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Karen Davis is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary fields, prominently including general health professions, sociology and political science, periodontics, computer networks and communications, and economics and econometrics.

Their work has been published in a variety of venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
  • PubMed
  • Southeastern Geographer
  • Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • The Commonwealth Fund Website

Karen Davis's recent scholarly contributions primarily reflect healthcare policy, dental health, and geriatric care. Notable papers authored or coauthored by Davis include:

  • "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, 2014 Update: How the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally," 2021, The Commonwealth Fund Website

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Davis include Amber Willink, David Newman, Kristof Stremikis, David Squires, and Cathy Schoen, indicating an active network engaged across healthcare and policy research.

The main topics covered in Davis's research are:

  • Dental Health and Care Utilization
  • Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
  • Race, History, and American Society
  • Software-Defined Networks and 5G
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
  • Health disparities and outcomes

Their research outputs include collaborative studies such as those addressing dental, vision, and hearing services for Medicare beneficiaries, cost-effective care coordination for people with dementia at home, and use of paid and unpaid personal help by Medicare beneficiaries needing long-term services and supports.

Best Publications

  • A 2020 vision of patient-centered primary care.

    Karen Davis;Stephen C. Schoenbaum;Anne Marie Audet

  • Taking the Pulse of Health Care Systems: Experiences of Patients with Health Problems in Six Countries

    Cathy Schoen;Robin Osborn;Phuong Trang Huynh;Michelle Doty

  • Continuous Innovation In Health Care: Implications Of The Geisinger Experience

    Ronald A. Paulus;Karen Davis;Karen Davis;Glenn D. Steele

  • Health and the War on Poverty: A Ten-Year Appraisal

    Roger Feldman;Karen Davis;Cathy Schoen

  • Primary care and health system performance: adults' experiences in five countries.

    Cathy Schoen;Robin Osborn;Phuong Trang Huynh;Michelle M Doty

  • Listening to Parents: A National Survey of Parents With Young Children

    Kathryn Taaffe Young;Karen Davis;Cathy Schoen;Steven Parker

  • Uninsured and Underserved: Inequities in Health Care in the United States

    Karen Davis;Diane Rowland

  • Choice matters: enrollees' views of their health plans

    Karen Davis;Karen Scott Collins;Cathy Schoen;Cynthia Morris

  • The cost of health system change: public discontent in five nations.

    Karen Donelan;Robert J. Blendon;Cathy Schoen;Karen Davis

  • Closing the Divide: How Medical Homes Promote Equity in Health Care—Results from the Commonwealth Fund 2006 Health Care Quality Survey

    Anne C Beal;Michelle M Doty;Susan E Hernandez;Katherine K Shea

  • Mirror, mirror on the wall: an international update on the comparative performance of American health care

    Stephen C. Schoenbaum;Michelle M. Doty;Cathy Schoen;Alyssa L. Holmgren

  • U.S. Health System Performance: A National Scorecard

    Cathy Schoen;Karen Davis;Sabrina K.H. How;Stephen C. Schoenbaum

  • The Substitution of Hospital Outpatient Care for Inpatient Care

    Karen Davis;Louise B. Russell

  • How the Affordable Care Act Will Strengthen the Nation's Primary Care Foundation

    Karen Davis;Melinda K. Abrams;Kristof Stremikis

  • The Commonwealth Fund Survey of the Health of Adolescent Girls

    Cathy Schoen;Melinda K. Abrams;Karen Davis

  • Health Care Cost Containment

    Karen Davis;Gerard F. Anderson;Diane Rowland;Earl P. Steinberg

  • Access to Health Care for the Poor: Does the Gap Remain?

    Karen Davis;Marsha Gold;Diane Makuc

  • Adoption of patient-centered care practices by physicians: results from a national survey.

    Anne Marie Audet;Karen Davis;Stephen C. Schoenbaum

  • Physicians’ Views On Quality Of Care: A Five-Country Comparison

    Robert J. Blendon;Cathy Schoen;Karen Donelan;Robin Osborn

  • Health insurance markets and income inequality: findings from an international health policy survey.

    Cathy Schoen;Karen Davis;Catherine DesRoches;Karen Donelan

  • Health information technology and physician perceptions of quality of care and satisfaction.

    Karen Davis;Michelle Mc Evoy Doty;Katherine Shea;Kristof Stremikis

  • Unmet needs in community-living persons with dementia are common, often non-medical and related to patient and caregiver characteristics.

    Betty S. Black;Deirdre Johnston;Jeannie Leoutsakos;Melissa Reuland

Frequent Co-Authors

Cathy Schoen
Cathy Schoen Commonwealth Fund
Michelle M. Doty
Michelle M. Doty Commonwealth Fund
Robert J. Blendon
Robert J. Blendon Harvard University
Catherine M. DesRoches
Catherine M. DesRoches Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Gerard F. Anderson
Gerard F. Anderson Johns Hopkins University
Louise B. Russell
Louise B. Russell University of Pennsylvania
Arthur L. Caplan
Arthur L. Caplan New York University
Arnold M. Epstein
Arnold M. Epstein Harvard University

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