Bill Weeks

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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Health and Wealth in America

Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein

International Journal of Public Health | March 2024

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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

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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

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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

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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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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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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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Economic Prosperity and Cardiovascular Mortality Further Evidence That All Policy Is Health Policy

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

JAMA | February 2021, Vol 325(5)

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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

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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

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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

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A Method for Examining Geographic Variation When Denominators are Unknown, Populations Vary, and Time is of the Essence: Back Surgery as an Example

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Spine | October 2020

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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)

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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

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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)

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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

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Per Capita Medicare Inflation in the Last Decade: Unit Cost Increases Offset by Reduced Utilization.

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2020, Vol 35(6): pp. 1894-1896

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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

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Pay Gap Between Male And Female Physicians

Bill Weeks, Bruno Ventelou

Health Affairs | April 2020, Vol 39(5): pp. 906-906

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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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Medicare’s per-Beneficiary Potentially Avoidable Admission Measures Mask True Performance

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2020, Vol 35(4): pp. 1348-1351

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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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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

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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

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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

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Cost and Outcomes Information Should Be Part of Shared Decision Making.

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

JAMA Surgery | April 2019, Vol 154(5): pp. 465-466

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Physician Burnout-Overdiagnosis and Unproven Interventions.

Bill Weeks

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

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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

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

The American Journal of Medicine | December 2016, Vol 130(1): pp. 101-104

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An Alternative Way to Provide Healthcare for Veterans.

Bill Weeks

The American Journal of Medicine | May 2016, Vol 129(6): pp. 554-556

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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

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

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

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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

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How Healthcare Is Different

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

The American Journal of Medicine | January 2015, Vol 128(2): pp. 107-108

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Value creation strategies for health care.

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112

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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

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Healthcare Financial Management | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112-114

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Publication

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

Publication PDF Project

Developing a culture of safety in the Veterans Health Administration.

Bill Weeks, James P. Bagian

October 2000

Publication

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

Publication PDF Project

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

Publication PDF Project

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

Publication PDF Project

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

Publication Publication Project

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

Publication Project

Health and Wealth in America

Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein

International Journal of Public Health | March 2024

Publication DOI Project

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

Publication Project

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)

Publication DOI Project

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

Publication DOI Project

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

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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

Publication DOI Project

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

DOI Publication Github

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

Publication PDF Project Project

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

Publication PDF

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

Publication Project

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

Publication DOI Project

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

Publication PDF Project Project

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

Publication PDF Project Project

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

Publication Project

Economic Prosperity and Cardiovascular Mortality Further Evidence That All Policy Is Health Policy

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

JAMA | February 2021, Vol 325(5)

Publication PDF

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

PDF Publication

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

PDF

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

DOI Publication

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

Publication Project

A Method for Examining Geographic Variation When Denominators are Unknown, Populations Vary, and Time is of the Essence: Back Surgery as an Example

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Spine | October 2020

DOI

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)

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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

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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)

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Per Capita Medicare Inflation in the Last Decade: Unit Cost Increases Offset by Reduced Utilization.

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2020, Vol 35(6): pp. 1894-1896

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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

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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

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Pay Gap Between Male And Female Physicians

Bill Weeks, Bruno Ventelou

Health Affairs | April 2020, Vol 39(5): pp. 906-906

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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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Medicare’s per-Beneficiary Potentially Avoidable Admission Measures Mask True Performance

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2020, Vol 35(4): pp. 1348-1351

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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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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

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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

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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

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Cost and Outcomes Information Should Be Part of Shared Decision Making.

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

JAMA Surgery | April 2019, Vol 154(5): pp. 465-466

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Physician Burnout-Overdiagnosis and Unproven Interventions.

Bill Weeks

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

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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

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

The American Journal of Medicine | December 2016, Vol 130(1): pp. 101-104

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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.

Bill Weeks

The American Journal of Medicine | May 2016, Vol 129(6): pp. 554-556

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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

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

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

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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

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How Healthcare Is Different

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

The American Journal of Medicine | January 2015, Vol 128(2): pp. 107-108

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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

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Healthcare Financial Management | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112-114

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Value creation strategies for health care.

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

Publication Publication Project

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

Publication Project

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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Health and Wealth in America

Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein

International Journal of Public Health | March 2024

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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

Publication Project

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 (wiweeks), James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

International Journal of Public Health | December 2023, Vol 68

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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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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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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

Publication PDF Project Project

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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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

Publication Project

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

Publication DOI Project

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

Publication PDF Project Project

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

Publication Project

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

Publication Project Project

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

Publication PDF

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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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

Publication PDF Project

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

Publication PDF Project

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

Publication PDF Project

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

Publication Publication Project

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

Publication Project

Health and Wealth in America

Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein

International Journal of Public Health | March 2024

Publication DOI Project

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

Publication Project

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)

Publication DOI Project

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

Publication DOI Project

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

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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

Publication PDF Project Project

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

Publication PDF

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

Publication Project

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

Publication DOI Project

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

Publication PDF Project Project

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

Publication PDF Project Project

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

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Economic Prosperity and Cardiovascular Mortality Further Evidence That All Policy Is Health Policy

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

JAMA | February 2021, Vol 325(5)

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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

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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

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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

Publication Project

A Method for Examining Geographic Variation When Denominators are Unknown, Populations Vary, and Time is of the Essence: Back Surgery as an Example

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Spine | October 2020

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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)

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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

DOI

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)

DOI PDF

Per Capita Medicare Inflation in the Last Decade: Unit Cost Increases Offset by Reduced Utilization.

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2020, Vol 35(6): pp. 1894-1896

PDF DOI

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

PDF DOI

Pay Gap Between Male And Female Physicians

Bill Weeks, Bruno Ventelou

Health Affairs | April 2020, Vol 39(5): pp. 906-906

PDF DOI

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

Publication Project Project

Medicare’s per-Beneficiary Potentially Avoidable Admission Measures Mask True Performance

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2020, Vol 35(4): pp. 1348-1351

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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

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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

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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

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Cost and Outcomes Information Should Be Part of Shared Decision Making.

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

JAMA Surgery | April 2019, Vol 154(5): pp. 465-466

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Physician Burnout-Overdiagnosis and Unproven Interventions.

Bill Weeks

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

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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

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

The American Journal of Medicine | December 2016, Vol 130(1): pp. 101-104

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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.

Bill Weeks

The American Journal of Medicine | May 2016, Vol 129(6): pp. 554-556

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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

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

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

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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

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How Healthcare Is Different

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

The American Journal of Medicine | January 2015, Vol 128(2): pp. 107-108

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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

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Healthcare Financial Management | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112-114

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Value creation strategies for health care.

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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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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

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