2023
Gender, Racial, and Ethnic and Inequities in Receipt of Multiple National Institutes of Health Research Project Grants
Nguyen M, Chaudhry S, Desai M, Dzirasa K, Cavazos J, Boatright D. Gender, Racial, and Ethnic and Inequities in Receipt of Multiple National Institutes of Health Research Project Grants. JAMA Network Open 2023, 6: e230855. PMID: 36853608, PMCID: PMC9975935, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.0855.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCross-sectional studyResearch project grantsNational cohortHealth Research Project GrantPrincipal investigatorNational InstituteComplex health problemsWarrants further investigationNIH investigatorsProject grantsRacial groupsMAIN OUTCOMEEarly-stage investigatorsHealth problemsRacial distributionHealth investigatorsNIH grantsAnnual numberCohort
2012
Correlations among risk‐standardized mortality rates and among risk‐standardized readmission rates within hospitals
Horwitz LI, Wang Y, Desai MM, Curry LA, Bradley EH, Drye EE, Krumholz HM. Correlations among risk‐standardized mortality rates and among risk‐standardized readmission rates within hospitals. Journal Of Hospital Medicine 2012, 7: 690-696. PMID: 22865546, PMCID: PMC3535010, DOI: 10.1002/jhm.1965.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRisk-standardized mortality ratesAcute myocardial infarctionRisk-standardized readmission ratesReadmission ratesRisk-standardized mortalityHeart failureMortality rateReadmission measuresUS hospitalsMortality measuresCross-sectional studyMortality cohortReadmission cohortHospital outcomesSame hospitalMyocardial infarctionMedicare patientsMedicare feeService beneficiariesTeaching hospital membersHospitalSame quartileHospital membersPneumoniaCohort
2003
Trends in Discharge Disposition, Mortality, and Service Use Among Long-Stay Psychiatric Patients in the 1990s
Desai MM, Rosenheck RA. Trends in Discharge Disposition, Mortality, and Service Use Among Long-Stay Psychiatric Patients in the 1990s. Psychiatric Services 2003, 54: 542-548. PMID: 12663843, DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.54.4.542.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAffective Disorders, PsychoticAgedBrain DiseasesCensusesCohort StudiesFemaleHealth Facility ClosureHospital MortalityHospitals, VeteransHumansLength of StayMaleMental Health ServicesMentally Ill PersonsMiddle AgedPatient DischargePsychotic DisordersUnited StatesUnited States Department of Veterans AffairsUtilization ReviewConceptsDischarge dispositionThree-year followService usePrincipal diagnosisPsychiatric patientsVA mental health servicesLong-stay psychiatric patientsLong-stay bedsLong-stay cohortsStay Psychiatric PatientsVA administrative databasesMental health bedsMental health inpatientsLong-term inpatientsVA service useMental health servicesPatient's principal diagnosisMental health systemFiscal year 1991Administrative databasesMortality ratePsychotic disordersHealth servicesPatientsCohortBurden of Illness Score for Elderly Persons
Inouye SK, Bogardus ST, Vitagliano G, Desai MM, Williams CS, Grady JN, Scinto JD. Burden of Illness Score for Elderly Persons. Medical Care 2003, 41: 70-83. PMID: 12544545, DOI: 10.1097/00005650-200301000-00010.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAge FactorsAgedAged, 80 and overCohort StudiesComorbidityCost of IllnessFemaleFollow-Up StudiesForecastingGeriatric AssessmentHealth StatusHospitalizationHospitals, TeachingHumansMaleMortalityPneumoniaProbabilityProportional Hazards ModelsRisk AdjustmentRisk FactorsSeverity of Illness IndexSex FactorsSurvival AnalysisTime FactorsConceptsGroup IHazard ratioIllness scoresOverall mortalityC-statisticElderly personsHospitalized older personsHigh-risk diagnosesRisk adjustment indexProspective cohortValidation cohortDevelopment cohortUniversity HospitalPhysiologic abnormalitiesRisk factorsFunctional impairmentRisk groupsMedicine serviceMortality predictionMortality rateGroup IICohortOlder personsFinal modelGroup III