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José J. Escarce
Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles
Publications - 300
Citations - 15331
José J. Escarce is an academic researcher from University of California, Los Angeles. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Health equity. The author has an hindex of 57, co-authored 292 publications receiving 14178 citations. Previous affiliations of José J. Escarce include Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School & RAND Corporation.
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The Effect of Race and Sex on Physicians' Recommendations for Cardiac Catheterization
Kevin A. Schulman,Jesse A. Berlin,William Harless,Jon Kerner,Shyrl Sistrunk,Bernard J. Gersh,Ross Dube,Christopher K. Taleghani,Jennifer E. Burke,Sankey V. Williams,John M. Eisenberg,José J. Escarce +11 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that the race and sex of a patient independently influence how physicians manage chest pain.
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Immigrants And Health Care: Sources Of Vulnerability
TL;DR: It is found that, overall, immigrants have lower rates of health insurance, use less health care, and receive lower quality of care than U.S. populations; however, there are differences among subgroups.
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Pharmacy Benefits and the Use of Drugs by the Chronically Ill
Dana P. Goldman,Geoffrey F. Joyce,José J. Escarce,Jennifer E. Pace,Matthew D. Solomon,Marianne Laouri,Pamela B. Landsman,Steven M. Teutsch +7 more
TL;DR: The use of medications such as antihistamines and NSAIDs, which are taken intermittently to treat symptoms, was sensitive to co-payment changes, and other medications--antihypertensive, antiasthmatic, antidepressant, antihyperlipidemic, antiulcerant, and antidiabetic agents--also demonstrated significant price responsiveness.
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Survival of Medicare Patients After Enrollment in Hospice Programs
TL;DR: Survival varied substantially according to diagnosis, even after adjustment for age and co-existing conditions, and it was longest for those with chronic lung disease, those with dementia, and those with breast cancer, while patients at for-profit, larger, outpatient, or newer hospices lived longer after enrollment than those in other types of hospice programs.
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Effectiveness of Remote Patient Monitoring After Discharge of Hospitalized Patients With Heart Failure: The Better Effectiveness After Transition–Heart Failure (BEAT-HF) Randomized Clinical Trial
Michael K. Ong,Michael K. Ong,Patrick S Romano,Sarah Edgington,Harriet Udin Aronow,Andrew D. Auerbach,Jeanne T. Black,Teresa De Marco,José J. Escarce,José J. Escarce,Lorraine S. Evangelista,Barbara Hanna,Theodore G. Ganiats,Theodore G. Ganiats,Barry H. Greenberg,Sheldon Greenfield,Sherrie H. Kaplan,Asher Kimchi,Honghu Liu,Dawn Lombardo,Carol M. Mangione,Bahman Sadeghi,Banafsheh Sadeghi,Majid Sarrafzadeh,Kathleen Tong,Gregg C. Fonarow +25 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the effectiveness of telemonitoring in reducing 180-day all-cause readmissions among a broad population of older adults hospitalized with heart failure in 6 academic medical centers in California.