Pedro Gozalo

About

Pedro Luis Gozalo is a Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice at Brown University. His research focuses on health services, particularly in the context of long-term care, nursing homes, hospice care, and post-acute care. He has contributed to the development of methodologies to identify cohorts of Medicare beneficiaries residing in assisted living facilities using administrative data and has studied various aspects of end-of-life care, including hospice discharges, site of death, and quality of care for patients with advanced illnesses. His work often involves analyzing Medicare and other administrative data to evaluate healthcare utilization, costs, and outcomes in vulnerable populations, with an emphasis on improving quality and transparency in end-of-life and long-term care settings.

Research topics

• Nursing
• Medicine
• Medical emergency
• Family medicine

Selected publications

• Advance Care Planning Video Intervention Among Long-Stay Nursing Home Residents

  JAMA Internal Medicine · 2020 · 84 citations

  Importance: Standardized, evidenced-based approaches to conducting advance care planning (ACP) in nursing homes are lacking. Objective: To test the effect of an ACP video program on hospital transfers, burdensome treatments, and hospice enrollment among long-stay nursing home residents with and without advanced illness. Design, Setting, and Participants: The Pragmatic Trial of Video Education in Nursing Homes was a pragmatic cluster randomized clinical trial conducted between February 1, 2016, a…

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• Impact of an Advance Care Planning Video Intervention on Care of Short‐Stay Nursing Home Patients

  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2020 · 26 citations

  BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: To assess whether an advance care planning (ACP) video intervention impacts care among short-stay nursing home (NH) patients. DESIGN: PRagmatic trial of Video Education in Nursing Homes (PROVEN) was a pragmatic cluster randomized clinical trial. SETTING: A total of 360 NHs (N = 119 intervention, N = 241 control) owned by two healthcare systems. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 2,538 and 5,290 short-stay patients with advanced dementia or cardiopulmonary disease (advanced illness)…

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• Differences in setting of initial dementia diagnosis among fee‐for‐service Medicare beneficiaries

  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2024-10-22 · 9 citations

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  BACKGROUND: Accurate and timely diagnosis of dementia is necessary to allow affected individuals to make informed decisions and access appropriate resources. When dementia goes undetected until a hospitalization or nursing home stay, this could reflect delayed diagnosis or misdiagnosis, and may reflect underlying disparities in healthcare access. METHODS: In this retrospective cohort study, we used 2012-2020 Medicare claims and other administrative data to examine variation in setting of dementi…

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• Nurse Practitioner Care, Scope of Practice, and End-of-Life Outcomes for Nursing Home Residents With Dementia

  JAMA Health Forum · 2024-05-10 · 7 citations

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  Importance: Nursing home residents with Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD) often receive burdensome care at the end of life. Nurse practitioners (NPs) provide an increasing share of primary care in nursing homes, but how NP care is associated with end-of-life outcomes for this population is unknown. Objectives: To examine the association of NP care with end-of-life outcomes for nursing home residents with ADRD and assess whether these associations differ according to state-level NP s…

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• County-Level Mandates Were Generally Effective At Slowing COVID-19 Transmission

  Health Affairs · 2024-03-01 · 5 citations

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  Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, counties adopted numerous nonpharmaceutical interventions, such as mask mandates and stay-at-home orders, to slow COVID-19 transmission and prevent hospitals from reaching full capacity. Early evidence has been mixed about whether these interventions are effective. However, most studies only covered the early waves of COVID-19 and did not account for county-level variation in the adoption and repeal of such policies. Using daily county-level data from…

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Recent grants

• The Impact of Accountable Care Organizations on Post Acute Care

  NIH · $2.2M · 2016–2023

• NIH Grant R03HS011457

  NIH · $100k · 2003

• Data Management and Methods Core

  NIH · $54.2M · 2007–2029

Frequent coauthors

• Vincent Mor

  Providence College

  297 shared

• Joan M. Teno

  Providence College

  231 shared

• Kali S. Thomas

  Johns Hopkins University

  142 shared

• David Dosa

  Brown University

  99 shared

• Susan L. Mitchell

  Harvard University

  88 shared

• Susan C. Miller

  Brown University

  72 shared

• Emmanuelle Bélanger

  Brown University

  70 shared

• Jessica Ogarek

  Brown University

  65 shared

Labs

• Pedro Gozalo's LabPI

  Not provided

Education

• Ph.D., Health Services, Policy and Practice

  Brown University

  2000

• M.S., Health Services, Policy and Practice

  Brown University

  1996

• B.A., Economics

  Brown University

  1993

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