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Journal Articles

This list also includes selected publications using the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) and the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey (MHOS) linked data sets available to cancer researchers. More information about this linkage and a more complete listing of publications is found on the NCI SEER-MHOS page.

• Falls, Walking or Balance Problems, and Limitations in Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) Among Older Endometrial Cancer Survivors. 2022
  Anderson C, Olshan A, Bae-Jump V, et al.
  Support Care Cancer. 2022 Jul; 30(7):6339-6351. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-022-07087-2.
• Trends in Cardiovascular Disease by Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Ethnicity, Medicare Health Outcomes Survey 2011-2015. 2021
  Doan LN, Takata Y, Hooker K, et al.
  J Gerontol. Series A, 2021; Article available at https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glab262.
  
• Trends in Racial/Ethnic Disparity of Health-Related Quality of Life in Older Adults with and without Cancer (1998–2012). 2020
  Rincon MA, Smith AW, Yu M, et al.
  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2020 Jun; 29:1188-95. Article available at http://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-19-0819.
• Change in Functional Status After Prostate Cancer Treatment Among Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries. 2019
  Jacobs BL, Lopa SH, Yabes JG, et al.
  Urology. 2019 Sep; 131:104-111. Article available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urology.2019.05.029.

• Trends in Cigarette Smoking and Cessation among Medicare Managed Care Recipients, 2005–2012. 2016
  Isenberg JY, Quiñones AR, Slatore CG, et al.
  Addictive Behaviors. 2016; 58:155-160. Article available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2016.02.037. 

• Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Enrollees Report Less Positive Experiences Than Their Medicare Advantage Counterparts. 2016
  Elliott MN, Landon BE, Zaslavsky AM, et al.
  Health Affairs. 2016 Mar; 35(3):456-463. Abstract available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0816.
• Revisiting the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results Cancer Registry and Medicare Health Outcomes Survey (SEER-MHOS) Linked Data Resource for Patient-Reported Outcomes Research in Older Adults with Cancer. 2016
  Kent EE, Malinoff R, Rozjabek HM, Ambs A, Clauser SB, Topor MA, Yuan G, Burroughs J, Rodgers AB, DeMichele K.
  Am Geriatr Soc. 2016 Jan;64(1):186-92. doi: 10.1111/jgs.13888. PMID: 26782871. Article available at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26782871/. 
• Health-related quality of life in older adult survivors of selected cancers: data from the SEER-MHOS linkage. 2015
  Kent EE, Ambs A, Mitchell SA, Clauser SB, Smith AW, Hays RD.
  Cancer. 2015 Mar 1;121(5):758-65. doi: 10.1002/cncr.29119. Epub 2014 Nov 4. PMID: 25369293; PMCID: PMC4546846. Article available at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25369293/.
• Health-Related Quality of Life and Quality of Care in Specialized Medicare-Managed Care Plans. 2013
  Grace SC, Elliott MN, Giordano LA, et al.
  Journal of Ambulatory Care Management. 2013. Jan;36(1):72-84. Abstract available online at U.S. National Library of Medicine website.
  
• Obesity Utilization and Health-Related Quality of Life in Medicare Enrollees. 2013
  Malinoff RL, Elliott MN, Giordano LA, et al.
  Journal of Ambulatory Care Management. 2013. Jan;36(1):61-71. Abstract available online at U.S. National Library of Medicine website.
• Functional Health Outcomes as a Measure of Health Care Quality for Medicare Beneficiaries. 2001
  Bierman AS, Lawrence WF, Haffer SC, et al.
  Health Services Research. December 2001. Volume 35(6) Part II: 90-109.
  

Technical Reports

• Medicare Health Outcomes Survey: Differentiating Health Status Within and Across Different Medicare Programs. 2012
  This report details differences in how the Program for All Inclusive Care of the Elderly (PACE) plans and Medicare Advantage (MA) Special Needs Plans (SNPs) differ from regular MA (Other MA) health plans on health status and basic member demographics. A comparison of physical and mental health, both within and between different Medicare programs, for at-risk subgroups of Medicare members is provided. The report also examines whether there are plans that do a better job maintaining patient health status, as measured by better-than-expected mental health, among specialized programs with patients in uniformly poorer physical health. The Medicare Health Outcomes Survey (HOS) 2010 Cohort 13 Baseline data on SNP and Other MA, and the 2010 HOS-Modified data on PACE were utilized for all analyses.
  
• Prevalence of Obesity in Medicare Advantage Organizations and its Effect on Health Services Utilization and Health Related Quality of Life (PDF, 628 KB) 2011
  This report provides the results of an investigation of the prevalence of obesity in Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs), its associations with the health of beneficiaries and their concomitant use of health services. The analyses were conducted using Medicare data from the 2006 Cohort 9 Baseline and 2008 Cohort 9 Follow Up surveys to obtain information on the prevalence of obesity and its association with the health of beneficiaries. Information about 2006 outpatient utilization was obtained from the 2007 Medicare Advantage Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (MA-CAHPS®) survey.
  
• Health-Related Quality of Life and Quality of Care in Specialized Medicare Managed Care Plans. 2010
  This report provides the results of an investigation of the demographics, health status, function, Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL), and quality of care received by Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in specialized managed care plans and compares the results with those of MA beneficiaries enrolled in traditional models of care. The analyses were conducted using Medicare data from the 2008-2009 HOS Cohorts 11-12 Baseline and 2008-2009 HOS-Modified (HOS-M) data.
  
• Implementing the HEDIS® Medicare Health Outcomes Survey: The Impact of Health Plan Quality on Medicare Beneficiary Outcomes. 2007
  Ng JH, Scholle SH, Pawlson LG, et al. This report assesses the relationship of plan-level performance on Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®) measures of clinical processes and intermediate outcomes with changes over two-years in the self-reported physical and mental health outcomes from the Medicare HOS among elderly Medicare plan enrollees with diabetes, hypertension, ischemic heart disease, and depression. This study represents one of the first attempts to directly link plan HEDIS® performance to outcome measures of enrollee health.
  
• Evaluation of Disease Status based on Patient Self-Report in the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey. 2003
  Miller DR, Rogers WH, Spiro A, et al. Using data from patients who are eligible for both Medicare and VA care, this report compares patient self-reports of chronic conditions to actual chronic conditions as documented from diagnostic codes obtained from these patients' medical records. Accuracy of the patient self-reports was quantitatively assessed for a variety of chronic conditions, by calculating sensitivity (the probability that patients would report the disease given its indication in the medical records), and specificity (the probability that patients would not report the disease given its absence in the medical records).
  
• MCS Outlier Evaluation Report (PDF, 1.44 MB) 2003
  This project was a collaborative effort among CMS, HSAG, and NCQA. The evaluation involved surveying all 28 outlier plans from the Cohort 1 Performance Measurement Results, as well as 20 randomly selected "average" plans.
  
• Multiple Cohorts Analysis: Longitudinal Analysis of SF-36® Summary Scores in the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey - Final Report (PDF, 250 KB) 2002
  This technical report examines changes in the PCS and MCS scores for beneficiaries of the MAOs (formerly referred to as Medicare + Choice Organizations) who completed a Medicare HOS at yearly intervals from 1998 through 2002. This study incorporates data from those MA beneficiaries that participated in the HOS on more than one occasion. Trends in physical component summary and mental component summary scores were examined for beneficiaries who completed the survey two years, three years, four years, and five years in a row. The examination of these trends provides information on whether or not declines in health status accelerate over time or remain constant. This information is valuable in determining the optimal number of years to wait before conducting the follow up survey.
  
• Report on the Health Status of the Medicare Disabled. 2000
  For Cohort 1 Baseline, 279,135 Medicare beneficiaries were sampled. 167,248 seniors (age 65 or older) responded to the survey. Additionally, 10,513 (out of a total of 18,864) disabled beneficiaries responded to the survey. This report performs a comparison between these two groups.
  
• Report on the Health Status of the Medicare Dual Eligible. 2000
  For Cohort 1 Baseline, 171,510 Medicare beneficiaries responded to the survey. Additionally, 6,247 beneficiaries enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid completed a survey. This report performs a comparison between these two groups.
  
• Comparison of the Health Status of Medicare Fee-For-Service and Managed Care Enrollees Using the HOS. 2000
  Pope GC, Griggs M, McCall NT. This report compares Medicare Fee-for-Service and Medicare Managed Care enrollees on a variety of health measures, including physical health status, mental health status, reports of chronic conditions, and activities of daily living (ADLs). The report also assesses the extent to which differences in health status are due to differences in the demographic composition of the two populations.

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