Faculty, Staff and Fellows

Feinberg School of Medicine

Joe Feinglass, PhD

Research Associate Professor
Health Services Research
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 a Sounding Board Member of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded Leading Change Disparities Solutions Initiative.

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.

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, in press.

Other Recent Journal Publications

Wayne DB, Butter J, Siddall VJ, Fudala MJ, Wade LD, Feinglass J, McGaghie WC. Mastery learning of advanced cardiac life support skills by internal medicine residents using simulation technology and deliberate practice. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2006;21:251-256.

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.

Wayne DB, Siddall VJ, Fudala M, Feinglass J, Wade LD, McGahie WC. Graduating internal medicine residents' self-assessment and performance of advanced cardiac life support skills. Medical Teacher 2006;28:365-369.

Wayne DB, Siddall VJ, Butter J, Fudala M, Wade LD, Feinglass J, McGaghie WC. A longitudinal study of internal medicine residents' retention of advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) skills. Academic Medicine 2006; 81:S9-S12.

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.

O’Leary KJ, Liebovitz DM, Feinglass J, Liss DT, Baker DW. Outpatient physicians' satisfaction with discharge summaries and perceived needs for an electronic discharge summary. Hospital Medicine 2006; 1:317-320.

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.

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.