Publications

Journals

Hellsten E, Chu S, Crump RT, Yu K, Sutherland JM. New pricing approaches for bundled payments: Leveraging clinical standards and regional variations to target avoidable utilization. Health Policy. 2016 Mar 31;120(3):316-26.

Hellsten E, Liu G, Yue E, Gao G, Sutherland JM. Improving hospital quality through payment reforms: A policy impact analysis in British Columbia. Healthc Manag Forum. 2016 Jan 1;29(1):33–8.

Sutherland JM, Borden WB. Bundled payments for care improvement initiative–insights from the test pilots of payment reform. Journal of Hospital Administration. 2015 Jan 30;4(2):p37.

Crump RT, Repin N, Sutherland JM. Reforming Long-Term Care Funding in Alberta. Healthcare quarterly. 2014 Dec;18(1):26-31.

Sutherland JM. Pricing hospital care: Global budgets and marginal pricing strategies. Health Policy. 2015 Aug 31;119(8):1111-8.

Cheng AH, Sutherland JM. British Columbia’s pay-for-performance experiment: part of the solution to reduce emergency department crowding?. Health Policy. 2013 Nov 30;113(1):86-92.

Mintzes B, Lexchin J, Sutherland JM, Beaulieu MD, Wilkes MS, Durrieu G, Reynolds E. Pharmaceutical sales representatives and patient safety. Journal of general internal medicine. 2013 Oct 1;28(10):1368-75.

Mintzes B, Lexchin J, Sutherland JM, Beaulieu MD, Wilkes MS, Durrieu G, Reynolds E. Pharmaceutical sales representatives and patient safety: a comparative prospective study of information quality in Canada, France and the United States. Journal of general internal medicine. 2013 Oct 1;28(10):1368-75.

Sutherland JM, Crump RT. Alternative Level of Care: Canada’s Hospital Beds, the Evidence and Options. Healthcare Policy. 2013 Aug;9(1):26.

Noble D, Biller-Andorno N, Sutherland JM, Anstey M. Challenges facing Medicaid expansion in the US. BMJ. 2013 May 29;346:f3261.

Puyat JH, Law MR, Wong ST, Sutherland JM, Morgan SG. The essential and potentially inappropriate use of antipsychotics across income groups: an analysis of linked administrative data. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 2012 Aug;57(8):488-95.

Sutherland JM, Hellsten E, Yu K. Bundles: An opportunity to align incentives for continuing care in Canada?. Health policy. 2012 Oct 31;107(2):209-17.

Sutherland JM, Barer ML, Evans RG, Crump RT. Will paying the piper change the tune?. Healthcare Policy. 2011 May;6(4):14.

Puyat JH, Hanley GE, Cunningham CM, Law MR, Wong ST, Sutherland JM, Morgan SG. Ethnic disparities in antipsychotic drug use in British Columbia: a cross-sectional retrospective study. Psychiatric Services. 2011 Sep;62(9):1026-31.

Sutherland JM, McGrail KM, Law MR, Barer ML, Crump RT. British Columbia Hospitals: examination and assessment of payment reform (B-CHeaPR). BMC health services research. 2011 Jun 24;11(1):150.

Schmid AA, Kroenke K, Hendrie HC, Bakas T, Sutherland JM, Williams LS. Poststroke depression and treatment effects on functional outcomes. Neurology. 2011 Mar 15;76(11):1000-5.

Sutherland JM, Hamm J, Hatcher J. Adjusting case mix payment amounts for inaccurately reported comorbidity data. Health Care Management Science. 2010 Mar 1;13(1):65-73.

Song Y, Skinner J, Bynum J, Sutherland J, Wennberg JE, Fisher ES. Regional variations in diagnostic practices. New England Journal of Medicine. 2010 Jul 1;363(1):45-53.

Gottlieb DJ, Zhou W, Song Y, Andrews KG, Skinner JS, Sutherland JM. Prices don’t drive regional Medicare spending variations. Health Affairs. 2010 Jan 28:10-377.

Birkmeyer JD, Gust C, Baser O, Dimick JB, Sutherland JM, Skinner JS. Medicare payments for common inpatient procedures: Implications for episode‐based payment bundling. Health services research. 2010 Dec 1;45(6p1):1783-95.

Weeks WB, Gottlieb DJ, Nyweide DJ, Sutherland JM, Bynum J, Casalino LP, Gillies RR, Shortell SM, Fisher ES. Higher health care quality and bigger savings found at large multispecialty medical groups. Health Affairs. 2010 May 1;29(5):991-7.

Stubbs D, Krebs E, Bair M, Damush T, Wu J, Sutherland J, Kroenke K. Sex Differences in Pain and Pain‐Related Disability among Primary Care Patients with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain. Pain Medicine. 2010 Feb 1;11(2):232-9.

Alderman AK, Bynum J, Sutherland J, Birkmeyer N, Collins ED, Birkmeyer J. Surgical treatment of breast cancer among the elderly in the United States. Cancer. 2011 Feb 15;117(4):698-704.

Sutherland JM, Fisher ES, Skinner JS. Getting past denial—the high cost of health care in the United States/a>. New England Journal of Medicine. 2009 Sep 24;361(13):1227-30.

Sutherland JM, Steinum O. Hospital factors associated with clinical data quality. Health policy. 2009 Aug 31;91(3):321-6.

Sutherland JM, Castelluccio P, Schwarz CJ. A Multilevel Model for Continuous Time Population Estimation. Biometrics. 2009 Sep 1;65(3):841-9.

Were MC, Sutherland JM, Bwana M, Ssali J, Emenyonu N, Tierney WM. Patterns of care in two HIV continuity clinics in Uganda, Africa: a time-motion study. AIDS care. 2008 Jul 1;20(6):677-82.

Sutherland JM, Walker J. Challenges of rehabilitation case mix measurement in Ontario hospitals. Health Policy. 2008 Mar 31;85(3):336-48.

Sutherland JM, Botz CK. The effect of misclassification errors on case mix measurement. Health Policy. 2006 Dec 31;79(2):195-202.

Sutherland JM, Preyra C. A mixture model approach to updating payment weights with an application to ICD-10 implementation. Health care management science. 2006 Nov 1;9(4):349-57.

Botz CK, Sutherland J, Lawrenson J. Cost weight compression: impact of cost data precision and completeness. Health care financing review. 2006;27(3):111.

Peer-reviewed reports

Sutherland JM, Hellsten E. Integrated Funding: Connecting the Silos for the Healthcare We Need. C.D. Howe Institute, Toronto, Ontario; 2017.

Sutherland JM, Repin N, Crump RT, and Hellsten E. Paying for Hospital Services: A Hard Look at the Options. C.D. Howe Institute, Toronto, Ontario; 2013.

Sutherland JM, Repin N, Crump RT. Funding Health and Social Care in Montréal, Québec: A Review of the Methods and the Potential Role of Incentives. Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, Ottawa, Canada; 2013.

Sutherland JM, Repin N, Crump RT. Reviewing the potential roles of financial incentives for funding healthcare in Canada. Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement, Ottawa, Canada; 2012.

Sutherland JM and Crump RT. Exploring alternate level of care (ALC) and the role of funding policies: An evolving evidence based for Canada. CHSRF Series of Reports on Cost Drivers and Health System Efficiency: Paper 8. Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, Ottawa, Canada; 2011.

Sutherland JM. Hospital Payment Mechanisms: An overview and options for Canada. Cost Drivers and Health System Efficiency Series: Paper 4. Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, Ottawa, Canada; 2011.

Non-refereed publications

Sutherland JM, Repin N, Crump RT. The Alberta Health Services Patient Care Based Funding Model for Long Term Care: A Review and Analysis. Prepared for Alberta Health Services; 2013.

Vincent K. and Sutherland JM. A review of methods for deriving an index for socioeconomic status in the province of British Columbia. Prepared for the British Columbia Ministry of Health. Victoria, British Columbia; 2013.

Sutherland Jason M. Estimating the marginal costs of hospitalizations, Discussion Paper. Prepared for the Canadian Institute for Health Information; 2012.