Paula Diehr
University of Washington
229 Papers
2.7K Citations
Paula Diehr is an academic researcher from University of Washington. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 62, co-authored 229 publications. Previous affiliations of Paula Diehr include Group Health Cooperative & Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.
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Papers
•Journal Article
What is too much variation? The null hypothesis in small-area analysis.
TL;DR: A computer program was developed to simulate the distribution of several commonly used descriptive statistics under the null hypothesis, and used it to examine the variability in rates among the counties of the state of Washington.
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Selected Methodological Issues in Evaluating Community-Based Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Programs
Thomas D. Koepsell,Edward H. Wagner,A. C. Cheadle,Donald L. Patrick,D. C. Martin,Paula Diehr,Edward B. Perrin,Alan R. Kristal,C. H. Allan-Andrilla,L. J. Dey +9 more
TL;DR: An important recent trend in health promotion and disease prevention has been the increasing number and scope of communitybased interventions aimed at entire populations.
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Longitudinal Data with Follow-up Truncated by Death: Match the Analysis Method to Research Aims.
TL;DR: It is demonstrated how these analysis approaches arise from factorizations of the distribution of longitudinal data and survival information, and which method of accommodating deaths is consistent with research aims, and use analysis methods accordingly.
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Toward understanding elders' health service utilization
Laurence G. Branch,Alan M. Jette,Connie Evashwick,Marcia Polansky,Genevieve Rowe,Paula Diehr +5 more
TL;DR: Regression analysis is used to study the effects of predisposing, enabling, and need characteristics on the use of five health services: hospitals, physicians, dentists, home care, and ambulatory care.
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Selection bias related to parental consent in school-based survey research.
TL;DR: Differences between students with and without written parental consent to take part in a sensitive health survey were examined, with students with written consent more likely to be White, to live in two-parent households, to have a grade point average of B or above, and to be involved in extracurricular activities.
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