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

Marc W. Zodet, M.S.

Position
Statistician (Health)

Education
M.S., Biostatistics, University of Michigan
B.S., Sociology, James Madison University

Current Research Projects
Annual Report on Access to and Utilization of Healthcare for Children and Youth in the United States, for November/December issues of Ambulatory Pediatrics (with Steve Machlin, Anne Elixhauser, Lisa Simpson, Marie McCormick, Harvard School of Public Health)
National Healthcare Disparities Report to Congress 2003 (with collaborators across AHRQ)

Technical Assistance and Survey Contributions
Provide technical assistance (internal/external) on survey design, weighting, and variance estimation as needed

Survey Experience
Statistical analysis: development of statistical analysis plans, programming, analysis/interpretation, dissemination
Data: large administrative claims databases (managed care, Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project [HCUP]), clinical trial data, registry data (SEER), national survey data (Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey/National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey [NAMCS/NHAMCS])
Computing: SAS, STATA, SUDAAN, S-PLUS, Epi-Info, Atlas Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Windows/Unix
Health economics: cost-effectiveness analysis, health economic decision modeling, resource utilization
Health related quality of life; using SF-36, Psychological General Well-Being (PGWB) index, etc.
Statistical quality control/improvement

Publications

Select for a bibliography of articles and reports by Marc W. Zodet.

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