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Sunday, 23 October 2005: 2:00 PM-3:30 PM
Grand Ballroom A (Hyatt Regency San Francisco)
Oral Concurrent Session I - Health Services Research
Session Chairs:Heather Taffet Gold, PhD
Elena B. Elkin, PhD
2:00 PMRISK STRATIFICATION IN PATIENTS WITH PULMONARY EMBOLISM: DERIVATION AND VALIDATION OF A CLINICAL PREDICTION RULE FOR PROGNOSIS
Drahomir Aujesky, MD, MSc, D. Scott Obrosky, Roslyn A. Stone, PhD, Thomas E. Auble, PhD, Arnaud Perrier, MD, Jacques Cornuz, MD, MPH, Pierre-Marie Roy, MD, PhD, Michael J. Fine, MD, Msc
2:15 PMRISKY CONCOMITANT MEDICATION DISPENSING IN AMBULATORY CARE
Jennifer Elston Lafata, PhD, Jan Simpkins, MA, Lonni Schultz, PhD, K. Arnold Chan, MD, ScD, John Horn, PharmD, Scott Kaatz, DO, FACP, Charron Long, PharmD, Richard Platt, MD, MS, Marsha A. Raebel, PharmD, David H. Smith, PhD, Huago Xi, MS, Marianne Ulcickas Yood, DSc, MPH
2:30 PMRACIAL DISPARITIES IN HOSPITAL DISCHARGE DISPOSITION AMONG STROKE PATIENTS IN MARYLAND
Ebere Akobundu, PhD, C. DANIEL MULLINS, PhD
2:45 PMCOST SHARING OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AND DEMAND FOR HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION – EVIDENCE FROM A NATURAL EXPERIMENT
Xin Li, PhD, Diane Lacaille, MD, John M. Esdaile, MD, Aslam H. Anis, PhD
3:00 PMCOMPARISON OF LONG-TERM CHANGES IN HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION AND COSTS OF PROSTATE CANCER PATIENTS: AN EXAMPLE OF THE VALUE OF LONGITUDINAL DATA BASES AS A CLINICAL DECISION AIDE
Leslie S. Wilson, PhD, Natalia Sadetsky, MD, MPH, Janeen DuChane, PhD, Kirsten Greene, MD, Jenny Broering, RN, MS, MPH, Peter R. Carroll, MD
3:15 PM*THE EXPLICIT PRIORITISATION OF SURGICAL PATIENTS ON WAITING LISTS: PATIENTS' AND DOCTORS' JUDGEMENTS OF PRIORITY AND PREFERENCES FOR IMPLEMENTATION
JP Oudhoff, MSc, Danielle R.M. Timmermans, PhD, DL Knol, AB Bijnen, G. van der Wal

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