Author Archives: Wenhan Guo and Eva DuGoff

About Wenhan Guo and Eva DuGoff

Eva DuGoff is a health services researcher in the Department of Health Services Administration at University of Maryland and Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a MPP from the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Administration. George Washington University. Dr. DuGoff’s research focuses on improving the care delivery and health outcomes for older adults with multiple chronic conditions and Medicare policy. She can be reached on twitter at @evadugoff.

Including Social Risk Factors in Performance Measurement: Methods Matter

By | September 26, 2019
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Going to the hospital is more than a drag. For patients, it can be a frightening experience, dangerous to one’s health, a burden on family and caregivers, and very expensive. Policies to reduce preventable return visits to the hospital are good for patients – and good for Medicare’s bottom line. Medicare’s Hospital Readmission Reduction Program… Read More »

Can Claims Data Algorithms Identify the Physician of Record?

By | May 11, 2017
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Medical claims data are collected for payment purposes. However, these data are often used for other purposes such as studying quality of care, assessing provider performance, and measuring health. These data are a rich resource for health services research, but when they do not include key pieces of information we can find ourselves bending over… Read More »