Richard Kravitz
Director
Outcomes Evaluation

email: rlkravitz@ucdavis.edu

Undergraduate Education:

• Stanford University
  Stanford, CA
  Biological Science, 1979

Medical Education:

• UC San Francisco
  San Francisco, CA
  Medicine, 1983
• School of Public Health, UC Los Angeles
  Los Angeles, CA
  Epidemiology, 1988

Dr. Richard Kravitz is a board-certified internist and geriatrician, and Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine at UC Davis, who has been conducting studies in patient-centered care using mixed methodologies for over a decade. He is the Director of the Health Services Research in Primary Care Center of UC Davis, whose mission is to facilitate research on the role of primary care in the health care system and on the interrelationship between health access, delivery, costs and patient outcomes. The goal of this research is to improve the health of the public by contributing new knowledge about the effectiveness and costs of primary health care services and of alternative delivery systems. Dr. Kravitz will be responsible for the Outcomes Evaluation of the D-CFAR and will be a central member of the CFAR planning team.

Selected Publications: 2001 Molitor F, Kravitz RL, To YY, Fink A. Methods in survey research: evidence for the reliability of group administration vs personal interviews. Am J Public Health. 91:826-7.

2001 Zatzick DF, Kang SM, Hinton WL, Kelly RH, Hilty DM, Franz CE, Le L, Kravitz RL. Posttraumatic concerns: a patient-centered approach to outcome assessment after traumatic physical injury. Med Care. 39:327-39.

2001 Oliver JW, Kravitz RL, Kaplan SH, Meyers FJ. Individualized patient education and coaching to improve pain control among cancer outpatients. J Clin Oncol. 19:2206-12.

2001 Mangione-Smith R, McGlynn EA, Elliott, MN, McDonald L, Franz CE, Kravitz RL. Parent expectations for antibiotics, doctor-parent communication, and satisfaction. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. 151:800-6.

2001 Bair YA, Garcia JA, Romano PS, Siefkin AD, Kravitz RL. Does "mainstreaming" guarantee access to care for medicaid recipients with asthma? J Gen Intern Med.;16:475-481.

2001 Melnikow J, Romano P, Gilbert WM, Schembri M, Keyzer J, Kravitz RL. Vaginal birth after cesarean in California. Obstet Gynecol. 98:421-6.

2001 Bell RA, Kravitz RL, Thom D, Krupat E, Azari R. Unsaid but not forgotten: patients' unvoiced desires in office visits. Arch Intern Med; 161:1977-84.

2001 Krupat E, Bell RA, Kravitz RL, Thom D, Azari R. When physicians and patients think alike: patient-centered beliefs and their impact on satisfaction and trust. J Fam Pract;50:1057-62.

2001 Goore Z, Mangione-Smith R, Elliott MN, McDonald L, Kravitz RL. How much explanation is enough? A study of parent requests for information and physician responses. Ambul Pediatr. 1(6):326-32

2002 Kravitz RL, Bell RA, Azari R, Krupat E, Kelly-Reif S, Thom D. Request fulfillment in office practice: antecedents and relationship to outcomes. Med Care; 40:38-51.

2002 Mintzes B, Barer ML, Kravitz RL, Kazanjian A, Bassett K, Lexchin J, Evans RG, Pan R, Marion SA. Influence of direct to consumer pharmaceutical advertising and patients' requests on prescribing decisions: two site cross sectional survey. BMJ;324:278-9.

2002 Kravitz RL, Bell RA, Franz CE, Elliot M, Amsterdam E, Willis C, Silverio L. Characterizing patient requests and physician responses in office practice. Health Services Research; 37:217-38.

2002 Leigh JP, Kravitz RL, Schembri M, Samuels SJ, Mobley S. Physician career satisfaction across specialties. Arch Intern Med;162(14):1577-84.

2002 Bell RA, Kravitz RL, Thom DH, Krupat E, Azari R. Unmet Expectations for Care and the Patient-Physician Relationship. J Gen Intern Med; Nov: 17(11): 817-824.

2002 Thom DH, Kravitz RL, Bell RA, Azari R, Krupat E. Patient Trust in the Physician: Relation to Patient Requests. Family Practice; 19: 476-483.

2003 Mintzes B, Barer ML, Kravitz RL, Bassett K, Lexchin J, Kazanjian A, Evans RG, Pan R, Marion SA. How does direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) affect prescribing? A survey in primary care environments with and without legal DTCA. CMAJ; Sep: 2, 2003; 169 (5).

2003 Kravitz RL, Bell RA, Azari R, Thom D, Krupat E. What do Patients Want and Do They Get It? Requests for Services in Office Practice. Arch Intern Med; July 28, 2003; 163: 1673-1681.

2003 Street RL, Krupat E, Bell RA, Kravitz RL, Haidet P. Beliefs About Control in the Physician-Patient Relationship: The Effect on Communication in Medical Encounters. JGIM; 2003; 18:609-616.

2003 Kravitz RL, Leigh P, Samuels SJ, Schembri M, Gilbert WM. Tracking Career Satisfaction and Perceptions of Quality Among US Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Obstet Gynecol 2003; 102:463-70.

2003 Garcia JA, Paterniti DA, Romano PS, Kravitz RL. Patient Preferences for Physician Characteristics in University-Based Primary Care Clinics. Ethn Dis 2003; 13:259-267.