2022
Racial and Ethnic Variation in COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake Among Medicare Beneficiaries with Cancer History
Poghosyan H, Dinan MA, Tamamyan G, Nelson L, Jeon S. Racial and Ethnic Variation in COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake Among Medicare Beneficiaries with Cancer History. Journal Of Racial And Ethnic Health Disparities 2022, 10: 2354-2362. PMID: 36149576, PMCID: PMC9510246, DOI: 10.1007/s40615-022-01415-2.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNon-Hispanic white beneficiariesCancer historyVaccine doseMedicare beneficiariesWhite beneficiariesVaccine uptakeHispanic beneficiariesMultivariable logistic regression analysisCOVID-19 vaccination uptakeSelf-reported cancer historyCOVID-19 vaccine uptakeSelf-reported receiptCOVID-19 vaccination ratesLogistic regression analysisNon-Hispanic blacksSelf-reported raceUnvaccinated beneficiariesVaccination uptakeVaccine dosesVaccination ratesVaccine confidenceVaccine availabilitySupplement surveyCross-sectional dataEthnic variation
2015
Otolaryngology utilization of speech‐language pathology services for voice disorders
Cohen SM, Dinan MA, Kim J, Roy N. Otolaryngology utilization of speech‐language pathology services for voice disorders. The Laryngoscope 2015, 126: 906-912. PMID: 26308555, DOI: 10.1002/lary.25574.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLaryngeal/voice disordersSpeech-language pathology servicesSLP evaluationLaryngeal diagnosisDiagnosis changeSLP servicesVoice disordersMultivariable logistic regression analysisPathology servicesClinical Modification codesLogistic regression analysisVoice therapy sessionsPatient ageHealthcare utilizationInitial diagnosisPatient factorsNinth RevisionUnique patientsStudy criteriaVoice-disordered patientsRetrospective analysisStudy populationInternational ClassificationGreater oddsPatients
2013
Variations in Use of PET among Medicare Beneficiaries with Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer, 1998–2007
Dinan MA, Curtis LH, Carpenter WR, Biddle AK, Abernethy AP, Patz EF, Schulman KA, Weinberger M. Variations in Use of PET among Medicare Beneficiaries with Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer, 1998–2007. Radiology 2013, 267: 807-817. PMID: 23418003, DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12120174.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNon-small cell lung cancerPositron emission tomographyUse of PETMedicare beneficiariesCases of NSCLCPET useDiagnosis of NSCLCEnd Results-Medicare dataMultivariable logistic regression analysisDuke University Health SystemHalf of patientsCell lung cancerExamination 2 monthsMultivariable regression analysisUniversity Health SystemLogistic regression analysisDemographic subgroupsRegression analysisInstitutional review boardNonblack patientsPrimary outcomeFinal cohortSurveillance EpidemiologyLung cancerRetrospective analysis