Kathleen N. Lohr

Expertise

Quality of Care and Clinical Practice Guidelines
Evidence-Based Practice and Methods
Health Status and Quality of Life Assessment

Biography

Kathleen N. Lohr, PhD, Distinguished Fellow (appointed June 2003) in health services research, has 35 years of experience in health services and policy research. She was the founding director of the RTI International–University of North Carolina Evidence-based Practice Center and the RTI DEcIDE Center, and is now senior advisor to both. Dr. Lohr is also the founding editor-in-chief of RTI Press. Before coming to RTI in 1996, Dr. Lohr spent nine years at the Institute of Medicine and 12 years at The RAND Corporation, leading work on quality of care, health insurance, and other health care topics. She has written or edited dozens of reports and more than 130 peer-reviewed articles. She served as associate editor of Quality of Life Research and participates on numerous national advisory committees, including the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. In 2005, she received ISPOR's Avedis Donabedian Outcomes Research Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2007, she received RTI's Margaret Elliott Knox Excellence Awards for contributions to research.

Education

PhD, Public Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate Institute; MA, Education, Stanford University; BA, Sociology, Stanford University.

Selected Publications

Owens, D.K., Lohr, K.N., Atkins, D., Treadwell, J.R., Reston, J.T., Bass, E.B., Chang, S., & Helfand, M. (2009). Grading the strength of a body of evidence when comparing medical interventions—Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Effective Health Care Program. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Epub ahead of print.

Lohr, K.N., & Zebrack, B.J. (2009 Feb). Using patient-reported outcomes in clinical practice: challenges and opportunities. Quality of Life Research, 18 (1):99-107.

Gartlehner, G., Gaynes, B.N., Hansen, R.A., Thieda, P., DeVeaugh-Geiss, A., Krebs, E.E., Moore, C.G., Morgan, L., & Lohr, K.N. (2008 Nov 18). Comparative Benefits and Harms of Second-Generation Antidepressants: Background Paper for the American College of Physicians. Annals of Internal Medicine, 149 (10):734-750.

Cook-Deegan, R., Lohr, K.N., & Palmer, J.G. (2008). How bioethics can inform policy decisions about genetic enhancement. In B.A. Lustig, B.A. Brody, & G.P. McKenny (Ed.), Altering Nature. Vol. II: Religion, Biotechnology, and Public Policy. Berlin: Springer.

Visco, A.G., Viswanathan, M., Lohr, K.N., Wechter, M.E., Gartlehner, G., Wu, J.M., Palmieri, R., Funk, M.J., Lux, L., Swinson, T., & Hartmann, K. (2006 Dec). Cesarean delivery on maternal request: maternal and neonatal outcomes. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 108 (6):1517-1529.

Hartmann, K., Viswanathan, M., Palmieri, R., Gartlehner, G., Thorp, J., & Lohr, K.N. (2005). Outcomes of routine episiotomy: A systematic review. JAMA, 293 (17):2141-2148.

Aaronson, N., Alonso, J., Burnam, A., Lohr, K.N., Patrick, D.L., Perrin, E., & Stein, R.E.K. (2002). Assessing health status and quality-of-life instruments: Attributes and review criteria. Quality of Life Research, 11 (3):193-205.

Harris, R.P., Helfand, M., Woolf, S.H., Lohr, K.N., Mulrow, C.D., Teutsch, S.M., & Atkins, D. (2001). Current methods of the US Preventive Services Task Force - A review of the process. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 20 (3):21-35.

Field, M.J., & Lohr, K.N. (Ed.). (1992). Guidelines for Clinical Practice: From Development to Use. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

Lohr, K.N., & Schroeder, S.A. (1990 Mar 8). A strategy for quality assurance in Medicare. New England Journal of Medicine, 322 (10):707-712.

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