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  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Laurence C. Baker is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, with a concentration in general health professions, surgery, economics and econometrics, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including cardiac, anesthesia, and surgical outcomes; health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life; healthcare policy and management; healthcare cost, quality, and practices; hip and femur fractures; pelvic and acetabular injuries; and global health care issues.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Laurence C. Baker include the following:

  • Cost-Effectiveness of Open Versus Endoscopic Carpal Tunnel Release (2020), Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
  • Activating people to partner in health and self-care: use of the Patient Activation Measure (2022), The Medical Journal of Australia
  • Evaluation of Systemwide Improvement Programs to Optimize Time to Surgery for Patients With Hip Fractures (2022), JAMA Network Open
  • Real-world Evidence to Estimate Prostate Cancer Costs for First-line Treatment or Active Surveillance (2020), European Urology Open Science
  • Changes in Medicaid enrollment during the COVID-19 pandemic across 6 states (2022), Medicine

Frequent co-authors of Laurence C. Baker include:

  • Robin N. Kamal
  • Lauren M. Shapiro
  • M. Kate Bundorf
  • Thompson Zhuang
  • Cheryl L. Damberg

The most common venues for publication are:

  • Health Services Research (7 publications)
  • JAMA Network Open (3 publications)
  • Journal of Vascular Surgery (2 publications)
  • Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research (2 publications)
  • The Journal Of Hand Surgery (2 publications)

Laurence C. Baker was recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Use of the Internet and e-mail for health care information: results from a national survey.

    Laurence C. Baker;Todd H. Wagner;Sara J. Singer;M. Kate Bundorf

  • Incidence of and Risk Factors for Chronic Opioid Use Among Opioid-Naive Patients in the Postoperative Period

    Eric C. Sun;Beth D. Darnall;Laurence C. Baker;Sean Mackey

  • Internet use and stigmatized illness.

    Magdalena Berger;Todd H. Wagner;Todd H. Wagner;Laurence C. Baker

  • Relationship of safety climate and safety performance in hospitals.

    Sara Singer;Shoutzu Lin;Alyson Falwell;David Gaba

  • Level and Volume of Neonatal Intensive Care and Mortality in Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants

    Ciaran S. Phibbs;Laurence C. Baker;Laurence C. Baker;Aaron B. Caughey;Beate Danielsen

  • Association between concurrent use of prescription opioids and benzodiazepines and overdose: retrospective analysis

    Eric C Sun;Anjali Dixit;Keith Humphreys;Beth D Darnall

  • Vertical Integration: Hospital Ownership Of Physician Practices Is Associated With Higher Prices And Spending

    Laurence C. Baker;M. Kate Bundorf;Daniel P. Kessler

  • Who searches the internet for health information

    M. Kate Bundorf;Todd H. Wagner;Sara J. Singer;Laurence C. Baker

  • Workforce Perceptions of Hospital Safety Culture: Development and Validation of the Patient Safety Climate in Healthcare Organizations Survey

    Sara J. Singer;M Meterko;Laurence C. Baker;David M. Gaba

  • Managed care and technology adoption in health care: evidence from magnetic resonance imaging

    Laurence C Baker

  • Patient safety climate in 92 US hospitals: differences by work area and discipline

    Sara J. Singer;David M. Gaba;Alyson Falwell;Shoutzu Lin

  • Physician service to the underserved: implications for affirmative action in medical education.

    JC Cantor;EL Miles;Laurence C. Baker;DC Barker

  • The effect of HMOs on fee-for-service health care expenditures: evidence from Medicare.

    Laurence C. Baker

  • Preparedness for Practice: Young Physicians' Views of Their Professional Education

    Joel C. Cantor;Laurence C. Baker;Robert G. Hughes

  • Identifying Organizational Cultures That Promote Patient Safety

    Sara Singer;Alyson Falwell;David Gaba;Mark Meterko

  • Excess Cost of Emergency Department Visits for Nonurgent Care

    Laurence C. Baker;Linda Schuurman Baker

  • Association of Coronary CT Angiography or Stress Testing With Subsequent Utilization and Spending Among Medicare Beneficiaries

    Jacqueline Baras Shreibati;Laurence C. Baker;Mark A. Hlatky

  • Differences in Earnings between Male and Female Physicians

    Laurence C. Baker

  • Quality Improvement Implementation and Hospital Performance on Quality Indicators

    Bryan J. Weiner;Jeffrey A. Alexander;Stephen M. Shortell;Laurence C. Baker

  • Factors associated with women's adherence to mammography screening guidelines.

    KA Phillips;K Kerlikowske;Laurence C. Baker;SW Chang

  • Expanded Use Of Imaging Technology And The Challenge Of Measuring Value

    Laurence C. Baker;Scott W. Atlas;Christopher C. Afendulis

  • RELATIONSHIP OF SAFETY CLIMATE AND SAFETY PERFORMANCE IN HOSPITALS.

    Sara J. Singer;Laurence C. Baker

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel P. Kessler
Daniel P. Kessler Stanford University
Sara J. Singer
Sara J. Singer Stanford University
Stephen M. Shortell
Stephen M. Shortell University of California, Berkeley
Mark McClellan
Mark McClellan Duke University
Bryan J. Weiner
Bryan J. Weiner University of Washington
Joanne Spetz
Joanne Spetz University of California, San Francisco
Jeffrey A. Alexander
Jeffrey A. Alexander University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
José J. Escarce
José J. Escarce University of California, Los Angeles
Alex H. S. Harris
Alex H. S. Harris Stanford University
Amy K. Rosen
Amy K. Rosen VA Boston Healthcare System

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