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David A. Asch, MD, MBA

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Robert D. Eilers Professor of Health Care Management and Economics
Department: Medicine
Graduate Group Affiliations

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Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
3641 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-746-2705
Fax: 215-898-0229
Education
A.B. (Philosophy)
Harvard University, 1980.
M.D. (Medicine)
Cornell University, 1984.
M.B.A. (Decision Sciences and Health Care Management)
The Wharton School, 1989.
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Description of Research Expertise

Clinical Economics
Medical Decision Making
Bioethics
Health Policy
Survey Research

Description of Clinical Expertise

Internal Medicine

Selected Publications

Jasper JD, Nickerson CAE, Ubel PA, Asch DA: Altruism, incentives and organ donation: Attitudes of the transplant community. Med Care 42: 378-386, 2004.

Damschroder LJ, Baron J, Hershey JC, Asch DA, Jepson C, Ubel PA: The validity of person tradeoff measurements: randomized trial of computerelicitation versus face-to-face interview. Med Decis Making 24: 170-180, 2004.

Volpp KG, Gurmankin A, Asch DA, Murphy JJ, Gomes A, Sox HC, Lerman C: The effect of financial incentives on smoking cessation program attendance and completion. J Gen Intern Med 19(S1): 217, 2004.

Jasper JD, Asch DA: Professional and public attitudes toward incentives for organ donation. LDI Issue Brief 9(5), March 2004.

Smith DM, Giobbie-Hurder A, Weinberger M, Oddone EZ, Henderson WG, Asch DA, Ashton CM, Feussner JR, Ginier P, Huey JM, Hines DM, Loo L, Mengle CE: Predicting non-elective hospital readmissions: a multi-site study. J Clin Epidemiol 53: 1113-1118, 2003.

Ubel PA, Jepson C, Baron J, Hershey JC, Asch DA: The influence of cost-effectiveness information on physicians' cancer screening recommendations. Soc Sci Med 56: 1727-1736, 2003.

Hershey J, Asch DA, Jepson C, Baron J, Ubel PA: Incremental and average cost-effectiveness ratios: will physicians make a distinction? Risk Analysis 23: 81-89, 2003.

Asch DA, Jepson C, Hershey JC, Baron J, Ubel PA: When money is saved by reducing health care costs, where do US primary care physicians think the money goes? Am J Managed Care 9: 438-442, 2003.

Karlawish JHT, Casarett DJ, Jamed BD, TenHave T, Clark CM, Asch DA: Why would caregivers not want to treat their relative's Alzheimer's Disease? J Am Geriatr Soc 51: 1391-1397, 2003.

Metlay JP, Strom BL, Asch DA: Prior antimicrobial drug exposure: a risk factor for trimethoprimsulfamethoxazole-resistant urinary tract infections. J Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 51: 963-970, 2003.

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