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Publications of Donald H. Taylor     :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. Frank A. Sloan, Jan Ostermann, Gabriel Picone, Christopher J. Conover, and Donald H. Taylor, Jr., The Price of Smoking (2004), MIT Press .
  2. F.A. Sloan, V.K Smith, D.H. Taylor, Jr., The Smoking Puzzle: Information, Risk Perception, and Choice (2003), Harvard University Press .

Journal Articles

  1. D.H. Taylor, J. Ostermann, C.H. Van Houtwen, J. Tulsky, K. Steinhauser,, What length of hospice use maximizes reduction in medical expenditures near death in the U.S. Medicare program?, Social Science and Medicine, vol. 66 (2007), pp. 1466-1478 [pdf] .
  2. D.H. Taylor, M. Ezzell, M. Kuchibhatla, T. Ostbye, E. Clipp, Identifying trajectories of depressive symptoms for women caring for their husband's with dementia., Forthcoming in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) (2007) .
  3. D.H. Taylor, The accidental system: private and public actions to provide long term care., Forthcoming in N.C. Insight (2007) .
  4. D.H. Taylor, M. Kuchibhatla, T. Ostbye, Trajectories of caregiving time provided by wives to their husband's with dementia, Forthcoming in Alzheimer's Disease and Associated Disorders (2007) .
  5. T Østbye, D.H. Taylor, B. Plassman, Identification of dementia: agreement among national survey data, Medicare claims and death certificates, Forthcoming in Health Services Research (2007) .
  6. D.H. Taylor, C. H. Van Houtwen, K. Steinhauser, J. Tulsky, Characterizing hospice discharge patterns in a nationally representative sample of the elderly, 1993-2000, Forthcoming in American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (2007) .
  7. D.H. Taylor, M. Kuchibhatla, T. Ostbye, B. Plassman, E. Clipp, The effect of spousal caregiving and bereavement on depressive symptoms, Forthcoming in Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (2007) .
  8. T. Ricketts, L. Goldsmith, M. Holmes, R. Randolph, R. Lee, D.H. Taylor, J. Ostermann, Designating places and populations as medically underserved: a proposal for a new approach, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, vol. 18 no. 3 (2007), pp. 567-89 .
  9. Hellen Hoenig, Shanti Portia Ganesh, Donald H. Taylor, Jr., Carl Pieper, Jack Guralnik, Linda P. Fried, Lower Extremity Physical Performance and Use of Compensatory Strategies for Mobility, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 54 no. 2 (2006), pp. 262-269 .
  10. TC Ricketts, LJ Goldsmith, M Holmes, R Randolph, R Lee, D.H. Taylor, Designating Places and Populations as Medically Underserved: A Proposal for a New Approach, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (2006) .
  11. D.H. Taylor, H. Hoenig, Access to Health Care Services for the Disabled Elderly, Health Services Research, vol. 41 no. 3 (2006), pp. 743-58 .
  12. D.H. Taylor, Jan Ostermann, S. Will Acuff, Truls Ostbye, Do Seniors Know Their Risk of Moving to a Nursing Home?, Health Services Research, vol. 40 no. 3 (2005), pp. 811-828 .
  13. Truls Østbye, Donald H. Taylor, Jr., William S. Yancy, Jr., and Katrina M. Krause, Association Between Obesity and Receipt of Screening Mammography, Papanicolaou Test, and Influenza Vaccination: Results from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) Study, American Journal of Public Health, vol. 95 no. 9 (2005), pp. 1623-1630 .
  14. Jane Ostermann, Frank A. Sloan, Donald H. Taylor, Jr., Heavy Alcohol Use and Marital Dissolution in the USA, Social Science and Medicine, vol. 61 no. 11 (2005), pp. 2304-2316 .
  15. D.H. Taylor, Alzheimer's Disease and the Family Caregiver: The Cost and Who Pays?, North Carolina Medical Journal, vol. 66 no. 1 (2005), pp. 16-23 .
  16. Edward C. Norton, Donald H. Taylor, Jr., Equal Division of Estates and the Exchange Motive, Journal of Aging and Social Policy, vol. 17 no. 1 (2005), pp. 63-82 .
  17. Nancy H. Fultz, Kristi Rahrig Jenkins, TrulsØstbye, Donald H. Taylor, Jr., Mohammed U. Kabeto, and Kenneth M. Langa, The Impact of Own and Spouse's Urinary Incontinence on Depressive Symptoms, Social Science and Medicine, vol. 60 no. 11 (2005), pp. 2537-2548 .
  18. V. Kerry Smith, Mary F. Evans, Hyun Kim, D.H. Taylor, Do the Near-Elderly Value Mortality Risks Differently from Younger Persons?, The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 86 no. 1 (2004), pp. 423-429 .
  19. G. Picone, F.A. Sloan, D.H. Taylor Jr., Effects of Risk and Time Preference and Expected Longevity on Demand for Medical Tests, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, vol. 28 no. 1 (2004), pp. 39-53 .
  20. D.H. Taylor, John Rattliff, P. Murali Doraiswamy, Frank A. Sloan, Marked Increase in the Diagnosed Prevalence of Alzheimer's Disease between 1991 and 1999 in the United States., Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, vol. 59 (2004), pp. M762-M766. .
  21. H.H. Weng, L.A. Bastian, D.H. Taylor Jr., T. Ostbye, Number of Children Associated with Obesity in Middle Aged Women and Men: Results from the Health and Retirement Study, Journal of Women's Health, vol. 13 no. 1 (2004), pp. 85-91 .
  22. Donald E. Pathman, Thomas R. Konrad, Tonya S. King, D.H. Taylor, Gary G. Koch, Outcomes of States' Scholarship, Loan Repayment, and Related Programs for Physicians, Medical Care, vol. 42 no. 6 (2004), pp. 560-568 .
  23. D.H. Taylor, Helen Hoenig, The Effect of Equipment Usage and Residual Task Difficulty on Use of Personal Assistance, Days in Bed and Nursing Home Placement., The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 52 no. 1 (2004), pp. 72-79 .
  24. Truls Østbye, D.H. Taylor, The Effect of Smoking on Years of Healthy Life (YHL) Lost Among Middle Aged and Older Americans, Health Services Research, vol. 39 no. 3 (2004), pp. 499-519 .
  25. G.A. Picone, F.A. Sloan, S.Y. Chou, D.H. Taylor, Does Higher Hospital Cost Imply Higher Quality of Care?, Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 85 no. 1 (2003), pp. 51-62 .
  26. T. Ostbye, G.N. Greenberg, D.H. Taylor, A.M. Lee, K.M. Krause, Screening Mammography and Pap Smear Tests Among Older American Women 1996-2000, Annals of Family Medicine, vol. 1 (2003), pp. 209-17 .
  27. T. Ostbye, G.N. Greenberg, D.H. Taylor, Jr., A.M.M. Lee, and K.M. Krause, Screening Mammography and Pap Smear Tests Among Older American Women 1996-2000, Annals of Family Medicine, vol. 1 (2003), pp. 209-17 .
  28. G.A. Picone, F.A. Sloan, S-Y. Chou, and D.H. Taylor, Jr., Does Higher Hospital Cost Imply Higher Quality of Care?, Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 85 no. 1 (2003), pp. 51-62 .
  29. H.H. Weng, L.A. Bastian, D.H. Taylor, and T. Ostbye, Number of Children Associated with Obesity in Middle Aged Women and Men: Results from the Health and Retirement Study, Journal of Women's Health, vol. 13 no. 1 (2004), pp. 85-91 .
  30. D.H. Taylor, Jr., Caution should be used before using the APOE e4 as a predictor of health care costs., Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, vol. 3 (2003), pp. 569-73 .
  31. H. Hoenig, D.H. Taylor Jr., F.A. Sloan, Does Assistive Technology Substitute for Personal Assistance Among the Disabled Elderly?, American Journal of Public Health, vol. 93 no. 2 (2003), pp. 330-37 .
  32. T. Østbye, D.H. Taylor Jr., A.M.M. Lee, G. Greenberg, L. Van Scoyoc, Racial Differences in Influenza Vaccination Among Middle Aged and Old Americans, 1996-2000: Results from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD), BMC Public Health, vol. 3 no. 41 (2003) .
  33. D.H. Taylor,Bruce Burchett, Dan G. Blazer, Is the APOE-4 Genotype Associated with Higher Hospital Costs?, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry (forthcoming) .
  34. D.H. Taylor, Comment on "A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Studies Comparing Mortality Rates of Private For-Profit and Private Non-for-Profit Hospitals, Canadian Medical Association Journal (2002) .
  35. D.H. Taylor, Comment on "A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Studies Comparing Mortality Rates of Private For-Profit and Private Non-for-Profit Hospitals, The Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine (forthcoming) .
  36. Gabriel A. Picone, Frank A. Sloan, Donald H. Taylor, Does High Hospital Cost Imply Higher Quality of Care?, Review of Economics & Statistics (forthcoming) .
  37. Gerda G. Fillenbaum, Dan G. Blazer, Bruce M. Burchett, Ann M. Saunders, Donald H. Taylor, Apolipoprotein E-4 and Risk of Mortality in African American and White Older Community Residents, Gerontologist, vol. 42 no. 3 (2002), pp. 381-386 .
  38. D.H. Taylor, G. Fillenbaum, B. Burchett, D.G. Blazer, Is the APOE-4 Genotype Associated with Higher Hospital Costs?, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol. 11 (2003), pp. 75-82 .
  39. D.H. Taylor, Lynn Van Scoyoc, Sarah Tropman Hawley, Health Insurance and Mammography: Would a Medicare Buy In Take Us to Universal Screening?, Health Services Research, vol. 37 no. 6 (2002), pp. 1469-1486 .
  40. V. Kerry Smith, Frank A. Sloan, Donald H. Taylor, Information, Addiction, and "Bad Choices": Lessons from a Century of Cigarettes, Economic Letters, vol. 77 no. 2 (2002), pp. 147-155 .
  41. Frank A. Sloan and Donald H. Taylor, Effect of Alzheimer's Disease on the Cost of Treating Other Diseases, Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders, vol. 16 no. 3 (2002), pp. 137-143 .
  42. D.H. Taylor, Gerda G. Fillenbaum, Michael E. Ezell, The Accuracy of Medicare Claims Data in Identifying Alzheimer's Disease, The Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, vol. 55 (2002), pp. 929-937 .
  43. D.H. Taylor, Vic Hasselblad, S. Jane Henley, Michael J. Thun, Frank A. Sloan, The Benefits of Smoking Cessation for Longevity, American Journal of Public Health, vol. 92 no. 6 (2002), pp. 990-996 .
  44. D.H. Taylor, What Price For-Profit Hospitals?, Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 166 (2002), pp. 1418 .
  45. Truls Østbye, Donald H. Taylor, SangJung Hyauk, A Longitudinal Study of the Effects of Tobacco Smoking and Other Modifiable Risk Factors on Ill Health in Middle Aged and Old Americans, Preventive Medicine, vol. 34 (2002), pp. 334-45 .
  46. Truls Østbye, Donald H. Taylor, Katrina M. Krause, Lynn Van Scoyoc, The Role of Smoking and Other Modifiable Life Style Risk Factors in Maintaining and Restoring Lower Body Mobility in Middle Aged and Older Americans: Results from their HRS and AHEAD, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 50 no. 4 (2002), pp. 691-699 .
  47. D.H. Taylor, Alzheimer's Disease Cost: What We Know is Not Enough, Contemporary Long Term Care, vol. 24 no. 7 (2001), pp. 30-33 .
  48. Donald H. Taylor, Jr., Truls Østbye, The Relative Effect of Body Mass Index at Age 50 and Old Age on Mortality Among the Elderly, The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 49 (2001), pp. 1319-1326 .
  49. D.H. Taylor, Margaret Schenkman, Jing Zhou, Frank A. Sloan, The Effect of Disability and Comorbidity on the Cost of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, vol. 56 no. 5 (2001), pp. 285-293 .
  50. V. Kerry Smith, Donald H. Taylor, Jr., Frank A. Sloan, Longevity Expectations and Death: An People Predict Their Own Demise?, American Economic Review, vol. 91 no. 4 (2001), pp. 1126-1134 .
  51. V. Kerry Smith, Donald H. Taylor, Jr., Reid Johnson, William Desvousges, Do Smokers Respond to Health Shocks?, Review of Economics & Statistics, vol. 83 no. 4 (2001), pp. 675-687 .
  52. Frank A. Sloan, Gariel Picone, Donald H. Taylor, Jr., Shin-Yi Chou, Hospital Ownership and Cost and Quality of Care: Is There a Dime's Worth of Difference?, Journal of Health Economics, vol. 29 no. 1 (2001), pp. 1-21 .
  53. Donald E. Pathman, Donald H. Taylor, Jr., Thomas R. Konrad, et al., State Scholarship, Loan Forgiveness, and Related Programs: the Unheralded Safety Net, JAMA, vol. 284 no. 16 (2000), pp. 2084-2092 .
  54. D.H. Taylor and Frank A. Sloan, How Much Do Person's with Alzheimer's Disease Cost Medicare?, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 48 (2000), pp. 639-646 .
  55. Donald E. Pathman, Thomas R. Konrad, Tonya S. King, Cora Spaulding, Donald H. Taylor, Jr., Medical Training Debt and Service Commitments: The Rural Consequences, The Journal of Rural Health, vol. 16 (2000), pp. 264-273 .
  56. Frank A. Sloan, Donald H. Taylor, Jr., End of Life Care: Private and Public Choices, JAMA, vol. 282 no. 21 (1999), pp. 2078 .
  57. D.H. Taylor, Do Targeted Efforts for the Rural Poor Help Kill Comprehensive Reform?, Journal of Rural Health, vol. 15 no. 1 (1999), pp. 55-60 .
  58. D.H. Taylor, Frank A. Sloan, Edward C. Norton, Formation of Trusts, and Spend Down to Medicaid, Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, vol. 54 no. 4 (1999), pp. S194-S201 .
  59. Frank A. Sloan, Donald H. Taylor, Jr., Gabriel Picone, Cost and Outcomes of Stroke and Hip Fracture: Rising Costs but Better Outcomes?, American Journal of Public Health, vol. 89 no. 6 (1999), pp. 935-937 .
  60. D.H. Taylor, David Whellan, Frank A. Sloan, Effects of Admission to a Teaching Hospital on Cost and Quality of Care: Evidence from Medicare, New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 318 no. 340 (1999), pp. 293-299 .
  61. D.H. Taylor, Aneez Esmail, Retrospective Analysis of Census Data on General Practitioners Who Qualified in South Asia: Who Will Replace Them as they Retire?, British Medical Journal (BMJ), vol. 318 (1999), pp. 306-310 .
  62. D.H. Taylor, Julie-Ann Quayle, Chris Roberts, Retention of Young General Practitioners entering the NHS from 1991-93, British Journal of General Practice, vol. 49 (1999), pp. 277-280 .
  63. D.H. Taylor, The Natural Life of Policy Indices: Geographical Problem Areas in the U.S. & U.K., Social Science and Medicine, vol. 47 (1998), pp. 713-726 .
  64. D.H. Taylor, Brenda Leese, General Practitioner Turnover and Migration in England: 1990-94, British Journal of General Practice, vol. 48 (1998), pp. 1070-72 .
  65. D.H. Taylor, Brenda Leese, Partnership Changes in General Practice, 1990-1994, Journal of Public Health Medicine, vol. 19 (1997), pp. 341-46 .
  66. D.H. Taylor, Brenda Leese, Recruitment, Retention, and Time Commitment Change of General Practitioner's in England and Wales: 1990-94, British Medical Journal (BMJ), vol. 314 (1997), pp. 1806-1810 .
  67. Thomas C. Ricketts, III, Donald H. Taylor, Jr., Lucy A. Savitz, Using Logistic Regression to Make County-Level Estimates of the Uninsured Problem in North Carolina, Policy Studies Review, vol. 14 (1996), pp. 323-338 .
  68. Timothy S. Carey, Joanne Garrett, Anne Jackman, Curtis McLaughlin, John Fryer, Douglas S. Smucker, and the North Carolina Back Pain Project, The Outcomes and Costs of Care for Acute Low Back Pain Among Patients Seen by Primary Care Practitioners, Chiropractors, and Orthopedic Surgeons, New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 333 (1995), pp. 913-917 (Donald H. Taylor, Jr. was a member of the North Carolina Back Pain Project.) .
  69. D.H. Taylor, Thomas C. Ricketts, III, Increasing Obstetrical Care Access to the Rural Poor, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, vol. 4 (1994), pp. 27-35 .
  70. D.H. Taylor, Thomas C. Ricketts, III, Helping Nurse-Midwives Provide Obstetrical Care, American Journal of Public Health, vol. 83 (1993), pp. 904-905 .
  71. D.H. Taylor, Thomas C. Ricketts, III, Jess L. Berman, Jane T. Kolimaga, A State's Response to the Liability Crisis: North Carolina's Rural Obstetrical Care Incentive (ROCI) Program, Public Health Reports (September-October 1992), pp. 523-529 .

Chapters in Books

  1. D.H. Taylor, The Cost of Dementia, in Research and Practice in Alzheimers Disease, edited by B. Vella and L.J. Fitten, vol. 7 (2003), pp. 222-26, Paris, Serdi .
  2. D.H. Taylor, the Cost of Alzheimer's Disease, in Research and Practice in Alzheimers Disease, edited by B. Vella and L.J. Fitten, vol. 56 (2001), pp. 222-226, Paris: Serdi .
  3. Frank A. Sloan, V. Kerry Smith, Donald H. Taylor, Jr., Are Smokers Too Optimistic?, in The Economic Analysis of Substance Use and Abuse: The Experience of Developed Countries and Lessons for Developing Countries, edited by Michael Grossman and Chee-Ruey Hsieh (2001), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited .
  4. Frank A. Sloan, Donald H. Taylor, Jr., Christopher Conover, Hospital Conversions: Is the Purchase Price Too Low?, in The Changing Hospital Industry: Comparing Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Institutions, edited by David M. Cutler (2000), pp. 13-44, Chicago: University of Chicago Press .
  5. Frank A. Sloan, Donald H.Taylor, Jr., Does Ownership Affect the Cost of Medicare?, in Medicare Reform: Issues and Answers, edited by Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas R. Saving (1999), pp. 99-130, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press .
  6. Frank A. Sloan, Gabriel Picone, Donald H. Taylor, Jr., Shin-Yi Chou, Does Where You are Admitted Make A Difference?, in Frontiers of Health Policy Research, edited by Alan M. Garber, vol. 2 (1999), pp. 1-27, Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research and MIT Press .

Papers Submitted

  1. T. Ostbye, D.H. Taylor, B. Plassman, Identification Of Dementia – Agreement Among National Survey Data, Medicare Claims and Death Index Data, Health Services Research (2006) .

Book Reviews

  1. D.H. Taylor, Review of My Own Country, The Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, vol. 6 (1995), pp. 41 .

Other

  1. D.H. Taylor, Long Term Care Insurance that Works (Sunday, May 6, 2001), The Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer .
  2. D.H. Taylor, Timely Flood Aid from N.C.'s Refund (Wednesday, September 29, 1999), The Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer .
  3. Christopher Conover, Hester Haverkamp, Frank A. Sloan, Donald H. Taylor, Jr., Hospital Conversions Manual for North and South Carolina (August, 1998), prepared for the Duke Endowment and the Self and Fullerton Foundations .
  4. D.H. Taylor, Why Should It Take A Hurricane Fran? (Thursday, September 26, 1996), The Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer .
  5. Thomas C. Ricketts, III, Donald H. Taylor, Jr., Examining Alternative Measures of Underservice (July, 1995), Proceedings of the 1995 Public Health Conference on Records and Statistics. Washington, D.C.: National Center for Health Statistics .
  6. Thomas C. Ricketts, III, Donald H. Taylor, Jr., Executive Summary: Examining Alternative Measures of Rural Underservice (June, 1995), Working Paper #39, Rural Health Research Program, Sheps Center for Health Services Research, Chapel Hill, N.C. .
  7. D.H. Taylor, Thomas C. Ricketts, III, Jane Kolimaga, Hilda A. Howard, The Measurement of Underservice and Provider Shortage in the United States: A Policy Analysis (June, 1995), Working Paper #33, Sheps Center for Health Services Research, Chapel Hill, N.C. .
  8. D.H. Taylor, Alternative Measures of Medical Underservice: A Proposal and Assessment (April, 1995), Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C. .
  9. D.H. Taylor, Rural Health Care Reform Is A Matter of Will, Not Ways (Sunday, January 8, 1995), The Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer .
  10. D.H. Taylor, Thomas C. Ricketts, III, Jane Kolimaga, Defining Underservice and Physician Shortage Areas in Historical and Future Contexts (April, 1994), Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, Chapel HIll, N.C. .
  11. Jerry D. Joines, Donald H. Taylor, Jr., Joanne M. Garrett, Thomas C. Ricketts, and Timothy S. Carey, Urban/Rural Differences in Care Seeking for Adults With Acute Severe Low Back Pain (April, 1994), Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services, Chapel Hill, N.C. .
  12. Jerry D. Joines, Donald H. Taylor, Jr., Thomas C. Ricketts, III, Timothy S. Carey, Regional and Urban-Rural Differences in Care-Seeking and Choice of Provider for Adults with Acute Low Back Pain, Journal of General Internal Medicine, vol. 9 no. April Supplement 2 (1994), pp. 57 (Abstract.) .
  13. Thomas C. Ricketts, III, Jane Kolimaga, Donald H. Taylor, Jr., and Lucy A. Savitz, Study of Health Insurance Coverage for Prenatal and Maternal Delivery Services in North Carolina (March 1, 1993), Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, Chapel Hill, N.C. .
  14. D.H. Taylor, Thomas C. Ricketts, III, Richard Langholz, A Response to the Liability Crisis: The First Three Years of North Carolina's Rural Obstetrical Care Incentive (ROCI) Program (November, 1991), N.C. Rural Health Research Program, Chapel Hill. Working Paper Series .

Op-eds

  1. D.H. Taylor, A Condemned Man's DNA Appeal (April 25, 2006) (Raleigh, NC News and Observer.) [html] .

Multimedia

  1. D.H. Taylor, "Hospice Saves Medicare Money, Clinician's Roundtable, Reach MD (January, 2008), XM157 Radio (Interview about the cost savings of hospice care to the Medicare program with satellite radio talk show host Susan Dolan..) [xmsegment.aspx] .
  2. D.H. Taylor, The Cost of Aging in N.C., North Carolina Public Radio News (January 9, 2008) [view] .