Program Affiliations
Paula Diehr has worked primarily in health services research, with a special emphasis on mental health services, different insurance and provider plans, health status, diagnostic rules for headache, cough and ankle trauma, health promotion evaluation, health services for older adults, people without health insurance, utilization and cost of health services, survey methods, community-based analyses, and years of healthy life or quality of life. She is generally interested in health outcomes. Dr. Diehr has published recently in the area of obesity, survival and years of healthy life for older adults.
Research Interests:
Managed care, obesity, survival and years of healthy life for older adults
Contact Information
address:
1959 NE Pacific Street
Seattle, WA 98195
campus box: 357232
voice: 206-543-8004
Education
MS University of California Los Angeles, 1967 (Biostatistics)
BS Harvey Mudd College (California), 1963 (Mathematics)
Recent Publications
Au DH, Udris EM, Engelberg RA, Diehr PH, Bryson CL, Reinke LF, Curtis JR. A Randomized Trial to Improve Communication about End-of-Life Care among Patients with COPD. Chest. 2011 Sep 22. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 21940765
Fihn SD, Bucher JB, McDonell M, Diehr P, Rumsfeld JS, Doak M, Dougherty C, Gerrity M, Heidenreich P, Larsen G, Lee PI, Lucas L, McBryde C, Nelson K, Plomondon ME, Stadius M, Bryson C. Collaborative care intervention for stable ischemic heart disease. Arch Intern Med. 2011 Sep 12;171(16):1471-9. PMID: 21911632
Bennett AV, Patrick DL, Bushnell DM, Chiou CF, Diehr P. Comparison of 7-day and repeated 24-h recall of type 2 diabetes. Qual Life Res. 2011 Jun;20(5):769-77. Epub 2010 Nov 19. PMID: 21088912
Diehr P, Hannon P, Pizacani B, Forehand M, Meischke H, Curry S, Martin DP, Weaver MR, Harris J. Social marketing, stages of change, and public health smoking interventions. Health Educ Behav. 2011 Apr;38(2):123-31. Epub 2011 Jan 21. PMID: 21257973
Dissertation, Thesis & Capstone Committees (recent HSERV graduates)
External Funding (sampling of recent awards from UW SAGE data)
PI: Duran Dates: 9/1/2009 - 8/31/2013
PI: Harris Dates: 9/30/2008 - 9/29/2009
PI: Harris Dates: 9/30/2006 - 9/29/2009
PI: Mock Dates: 8/1/2004 - 7/31/2009



