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Philip S. Wang
Researcher at National Institutes of Health
Publications - 152
Citations - 48738
Philip S. Wang is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & National Comorbidity Survey. The author has an hindex of 76, co-authored 148 publications receiving 45028 citations. Previous affiliations of Philip S. Wang include Harvard University & Government of the United States of America.
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Changing profiles of service sectors used for mental health care in the United States.
Philip S. Wang,Olga Demler,Mark Olfson,Harold Alan Pincus,Kenneth B. Wells,Ronald C. Kessler +5 more
TL;DR: The elderly, women, minorities, the less educated, and rural dwellers were less likely to use profiles capable of delivering pharmacotherapies and/or psychotherapy, and the general medical only profile experienced the largest proportional increase between surveys and is now the most common profile.
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Evaluating short-term drug effects using a physician-specific prescribing preference as an instrumental variable.
TL;DR: An instrument for use in pharmacoepidemiology that is based on a time-varying estimate of the prescribing physician's preference for one drug relative to a competing therapy is proposed that appears to have substantially reduced the bias due to unobserved confounding.
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Hazardous benzodiazepine regimens in the elderly: effects of half-life, dosage, and duration on risk of hip fracture.
TL;DR: Even at modest doses, including some low doses currently advocated in prescribing guidelines for older patients, treatment with benzodiazepines appears to increase the risk of hip fracture and patients appear to be particularly vulnerable immediately after initiating therapy and after more than 1 month of continuous use.
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Improved comorbidity adjustment for predicting mortality in Medicare populations.
TL;DR: In epidemiologic studies of the elderly, a modified diagnosis-based score using empirically derived weights provides improved adjustment for comorbidity and enhances the validity of findings.
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Arthritis self-management education programs: a meta-analysis of the effect on pain and disability.
TL;DR: The summary effect sizes suggest that arthritis self-management education programs result in small reductions in pain and disability.