Dr. Burke’s research seeks to reduce unnecessary hospitalizations and long-term nursing home care for frail older adults. He seeks to influence these outcomes through work improving care delivery for older adults and influencing health policy and payments. At the VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP), where he serves as a Core Investigator, he ishe is leading a VA implementation science program center (the SAGE QUERI) seeking to implement evidence-based practices aligned with the “Age-Friendly Health System” model. He is also the principal investigator of a VA R01-equivalent to help the VA build a high-value post-acute care network in skilled nursing facilities. At Penn, he leads two R01s seeking to improve health policy and payment, including an AHRQ R01 evaluating differences in post-acute care use between Medicare Advantage and fee-for-service beneficiaries and an NIA R01 intended to evaluate pay-for-performance incentives in skilled nursing facilities. Dr. Burke was selected as a 2017-8 Health and Aging Policy fellow working with the Centers on Medicare and Medicaid Services on programs for dual-eligible populations. He matriculated from Stanford University School of Medicine and completed residency training in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
Areas of Expertise | Home and Community-Based Care, Implementation Science, Nursing Homes Post-Acute Care
Clinical Area | Hospital Medicine
Selected Publications:
Burke RE, Ashcraft LE, Manges K, Kinosian B, Lamberton CM, Bowen ME, Brown RT, Mavandadi S, Hall DE, Werner RM. What matters when it comes to measuring Age-Friendly Health System transformation. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 Oct;70(10):2775-2785. doi: 10.1111/jgs.18002.
Burke RE, Xu Y, Rose L. Skilled Nursing Facility Performance and Readmission Rates Under Value-Based Purchasing. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Feb 1;5(2):e220721.
Burke RE, Brown RT, Kinosian B. Selecting implementation strategies to drive Age-Friendly Health System Adoption. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 Jan;70(1):313-318.
Burke RE, Xu Y, Ritter AZ, Werner RM. Postacute care outcomes in home health or skilled nursing facilities in patients with a diagnosis of dementia. Health Serv Res. 2022 Jun;57(3):497-504. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.13855
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