J. Frank Wharam, Jamie Wallace, Anita K. Wagner, Stephanie Argetsinger, and Christine Y. Lu. These co-authors have co-published numerous papers with Ross-Degnan, indicating ongoing professional partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Segmented regression analysis of interrupted time series studies in medication use research

    A. K. Wagner;S. B. Soumerai;F. Zhang;D. Ross-Degnan

  • Medicine prices, availability, and affordability in 36 developing and middle-income countries: a secondary analysis.

    A Cameron;M Ewen;D Ross-Degnan;D Ball

  • Evidence of self-report bias in assessing adherence to guidelines.

    Alyce S. Adams;Stephen B. Soumerai;Jonathan Lomas;Dennis Ross-Degnan

  • Coverage by the news media of the benefits and risks of medications

    Ray Moynihan;Lisa Bero;Dennis Ross-Degnan;David Henry

  • Effects of Medicaid drug-payment limits on admission to hospitals and nursing homes.

    Stephen Bertram Soumerai;Dennis Ross-Degnan;Jerry Lewis Avorn;Thomas J. McLaughlin

  • Essential medicines for universal health coverage

    Veronika J Wirtz;Hans V Hogerzeil;Andrew L Gray;Maryam Bigdeli

  • Effects of Limiting Medicaid Drug-Reimbursement Benefits on the Use of Psychotropic Agents and Acute Mental Health Services by Patients with Schizophrenia

    Stephen Bertram Soumerai;Thomas J. McLaughlin;Dennis Ross-Degnan;Christina S. Casteris

  • Payment Restrictions for Prescription Drugs under Medicaid

    Stephen Bertram Soumerai;Jerry Lewis Avorn;Dennis Ross-Degnan;Steven L. Gortmaker

  • Ten recommendations to improve use of medicines in developing countries

    RO Laing;HV Hogerzeil;D Ross-Degnan

  • A randomized trial of a program to reduce the use of psychoactive drugs in nursing homes.

    Jerry Avorn;Stephen B. Soumerai;Daniel E. Everitt;Dennis Ross-Degnan

  • Field tests for rational drug use in twelve developing countries

    H.V. Hogerzeil;Bimo;D. Ross-Degnan;R.O. Laing

  • Effectiveness of strategies to improve health-care provider practices in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review

    Alexander K Rowe;Samantha Y Rowe;David H Peters;Kathleen A Holloway

  • National Survey of the Prevalence and Risk Factors of Glaucoma in St. Lucia, West Indies: Part I. Prevalence Findings

    Roger P. Mason;Omofolasade Kosoko;M. Roy Wilson;James F. Martone

  • Effect of pay for performance on the management and outcomes of hypertension in the United Kingdom: interrupted time series study

    Brian Serumaga;Dennis Ross-Degnan;Anthony J Avery;Rachel A Elliott

  • Cost-related medication nonadherence and spending on basic needs following implementation of Medicare Part D.

    Jeanne Marie Madden;Amy Graves;Fang Zhang;Alyce S. Adams

  • RETAIL PHARMACIES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A BEHAVIOR AND INTERVENTION FRAMEWORK*

    P Goel;D Ross-Degnan;P Berman;S Soumerai

  • Cost-Related Medication Nonadherence Among Elderly and Disabled Medicare Beneficiaries A National Survey 1 Year Before the Medicare Drug Benefit

    Stephen Bertram Soumerai;Marsha Pierre-Jacques;Fang Zhang;Dennis Ross-Degnan

  • Aging and the anticoagulant response to warfarin therapy.

    Jerry H. Gurwitz;Jerry Avorn;Dennis Ross-Degnan;Igor Choodnovskiy

  • Benzodiazepine Use and Hip Fractures in the Elderly Who Is at Greatest Risk

    Anita Katharina Wagner;Fang Zhang;Stephen Bertram Soumerai;Alexander M. Walker

  • Relationship Between Patient Medication Adherence and Subsequent Clinical Inertia in Type 2 Diabetes Glycemic Management

    Richard Grant;Alyce S. Adams;Connie Mah Trinacty;Fang Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen B. Soumerai
Stephen B. Soumerai Harvard University
Jerry H. Gurwitz
Jerry H. Gurwitz University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Ken Kleinman
Ken Kleinman University of Massachusetts Amherst
Donald A. Goldmann
Donald A. Goldmann Boston Children's Hospital
Jerry Avorn
Jerry Avorn Brigham and Women's Hospital
James B. Meigs
James B. Meigs Harvard University
Bruce E. Landon
Bruce E. Landon Harvard University
Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Jonathan A. Finkelstein Boston Children's Hospital
Craig C. Earle
Craig C. Earle University of Toronto
Meredith B. Rosenthal
Meredith B. Rosenthal Harvard University

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