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Students & Projects

Arizona State University

ProjectDeliverable
Current Status of the Healthcare Delivery Sector of the Overall Maricopa County Crisis Mental Health SystemBarrett Honors Thesis 2024
Examining the Health Effects of Rising Temperatures on Older Adults in ArizonaBarrett Honors Thesis 2024
Transforming Healthcare Systems in the United StatesBarrett Honors Thesis 2024
A Survey for Improving ASU's Ambulatory Healthcare Services:  Recommendations for Improving Overall Healthcare DeliveryBarrett Honors Thesis 2023
Analysis and Comparisons of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Select High Income CountriesBarrett Honors Thesis 2022
Electronic Health Records: Federal Policy or Street Level Implementation.Barrett Honors Thesis 2021
The Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Medical Decision MakingBarrett Honors Thesis 2021
Exploring the Causes of Accidental/Preventable Deaths in the United States MilitaryBarrett Honors Thesis 2021
Disproportionate Effects of COVID-19 on Minority PopulationsBarrett Honors Thesis 2021
The Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Medical Decision MakingBarrett Honors Thesis 2021
Healthcare Consolidation

Paper 2021

Within Health System Variation in Value

Prognostic Indicators of Lower Limb AmputationBarrett Honors Thesis 2019
Healthcare Disparities among Minorities and Women in the Phoenix AreaBarrett Honors Thesis 2018
Increasing Blue Light Awareness: Knowledge of the General Public on the Link between Blue Light and Age-Related Macular DegenerationBarrett Honors Thesis 2017
The Medical Pal: A Smartphone Application to Improve Healthcare Delivery to Palliative PatientsBarrett Honors Thesis 2015
Clinical quality improvement project at Banner Health Barrett Honors Thesis 2015
Telemedicine in rural healthcare  Barrett Honors Thesis 2014
Electronic Health Records: Federal Policy or Street Level ImplementationBarrett Honors Thesis 2013
High value healthcare - CED and Molecular DiagnosticsLindor RA, Allocco SJ, Cheatham L et al. Regulatory and reimbursement innovation. Sci Transl Med. 2013.12;5(176):176cm3 DOI:10.1126/scitranslmed.3005437 
Monitoring Technology applied to healthcareBarrett Honors Thesis 2012

 

Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, Scottsdale

ProjectDeliverables
Medicare Payment ReformHarrington MT, Cortese DA, Landman N, et al. Medicare Reimbursement Rates:  Too Much or Too Little? What Are Our Options? Healthcare Administration Leadership & Management Journal 2023; 1(2)71/74. DOI: 10.55834/halmj.4762536129.  
Value-Based Physician ReimbursementHaglin JM, Zabat MA, Richter KR, et al. Over 20 years of declining Medicare reimbursement for spine surgeons: a temporal and geographic analysis from 2000 to 2021. Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine 2023; 37(3), 452-459. DOI: 10.3171/2022.2.SPINE211368
Value-Based Physician Reimbursement

Paper 2021

Delivering high value care: Lessons from the community teaching hospital setting

Quantifying the Financial Value of Clinical Specialty Choice and Its Association With Competitiveness of AdmissionsPuri P, Landman N, Smoldt RK, Cortese D.  Quantifying the Financial Value of Clinical Specialty Choice and Its Association With Competitiveness of Admissions. Cureus 2021;13(2): e13272. DOI: 10.7759/cureus.13272 
Supply Chain during COVID-19

Paper 2021

Engineering a Better System: A Materials Science Perspective on US Health Care After COVID-19

Outcomes of treatment for pancreatic cancer in the USA and Japan

Sykora D, Landman N, Butterfield RJ III, Bekaii-Saab TS, Chang YH, Cortese DA. Predictive factors of improved postoperative outcomes in pancreatic resection include patient insurance status and facility surgical volume. Annals of Pancreatic Cancer 2020; 3. DOI: 10.21037/apc-20-3.

 

Sykora D, Landman N, Butterfield RJ et al. Comparison of Pancreatic Cancer Surgical Outcomes by Facility Type and Volume. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2019; 229(4):S259. DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2019.08.570 

 
 

University of Arizona, Phoenix

ProjectDeliverable
US Healthcare from an International Perspective: Response to COVID-19Capstone Project 2020
High Value Care Reform – A Comparison of Two CountriesCortese DA, Klink AB, Landman N. High-Value Healthcare For All: Innovative Approaches in the United States and the Netherlands. In Van Den Breemen H, Murray D, Bilski B, Verkerk M (eds) Breakthrough: From Innovation to Impact. Volume 1. The Netherlands; The Owls Foundation; 2016: 258-89
Pay for Value – A Data Analysis

Paper 2015

Pay for value outcomes of coronary artery bypass graph (CABG) in California hospitals

High Value Healthcare

White Paper 2014

A guide to implementing high-value healthcare delivery in your organization

The Role of Telemedicine in Treating Patients

Papers, 2012-2014

Clinical Decision Support System: Not the Only Way to Increase Adoption of Telemedicine

Health Together: Developing a New Model of Care for the Dual-eligible Population

Paper 2012

Home-based primary care model for the frail elderly

 

Non-Arizona Universities

SchoolProjectDeliverable
Duke UniversityEvaluation of Uptake of UDIs by Health SystemsA Playbook for Health System Unique Device Identifier Implementation at the Point of Care. April 2023

University of Pennsylvania

University of California, San Diego

Pay for value outcomes of coronary artery bypass graph (CABG) in California hospitalsLarkin DJ, Swanson RC, Fuller, S, Cortese DA.The Affordable Care Act: a case study for understanding and applying complexity concepts to health care reform. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 2016. 22: 133-140. DOI: 10.1111/jep.12271.