Rodney A Hayward
Professor of Internal Medicine
Professor of Health Management and Policy
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Available to mentor

Rodney A Hayward
Professor
  • About
  • Center Memberships
  • Research Overview
  • Recent Publications
  • About

    Rod Hayward is a Professor of Public Health and Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan and a Senior Investigator at the Center for Clinical Management Research at the Ann Arbor VA HSR&D. He received his training in health services research as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at UCLA and at the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica. His current and past work includes studies examining measurement of quality, costs and health status, environmental and educational factors affecting physician practice patterns, quality improvement, and physician decision making. His current work focuses on quality measurement and improvement for chronic diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension and heart disease, especially on implementing and supporting more personalized patient-centered primary care.

    Center Memberships
    • Center Member
      Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation
    • Center Member
      Caswell Diabetes Institute
    Research Overview

    Dr. Hayward's current work focuses on how best to measure, profile and inform providers, so as to motivate and facilitate improvements in care and patient outcomes. In particular, much of this research relates to the prevention and care of people with cardiovascular and diabetes care and how to create improved health care delivery systems to support more personalized care.

    Recent Publications See All Publications
    • Journal Article
      Associations Between Vascular Risk Factor Levels and Cognitive Decline Among Stroke Survivors.
      Levine DA, Chen B, Galecki AT, Gross AL, Briceño EM, Whitney RT, Ploutz-Snyder RJ, Giordani BJ, Sussman JB, Burke JF, Lazar RM, Howard VJ, Aparicio HJ, Beiser AS, Elkind MSV, Gottesman RF, Koton S, Pendlebury ST, Sharma A, Springer MV, Seshadri S, Romero JR, Hayward RA. JAMA Netw Open, 2023 May 1; 6 (5): e2313879 DOI:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.13879
      PMID: 37195662
    • Journal Article
      Carpal Tunnel Syndrome as a Test Case for Value Assessment During the Presurgical Period: The Impact of Structure and Processes of Care.
      Sears ED, Evans R, Burns J, Chung KC, Hayward RA, Kerr EA. Med Care, 2023 Jan 1; 61 (1): 36 - 44. DOI:10.1097/MLR.0000000000001790
      PMID: 36477618
    • Journal Article
      Evaluation of a Best Practice Advisory on Ordering Prothrombin Time, International Normalized Ratio, and Partial Thromboplastin Time Tests.
      Breeden M, Bernstein SJ, Hayward RA, Fendrick AM. JAMA Intern Med, 2022 Sep 1; 182 (9): 999 - 1000. DOI:10.1001/jamainternmed.2022.2609
      PMID: 35849407
    • Journal Article
      Monitoring policy in the context of preventive treatment of cardiovascular disease.
      Otero-Leon DF, Lavieri MS, Denton BT, Sussman J, Hayward RA. Health Care Manag Sci, 2023 Mar; 26 (1): 93 - 116. DOI:10.1007/s10729-022-09621-4
      PMID: 36284034
    • Journal Article
      Eye Outcomes in Veteran Affairs Diabetes Trial (VADT) After 17 Years.
      Azad N, Agrawal L, Bahn G, Emanuele NV, Reaven PD, Hayward R, Reda D, VADT Study Group . Diabetes Care, 2021 Jun 29; 44 (10): 2397 - 2402. DOI:10.2337/dc20-2882
      PMID: 34187839
    • Journal Article
      Another Cup of Coffee Without an Arrhythmia, Please.
      Goldberger ZD, Hayward RA. JAMA Intern Med, 2021 Sep 1; 181 (9): 1193 - 1195. DOI:10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.4073
      PMID: 34279552
    • Journal Article
      Correction: Benefit and harm of intensive blood pressure treatment: Derivation and validation of risk models using data from the SPRINT and ACCORD trials.
      Basu S, Sussman JB, Rigdon J, Steimle L, Denton BT, Hayward RA. PLoS Med, 2021 Sep; 18 (9): e1003785 DOI:10.1371/journal.pmed.1003785
      PMID: 34529648
    • Journal Article
      Surgical Timing for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: A Comparison of Health Care Delivery in the Veterans Administration and Private Sector.
      Billig JI, Lu Y-T, Hayward RA, Sears ED. J Hand Surg Am, 2021 Jul; 46 (7): 544 - 551. DOI:10.1016/j.jhsa.2021.02.022
      PMID: 33867201