Recent Publications
Forthcoming
Larson MJ, Amodeo M, Storti S, et al. A novel CBT web course for the substance abuse workforce: Community counselors' perceptions. Substance Abuse. Forthcoming.
Lorenz LS. A way into empathy: Using participatory visual methods to see brain injury from a patient's perspective. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine. Forthcoming;15(2).
Merrick EL, Hodgkin D, Hiatt D, Horgan CM, McCann B. EAP service use in a managed behavioral health care organization: From the employee perspective. Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health. Forthcoming.
Wittenberg E. Construction of Values. In: Kattan M, Cowen ME, editors. Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making: Sage Publications. Forthcoming.
2012
Merrick EL, Reif S, Hiatt D, Hodgkin D, Horgan CM, Ritter G. Substance abuse treatment client experience in an employed population: Results of a client survey. Substance Abuse Treatment Prevention and Policy 2012; 7(4), 17 Jan. 2012.
Lee MT, Garnick DW, O'Brien ML, PanasL, Ritter GA, Acevedo A, et al. (e-pub 2011). Adolescent treatment initiation and engagement in an evidence-based practice initiative. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment.
Garnick DW, Lee MT, O'Brien ML, PanasL, Ritter GA, Acevedo A, et al. (in press 2012). The Washington Circle Engagement Performance Measures' Association with Adolescent Treatment Outcomes. Drug Alcohol Dependence.
Schmidt LA, Tam TW, Larson MJ. Sources of Biased Inference in Alcohol and Drug Services Research: An Instrumental Variable Approach. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 2012 Jan;73(1):144-153. www.jsad.com/jsad/link/73/144
Merrick EL, Reif S, Hiatt D, Hodgkin D, Horgan CM, Ritter G. Substance abuse treatment client experience in an employed population: Results of a client survey. Substance Abuse Treatment Prevention and Policy 2012; 7(4), 17 Jan. 2012.
2011
Daley M, Shepard DS, Tompkins CP, Dunigan R, Reif S, Perloff J, Siembab L, Horgan CM. (2011) Randomized trial of enhanced profiling in substance abuse treatment. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research; 38(2):96-104.
Hodgkin D, Volpe-Vartanian J, Merrick EL, Horgan CM, Nierenberg AA, Frank RG. (2011) Customization in prescribing for bipolar disorder. Health Economics; April 19 Epub ahead of print. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1759-8893.2011.00068.x/abstract
Lorenz L. (2011) A way into empathy: A ‘case’ of photo-elicitation research. health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine; 15(2), Available online February 18, 2011. http://hea.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/02/17/1363459310397976.abstract
Lorenz LS, Chilingerian J. (2011) Using visual and narrative methods to achieve fair process in clinical care. Journal of Visualized Experiments; 48. http://www.jove.com/details.stp?id=2342
Merrick EL, Hodgkin D, Garnick DW, Horgan, CM, Panas L, Ryan M, Blow F, Saitz R. (2011) Older adults’ inpatient and emergency department utilization for ambulatory-care-sensitive conditions: Relationship with alcohol consumption. Journal of Aging and Health; 23 (1): 86-111.
Merrick EL, Hodgkin D, Hiatt D, Horgan CM, Greenfield SF, McCann B. (2011) Integrated Employee Assistance Program/Managed Behavioral Health Plan Utilization by Persons with Substance Use Disorders. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment; 40(3):299-306.
Merrick EL, Hodgkin D, Hiatt D, Horgan CM, McCann B. (2011) EAP service use in a managed behavioral healthcare organization: From the employee perspective. Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health; 26(2):85-96.
Merrick EL, Hodgkin D, Horgan CM, Panas L, Soumerai S, Ritter G. (2011) Is customization in antidepressant prescribing associated with acute-phase treatment adherence? Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research; E-pub ahead of print, Oct. 19, 2011
Reif S, Horgan CM, Garnick DW, McLellan DL. (2011) Systems-level smoking cessation activities by private health plans. Preventing Chronic Disease; 8(1). http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2011/jan/09_0236.htm
Reif, S., Larson, M. J., Cheng, D., Allensworth-Davies, D., Samet, J., & Saitz, R. (2011). Chronic disease and recent addiction treatment utilization among alcohol and drug dependent adults. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 6(1), 28. http://www.
Reif S, Ritter GA, Horgan CM. (2011) Treatment services: Triangulation of methods when there is no gold standard. Substance Use & Misuse; 46(5):620-632.
Schmidt LA, Tam TW,Larson MJ. (2011) Sources of Biased Inference in Alcohol and Drug Services Research: An Instrumental Variable Approach. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs; 73(1):144-153.www.jsad.com/jsad/link/73/144
Thomas CP, Garnick DW, Horgan CM , McCorry F, Gmyrek A, Chalk M, et al. (2011) Advancing performance measures for use of medications in substance abuse treatment. J Subst Abuse Treat; 40:35-43. PMCID: Journal in Process.
Tschampi C, Bernardo J, Garvey T, Garnick DW. (2011) The Need for Performance Measures on Testing for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Primary Care. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety; 37(7):309-316.
Wittenberg E, Prosser L. (2011) Ordering errors, objections and invariance in utility survey responses: a framework for understanding who, why and what to do. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, forthcoming.>
Wittenberg E. (2011) The effect of time of onset on community preferences for health states: an exploratory study. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes; 9(6). doi:10.1186/1477-7525-9-6. Article
2010
Amodeo M, Storti SA, Larson MJ. (2010) Moving empirically supported practices to addiction treatment programs: recruiting supervisors to help in technology transfer. Subst Use Misuse; 45(6):968-82.
Daley M, Shepard DS, Reif S, Dunigan R, Tompkins CP, Perloff J, Siembab L, Horgan CM. (2010) Evaluation of provider profiling in the public sector. Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly; 28(4):376-390.
Daley M, Shepard DS, Tompkins CP, Dunigan R, Reif S, Perloff J, Siembab L, Horgan CM. (2010) Randomized trial of enhanced profiling in substance abuse treatment. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. Epub ahead of print.
Garner BR, Godley MD, Funk RR, Lee MT, Garnick DW. (2010) The Washington Circle continuity of care performance measure: predictive validity with adolescents discharged from residential treatment. J Subst Abuse Treat; 38(1):3-11. PMCID: 2789887.
Hodgkin D, Merrick EL, Hiatt D, Horgan CM, McGuire TG. (2010) The Effect of Employee Assistance Plan Benefits on the Use of Outpatient Behavioral Health Care. Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics; 13(4):167-174. http://www.icmpe.org/test1/journal/issues/v13i4/v13i4abs03.html
Hodgkin D, Karpman HE. (2010) Economic crises and public spending on mental health care. International Journal of Mental Health, Vol. 39 (2): 91-106.
Katz N, Panas L, Kim M, Audet AD, Bilansky A, Eadie J, et al. (2010) Usefulness of prescription monitoring programs for surveillance--analysis of Schedule II opioid prescription data in Massachusetts, 1996-2006. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf; 19(2):115-23.
Larson MJ, McGraw SA. (2010) Somatic illness and medical needs of women with mental illness. In: Becker MA, Levin BL, editors. A Public Health Perspective of Women's Mental Health, 2010. New York: Springer; 2010. p. 81-105.
Lorenz L. (2010) Brain injury survivors: Narratives of rehabilitation and healing. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc; 2010.
Lorenz, L. S. (2010) Discovering a new identity after brain injury.Sociology of Health and Illness, 32(6), 862-879.
Lorenz, L. S. (2010) Visual metaphors of living with brain injury: Exploring and communicating lived experience with an invisible injury. Visual Studies, 25(3), 210-223.
McCann B, Azzone V, Merrick EL, Hiatt D, Hodgkin D, Horgan CM. (2010) Employer choices in EAP design and worksite services. Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, 25(2):89-106.
McGraw SA, Larson MJ, Foster SE, Kresky-Wolff M, Botelho EM, Elstad EA, et al. (2010) Adopting best practices: lessons learned in the Collaborative Initiative to Help End Chronic Homelessness (CICH). J Behav Health Serv Res; 37(2):197-212.
Merrick EL, Perloff J, Tompkins CP. (2010) Emergency department utilization among Medicare beneficiaries with serious mental disorders. Psychiatric Services, 61(6):628-631.
Merrick EL, Hodgkin D, Garnick DW, Horgan, CM, Panas L, Ryan M, Blow F, Saitz R. (2010) Older adults' inpatient and emergency department utilization for ambulatory-care-sensitive conditions: Relationship with alcohol consumption. Journal of Aging and Health. Published online October 8, 2010. http://jah.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/10/07/0898264310383156.full.pdf+html
Merrick EL, Horgan CM. Invited book review of Mental Health Services: A Public Health Perspective (Third Edition), edited by B. L. Levin, K.D. Hennessey, J. Petrila. New York: Oxford. Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, Epub ahead of print December 24, 2010. http://www.springerlink.com/content/u332017g4745317t/fulltext.html
Merrick EL, Hodgkin D, Hiatt D, Horgan CM, Greenfield SF, McCann B. Integrated employee assistance program/managed behavioral health plan utilization by persons with substance use disorders. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, Epub ahead of print, December 23, 2010. http://www.journalofsubstanceabusetreatment.com/article/S0740-5472%2810%2900248-5/abstract
Merrick EL, Hodgkin D, Hiatt D, Horgan CM, Azzone V, McCann B, et al. (2010) Patterns of service use in two types of managed behavioral health care plans. Psychiatric Services; 61(1):86-9. PMCID: 2801078.
Merrick EL, Reif S. (2010) Services in an era of managed care. In: Becker MA, Levin BL, editors. A Public Health Perspective of Women's Mental Health. New York: Springer Publications; pp. 201-28.
Merrick EL, Hodgkin D, Garnick DW, Horgan CM, Panas L, Ryan M, Blow FC, Saitz R. (2010) Older Adults' Inpatient and Emergency Department Utilization For Ambulatory-Care-Sensitive Conditions: Relationship with Alcohol Consumption. Journal of Aging and Health; 23(1): 86-111.
Ozanne EM, Wittenberg E, Garber JE, Weeks JC. (2010) Breast cancer prevention: patient decision making and risk communication in the high risk setting. Breast J; 16(1):38-47.
Peller AJ, Najavits LM, Nelson SE, LaBrie RA, Shaffer HJ. (2010) PTSD Among a Treatment Sample of Repeat DUI Offenders. Journal of Traumatic Stress; 23(4): 468-473. Article
Reif S, Horgan C, Torres M, Merrick E. (2010) Economic grand rounds: Types of practitioners and outpatient visits in a private managed behavioral health plan. Psychiatr Serv; 61(11):1066-8.
Reif S, Ritter GA, Horgan CM. (2010) Treatment services: Triangulation of methods when there is no gold standard. Subst Use Misuse; [Epub ahead of print]
Wallack SS, Thomas CP, Martin TC, Chilingerian J, Reif S. (2010) Substance abuse treatment organizations as mediators of social policy: slowing the adoption of a congressionally approved medication. J Behav Health Serv Res; 37(1):64-78.
2009
Azzone V, McCann B, Merrick EL, Hiatt D, Hodgkin D, Horgan CM. (2009) Workplace stress, organizational factors and EAP utilization. Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health; 24:344-56.
Browne CA, Larson MJ, Miller K, Cowell AJ. (2009) Datapoints: racial and ethnic patterns in claim-identified mental disorders among disabled medicare beneficiaries. Psychiatr Serv; 60(12):1586.
Garnick DW, Lee MT, Horgan CM, Acevedo A. (2009) Washington Circle Public Sector Workgroup. Adapting Washington Circle performance measures for public sector substance abuse treatment systems. J Subst Abuse Treat; 36(3):265-77. PMCID: PMC2653590.
Hodgkin D, Horgan CM, Garnick DW, Merrick EL. (2009) Benefit limits for behavioral health care in private health plans. Adm Policy Ment Health; 36(1):15-23. PMCID: PMC2644559.
Horgan CM, Garnick DW, Merrick EL, Hodgkin D. (2009) Changes in how health plans provide behavioral health services. J Behav Health Serv Res; 36(1):11-24.
Lorenz LS, Kolb B. (2009) Involving the public through participatory visual research methods. Health Expectations; 12:262-74.
Merrick EL, Hodgkin D, Horgan CM, Hiatt D, McCann B, Azzone V, et al. (2009) Integrated employee assistance program/managed behavioral health care benefits: relationship with access and client characteristics. Adm Policy Ment Health; 36(6):416-23. PMCID: 2794127.
Merrick EL, Horgan CM, Garnick DW, Reif S, Stewart MT. (2009) Accessing specialty behavioral health treatment in private health plans. J Behav Health Serv Res; 36(4):420-35.
Sher DJ, Wittenberg E, Suh WW, Taghian AG, Punglia RS. (2009) Partial-breast irradiation versus whole-breast irradiation for early-stage breast cancer: a cost-effectiveness analysis. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys; 74(2):440-6. PMCID: 2695677.
Wright DR, Wittenberg E, Swan JS, Miksad RA, Prosser LA. (2009) Methods for measuring temporary health states for cost-utility analyses. Pharmacoeconomics; 27(9):713-23.
Botticelli M, Clark S, et al. Lessons from five states: Public sector use of Washington Circle performance measures. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. 2011;40 (3):241-54. PMCID: Journal - In Process.
Hiatt D, Horgan C, Greenfield S, McCann B. Integrated EAP/managed behavioral health plan utilization by persons with substance use disorders. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. 2011;40 (3):299-306. PMCID: PMC Journal - In Process.