Timothy Peng, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, joined the Center for Home Care Policy and Research in July of 1998. At the Center, he is responsible for conducting research on the quality and outcomes of home health care, and the effects of public policy on long term care. His research also examines potential disparities in access to care and health outcomes of chronically disabled elders from different ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic groups. Dr. Peng is currently an investigator on the Home-Based Blood Pressure Interventions for African Americans project. In the arena of public policy and home health care, he is an investigator on the Impact of the Medicare Home Health Prospective Payment System on Beneficiaries and Program Costs and Alternative Risk Adjustment Approaches to Assessing the Quality of Home Health Care projects.
Additionally, Dr. Peng was the principal investigator of the Black Elders in Home Care project, and was an investigator on the Evidence Based Reminders in Home Health Care and Working Conditions & Adverse Events in Home Health Care studies. He also managed the Congestive Heart Failure HOME© Plan intervention study.
Prior to joining the Center, Dr. Peng conducted research that included the development and analysis of longitudinal surveys of curriculum effects on university students; student satisfaction with institutional aspects of college; public perceptions of and attitudes towards minority groups in Europe; and experimental studies of interpersonal communication, social identity, and social power in groups.
Dr. Peng received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1998. He also has a B.A. in psychology from Yale University.
Journal Articles and Reports
Feldman, P.H.,
McDonald, M.V., Mongoven, J., Peng, T., Gerber, L., & Pezzin, L.E. 2009
Home-based blood pressure
interventions for African Americans.
Circulation:
Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. 2(3): 241-248.
Understanding
the complexity of hypertensive African American home care patients: Challenges
to intervention.
Ethnicity & Disease: 19: 148-153
Complexity in geriatric home health care.
Journal of Healthcare Quality. 31(2): 34-43.
Feldman,
P.H., Bridges, J.F.P. & Peng, T. 2007.
Team Structure and Adverse Events in Home
Healthcare
Medical Care. 45(6):
553-561
Murtaugh, C.M.,
Peng, T., Aykan, H., & Maduro, G. 2007
Risk Adjustments and Public
Reporting on Home Health Care.
Home Health Care Financing Review: Public Reporting
of Health Care Quality. 28(3): 77-94.
Feldman, P.H., Murtaugh, C.M., Pezzin, L.E., McDonald, M.V., & Peng, T.R. 2005.
Just-in-time evidence-based e-mail "reminders" in home health care: Impact on patient outcomes.
Health Services Research, 40(3): 859-879.
Murtaugh, C.M., Pezzin, L.E., McDonald, M.V., Feldman, P.H., & Peng, T.R.
2005.
Just-in-time evidence-based e-mail "reminders" in home health care: Impact on nurse practices.
Health Services Research, 40(3): 843-858.
Stone,
P.W., Harrison, M.I., Feldman, P., Linzer, M., Peng, T., Roblin, D.,
& Scott-Cawiezell, J. 2005.
Advances in patient safety: From
research to implementation. Volumes 1-4, AHRQ Publication Nos. 050021 (1-4)
Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Available at: http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/advances/
McDonald, M.V., Pezzin, L.E., Feldman, P.H., Murtaugh, C.M., & Peng, T.R. 2005.
Can just-in-time evidence-based "reminders" improve pain management among home heatlh care nurses and their patients?
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 29(5): 474-488.
Stone, P.W., Harrison, M., Feldman, P.H., Linzer, P., Peng, T.R., Roblin, D., Scott-Cawiezell, J., Warren, N., Williams, E. 2005
Organizational climate of staff working conditions and patietn safety: An integrative model.
Advances in Patient Safety, AHRQ Publication No. 05-0021-2 (2). AHRQ: Rockville, MD.
Feldman, P.H., Peng, T.R., Murtaugh, C.M., Kelleher,
C., Donelson, S., McCann, M., Putnam, M. 2004.
A randomized
intervention to improve heart failure outcomes in community-based
care.
Home Health Care Services Quarterly, 23(1): 1-23.
Peng, T.R. , Navaie-Waliser, M., & Feldman, P.H.
2003
Social support, home health service use, and outcomes among four
racial/ethnic groups.
The Gerontologist, 43(4): 503-513.
Lee., J.S., and Peng, T.R., In Press.
A
profile of Asian/Pacific Islander elders in home health care.
Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 36(1/2): 171-185.
Leach, C.W., Peng, T.R., Volckens, J. 2000.
"Is racism dead?" Comparing (expressive) means and (structural
equation) models.
British Journal of Social Psychology, 39(3): 449-465.
Lopez, G., Holliman, D., and Peng, T. 1995.
Beyond zero-sum diversity: Student attitudes towards educational
equity.
Educational Record, 76(2,3): 55-61.
Gurin, P., Hurtado, A., and Peng, T. 1994.
Group contacts and ethnicity in the social identities of Mexicanos
and Chicanos.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,
20(5): 521-532.
Hurtado, A., Gurin, P., and Peng, T. 1994.
Social identities--a framework for studying the adaptations of
immigrants and ethnics: The adaptations of Mexicans in the United
States.
Social Problems, 40(1): 133-170.
Chapters in Books
Gurin, P., Peng, T., Lopez, G., and Nagda, B. 1999.
Context, identity, and intergroup relations.
In:
Cultural Divides: Understanding and Overcoming Group Conflict, D. Prentice,
and D. Miller, eds.
New York: Sage Publications, Inc.
