Publications
2007
Biola H, Sloane PD, Williams CS, Daaleman TP, Williams SW, Zimmerman, S. Physician Communication with family members of long-term care residents at the end of life. 2007. Journal of the American Geriatic Society. 55:846-56.
Briscoe FS, Konrad TR. HMO Employment and African-American Physicians Journal of the National Medical Association 2006. 98(8):1318-1325.
Ford C L, Godette DC, Konrad TR, Corbie-Smith G. Improving HIV Testing among Black Women: The Role of Patient-Provider Racial Concordance [Accepted for publication 2007, Sexually Transmitted Diseases]
Fraher EP. Location, location, location: North Carolina faces a shortage of primary care and specialty practitioners in rural and underserved counties. North Carolina Medical Journal. 2007;68(3):194-7.
Gaul K, King J, Fraher EP. Supply of primary care practitioners by profession. North Carolina Medical Journal. 2007:68(3)211-3.
Hart LG, Skillman SM, Hagopian A, Fordyce M, Thompson M, Konrad TR. International Medical Graduate (IMG) Physicians in the US: Changes since 1981.Health Affairs 2007. 26(4):1159-1169.
Howard DL, Bunch C, Mundia WO, Konrad TR, Edwards LJ, Amamoo A, Jallah Y. International Medical School Graduate Physicians Serving African-American and White Elderly. Health Services Research, 2006. 41(6):2155-2181.
Krebs EE, Garrett JM, Konrad TR. The difficult doctor? Characteristics of physicians who report frustration with patients. BMC Health Services Research. 2006. 6:128.
Landry MD, Ricketts TC, Verrier MC. The precarious supply of physical therapists across Canada: Exploring national trends in health human resources (1991 to 2005).
Human Resources and Health . 2007 Sep 25;5(1):23 [Epub ahead of print]
Mayer ML. Disparities in Geographic Access to Pediatric Subspecialty Care. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 2007 Sep 19
Morgan JC, Konrad TR.A Mixed-Method Evaluation of a Workforce Development Intervention for Nursing Assistants. The Case of WIN A STEP UP. [ In Press, 2007 The Gerontologist.]
Morgan JC, Haviland SB, Woodside A,Konrad TR. Fostering Supportive Learning Environments in Long-Term Care: The Case of WIN A STEP UP. [accepted for publication in Gerontology and Geriatrics Education 2007]
Ricketts TC. State and local partnerships for meeting the healthcare needs of small and often remote rural communities. North Carolina Medical Journal. 2006;67(1)43-50
Ricketts TC. Medical practitioner supply from a national perspective. North Carolina Medical Journal. 2007;68(3):176-8.
Ricketts TC, Goldsmith LJ, Holmes GM, Randolph RM, Lee R, Taylor DH, Ostermann J. Designating places and populations as medically underserved: a proposal for a new approach. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 2007. 18(3):567-89.
Ricketts TC, Randolph R. Urban-rural flows of physicians. Journal of Rural Health. 2007 Fall;23(4):277-85.
Shih YCT, Konrad TR. Factors Associated with the Distribution of Physician Income: A Quantile Regression Approach. Health Services Research . 2007. 42(5)1895-925
Stearns SC, Park J, Zimmerman S, Gruber-Baldini AL, Konrad TR, Sloane PD. Determinants and Effects of Nurse Staffing Intensity and Skill Mix in Residential Care/Assisted Living Settings. [Accepted for publication, 2007, The Gerontologist.]
Williams ES, Manwell LB, Konrad TR, Linzer M. The Relationship of Organizational Culture, Stress, Satisfaction and Burnout with Physician-Reported Error and Quality of Patient Communication: Results from the MEMO Study. Health Care Management Review. 2007, 32(3), 203-212.
2006
Cockrell Skinner, A., Slifkin, R.T., Mayer, M.L. The effects of rural residence on dental unmet need for children with special health care needs.Journal of Rural Health. 2006; 22(1):36-42.
Fraher E . The supply of primary care physician assistants and nurse practitioners in underserved North Carolina. Perspectives on Physician Assistant Education. 2006;17(1);39-42
Fowler-Brown A, Ashkin E, Corbie-Smith G, Thaker S, Pathman DE. Perceptions of racial barriers to health care in the rural South. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 2006;17(1);86-100.
Hull S, Daaleman T, Thaker S, Pathman DE. A prevalence study of faith-based healing in the rural Southeastern United States. Southern Medical Journal. 2006;99(6);444-53.
Pathman DE, Fowler-Brown A, Corbie-Smith G. Differences in access to outpatient medical care for black and white adults in the rural South. Medical Care. 2006;44:429-38.
Pathman DE , Fryer GE, Smucny J, Phillips RL, Green LA, Miyoshi T, Jaster BJ. National Health Service Corps staffing and the growth of the local rural non-NHSC primary care physician workforce. Journal of Rural Health. 2006;22(4):285-93.
Pathman DE. What outcomes should we expect from programs that pay physicians’ training expenses in exchange for service? North Carolina Medical Journal. 2006;67:77-82.
Pathman DE, Ricketts TC, Konrad TR. How Adults' Access to Outpatient Physician Services Relates to the Local Supply of Primary Care Physicians in the Rural Southeast. Health Services Research. 2006; 41(1);79-102.
Viera AJ, Pathman DE, Garrett JM. Adults’ lack of a usual source of care: a matter of preference? Annals of Family Medicine. 2006; 4(4):359-65.
Wroth T, Pathman DE. Failing to fill doctors’ prescriptions: Frequency and correlates in the rural South. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2006;19(5)478-86.
2005
Chen FM, Fryer GE, Phillips RL, Wilson E, Pathman DE. Patients' Beliefs about racism, preferences for physician race, and satisfaction with care. Annals of Family Medicine. 2005;3:138-143.
Donahue K, Ashkin E, Pathman DE. Length of the patient-physician relationship and patients’ satisfaction and preventive service use in the rural South: A cross-sectional telephone survey. BMC Family Practice. 2005:6:40 (http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2296/6/40).
Holmes GM . Increasing physician supply in medically underserved areas. Labour Economics. 2005;12(5):697-725.
Jones CB . Nurse Turnover: Why it is such a tough problem to solve. Nurse Leader: From Management to Leadership. 2005;3(3);43-7.
Jones CB . The costs of nursing turnover, part 2: Application of the Nursing Turnover Cost Calculation Methodology. Journal of Nursing Administration. 2005;35(1);41-4.
Kilpatrick KE, Konrad TR. Health Workforce Modeling. In: Armitage P, Colton T. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Biostatistics. 2005, New York: John Wiley and Sons.
Konrad TR, Howard DL, Edwards LJ, Ivanova A, Carey TS. Physician-patient racial concordance, continuity, and patterns of care for hypertension. American Journal of Public Health. 2005; 95(12):2186-90.
Mark B , Harless D, McCue M. The impact of HMO penetration on the relationship between nurse staffing and quality of care. Health Economics. 2005;14:737-53.
Mayer ML , Preisser, JS. The changing composition of the pediatric subspecialty workforce. Pediatrics. 2005;116(4):833-40.
Mayer, M.L., Slifkin, R.T., Skinner, A.C. The effects of rural residence and other social vulnerabilities on subjective measures of unmet need.Medical Care Research and Review. 2005;62(5):617-28.
Pathman DE, Fryer GE, Green LA, Phillips RL. Changes in age-adjusted mortality rates and disparities in rural physician shortage areas staffed by the National Health Service Corps: 1984-1998. Journal of Rural Health. 2005;21(3):214-20.
Pathman DE , Gamble G, Thaker S, Newton WP. A metric of progress for Family Medicine research. Annals of Family Medicine. 2005;3(1):88-89.
Pathman DE, Groves J, Konrad TR, Ricketts TC, Thaker S. Growth in Physicians and Advanced-Practice Nurses in Counties Targeted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Southern Rural Access Program: 2002 and 2003. Final Report to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, March 2005.
Ricketts TC , Gaul K . Running the numbers (primary physician supply in North Carolina). North Carolina Medical Journal. 2005; 66(3):251-2.
Ricketts TC . Healthcare Workforce Planning. In: Fried BJ, Fottler M and Johnson JA (eds) Human Resources in Healthcare: Managing for Success. 2005, 2d Ed. Chicago, AUPHA/HAP.
Ricketts TC . Workforce Issues in Rural Areas, A Focus on Policy Equity. American Journal of Public Health. 2005 95(1):42-8.
Savitz L, Jones CB, Bernard S. Quality indicators associated with nurse staffing in acute care settings. In Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation. 2005. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Department of Defense.
Sloane PD, Zimmerman S, Gruber-Baldini AL, Hebel JR, Magaziner J, Konrad TR. Health and functional outcomes of persons with dementia in assisted living: Comparison with nursing homes. The Gerontologist. 2005; 45(Special Issue 1):124-32.
Zumberg M, Reddy S, Boyette R, Schwartz R, Konrad TR, Lottenberg R. Hydroxyurea therapy for Sickle Cell Disease in community-based practices: A survey of Florida and North Carolina hematologists/Oncologists. American Journal of Hematology. 2005 79(2):107-113.
2004
Dyson S, Greene S and Fraher E. A shortage of health information management professionals: How would we know? Journal of Allied Health. 2004;33(3):167-173.
Holmes GM . Does the National Health Service Corps improve physician supply in underserved locations? Eastern Economic Journal. 2004;30(4):563-581.
Hsueh Y, Lee SD, Huang, YA. Effects of global budgeting on the distribution of dentists and use of dental care in Taiwan. Health Services Research. 2004;39(6): 2135-53.
Jones CB . The costs of nursing turnover, Part 1: An economic perspective. Journal of Nursing Administration. 2004; 34(12), 562-70.
Jones CB , Gates M. Gender-based wage differentials in a predominantly female profession: Observations from nursing. Economics of Education Review. 2004;23, 615-31.
Konrad TR, Morgan, JC, Haviland, S. Active and Inactive Workers on the Nurse Aide Registry: a Wage and Employment Profile: 2001-2004. Report to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, 2004. North Carolina Institute on Aging.
Konrad TR, Fletcher GS, Carey TS. Inter-professional collaboration and job satisfaction of chiropractic physicians. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics. 2004; 27:223-82.
Mayer ML , Skinner AC. (2004). Too many, too few, too concentrated? A review of the pediatric subspecialty workforce literature. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 158(12):1158-65.
Mayer ML , Mellins ED, Sandborg CI. (2004). The role of pediatric and internist rheumatologists in treating children with rheumatic diseases. Pediatrics, 113(3):e173-81.
McCue M, Mark B, Harless D. (2003). Nurse staffing, quality and hospital financial performance. Journal of Health Care Financial Management, 29(4):54-76.
Morgan J, Konrad TR, Haviland S. Determining Turnover Problem Perception in Long-Term Care: Implications for Intervention Readiness. Interim Report to the Institute for the Future of Aging Services, Better Jobs, Better Care Program. 2004.
Pathman DE, Konrad TR, King TS, Taylor DH, Koch GG, Crook KD, Henderson TM, Bernstein JD, Tucker T. Outcomes of state scholarship, loan repayment and related programs: for physicians. Medical Care. 2004; 42:560-8.
Pathman DE , Konrad TR, Dann R, Koch GG. Retention of primary care physicians in rural Health Professional Shortage Areas. American Journal of Public Health. 2004; 94:1723-9.
Pink GH , McGillis Hall L, Leatt P. (2004). Canadian-Trained RNs in North Carolina. Healthcare Quarterly 7(3)(suppl) 2-11.
Ricketts TC , Gaul K . (2004). Numbers of minority health professionals: Where do we stand? North Carolina Medical Journal, 65(6):381-4.
Roberts BJ, Jones CB, Lynn M. (2004). Job satisfaction of new baccalaureate nurses. Journal of Nursing Administration, 34(9), 428-35.
Rupper R, Konrad TR, Garrett JG, Miller WM, Blazer DG. Self-reported delay in seeking care has poor validly for predicting adverse outcomes. Journal of the American Geriatric Society. 2004; 52:2104-9.
Slifkin, RT, Randolph, R., Ricketts, TC. The changing metropolitan designation process and rural America. Journal of Rural Health. 2004; 20(1):1-6.
Weiner BJ, Ricketts TC, Fraher EP, Hanny D, Coccdrilli LD. Area Health Education Centers: Strengths, challenges, and implications for academic health science leaders. Health Care Management Review. 2005;30(3):194-202
2003
Beachler M, Holloman C, Pathman DE. Lessons learned in phase one of the Southern Rural Access Program. The Journal of Rural Health. 2003; 19(supplement): 416-421.
Keysor JJ, DeVellis BM, DeFriese GH, Jordan JM, Konrad TR, Mutran EJ, Callahan LF. Critical review of arthritis self management strategy use. Arthritis Rheumatism. 2003; 49:724-731.
Keysor, JJ, Callahan LF, DeVellis BM, DeVellis RF, Jordan JM, Konrad TR, Mutran, EJ, DeFriese GH. Sociodemographic and disease-related correlates of arthritis self-management. Arthritis Care and Research. 2003; 49:724-731.
Jackson J, Shannon K, Pathman DE, Mason E, Nemitz JW. A comparative assessment of West Virginia’s financial incentive programs for rural physicians. The Journal of Rural Health. 2003; 19(supplement):329-339.
Pathman DE, Konrad TR, Agnew CR. Predictive accuracy of rural physicians’ stated retention plans. The Journal of Rural Health. 2003;19:236-244.Pathman DE, Thaker S, Ricketts TC, Albright JB. Use of program logic models in the Southern Rural Access Program evaluation. The Journal of Rural Health. 2003;19(supplement):308-313.
Porterfield D, Konrad TR, Leysieffer K, Porter CQ, Martinez RM, Niska R, Wells B, Potter F. Caring for the underserved: Current practice of alumni of the National Health Service Corps. Journal of Healthcare for the Poor & Underserved. 2003;14:256-271.
Saint S, Zemencuk JK, Hayward RA, Golin CE, Konrad TR, Linzer M, SGIM Career Satisfaction Group. What effect does increasing inpatient time have on outpatient-oriented internist satisfaction? Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2003; 18:725-9.
Williams ES, Linzer M, Pathman DE, McMurray JE, Konrad TR, for the SGIM Career Satisfaction Study Group. What do physicians want in their ideal job? Journal of Medical Practice Management. 2003;18:179-83.
Wurst KE, Sleath BL, Konrad TR. Physician perceptions of factors influencing adherence to antibiotic prophylaxis for children with sickle cell disease. Clinical Therapeutics. 2003;64:116-126.
Zimmerman SI, Gruber-Baldini AL, Sloane PD, Eckert JK, Morgan LA, Stearns SC, Wildfire J, Magaziner J, Chen C, Konrad TR. Assisted living and nursing homes: Apples and oranges? The Gerontologist. 2003; 42(2):107-117.
2002
Freburger JK, Konrad TR. Using federal and state databases to conduct health services research related to physical and occupational therapy. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 2002;83:837-845.
Grabenstein, JD, Guess HA, Hartzema AG, Koch GG, Konrad TR, Weigle KA. Attitudinal factors affecting adult choices of whether and where to be vaccinated. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2002;55:279-284.
Konrad, Thomas R; Craft-Morgan, Jennifer. Workforce Improvement for Nursing Assistants: Supporting Training, Education, & Payment for Upgrading Performance. Evaluation Results. North Carolina Institute on Aging, 2002, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC. http://www.aging.unc.edu/research/winastepup/execsummary.pdf
Konrad TR. Commentary: Who do we want to care for our mothers? Defining and reinforcing the direct care workforce. North Carolina Medical Journal. 2002;63:108-109.
Linzer M, Gerrity M, Douglas JA, McMurray JE, Williams ES, Konrad TR. Physician job stress: Results from the Physician Worklife Survey. Stress and Health. 2002;18:37-42.
Malaty W, Pathman DE. Factors affecting the match rate of rural training tracks in family practice residencies. Family Medicine. 2002;34:258-61
Mayer ML, Konrad TR, Dvorak CC. Hospital resource utilization among patients with sickle cell disease. Journal of Healthcare of the Poor & Underserved. 2002;13:122-13.
Mofidi MM, Konrad TR, Porterfield D, Niska R, Wells B. Provision of care to the underserved by National Health Service Corps alumni dentists. Journal of. Public Health Dentistry. 2002;62:102-108.
Mueller, Kurt J; Konrad, Thomas R. The immediate and future role of the J-1 Visa waiver program for physicians: the consequences of change for rural health care service delivery. P2002-2. Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 2002.
North American Primary Care Research Group Committee on Building Research Capacity and the Academic Family Medicine Organizations Research Subcommittee. Yawn B, deGruy F, Crabtree B, Pathman D. What does it mean to build research capacity? Family Medicine. 2002;34:78-84.
Nusbaum M, Gamble G, Pathman DE. How and why women seek care for sexual health concerns: Frequency, barriers, and missed opportunities." The Journal of Family Practice. 2002;51:706, www.jfampract.com/content/2002/08/jfp_0802_0706b.asp .
Pathman DE, Konrad TR, Williams ES, Scheckler WE, Linzer M, Douglas J. Does dissatisfaction promote job turnover among physicians or satisfaction prevent it, or both? The Journal of Family Practice. 2002;51:593.
Pathman DE, Konrad TR, Schwartz R. The proximity of rural African American and Hispanic/Latino communities to physicians and hospital services. The Journal of Rural Health. 2002;18:416-427.
Stanwood, NL, Garrett JM, Konrad TR. Obstetrician-gynecologists and the intrauterine device: A survey of attitudes and practice. Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2002;99:275-280.
Saint S, Konrad TR, Golin C, Welsh D, Linzer M. General internists who practice only outpatient medicine: who are they? Results from the Physician Worklife Study. Seminars in Medical Practice. 2002;5:5-11.
Wetterneck TB, Linzer M, McMurray JE, Douglas J, Schwartz MD, Bigby JA, Gerrity MS, Pathman DE, Karlson D, Rhodes E. Worklife and satisfaction of general internists. Archives of Internal Medicine. 2002;162:649-656.
Williams ES, Konrad TR, Linzer M, McMurray J, Pathman DE, Gerrity M, Schwartz MD, et al. Physician, practice, and patient characteristics related to primary care physician physical and mental health: results from the Physician Worklife Survey. Health Services Research. 2002;37:121-143.
2001
Cummings SM, Savitz LA, Konrad, TR. Reported response rates to mailed physician questionnaires. Health Services Research. 2001;36:1347-55.
Grabenstein JD, Guess HA, Hartzema AG, Koch GG, Konrad TR. Effect of vaccination by community pharmacists and rates of adult immunization. Medical Care. 2001;39:340-348.
Howard DL, Konrad TR, Stevens C, Porter CQ. Physician-patient racial matching, effectiveness of care, use of services, and patient satisfaction. Research on Aging. 2001;23:83-107.
Konrad, Thomas R; Fraher, Erin; Smith, Laura; Thaker, Samruddhi. Maintaining Balance: The Physical Therapy Workforce in North Carolina in the Year 2000. Chapel Hill, NC: Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001. <http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/data/nchpds/ptlayout.pdf>
Lynch DC, Teplin SE, Willis S, Pathman DE, Larsen L, Steiner BD, Teplin SE, Bernstein JD. Interim evaluation of the Rural Health Scholars Program. Teaching and Learning in Medicine: An International Journal. 2001;13:36-42.
Pathman DE. Where family physicians dare. American Family Physician. 2001;63:1700-1703.
Pathman, Donald E; Konrad, Thomas R; Schwartz, Robert. The proximity of rural African-American and Hispanic/Latino communities to physicians and hospital services. Findings Brief, Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, 2001.
Randolph, GD, Pathman DE. Trends in the rural-urban distribution of general pediatricians. Pediatrics. 2001;107:e18, 1-7.
Ricketts TC, Randolph R, Howard HA, Pathman D, Carey T. Hospitalization rates as indicators of access to primary care. Health and Place. 2001;7:27-38.
Shih, YaChen Tina; Konrad, Thomas R. Factors associated with the distribution of physician income: A Quantile Regression Approach. Grant No 03806, HCFO,Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Final Report, Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2001.
Shugerman R, Linzer M, Nelson K, Douglas J, Williams R, Konrad TR and the Career Satisfaction Study Group (CSSG) Pediatric generalists and specialists: Determinants of career satisfaction. Pediatrics. 2001;108:e40.
Williams ES, Konrad TR, Scheckler WE, Pathman DE, Linzer M, McMurray J, Gerrity M, Schwartz M. Understanding physicians’ intentions to withdraw from practice: the role of job satisfaction, job stress, mental and physical health. Health Care Management Review. 2001;26:9-21. Reprinted in Advances in Health Care Management, V 2:243-262 Oxford, Elsevier.
2000
Baer LD, Gesler WM, Konrad TR. The wineglass model: Tracking the locational histories of health professionals. Social Science & Medicine. 2000;50:317-329.
Britto MT, Garrett JM, Konrad TR, Majure JM, Leigh MW. Comparison of physical activity in adolescents with cystic fibrosis vs. age-matched controls. Pediatric Pulmonology. 2000 30:86-91.
Frankford DM, Patterson MA, Konrad TR. Transforming practice organizations to foster lifelong learning and commitment to medical professionalism. Academic Medicine. 2000;75:708-716.
Jordan JM, Bernard SL, Callahan LF, Kincade JM, Konrad TR, DeFriese GH. Self-reported arthritis-related disruptions in sleep and daily life and the use of medical, complementary, and Self-care Strategies for arthritis. Archives of Family Medicine. 2000;9:143-149.
Konrad, Thomas R; Leysieffer, Kristin; Stevens, Catherine; Carol, Irvin; Martinez, Rose M; Nguyen, Terry TH. Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the National Health Service Corps: Final Report to the Heath Resources and Services Administration.
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Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC and Mathematica Policy Research 2000. HRSA Contract No. 240-95-0038. MPR Ref No. 8307-207. Rpt PR-0065.
Konrad TR, Slifkin R, Stevens C, Miller J. Using the AMA physician masterfile to measure physician supply in small towns. The Journal of Rural Health. 2000;16:162-167.
Linzer M, Konrad TR, Douglas J, McMurray JE, Pathman D, Williams E, Schwartz MD, Gerrity M, Scheckler W, Bigby JA, Rhodes E, SGIM Career Satisfaction Study Group. Managed care, time pressure, and physician job satisfaction: Results from the Physician Worklife Study. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2000;15:441-450.
McMurray JE, Linzer M, Konrad TR, Douglas J, Shugerman R, Nelson K. for the SGIM Career Satisfaction Study Group. The work lives of women physicians: results from the Physician Worklife Study. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2000;15:372-380.
Pathman DE, Konrad TR, King TS, Spaulding C, Taylor DH. Medical training debt and service commitments: the rural consequences. The Journal of Rural Health. 2000;16:264-272.
Pathman DE, Taylor DH, Konrad TR, King TS, Harris T, Henderson TM, Bernstein JD, Tucker T, Crook KD, Spaulding C, Koch GG. State scholarship, loan forgiveness, and related programs: the unheralded safety net. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2000;284:2084-2092.
Sleath BL, Konrad TR, Fulda T, Collins TM. Medicaid drug utilization review and managed care: the perspectives and experiences of state program directors. Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy. 2000;6:131-136.
Stearns SC, Bernard SL, Fasick SB, Schwartz R, Konrad TR, Ory MG, DeFriese GH. The economic implications of self-care: The effect of lifestyle, functional adaptations, and medical self-care among a national sample of Medicare beneficiaries. American Journal of Public Health. 2000; 90(10):1608-1612.
1999
Baer LD, Konrad TR, Miller JS. The need of community health centers for international medical graduates. American Journal of Public Health. 1999;89:1570-74.
Freed GL, Clark SJ, Pathman DE, Schectman R, Serling J. Impact of North Carolina’s universal purchase program by children’s insurance status. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. 1999;153:748-754.
Freed GL, Clark SJ, Pathman DE, Schectman R. Influences on the receipt of well-child visits in the first two years of life. Pediatrics. 1999;104:864-9.
Haritos, R, Konrad TR. A timely partnership: sociology and health services research. Contemporary Sociology. 1999;28:529-536.
Kilpatrick KE, Konrad TR. Health workforce modeling in Armitage P, Colton T(eds.) Encyclopedia of Biostatistics. New York: Wiley. 1999.
Konrad TR, Williams ES, Linzer M, McMurray J, Pathman DE, Gerrity M, Schwartz MD, Scheckler W, Van Kirk J, Rhodes E, Douglas J, for the SGIM Career Satisfaction Study Group. Measuring physician job satisfaction in a changing workplace and a challenging environment. Medical Care. 1999;37:1174-1182.
Mayer ML, Clark SJ, Konrad TR, Freeman VA, Slifkin RT. The role of state policies and programs in buffering the effects of poverty on children’s immunization receipt. American Journal of Public Health. 1999;89:164-170.
Pathman DE, Ricketts TC. When access-to-care indicators meet: Designated shortage areas and avoidable hospitalizations. Archives of Family Medicine. 1999;8:492-493.
Pathman DE, Steiner BD, Jones BD, Konrad TR. Preparing and retaining rural physicians through medical education. Academic Medicine. 1999;74:810-820.
Steiner BD, Pathman DE, Jones B, Williams ES, Riggins T. Primary care physicians’ training and their community involvement. Family Medicine. 1999;31:257-262.
Williams ES, Konrad TR, Linzer M, McMurray J, Pathman DE, Gerrity M, Schwartz MD, Scheckler W, Van Kirk J, Rhodes E, Douglas J, for the SGIM Career Satisfaction Study Group. Refining the measurement of physician job satisfaction: results from the physician worklife survey. Medical Care. 1999;37:1140-1154.
1998
Baer LD, Ricketts TC, Konrad TR, Mick, SS. Do international medical graduates reduce rural physician shortages? Medical Care. 1998;36:1534-1544.
Britto MT, Garrett JM, Dugliss MJ, Daeschner HR, Johnson CA, Leigh MW, Majure JM , Schultz, Konrad TR. Risky behavior in teens with cystic fibrosis or sickle cell disease: A multi-center study. Pediatrics. 1998;101:250-256.
Frankford DM, Konrad TR. Responsive Medical Professionalism: Integrating Education, Practice and Community in a Market-Driven Era. Academic Medicine. 1998;73:138-45.
Freed GL, Pathman DE, Konrad TR, Freeman VA, Clark SJ. Adopting immunization recommendations: A new dissemination model. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 1998;2:231-239.
Freed GL, Kauf T, Freeman VA, Pathman DE, Konrad TR. Vaccine-associated liability risk and provider immunization practices. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. 1998;152:285-289.
Konrad TR. The patterns of self-care among older adults. Chapter 1 in Ory MG and DeFriese GH. (eds.) Self Care and Older Adults in Later Life. New York: Springer Publishing Co. 1998:1-23.
Pathman DE, Stevens CM, Freed GL, Jones BD, Konrad TR. Disseminating pediatric immunization recommendations: the physician perspective. Ambulatory Child Health. 1998;4:265-276.
Pathman DE, Steiner BD, Williams BD, Riggins T. The four community dimensions of primary care practice. Journal of Family Practice. 1998;46:293-303.
Smucker D, Konrad TR, Curtis P, Carey T. Physician confidence, efficacy, and satisfaction in the treatment of recent onset lower back pain. Arch Fam Med. 1998;7:223-228.
Sundararajan V, Konrad TR, Garrett JM, Carey TS. Patterns and determinants of multiple provider use in acute low back pain. Jnl of Gen Int Med. 1998;13:528-533.
1997
Baer, Leonard D; Ricketts, Thomas C; Konrad, Thomas R; Mick SS. International medical graduates in rural, underserved areas. Policy brief. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 1997.
Bernard SL, Kincaid JE, Konrad TR, Arcury T, Rabiner DJ, Woomert AW, DeFriese GH, Ory, MG. Predicting mortality from community surveys of older adults: the importance of self-rated functional ability. Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences. 1997;52B(3):S155-S163.
Freed GL, Clark SJ, Konrad TR, Pathman DE. Factors affecting physicians' early adoption of combined DTP-Hib vaccine. Ambulatory Child Health. 1997;3:27-33.
Freed GL, Clark SJ, Pathman DE, Konrad TR, Biddle AK, Schectman RM. Impact of a new universal purchase vaccine program in North Carolina. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. 1997;151:1117-1124.
Freed GL, Freeman VA, Clark SJ, Konrad TR, Pathman DE. Sources of Immunization Information for physicians. Ambulatory Child Health. 1997;2:329-337.
Gerrity M, Pathman DE, Linzer M, Steiner B, Winterbottom L, Sharp MC, Skochelak SE. Career satisfaction and clinician-educators: the rewards and challenges of teaching. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 1997;12:S90-S97.
Konrad, Thomas R; Miller, Jeremy; Stevens, Catherine. Locating and surveying hard-to-reach international medical graduates. Technical Report. Chapel Hill, NC: Program on Health Professions and Primary Care, Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 1997. (Supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration through a subcontract from the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates; Appendix to The Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG). Study of Exchange Visitor Physicians with Waivers of Home Country Residence Requirement: 1983-1992: Final Report, 1999. Prepared for US DHHS, Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Health Professions (Contract No. 240-95-0029)).
McLaughlin CP, Konrad TR, Pathman DE. Maintaining the new practice networks. Health Care Management Review. 1997;22:19-31.
McMurray JE, Williams ES, Schwartz MD, Douglas J, VanKirk J, Konrad TR, Gerrity M, Bigby JA, Linzer, M. Developing a model of physician job satisfaction: a qualitative approach. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 1997;12:711-4.
Rabiner DJ, Konrad TR, DeFriese GH, Norburn JK, Bernard SL, Woomert A, Arcury T, Ory MG. Rural-urban differentials in functional status and self-care practice among a national sample of non-institutionalized older adults. The Journal of Rural Health. 1997;13:14-28.
Slifkin, RT, Clark S, Strandhoy S, Konrad TR. Public health department immunization coverage in twelve states: the status of rural areas. The Journal of Rural Health. 1997;13:334-341.
1996
Freed GL, Clark SJ, Konrad TR, Pathman DE. Variations in patient charges for vaccines and well-child care. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. 1996;150:421-426.
Freed GL, Freeman V, Clark SJ, Konrad TR, Pathman DE. Pediatrician and family physician agreement with and adoption of universal hepatitis B immunization. Journal of Family Practice. 1996; 42:587-592, (Reprinted in 1996 Year Book of Pediatrics, Mosby ).
Freed GL, Pathman DE. The Vaccines for Children Program: Issues of physician accountability and parent verification. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. 1996;2:12-17.
Konrad, Thomas R. The problem of shortages of physicians and other health professionals in rural areas: empirical evidence and policy recommendations. Prepared for the Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME) workgroup on health professions workforce policy and geographic distribution. HRSA Contract 103HR950238P000-000. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 1996.
Norburn JEK, Rabiner DJ, Bernard S, Woomert A, Konrad TR, DeFriese GH, Ory, MG. Older adults as a community resource: Results from the national survey of self-care and aging. The Gerontologist. 1996;36:474-482.
Pathman DE. Medical education and physicians’ career choices: are we taking credit beyond our due? Academic Medicine. 1996;71:963-968.
Pathman DE, Konrad TR. Minority physicians serving in rural National Health Service Corps sites. Medical Care. 1996;34:439-454.
Pathman DE, Konrad, TR, Freed GL, Freeman VA, Koch GG. The awareness-to-adherence model of the steps to clinical guideline compliance: the case of pediatric vaccine recommendations. Medical Care. 1996;34:873-889.
Pathman DE, Riggins TA. Promoting medical careers in underserved areas through training. Family Medicine. 1996;28:508-510.
Pathman DE, Williams ES, Konrad TR. Rural physician satisfaction: its sources and relationship to retention. The Journal of Rural Health. 1996;12:366-377.
Resnick SD, Hornung R, Konrad TR. A comparison of dermatologists and generalists: management of childhood atopic dermatitis. Archives of Dermatology. 1996;132:1047-1052.
Rice T, Stearns S, DesHarnais S, Pathman D, Tai-Seale M, Brasure M. Do physicians 'cost shift'? Health Affairs. 1996;15:215-225.
Ricketts TR, Tropman SE, Slifkin R, Konrad TR. Migration of obstetricians-gynecologists into and out of rural areas. Medical Care. 1996;34:428-438.
Stevens C, Freeman VA, Konrad TR. Calculating a clinic’s childhood immunization rate: costs and returns. (ltr) Archives of Family Medicine. 1996;5:325.
1995
Hack, LM, Konrad TR. Determination of the supply and requirements in physical therapy: Some considerations and examples. Physical Therapy. 1995;75:47-55.
Hughes M, Konrad TR. Psychosocial aspects of sickle cell disease: Past, present, and future directions in research. Health and Social Policy. 1994;5:261-269. (Reprinted in Nash KB (ed) Psychosocial aspects of sickle cell disease: Past, present, and future directions in research. New York: Hayworth, 1995).
Kaluzny AD, Konrad TR, McLaughlin CP. Organizational strategies for implementing clinical guidelines. Journal of Quality Improvement. 1995;21:347 351.
Konrad TR, Hong Li. Migrating docs: studying physician practice location. (ltr) Journal of the American Medical Association. 1995;274:1914.
Norburn JE, Bernard SL, Konrad TR; Woomert A, DeFriese GH, Kalsbeek WD, Koch GG, Ory MG. Self-care and assistance from others in coping with functional status limitations among a national sample of older adults. Journal of Gerontology. 1995;50:S101-109.
DeFriese GH, Konrad TR, Woomert A, Norburn JEK, Bernard SL. Self-care and quality of life in old age. In Abeles RP, Gift HC, Ory MG (eds.) Aging and Quality of Life. New York: Springer, 1994.
Freed GL, Bordley WC, Clark SJ, Konrad TR. Universal immunization of infants against Hepatitis B: Reactions of pediatricians and family physicians. Pediatrics. 1994;93:747-751.
Kolimaga JT, Konrad TR, Ricketts TC. Does subsidizing physician practices in underserved rural communities make a difference? Journal of Healthcare for the Poor and Underserved. 1994;5:124-141.
Konrad TR. Tracking doctors into the twenty-first century in Ricketts TC, Savitz LA, Gesler WM, Osborne DN (eds). Geographic Methods for Health Services Research. Latham, MD: University Press of America. 1994.
Pathman DE. When 1 plus 2 does not equal 3 for rural physicians. Archives of Family Medicine. 1994;3:757-759.
Pathman DE, Konrad TR, Agnew CR. Studying the retention of rural physicians. The Journal of Rural Health. 1994;10:183-192.
Pathman DE, Konrad TR, Ricketts TC. Medical education and the retention of rural physicians. Health Services Research. 1994;29:39-58.
Pathman DE, Konrad TR, Ricketts TC. The National Health Service Corps experience for rural physicians in the late 1980s. Journal of the American Medical Association. 1994;272:1341-1348.
Pathman DE, Tropman S. Obstetrical practice among new rural family physicians. The Journal of Family Practice. 1995;40:457-464.
Pathman, Donald E. University of Kentucky Center for Rural Health: legislature-mandated academic medical center program to meet rural Kentucky's health professional needs. In: Second National Primary Care Conference Proceedings, Volume II, Case Studies, 1995.Sprinkle RH, Hynes DM, Konrad TR. Is universal neonatal hemoglobinopathy screening cost-effective? Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. 1994;148:461-469.
Shi LY, Samuels ME, Konrad TR, Porter CP, Stoskopf CH, Richter, DL. Rural primary care program survival: an analysis of financial variables. The Journal of Rural Health. 1994;10:173-182.
1994
Shi L, Samuels ME, Ricketts TC, Konrad TR. A rural-urban comparative study of nonphysician providers in community and migrant health centers. Public Health Reports. 1994;109:809-815.
Curtis P, Pathman DE. The return of the generalist physician: Iniatives of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. North Carolina Medical Journal. 1993;54:469-474.
DeFriese GH, Konrad TR. The self-care movement and the gerontological health care professional. Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging. Fall, 1993;17:37-40.
Freed GL, Bordley WC, Clark JS, Konrad TR. Family physician acceptance of universal Hepatitis B immunization of infants. Journal of Family Practice. 1993;36:153-157.
Freed GL, Bordley WC, Clark SJ, Konrad TR. Reactions of pediatricians to a new Centers for Disease Control recommendation for universal immunization of infants with Hepatitis B vaccine. Pediatrics. 1993;91:699-702.
Freed GL, Konrad TR, DeFriese GH, Lohr J. Adoption of a new haemophilus influenzae, type b vaccine recommendation by pediatricians. American Journal of Diseases of Children. 1993;147:124-128.
Gupta GC, Konrad TR. Allied health education in rural Health Professional Shortage Areas of the United States. Jouranl of the American Medical Association. 1992;268:1127-1130. (Reprinted in Allied Health Education Directory, 1993 (21st ed). Chicago: AMA, 1993.
Millard P, Konrad TR, Goldstein A, Stein JS. Primary care physicians’ views on access and health care reform: the situation in North Carolina. Journal of Family Practice. 1993;37:439-444.
Pathman DE, Agnew CR. Querying physicians' beliefs in career choice studies: the limitations of introspective causal reports. Family Medicine. 1993;25:203-207.
Rice, Thomas; Stearns, Sally; DesHarnais, Susan; Pathman, Donald E; Tai- Seale, M; Brasure Michele. Physician response to Medicare payment reductions: impacts on the public and private sectors. Final report submitted to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 1994.Shi LY, Samuels ME, Konrad TR, Ricketts TC, Stoskopf CH, Richter DL. The determinants of utilization of non-physician providers in rural community and migrant health centers. The Journal of Rural Health. 1993;9:27-39
1993 Konrad, Thomas R. The Rural HPSA Physician Retention Study: Final Report for Grant No. R01 HS 06544-0 from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 1993.
1992
Pathman DE, Konrad TR, Ricketts TC. The comparative retention of National Health Service Corps and other rural physicians: results of a nine year follow-up study. Journal of the American Medical Association. 1992;268:1552-1558.
Konrad, Thomas R. Allied Health Professionals in A study of models to meet rural health care needs through mobilization of health professions education and services resources. Report prepared under HRSA 240-89-0037, Rockville, MD, 1992.
Konrad, Thomas R; Pathman, Donald E; Ricketts, Thomas C. Looking toward the next twenty years: Notes on a comprehensive evaluation strategy for the National Health Service Corps. Program on Health Professions and Primary Care, Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. 1992.
1991
Pathman DE. Estimating rural health professional requirements: an assessment of current methodologies. The Journal of Rural Health. 1991;7:327-346 (S).
Ricketts TC, Konrad TR, Pathman DE, Cromartie EP. Rural primary care programs: A longitudinal study of their organization and environments. In Working Papers in Rural Health Research. Chapel Hill: North Carolina Rural Health Research Program, Health Services Research Center, 1991.
Ricketts TC, Pathman DE. Review of methodology for needs assessment and health personnel projections in rural health. In Primary Care Research: Theory and Methods Conference Proceedings. US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, 1991.
1990
Cartwright WS, Beck JD, Service C, DeFriese GH, Konrad TR. Self-reported use of dental, hospital, and nursing home services. In Established populations for epidemiologic studies of the elderly: Resource data book. V 2. Bethesda, MD: National Institute on Aging. 1990:106-109.
DeFriese GH, Konrad TR. The impact of financial and organizational changes on primary care. Primary Care Research: An Agenda for the 90s, US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. 1990;97-106.
Hartzema AG, Godbout N, Lee SD, Konrad TR. Measuring health locus of control among caregivers in charge of medication administration in long term care settings. Journal of Social and Administrative Pharmacy. 1990;7:84-92.
Konrad TR. Highlights of the work study group session of the drug policy and pharmacy services committee of the American Public Health Association. Clinical Outcomes. 1990;1:4-6.
Konrad TR, DeFriese GH. Primer on evaluation methods: On the subject of sampling. American Journal of Health Promotion. 1990;5:147-153.
Pathman, Donald E; Ricketts, Thomas C. Position Paper prepared for use by the Conference Committee of the United States Senate and House of Representatives for Bills to Reauthorize the National Health Service Corps Senate (S. 2617: H.R. 4487) amending the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 2541-1(d)). 1990.
1989
Aluise JJ, Konrad TR, Buckner CB. Impact of IPAs on fee-for-service medical groups: a case study analysis of 11 North Carolina community practices. Health Care Management Review. 1989;14:55-63.
DeFriese GH, Woomert A, Guild PA, Steckler AB, Konrad TR. From activated patient to pacified activist: a study of the self-care movement in the United States. Social Science and Medicine. 1989;29:195-204.
Orleans TL, Schoenbach VJ, Salmon MA, Strecher VJ, Kalsbeek WD, Quade D, Brooks EF, Konrad TR, Blackmon C, Watts CD. A survey of smoking and quitting patterns among black Americans. American Journal of Public Health. 1989;79:176-181.
Sandler RS, Holland KL, Brooks EF, Guild PA, Konrad TR. Physicians’ opinions and use of colorectal screening procedures. North Carolina Medical Journal. 1989;50:452-455.
Konrad, Thomas R; Kory, WP; Madison, DL; DeFriese, Gordon H; Slutsky, JR; Pathman, Donald E; Lee, RL. The Salaried Physician: Medical Practice in Transition. Final Report developed under Grant HS 05557 from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 1989.
Konrad TR, Madison DL, Zavala E, DeFriese, GH. Managed care systems and transitions in large medical practice organizations. Proceedings Group Health Institute, 1988. Washington DC: GHAA, 1989.
Pathman, Donald E. Quantifying the requirements for health professionals: Discussion of methodologies, for inclusion in a Report to the United States Congress for the Study of Health Professions Distribution, Training and Service Models to Meet Rural Health Needs, under subcontract to the University of North Carolina Health Services Research Center from the National Rural Health Association,1990.
1988 and Earlier
Madison DL, Konrad TR. Large medical group-practice organizations and employed physicians: a relationship in transition. The Milbank Quarterly. 1988;66:240-282.
Schenk MJ, Keenan JM, Goldstein AO, Steiner G, Pathman DE. Outside the office walls. In: Sloane PD, Slatt LM, Curtis P and Ebell MH (eds) Essentials of Family Medicine, 3d ed. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1988.
Ricketts TC, Konrad TR, Stein JS, DeFriese, GH. Population ecology and health policy analysis: the case of rural primary care centers. Medical Care Review. 1987;44:345-373.
Sheps, Cecil G; Ricketts, Thomas C; Konrad, Thomas R. National Evaluation of Rural Primary Care Programs: Supplementary Analyses. Health Services Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1985. Konrad, Thomas R. Eight Coal field Clinics: Their Development and Responses to the Cutbacks in the UMWA Funds Health Program: Final Report. 1983. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
Sheps CG, Wagner EW, Schonfeld WH, DeFriese, GH, Bachar M, Brooks EH, Gillings DB, Guild PA, Konrad TR, Ricketts, TC, Seipp C, Stein, JS. An evaluation of subsidized primary care programs: I A typology of rural primary care programs. American Journal of Public Health. 1983;73:38-49.
Ricketts TC, Konrad TR, Wagner EW. An evaluation of subsidized primary care programs: II The environmental contexts. American Journal of Public Health. 1983;73:406-413.
Boyd EW, Konrad TR, Seipp C. In and out of the mainstream: the miners’ medical program, 1946-78. Journal of Public Health Policy. 1982;3:432-444.
DeFriese GH, Konrad TR. Estimating dental manpower requirements on a statewide basis. Journal of Public Health Dentistry. 1981;41:33-40.
Kaluzny AH, Konrad TR. Organizational design and the provision of primary care services. In Bisbee J (ed) The Management of Rural Primary Care: Cases and Concepts. Health Research Educational Trust, Chicago, 1981.
Konrad TR, Madison DL, Tilson HH, Johnson JJ. Physician staff recruitment in large practice organizations. I: Temporal aspects of vacancy formation and recruiting. Medical Group Management. 1976;23:12-20, 43.
Konrad TR, Madison DL, Tilson HH, Johnson JJ. Physician staff recruitment in large practice organizations. II: Effects of organizational and environmental characteristics on recruitment success. Medical Group Management. 1977;24:22-28.
Madison, DL; Tilson, Hugh H; Konrad, Thomas R. Physician Recruitment, Retention, and Satisfaction in Medical Practice Organizations (Five Volumes). Final Report developed under Grants HS 00239 and 3-RO 1-HS-01332-02S1-HSR from the National Center for Health Services Research and Development, Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 1977.
