Author Archives: Michael Shwartz

About Michael Shwartz

Michael Shwartz is the Richard D. Cohen Professor in Management at the Questrom School of Business, Boston University and is a Senior Investigator at the VA Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research. He has done work in disease screening, risk adjustment, health care costs and outcomes, quality of care, small area variations, substance abuse, organizational analyses and provider profiling. Much of his current work focuses on quality and patient safety measurement and the role and potential of composite measures. He has recently completed a large grant evaluating the impact on quality and safety culture and measures in 6 VA hospitals of actively engaging senior leadership with front-line staff in order to identify and prioritize quality improvement interventions.

Discussion of antidepressant black-box warnings and youth suicide

By | May 2, 2018
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In many situations, randomized controlled trials are infeasible and one must draw conclusions from observational data.  Certain quasi-experimental designs – for example, interrupted time series analyses – strengthen the conclusions that can be drawn from observational data.  However, particularly when the intervention evaluated is important, either clinically or from a health policy perspective, implied or… Read More »