Sean O'brien,

Department:
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

Email Address:
Sean.O'Brien@dcri.duke.edu

Address:
DUMC Box 2721

Durham, NC 27710

Telephone:
9196688754

Fax Telephone:
9196687053

Research Interests:
Statistical methods for healthcare provider profiling; observational studies; Bayesian data analysis.

Publications:
2007 -- Pubmed # 18071166 -- Albalak R, O'Brien RJ, Kammerer JS, O'Brien SM, Marks SM, Castro KG, Moore M. Trends in tuberculosis/human immunodeficiency virus comorbidity, United States, 1993-2004. Arch Intern Med. 2007 Dec 10;167(22):2443-52.

2007 -- Pubmed # 18056529 -- O'Brien SM, Delong ER, Dokholyan RS, Edwards FH, Peterson ED. Exploring the Behavior of Hospital Composite Performance Measures. An Example From Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery. Circulation. 2007 Dec 3.

2007 -- Pubmed # 18036930 -- O'Brien SM, Jacobs JP, Clarke DR, Maruszewski B, Jacobs ML, Walters HL 3rd, Tchervenkov CI, Welke KF, Tobota Z, Stellin G, Mavroudis C, Hamilton JR, Gaynor JW, Pozzi M, Lacour-Gayet FG. Accuracy of the aristotle basic complexity score for classifying the mortality and morbidity potential of congenital heart surgery operations. Ann Thorac Surg. 2007 Dec;84(6):2027-37; discussion 2027-37.

2007 -- Pubmed # 17620525 -- O'Brien SM, Peterson ED. Identifying high-quality hospitals: consult the ratings or flip a coin? Arch Intern Med. 2007 Jul 9;167(13):1342-4.

2007 -- Pubmed # 17383406 -- O'Brien SM, Shahian DM, DeLong ER, Normand SL, Edwards FH, Ferraris VA, Haan CK, Rich JB, Shewan CM, Dokholyan RS, Anderson RP, Peterson ED. Quality measurement in adult cardiac surgery: part 2--Statistical considerations in composite measure scoring and provider rating. Ann Thorac Surg. 2007 Apr;83(4 Suppl):S13-26.

2007 -- Pubmed # 17383407 -- Shahian DM, Edwards FH, Ferraris VA, Haan CK, Rich JB, Normand SL, DeLong ER, O'Brien SM, Shewan CM, Dokholyan RS, Peterson ED, . Quality measurement in adult cardiac surgery: part 1--Conceptual framework and measure selection. Ann Thorac Surg. 2007 Apr;83(4 Suppl):S3-12.

2006 -- Pubmed # 17075012 -- DiSesa VJ, O'Brien SM, Welke KF, Beland SM, Haan CK, Vaughan-Sarrazin MS, Peterson ED. Contemporary impact of state certificate-of-need regulations for cardiac surgery: an analysis using the Society of Thoracic Surgeons' National Cardiac Surgery Database. Circulation. 2006 Nov 14;114(20):2122-9.

2006 -- O'Brien SM, Kupper LL, Dunson DB. Performance of tests of association in misspecified generalized linear models. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. 2006 Sep; 136(9): 3090-3100.


2004 -- Pubmed # 15339297 -- O'Brien SM, Dunson DB. Bayesian multivariate logistic regression. Biometrics. 2004 Sep;60(3):739-46.

2004 -- Pubmed # 15180677 -- O'Brien SM. Cutpoint selection for categorizing a continuous predictor. Biometrics. 2004 Jun;60(2):504-9.