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Research Interests
- Emergency Medical and Trauma Systems
- Quality and Performance Improvement
- Health Outcomes
- Hospital Financial Performance
Current and Recent Research
- Pracht, EE, and B Langland-Orban. Avoidable Hospitalizations in Florida from 1992-2003: Before and After Medicaid Expansions and SCHIP Following the 1997 BBA. Journal for Healthcare Quality, forthcoming
- Pracht, EE, JJ Tepas, BG Celso, B Langland-Orban, and L Flint. Survival Advantage Associated with Treatment of Injury at Designated Trauma Centers: A Bivariate Probit Model with Instrumental Variables. Medical Care Research and Review, February 2007; 64(1):1-15.
- Studnicki, J, LS Gipson, DJ Berndt, JW Fisher, M Callandar, EE Pracht, B Langland-Orban. Special Healthcare Taxing Districts: Impact on Population Health Status, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, February 2007, 32(2) 116-123.
- Papa, L, B Langland-Orban, C. Kallenborn, JJ Tepas, L Lottenberg, B Celso, R Durham and L Flint, Assessing Effectiveness of a Mature Trauma System: Association of Trauma Center Presence with Lower Injury Mortality Rate. Journal of Trauma-Injury, Infection & Critical Care, August 2006; 61(2):261-267.
- Pracht, EE, B Langland-Orban, JJ Tepas III, BG Celso, L Flint, Analysis of the Trends in Florida Trauma System (1991-2003): Changes in Mortality After Establishment of New Centers" Surgery, July 2006; 140(1) 34-43.
- Durham, R, EE Pracht, B Orban, L Lottenberg, J Tepas, L Flint, Evaluation of a Mature Trauma System. Annals of Surgery. June 2006; 243: 775-785.
- Celso, B, J Tepas, B Langland-Orban, E Pracht, L. Papa, L. Lottenberg, L. Flint, A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Comparing Outcome of Severely Injured Patients Treated in Trauma Centers Following the Establishment of Trauma Systems, Journal of Trauma, Injury, Infection and Critical Care. February 2006. 60(2):371-378
- Langland-Orban, B, EE Pracht, and S Salyani, "Uncompensated Care Provided by Emergency Physicians in Florida's Emergency Departments," Health Care Management Review, October-December 2005, 30(4):315-321.
- Langland-Orban, B., S. Salyani, and EE Pracht, Economic Incentives to Florida Cities: Conflict of Interest and Needed Strategies in Reducing Florida's High Crash and Fatality Rates, Florida Public Health Review, 2005, 2:82-91.
- Lee, JL, R. Cheung, K Liller, K. B Langland-Orban, EE Pracht. B Rice, C Rose, J Shoemaker, L Simpson, J Vitucci (2005). Childhood Injury in Florida, 2002 Chartbook. Supported through a partnership of the Pediatric Clinical Research Center of All Children's Hospital (St. Petersburg, FL), the University of South Florida (Tampa, FL) and the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (Washington D.C.)
- Revere, L, J Large, B Langland-Orban, A Comparison of Inpatient Severity, Average Length of Stay, and Cost for Traditional Fee-For-Service Medicare and Medicare HMOs in Florida, Health Care Management Review, October–December 2004, 29: 320-328.
- Langland-Orban, B, and L. Flint, Final Report: Impact of Helmet Use on Motorcycle Trauma, USF Collaborative for Children, Families and Communities, 2003
- Langland-Orban, B, and DJ Orban, Final Report – Emergency Department Ancillaries: High Cost or High Charge, Florida College of Emergency Physicians and the American College of Emergency Physicians, 2000
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