Deborah A. Freund
Professor of Public Administration and Professor of Economics
, by Courtesy Appointment

 

Curriculum Vitae

Classes
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Deborah Freund

Contact Information

Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY  13244-1020

 

Phone: (315) 443-
Fax:    (315) 443-1081
Email:  dfreund@syr.edu

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Research Interests
Cost Containment,
HMOs, The Medicaid Program, Outcomes Research, Social Program Evaluation and Survey Research


Selected Recent Papers
"Operative Mortality Among Medicare Recipients Undergoing Total Knee Replacement," (with R. Dittus, et al.) Archives of Internal Medicine, forthcoming.

"Serious Illness and Private Health Coverage: An Overlooked Problem," (with E. Kinney, M. Camp, K. Jordan, and C. Mayfield), The Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics, forthcoming.

"Comparison of Revision Rates Following Staged and Simultaneous Bilateral Knee Replacement in the United States," (with B.P. Katz, X-H Zhou, S. Gao, and D. Heck), The Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management, Vol. 6, No. 8 (1999), pp. 30-34.

"Patient Outcomes Research Teams: A Contribution to Outcomes and Effectiveness Research," (with J. Lave, et al.), Annual Review of Public Health, Vol. 20 (1999), pages 337-359.

"Dealing with the Common Econometric Problems of Count Data with Excess Zeroes, Endogenous Treatment Effects, and Attrition Bias," (with T. Kniesner and A. LoSasso), Economic Letters, 62(1999): 7-12.