Tiffany Radcliff is an expert in health services research and health economics. Dr. Radcliff received a doctorate in Health Services Research, Policy, and Administration from the University of Minnesota. She primarily studies problems related to market failures in health care systems, ways to improve efficiency in the delivery of services, and improving quality of care for vulnerable or underserved populations such as those in rural areas, patients with limited life expectancy, patients in long-term care settings, the uninsured, and subpopulations with financial or other disadvantages in accessing healthcare services. She serves as principal investigator or co-investigator for several sponsored studies, including a VA-sponsored project to examine peri-operative care and outcomes for elderly hip fracture patients. Her peer-reviewed research has been published in Health Affairs, Archives of Internal Medicine, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, and others.
Connor, Robert A., Roger Feldman, Bryan Dowd, and Tiffany Radcliff. 1997.
“Which Types of Hospital Mergers Save Consumers Money?” Health Affairs
16(6):62-74.
Call, Kathleen T., Michelle M. Casey, and Tiffany Radcliff. 2000. “Rural
Beneficiaries with Chronic Conditions: Does Prevalence Pose a Risk to Medicare
Managed Care?” Managed Care Quarterly 8(3):48-57.
Christianson, Jon B., Anthony Wellever, Tiffany Radcliff, and David Knutson.
2000. “How do Urban Organized Delivery Systems Link with Rural Providers?”
Health Care Management Review 25(3):36-47.
Radcliff, Tiffany A., Michelle Brasure, Jeffrey Stensland, and Ira Moscovice.
2003. “Understanding Rural Hospital Bypass Behavior.” Journal of Rural Health
19(3):252-259.
Dobalian, Aram, Jennie Tsao, and Tiffany A. Radcliff. 2003. “Diagnosed
Mental and Physical Health Conditions in the United States Nursing Home
Population: Differences in Urban/Rural Facilities.” Journal of Rural Health
19(4):477-483.
Radcliff, Tiffany A., Aram Dobalian, and R. Paul Duncan. 2005. "A
Comparison of Seasonal Resident and Year-Round Resident Hospitalizations in
Florida." Florida Public Health Review 2(1):63-72.
Radcliff, Tiffany A., Murray J. Côté, and R. Paul Duncan. 2005. "The
Identification of High Cost Patients." Hospital Topics 83(3):17-24.
Hu, Hsou-Mei, R. Paul Duncan, Tiffany Radcliff, Colleen Porter, and Allyson
Hall. 2006. “Variations in Health Insurance Status for Rural and Urban Non-
Elderly Adult Residents of Florida, Indiana and Kansas.” Journal of Rural Health
22(2):147-150.
Hutt, Evelyn A., J. Mark Ruscin, Kitty Corbett, Tiffany A. Radcliff, Andrew M.
Kramer, Elizabeth M. Williams, Debra Liebrecht, William Klenke, Sheryl
Hartmann. 2006. “A Multi-faceted Intervention to Implement Guidelines Improved
Treatment of Nursing Home Acquired Pneumonia in a State Veterans Home.”
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 54(11):1694-1700.
Radcliff, Tiffany A., Aram Dobalian, and Cari Levy. 2007. “Do Orders
Limiting Aggressive Treatment Impact Care for Acute Myocardial Infarction?”
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 8(2):91-97.
McGhan, Ryan, Tiffany Radcliff, Ron Fish, E. Rand Sutherland, and Carolyn
Welsh. 2007. “Predictors of Rehospitalization and Death after Severe Exacerbation
of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)” Chest 132(6):1748-1755.
Radcliff, Tiffany A., William G. Henderson, Tamara Stoner, Shukri Khuri,
Michael Dohm, and Evelyn A. Hutt. 2008. “Patient risk factors, operative care, and
outcomes among older community-dwelling male veterans with hip fracture.”
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery –American Volume 90(1):34-42.
Wald, Heidi L., Anne M. Epstein, Tiffany A. Radcliff, and Andrew M.
Kramer. 2008. “Is Extended Urinary Catheter Use in Older Surgical Patients a
Patient Safety Problem?” Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 29(2):116-
124.
Hutt, Evelyn A., Tiffany A. Radcliff, Debra Liebrecht, Ron Fish, Monica
McNulty, Andrew M Kramer. 2008. "Associations Among Nurse and CNA
Hours/Resident/Day and Adherence to Guidelines for Treating Nursing Home
Acquired Pneumonia." Journals of Gerontology Series A-Biological and Medical
Sciences 63(10):1105-11.
Michael G. Perri, Marian C. Limacher, Patricia E. Durning, David M. Janicke,
Lesley D. Lutes, Linda B. Bobroff, Martha Sue Dale, Michael J. Daniels, Tiffany
A. Radcliff, & A. Daniel Martin. 2008. "Treatment of Obesity in Underserved
Rural Settings (TOURS): A Randomized Trial of Extended-Care Programs for
Weight Management." Archives of Internal Medicine 168(21):2347-54.
Levy Cari, Tiffany A Radcliff, Elizabeth T. Williams, and Evelyn Hutt. 2009.
"Acute myocardial infarction in nursing home residents: Adherence to treatment
guidelines reduces mortality but why is adherence so low?" Journal of the
American Medical Directors Association 10(1):56-61.
Radcliff, Tiffany A. and Cari R. Levy. “Examining Guideline-Concordant Care for Acute Myocardial Infarction: the case of hospitalized post-acute and long-term care residents.” Journal of Hospital Medicine. Forthcoming (in press).
Hutt, Evelyn A., Tiffany A. Radcliff, Kathleen Oman, Regina Fink, J. Mark
Ruscin, Sunny Linnebur, Doug Fish, Debra Liebrecht, Ron Fish, Monica McNulty,
and Markus Botwinick. “Impact of NHAP Guideline Implementation on Staff and
Resident Vaccination Rates” Journal of the American Medical Directors
Association Forthcoming (in press).
Duncan, R. Paul and Tiffany Radcliff, “Nursing Homes and Community-based Long Term Care.” Chapter 18, Critical Issues in Rural Health, Glasgow, Morton, and Johnson, Editors. Ames: Blackwell Publishing. 2004.
Abt Associates, Inc. and the University of Colorado Denver (Radcliff, West, et al.) Evaluation of the Background Check Pilot Program: Final Report. 2008. Cambridge, MA, Abt Associates, Inc. Contract No. 500-00-0015, T.O. 3.