Leveraging public data: Changes in local economic distress and drug overdose deaths at the county level, 2000 – 2019
Shaddy K. Saba, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
International Journal of Public Health | February 2025
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Enhanced Macular Telangiectasia Type 2 Detection: Leveraging Self-Supervised Learning and Ensemble Models
Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Meghana Kshirsagar, Yue Wu, Rahul Dodhia, Roberto Bonelli, Irene Leung, Ferenc B Sallo, Alyson Muldrew, Catherine Jamison, Tunde Peto, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Martin Friedlander, Aaron Lee, Lowy Medical Research Institute
Ophthalmology Science | January 2025
Improving Rural Healthcare by Creating Academic- and Nonacademic-Rural Hospital Partnerships Based on Community Health Needs Assessments and Technological Needs
Suhas Babu, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
The Journal of Rural Health | January 2025
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Choosing your Surgeon Wisely: Using Provider-Procedure-Volume-Specific Data for Informed Choice
Bill Weeks, Bruno Demuro Segundo, Dan M Lee, Divya Michael, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
Journal of Community Medicine & Public Health | October 2024
Machine learning to evaluate the relationship between social determinants and diabetes prevalence in New York City
Darren Tanner, Yongkang Zhang, Ji Eun Chang, Peter Speyer, Elizabeth Adamson, Ann Aerts, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
BMJ Public Health | September 2024
Performance of explainable artificial intelligence in guiding the management of patients with a pancreatic cyst
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Felipe Oviedo, Caleb Robinson, Linda Chu, Satomi Kawamoto , Elham Afghani, Jin He, Alison P Klein, Mike Goggins, Christopher L Wolfgang, Ammar A Javed, Rahul Dodhia, Nick Papadopolous, Ken Kinzler, Ralph H Hruban, Bill Weeks, Elliot K Fishman, Anne Marie Lennon
Pancreatology | September 2024
A Methodology for Using Large Language Models to Create User-Friendly Applications for Medicaid Redetermination and Other Social Services
Sumanth Ratna, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Aneesh Chopra, Mayana Pereira
International Journal of Public Health | August 2024
Maternal Obesity and Risk of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death
Darren Tanner, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Edwin A. Mitchell
Jama Pediatrics | July 2024
AI for Good: Applications in Sustainability, Humanitarian Action, and Health
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
Published by Wiley | April 2024
ISBN: 1394235879
Health and Wealth in America
Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein
International Journal of Public Health | March 2024
Self-Supervised Learning for Improved Optical Coherence Tomography Detection of Macular Telangiectasia Type 2
Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Meghana Kshirsagar, Yue Wu, Rahul Dodhia, Roberto Bonelli, Irene Leung, Ferenc B. Sallo, Alyson Muldrew, Catherine Jamison, Tunde Peto, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Martin Friedlander, Aaron Y. Lee
JAMA Ophthalmology | February 2024
Hospital use of common Z-codes for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, 2017–2021
Ji E Chang, Nate Smith, Zoe Lindenfeld, Bill Weeks
Health Affairs Scholar | January 2024, Vol 2(1)
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All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being
Bill Weeks, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
International Journal of Public Health | December 2023, Vol 68
All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being
Bill Weeks (wiweeks), James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
International Journal of Public Health | December 2023, Vol 68
Towards an automated Segment Anything Model (SAM) for lesion segmentation in oncological PET/CT images
S. Ahamed, Yixi Xu, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, A. Rahmim
2023 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium | December 2023
Comprehensive Evaluation and Insights into the Use of Deep Neural Networks to Detect and Quantify Lymphoma Lesions in PET/CT Images
Shadab Ahamed, Yixi Xu, C. Gowdy, O. JooH., I. Bloise, Don Wilson, Patrick Martineau, François Bénard, F. Yousefirizi, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Carlos F. Uribe, Arman Rahmim
November 2023
An observational, sequential analysis of the relationship between local economic distress and inequities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health
Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Ji E Chang, José A Pagán, Ann Aerts,, James N Weinstein
International Journal for Equity in Health | September 2023
Modeling to explore and challenge inherent assumptions when cultural norms have changed: a case study on left-handedness and life expectancy
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Md Nasir, Avleen Bijral, S V Subramanian, Bill Weeks
Archives of Public Health | July 2023
Evaluating the Generalizability of Deep Learning Image Classification Algorithms to Detect Middle Ear Disease Using Otoscopy
Al-Rahim Habib, Yixi Xu, Kris Bock, Shrestha Mohanty, Tina Sederholm, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Chris Perry, Raymond Sacks, Narinder Singh
Scientific Reports | April 2023
Beyond chatting: The opportunities and challenges of ChatGPT in medicine and radiology (Editorial)
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Linda C. Chu , Steven P. Rowe, Elliot K. Fishman
Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging | March 2023
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Identifying long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 and their association with social determinants of health in a cohort of over one million COVID-19 survivors
Sumit Mukherjee, Meghana Kshirsagar, Nicholas Becker, Yixi Xu, Bill Weeks, Shwetak Patel, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Michael L. Jackson
BMC Public Health | December 2022
The Risk of Hospitalization and Mortality After Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Vaccine Type: Observational Study of Medical Claims Data
Meghana Kshirsagar, Md Nasir, Sumit Mukherjee, Nicholas Becker, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Barbra Richardson
JMIR Public Health Surveillance | November 2022
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Association of COVID-19 vaccination prioritization and hospitalization among older Washingtonians
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Barbra A. Richardson, Bill Weeks
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | June 2021
Economic Prosperity and Cardiovascular Mortality Further Evidence That All Policy Is Health Policy
JAMA | February 2021, Vol 325(5)
Improving Economic Conditions Matter for Mortality: Changes in Local Economic Distress Associated with Mortality Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries Between 2003 and 2015
Harper O. Wallace, Kenan Fikri, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine | January 2021
Examining the Prevalence of Previously Recorded Phenotypically Related Diagnoses Among Fee-for-Service Medicare Enrollees Newly Diagnosed with Mendelian Conditions
Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, Stacey Y. Cao , Jeremy Smith , Chaitanya Bangur, James Weinstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine | January 2021
The Federal Health Authority, a Federal Reserve System for Health Care: COVID-19 Has Exposed a Need for Change
James Weinstein, Bill Weeks, Jonathan S. Skinner
JAMA Health Forum | January 2021
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Using Internet Search Trends to Forecast Short-term Drug Overdose Deaths: A Case Study on Connecticut
Sumit Mukherjee, Nicholas Becker, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) | December 2020
A Method for Examining Geographic Variation When Denominators are Unknown, Populations Vary, and Time is of the Essence: Back Surgery as an Example
Spine | October 2020
Assessment of Year-to-Year Patient-Specific Comorbid Conditions Reported in the Medicare Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse.
Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, Stacey Y. Cao, Jeremy Smith, James Weinstein
JAMA Network Open | September 2020, Vol 3(10)
Point of View: “Correlates of Google Search Rankings for Spine Surgeons: An Analysis of Academic Pedigree, Social Media Presence, and Patient Ratings”.
Bill Weeks, Nitesh Jain, James Weinstein
Spine | September 2020, Vol 45(19): pp. 1382
Inequity in access to personalized medicine in France: Evidences from analysis of geo variations in the access to molecular profiling among advanced non-small-cell lung cancer patients: Results from the IFCT Biomarkers France Study.
Samuel Kembou Nzale, Bill Weeks, L’Houcine Ouafik, Isabelle Rouquette, Michèle Beau-Faller, Antoinette Lemoine, Pierre-Paul Bringuier, Anne-Gaëlle Le Coroller Soriano, Fabrice Barlesi, Bruno Ventelou
PLOS ONE | June 2020, Vol 15(7)
Integrating Epidemiological Information into MRI Reports Reduces Ensuing Radiologic Testing Costs Among Patients with Low Back Pain: A Controlled Study.
Bill Weeks, Jason Pike, Christopher J. Schaeffer, Mathew J. Devine, John M. Ventura, Jeremy Donath, Brian D. Justice
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety | May 2020, Vol 46(6): pp. 365-368
Per Capita Medicare Inflation in the Last Decade: Unit Cost Increases Offset by Reduced Utilization.
Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2020, Vol 35(6): pp. 1894-1896
P0: Progress to zero: A simple metric to measure COVID-19 progress by country/region
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Ruth B Etzioni, Bill Weeks
May 2020
Pay Gap Between Male And Female Physicians
Bill Weeks, Bruno Ventelou
Health Affairs | April 2020, Vol 39(5): pp. 906-906
Medicare Data Reveal Wide Variety Across Regions Of COVID-19 Fatality Risk
Nancy E. Morden, Jonathan Skinner, Bill Weeks, Stephanie Tomlin, James Weinstein
Health Affairs | April 2020
Medicare’s per-Beneficiary Potentially Avoidable Admission Measures Mask True Performance
Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2020, Vol 35(4): pp. 1348-1351
Association of Declines in End-of-Life Health Care Costs With Fee-for-Service Enrollee Per Capita Expenditures
Bill Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James Weinstein
March 2020
Use of Z-Codes to Record Social Determinants of Health Among Fee-for-service Medicare Beneficiaries in 2017.
William B. Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James N. Weinstein, James N. Weinstein, Nancy E. Morden, Nancy E. Morden, James Weinstein, Bill Weeks
Journal of General Internal Medicine | February 2020, Vol 35(3): pp. 952-955
A Decade of Modest Convergence in Geographic Variation in Per Capita Medicare Fee-for-Service Expenditures: Taxation Without Representation Is Not Sustainable; Is It Time for Taxpayer and Consumer Engagement?
Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, James Weinstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine | February 2020, pp. 1-4
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Reducing Psychotropic Use in Older Non-demented Spanish Care Home Residents: a Before-After Comparison of Three Methods.
Curtis L. Petersen, David Curto, Manish K. Mishra, Pedro Cano, Bill Weeks
Journal of General Internal Medicine | December 2019, Vol 35(1): pp. 383-385
Comparing Three Methods for Reducing Psychotropic Use in Older Demented Spanish Care Home Residents.
Bill Weeks, Manish K. Mishra, David Curto, Curtis L. Petersen, Pedro Cano, Yulin Hswen, Silvia Villamarín Serra, Glyn Elwyn, Marjorie M. Godfrey, Pedro Sánchez Soro, José Francisco Tomás
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | June 2019, Vol 67(7): pp. 1444-1453
Cost and Outcomes Information Should Be Part of Shared Decision Making.
JAMA Surgery | April 2019, Vol 154(5): pp. 465-466
Development and Implementation of a Person-Centered, Technology-Enhanced Care Model For Managing Chronic Conditions: Cohort Study.
Curtis L. Petersen, Bill Weeks, Olof Norin, James Weinstein
Jmir mhealth and uhealth | March 2019, Vol 7(3)
Veterans Health Administration Hospitals Outperform Non–Veterans Health Administration Hospitals in Most Health Care Markets
Bill Weeks, Alan N. West
Annals of Internal Medicine | March 2019, Vol 170(6): pp. 426-428
Conservative Spine Care Pathway Implementation Is Associated with Reduced Health Care Expenditures in a Controlled, Before-After Observational Study
Bill Weeks, Jason Pike, Jeremy Donath, Paul Fiacco, Brian D Justice
Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2019, Vol 34(8): pp. 1381-1382
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Association Between Community Economic Distress and Receipt of Recommended Services Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Enrollees.
Bill Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James Weinstein, Nancy E. Morden
Journal of General Internal Medicine | December 2018, Vol 34(12): pp. 2731-2732
Potential Unintended Effects of Medicare’s Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Program.
Bill Weeks, Elliott S. Fisher
JAMA | December 2018, Vol 321(1): pp. 106-107
Community Economic Distress and Changes in Medicare Patients’ End-of-Life Care Costs.
Bill Weeks, Mariétou H.L. Ouayogodé, Bruno Ventelou, Todd Mackenzie, James Weinstein
Journal of Palliative Medicine | May 2018, Vol 21(6): pp. 742-743
Association Between a Measure of Community Economic Distress and Medicare Patients’ Health Care Utilization, Quality, Outcomes, and Costs
Bill Weeks, Mariétou H.L. Ouayogodé, James Weinstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2018, Vol 33(9): pp. 1433-1435
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Proportion of Decedents’ Expenditures Among Recent Reductions in Medicare Expenditures
Bill Weeks, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Connor Freeh, James Weinstein
JAMA Internal Medicine | April 2018, Vol 178(5): pp. 717-719
Physician Burnout-Overdiagnosis and Unproven Interventions.
JAMA Internal Medicine | March 2018, Vol 178(4): pp. 576-577
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Episode-of-Care Characteristics and Costs for Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery in Hospitals Belonging to the High Value Healthcare Collaborative Compared With Similar Hospitals in the Same Health Care Markets.
Bill Weeks, William J. Schoellkopf, David J. Ballard, Gary S. Kaplan, Brent James, James Weinstein
Medical Care | May 2017, Vol 55(6): pp. 583-589
The High Value Healthcare Collaborative: Observational Analyses of Care Episodes for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Surgery.
Bill Weeks, William J. Schoellkopf, Lyle S. Sorensen, Andrew L. Masica, Robert E. Nesse, James Weinstein
Journal of Arthroplasty | February 2017, Vol 32(3): pp. 702-708
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Per-Capita Medicare Expenditures, Primary Care Access, Mortality Rates, and the Least Healthy Cities in America
The American Journal of Medicine | December 2016, Vol 130(1): pp. 101-104
An Alternative Way to Provide Healthcare for Veterans.
The American Journal of Medicine | May 2016, Vol 129(6): pp. 554-556
Using Publicly Available Data to Construct a Transparent Measure of Health Care Value: A Method and Initial Results.
Bill Weeks, Gregory R. Kotzbauer, James Weinstein
Milbank Quarterly | May 2016, Vol 94(2): pp. 314-333
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Rates of admission for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in France in 2009–2010: trends, geographic variation, costs, and an international comparison
Bill Weeks, Bruno Ventelou, Alain Paraponaris
European Journal of Health Economics | April 2016, Vol 17(4): pp. 453-470
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Potential advantages of health system consolidation and integration.
Bill Weeks, Robert A. Greene, James Weinstein
The American Journal of Medicine | September 2015, Vol 128(10): pp. 1050-1051
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Performance in Year 1 of Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations.
Bill Weeks, Robert A Greene, James Weinstein
The New England Journal of Medicine | August 2015, Vol 373(8): pp. 777-777
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Caveats to Consider When Calculating Healthcare Value
The American Journal of Medicine | July 2015, Vol 128(8): pp. 802-803
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Accelerating uptake of new Medicare payment models.
Bill Weeks, Judd Gregg, Elliott S Fisher, James Weinstein
Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | March 2015, Vol 69(4): pp. 104-105
Accelerating uptake of new Medicare payment models: Medicare officials want to expand alternative payment models to help slow the growth of healthcare costs and preserve the solvency of the program, currently anticipated to go bankrupt by 2030
Bill Weeks, Judd Gregg, Elliott S. Fisher, James Weinstein
Healthcare Financial Management | March 2015, Vol 69(4): pp. 104-106
How Healthcare Is Different
The American Journal of Medicine | January 2015, Vol 128(2): pp. 107-108
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Value creation strategies for health care.
Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112
Value creation strategies for health care: to deal with the epidemic of overuse in health care, patient preferences must be incorporated into the healthcare decision-making process, value creation must be calculated from a population health perspective, and a clear payment mechanism that provides incentives for value must be implemented
Healthcare Financial Management | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112-114
Continuity of Care and the Risk of Preventable Hospitalization in Older Adults
David J. Nyweide, Denise L. Anthony, Julie P. W. Bynum, Robert L. Strawderman, Bill Weeks, Lawrence. P. Casalino, Elliott S. Fisher
JAMA Internal Medicine | November 2013, Vol 173(20): pp. 1879-1885
Meta-analysis of the efficacy of treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder.
Bradley V. Watts, Paula P. Schnurr, Lorna Mayo, Yinong Young-Xu, Matthew J. Friedman, Bill Weeks
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry | June 2013, Vol 74(6): pp. 541-550
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The urgent need to create healthcare value.
Bill Weeks, Eric B Wadsworth, Stephen S Rauh, James Weinstein
Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | April 2013, Vol 67(5): pp. 136
Publicly Reported Quality-Of-Care Measures Influenced Wisconsin Physician Groups To Improve Performance
Geoffrey C. Lamb, Maureen A. Smith, Bill Weeks, Christopher Queram
Health Affairs | February 2013, Vol 32(3): pp. 536-543
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The unintended consequences of bundled payments.
Bill Weeks, Stephen S. Rauh, Eric B. Wadsworth, James Weinstein
Annals of Internal Medicine | December 2012, Vol 158(1): pp. 62-64
Where the United States spends its spine dollars: expenditures on different ambulatory services for the management of back and neck conditions.
Matthew A. Davis, Tracy Onega, Bill Weeks, Jon D. Lurie
Spine | August 2012, Vol 37(19): pp. 1693-1701
A Collaborative Of Leading Health Systems Finds Wide Variations In Total Knee Replacement Delivery And Takes Steps To Improve Value
Ivan M. Tomek, Allison L. Sabel, Mark I. Froimson, George Muschler, David S. Jevsevar, Karl M. Koenig, David G. Lewallen, James M. Naessens, Lucy A. Savitz, James L. Westrich, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
Health Affairs | May 2012, Vol 31(6): pp. 1329-1338
DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication
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The Savings Illusion — Why Clinical Quality Improvement Fails to Deliver Bottom-Line Results
Stephen S Rauh, Eric B Wadsworth, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
The New England Journal of Medicine | December 2011, Vol 365(26)
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Higher Health Care Quality And Bigger Savings Found At Large Multispecialty Medical Groups
Bill Weeks, Daniel J. Gottlieb, David J. Nyweide, Jason M. Sutherland, Julie Bynum, Lawrence P. Casalino, Robin R. Gillies, Stephen M. Shortell, Elliott S. Fisher
Health Affairs | April 2010, Vol 29(5): pp. 991-997
DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication
The fixed-cost dilemma: what counts when counting cost-reduction efforts?
Stephen S Rauh, Eric Wadsworth, Bill Weeks
Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | February 2010, Vol 64(3): pp. 60
Racial, Socioeconomic, and Rural–Urban Disparities in Obesity-Related Bariatric Surgery
Amy E. Wallace, Yinong Young-Xu, David Hartley, Bill Weeks
Obesity Surgery | January 2010, Vol 20(10): pp. 1354-1360
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Relationship of Primary Care Physicians’ Patient Caseload With Measurement of Quality and Cost Performance
David J. Nyweide, Bill Weeks, Daniel J. Gottlieb, Lawrence P. Casalino, Elliott S. Fisher
JAMA | December 2009, Vol 302(22): pp. 2444-2450
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Rural health care ethics: is there a literature?
William Nelson, Gili Lushkov, Andrew Pomerantz, Bill Weeks
American Journal of Bioethics | August 2006, Vol 6(2): pp. 44-50
Who Pays for Poor Surgical Quality? Building a Business Case for Quality Improvement
Justin B. Dimick, Bill Weeks, Raj J. Karia, Smita Das, Darrell A. Campbell
Journal of The American College of Surgeons | May 2006, Vol 202(6): pp. 933-937
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Measuring patient safety climate: a review of surveys
J B Colla, A C Bracken, L M Kinney, Bill Weeks
Quality & Safety in Health Care | September 2005, Vol 14(5): pp. 364-366
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Changes in authorship patterns in prestigious US medical journals.
Bill Weeks, Amy E Wallace, Amy E Wallace, B.C.Surott Kimberly
Social Science & Medicine | October 2004, Vol 59(9): pp. 1949-1954
Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life in Rural and Urban Veterans
Bill Weeks, Lewis E. Kazis, Yujing Shen, Zhongxiao Cong, Xinhua S. Ren, Donald R. Miller, Austin Lee, Jonathan B. Perlin
American Journal of Public Health | September 2004, Vol 94(10): pp. 1762-1767
DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication
Characteristics of Successful Quality Improvement Teams: Lessons from Five Collaborative Projects in the VHA
Peter D. Mills, Bill Weeks
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety | February 2004, Vol 30(3): pp. 152-162
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Developing a culture of safety in the Veterans Health Administration.
Bill Weeks, James P. Bagian
October 2000
Publications by Research Area
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Developing a culture of safety in the Veterans Health Administration.
Bill Weeks, James P. Bagian
October 2000
Leveraging public data: Changes in local economic distress and drug overdose deaths at the county level, 2000 – 2019
Shaddy K. Saba, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
International Journal of Public Health | February 2025
Enhanced Macular Telangiectasia Type 2 Detection: Leveraging Self-Supervised Learning and Ensemble Models
Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Meghana Kshirsagar, Yue Wu, Rahul Dodhia, Roberto Bonelli, Irene Leung, Ferenc B Sallo, Alyson Muldrew, Catherine Jamison, Tunde Peto, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Martin Friedlander, Aaron Lee, Lowy Medical Research Institute
Ophthalmology Science | January 2025
Improving Rural Healthcare by Creating Academic- and Nonacademic-Rural Hospital Partnerships Based on Community Health Needs Assessments and Technological Needs
Suhas Babu, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
The Journal of Rural Health | January 2025
Choosing your Surgeon Wisely: Using Provider-Procedure-Volume-Specific Data for Informed Choice
Bill Weeks, Bruno Demuro Segundo, Dan M Lee, Divya Michael, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
Journal of Community Medicine & Public Health | October 2024
Machine learning to evaluate the relationship between social determinants and diabetes prevalence in New York City
Darren Tanner, Yongkang Zhang, Ji Eun Chang, Peter Speyer, Elizabeth Adamson, Ann Aerts, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
BMJ Public Health | September 2024
Performance of explainable artificial intelligence in guiding the management of patients with a pancreatic cyst
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Felipe Oviedo, Caleb Robinson, Linda Chu, Satomi Kawamoto , Elham Afghani, Jin He, Alison P Klein, Mike Goggins, Christopher L Wolfgang, Ammar A Javed, Rahul Dodhia, Nick Papadopolous, Ken Kinzler, Ralph H Hruban, Bill Weeks, Elliot K Fishman, Anne Marie Lennon
Pancreatology | September 2024
A Methodology for Using Large Language Models to Create User-Friendly Applications for Medicaid Redetermination and Other Social Services
Sumanth Ratna, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Aneesh Chopra, Mayana Pereira
International Journal of Public Health | August 2024
Maternal Obesity and Risk of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death
Darren Tanner, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Edwin A. Mitchell
Jama Pediatrics | July 2024
Health and Wealth in America
Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein
International Journal of Public Health | March 2024
Self-Supervised Learning for Improved Optical Coherence Tomography Detection of Macular Telangiectasia Type 2
Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Meghana Kshirsagar, Yue Wu, Rahul Dodhia, Roberto Bonelli, Irene Leung, Ferenc B. Sallo, Alyson Muldrew, Catherine Jamison, Tunde Peto, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Martin Friedlander, Aaron Y. Lee
JAMA Ophthalmology | February 2024
Hospital use of common Z-codes for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, 2017–2021
Ji E Chang, Nate Smith, Zoe Lindenfeld, Bill Weeks
Health Affairs Scholar | January 2024, Vol 2(1)
All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being
Bill Weeks, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
International Journal of Public Health | December 2023, Vol 68
All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being
Bill Weeks (wiweeks), James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
International Journal of Public Health | December 2023, Vol 68
Towards an automated Segment Anything Model (SAM) for lesion segmentation in oncological PET/CT images
S. Ahamed, Yixi Xu, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, A. Rahmim
2023 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium | December 2023
Comprehensive Evaluation and Insights into the Use of Deep Neural Networks to Detect and Quantify Lymphoma Lesions in PET/CT Images
Shadab Ahamed, Yixi Xu, C. Gowdy, O. JooH., I. Bloise, Don Wilson, Patrick Martineau, François Bénard, F. Yousefirizi, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Carlos F. Uribe, Arman Rahmim
November 2023
An observational, sequential analysis of the relationship between local economic distress and inequities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health
Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Ji E Chang, José A Pagán, Ann Aerts,, James N Weinstein
International Journal for Equity in Health | September 2023
Modeling to explore and challenge inherent assumptions when cultural norms have changed: a case study on left-handedness and life expectancy
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Md Nasir, Avleen Bijral, S V Subramanian, Bill Weeks
Archives of Public Health | July 2023
Evaluating the Generalizability of Deep Learning Image Classification Algorithms to Detect Middle Ear Disease Using Otoscopy
Al-Rahim Habib, Yixi Xu, Kris Bock, Shrestha Mohanty, Tina Sederholm, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Chris Perry, Raymond Sacks, Narinder Singh
Scientific Reports | April 2023
Beyond chatting: The opportunities and challenges of ChatGPT in medicine and radiology (Editorial)
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Linda C. Chu , Steven P. Rowe, Elliot K. Fishman
Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging | March 2023
Identifying long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 and their association with social determinants of health in a cohort of over one million COVID-19 survivors
Sumit Mukherjee, Meghana Kshirsagar, Nicholas Becker, Yixi Xu, Bill Weeks, Shwetak Patel, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Michael L. Jackson
BMC Public Health | December 2022
The Risk of Hospitalization and Mortality After Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Vaccine Type: Observational Study of Medical Claims Data
Meghana Kshirsagar, Md Nasir, Sumit Mukherjee, Nicholas Becker, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Barbra Richardson
JMIR Public Health Surveillance | November 2022
Association of COVID-19 vaccination prioritization and hospitalization among older Washingtonians
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Barbra A. Richardson, Bill Weeks
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | June 2021
Economic Prosperity and Cardiovascular Mortality Further Evidence That All Policy Is Health Policy
JAMA | February 2021, Vol 325(5)
Improving Economic Conditions Matter for Mortality: Changes in Local Economic Distress Associated with Mortality Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries Between 2003 and 2015
Harper O. Wallace, Kenan Fikri, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine | January 2021
Examining the Prevalence of Previously Recorded Phenotypically Related Diagnoses Among Fee-for-Service Medicare Enrollees Newly Diagnosed with Mendelian Conditions
Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, Stacey Y. Cao , Jeremy Smith , Chaitanya Bangur, James Weinstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine | January 2021
The Federal Health Authority, a Federal Reserve System for Health Care: COVID-19 Has Exposed a Need for Change
James Weinstein, Bill Weeks, Jonathan S. Skinner
JAMA Health Forum | January 2021
Using Internet Search Trends to Forecast Short-term Drug Overdose Deaths: A Case Study on Connecticut
Sumit Mukherjee, Nicholas Becker, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) | December 2020
A Method for Examining Geographic Variation When Denominators are Unknown, Populations Vary, and Time is of the Essence: Back Surgery as an Example
Spine | October 2020
Assessment of Year-to-Year Patient-Specific Comorbid Conditions Reported in the Medicare Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse.
Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, Stacey Y. Cao, Jeremy Smith, James Weinstein
JAMA Network Open | September 2020, Vol 3(10)
Point of View: “Correlates of Google Search Rankings for Spine Surgeons: An Analysis of Academic Pedigree, Social Media Presence, and Patient Ratings”.
Bill Weeks, Nitesh Jain, James Weinstein
Spine | September 2020, Vol 45(19): pp. 1382
Inequity in access to personalized medicine in France: Evidences from analysis of geo variations in the access to molecular profiling among advanced non-small-cell lung cancer patients: Results from the IFCT Biomarkers France Study.
Samuel Kembou Nzale, Bill Weeks, L’Houcine Ouafik, Isabelle Rouquette, Michèle Beau-Faller, Antoinette Lemoine, Pierre-Paul Bringuier, Anne-Gaëlle Le Coroller Soriano, Fabrice Barlesi, Bruno Ventelou
PLOS ONE | June 2020, Vol 15(7)
Per Capita Medicare Inflation in the Last Decade: Unit Cost Increases Offset by Reduced Utilization.
Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2020, Vol 35(6): pp. 1894-1896
Integrating Epidemiological Information into MRI Reports Reduces Ensuing Radiologic Testing Costs Among Patients with Low Back Pain: A Controlled Study.
Bill Weeks, Jason Pike, Christopher J. Schaeffer, Mathew J. Devine, John M. Ventura, Jeremy Donath, Brian D. Justice
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety | May 2020, Vol 46(6): pp. 365-368
P0: Progress to zero: A simple metric to measure COVID-19 progress by country/region
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Ruth B Etzioni, Bill Weeks
May 2020
Pay Gap Between Male And Female Physicians
Bill Weeks, Bruno Ventelou
Health Affairs | April 2020, Vol 39(5): pp. 906-906
Medicare Data Reveal Wide Variety Across Regions Of COVID-19 Fatality Risk
Nancy E. Morden, Jonathan Skinner, Bill Weeks, Stephanie Tomlin, James Weinstein
Health Affairs | April 2020
Medicare’s per-Beneficiary Potentially Avoidable Admission Measures Mask True Performance
Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2020, Vol 35(4): pp. 1348-1351
Association of Declines in End-of-Life Health Care Costs With Fee-for-Service Enrollee Per Capita Expenditures
Bill Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James Weinstein
March 2020
Use of Z-Codes to Record Social Determinants of Health Among Fee-for-service Medicare Beneficiaries in 2017.
William B. Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James N. Weinstein, James N. Weinstein, Nancy E. Morden, Nancy E. Morden, James Weinstein, Bill Weeks
Journal of General Internal Medicine | February 2020, Vol 35(3): pp. 952-955
A Decade of Modest Convergence in Geographic Variation in Per Capita Medicare Fee-for-Service Expenditures: Taxation Without Representation Is Not Sustainable; Is It Time for Taxpayer and Consumer Engagement?
Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, James Weinstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine | February 2020, pp. 1-4
Reducing Psychotropic Use in Older Non-demented Spanish Care Home Residents: a Before-After Comparison of Three Methods.
Curtis L. Petersen, David Curto, Manish K. Mishra, Pedro Cano, Bill Weeks
Journal of General Internal Medicine | December 2019, Vol 35(1): pp. 383-385
Comparing Three Methods for Reducing Psychotropic Use in Older Demented Spanish Care Home Residents.
Bill Weeks, Manish K. Mishra, David Curto, Curtis L. Petersen, Pedro Cano, Yulin Hswen, Silvia Villamarín Serra, Glyn Elwyn, Marjorie M. Godfrey, Pedro Sánchez Soro, José Francisco Tomás
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | June 2019, Vol 67(7): pp. 1444-1453
Cost and Outcomes Information Should Be Part of Shared Decision Making.
JAMA Surgery | April 2019, Vol 154(5): pp. 465-466
Development and Implementation of a Person-Centered, Technology-Enhanced Care Model For Managing Chronic Conditions: Cohort Study.
Curtis L. Petersen, Bill Weeks, Olof Norin, James Weinstein
Jmir mhealth and uhealth | March 2019, Vol 7(3)
Veterans Health Administration Hospitals Outperform Non–Veterans Health Administration Hospitals in Most Health Care Markets
Bill Weeks, Alan N. West
Annals of Internal Medicine | March 2019, Vol 170(6): pp. 426-428
Conservative Spine Care Pathway Implementation Is Associated with Reduced Health Care Expenditures in a Controlled, Before-After Observational Study
Bill Weeks, Jason Pike, Jeremy Donath, Paul Fiacco, Brian D Justice
Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2019, Vol 34(8): pp. 1381-1382
Association Between Community Economic Distress and Receipt of Recommended Services Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Enrollees.
Bill Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James Weinstein, Nancy E. Morden
Journal of General Internal Medicine | December 2018, Vol 34(12): pp. 2731-2732
Potential Unintended Effects of Medicare’s Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Program.
Bill Weeks, Elliott S. Fisher
JAMA | December 2018, Vol 321(1): pp. 106-107
Community Economic Distress and Changes in Medicare Patients’ End-of-Life Care Costs.
Bill Weeks, Mariétou H.L. Ouayogodé, Bruno Ventelou, Todd Mackenzie, James Weinstein
Journal of Palliative Medicine | May 2018, Vol 21(6): pp. 742-743
Association Between a Measure of Community Economic Distress and Medicare Patients’ Health Care Utilization, Quality, Outcomes, and Costs
Bill Weeks, Mariétou H.L. Ouayogodé, James Weinstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2018, Vol 33(9): pp. 1433-1435
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Proportion of Decedents’ Expenditures Among Recent Reductions in Medicare Expenditures
Bill Weeks, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Connor Freeh, James Weinstein
JAMA Internal Medicine | April 2018, Vol 178(5): pp. 717-719
Physician Burnout-Overdiagnosis and Unproven Interventions.
JAMA Internal Medicine | March 2018, Vol 178(4): pp. 576-577
Episode-of-Care Characteristics and Costs for Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery in Hospitals Belonging to the High Value Healthcare Collaborative Compared With Similar Hospitals in the Same Health Care Markets.
Bill Weeks, William J. Schoellkopf, David J. Ballard, Gary S. Kaplan, Brent James, James Weinstein
Medical Care | May 2017, Vol 55(6): pp. 583-589
The High Value Healthcare Collaborative: Observational Analyses of Care Episodes for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Surgery.
Bill Weeks, William J. Schoellkopf, Lyle S. Sorensen, Andrew L. Masica, Robert E. Nesse, James Weinstein
Journal of Arthroplasty | February 2017, Vol 32(3): pp. 702-708
Per-Capita Medicare Expenditures, Primary Care Access, Mortality Rates, and the Least Healthy Cities in America
The American Journal of Medicine | December 2016, Vol 130(1): pp. 101-104
Using Publicly Available Data to Construct a Transparent Measure of Health Care Value: A Method and Initial Results.
Bill Weeks, Gregory R. Kotzbauer, James Weinstein
Milbank Quarterly | May 2016, Vol 94(2): pp. 314-333
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An Alternative Way to Provide Healthcare for Veterans.
The American Journal of Medicine | May 2016, Vol 129(6): pp. 554-556
Rates of admission for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in France in 2009–2010: trends, geographic variation, costs, and an international comparison
Bill Weeks, Bruno Ventelou, Alain Paraponaris
European Journal of Health Economics | April 2016, Vol 17(4): pp. 453-470
Potential advantages of health system consolidation and integration.
Bill Weeks, Robert A. Greene, James Weinstein
The American Journal of Medicine | September 2015, Vol 128(10): pp. 1050-1051
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Performance in Year 1 of Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations.
Bill Weeks, Robert A Greene, James Weinstein
The New England Journal of Medicine | August 2015, Vol 373(8): pp. 777-777
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Caveats to Consider When Calculating Healthcare Value
The American Journal of Medicine | July 2015, Vol 128(8): pp. 802-803
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Accelerating uptake of new Medicare payment models: Medicare officials want to expand alternative payment models to help slow the growth of healthcare costs and preserve the solvency of the program, currently anticipated to go bankrupt by 2030
Bill Weeks, Judd Gregg, Elliott S. Fisher, James Weinstein
Healthcare Financial Management | March 2015, Vol 69(4): pp. 104-106
Accelerating uptake of new Medicare payment models.
Bill Weeks, Judd Gregg, Elliott S Fisher, James Weinstein
Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | March 2015, Vol 69(4): pp. 104-105
How Healthcare Is Different
The American Journal of Medicine | January 2015, Vol 128(2): pp. 107-108
Value creation strategies for health care: to deal with the epidemic of overuse in health care, patient preferences must be incorporated into the healthcare decision-making process, value creation must be calculated from a population health perspective, and a clear payment mechanism that provides incentives for value must be implemented
Healthcare Financial Management | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112-114
Value creation strategies for health care.
Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112
Continuity of Care and the Risk of Preventable Hospitalization in Older Adults
David J. Nyweide, Denise L. Anthony, Julie P. W. Bynum, Robert L. Strawderman, Bill Weeks, Lawrence. P. Casalino, Elliott S. Fisher
JAMA Internal Medicine | November 2013, Vol 173(20): pp. 1879-1885
Meta-analysis of the efficacy of treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder.
Bradley V. Watts, Paula P. Schnurr, Lorna Mayo, Yinong Young-Xu, Matthew J. Friedman, Bill Weeks
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry | June 2013, Vol 74(6): pp. 541-550
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The urgent need to create healthcare value.
Bill Weeks, Eric B Wadsworth, Stephen S Rauh, James Weinstein
Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | April 2013, Vol 67(5): pp. 136
Publicly Reported Quality-Of-Care Measures Influenced Wisconsin Physician Groups To Improve Performance
Geoffrey C. Lamb, Maureen A. Smith, Bill Weeks, Christopher Queram
Health Affairs | February 2013, Vol 32(3): pp. 536-543
The unintended consequences of bundled payments.
Bill Weeks, Stephen S. Rauh, Eric B. Wadsworth, James Weinstein
Annals of Internal Medicine | December 2012, Vol 158(1): pp. 62-64
Where the United States spends its spine dollars: expenditures on different ambulatory services for the management of back and neck conditions.
Matthew A. Davis, Tracy Onega, Bill Weeks, Jon D. Lurie
Spine | August 2012, Vol 37(19): pp. 1693-1701
A Collaborative Of Leading Health Systems Finds Wide Variations In Total Knee Replacement Delivery And Takes Steps To Improve Value
Ivan M. Tomek, Allison L. Sabel, Mark I. Froimson, George Muschler, David S. Jevsevar, Karl M. Koenig, David G. Lewallen, James M. Naessens, Lucy A. Savitz, James L. Westrich, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
Health Affairs | May 2012, Vol 31(6): pp. 1329-1338
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The Savings Illusion — Why Clinical Quality Improvement Fails to Deliver Bottom-Line Results
Stephen S Rauh, Eric B Wadsworth, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
The New England Journal of Medicine | December 2011, Vol 365(26)
Higher Health Care Quality And Bigger Savings Found At Large Multispecialty Medical Groups
Bill Weeks, Daniel J. Gottlieb, David J. Nyweide, Jason M. Sutherland, Julie Bynum, Lawrence P. Casalino, Robin R. Gillies, Stephen M. Shortell, Elliott S. Fisher
Health Affairs | April 2010, Vol 29(5): pp. 991-997
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The fixed-cost dilemma: what counts when counting cost-reduction efforts?
Stephen S Rauh, Eric Wadsworth, Bill Weeks
Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | February 2010, Vol 64(3): pp. 60
Racial, Socioeconomic, and Rural–Urban Disparities in Obesity-Related Bariatric Surgery
Amy E. Wallace, Yinong Young-Xu, David Hartley, Bill Weeks
Obesity Surgery | January 2010, Vol 20(10): pp. 1354-1360
Relationship of Primary Care Physicians’ Patient Caseload With Measurement of Quality and Cost Performance
David J. Nyweide, Bill Weeks, Daniel J. Gottlieb, Lawrence P. Casalino, Elliott S. Fisher
JAMA | December 2009, Vol 302(22): pp. 2444-2450
Rural health care ethics: is there a literature?
William Nelson, Gili Lushkov, Andrew Pomerantz, Bill Weeks
American Journal of Bioethics | August 2006, Vol 6(2): pp. 44-50
Who Pays for Poor Surgical Quality? Building a Business Case for Quality Improvement
Justin B. Dimick, Bill Weeks, Raj J. Karia, Smita Das, Darrell A. Campbell
Journal of The American College of Surgeons | May 2006, Vol 202(6): pp. 933-937
Measuring patient safety climate: a review of surveys
J B Colla, A C Bracken, L M Kinney, Bill Weeks
Quality & Safety in Health Care | September 2005, Vol 14(5): pp. 364-366
Changes in authorship patterns in prestigious US medical journals.
Bill Weeks, Amy E Wallace, Amy E Wallace, B.C.Surott Kimberly
Social Science & Medicine | October 2004, Vol 59(9): pp. 1949-1954
Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life in Rural and Urban Veterans
Bill Weeks, Lewis E. Kazis, Yujing Shen, Zhongxiao Cong, Xinhua S. Ren, Donald R. Miller, Austin Lee, Jonathan B. Perlin
American Journal of Public Health | September 2004, Vol 94(10): pp. 1762-1767
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Characteristics of Successful Quality Improvement Teams: Lessons from Five Collaborative Projects in the VHA
Peter D. Mills, Bill Weeks
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety | February 2004, Vol 30(3): pp. 152-162
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Enhanced Macular Telangiectasia Type 2 Detection: Leveraging Self-Supervised Learning and Ensemble Models
Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Meghana Kshirsagar, Yue Wu, Rahul Dodhia, Roberto Bonelli, Irene Leung, Ferenc B Sallo, Alyson Muldrew, Catherine Jamison, Tunde Peto, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Martin Friedlander, Aaron Lee, Lowy Medical Research Institute
Ophthalmology Science | January 2025
Improving Rural Healthcare by Creating Academic- and Nonacademic-Rural Hospital Partnerships Based on Community Health Needs Assessments and Technological Needs
Suhas Babu, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
The Journal of Rural Health | January 2025
Machine learning to evaluate the relationship between social determinants and diabetes prevalence in New York City
Darren Tanner, Yongkang Zhang, Ji Eun Chang, Peter Speyer, Elizabeth Adamson, Ann Aerts, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
BMJ Public Health | September 2024
Performance of explainable artificial intelligence in guiding the management of patients with a pancreatic cyst
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Felipe Oviedo, Caleb Robinson, Linda Chu, Satomi Kawamoto , Elham Afghani, Jin He, Alison P Klein, Mike Goggins, Christopher L Wolfgang, Ammar A Javed, Rahul Dodhia, Nick Papadopolous, Ken Kinzler, Ralph H Hruban, Bill Weeks, Elliot K Fishman, Anne Marie Lennon
Pancreatology | September 2024
A Methodology for Using Large Language Models to Create User-Friendly Applications for Medicaid Redetermination and Other Social Services
Sumanth Ratna, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Aneesh Chopra, Mayana Pereira
International Journal of Public Health | August 2024
Maternal Obesity and Risk of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death
Darren Tanner, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Edwin A. Mitchell
Jama Pediatrics | July 2024
AI for Good: Applications in Sustainability, Humanitarian Action, and Health
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
Published by Wiley | April 2024
ISBN: 1394235879
Health and Wealth in America
Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein
International Journal of Public Health | March 2024
Self-Supervised Learning for Improved Optical Coherence Tomography Detection of Macular Telangiectasia Type 2
Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Meghana Kshirsagar, Yue Wu, Rahul Dodhia, Roberto Bonelli, Irene Leung, Ferenc B. Sallo, Alyson Muldrew, Catherine Jamison, Tunde Peto, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Martin Friedlander, Aaron Y. Lee
JAMA Ophthalmology | February 2024
Hospital use of common Z-codes for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, 2017–2021
Ji E Chang, Nate Smith, Zoe Lindenfeld, Bill Weeks
Health Affairs Scholar | January 2024, Vol 2(1)
All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being
Bill Weeks (wiweeks), James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
International Journal of Public Health | December 2023, Vol 68
Towards an automated Segment Anything Model (SAM) for lesion segmentation in oncological PET/CT images
S. Ahamed, Yixi Xu, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, A. Rahmim
2023 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium | December 2023
Comprehensive Evaluation and Insights into the Use of Deep Neural Networks to Detect and Quantify Lymphoma Lesions in PET/CT Images
Shadab Ahamed, Yixi Xu, C. Gowdy, O. JooH., I. Bloise, Don Wilson, Patrick Martineau, François Bénard, F. Yousefirizi, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Carlos F. Uribe, Arman Rahmim
November 2023
An observational, sequential analysis of the relationship between local economic distress and inequities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health
Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Ji E Chang, José A Pagán, Ann Aerts,, James N Weinstein
International Journal for Equity in Health | September 2023
Modeling to explore and challenge inherent assumptions when cultural norms have changed: a case study on left-handedness and life expectancy
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Md Nasir, Avleen Bijral, S V Subramanian, Bill Weeks
Archives of Public Health | July 2023
Evaluating the Generalizability of Deep Learning Image Classification Algorithms to Detect Middle Ear Disease Using Otoscopy
Al-Rahim Habib, Yixi Xu, Kris Bock, Shrestha Mohanty, Tina Sederholm, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Chris Perry, Raymond Sacks, Narinder Singh
Scientific Reports | April 2023
Beyond chatting: The opportunities and challenges of ChatGPT in medicine and radiology (Editorial)
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Linda C. Chu , Steven P. Rowe, Elliot K. Fishman
Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging | March 2023
The Risk of Hospitalization and Mortality After Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Vaccine Type: Observational Study of Medical Claims Data
Meghana Kshirsagar, Md Nasir, Sumit Mukherjee, Nicholas Becker, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Barbra Richardson
JMIR Public Health Surveillance | November 2022
Using Internet Search Trends to Forecast Short-term Drug Overdose Deaths: A Case Study on Connecticut
Sumit Mukherjee, Nicholas Becker, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) | December 2020
Medicare Data Reveal Wide Variety Across Regions Of COVID-19 Fatality Risk
Nancy E. Morden, Jonathan Skinner, Bill Weeks, Stephanie Tomlin, James Weinstein
Health Affairs | April 2020
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Choosing your Surgeon Wisely: Using Provider-Procedure-Volume-Specific Data for Informed Choice
Bill Weeks, Bruno Demuro Segundo, Dan M Lee, Divya Michael, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
Journal of Community Medicine & Public Health | October 2024
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Comprehensive Evaluation and Insights into the Use of Deep Neural Networks to Detect and Quantify Lymphoma Lesions in PET/CT Images
Shadab Ahamed, Yixi Xu, C. Gowdy, O. JooH., I. Bloise, Don Wilson, Patrick Martineau, François Bénard, F. Yousefirizi, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Carlos F. Uribe, Arman Rahmim
November 2023
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Modeling to explore and challenge inherent assumptions when cultural norms have changed: a case study on left-handedness and life expectancy
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Md Nasir, Avleen Bijral, S V Subramanian, Bill Weeks
Archives of Public Health | July 2023
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Rates of admission for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in France in 2009–2010: trends, geographic variation, costs, and an international comparison
Bill Weeks, Bruno Ventelou, Alain Paraponaris
European Journal of Health Economics | April 2016, Vol 17(4): pp. 453-470
Publications by Type
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Leveraging public data: Changes in local economic distress and drug overdose deaths at the county level, 2000 – 2019
Shaddy K. Saba, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
International Journal of Public Health | February 2025
Enhanced Macular Telangiectasia Type 2 Detection: Leveraging Self-Supervised Learning and Ensemble Models
Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Meghana Kshirsagar, Yue Wu, Rahul Dodhia, Roberto Bonelli, Irene Leung, Ferenc B Sallo, Alyson Muldrew, Catherine Jamison, Tunde Peto, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Martin Friedlander, Aaron Lee, Lowy Medical Research Institute
Ophthalmology Science | January 2025
Improving Rural Healthcare by Creating Academic- and Nonacademic-Rural Hospital Partnerships Based on Community Health Needs Assessments and Technological Needs
Suhas Babu, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
The Journal of Rural Health | January 2025
Choosing your Surgeon Wisely: Using Provider-Procedure-Volume-Specific Data for Informed Choice
Bill Weeks, Bruno Demuro Segundo, Dan M Lee, Divya Michael, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
Journal of Community Medicine & Public Health | October 2024
Machine learning to evaluate the relationship between social determinants and diabetes prevalence in New York City
Darren Tanner, Yongkang Zhang, Ji Eun Chang, Peter Speyer, Elizabeth Adamson, Ann Aerts, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
BMJ Public Health | September 2024
Performance of explainable artificial intelligence in guiding the management of patients with a pancreatic cyst
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Felipe Oviedo, Caleb Robinson, Linda Chu, Satomi Kawamoto , Elham Afghani, Jin He, Alison P Klein, Mike Goggins, Christopher L Wolfgang, Ammar A Javed, Rahul Dodhia, Nick Papadopolous, Ken Kinzler, Ralph H Hruban, Bill Weeks, Elliot K Fishman, Anne Marie Lennon
Pancreatology | September 2024
A Methodology for Using Large Language Models to Create User-Friendly Applications for Medicaid Redetermination and Other Social Services
Sumanth Ratna, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Aneesh Chopra, Mayana Pereira
International Journal of Public Health | August 2024
Maternal Obesity and Risk of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death
Darren Tanner, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Edwin A. Mitchell
Jama Pediatrics | July 2024
Health and Wealth in America
Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein
International Journal of Public Health | March 2024
Self-Supervised Learning for Improved Optical Coherence Tomography Detection of Macular Telangiectasia Type 2
Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Meghana Kshirsagar, Yue Wu, Rahul Dodhia, Roberto Bonelli, Irene Leung, Ferenc B. Sallo, Alyson Muldrew, Catherine Jamison, Tunde Peto, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Martin Friedlander, Aaron Y. Lee
JAMA Ophthalmology | February 2024
Hospital use of common Z-codes for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, 2017–2021
Ji E Chang, Nate Smith, Zoe Lindenfeld, Bill Weeks
Health Affairs Scholar | January 2024, Vol 2(1)
All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being
Bill Weeks, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
International Journal of Public Health | December 2023, Vol 68
All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being
Bill Weeks (wiweeks), James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
International Journal of Public Health | December 2023, Vol 68
An observational, sequential analysis of the relationship between local economic distress and inequities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health
Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Ji E Chang, José A Pagán, Ann Aerts,, James N Weinstein
International Journal for Equity in Health | September 2023
Modeling to explore and challenge inherent assumptions when cultural norms have changed: a case study on left-handedness and life expectancy
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Md Nasir, Avleen Bijral, S V Subramanian, Bill Weeks
Archives of Public Health | July 2023
Evaluating the Generalizability of Deep Learning Image Classification Algorithms to Detect Middle Ear Disease Using Otoscopy
Al-Rahim Habib, Yixi Xu, Kris Bock, Shrestha Mohanty, Tina Sederholm, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Chris Perry, Raymond Sacks, Narinder Singh
Scientific Reports | April 2023
Beyond chatting: The opportunities and challenges of ChatGPT in medicine and radiology (Editorial)
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Linda C. Chu , Steven P. Rowe, Elliot K. Fishman
Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging | March 2023
Identifying long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 and their association with social determinants of health in a cohort of over one million COVID-19 survivors
Sumit Mukherjee, Meghana Kshirsagar, Nicholas Becker, Yixi Xu, Bill Weeks, Shwetak Patel, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Michael L. Jackson
BMC Public Health | December 2022
The Risk of Hospitalization and Mortality After Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Vaccine Type: Observational Study of Medical Claims Data
Meghana Kshirsagar, Md Nasir, Sumit Mukherjee, Nicholas Becker, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Barbra Richardson
JMIR Public Health Surveillance | November 2022
Association of COVID-19 vaccination prioritization and hospitalization among older Washingtonians
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Barbra A. Richardson, Bill Weeks
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | June 2021
Economic Prosperity and Cardiovascular Mortality Further Evidence That All Policy Is Health Policy
JAMA | February 2021, Vol 325(5)
Improving Economic Conditions Matter for Mortality: Changes in Local Economic Distress Associated with Mortality Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries Between 2003 and 2015
Harper O. Wallace, Kenan Fikri, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine | January 2021
Examining the Prevalence of Previously Recorded Phenotypically Related Diagnoses Among Fee-for-Service Medicare Enrollees Newly Diagnosed with Mendelian Conditions
Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, Stacey Y. Cao , Jeremy Smith , Chaitanya Bangur, James Weinstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine | January 2021
The Federal Health Authority, a Federal Reserve System for Health Care: COVID-19 Has Exposed a Need for Change
James Weinstein, Bill Weeks, Jonathan S. Skinner
JAMA Health Forum | January 2021
Using Internet Search Trends to Forecast Short-term Drug Overdose Deaths: A Case Study on Connecticut
Sumit Mukherjee, Nicholas Becker, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) | December 2020
A Method for Examining Geographic Variation When Denominators are Unknown, Populations Vary, and Time is of the Essence: Back Surgery as an Example
Spine | October 2020
Assessment of Year-to-Year Patient-Specific Comorbid Conditions Reported in the Medicare Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse.
Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, Stacey Y. Cao, Jeremy Smith, James Weinstein
JAMA Network Open | September 2020, Vol 3(10)
Point of View: “Correlates of Google Search Rankings for Spine Surgeons: An Analysis of Academic Pedigree, Social Media Presence, and Patient Ratings”.
Bill Weeks, Nitesh Jain, James Weinstein
Spine | September 2020, Vol 45(19): pp. 1382
Inequity in access to personalized medicine in France: Evidences from analysis of geo variations in the access to molecular profiling among advanced non-small-cell lung cancer patients: Results from the IFCT Biomarkers France Study.
Samuel Kembou Nzale, Bill Weeks, L’Houcine Ouafik, Isabelle Rouquette, Michèle Beau-Faller, Antoinette Lemoine, Pierre-Paul Bringuier, Anne-Gaëlle Le Coroller Soriano, Fabrice Barlesi, Bruno Ventelou
PLOS ONE | June 2020, Vol 15(7)
Per Capita Medicare Inflation in the Last Decade: Unit Cost Increases Offset by Reduced Utilization.
Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2020, Vol 35(6): pp. 1894-1896
Integrating Epidemiological Information into MRI Reports Reduces Ensuing Radiologic Testing Costs Among Patients with Low Back Pain: A Controlled Study.
Bill Weeks, Jason Pike, Christopher J. Schaeffer, Mathew J. Devine, John M. Ventura, Jeremy Donath, Brian D. Justice
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety | May 2020, Vol 46(6): pp. 365-368
Pay Gap Between Male And Female Physicians
Bill Weeks, Bruno Ventelou
Health Affairs | April 2020, Vol 39(5): pp. 906-906
Medicare Data Reveal Wide Variety Across Regions Of COVID-19 Fatality Risk
Nancy E. Morden, Jonathan Skinner, Bill Weeks, Stephanie Tomlin, James Weinstein
Health Affairs | April 2020
Medicare’s per-Beneficiary Potentially Avoidable Admission Measures Mask True Performance
Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2020, Vol 35(4): pp. 1348-1351
Use of Z-Codes to Record Social Determinants of Health Among Fee-for-service Medicare Beneficiaries in 2017.
William B. Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James N. Weinstein, James N. Weinstein, Nancy E. Morden, Nancy E. Morden, James Weinstein, Bill Weeks
Journal of General Internal Medicine | February 2020, Vol 35(3): pp. 952-955
A Decade of Modest Convergence in Geographic Variation in Per Capita Medicare Fee-for-Service Expenditures: Taxation Without Representation Is Not Sustainable; Is It Time for Taxpayer and Consumer Engagement?
Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, James Weinstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine | February 2020, pp. 1-4
Reducing Psychotropic Use in Older Non-demented Spanish Care Home Residents: a Before-After Comparison of Three Methods.
Curtis L. Petersen, David Curto, Manish K. Mishra, Pedro Cano, Bill Weeks
Journal of General Internal Medicine | December 2019, Vol 35(1): pp. 383-385
Comparing Three Methods for Reducing Psychotropic Use in Older Demented Spanish Care Home Residents.
Bill Weeks, Manish K. Mishra, David Curto, Curtis L. Petersen, Pedro Cano, Yulin Hswen, Silvia Villamarín Serra, Glyn Elwyn, Marjorie M. Godfrey, Pedro Sánchez Soro, José Francisco Tomás
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | June 2019, Vol 67(7): pp. 1444-1453
Cost and Outcomes Information Should Be Part of Shared Decision Making.
JAMA Surgery | April 2019, Vol 154(5): pp. 465-466
Development and Implementation of a Person-Centered, Technology-Enhanced Care Model For Managing Chronic Conditions: Cohort Study.
Curtis L. Petersen, Bill Weeks, Olof Norin, James Weinstein
Jmir mhealth and uhealth | March 2019, Vol 7(3)
Veterans Health Administration Hospitals Outperform Non–Veterans Health Administration Hospitals in Most Health Care Markets
Bill Weeks, Alan N. West
Annals of Internal Medicine | March 2019, Vol 170(6): pp. 426-428
Conservative Spine Care Pathway Implementation Is Associated with Reduced Health Care Expenditures in a Controlled, Before-After Observational Study
Bill Weeks, Jason Pike, Jeremy Donath, Paul Fiacco, Brian D Justice
Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2019, Vol 34(8): pp. 1381-1382
Association Between Community Economic Distress and Receipt of Recommended Services Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Enrollees.
Bill Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James Weinstein, Nancy E. Morden
Journal of General Internal Medicine | December 2018, Vol 34(12): pp. 2731-2732
Potential Unintended Effects of Medicare’s Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Program.
Bill Weeks, Elliott S. Fisher
JAMA | December 2018, Vol 321(1): pp. 106-107
Community Economic Distress and Changes in Medicare Patients’ End-of-Life Care Costs.
Bill Weeks, Mariétou H.L. Ouayogodé, Bruno Ventelou, Todd Mackenzie, James Weinstein
Journal of Palliative Medicine | May 2018, Vol 21(6): pp. 742-743
Association Between a Measure of Community Economic Distress and Medicare Patients’ Health Care Utilization, Quality, Outcomes, and Costs
Bill Weeks, Mariétou H.L. Ouayogodé, James Weinstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2018, Vol 33(9): pp. 1433-1435
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Proportion of Decedents’ Expenditures Among Recent Reductions in Medicare Expenditures
Bill Weeks, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Connor Freeh, James Weinstein
JAMA Internal Medicine | April 2018, Vol 178(5): pp. 717-719
Physician Burnout-Overdiagnosis and Unproven Interventions.
JAMA Internal Medicine | March 2018, Vol 178(4): pp. 576-577
Episode-of-Care Characteristics and Costs for Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery in Hospitals Belonging to the High Value Healthcare Collaborative Compared With Similar Hospitals in the Same Health Care Markets.
Bill Weeks, William J. Schoellkopf, David J. Ballard, Gary S. Kaplan, Brent James, James Weinstein
Medical Care | May 2017, Vol 55(6): pp. 583-589
The High Value Healthcare Collaborative: Observational Analyses of Care Episodes for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Surgery.
Bill Weeks, William J. Schoellkopf, Lyle S. Sorensen, Andrew L. Masica, Robert E. Nesse, James Weinstein
Journal of Arthroplasty | February 2017, Vol 32(3): pp. 702-708
Per-Capita Medicare Expenditures, Primary Care Access, Mortality Rates, and the Least Healthy Cities in America
The American Journal of Medicine | December 2016, Vol 130(1): pp. 101-104
Using Publicly Available Data to Construct a Transparent Measure of Health Care Value: A Method and Initial Results.
Bill Weeks, Gregory R. Kotzbauer, James Weinstein
Milbank Quarterly | May 2016, Vol 94(2): pp. 314-333
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An Alternative Way to Provide Healthcare for Veterans.
The American Journal of Medicine | May 2016, Vol 129(6): pp. 554-556
Rates of admission for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in France in 2009–2010: trends, geographic variation, costs, and an international comparison
Bill Weeks, Bruno Ventelou, Alain Paraponaris
European Journal of Health Economics | April 2016, Vol 17(4): pp. 453-470
Potential advantages of health system consolidation and integration.
Bill Weeks, Robert A. Greene, James Weinstein
The American Journal of Medicine | September 2015, Vol 128(10): pp. 1050-1051
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Performance in Year 1 of Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations.
Bill Weeks, Robert A Greene, James Weinstein
The New England Journal of Medicine | August 2015, Vol 373(8): pp. 777-777
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Caveats to Consider When Calculating Healthcare Value
The American Journal of Medicine | July 2015, Vol 128(8): pp. 802-803
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Accelerating uptake of new Medicare payment models: Medicare officials want to expand alternative payment models to help slow the growth of healthcare costs and preserve the solvency of the program, currently anticipated to go bankrupt by 2030
Bill Weeks, Judd Gregg, Elliott S. Fisher, James Weinstein
Healthcare Financial Management | March 2015, Vol 69(4): pp. 104-106
Accelerating uptake of new Medicare payment models.
Bill Weeks, Judd Gregg, Elliott S Fisher, James Weinstein
Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | March 2015, Vol 69(4): pp. 104-105
How Healthcare Is Different
The American Journal of Medicine | January 2015, Vol 128(2): pp. 107-108
Value creation strategies for health care: to deal with the epidemic of overuse in health care, patient preferences must be incorporated into the healthcare decision-making process, value creation must be calculated from a population health perspective, and a clear payment mechanism that provides incentives for value must be implemented
Healthcare Financial Management | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112-114
Value creation strategies for health care.
Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112
Continuity of Care and the Risk of Preventable Hospitalization in Older Adults
David J. Nyweide, Denise L. Anthony, Julie P. W. Bynum, Robert L. Strawderman, Bill Weeks, Lawrence. P. Casalino, Elliott S. Fisher
JAMA Internal Medicine | November 2013, Vol 173(20): pp. 1879-1885
Meta-analysis of the efficacy of treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder.
Bradley V. Watts, Paula P. Schnurr, Lorna Mayo, Yinong Young-Xu, Matthew J. Friedman, Bill Weeks
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry | June 2013, Vol 74(6): pp. 541-550
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The urgent need to create healthcare value.
Bill Weeks, Eric B Wadsworth, Stephen S Rauh, James Weinstein
Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | April 2013, Vol 67(5): pp. 136
Publicly Reported Quality-Of-Care Measures Influenced Wisconsin Physician Groups To Improve Performance
Geoffrey C. Lamb, Maureen A. Smith, Bill Weeks, Christopher Queram
Health Affairs | February 2013, Vol 32(3): pp. 536-543
The unintended consequences of bundled payments.
Bill Weeks, Stephen S. Rauh, Eric B. Wadsworth, James Weinstein
Annals of Internal Medicine | December 2012, Vol 158(1): pp. 62-64
Where the United States spends its spine dollars: expenditures on different ambulatory services for the management of back and neck conditions.
Matthew A. Davis, Tracy Onega, Bill Weeks, Jon D. Lurie
Spine | August 2012, Vol 37(19): pp. 1693-1701
A Collaborative Of Leading Health Systems Finds Wide Variations In Total Knee Replacement Delivery And Takes Steps To Improve Value
Ivan M. Tomek, Allison L. Sabel, Mark I. Froimson, George Muschler, David S. Jevsevar, Karl M. Koenig, David G. Lewallen, James M. Naessens, Lucy A. Savitz, James L. Westrich, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
Health Affairs | May 2012, Vol 31(6): pp. 1329-1338
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The Savings Illusion — Why Clinical Quality Improvement Fails to Deliver Bottom-Line Results
Stephen S Rauh, Eric B Wadsworth, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
The New England Journal of Medicine | December 2011, Vol 365(26)
Higher Health Care Quality And Bigger Savings Found At Large Multispecialty Medical Groups
Bill Weeks, Daniel J. Gottlieb, David J. Nyweide, Jason M. Sutherland, Julie Bynum, Lawrence P. Casalino, Robin R. Gillies, Stephen M. Shortell, Elliott S. Fisher
Health Affairs | April 2010, Vol 29(5): pp. 991-997
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The fixed-cost dilemma: what counts when counting cost-reduction efforts?
Stephen S Rauh, Eric Wadsworth, Bill Weeks
Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | February 2010, Vol 64(3): pp. 60
Racial, Socioeconomic, and Rural–Urban Disparities in Obesity-Related Bariatric Surgery
Amy E. Wallace, Yinong Young-Xu, David Hartley, Bill Weeks
Obesity Surgery | January 2010, Vol 20(10): pp. 1354-1360
Relationship of Primary Care Physicians’ Patient Caseload With Measurement of Quality and Cost Performance
David J. Nyweide, Bill Weeks, Daniel J. Gottlieb, Lawrence P. Casalino, Elliott S. Fisher
JAMA | December 2009, Vol 302(22): pp. 2444-2450
Rural health care ethics: is there a literature?
William Nelson, Gili Lushkov, Andrew Pomerantz, Bill Weeks
American Journal of Bioethics | August 2006, Vol 6(2): pp. 44-50
Who Pays for Poor Surgical Quality? Building a Business Case for Quality Improvement
Justin B. Dimick, Bill Weeks, Raj J. Karia, Smita Das, Darrell A. Campbell
Journal of The American College of Surgeons | May 2006, Vol 202(6): pp. 933-937
Measuring patient safety climate: a review of surveys
J B Colla, A C Bracken, L M Kinney, Bill Weeks
Quality & Safety in Health Care | September 2005, Vol 14(5): pp. 364-366
Changes in authorship patterns in prestigious US medical journals.
Bill Weeks, Amy E Wallace, Amy E Wallace, B.C.Surott Kimberly
Social Science & Medicine | October 2004, Vol 59(9): pp. 1949-1954
Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life in Rural and Urban Veterans
Bill Weeks, Lewis E. Kazis, Yujing Shen, Zhongxiao Cong, Xinhua S. Ren, Donald R. Miller, Austin Lee, Jonathan B. Perlin
American Journal of Public Health | September 2004, Vol 94(10): pp. 1762-1767
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Characteristics of Successful Quality Improvement Teams: Lessons from Five Collaborative Projects in the VHA
Peter D. Mills, Bill Weeks
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety | February 2004, Vol 30(3): pp. 152-162
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Developing a culture of safety in the Veterans Health Administration.
Bill Weeks, James P. Bagian
October 2000
Comprehensive Evaluation and Insights into the Use of Deep Neural Networks to Detect and Quantify Lymphoma Lesions in PET/CT Images
Shadab Ahamed, Yixi Xu, C. Gowdy, O. JooH., I. Bloise, Don Wilson, Patrick Martineau, François Bénard, F. Yousefirizi, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Carlos F. Uribe, Arman Rahmim
November 2023
Association of Declines in End-of-Life Health Care Costs With Fee-for-Service Enrollee Per Capita Expenditures
Bill Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James Weinstein
March 2020
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AI for Good: Applications in Sustainability, Humanitarian Action, and Health
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
Published by Wiley | April 2024
ISBN: 1394235879
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Towards an automated Segment Anything Model (SAM) for lesion segmentation in oncological PET/CT images
S. Ahamed, Yixi Xu, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, A. Rahmim
2023 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium | December 2023
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