Research Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University

Institute for Healthcare Studies
Northwestern University
750 North Lakeshore Drive
10th Floor
Chicago, IL 60611

Telephone 312-503-6443
Fax          312-503-2777

j-feinglass@northwestern.edu

Joe Feinglass, Ph.D. is a Research Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and the Institute for Healthcare Studies.  Dr. Feinglass is a health services researcher with a degree in Public Policy Analysis.  He has over 20 years of experience in health policy, quality improvement, health disparities, medical informatics, patient safety, and social epidemiology research with over 100 peer reviewed publications.  Dr. Feinglass has taught in the Northwestern Masters of Public Health Degree Program since 1996.  He formerly taught History and Political Science at Harper and Oakton Community Colleges in the Chicago suburbs.  He is on the Board of the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group and the Editorial Board of the Journal of gerontology Social Science.

Healthcare Equity Research

His recent research on health equity issues includes studies of access to care and health insurance, racial disparities in peripheral vascular disease and arthritis care, health literacy, socioeconomic status and health, and the collection of data on race, ethnicity and language.  He is currently a co-investigator of a large NIH funded study of cancer care navigation for low income patients with difficulties following up abnormal screening test results.

Selected Health Equity Publications

Feinglass J. Variations in physician practice and covert rationing.  Theoretical Medicine 1987;8:31-45.

Hoffman A, Feinglass J, Orsay C, Croke K. A retrospective cost effectiveness analysis of colorectal cancer screening in a public hospital: savings from reduced hospitalization.  Evaluation and the Health Professions 1989;12:1 3-23

Feinglass J, McDermott MM, Foroohar M, Pearce WH. Gender differences in interventional management of peripheral vascular disease: evidence from a blood flow laboratory population. Annals of Vascular Surgery 1994;8:343-349.

Puisis M, Feinglass J, Lidow E, Mansour M.  Radiographic screening for tuberculosis at an urban county jail. Public Health Reports 1996;111:330-334.

Feinglass J, Kaushik S, Handel D, Martin GJ, Pearce WH.  Peripheral bypass surgery and amputation: Northern Illinois demographics 1993-1997.  Archives of Surgery 2000;135:75-80.

Whitaker CR, Feinglass J, Pearce WH. Explaining racial variation in lower extremity amputation: a five-year retrospective claims data and medical records review at an urban US teaching hospital. Archives of Surgery 2003;138:1347-1351.

Feinglass J, Whitaker CR, Lindquist L, McCarthy WJ, Pearce WH. Racial differences in primary and repeat amputation, results from a multihospital study. Journal of Vascular Surgery 2005;41:823-829.

Baker DW, Cameron KA, Feinglass J, Georgas P, Foster S, Pierce D, Thompson JA, Hasnain-Wynia, R.  Patients’ attitudes towards health care providers collecting information about their race and ethnicity. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2005;20:895-900.

Baker DW, Sudano JJ, Durazo-Arvisu, R, Feinglass J, Witt W, Thompson JA. Health insurance coverage and the risk of death and decline in overall health among the near elderly, 1992-2002, Medical Care 2006;44:277-282.

Baker DW, Cameron KA, Feinglass J, Thompson JA, Georgas P, Foster S, Pierce D, Hasnain-Wynia, R.  Development and testing of a system for rapidly and accurately collecting patients' race and ethnicity. American Journal of Public Health 2006;96:532-537

Baker DW, Feinglass J, Durazo-Arvizu R, Witt, W, Sudano J, Thompson J.  Changes in health for the uninsured after reaching age-eligibility for Medicare. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2006;21:1144-1149.

Feinglass J, Lin S, Thompson JA, Sudano J, Dunlop D, Song J, Baker DW. Baseline health, socioeconomic status and 10 year mortality among older middle age Americans: findings from the Health and Retirement Study, 1992-2002.  Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 2007; 628:S209-S2217.

Hasnain-Wynia R, Baker DW, Nerenz D, Feinglass J, Beal AC, Landrum MB, Behal R, Weissman JS. Disparities in health care are driven by where minority patients seek care: an examination of the Hospital Quality Alliance measures.  Archives of Internal Medicine 2007; 167:1233-1239.

Baker DW, Wolf, MS, Feinglass J, Thompson JA, Gazmararian J, Huang J. Health literacy and mortality among elderly persons.  Archives of Internal Medicine 2007; 67:1503-1509.

Culwell K, Feinglass J.  The association of health insurance with use of prescription contraceptives. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 2007;39:226-230.

Feinglass J, Lee, C, Rogers M, Mendoza-Temple L, Nelson, C, Chang RW. Complementary and alternative medicine use for arthritis pain in two Chicago community areas.  Clinical Journal of Pain 2007;23:744-749.

Rao D, Feinglass J, Corrigan P. Racial and ethnic disparities in mental illness stigma.  Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 2007;195:1020-1023.

Culwell K, Feinglass J. Changes in prescription contraceptive use, 1995-2002: the effect of insurance status. Obstetrics & Gynecology 2007;110:1371-1378.

Dunlop DD, Manheim LM, Song J, Sohn M, Feinglass J, Chang HJ, Chang RW. Age and racial/ethnic disparities in arthritis-related hip and knee surgeries. Medical Care 2008; 46:200-208.

Baker DW, Wolf MS, Feinglass J, Thompson JA. Health literacy, cognitive abilities and mortality among elderly persons.  Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2008;23:723-726.

Feinglass J, Abadin S, Thompson JA, Pearce W.  A census-based analysis of racial disparities in lower extremity amputation in northern Illinois, 1987-2004. Journal of Vascular Surgery 2008;47:1001-1007.

Other Selected Recent Journal Publications

Szekendi MK, Sullivan C, Bobb A, Feinglass J, Rooney D, Barnard C, Noskin GA.  Active surveillance using electronic triggers to detect adverse events in hospitalized patients.  Quality and Safety in Health Care 2006;15:184-190.

Grobman WA, Feinglass J, Murthy S. Are the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality obstetric trauma indicators valid measures of hospital safety? American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2006;195:868-874.

Scarsi K, Feinglass J, Sheets MH, Postelnick MJ, Bolon MK, Noskin G.  An evaluation of the impact of inactive empiric antimicrobial therapy on inpatient mortality and length of stay.  Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 2006; 50:3355-3360.

Wayne DB, Didwania A, Feinglass J, Fudala MJ, Barsuk JH, McGaghie WC.
Simulation-based education improves quality of care during cardiac arrest team responses at an academic teaching hospital: a case-control study. Chest 2008;33:56-61.

Billimoria K, Bentrem DJ, Feinglass J, Stewart AK, Talamonti MS, Ko CY.  Directing surgical quality improvement initiatives in the United States: comparison of perioperative mortality and long-term survival for cancer surgery. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2008;28:4826-4833.

O’Leary KJ, Liebovitz DM, Feinglass J, Liss DT, Evans DB, Kulkarni N, Landler MP, Baker DW.  Creating a better discharge summary: improvement in quality and timeliness using an electronic discharge summary. Journal of Hospital Medicine 2009; 4:219-225.

Feinglass J, Song, J, Manheim LJ, Semanik P, Chang RW, Dunlop D. Correlates of improvement in walking ability among older persons in the United States. American Journal of Public Health 2009;99:533-539.

DeFife R, Scheetz MH, Scarsi K, Feinglass J, Fotis MJ, Postelnick, M.  Effect of differences in MIC on clinical outcomes in patients with bloodstream infections caused by gram-negative organisms treated with levofloxacin. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 2009;53:1074-1079.
 
Peaceman AM, Kuo L, Feinglass J. Infant morbidity and mortality associated with vaginal delivery in twin gestations. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2009;200:462.e1-462.e6.

Feinglass J, Song, MW, Rodriguez H, Martin GJ, Pearce WH. Perioperative outcomes and amputation-free survival after lower extremity bypass surgery in California hospitals, 1996-1999 with follow-up through 2004. Journal of Vascular Surgery 2009; in press.

Barsuk JH, Cohen ER, Feinglass J, McGaghie WC, Wayne, DB. Use of simulation-based education to reduce catheter related bloodstream infections. Archives of Internal Medicine 2009: in press.