Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends (CFACT): Publications by Staff

D.E.B. Potter

Authors: Spector W, Shaffer T, Potter D.E.B., et al.
Title: Risk factors associated with the occurrence of fractures in U.S. nursing homes: Resident and facility characteristics and prescription medications
Publication: J Am Geriatr Soc 55(3):327-33
Date: March 2007
Abstract: Available on PubMed®

Authors: Lau D, Kasper J, Potter D, et al.
Title: Hospitalization and death associated with potentially inappropriate medication prescriptions among elderly nursing home residents
Publication: Arch Intern Med 165(1):68-74
Date: January 2005
Abstract: Available on PubMed®

Authors: Lau D, Kasper J, Potter D, Lyles A
Title: Potentially inappropriate medication prescriptions among elderly nursing home residents: their scope and associated resident and facility characteristics
Publication: Health Serv Research 39(5):1257-76
Date: October 2004
Abstract: Available on PubMed®

Authors: Potter D, Lau D, Dominici F
Title: Characteristics of nursing home residents with item nonresponse in their prescribed medicine data: Analyzing the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Nursing Home Component
Publication: American Statistical Association, Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods (CD-ROM), Alexandria, VA
Date: August 2002

Authors: Spector W, Potter D, De La Mare J
Title: Future directions for residential long-term care health services research
Publication: AHRQ Pub. No. 01-0007. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD
Date: 2000
Abstract: AHRQ's Center for Organization and Delivery Studies (CODS) and Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends (CFACT) sponsored "Future Directions for Residential Long-term Care Health Services Research," a meeting to convene long-term care experts to help guide the Agency in developing its long-term care agenda. Specifically, the goals of the meeting were to: identify the most important research and policy questions concerning quality, equity, cost, and expenditures for residents of long-term care facilities; develop a strategy for collecting and measuring indicators of quality for residential care; discuss alternative approaches to the collection of expenditure data in long-term care facilities; seek advice about possible ways AHRQ could partner with other agencies to use current national survey efforts and existing administrative data to answer the most important research and policy questions; and to enable the Department to monitor changes in quality and expenditures in long-term care settings. The 2-day meeting was based on experts' responses to a series of questions collected prior to the meeting. The questions focused on policy and research priorities, national quality indicators, and data-collection methods.

Authors: Potter D, Machlin S
Title: Comparison of the survey estimates from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Statistical Association, Baltimore, MD, August, 1999
Publication: American Statistical Association, Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Section on Survey Research Methods, pp.701-6
Date: 1999
Abstract: The household survey (HS) of both the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) and the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) were designed to produce annual estimates for a variety of measures related to health care use, expenses, sources of payment, health status, and insurance coverage. Both are nationally representative population-based samples; longitudinal, with rotation; and require multiple rounds of in-person computer-assisted personal interview data collection to produce an annual estimate. The surveys differ with respect to their target populations; in MEPS-HS, the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population, and in MCBS, the Current Medicare Beneficiary population. The purpose of this evaluation is to assess the compatibility of the survey estimates derived from these surveys as part of the effort to enhance the analytic utility of each survey. To the extent that the samples can be pooled for specific health care measures, the paper examines potential gains in precision for the composite estimates. The paper also includes a discussion of key analytic measures considered incompatible for pooling, given survey differences.

Author: Potter D
Title: Design and methods of the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Nursing Home Component
Publication: MEPS Methodology Report No. 3. AHCPR Pub. No. 98-0041. Available on the MEPS Web site
Date: 1998
Abstract: MEPS is the third in a series of nationally representative surveys of medical care use and expenditures. MEPS comprises four component surveys. The Nursing Home Component (NHC) produces national estimates of insurance coverage and the use of services, expenditures, and sources of payment for persons residing in or admitted to nursing homes. The NHC also gathers information on nursing home characteristics—such as facility type, ownership, chain affiliation, certification, facility size, and location—for a nationally representative sample of nursing homes. This report describes the design of and methods used in the MEPS-NHC. Information is included on the NHC objectives, sample design, instruments of data collection, and data-collection procedures.

Authors: Rhoades J, Potter D, Krauss N
Title: Nursing homes—structure and selected characteristics, 1996
Publication: MEPS Research Findings No. 4. AHCPR Pub. No. 98-0006. Available on the MEPS Web site
Date: 1998
Abstract: This report is based on the 1996 MEPS-NHC. It provides estimates of the number and distribution of nursing homes by nursing home type, ownership and chain affiliation, certification status, size, and geographic distribution. The estimates of nursing home characteristics presented in this report are derived from information provided by facility administrators and designated staff in sampled nursing homes.

Authors: Sperry S, Edwards B, Dulaney R, Potter D
Title: Evaluating interviewer use of CAPI navigation features
Publication: Computer Assisted Survey Information Collection, pp 351-65. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Date: 1998

Authors: Potter D, Sperry S, Edwards B, Dulaney R
Title: Can information from and about interviewers predict their CAPI behavior?
Publication: American Statistical Association, Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, pp. 987-92
Date: 1998

Authors: Potter D, Edwards B, Dulaney R, Sperry S
Title: Interviewers' use of on-line help in a CAPI environment
Publication: American Statistical Association, Proceedings of the Section on Social Statistics, pp. 340-45
Date: 1997

Authors: Potter D, Edwards B, Sperry S, Dulaney R
Title: Interviewer behavior on CAPI grids and lists
Publication: American Statistical Association, Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, pp. 1035-40
Date: 1997

Authors: Krauss N, Freiman M, Rhoades J, et al.
Title: Nursing home update—1996
Publication: MEPS Highlights No. 2. AHCPR Pub. No.97-0036. Available on the MEPS Web site
Date: 1997
Abstract: New MEPS data describe characteristics of nursing home facilities and residents in the United States.

Authors: Cohen J, Monheit A, Beauregard K, et al
Title: The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey: A national health information resource
Publication: Inquiry 33:373-89. AHCPR Pub. No. 97-R043
Date: 1996/97
Abstract: Available on PubMed®

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