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Susan M. Paddock

Susan M. Paddock

Santa Monica Office

Senior Statistician and Head of the Statistics Group

Education

Ph.D. in statistics, Duke University

Research Focus

Substance abuse treatment and prevention; drug policy, mental health; health care policy; patient safety; Medicare; Bayesian statistics; performance evaluation; multilevel (hierarchical) modeling; missing data; longitudinal data analysis

RAND Research Areas

Health and Health Care; Public Safety

Recent Projects

  • Evaluation of Services for Seriously Mentally Ill Patients in the Veterans Health Administration
  • Group CBT for Depression and AOD Disorders
  • Quality of Care in the Therapeutic Community
  • Hierarchical Models in Health Services Research

Selected Publications

Lin R, Louis TA, Paddock SM, and Ridgeway G, "Ranking USRDS Provider Specific SMRs from 1998-2001", Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, 9 22-38, 2009

Paddock SM, Ebener P, "Subjective prior distributions for modeling longitudinal continuous outcomes with non-ignorable dropout", Statistics in Medicine, 28 659-678, 2009

Paddock SM, "Bayesian variable selection for longitudinal substance abuse treatment data subject to informative censoring", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C (Applied Statistics), 56 293-311, 2007

Paddock SM, Escarce JJ, Hayden O, and Buntin MB, "Did the Medicare Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System Result in Changes in Relative Patient Severity and Relative Resource Use?", Medical Care, 45(2) 123-130, 2007

Paddock SM, Edelen MO, Wenzel SL, Ebener P, Mandell W, and Dahl J, "Measuring Changes in Client-Level Treatment Process in the Therapeutic Community with the Dimensions of Change Instrument", American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 33(4) 537-546, 2007

Nuckols TK, Bell D, Liu H, Paddock SM, and Hillbourne LH, "Rates and Types of Events Reported to Established Incident Reporting Systems in Two U.S. Hospitals", Quality and Safety in Health Care, 16 164-168, 2007

Paddock SM, Ridgeway G, Lin R, and Louis, TA, "Flexible Distributions for Triple-Goal Estimates in Two-Stage Hierarchical Models", Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 50(11) 3243-3262, 2006

Watkins KE, Paddock SM, Zhang L, and Wells K, "Improving Care for Depression in Patients with Comorbid Substance Misuse", American Journal of Psychiatry, 163 125-132, 2006

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