List of works by Bruce H Fireman

1047Use of electronic data to identify new zoster cases for a vaccine effectiveness study.

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1078Risk Factors Associated with Developing Fever Following First Dose Measles-Containing Vaccines.

scientific article published in December 2014

1105Chronic Kidney Disease and Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Adults

119 Impact of Adjusting for Patient Demographics on Physician Adenoma Detection Rates in a Large, Community-Based Setting

2481. Impact of Sex and Race/Ethnicity on the Effectiveness of Live Zoster Vaccine

article by Morgan A Marks et al published November 2018 in Open Forum Infectious Diseases

A Description of Midlife Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence Using Electronic Medical Record Information

scientific article published on 24 December 2015

A predictive model to help identify intimate partner violence based on diagnoses and phone calls

scientific article published in August 2011

A primer on quantitative bias analysis with positive predictive values in research using electronic health data

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

A protocol for active surveillance of acute myocardial infarction in association with the use of a new antidiabetic pharmaceutical agent

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A role for genetics in the immune response to the varicella vaccine

scientific article published on 01 April 2007

A vaccine study design selection framework for the postlicensure rapid immunization safety monitoring program

scientific article published on 13 March 2015

A web-delivered care management and patient self-management program for recurrent depression: a randomized trial

scientific article published in November 2012

ADHD drugs and serious cardiovascular events in children and young adults

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ADHD medications and risk of serious cardiovascular events in young and middle-aged adults.

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Acellular Pertussis Vaccine Effectiveness Over Time

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

Active surveillance for adverse events: the experience of the Vaccine Safety Datalink project

scientific article published on 18 April 2011

Acute Demyelinating Events Following Vaccines: A Case-Centered Analysis.

scientific article published in September 2016

Adenoma detection rate and risk of colorectal cancer and death

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Adjusting for patient demographics has minimal effects on rates of adenoma detection in a large, community-based setting

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Adverse Selection into and within the Individual Health Insurance Market in California in 2014

scientific article published on 17 May 2018

Adverse clinical events among medicare beneficiaries using antipsychotic drugs: linking health insurance benefits and clinical needs

scientific article published on July 2013

An Observational Study of Cardiovascular Risks Associated with Rheumatoid Arthritis Therapies: A Comparison of Two Analytical Approaches

scholarly article by Lisa J Herrinton et al published 2018 in The Permanente Journal

Anti-TNF and Physiologic Measures of Metabolic Disease in Rheumatoid Arthritis

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Association Between Influenza Infection and Vaccination During Pregnancy and Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder

scientific article published on 28 November 2016

Association Between Time to Colonoscopy After a Positive Fecal Test Result and Risk of Colorectal Cancer and Cancer Stage at Diagnosis.

scientific article published on April 2017

Association of Mobile Patient Portal Access With Diabetes Medication Adherence and Glycemic Levels Among Adults With Diabetes

scientific article published on 05 February 2020

B1-4: eCare for Moods (TM), A Patient-centered, Web-delivered Self-management and Care Management Program for Recurrent Depression: Results from Randomized Trial

scientific article published in September 2014

Bias from outcome misclassification in immunization schedule safety research

scientific article published on 2 January 2018

Biologically plausible and evidence-based risk intervals in immunization safety research

scientific article published on 24 July 2012

Birth outcomes following immunization of pregnant women with pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine 2009-2010.

scientific article published on 13 September 2017

Birthplace and mortality among insured Latinos: the paradox revisited.

scientific article published in January 2009

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor and autism: maternal and infant peripheral blood levels in the Early Markers for Autism (EMA) Study

scientific article published on April 2008

C-B5-02: H1N1 Vaccine Safety Monitoring in the Vaccine Safety Datalink Project: New Challenges and Useful Lessons.

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C-C5-01: Drug Safety Data Mining with a Tree-Based Scan Statistic.

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CB7-02: Medicare Part D Cost-sharing and Antipsychotic Drug Use in Two Medicare Advantage Systems.

scientific article published in August 2012

Can disease management reduce health care costs by improving quality?

scientific article published in November 2004

Care-seeking behavior in response to emergency department copayments

scientific article published on August 2005

Case-centered Analysis of Optic Neuritis After Vaccines

scientific article published on 10 April 2016

Case-control study of antibiotic use and subsequent Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea in hospitalized patients

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Catastrophizing, depression and pain-related disability

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Challenges in the design and analysis of sequentially monitored postmarket safety surveillance evaluations using electronic observational health care data

scientific article published in January 2012

Comorbid depression, chronic pain, and disability in primary care

scientific article published in March 2006

Comparative effectiveness of acellular versus whole-cell pertussis vaccines in teenagers

scientific article published on 20 May 2013

Comparison of privacy-protecting analytic and data-sharing methods: A simulation study

scientific article published on 18 July 2018

Conducting prospective sequential surveillance in real-world dynamic distributed databases

scientific article published on 25 May 2020

Confounding adjustment in comparative effectiveness research conducted within distributed research networks

scientific article published on August 2013

Cost-effectiveness of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine: evidence from the first 5 years of use in the United States incorporating herd effects

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Cost-sharing for emergency care and unfavorable clinical events: findings from the safety and financial ramifications of ED copayments study

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Cost-sharing: patient knowledge and effects on seeking emergency department care

scientific article published on March 2004

Depletion-of-susceptibles Bias in Analyses of Intra-season Waning of Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Depletion-of-susceptibles bias in influenza vaccine waning studies: how to ensure robust results

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

Determining Which of Several Simultaneously Administered Vaccines Increase Risk of an Adverse Event

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Discontinuation of use and switching of antidepressants: influence of patient-physician communication

scientific article published in September 2002

Distributing $800 billion: an early assessment of Medicare Part D risk adjustment

scientific article published on January 2009

Do Medicare Advantage plans select enrollees in higher margin clinical categories?

scientific article published on December 2013

Early experiences with e-health services (1999-2002): promise, reality, and implications

scientific article published in May 2006

Effect of age on the risk of Fever and seizures following immunization with measles-containing vaccines in children

scientific article published on December 2013

Effect of influenza vaccination on hospitalizations in persons aged 50 years and older

scientific article published on September 9, 2010

Effectiveness of 2, 3, and 4 COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Doses Among Immunocompetent Adults During Periods when SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 and BA.2/BA.2.12.1 Sublineages Predominated — VISION Network, 10 States, December 2021–June 2022

scientific article published in 2022

Effectiveness of Live Zoster Vaccine in Preventing Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus (HZO).

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Effectiveness of Vaccination During Pregnancy to Prevent Infant Pertussis

scientific article published on 3 April 2017

Effectiveness of heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in children younger than 5 years of age for prevention of pneumonia: updated analysis using World Health Organization standardized interpretation of chest radiographs

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

Effectiveness of heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in children younger than five years of age for prevention of pneumonia

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Effectiveness of influenza vaccine during pregnancy in preventing hospitalizations and outpatient visits for respiratory illness in pregnant women and their infants

scientific article published on August 2004

Effectiveness of pertussis vaccines for adolescents and adults: case-control study

scientific article published on 17 July 2013

Effects of Organized Colorectal Cancer Screening on Cancer Incidence and Mortality in a Large Community-Based Population

scientific article published on 19 July 2018

Efficacy, immunogenicity and safety of heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in low birth weight and preterm infants

scientific article published on March 2002

Evaluation of a Vaccine-Communication Tool for Physicians

scientific article published on 06 June 2020

Evaluation of immunization rates and safety among children with inborn errors of metabolism.

scientific article published on 11 April 2011

Evaluation of propensity scores, disease risk scores, and regression in confounder adjustment for the safety of emerging treatment with group sequential monitoring

scientific article published on 15 February 2016

Evidence of bias in studies of influenza vaccine effectiveness in elderly patients.

scientific article published in January 2010

Fixing flaws in Medicare drug coverage that prompt insurers to avoid low-income patients

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Glycemic status and risk of prostate cancer

scientific article published in March 2008

Guillain-Barré Syndrome, Influenza Vaccination, and Antecedent Respiratory and Gastrointestinal Infections: A Case-Centered Analysis in the Vaccine Safety Datalink, 2009-2011.

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H1N1 and seasonal influenza vaccine safety in the vaccine safety datalink project

scientific article published in August 2011

Haloperidol and Prostate Cancer Prevention: More Epidemiologic Research Needed

scientific article published on 22 November 2019

If Influenza Vaccines Wane, Can We Delay Vaccination Without Compromising Coverage?

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Immune mediated conditions in autism spectrum disorders

scientific article published on 11 February 2015

Immunization and Bell's palsy in children: a case-centered analysis

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Impact of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on otitis media

scientific article published in January 2003

Impact of the use of heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on disease epidemiology in children and adults

scientific article published on 01 April 2006

Impact of vaccination on the epidemiology of varicella: 1995-2009.

scientific article published on 9 June 2014

Implementation of an outpatient electronic health record and emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and office visits among patients with diabetes.

scientific article published in September 2013

Improving treatment intensification to reduce cardiovascular disease risk: a cluster randomized trial

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Incidence and Duration of Side Effects and Those Rated as Bothersome With Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Treatment for Depression

scholarly article by X. Henry Hu et al published 15 July 2004 in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Incidence and duration of side effects and those rated as bothersome with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor treatment for depression: patient report versus physician estimate

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Index colonoscopy-related risk factors for postcolonoscopy colorectal cancers

scientific article published on 23 August 2018

Individual and Neighborhood Factors Associated with Failure to Vaccinate against Influenza during Pregnancy

scientific article published on 31 July 2020

Influenza vaccination and mortality: differentiating vaccine effects from bias

scientific article published on 22 July 2009

Inpatient-outpatient shared electronic health records: telemedicine and laboratory follow-up after hospital discharge

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Intra-season Waning of Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Intravenous immune globulin and thromboembolic adverse events in patients with hematologic malignancy

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Intravenous immune globulin and thromboembolic adverse events: A systematic review and meta-analysis of RCTs

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Inverse probability weighted Cox model in multi-site studies without sharing individual-level data

scientific article published on 26 August 2019

LB15. Vaccine Effectiveness of Flucelvax Relative to Inactivated Influenza Vaccine During the 2017–18 Influenza Season in Northern California

Lack of association between childhood immunizations and encephalitis in California, 1998-2008.

scientific article published on 12 November 2011

Lack of association between receipt of conjugate haemophilus influenzae type B vaccine (HbOC) in infancy and risk of type 1 (juvenile onset) diabetes: long term follow-up of the HbOC efficacy trial cohort

scientific article published in June 2002

Lack of association of Guillain-Barré syndrome with vaccinations

scientific article published on 11 April 2013

Lack of association of Kawasaki disease after immunization in a cohort of infants followed for multiple autoimmune diagnoses in a large, phase-4 observational database safety study of 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine: lack of association betw

scientific article published in May 2009

Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccination Prior To Age 3 Years and Subsequent Development of Asthma: A 14-Year Follow-Up Study

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

Long-Term Effectiveness of the Live Zoster Vaccine in Preventing Shingles: A Cohort Study

scientific article published in January 2018

Long-term Risk of Colorectal Cancer and Related Death After Adenoma Removal in a Large, Community-based Population

scientific article published on 04 October 2019

Long-term Risk of Colorectal Cancer and Related Deaths After a Colonoscopy With Normal Findings

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Long-term effectiveness of varicella vaccine: a 14-Year, prospective cohort study

scientific article published in April 2013

Long-term effectiveness of zoster vaccine live for postherpetic neuralgia prevention

scientific article published on 10 July 2019

Maternal and paternal age and risk of autism spectrum disorders.

scientific article published in April 2007

Maternal mid-pregnancy autoantibodies to fetal brain protein: the early markers for autism study

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Meaningful variation in performance: a systematic literature review

scientific article published on February 2010

Meaningful variation in performance: what does variation in quality tell us about improving quality?

scientific article published in February 2010

Measles-containing vaccines and febrile seizures in children age 4 to 6 years

scientific article published on 2 April 2012

Measles-mumps-rubella-varicella combination vaccine and the risk of febrile seizures

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Medicare beneficiaries' knowledge of Part D prescription drug program benefits and responses to drug costs

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Methods for addressing "innocent bystanders" when evaluating safety of concomitant vaccines

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

Monitoring the safety of quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine: findings from the Vaccine Safety Datalink.

scientific article published on 9 September 2011

Multivariable confounding adjustment in distributed data networks without sharing of patient-level data.

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Near real-time surveillance for influenza vaccine safety: proof-of-concept in the Vaccine Safety Datalink Project.

scientific article published on 4 December 2009

Nearly One-Third Of Enrollees In California's Individual Market Missed Opportunities To Receive Financial Assistance

scientific article published in January 2017

Network meta-analysis incorporating randomized controlled trials and non-randomized comparative cohort studies for assessing the safety and effectiveness of medical treatments: challenges and opportunities.

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No association between influenza vaccination during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes

scientific article published on 5 May 2017

Observed costs and health care use of children in a randomized controlled trial of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

scientific article published in May 2002

Outpatient electronic health records and the clinical care and outcomes of patients with diabetes mellitus

scientific article published on October 2012

Patient choice. A randomized controlled trial of provider selection

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Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in children

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

Postlicensure surveillance for pneumococcal invasive disease after use of heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Northern California Kaiser Permanente

scientific article published in June 2004

Potential Effects Of Eliminating The Individual Mandate Penalty In California

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Pre-Visit Prioritization for complex patients with diabetes: Randomized trial design and implementation within an integrated health care system

scientific article published on 25 January 2016

Predicted quality-adjusted life years as a composite measure of the clinical value of diabetes risk factor control

scientific article published on April 2007

Prospective Postmarketing Surveillance of Acute Myocardial Infarction in New Users of Saxagliptin: A Population-Based Study.

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Prospective surveillance pilot of rivaroxaban safety within the US Food and Drug Administration Sentinel System.

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

Proton Pump Inhibitor Use and Risk of Gastric, Colorectal, Liver, and Pancreatic Cancers in a Community-Based Population

scientific article published on 20 March 2020

Psychiatric symptoms, impaired function, and medical care costs in an HMO setting

scientific article published on May 1, 2003

Rates of autoimmune diseases in Kaiser Permanente for use in vaccine adverse event safety studies

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Relationships among depression, chronic pain, chronic disabling pain, and medical costs

scientific article published in March 2009

Reply to Ferdinands et al

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Risk adjusting community-acquired pneumonia hospital outcomes using automated databases.

scientific article published on March 2008

Risk factors and familial clustering for fever 7-10days after the first dose of measles vaccines

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Risk for Hospitalized Heart Failure Among New Users of Saxagliptin, Sitagliptin, and Other Antihyperglycemic Drugs: A Retrospective Cohort Study

scientific article published on 26 April 2016

Risk of confirmed Guillain-Barre syndrome following receipt of monovalent inactivated influenza A (H1N1) and seasonal influenza vaccines in the Vaccine Safety Datalink Project, 2009-2010.

scientific article published on 11 May 2012

Risk of suicide attempt and suicide death in patients treated for bipolar disorder

scientific article published in August 2007

Risk of underlying chronic medical conditions for invasive pneumococcal disease in adults

scientific article published on 07 July 2016

Safety of Zostavax™--a cohort study in a managed care organization

scientific article published on 08 September 2012

Safety of measles-containing vaccines in 1-year-old children

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Safety of zoster vaccine in adults from a large managed-care cohort: a Vaccine Safety Datalink study

scientific article published on 22 November 2011

Screening Mammography for Free: Impact of Eliminating Cost Sharing on Cancer Screening Rates

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Statins and Reduced Risk of Liver Cancer: Evidence for Confounding.

scientific article published on 5 July 2016

Suicide risk in bipolar disorder during treatment with lithium and divalproex

scientific article published in September 2003

Super learning to hedge against incorrect inference from arbitrary parametric assumptions in marginal structural modeling

scientific article published on August 2013

Surveillance for invasive pneumococcal disease during 2000-2005 in a population of children who received 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

scientific article published in September 2007

TPMG Northern California appointments and advice call center

scientific article published in August 2005

The effectiveness of diabetes care management in managed care.

scientific article published on May 2009

The impact of removing financial incentives from clinical quality indicators: longitudinal analysis of four Kaiser Permanente indicators

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The introduction of generic risperidone in Medicare Part D

scientific article published on January 2016

The key role of newborn thyroid scintigraphy with isotopic iodide (123I) in defining and managing congenital hypothyroidism

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The prevalence, burden, and treatment of urinary incontinence among women in a managed care plan

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Traditional and novel risk factors for clinically diagnosed abdominal aortic aneurysm: the Kaiser multiphasic health checkup cohort study

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Treatment intensification and risk factor control: toward more clinically relevant quality measures

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Trends in use of antidepressants, lithium, and anticonvulsants in Kaiser Permanente-insured youths, 1994-2003.

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Two Authors Reply.

scientific article published on 18 December 2015

Unintended consequences of caps on Medicare drug benefits

scientific article published on June 2006

Use of Electronic Data to Identify Risk Factors Associated with Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) and to Develop CDI Risk Scores

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Use of Time-Dependent Propensity Scores to Adjust Hazard Ratio Estimates in Cohort Studies with Differential Depletion of Susceptibles

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Use of a Staphylococcus aureus conjugate vaccine in patients receiving hemodialysis.

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Use of e-Health services between 1999 and 2002: a growing digital divide

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Use of three summary measures of pediatric vaccination for studying the safety of the childhood immunization schedule

scientific article published on 29 January 2019

Vaccination Patterns in Children After Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis and in Their Younger Siblings.

scientific article published on 26 March 2018

Vaccine effectiveness of cell-culture relative to egg-based inactivated influenza vaccine during the 2017-18 influenza season

scientific article published on 26 February 2020

Validation of an algorithm for categorizing the severity of hospital emergency department visits

scientific article published on January 2010

Validity of Privacy-Protecting Analytical Methods That Use Only Aggregate-Level Information to Conduct Multivariable-Adjusted Analysis in Distributed Data Networks

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Value of the sagittal abdominal diameter in coronary heart disease risk assessment: cohort study in a large, multiethnic population

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Variation of adenoma prevalence by age, sex, race, and colon location in a large population: implications for screening and quality programs

scientific article published on 14 September 2012

Waning Tdap Effectiveness in Adolescents

scientific article published on 05 February 2016

Waning protection after fifth dose of acellular pertussis vaccine in children

scientific article published in September 2012

Waning protection following 5 doses of a 3-component diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis vaccine

scientific article published on 12 May 2017

When should case-only designs be used for safety monitoring of medical products?

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