2016
Is There Evidence for Systematic Upcoding of ASA Physical Status Coincident with Payer Incentives? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of the National Anesthesia Clinical Outcomes Registry
Schonberger RB, Dutton RP, Dai F. Is There Evidence for Systematic Upcoding of ASA Physical Status Coincident with Payer Incentives? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of the National Anesthesia Clinical Outcomes Registry. Anesthesia & Analgesia 2016, 122: 243-250. PMID: 26360960, PMCID: PMC4684754, DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000000917.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2015
Balancing Model Performance and Simplicity to Predict Postoperative Primary Care Blood Pressure Elevation
Schonberger RB, Dai F, Brandt CA, Burg MM. Balancing Model Performance and Simplicity to Predict Postoperative Primary Care Blood Pressure Elevation. Anesthesia & Analgesia 2015, 121: 632-641. PMID: 26214552, PMCID: PMC4545382, DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000000860.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsClinic blood pressureBlood pressureNet reclassification indexSurgical patientsReclassification indexLong-term cardiovascular morbidityBlood pressure thresholdBroader public health effortsPreoperative blood pressureBlood pressure elevationComplex logistic regression modelLong-term morbidityBlood pressure readingsPerioperative blood pressureOutpatient clinic followBlood pressure measurementsRole of anesthesiologistsPublic health effortsPossible beneficial effectsLongitudinal patient careLogistic regression modelsCardiovascular morbidityClinic followHypertension historyHypertensive range
2013
The Problem of Controlling for Imperfectly Measured Confounders on Dissimilar Populations: A Database Simulation Study
Schonberger RB, Gilbertsen T, Dai F. The Problem of Controlling for Imperfectly Measured Confounders on Dissimilar Populations: A Database Simulation Study. Journal Of Cardiothoracic And Vascular Anesthesia 2013, 28: 247-254. PMID: 23962461, PMCID: PMC3926910, DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2013.03.014.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAdrenergic beta-AntagonistsAlgorithmsAtenololBiasCardiac Surgical ProceduresCohort StudiesComorbidityComputer SimulationData Interpretation, StatisticalDatabases, FactualDrug TherapyHumansInternational Classification of DiseasesLogistic ModelsMetoprololModels, StatisticalMonte Carlo MethodObservational Studies as TopicPostoperative ComplicationsPrevalencePropensity ScoreRetrospective Studies