Karen Mechanic is a Psychiatry physician affiliated with Fox Chase Cancer Center. OpenAlex indexes 5 publications with 587 citations (h-index 3).
Overview
Scholarship
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Total citations across indexed works.
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Medicare prescribing footprint (2022)
The drugs this prescriber writes for Medicare patients, grouped by drug class and therapeutic area. Every percentage is a share of their total prescribing, so you can see what they prescribe most. These are proportions, not patient counts or dollar amounts. No condition is inferred: the claims record what was prescribed, never why.
Nervous system
98.9%Atypical Antipsychotic25.5%Quetiapine Fumarate37%Aripiprazole20%Risperidone16%Olanzapine9%Ziprasidone Hcl7%Invega Sustenna7%Vraylar4%Part D<11 patientsSSRI23.6%Sertraline Hcl26%Trazodone Hcl26%Escitalopram Oxalate21%Fluoxetine Hcl12%Citalopram Hbr8%Paroxetine Hcl6%Part D<11 patients+ 11 more classes in this area
Cardiovascular
1.1%alpha-Adrenergic Blocker1.1%Prazosin Hcl100%Part D<11 patients
Drug classes come from the WHO ATC and U.S. National Library of Medicine (RxClass) classifications; prescribing counts come from the CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers file. Each drug is counted once, under its primary class. Medicare fee-for-service only, so no Medicare Advantage, commercial, or pediatric prescribing is included. CMS publishes this data about 17 months after the fact.
Publications
Matched to this physician's OpenAlex author record; most-cited works shown first.
- Relationships Among Financial Distress, Emotional Distress, and Overall Distress in Insured Patients With Cancer
Journal of Oncology Practice
2016 - Relationships among financial distress, emotional symptoms, and overall distress in insured cancer patients.
Journal of Clinical Oncology
2014 - Abstract B11: The Lincoln University-Fox Chase Partnership in cancer research and training: Summer internship program
Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
2010 - Nicotine Intervention During Detoxification and Treatment for Other Substance Use
The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
2002
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