Faculty

Department of Health Services Program Affiliations:
  -  Social and Behavioral Sciences Track, (MPH program)
  -  PhD program in Health Services
  -  Center for Disability Policy and Research

Donald Patrick was the first Director of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Public Health, holding this position from 1987 to 2006. He teaches in the MPH and PhD programs in Health Services. He publishes widely on outcomes in vulnerable populations, chronic illness, health disparities, and end-of-life care. He directs the Biobehavioral Cancer Prevention and Control Training Program funded by the National Cancer Institute. He teaches Assessing Outcomes in Health and Medicine. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine. He was founding president of the International Society for Quality of Life Research. He is co-convenor of the Quality of Life Methods Group of the Cochrane Collaboration.

4333 Brooklyn Ave NE, Rm 14-101
Box:  359455
Seattle, WA 98195-9455
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donald@u.washington.edu
Assessment of Health Status and Quality of Life, Population Health and Social Determinants, Health Behavior and Health Promotion

• HSERV 513
  U.S. Health and Health Care: Population Health, Social Determinants, and Health Disparities
• HSERV 584
  Assessing Outcomes in Health and Medicine
• HSERV 592
  Biobehavioral Cancer Fellowship Enrichment

Outcomes in health policy and treatment effectiveness; improving end-of-life care; health behavior and health promotion; disability policy; community intervention; resource allocation;

• Community of Science profile

National Institutes of Health
PI:   Beresford           Dates:    12/2008 - 11/2013
The main aim of this project is to better understand and evaluate the putative causal pathways between socioeconomic status and adiposity in women.

AOSpine North America
PI:   Kopjar           Dates:    04/2007 - 03/2012
The aim of this trial is to evaluate functional and quality of life outcomes of surgical vs. conservative treatment for metastatic epidural spinal cord compression.

National Cancer Institute
PI:   Patrick           Dates:    07/2006 - 06/2011
The goal of this project is to develop a training program with a new core curriculum in biobehavioral research and interventions, health communications, and practice outcomes as applied to cancer prevention and control.

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
PI:   Patrick           Dates:    03/2007 - 01/2010
The goal of this project is to use qualitative and quantitative methods to define the important quality of life issues related to hearing loss in children and youth.

National Institutes of Health
PI:   Patrick           Dates:    09/2006 - 06/2009
The long-range goal is to develop a self-reported, multicultural measure of quality of life specific to youth ages 11-18 who are overweight.

National Institutes of Health
PI:   Curtis           Dates:    09/1999 - 02/2008
The major goal of this project is to evaluate an organizational, nurse-focused intervention to improve the quality of end-of-life care in the ICU.

National Institutes of Health
PI:   Lafferty           Dates:    09/2003 - 08/2008
The long-term goal of this project is to improve the quality of patient dying and death by the appropriate use of complementary medicine (CAM).

National Institutes of Health
PI:   Phelan           Dates:    07/2003 - 06/2008
The major goals of the project are to evaluate the effect of (1) provider practice style on patient functional status; (2) a community-based replication of a disability prevention intervention in delaying patient functional decline; (3) integrating geriatric care teams into outpatient, primary care.

AHRQ - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
PI:   Martin           Dates:    07/2003 - 06/2008
The purpose of this NRSA training grant is to provide pre- and postdoctoral training in health services research, health policy and population health.

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
PI:   Patrick           Dates:    08/2004 - 10/2007
The long-range goal of this study is the creation and dissemination of an evidence-based social skills training program using video technology that will enhance the social skills of adolescents with craniofacial differences.

WA State Department of Health
PI:   Kinne           Dates:    04/2002 - 06/2007
The primary goal of this project is to continue funding to focus the assessment, assurance, and policy development functions of public health on needs of people with mobility-related disabilities.

US Department of Veterans Affairs
PI:   Au           Dates:    10/2003 - 12/2006
The primary aim of this study is to evaluate a multifaceted intervention to improve the quality of end-of-life communication between patients with moderate or severe COPD and their clinicians.

National Cancer Institute
PI:   Patrick           Dates:    07/2001 - 06/2006
The goal of this project is to develop a training program with a new core curriculum in biobehavioral research and interventions, health communications, and practice outcomes as applied to cancer prevention and control.

National Institutes of Health
PI:   Patrick           Dates:    02/2000 - 04/2006
The goal of this project is to describe the impact congenital and acquired craniofacial conditions (CFCs) on the health and quality of life of adolescents, and to validate CFC-specific quality of life outcome measures for evaluating effectiveness of treatments.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
PI:   Deyo           Dates:    09/2001 - 11/2005
The goal of this project is to describe the transition of new technology from experimental to standard of care; examine the processes by which multiple stakeholders influence technology adoption; describe the unintended consequences of disseminating marginal technology; and critically assess options for making this transition more consistent and effective.

AHRQ - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
PI:   Curtis           Dates:    04/2002 - 04/2005
The major goals of this project are to establish the measurement characteristics of a questionnaire developed and pilot-tested by this research team to assess physician performance at specific end-of-life skills; and to assess the quality of end-of-life care provided by physicians who commonly care for dying patients.

Eli Lilly
PI:   Patrick           Dates:    07/2001 - 10/2004
The major goal of this project is to pilot test the feasibility of examining the impact of ADHD on the family.

Johns Hopkins University
PI:   Diehr           Dates:    09/2003 - 09/2004
The major goal of this study is to examine the results of our ongoing National Study on the Costs and Outcomes of Trauma Care to examine two approaches for incorporating death in an analysis of trauma outcomes and will use these approaches for estimating the burden of injury in terms of years of healthy life lost.

Centers for Disease Control
PI:   Kinne           Dates:    09/2000 - 03/2004
The major goal of this project is to develop, test, and disseminate reproducible, valid and generalizable contextual measurement instruments that identify and assess important community factors affecting accessibility for persons with disabilities.

World Association for Children and Parents
PI:   Patrick           Dates:    04/2003 - 09/2003
The World Association for Children and Parent's (WACAP) Peony Project's mission is to develop sustainable medical services for children with disabilities in Henan Province. The Center for Disability Policy and Research at the University of Washington will serve as technical advisor to WACAP in Peony Project mid-term evaluations.

AHRQ - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
PI:   Grembowski           Dates:    09/2001 - 09/2002
The major goals of this project are to evaluate (1) whether primary physician dissatisfaction is harming patient-physician relationships and health outcomes; and (2) patient satisfaction with specialists and outcomes. Secondary data from a previous Physician Referral Study will be used.

Centers for Disease Control
PI:   LoGerfo           Dates:    09/2001 - 09/2002
This is an extension with a supplement to the HMO SIP 98, a sub-budget of the Health Promotion Research Center's core Cooperative Agreement with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
PI:   Patrick           Dates:    02/2000 - 01/2002
To explore the impacts of congenital and acquired craniofacial conditions on adolescents in order to develop a quality of life outcome measure to evaluate effectiveness of treatments.

NIH - Nursing
PI:   Curtis           Dates:    09/1999 - 09/2001
Study of end-of-life decision-making and communications in ICU settings

Eli Lilly
PI:   Patrick           Dates:    07/1999 - 06/2001
Comparison of the quality of life of male adolescents who have diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder with male adolescents who do not have chronic conditions and assessment of the reliability and validity of a newly developed instrument for assessing quality of life among adolescents, the Youth Quality of Life Scale (YQOL).

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
PI:   Grembowski           Dates:    09/1999 - 06/2000
To strengthen the patient-provider relationship through information analysis between managed care, quality of P/P relationships, and health outcomes

AHRQ - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
PI:   Patrick           Dates:    11/1999 - 06/2000
Oversight and preparation of manuscripts from the Health Outcomes Symposium for publication.

AHRQ - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
PI:   Deyo           Dates:    08/1994 - 08/1998
Compare long-term functional and work-related outcomes of alternative surgical and non-surgical treatments and to assess the impact of back pain guidelines and health reform efforts on regional and national trends in back surgery rates, re-operation rates, spinal fusion rates, and non-surgical hospitalization rates.

Patrick DL, Bushnell, DM, Rothman M. Performance of two self-report measures for evaluating obesity and weight loss. Obes Res. 2004 Jan;12(1):48-57.

Kinne S, Patrick DL, Doyle DL. Prevalence of secondary conditions among people with disabilities. Am J Public Health. 2004 Mar;94(3):443-5.

Patrick DL, Curtis JR, Engelberg RA, Nielsen E, McCown E. Measuring and improving the quality of dying and death. Ann Intern Med. 2003 Sep 2;139(5 Pt 2):410-5.

Patrick DL and Erickson P. Health Status and Health Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993

Deyo RA and Patrick DL Hope or Hype: How New Medical Technology Delivers False Promises. New York: AMACOM Press, Forthcoming

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