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Published Research

The papers listed below reflect the health disparities research interest of the faculty members and staff at VCU.

Health Disparities

  1. Smith WR, Betancourt JR, Wynia MK, Bussey-Jones J, Stone VE, Phillips CO, Fernandez A, Jacobs E, Bowles J. Recommendations for teaching about racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care. In press, Ann Intern Med.
  1. Cotter JJ, Bramble JD, Bovbjerg VE, Pugh CB, McClish DK, Tipton G, Smith WR. Timeliness of immunization of children in a Medicaid primary care case management managed care program. Journal of the National Medical Association 2002;94 (9):833-839.
  1. M Parviz, JB Cassel, BJ Kaplan, SE Karp, JP Neifeld, LT Penberthy &HD Bear. (2003). Breast conservation therapy rates are no different in medicallky indigent vs. insured patients with early stage breast cancer. Journal of Surgical Oncology, 84: 57-62.
  1. Muennig PA, Woolf SH. The cost-effectiveness of education as a health intervention: an analysis of the health and economic benefits of reducing the size of classes. Am J Public Health, in press.
  1. Woolf SH, Johnson RE, Phillips RL Jr, Philipsen M. Giving everyone the health of the educated: an examination of whether social change would save more lives than medical advances. Am J Public Health, in press.
  1. Johnson RE, Geiger HJ. The rising prevalence of severe poverty in America: a growing threat to public health. Am J Prev Med 2006;31:332-341.
  1. Woolf SH, Johnson RE. The break-even point: when medical advances are less important than improving the fidelity with which they are delivered. Ann Fam Med 2005:3:545-552.
  1. Satcher D, Fryer GE Jr, McCann J, Troutman A, Woolf SH, Rust G. What if we were equal? A comparison of the black-white mortality gap in 1960 and 2000. Health Aff 2005;24:459-64.
  1. Woolf SH, Johnson RE, Fryer GE Jr, Rust G, Satcher D. The health impact of resolving racial disparities: an analysis of US mortality data. Am J Public Health 2004;94:2078-81.
  1. Woolf SH. Society's choice: the tradeoff between efficacy and equity and the lives at stake. Am J Prev Med 2004;27:49-56.

Sickle Cell

  1. Smith WR, McClish DK, Penberthy LT, Bovbjerg VE, Roberts JD, Aisiku IP, Levenson JL, Roseff SD. Pain, crises, and utilization in sickle cell disease. In press, Annals Intern Med.
  1. Smith, WR. Pseudoevidence-based medicine: what it is, and what to do about it. In press, Clinical Governance: an International Journal 2007;12(1):42-52.
  1. Citero VA, Levenson JL, McClish DK, Bovbjerg VE, Cole PL, Dahman BA, Penberthy LT, Aisiku IP, Roseff SD, Smith WR. The role of catastrophizing in sickle cell disease - the PiSCES project. In press, Pain.
  1. Smith TJ, Coyne PJ, Smith WR, Roberts JD, Smith V. Use of an implantable drug delivery system for refractory chronic sickle cell pain. Am J Hematol. 2005 Jan 28;78(2):153-154.
  1. Smith WR, Bovbjerg VE, Penberthy LT, McClish DK, Levenson JL, Roberts JD, Gil K, Roseff SD, Aisiku IP. Understanding Pain and Improving Management of Sickle Cell Disease: the PiSCES Study. J Natl Med Assoc 2005;97(2):183-193.
  1. Porter BP, Coyne PJ, Smith WR. Methadone-related torsades de pointes in a sickle cell patient treated for chronic pain. Am J Hematol. 2005 Apr;78(4):316-
  1. McClish DK, Penberthy LT, Bovbjerg VE, Roberts JD, Aisiku IP, Levenson JL, Roseff SD, Smith WR. Health related quality of life in sickle cell patients: the PiSCES project. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2005 Aug 29;3:50.
  1. McClish DK, Levenson JL, Penberthy LT, Roseff SD, Bovbjerg VE, Roberts JD, Aisiku IP, Smith WR. Gender Differences in Pain and Health Care Utilization for Adult Sickle Cell Patients: The PiSCES Project. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2006 Mar;15(2):146-54.
  1. Machado RF, Anthi A, Steinberg MH, Bonds D, Sachdev V, Kato GJ, Taveira-DaSilva AM, Ballas SK, Blackwelder W, Xu X, Hunter L, Barton B, Waclawiw M, Castro O, Gladwin MT; MSH Investigators. N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide levels and risk of death in sickle cell disease. JAMA. 2006 Jul 19;296(3):310-8.
  1. Smith WR, Coyne P, Smith VS, Mercier B. Temperature changes, temperature extremes, and their relationship to emergency department visits and hospitalizations for sickle cell crisis. Pain Manag Nurs. 2003 Sep;4(3):106-11.
  1. Steinberg MH, Barton F, Castro O, Pegelow CH, Ballas SK, Kutlar A, Eugene Orringer E, Bellevue R, Olivieri N, Eckman J, Varma M, Ramirez G, Adler B, Smith WR, Carlos T, Ataga K, DeCastro L, Bigelow C, Saunthararajah Y, Telfer M, Vichinsky E, Claster S, Shurin S, Bridges K, Waclawiw M, Bonds D, Terrin M. Effect of Hydroxyurea on Mortality and Morbidity in Adult Sickle Cell Anemia: Risks and Benefits Up to 9 Years of Treatment. JAMA. 2003;289:1645-1651.