Karen Lutfey--Grants

1) Current

Principal Investigator : Karen Lutfey
Agency: NIH (NIMH)
Description: This vignette study examines primary care physicians' treatment decisions for diabetes management.
Total amount of funding: $2,003,916
Period of funding: 2009-13.

Co-Principal Investigator : Karen Lutfey (PI: John B. McKinlay)
Title: “Cognitive Basis of CHD Disparities: Factorial Experiment.”
Grant number: R01 HL079174
Agency: NIH (NHLBI)
Description: This factorial experiment builds on previous work by examining how cognitive priming (in addition to patient and physician characteristics) influences physicians’ decision making for a vignette depicting a patient with coronary heart disease.
Total amount of funding: $1,307,649
Period of funding: 2006-10.

2) Completed

Medical Sociologist: Karen Lutfey (PI: John B. McKinlay)
Title: “Race/Ethnic Disparities in Diabetes: An Experiment.”
Grant number: R01 DK066425
Agency: NIH (NIDDK)
Description: This project uses a vignette-based factorial experiment and qualitative think-aloud data to estimate the influence of patient attributes, physician characteristics, and health care system clinical decisions for diabetes in 3 countries (US, UK, and Germany).
Total amount of funding: $2,404,090
Period of funding: 2005-9.

Medical Sociologist: Karen Lutfey (PI: John B. McKinlay)
Title: “Clinical Decisions with Older Patients: 3rd Experiment.”
Grant number: R01 AG016747
Agency: NIH (NIA)
Description: This study used a factorial experiment to examine how clinical decision making varies for depression and coronary heart disease across healthcare systems in the US, UK,and Germany.
Total amount of funding: $1,296,861
Period of proposed funding: 2005-9.

Medical Sociologist: Karen Lutfey (PI: John B. McKinlay)
Title: “Epidemiology of Urologic Disorders in Minority Men and Women.”
Grant number: U01 DK56842
Agency: NIH (NIDDK)
Description: Funding for Boston Area Community Health (BACH) Survey, a longitudinal, population-based random-sample survey of the epidemiology of urologic and sexual symptoms among men and women.
Total amount of funding: $10,445,284
Period of proposed funding: 2005-8.