Case Studies

Dr. Joshua B. Brown is the Samuel P. Harbison Endowed Assistant Professor of Surgery, Assistant Professor of Critical Care Medicine, and Assistant Professor of Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh, as well as principal investigator at the university’s Prehospital Resource Organization and Delivery of Care in Trauma Systems (PRODCTS) laboratory. Dr. Brown and his research team used hospitalization data from PHC4 for a study entitled Evaluating the Impact of Pre-Hospital Under-Triage on Injured Patients to compare outcomes between patients who were under-triaged versus those who were appropriately triaged.

Rheumatologist and Assistant Professor, Bella Mehta, MBBS, MS, MD, Division of Rheumatology at Hospital for Special Surgery, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine explored whether social determinants of health had an impact on surgical outcomes after total hip arthroplasty. Dr. Mehta utilized statewide data from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) and modern, interpretable machine learning methods for this study entitled, Comparing Community-Level Social Determinants of Health With Patient Race in Total Hip Arthroplasty Outcomes.

Christy Duré, MHA, MPA, is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Health Management and Policy at the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health. Over her career, Ms. Duré has taught courses in public policy, public health, and healthcare administration. Ms. Duré has used data from the Pennsylvania Healthcare Cost Containment Council (PHC4) in the classroom to teach students financial concepts in healthcare.