My Mental Illness Interests

• "Alternative Statistical Methods to Use with Survival Data," with Frederick Holt and Elizabeth Merwin, Nursing Research, November/December 1996.
• "The Length of Psychiatric Hospital Stays and Community Stays," with Frederick Holt and Elizabeth Merwin, Virginia Economic Journal, November 2001.
• "Survival Models of Community Tenure for the Seriously Mentally Ill: A Ten Year Perspective" with Frederick Holt and Elizabeth Merwin, Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, May 2002.
• "Diagnosis Measurement Error and Instrumental Variables," with Donna Chen, Brent Kreider, and Elizabeth Merwin.
• "Shortages of Rural Mental Health Professionals," with Elizabeth Merwin, Ivory Hinton, and Bruce Dembling, Archives in Psychiatric Nursing, February 2003.
• The Costs and Benefits of Mental Healthcare," with Amelia McKeithen, for the Charlottesville-Albemarle Commission on Children and Families.
• Estimating Local Prevalence of Mental Health Problems

Present Work

• Rick Holt, Beth Merwin, and I are using 1991 MEDPAR data to estimate survival analysis models of how long people stay in psychiatric hospitals and then how long they stay in the community subsequent to that.
• Richard Frank, Steve Garren, Shiferaw Gurmu, Beth Merwin, Paul Rilstone, and I are developing new semiparametric statistical methods to use in evaluating the lengths of psychiatric episodes.
• Donna Chen, Brent Kreider, Beth Merwin, and I are developing new instrumental variables methods to deal with measurement error in psychiatric diagnoses. A preliminary paper is in "Diagnosis Measurement Error and Instrumental Variables." Some preliminary box plots comparing our method to OLS and standard IV are available.
• Beth Merwin, Bruce Dembling, Emily Hauenstein, Ivy Hinton, Larry Merkel, Stephen Petterson, Virginia Rovnyak, Melvin Wilson, and I are starting on a new NIMH-funded study of shortages of health professionals and their effect on health care quality.
• Volunteer Award

R01 appendices

First draft of "Desensitizing Sensitive Data" for Beth

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