Physician

Internal Medicine

Leo S. Morales, MD practices Internal Medicine. He attended University of Washington School of Medicine. Leo S. Morales, MD is a published doctor as well. He has 50 publications published. The latest was: Content validity of Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) items in the context of HIV clinical care.

Publications

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• Content validity of Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) items in the context of HIV clinical care.
• Latinos With Diabetes and Food Insecurity in an Agricultural Community.
• Perceived health status and cardiometabolic risk among a sample of youth in Mexico.
• Language Concordance, Interpersonal Care, and Diabetes Self-Care in Rural Latino Patients.
• Risk factors for cardiovascular disease among Mexican-American adults in the United States and Mexico: a comparative study.
• Neighborhood Perceptions and Health-Related Outcomes Among Latinos with Diabetes from a Rural Agricultural Community.
• Evaluation of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Information System (PROMIS(®)) Spanish-language physical functioning items.
• Age-related Differential Item Functioning for the Patient-Reported Outcomes Information System (PROMIS®) Physical Functioning Items.
• Health status and behavioral risk factors in older adult mexicans and mexican immigrants to the United States.
• The risk of developing invasive breast cancer in Hispanic women : A look across Hispanic subgroups.
• Impact of deductibles on initiation and continuation of psychotherapy for treatment of depression.
• Patient-Reported Quality of Pain Treatment and Use of Interpreters in Spanish-Speaking Patients Hospitalized for Obstetric and Gynecological Care.
• Predictors of 1-year change in patient activation in older adults with diabetes mellitus and heart disease.
• Nonparticipation in a population-based trial to increase colorectal cancer screening.
• Differential item functioning by survey language among older Hispanics enrolled in Medicare managed care: a new method for anchor item selection.
• Do physicians with self-reported non-english fluency practice in linguistically disadvantaged communities?
• Hablamos Juntos (Together We Speak): interpreters, provider communication, and satisfaction with care.
• The vulnerability of middle-aged and older adults in a multiethnic, low-income area: contributions of age, ethnicity, and health insurance.
• Representativeness of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Internet panel.
• Impact of interpreters on the receipt of new prescription medication information among Spanish-speaking Latinos.
• Do socioeconomic gradients in subclinical atherosclerosis vary according to acculturation level? Analyses of Mexican-Americans in the multi-ethnic study of atheroscler...
• The relationship between Spanish language use and substance use behaviors among Latino youth: a social network approach.
• Risk factors for chronic liver disease in Blacks, Mexican Americans, and Whites in the United States: results from NHANES IV, 1999-2004.
• Evaluating differential item functioning of the PRIME-MD mood module among impoverished black and white women in primary care.
• Language access services for Latinos with limited English proficiency: lessons learned from Hablamos Juntos.
• Adolescent participation in preventive health behaviors, physical activity, and nutrition: differences across immigrant generations for Asians and Latinos compared wit...
• Measurement in a multi-ethnic society. Overview to the special issue.
• Item and scale differential functioning of the Mini-Mental State Exam assessed using the Differential Item and Test Functioning (DFIT) Framework.
• The impact of interpreters on parents' experiences with ambulatory care for their children.
• Variation in the readability of items within surveys.
• Mortality among very low-birthweight infants in hospitals serving minority populations.
• Race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and satisfaction with health care.
• Acculturation and Latino health in the United States: a review of the literature and its sociopolitical context.
• Satisfaction with provider communication among Spanish-speaking Medicaid enrollees.
• Sociodemographic differences in use of preventive services by women enrolled in Medicare+Choice plans.
• Sociodemographic differences in access to care among Hispanic patients who are HIV infected in the United States.
• Delays and unmet need for health care among adult primary care patients in a restructured urban public health system.
• Use of preventive services by men enrolled in Medicare+Choice plans.
• Health plan effects on patient assessments of Medicaid managed care among racial/ethnic minorities.
• Depression and satisfaction with health coverage and medical care in the 1998 NRC Healthcare Market Guide survey.
• Race/ethnicity, language, and patients' assessments of care in Medicaid managed care.
• Do health care ratings differ by race or ethnicity?
• Socioeconomic, cultural, and behavioral factors affecting Hispanic health outcomes.
• Hablamos juntos (together we speak): a brief patient-reported measure of the quality of interpretation.
• Measurement properties of a multicultural weight-specific quality-of-life instrument for children and adolescents.
• The applicability of the Consumer Assessments of Health Plans Survey (CAHPS) to Preferred Provider Organizations in the United States: a discussion of industry concerns.
• Self-reported use of eye care among Latinos: the Los Angeles Latino Eye Study.
• Readability estimates for commonly used health-related quality of life surveys.
• Evaluating measurement equivalence using the item response theory log-likelihood ratio (IRTLR) method to assess differential item functioning (DIF): applications (with...

Schools

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• University of Washington

• Uc San FranciscoSan Francisco Genl Hospital

• UCLARand

Doctors Specialties

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• Internal Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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• Aetna
• Medicare MCR
• Molina
• Kaiser PHCS Network PPO
• MultiPlan PPO
• PHCS Network PPO
• PacifiCare HMO

Education

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• UCSF
• University of Washington School of Medicine

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