Journal Articles - State Health Access Data Assistance Center at the University of Minnesota

This page lists journal articles published by SHADAC staff, sorted by year of publication, then by first author's last name.

Forthcoming

Baines, Alisha, Melissa Partin, Michael Davern and Todd Rockwood.  “Response Bias and Non-Response Adjustments: Evidence from a Smoking Cessation Survey Regarding the Utility of Respondent Disposition Information for Post-Stratification Adjustments.” Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, forthcoming.

Beebe, Timothy J., Michael E. Davern, Donna D. McAlpine, and Jeanette Ziegenfuss.  “An Experimental Comparison of Two Within-Household Selection Methods in a Telephone Survey of Substance Abuse and Dependence.”  Annals of Epidemiology, forthcoming.

Beebe, Timothy J., G. Richard Locke, Sunni A. Barnes, and Michael Davern.  “Mixing Web and Mail Methods in a Survey of Physicians.” Health Services Research, forthcoming.

Davern Michael, Holly Rodin, Kathleen T. Call, and Lynn A. Blewett.  "Are the CPS Uninsurance Estimates Too High? An Examination of Imputation."  Health Services Research forthcoming, doi: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2007.00703.x

Davern, Michael, Arthur Jones, Jr., James Lepkowski, Gestur Davidson, Lynn A. Blewett. “Estimating Standard Errors for Regression Using the Current Population Survey’s Public Use File.” Inquiry, forthcoming.

McAlpine, Donna D., Beebe, Timothy J., Davern, Michael E., and Call, Kathleen T.  “Agreement between self-reported and administrative race and ethnicity data among Medicaid enrollees in Minnesota.”  Health Services Research, forthcoming.

2007

Blewett, Lynn A. and Michael Davern. “Distributing State Children’s Health Insurance Funds: A Critical Review of the Design and Implementation of the Funding Formula. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 32(3):415-55.

Call, Kathleen Thiede, Michael Davern, Lynn A. Blewett.  "Estimates of Health Insurance Coverage: Comparing State Surveys to the Current Population Survey."  Health Affairs 26(1):269-78.

Call, Kathleen Thiede, Jeanette Ziegenfuss. “Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care Among Rural and Urban Minnesotans.” Rural Minnesota Journal 2(1):11-36.

2006

Blewett, Lynn A., Andrew Ward, and Timothy J. Beebe.  “How Much Health Insurance is Enough?  Revisiting the Concept of Underinsurance.” Medical Care Research and Review 63(6): 663-700.

Blewett, Lynn A. and Michael Davern.  “Meeting the Need for State Level Estimates of Health Insurance Coverage: What Has Been Done and How it Can Be Improved.” Health Services Research. June 2006, 41(3): 946-975.

Call, Kathleen T., Donnna C. McAlpine, Pamela J. Johnson, Timothy J. Beebe, J.A. McRae, and Y. Song. "Barriers to Care Among American Indians in Public Health Care Programs."  Medical Care June 2006, 44(6):595-600.

Davern, Michael and David S. Hachen, Jr. “The Role of Information and Influence in Social Networks: Examining the Association Between Social Network Structure and Job Mobility.” American Journal of Economics and Sociology. April 2006, 65(2):269-293.

Krizek, Kevin J. and Pamela J. Johnson. "Proximity to Trails and Retail: Effects on Urban Cycling and Walking. Journal of the American Planning Association.  Winter 2006, 72(1):33-42.

2005

Beebe, Timothy, Michael Davern, Donna McAlpine, and Kathleen Thiede Call, Todd Rockwood.  “Increasing Response Rates in a Survey of Medicaid Enrollees:  The Effect of a Prepaid Monetary Incentive and Mixed Modes (Mail and Telephone).”  Medical Care.  43(4): 411-414.

Beebe, Timothy J., J.A. McRae, P.A. Harrison, Michael Davern, & K.A. Quinlan.  “Mail Surveys Result in More Reports of Substance Abuse.”  Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.  58(4):421-424.

Blewett, Lynn A., Michael Davern, and Holly Rodin. “Employment and Health Insurance Coverage for Rural Latino Populations.” Journal of Community Health. Vol. 30 (1):181-195. June 2005 

Davern, Michael, Holly Rodin, Timothy Beebe, and Kathleen Thiede Call.  “The Effect of Income Question Design in Health Surveys on Family Income, Poverty and Eligibility Estimates.”  Health Services Research. 40(5):1534-1552. 

Garrett, Nancy A., Christine Hageman, Shalamar Sibley, Michael Davern, Mary Berger, Carol Brunzell, Karen Malecha, Steve Richards, and Candace Moody. “The Effectiveness of an Interactive Small Group Diabetes Intervention in Improving Knowledge, Feeling of Control, and Behavior.”  Health Promotion Practice. 6(3):320-328.

Jonk, Yvonne C., Kathleen Thiede Call, Andrea H. Cutting, Heidi O’Connor, Vishakha Bansiya, Kathleen Harrison. “Health Care Coverage and Access to Care:  The Status of Minnesota’s Veterans.” Medical Care.  43(8):769-774.

2004

Beebe, Timothy, Stephen Asche, Patricia A. Harrison, and K. A. Quinlan. “Heightened Vulnerability and Increased Risk Taking Among Adolescent Chat Room Users: Results from a Statewide School Survey.” Journal of Adolescent Health. 35(2):116-123.

Blewett, Lynn A., Michael Davern, and Holly Rodin.  “Covering Kids:  Variation in Health Insurance Coverage Trends by State, 1996-2002.” Health Affairs. 13(6): 170-180. November/December 2004.

Blewett, Lynn A., Margaret Brown, Kathleen Thiede Call, and Michael Davern. “Monitoring the Uninsured: A State Policy Perspective.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law. 29(1): 107-145, February 2004.

Blewett, Lynn A., Stephen Parente, Michael D. Finch, and Eileen Peterson. “National Health Data Warehouse: Issues to Consider." Journal of Healthcare Information Management. 18(1): 52-58. Winter 2004.

Blewett, Lynn A., and Timothy J. Beebe. “State Efforts to Measure the Health Care Safety Net.” Public Health Reports, 119 (2): 125-135, March 2004.

Blewett, Lynn A, Michelle Casey, and Kathleen Thiede Call. “Improving Access to Primary Care for a Growing Latino Population: The Role of Safety Net Providers in the Rural Midwest.”  Journal of Rural Health. 20 (3): 237-245, Special Issue, Summer 2004.

Casey, Michelle, Lynn A. Blewett, and Kathleen Thiede Call. “Providing Health Care to Latino Immigrants: Community-Based Efforts in the Rural Midwest.” American Journal of Public Health. 94 (10), October Special Rural Issue, October 2004.

Davern, Michael, James Lepkowski, Kathleen Thiede Call, Noreen Arnold, Tracy L. Johnson, Karen Goldsteen, April Todd Malmov and Lynn A. Blewett.  “Telephone Service Interruption Weighting for State Health Insurance Surveys.”  Inquiry. 41(3): 280–290, Fall 2004

Davern, Michael and Lynn A. Blewett, Boris Bershadsky, Noreen Arnold.  “Missing the Mark?  Examining Imputation Bias in the Current Population Survey’s State Income and Health Insurance Coverage Estimates.” Journal of Official Statistics. 20(3):1-31, September 2004.

McLeod, Jane D., James M. Nonnemaker, and Kathleen Thiede Call. “Income Inequality, Race, and Child Well-being: An Aggregate Analysis in the 50 United States.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 45(3): 249-264, September 2004

Williams, Claudia, Gestur Davidson, Lynn A. Blewett, and Kathleen Thiede Call. “Public Program Crowd-out of Private Coverage: What Are the Issues?” The Synthesis Project: New Insights from Research Results, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Princeton, NJ.  Policy Brief No. 5, June 2004.   

2003

Bartlett Foote, Susan and Lynn A. Blewett. “Politics of Prevention: Expanding Prevention Benefits in the Medicare Program.” Journal of Public Health Policy. 24 (1): 26-40. Spring 2003.

Beebe, Timothy J., Patricia A. Harrison, James A. McRae, Stephen E. Asche. “Evaluating Behavioral Health Services in Minnesota's Medicaid Population Using the Experience of Care and Health Outcomes (ECHO tm) Survey.” Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 14 (4): 608-621, November 2003.

Blewett, Lynn A. and Timothy J. Beebe.  “Estimating the Size of the Uninsured and Other Vulnerable Populations in a Local Area” in Weinick, R.M. and Billings, J. (eds), Monitoring the Health Care Safety Net – Book III: Tools for Monitoring the Health Care Safety Net. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2003.  AHRQ Publication No. 03-0027.

Blewett, Lynn A., Gestur Davidson, Margaret Brown, and Roland Maude-Griffin. “Hospital Provision of Uncompensated Care and Public Program Enrollment.” Medical Care Research and Review. 60 (4): 509-527, December 2003.

Blewett, Lynn A., Eileen Peterson, Michael D. Finch, and Stephen T. Parente. “The Role of the Private Sector in Monitoring Health Care Quality and Patient Safety.” Journal on Quality and Safety. 29 (8): 425-433, August 2003.

Blewett, Lynn A., Sally Smaida, Claudia Fuentes, and Ellie Ulrich. “Health Care Needs of the Growing Latino Population in Rural America: Focus Group Findings in One Midwestern State.” Journal of Rural Health. 1 (1): 33-41, January 2003.

Davern, Michael, Timothy J. Beebe, Lynn A. Blewett, and Kathleen Thiede Call. “Recent Changes to the Current Population Survey: Sample Expansion, Health Insurance Verification, and State Health Insurance Coverage Estimates.” Public Opinion Quarterly. 67 (4): 603-626, Winter (Dec.) 2003.

Davern, Michael, Lynn A. Blewett, Boris Bershadsky, Kathleen Thiede Call, Todd Rockwood. “State Variation in SCHIP Allocations: How Much Is There, What Are Its Sources, and Can It Be Reduced?” Inquiry. 40 (2): 184-187, Summer 2003.

Davern, Michael, Todd Rockwood, R. Sherrod, and  S. Campbell. “Prepaid Monetary Incentives and Data Quality in Face-to-Face Interviews: Data from the 1996 Survey of Income and Program Participation Incentive Experiment.” Public Opinion Quarterly. 67 (1): 139-47, Spring (Feb.) 2003.

Harrison, Patricia A., Timothy J. Beebe, E. Park and J. Rancone. “The Adolescent Health Review: A Test of a Brief Computerized Screening Instrument in School-Based Clinics.”  Journal of School Health. 73: 15-20, January 2003.

Taylor, Pat, Lynn A. Blewett, Michelle Brasure, Eric Larson, John Gale, Amy Hagopian, Gary Hart, David Hartley, Peter House, Mary Katherine James, and Thomas Ricketts. “Small Town Health Care Safety Nets' Report on a Pilot Study.” Journal of Rural Health. 19 (2): 125-134, March 2003.

2002

Call, Kathleen Thiede, Gestur Davidson, Anna Stauber Sommers, Roger Feldman, Paul Farseth, and Todd Rockwood. “Uncovering the Missing Medicaid Cases and Assessing Their Bias for Estimates of the Uninsured.” Inquiry. 38 (4): 396-408, 2002.

Kane, Robert L., Wen-Chieh Lin and Lynn A. Blewett.  “Geographic Variation in the Use of Post-Acute Care.”  Health Services Research. June 2002, 37 (3): 667-682.

Kelly, Anne, Kathleen Thiede Call, Barbara Staub, Brooks Donald, Catherine L. Wisner, Andrew F. Nelson, and Robert William Blum.  “Children with Complex Chronic Medical Conditions and Special Needs Privately Insured through an HMO.” Family, Systems, and Health. 20 (3): 279-289, 2002.

2001

Beebe, Timothy J., P. Harrison, A. Sharma, and S.A. Hedger.  “The Community Readiness Survey: Development and initial validation.”  Evaluation Review. 25, 55-71, 2001

Blewett, Lynn A., and Paul Carrizales. “Public Health: Latino Health.” Minnesota Physician. 14 (3): 30-32, 2001.

Blewett, Lynn A. Maureen A. Smith and Todd G. Caldis.  “Measuring the Direct Costs of Graduate Medical Education Training in Minnesota.”  Academic Medicine. 76(5): 446-52, May 2001.

Call, Kathleen Thiede, Bryan Dowd, Roger Feldman, Nichol Lurie, Marshall McBean, and Matthew Maciejewski. “Disenrollment from Medicare HMOs.” American Journal of Managed Care. 7 (1): 37-52, 2001.

Casey, Michelle, Kathleen Thiede Call, and Jill Klingner. “Are Rural Residents Less Likely to Obtain Recommended Preventive Healthcare Services?” American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 21 (3):182-188, 2001.

Harrison, Patricia A., Timothy J. Beebe, and E. Park.  “The Adolescent Health Review:  A brief, multidimensional screening instrument.”  Journal of Adolescent Health. 29, 131-139, 2001. 

Maciejewski, Matthew, Kathleen Thiede Call, Bryan Dowd, and Roger Feldman. “Comparing Mortality Rates and Days of Survival for HMO Enrollees Fee-For-Service Beneficiaries.”  Health Services Research. 35 (6):1245-1265, 2001.

McRae, James A., Timothy J. Beebe, Patricia A. Harrison. “Estimating the Prevalence of Substance Abuse with Social Indicators.”  Journal of Drug Issues. 31 (4): 977-988, 2001. 

Schultz, Jennifer, Kathleen Thiede Call, Roger Feldman, and Jon Christianson. “Evaluation of Consumers’ Use of Satisfaction and Quality Information on Health Care Systems.” Health Services Research. 36 (3): 509-530, 2001.

Shaw, M.J., Timothy J. Beebe, H. Jensen, and S.A. Adlis.  “The use of monetary incentives in a community survey:  Impact on response rates, data quality, and cost.”  Health Services Research. 35, 1339-1346, 2001.

2000

Blewett, Lynn A. and Virginia Weslowski.  “New Roles for States in Financing Graduate Medical Education: Minnesotas Trust Fund.”  Health Affairs. 19 (1), January/February 2000: 248-252.

Call, Kathleen Thiede, Michelle Casey, and Tiffany Radcliff. “Rural Beneficiaries with Chronic Conditions: Does Prevalence Pose a Risk to Medicare Managed Care.” Managed Care Quarterly. 8 (3): 47-56, 2000.

Michael J. Davidoff, Ellie Ulrich, Paul Carrizales, and Lynn A. Blewett. “Improving Health Care Access for Minnesota’s Growing Latino Community” in Just in Time Research: Resilient Communities. Report # BU-7565. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and University of Minnesota Extension Service, August, 2000.

1999

Blewett, Lynn A., Brent C. Gustafson, Julie Sonier, and Scott D. Leitz. “State Health Expenditure Accounts.” Health Care Financing Review. Winter 1999, Vol. 21 (2): 65-83.

Call, Kathleen Thiede and Jim Nonnemaker. “Socioeconomic Disparities in Adolescent Health: Contributing Factors.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 896: 352-355, 1999.

Call, Kathleen Thiede, Bryan Dowd, Roger Feldman, and Matthew Maciejewski. “Selection Experiences in Medicare HMOs: Pre-enrollment Expenditures.” Health Care Financing Review. 20 (4): 197-210, 1999. 

Call, Kathleen Thiede, Michael D. Finch, Shirley Huck, and Rosalie A. Kane. “Caregiver Burden from a Social Exchange Perspective: Caring for Older People Following Hospital Discharge.” Journal of Marriage and the Family. 61 (August): 688-699, 1999.

Reinardy, James, Rosalie A. Kane, Shirley Huck, Kathleen Thiede Call, and Chiang-Tao Shen. “Beyond Burden: Two Ways of Looking at Caregiving Burden.” Research on Aging. 21 (1): 106-127, 1999.

1998

Kane, Robert L., Qing Chen, Lynn A. Blewett, Risa Burns and Mark Moscowitz. “Functional Outcomes of Post-Hospital Care for stroke and Hip Fracture Patients under Medicare.”  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  46(12) December 1998: 1525-1533.

1997

Blewett, Lynn A. “A Firm Foundation: Funding Medical Education and Research in a Competitive Environment.” Minnesota Physician. August 1997. Vol. 11 (5).

Blewett, Lynn A. and Stella K. Hofrenning.  “Minnesota: The Land of Nonprofit HMOs.” Minnesota Medicine. April 1997.

Call, Kathleen Thiede, Nichol Lurie, Yvonne Jonk, Roger Feldman and Michael D. Finch. “Who is Still Uninsured in Minnesota: Lessons from State Reform Efforts.” Journal of the American Medical Association. 278 (14): 1191-1195, 1997.

Feldman, Roger, Bryan Dowd, Scott Leitz and Lynn A. Blewett.  “The Effect of Premiums on the Small Firms Decision to Offer Health Insurance.” Journal of Human Resources. Fall 1997.