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Peter J. Veazie, Ph.D.

Peter J. Veazie, Ph.D.

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RESEARCH INTERESTS: Dr. Veazie's primary interests are the decision behavior of health care providers and patients, the consequent health outcomes, and the influence of social and organizational systems on such behavior and outcomes. He is specifically interested in the structuring and use of inform...
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Dr. Veazie's primary interests are the decision behavior of health care providers and patients, the consequent health outcomes, and the influence of social and organizational systems on such behavior and outcomes. He is specifically interested in the structuring and use of information by patients and providers, the impact of psychological disposition and states on health care decisions, the decision strategies of healthcare providers in the management of patients with chronic illnesses, the physician/patient interaction, and how physician decision processes can lead to medical errors.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES: Dr. Veazie is presently studying (1) physician use of racial information in diagnosis and treatment decisions, and (2) the effect on patient risk perceptions of various graphical representations of very low level risks.

Faculty Appointments

Professor - Department of Public Health Sciences (SMD)

Credentials

Education

PhD | Univ Minnesota. Health Services Research. 2003

MS | Univ Minnesota. Health Services Research. 1996

BS | Univ of Washington. Civil Engineering. 1987

Awards

Faculty Mentorship Award, 7th Annual Conference of the Upstate New York Chapters of the American Statistical Association. 2018

Civic Leadership Award from USTOO Prostate Cancer Education and Support. 2012 - 2017

Research

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Dr. Veazie's primary interests are the decision behavior of health care providers and patients, the consequent health outcomes, and the influence of social and organizational systems on such behavior and outcomes. He is specifically interested in the structuring and use of inform...
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Dr. Veazie's primary interests are the decision behavior of health care providers and patients, the consequent health outcomes, and the influence of social and organizational systems on such behavior and outcomes. He is specifically interested in the structuring and use of information by patients and providers, the impact of psychological disposition and states on health care decisions, the decision strategies of healthcare providers in the management of patients with chronic illnesses, the physician/patient interaction, and how physician decision processes can lead to medical errors.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES: Dr. Veazie is presently studying (1) physician use of racial information in diagnosis and treatment decisions, and (2) the effect on patient risk perceptions of various graphical representations of very low level risks.

Patents

Integrated Multi-Criteria Decision Support Framework

Issue date: June 16, 2015

Patent #: 9,058,354

Country: United States

Inventors: James Dolan, Peter Veazie

Publications

Journal Articles

Determining dependence among random variables across observations.

Veazie P.

Ratio Mathematica. 2024; .

Telemedicine and Disparities in Mental Health Service Use among Community-dwelling Older Adults with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias

Cai S, Qin Q, Veazie P, Temkin-Greener H.

JAMDA. 2024; .

Home Health Quality Among Hospitalized Older Adults with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia: Association with Race/Ethnicity and Dual Eligibility Before and During the COVID Pandemic

Yang MT, Temkin-Greener H, Veazie P, Cai S.

JAMDA. 2024; .

Racial and ethnic differences in telemedicine use among community-dwelling older adults with dementia

Qin Q, Temkin-Greener H, Veazie P, Makineni R, Cai S.

JAGS. 2024; .

Maternal History of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Subsequent Infant Paternity Acknowledgement

Alio AP, Liu L, Thevenet-Morrison K, Rubado MR, Crean HF, Veazie PJ, Seplaki CL, Dozier A.

International Journal of Translational Medical Research and Public Health. 2024; .

US Trends in Social Isolation, Social Engagement, and Companionship ? Nationally and by Age, Sex, Race/Ethnicity, Family Income, and Work Hours, 2003-2020

Kannan V, Veazie P.

Social Science & Medicine--Population Health. 2023; .

Racial/ethnic differences in risk factors associated with COVID-19-related outcomes among older adults with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD)

Qin Q, Veazie P, Temkin-Greener H, Makineni R, Cai S.

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 2023; .

Is the Emergency Department Used as a Substitute or a Complement to Primary Care in Medicaid

Denham A, Hill E, Veazie P.

Health Economics, Policy, and Law. 2023; .

Better performance for right-skewed data using an alternative gamma model

Veazie P, Intrator O, Kinosian B, Phibbs CS.

BMC Medical Research Methodology. 2023; 23(298).

Assessing the Effectiveness of a Primary Care Provider Office-Based Intervention for Increasing Organ Donor Registration Rates in Two New York State Counties

McCabe M, Dokus K M, Ryan N, Shi H, James A, Meadow M, Dolan J, Veazie P, Judge S, Orloff M, McIntosh S, Kashyap R.

Progress in Transplantation. 2022; .

Understanding how psychosocial factors relate to seeking medical care among older adults using a new model of care seeking

Veazie P, Denham A.

Social Science & Medicine. 2021; .

Motivation to move fast, motivation to wait and see: The association of prevention and promotion focus with clinicians' implementation of the JNC-7 Hypertension Treatment Guidelines

Sanders M*, Fiscella K, Hill E, Ogedegbe O, Cassells A, Tobin JN, Williams S, Veazie P.

Journal of Clinical Hypertension. 2021; .

Association of Voluntary Legal Paternity and Breastfeeding in a Sample of Mothers in New York State

Alio AP, Liu L, Thevenet-Morrison K, Rubado MR, Crean HF, Veazie PJ, Seplaki CL, Dozier A.

International Journal of Translational Medical Research and Public Health. 2021; .

Inflammatory Biomarkers and Growth Factors in Saliva and Gingival Crevicular Fluid of E-cigarette users, Cigarette smokers, and Dual smokers: A pilot study

Ye D, Gajendra S, Lawyer G, Jadeja N, Pishey D, Pathagunti S, Lyons J, Veazie P, Watson G, McIntosh S, Rahman I.

Journal of Periodontology. 2020; .

Perinatal Health Outcomes following a Community Health Worker-supported Home Visiting Program in Rochester, NY, 2015-2018

Pan Z.*, Veazie P., Sandler M, Dozier A, Molongo M, Pulcino T, Parisi W, Eisenberg KW.

American Journal of Public Health. 2020; .

A simple goodness-of-fit test for conditional distribution models

Veazie P, Ye Z.*.

Ratio Mathematica. 2020; .

Harnessing Expert Judgment to Support Clinical Decisions when the Evidence Base Is Weak

Dolan J, Veazie P.

Medical Decision Making. 2019; .

Harnessing Expert Judgment to Support Clinical Decisions when the Evidence Base Is Weak

Denham A*, Veazie P.

Medical Decision Making. 2019; .

Mobility improvements are found in older veterans after 6-months of Gerofit regardless of MBI classification.

Addison OR, Veazie P, et al.

Journal of Aging and Physical Activity. 2019; .

How to define and test explanations in populations

Veazie, PJ.

Ratio Mathematica--Journal of Mathematics, Statistics, and Applications. 2019; .

Are increasing trends in opioid-related hospitalizations attributable to increases in diagnosis recordability? Evidence from two large states.

Denham A*, Chloros T*, Hill E, Veazie P.

Health Services Insight. 2019; .

The Feasibility of Sophisticated Multicriteria Support for Clinical Decisions

Dolan J, Veazie P.

Medical Decision Making. 2018; .

Should Structured Exercise be Promoted as A Model of Care? Dissemination of the VA Gerofit Program

Morey M, Veazie P (author 17 of 20), et al.

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2018; .

Improving Organ Donation Rates through a Primary Care Physician Office-Based Intervention

Kashyap R, Dokus M, Ryan N, James A, Kochik R, Hernandez R, Dolan J, Veazie P, Orloff M, McIntosh S.

American Journal of Transplantation. 2018; .

Political Orientation, Political Environment, and Health Behaviors in the United States

Kannan V, Veazie P.

Preventive Medicine. 2018; .

Understanding scientific inquiry

Veazie P.

Science & Philosophy. 2018; .

Fluoride Varnish: Knowledge, Preferences and Practices

Hanwatkar P, Gajendra S, Veazie P, Ossip D, Karp J, McIntosh S.

The New York State Dental Journal. 2017; .

Blood pressure and left ventricular mass index in healthy adolescents

Daimee UA, Lande MB, Tang W, Tu XM, Veazie P, Bisognano JD, Block R, Teeters JC.

Blood Pressure Monitoring. 2017; .

Understanding the Response of Parents to Newborn Hearing Screening

Nutt R*, Iadarola S, Orlando M, McIntosh S, Veazie P, Dolan J, Hyman S.

Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. 2017; .

Effects of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Shock and Anti-Tachycardia Pacing on Anxiety and Quality of Life: A MADIT-RIT Sub-study

Perini AP, Kutyifa V, Veazie P, Daubert JP, Schuger C, Zareba W, McNitt S, Rosero S, Tompkins C, Padeletti L, Moss AJ.

American Heart Journal. 2017; .

HCBS Spending and Nursing Home Admissions for 1915(c) Waiver Enrollees

Segelman M, Intrator O, Li Yue, Mukamel DB, Veazie P, Temkin-Greener H.

Journal of Aging & Social Policy. 2017; .

Patient life satisfaction and conscientiousness are associated with patient-reported physician satisfaction

Friedman B, Veazie PJ, Fiscella KA, Chapman BP, and Duberstein PR.

European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare. 2017; .

Does patient time spent viewing computer-tailored colorectal cancer screening materials predict patient-reported discussion of screening with providers?

Sanders M*, Fiscella KA, Veazie PJ, Dolan JG, Jerant A.

Health Education Research. 2016; .

"Should Health Numeracy Be Assessed Objectively or Subjectively?

Dolan,J; Cherkasky, O; Li, Q, Chin, N; Veazie, P.

Medical Decision Making. 2015; .

"A Decision Model of what Happens between the 911 call and the Hospital."

Jones, CMC; Cushman, JT; Lerner, EB; Veazie, PJ; Seplaki, CL; Wasserman, B; Dozier, A; Shah, MN.

Prehospital Emergency Care. 2015; .

"Least Squared Simulated Errors: An Estimator for Structural Models with Unknown Regression Functions"

Veazie, P; Cai, S.

Sage Open. 2015; .

"Balance Sheets versus Decision Dashboards to support patient treatment choices: A comparative analysis."

Dolan, J; Veazie, P.

The Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research. 2015; .

Decision Aids: the Effect of Labeling Options on Patient choices and Decision-Making

Dolan J, Cherkasky O*, Chin N, Veazie P.

Medical Decision Making. 2015; .

EMS Provider Clinical Judgment in the Field Triage of Injury Patients: Factors that Influence Destination Decisions

Shah M, Fisher S, Seplaki C, Lerner B, Cushman J, Veazie P.

Academic Emergency Medicine. 2015; .

Sour Milk: Is Lipase the Culprit?

Lawrence R, Veazie P, Zhang V, Dozier A.

Breastfeeding Medicine. 2015; .

Community leaders' knowledge, attitudes and skills related to long-acting reversible contraception: implications for community service agencies working with at-risk, inner-city youth

Schmidt B, Blumoff Greenberg K, Aligne CA, Veazie P, McIntosh S.

Contraception. 2015; .

"Understanding Statistical Testing."

Veazie, P.

Sage Open. 2014; .

"Preoperative Brain Natriuretic Peptide and Atrial Arrhythmias after Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery."

Bernstein, E; Block, R; Veazie, P; Tompkins, C; Bashour, A; Alparslan, T.

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia. 2014; .

"Item Response Theory in Healthcare Research: Reasons for Extending Common Models."

Veazie, P.

Open Science Journal of Statistics and Application. 2014; 2(1): 17-23.

Predictors of Avoiding Medical Care and Reasons for Avoidance Behavior

Kannan, V; Veazie, PJ.

Medical Care. 2014; 52(4): 336-345.

Who avoids going to the doctor and why? Audience segmentation analysis for application of message development

Kannan, V; Veazie, PJ.

Health Communication. 2014; : 1-11.

Regulatory focus affects physician risk tolerance

Veazie P, McIntosh S, Chapman B, Dolan J.

Health Psychology Research. 2014; 2: 85-88.

The Role of Quality of Care in Selecting a Nursing Home

Pesis-Katz I; Phelps C; Temkin-Greener H; Spector WD; Veazie PJ; Mukamel DB.

American Journal of Public Health. 2013; .

Cost Effectiveness of Cardiac-Resynchronization Therapy for the Prevention of Heart Failure

Noyes K; Veazie PJ; Hall WJ; Zhao H; Buttaccio A; Thevenet-Morrison K; Moss AJ.

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 2013; 24(1): 66-74.

Is Personality Associated with Healthcare Use by Older Adults?

Friedman, B; Veazie, PJ; Chapman, BP; Manning, WG Jr; Duberstein, PR.

Milbank Quarterly. 2013; 91(3): 491-527.

Development and initial evaluation of a treatment decision dashboard

Dolan, J; Veazie, PJ; Russ, A.

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 2013; 13(1): 51.

Physicians' and midlevel providers' awareness of lifetime radiation-attributable cancer risk associated with commonly performed CT studies: relationship to practice behavior.

Puri S, Hu R, Quazi RR, Voci S, Veazie P, Block R

AJR. American journal of roentgenology.. 2012 December 199 (6):1328-36. Epub 1900 01 01.

Coronary stent use in New York State in the drug-eluting stent era.

Qian F, Hannan EL, Glance LG, Phelps CE, Ling FS, Veazie PJ

Journal of evaluation in clinical practice.. 2012 August 18 (4):872-7. Epub 06/20/2011.

Attitudes towards drug-eluting stent use and the distribution of motivation type among interventional cardiologists.

Qian F, Phelps CE, Ling FS, Hannan EL, Veazie PJ

Journal of evaluation in clinical practice.. 2012 June 18 (3):528-33. Epub 01/05/2011.

Differences between dialysis modality selection and initiation.

Liebman SE, Bushinsky DA, Dolan JG, Veazie P

American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation.. 2012 April 59 (4):550-7. Epub 02/02/2012.

Effects of Cardiac-resynchronication on Quality of Life in Patients with Minimally Symptomatic Heart Failure

Veazie, P.; Noyes, K; Li, Q.; Hall, W.; Buttaccio, A.; Thevenet-Morrison, K; Moss, A.

JACC. 2012; 60(19): 1940-1944.

Cost Effectiveness of Cardiac-Resynchronization Therapy for the Prevention of Heart Failure

Noyes K; Veazie PJ; Hall WJ; Zhao H; Buttaccio A; Thevenet-Morrison K; Moss AJ.

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 2012; .

Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program and population-based research in urologic oncology: an overview.

Scosyrev E, Messing J, Noyes K, Veazie P, Messing E

Urologic oncology.. 2012 30 (2):126-32. Epub 04/03/2010.

How well do commonly used data presentation formats support comparative effectiveness evaluations?

Dolan JG, Qian F, Veazie PJ

Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making.. 2012 32 (6):840-50. Epub 05/22/2012.

Identifying sincerity of effort based on the combined predictive ability of multiple grip strength tests.

Sindhu BS, Shechtman O, Veazie PJ

Journal of hand therapy : official journal of the American Society of Hand Therapists.. 2012 25 (3):308-18; quiz 319. Epub 1900 01 01.

A role for regulatory focus in explaining and combating clinical inertia.

Veazie PJ, Qian F

Journal of evaluation in clinical practice.. 2011 December 17 (6):1147-52. Epub 06/25/2010.

Hospitalizations in nursing homes: does payer source matter? Evidence from New York State.

Shubing Cai , Mukamel DB, Veazie P, Katz P, Temkin-Greener H

Medical care research and review : MCRR.. 2011 October 68 (5):559-78. Epub 04/07/2011.

Validation of the Minimum Data Set in identifying hospitalization events and payment source.

Cai S, Mukamel DB, Veazie P, Temkin-Greener H

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.. 2011 January 12 (1):38-43. Epub 08/07/2010.

Treatment Engagement for Depression: The Role of 'Toughness'

O'Loughlin RE; Duberstein PR; Veazie PJ; Bell RA; Rochlen AB; Fernandez y Garcia E; Kravitz RL.

Psychiatric Services. 2011; 63(7): 740-746.

Factors associated with emergency department use among the rural elderly.

Fan L, Shah MN, Veazie PJ, Friedman B

The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association.. 2011 27 (1):39-49. Epub 1900 01 01.

Measuring end-of-life care processes in nursing homes.

Temkin-Greener H, Zheng NT, Norton SA, Quill T, Ladwig S, Veazie P

The Gerontologist.. 2009 December 49 (6):803-15. Epub 07/02/2009.

Managed care quality and disenrollment in New York SCHIP.

Liu H, Phelps CE, Veazie PJ, Dick AW, Klein JD, Shone LP, Szilagyi PG

The American journal of managed care.. 2009 December 15 (12):910-8. Epub 1900 01 01.

Is there a downside to customizing care? Implications of general and patient-specific treatment strategies.

Veazie PJ, Johnson PE, O'Connor PJ

Journal of evaluation in clinical practice.. 2009 December 15 (6):1171-6. Epub 1900 01 01.

Managed care quality of care and plan choice in New York SCHIP.

Liu H, Phelps CE, Veazie PJ, Dick AW, Klein JD, Shone LP, Noyes K, Szilagyi PG

Health services research.. 2009 June 44 (3):843-61. Epub 02/04/2009.

The effects of stress on birth weight in low-income, unmarried black women.

Holland ML, Kitzman H, Veazie P

Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health.. 2009 19 (6):390-7. Epub 1900 01 01.

Examination of the effect of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators on health-related quality of life: based on results from the Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Trial-II.

Noyes K, Corona E, Veazie P, Dick AW, Zhao H, Moss AJ

American journal of cardiovascular drugs : drugs, devices, and other interventions.. 2009 9 (6):393-400. Epub 1900 01 01.

Projection, stereotyping, and the perception of chronic medical conditions.

Veazie PJ

Chronic illness.. 2006 December 2 (4):303-10. Epub 1900 01 01.

Primary care physician office visits for depression by older Americans.

Harman JS, Veazie PJ, Lyness JM

Journal of general internal medicine.. 2006 September 21 (9):926-30. Epub 1900 01 01.

An individual-based framework for the study of medical error.

Veazie PJ

International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care. 2006 August 18 (4):314-9. Epub 05/03/2006.

When to combine hypotheses and adjust for multiple tests.

Veazie PJ

Health services research.. 2006 June 41 (3 Pt 1):804-18. Epub 1900 01 01.

Accuracy of mild traumatic brain injury case ascertainment using ICD-9 codes.

Bazarian JJ, Veazie P, Mookerjee S, Lerner EB

Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.. 2006 January 13 (1):31-8. Epub 12/19/2005.

Another look at observational studies in rehabilitation research: going beyond the holy grail of the randomized controlled trial.

Horn SD, DeJong G, Ryser DK, Veazie PJ, Teraoka J

Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation.. 2005 December 86 (12 Suppl 2):S8-S15. Epub 1900 01 01.

Making improvements in the management of patients with type 2 diabetes: a possible role for the control of variation in glycated hemoglobin.

Veazie PJ, Johnson PE, O'Connor PJ, Rush WA, Sperl-Hillen JM, Anderson LH

Medical hypotheses.. 2005 64 (4):792-801. Epub 1900 01 01.

Improving risk adjustment for Medicare capitated reimbursement using nonlinear models.

Veazie PJ, Manning WG, Kane RL

Medical care.. 2003 June 41 (6):741-52. Epub 1900 01 01.

Understanding variation in chronic disease outcomes.

Johnson PE, Veazie PJ, Kochevar L, O'Connor PJ, Potthoff SJ, Verma D, Dutta P

Health care management science.. 2002 August 5 (3):175-89. Epub 1900 01 01.

Using computer simulation to investigate disease management.

Veazie PJ.

The Endocrinologist. 2001; 11(3): 209-216.

The effects of capitation payment on the organizational structure of medical group practices.

Kralewski JE, Wingert TD, Knutson DJ, Johnson CE, Veazie PJ

The Journal of ambulatory care management.. 1996 January 19 (1):1-15; discussion 15-6. Epub 1900 01 01.

Characteristics and Reasons associated with Patient Delay despite recognition of Medical Need

Kannan V; Veazie PJ.

Health Services Research. .

Prevalence and Incidence of Myocardial Infarction and Heart Failure: A Rural-Urban Comparison

Fan, L; Veazie, PJ; Barker, WH; Friedman, B.

Journal of Rural Health. .

Development and initial evaluation of a treatment decision dashboard

Dolan J; Veazie PJ; Russ A.

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. .

Personality and Health Care Utilization among the Elderly

Friedman B; Veazie PJ; Duberstein P; Manning W.

Health Affairs. .

How the Elderly Structure Information in the Decision to Seek Medical Care

Veazie PJ.

Health Psychology Research. .

Books

What Makes Variables Random: Probability for the Applied Researcher (2017)

Authors: Veazie PJ

Publisher: CRC Press, Boca Raton 2017