College of Public Health

Professor
Health Services Management and Policy

Phone: 614-292-6813
Email: tanenbaum.1@osu.edu

1841 Neil Ave
200B Cunz Hall
Columbus, OH, 43210

Education

Ph.D., Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984
M.S.S., Social Work and Social Research, Bryn Mawr College, 1977
B.A., Political Science, Bryn Mawr College, 1974

Selected Publications

Tanenbaum SJ. Can Payment Reform Be Social Reform? The Lure and Liabilities of the "Triple Aim". J Health Polit Policy Law. 2017 Feb;42(1):53-71. doi: 10.1215/03616878-3702770. Epub 2016 Oct 11.

Tanenbaum SJ. What Is the Value of Value-Based Purchasing? J Health Polit Policy Law. 2016 Oct;41(5):1033-45. doi: 10.1215/03616878-3632254. Epub 2016 Jun 2.

Loughlin M, Wyer P, Tanenbaum SJ. Teaching by (bad) example: what a confused attempt to "advance" EBM reveals about its underlying problems: commentary on Jenicek, M. (2015). Do we need another discipline in medicine? From epidemiology and evidence-based medicine to cognitive medicine and medical thinking. Journal of evaluation in clinical practice, 21:1028-1034. J Eval Clin Pract. 2016 Aug;22(4):628-33. doi: 10.1111/jep.12552. Epub 2016 May 26.

Tanenbaum SJ. Instrumentality in health care: a response to Adam Oliver. Health Econ Policy Law. 2015 Jul;10(3):361-5. doi: 10.1017/S1744133114000528. Epub 2015 Feb 6.

Tanenbaum SJ. Particularism in health care: challenging the authority of the aggregate. J Eval Clin Pract. 2014 Dec;20(6):934-41. doi: 10.1111/jep.12249. Epub 2014 Nov 19. Review.

Tanenbaum SJ. Advocating self-advocacy: board membership in a statewide mental health consumer organization. J Health Polit Policy Law. 2014 Aug;39(4):919-27. doi: 10.1215/03616878-2744423. Epub 2014 May 19.

Tanenbaum SJ. What is Patient-Centered Care? A Typology of Models and Missions. Health Care Anal. 2015 Sep;23(3):272-87. doi: 10.1007/s10728-013-0257-0.

Tanenbaum SJ. Reducing variation in health care: the rhetorical politics of a policy idea. J Health Polit Policy Law. 2013 Feb;38(1):5-26. doi: 10.1215/03616878-1898774. Epub 2012 Oct 10.

Tanenbaum, Sandra J. 2012. The antidepressant wars. Boston Review, May/June: 32-37.

Tanenbaum, Sandra J. 2012. Improving the quality of medical care: the normativity of evidence-based performance standards. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 33(4): 263-277.

Tanenbaum, Sandra J. 2012. Consumer-operated service organizations: organizational characteristics, community relationships, and the potential for citizenship. Community Mental Health Journal, 48(4): 397-406.

Tanenbaum, Sandra J. 2012. Reducing variation in health care: the rhetorical politics of a policy idea. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 37(6): 5-26.

Tanenbaum, Sandra J. What patients know: evidence-based medicine and its discontents in the U.S. International Journal of Person-Centered Medicine, forthcoming.

Tanenbaum, Sandra J. 2011. Characteristics associated with organizational independence in consumer-operated service organizations. Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation 34(3): 248-251.

Tanenbaum, Sandra J. 2011. Consumer-operated service organizations: citizenship as a core function and strategy for growth. Health Care Analysis 19(2): 192-205.

Tanenbaum, Sandra J. 2009. Pay-for-performance in Medicare: evidentiary irony and the politics of value. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 34(5): 713-742.

Tanenbaum, Sandra J. 2009. Psychiatrist-consumer relationships in the U.S. public mental health system: consumers' views of a disability system. Disability and Society 24(6): 727-738.

Tanenbaum SJ. Pay-for-performance in Medicare: evidentiary irony and the politics of value. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. 34(5): 2009. 713-742.

Tanenbaum SJ. Psychiatrist-consumer relationships in the U.S. public mental health system: consumers’ views of a disability system. Disability and Society. 24(6): 2009. 727-738.

Seiber EE, Smith CM, and Tanenbaum SJ. Who treats limited English proficient patients? Implications for Linguistic Access Initiatives. Ethnicity and Disease. 19(4): 2009. 433-438.

Tanenbaum, Sandra J. 2008. Perspectives on Evidence-Based Practice from Consumers in the U.S. Public Mental Health System. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 14(5): 621-958.

Tanenbaum, Sandra J. 2008. Consumer Perspectives on Information and Other Inputs to Decision-Making: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice. Community Mental Health Journal 44(5): 31-35.

Tanenbaum, Sandra J. Commentary: Evidence by any other name. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 12(2):2006. 273-276.

Lee, Jinkook; Hyungsoo Kim; and Sandra Tanenbaum. Medicaid and family wealth transfer. Gerontologist 46:2006. 6-13.

Tanenbaum, Sandra J. The role of "evidence" in recovery from mental illness. Health Care Analysis. 14:2006. 195-201.

Tanenbaum, S.J. Expanding the terms of the debate: evidence-based practice and public policy. Evidence-Based Psychotherapy: Where Practice and Research Meet, eds. C.D. Goodheart, A.E. Kazdin and R.J. Steinberg. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. 2006. 239-260.