Karen Lutfey--Publications

Freese, Jeremy and Karen E. Lutfey. 2011. “Fundamental Causality: Challenges of a Animating Concept for Medical Sociology.” Pp. 67-81 in B. Pescosolido, J. Martin, J. McLeod, and A. Rogers (Eds.), Handbook of Medical Sociology. New York: Springer. (PDF)

Lutfey, Karen E., Stephen C. Campbell, Lisa D. Marceau, Martin Roland, and John B. McKinlay. 2010. “Influences of organizational features of healthcare settings on clinical decision making: Qualitative results from a cross-national factorial experiment.” Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness, and Medicine [epub ahead of print 22 December 2010]. (PDF)

Lutfey, Karen E., Kevin W. Eva, Eric Gerstenberger, Carol L. Link, and John B. McKinlay. 2010. “The Cognitive Basis of Diagnostic and Treatment Disparities in Coronary Heart Disease: Results of a Factorial Experiment.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 51(1):16-29. (PDF)

Boyer, Carol A. and Karen E. Lutfey. 2010. "Examining Critical Health Policy Issues Within and Beyond the Clinical Encounter: Patient/Provider Relationships and Help-Seeking Behaviors." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 51: Suppl S80-93. (PDF)

Elstad, Emily A., Karen E. Lutfey, Stephen M. Campbell, Martin Roland, Lisa D. Marceau, and John B. McKinlay. 2010. “What do physicians gain (and lose) with experience? Qualitative results from a cross-national study of diabetes.” Social Science and Medicine 70(11):1728-36. (PDF)

Eva, Kevin W., Carol L. Link, Karen E. Lutfey, and John B. McKinlay. 2010.“Switching horses midstream: Factors related to physicians’ changing their diagnosis.” Academic Medicine 85(7):1112-7. (PDF)
Ketcham, Jonathan D., Karen E. Lutfey, Eric Gerstenberger, Carol L. Link, and John B. McKinlay. 2009. “Physician Clinical Information Technology and Health Care Disparities.” Medical Care Research and Review 66(6): 658-81. (PDF)

Lutfey, Karen E. and John B. McKinlay. 2009. “What happens along the Diagnostic Pathways to CHD Treatment? Qualitative Results Concerning Cognitive Processes.” Sociology of Health and Illness 31(7): 1077-92.
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Maserejian, Nancy N., Karen E. Lutfey, and John B. McKinlay. 2009. “Do physicians attend to base rates? Prevalence data and statistical discrimination in the diagnosis of coronary heart disease.” Health Services Research 44(6): 1933-49. (PDF)

Tritter, Jonathan Q. and Karen E. Lutfey. 2009. “Bridging Divides: Patient and Public Involvement on Both Sides of the Atlantic.” Health Expectations 12(3): 221-5. (PDF)

Lutfey, Karen E., Carol L. Link, Richard W. Grant, Lisa D. Marceau, Ann Adams, Sara Arber, Johannes Siegrist, Markus Böente, Olaf von dem Knesebeck, and John B. McKinlay. 2009. “Diagnostic certainty as a source of medical practice variation in coronary heart disease: Results from a cross-national experiment of clinical decision making.” Medical Decision Making 29(5): 606-18. (PDF)

Lutfey, Karen E., Carol L. Link, Richard W. Grant, Lisa D. Marceau, and John B. McKinlay. 2009. “Is certainty more important than diagnosis for understanding race and gender disparities?: An experiment using coronary heart disease and depression case vignettes.” Health Policy 89(3): 279-87. (PDF)

Lutfey, Karen E., Stephen M. Campbell, Megan R. Renfrew, Lisa D. Marceau, Martin Roland, and John B. McKinlay. 2008. “How are patient characteristics relevant for physicians’ clinical decision making in diabetes?: An analysis of qualitative results from a cross-national factorial experiment.” Social Science and Medicine 67(9): 1391-99. (PDF)

Lutfey, Karen and Jeremy Freese. 2007. “Ambiguities of Chronic Illness Management and Challenges to the Medical Error Paradigm.” Social Science and Medicine 64: 314-25. (PDF)

McKinlay, John B., Carol L. Link, Karen Freund, Lisa D. Marceau L, Amy O’Donnell, and Karen Lutfey. 2007. “Do Physicians Follow Their Own Proscriptions for Quality Medical Care? Results from a Factorial Experiment.” Journal of General Internal Medicine 22(3): 289-96. (PDF)

McKinlay, John B., Carol L. Link, Sara Arber, Lisa D. Marceau, Amy B. O'Donnell, Ann Adams, and Karen E. Lutfey. 2006. “How Do Doctors in Different Countries Manage the Same Patient? Results of a Factorial Experiment.” Health Services Research 41(6): 2182-2200. [Erratum in 41(6):2303.] (PDF)

Lutfey, Karen and Jeremy Freese. 2005. “Toward Some Fundamentals of Fundamental Causality: Socioeconomic Status and Health in the Routine Clinic Visit for Diabetes.” American Journal of Sociology 110(5): 1326-72. (PDF)

Lutfey, Karen and Jonathan Ketcham. 2005. “Patient and Provider Assessments of Adherence and the Sources of Disparities: Evidence from Diabetes Care.” Health Services Research 40(6): 1803-17. (PDF)

Lutfey, Karen. 2005. “On Practices of ‘Good Doctoring’: Reconsidering the Relationship between Provider Roles and Patient Adherence.” Sociology of Health and Illness 27(4): 421-47. (PDF)

Lutfey, Karen. 2004. “On Assessment, Objectivity, and Interaction: The Case of Compliance with Medical Treatment Regimens.” Social Psychology Quarterly 67(4): 343-68. (PDF)

Lutfey, Karen. 2003. “The Influence of Clinic Organizational Features on Providers’ Assessments of Patient Compliance with Medical Treatment Regimens.” Research in the Sociology of Health Care 21: 63-83. (PDF)

Lutfey, Karen and Douglas W. Maynard. 1998. “Bad News in Oncology: How Physician and Patient Talk about Death and Dying without Using those Words.” Social Psychology Quarterly 61(4): 321-41. (PDF)